Home & Garden

We want to provide the best care possible for our beloved dogs, but what do you do when Rex turns into a puddle of fear at the vet? Scared dogs visit veterinarians less often because their owners hate to see them upset and afraid of the dog crate, car ride, and stranger handling. My Dog Hates My Vet! packs prescriptive advice into a short how-to guide that offers step-by-step instructions to help your dogs learn to love the vet, accept the carrier, and tolerate car rides—and get the medical care they need and deserve. This is your definitive guide for foiling canine fear.

We consider dogs a part of the family, but what do you do when your dog interferes with love and romance? When your dog hates your date, but you’re smitten, what’s a caring pet owner to do? My Dog Hates My Date! packs prescriptive advice into a short how-to guide that offers step-by-step instructions on how to improve family relationships between babies, toddlers, kids and adults, and your furry family members. NOTE: If your sweetheart wants you to choose between him/her and your dog, suggest they listen to this book before you show 'em the door. 

We want to provide the best care possible for our beloved cats, but what do you do when your kitty turns into a wildcat at the vet? Cats visit veterinarians less often because their owners hate to see them upset and afraid of the cat carrier, car ride, and stranger handling. My Cat Hates My Vet! packs prescriptive advice into a short how-to guide that offers step-by-step instructions to help your cats learn to love the vet, accept the cat carrier, and tolerate car rides—and get the medical care they need and deserve.

We love our cats, but how can we show affection if kitty hides, hisses, and hates human hugs? Never fear, your cat loves you, too. Cats just want affection on kitty terms. Creating a cat-friendly home helps prevent health problems, reduces behavior issues, and improves the bond you share. Does My Cat Hate Me? packs prescriptive advice into a short how-to guide that explains why cats act hissy, what truly matters to cats, and how environmental enrichment improves our relationships with beloved cats.

Orchids are intricate, exotic beauties with over 30,000 species, making them the largest family of flowers in the world. Although they’re known for their ability to adapt to almost any environment, people still believe they’re impossible to grow as houseplants! For 12 years, board member of Sandhills Orchid Society Susan Makar has been dedicated to growing orchids, starting with just five and expanding them to over 500! Now, she is ready to use her green thumb to reveal compelling methods to you that will ensure these marvelous gems successfully blossom in your home.

Parakeets are wonderful animals and great pets. Although a big commitment (just like any other type of pet), in my experience, parakeets are some of the most amazing and fulfilling animals to own. Properly raised birds are likely to be immensely kind and compassionate toward you. Having a great relationship with a pet can change your life. To gain a deeper understanding of what it's like to own a parakeet, the following guide outlines 50 pet-owning tips and tricks that will help you offer these amazing little birds the best life possible.

Are you ready to have a herding dog in your home or apartment? Do they really make good pets rather than just working animals? Are herding dogs as aggressive as some claim? 50 Things to Know About Herding Dogs by Heather Menz shows you how to think of herding dogs as pets, not strictly farm dogs, and what it means to invite one into your home and family. Based on knowledge from the world’s leading experts, herding dogs can fit right in to your family and your lifestyle, as long as you are dedicated to them and understand these 50 things to know about them.

How to Start a Cleaning Business is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand guide to starting and running a successful domestic cleaning agency, based on the author's own experience. Compared with other business start-ups, a cleaning agency offers many advantages. The professional cleaning business has the tendency of lower upfront costs than other businesses, and this is one of the few businesses you can begin working on immediately with little capital investment and start making profit.

Secretariat was the best-known and most beloved racehorse of the twentieth century. In 1973, his legacy was permanently etched into the consciousness of the world when he won the Triple Crown. Here, Raymond G. Woolfe Jr. tells the story of Secretariat from the coin toss that sent him to Helen "Penny" Chenery to his burial at Claiborne Farm, making this the definitive volume for fans of the horse and the sport of horseracing.

What if there was a way to grow nutritious fruits and vegetables right from your own garden? What if we told you it was much simpler than you expected? It’s time to get started cultivating your very own ecologically sound food garden! Even if you’ve never planted a garden before or have no idea what a seed or sapling is, you can still set up your garden like an expert. If your goal is to live a life of total independence and self-sufficiency, this all-encompassing guide on homesteading will offer you all the knowledge you need to cultivate and store sustainable crops of vegetables.

Have you always wanted to build your own garden or just learn more about it, but have never found the right way to do it? Would you like to produce fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and mushrooms on your own, but you have no idea how to start or you think you don't have enough space to do it? Are you fed up with throwing money at the produce department for low-quality products and would like to eat healthier without spending a fortune? This book is made for you! Mastering all the techniques of gardening has never been easier!

Discover a new design paradigm. Are you an adventurer or a visionary? A maveric or a maven? Designology makes design personal through author Dr. Sally Augustin's eight personality "Placetypes" that characterize the different ways we can relate to the space around us. Personalize your space. How do shapes and patterns influence how you think in a space? How do room dimensions influence you psychologically? Designology answers all these questions and more with practical how-to advice and real-world examples sure to help make your house a happier place.

Called everything from the Patti Smith to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of natural wines, Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine writer—the kind who dares to disagree with wine “experts” and who believes wholeheartedly that the best wine writing is about life. To Fall in Love, Drink This is both a love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age story. In a series of candid, wise, and humorous personal essays, Feiring serves up a memoir in vignettes.

In KosherSoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them. The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. 

President Biden’s German shepherds, Major and the late Champ, are the latest in a long line of presidential dogs. Dating all the way back to George Washington, dogs have been constant companions to nearly all of America’s presidents. Of the past 46 presidents, 31 have had at least one dog at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.