Nothing says cozy like a rustic kitchen strung with dried garlic and herbs, while jars of handmade jelly sit on the counter waiting to be slathered onto freshly baked bread. Enjoy the bountiful produce picked straight from your backyard garden year-round with these simple yet satisfying home-preserving techniques. From canning, drying, and pickling in autumn to curing and cold storage after the frost comes, you ll soon be a master at outwitting nature s growing rhythms."

Georgia girl Leah Holley can't quite explain how she allowed herself to be goaded into taking a marriage-improvement class, especially one that promises to whip her into a submissive Christian wife. Sure, her marriage may be flagging a bit, but the whole idea of bolstering it with archaic man-pleasing techniques seems like a joke-until suddenly the tricks seem to work wonders. Could her relatives' fundamentalist religious beliefs be true? Just when Leah vows to stop snickering and be truly sincere in her efforts to love, honor, and respect her husband at all times, forever, no matter what,...

You'd love to get your kids through college debt-free -- but your kids aren't getting any scholarships, you haven't saved for college, and you make too much to get government financial aid. Is there still hope? Yes, but you'll need someone to guide you.

In LAUNCH, academic strategist Jeannie Burlowski lays out clear, step-by-step strategies that empower parents to get their kids through high quality, best-fit colleges debt-free -- and then directly into jobs they love afterward.

Experts rave about LAUNCH:

"The checklists at the end of each chapter in this...