“Fear deer no more! The best source I’ve seen on the topic!” —Tracy DiSabato-Aust, award-winning garden designer and best-selling author Deer are one of the most common problems a gardener can face. These cute but pesky animals can quickly devour hundreds of dollars’ worth of plants. And common solutions include the use of unattractive fencing and chemicals. In Deer-Resistant Design, Karen Chapman offers another option—intentional design choices that result in beautiful gardens that coexist with wildlife. Deer-Resistant Design showcases real home gardens across North America—from a country garden in New Jersey to a hilltop hacienda in Texas—that have successfully managed the presence of deer. Each homeowner also shares their top ten deer-resistant plants, all welcome additions to a deer-challenged gardeners shopping list. A chapter on deer-resistant container gardens provides suggestions for making colorful, captivating, and imaginative containers. Lushly illustrated and filled with practical advice and inspiring design ideas, Deer-Resistant Design is packed with everything you need to confidently tackle this challenging problem.

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

An unflinching yet ultimately hopeful appraisal of the workplace factors that determine career risk and resilience among K–12 teachers, informed by the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis

Veteran Salesman Peter Waldmann is on a Routine Sales Call When he is Surprised to find that the new purchasing agent he is calling on is none other than John Stemple, his very best friend from high school, forty years earlier. When John invites him to come on a deer hunt with him in Edgerton, Wisconsin, a place Peter hasn’t returned to in forty years, he embarks on a journey to the past that will have a lasting effect on his future. In The Deer/Dear Hunt, Author Alan M. Oberdeck explores the threads of life that affect everyone. See life through the Eyes of a man who committed a stupid, youthful act that left him maimed and cost him the love of his life, Linda Leigh Swensen. When Peter and Linda meet in the first book of The Deer/Dear Hunt trilogy, he is forced to ask the question, can you ever go back again? In the second book of the trilogy The Vancouver Rendezvous, vacation with Peter and Linda in the great scenic northwest as they learn more and more about each other and try to work out their relationship and answer two important questions: What is this space that separates them? And, more importantly, can they bridge the gulf? In the third book of the trilogy Peter and Linda have each returned home from their two-week vacation. The plan is to meet again prior to this year’s deer hunt. Peter is now trying to do things in the right and proper manner to become part of Linda’s life. But then disaster strikes! Will Linda lose Peter again?

No drill or emergency simulation could prepare Blake County and the tri-county area for the scope of the darkness that would soon overshadow them. Oblivious of the coming biblical-plague-level event, they went about eating and drinking, singing, dancing, and otherwise reveling in the birth of their nation. The zoom lens of a camera provides Jeremiah McKay an up-close perspective of people and events in his small-town community, ranging from the heartwarming to the repulsive. As a Blake Sentinel reporter and lifelong member of the community, Jerry has gained the friendship and trust of the people he sees on a day-to-day basis. A key event will test the strength of the newspaper’s operations, the community’s cohesiveness, and the character of its inhabitants. Trials will separate the snowflakes from those who prove to be tough as nails. Both the events witnessed by the journalist and the ensuing tragedy have the potential to happen in Anytown, USA. This post-zombie apocalypse thriller provides a patriotic look into not only the resources that Americans now have but also how quickly they could lose it all.