The Long Distance Relationship Guide: Advice for the Geographically Challenged (New & Improved!!!)

The phone company might think long distance is the next best thing to being there, but The Long-Distance Relationship Guide knows better: long-distance relationships require hard work, commitment, a sturdy travel bag, a good calling plan, a healthy sense of humor, supportive friends—and lots of travel-sized toiletries. Here’s everything you need to make sure your relationship goes the distance.

Learn how to:

• Spot the serial long-distance dater    
• Prepare for “The Visit”
• Discover the joys of phone sex    
• Write a juicy love letter
• Negotiate turn-taking visits    
• Assess the “stand-in” boyfriend or girlfriend

Full of helpful quizzes, checklists, and advice from relationship experts and long-distance veterans, The Long-Distance Relationship Guide will help you make the most of your long-distance romance.

**This is the same book that came out in 2005, with some updated and added info, including an epilogue called "After Happily Ever After," that looks at adapting to the shift from long-distance to close-distance, plus more quizzes and extras.

Published by Quirk Books, 2007. www.quirkbooks.com

Margaret Cho

From her first moment onstage with her high school improv group, Margaret Cho knew that performing was her destiny, It didn't matter if she became rich or famous, she knew that being onstage and making people laugh would make her happy.

(This is a biography for young adults.)

Published by Chelsea House Publishers, 2007.

Isamu Noguchi

Born in 1904 to an American mother and a Japanese poet father, Isamu Noguchi divided his childhood and adolescence between two countries in which he never felt he truly belonged. Only creating art made him feel at home, and Noguchi traveled the world and worked with some of the most renowned artists of the twentieth century. This detailed biography examines how Isamu Noguchi was able to nurture his artistic vision and in turn mold a striking aesthetic legacy.

(This is a biography for young adults.)

Published by Chelsea House Publishers, 2007.

How To Behave: Dating and Sex

Is it ever okay to “embellish” your dating profile? What’s the best way to deal with close-talkers? How can you handle a date who shows too much PDA? Discover the answers to these and other burning questions in Caroline Tiger’s guide to modern love, How to Behave: Dating and Sex. You’ll learn the proper etiquette for:

• Ditching your date with aplomb
• Accepting rejection gracefully
• Avoiding scratchy stubble face-burn
• Negotiating “ex sex”

With more than 60 scenarios that run the gamut from flirting to first date etiquette to sex, this refreshingly new take on social manners deals with the real-life etiquette questions everyone wonders about . . . but has been afraid to ask.

Buy the book on Amazon.com.

Published by Quirk Books, 2007. www.quirkbooks.com

General Howe's Dog: George Washington, The Battle of Germantown and the Dog Who Crossed Enemy Lines

Before they were generals—they were gentlemen....

A remarkable footnote to history surfaced during America's fight for independence. After the Battle of Germantown, General George Washington came across a stray dog wearing an inscribed collar marking him as the property of British general William Howe—the very man Washington was trying to defeat.

As a well-bred gentleman and man of his times, Washington did the proper thing: he returned the dog to his adversary, along with a polite note. Though separated by ideals and loyalties, both Washington and Howe adhered to a common code of conduct. Following the early lives of both men, General Howe's Dog provides a fascinating account of their upbringings and ascents through the military ranks, detailing how enemies on the battlefield composed themselves as respectable gentlemen in the midst of war.

It is a rarely seen glimpse into the personality and character of the father of our country.

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Published by Chamberlain Bros., a member of Penguin Group USA, 2005. www.chamberlainbros.com

The Long-Distance Relationship Guide: Advice for the Geographically Challenged

The phone company might think long distance is the next best thing to being there, but The Long-Distance Relationship Guide knows better: long-distance relationships require hard work, commitment, a sturdy travel bag, a good calling plan, a healthy sense of humor, supportive friends—and lots of travel-sized toiletries. Here’s everything you need to make sure your relationship goes the distance.

Learn how to:

• Spot the serial long-distance dater    
• Prepare for “The Visit”
• Discover the joys of phone sex    
• Write a juicy love letter
• Negotiate turn-taking visits    
• Assess the “stand-in” boyfriend or girlfriend

Full of helpful quizzes, checklists, and advice from relationship experts and long-distance veterans, The Long-Distance Relationship Guide will help you make the most of your long-distance romance.

Reviews  |  Table of Contents  |  Buy the book on Amazon  |  Buy the book at Chronicle  |  LDR Stats

Published by Quirk Books, 2005. www.quirkbooks.com

How To Behave: A Guide to Modern Manners for the Socially Challenged

Is there any polite way to "shush" a chatty person at the movies? Should roller bladers be passed on the left side or the right side? When is it unacceptable to answer your cell phone? And why doesn't anyone in your grocery store seem to understand the basic rules of shopping cart navigation and right-of-way?

If you've ever pondered these kinds of questions, How to Behave is the book you've been waiting for: a hip, irreverent, but entirely practical guide to proper behavior in the twenty-first century. Here are dozens of fascinating skills that Emily Post wouldn't even think to mention—like the best ways to:

• Share elbow space on an airplane armrest    
• Contend with road rage
• Position yourself when boarding a crowded elevator    
• Observe basic e-mail etiquette
• Speak on a cell phone without enraging others . . . plus dozens of other essential survival techniques.

Much more than a simple etiquette book, How to Behave is a real-life guide to living in the real world.

Reviews  |  Take The Manners Quiz (test your etiquette skills)  |  Table of Contents

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Published by Quirk Books, 2003. www.quirkbooks.com

The UFO Hunter's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Paranormal

This guide for the UFO hunter is chock-full of all the information you'll need to become a skilled hunter of all things paranormal.

Each book contains an introduction to the types of creatures you might encounter and helpful hints on where and when you might find them. You'll find a sampling of phrases and pictograms-to avoid any miscommunication when face to face with your subject-plus an official ID badge for use on all your adventures.

Published by Quirk Books, 2001. www.quirkbooks.com

The Wizard's Handbook: A Field Guide to Magic

This guide for and about wizards will help to dispel any myths about these paranormal beings.

Included is information on how to determine if you or someone you know is a wizard, tips on how to become a successful wizard, a section on the necessary wizarding tools and predicting the future, and much more.

Published by Quirk Books, 2001. www.quirkbooks.com