From the author of Meet Me at Mike's and Sew La Tea Do comes a gorgeous journal for budding and experienced crafters. The journal is divided into three sections - Sewing, Knitting and Crocheting. For each craft, Pip Lincolne takes you through a range of simple techniques and makes suggestions for variations so you can experiment with new ideas once you've got your head around the basics. With plenty of room left to jot down your own crafty ideas and handy pockets to collect your favourite bits and pieces, Meet Me at Mike's Craft*Journal will encourage and inspire you to create beautiful pieces that you can wear, use and love. Featuring a innovative design and cute-as-a-button illustrations, this craft journal is as inspiring as it is delightful.

Livy Kowalski has no time for idiots. When you shapeshift into a honey badger, getting through life's irritants is a finely honed skill. Until she gets stuck housing her nutso cousin and dealing with her dad's untimely and unexplained demise. That's where Vic Barinov comes in - or his house does. Vic can't step outside without coming back to find Livy devouring his honey stash and getting the TV remote sticky. It gets his animal instincts all riled up. But he'll have to woo her at high speed: all hell is breaking loose, and Livy is leading the charge.

Emmy-award winning gadfly Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights.

An updated and expanded edition of the gritty, challenging, and utterly captivating portait of the homeless crisis. Ever Wonder What it Would Be Like to Live Homeless? Mike Yankoski did more than just wonder. By his own choice, Mike's life went from upper-middle class plush to scum-of-the-earth repulsive overnight. With only a backpack, a sleeping bag and a guitar, Mike and his traveling companion, Sam, set out to experience life on the streets in six different cities—from Washington D.C. to San Diego— and they put themselves to the test. For more than five months the pair experienced firsthand the extreme pains of hunger, the constant uncertainty and danger of living on the streets, exhaustion, depression, and social rejection—and all of this by their own choice. They wanted to find out if their faith was real, if they could actually be the Christians they said they were apart from the comforts they’d always known…to discover first hand what it means to be homeless in America. What you encounter in these pages will radically alter how you see your world—and may even change your life.

Learn to make cushion covers from second-hand shirts or a simple sundress for lazy summer days with this gorgeous book for beginning sewers and crafters, from the author of Meet Me at Mike's Perfect for anyone who's ever wanted to try making their own clothing and accessories, this adorable crafts book will encourage and inspire even the most amateur of seamstresses to create beautiful pieces they can wear, use, and love. Each project is carefully designed for beginning sewers, with an easy-to-use pattern and a list of all of the materials needed clearly outlined on each page. A range of simple sewing techniques and stitches are also explained, and there are tons of suggestions for variations on patterns that allow the more adventurous seamstress to experiment once they've gotten their head around the basics. Twenty-four beautiful and unique projects are included?from a blanket to roll up and take to the movies, or cute-as-a-button kids' trousers, to a super pretty wrap skirt. All of the patterns are included in a front pocket.

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder “what Royko would have said” about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly ever wrote or talked about, though, was his private life, especially the time he shared with his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life, and her premature death at the age of forty-four shook him to his soul. Mike’s unforgettable public tribute to Carol was a heart-wrenching column written on what would have been her forty-fifth birthday, “November Farewell.” His most famous and requested piece, it was the end of an untold story. Royko in Love offers that story’s moving and utterly beguiling beginning in letters that “Mick” Royko, then a young airman, wrote to his childhood sweetheart, Carol Duckman. He had been in love with her since they were kids on Chicago’s northwest side, but she was a beauty and he was, well, anything but. Before leaving for Korea, he was crushed to hear she was getting married, but after returning to Blaine Air Force Base in Washington, he learned she was getting a divorce. Mick soon began to woo Carol in a stream of letters that are as fervent as they are funny. Collected here for the first time, Royko’s letters to Carol are a mixture of sweet seduction, sarcastic observations on military life, a Chicago kid’s wry view of rural folk, the pain of self-doubt, and the fear of losing what is finally so close, but literally so far. His only weapons against Carol’s many suitors were his pen, his ardor, and his brilliance. And they won her heart.

A young woman who had been raised in Boston marries a member of the Northwest Mounted Police and goes with him to live in the Canadian wilderness.