<div>An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year, 2015 For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol. Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world. Until his mother calls. And he ignores it, as you usually do when Mom calls. Then she calls again. And again. Dan thought things were going great at home. But it turns out his mom's cancer, which she had battled throughout his childhood with tenacity and a mouth foul enough to make a sailor blush, is back. And to add insult to injury, his loving father has been diagnosed with ALS. Sayonara L.A., Dan is headed home to Salt Lake City, Utah. Never has there been a more reluctant family reunion: His older sister is resentful, having stayed closer to home to bear the brunt of their mother's illness. His younger brother comes to lend a hand, giving up a journalism career and evenings cruising Chicago gay bars. His next younger sister, a sullen teenager, is a rebel with a cause. And his baby sister - through it all - can only think about her beloved dance troop. Dan returns to shouting matches at the dinner table, old flames knocking at the door, and a speech device programmed to help his father communicate that is as crude as the rest of them. But they put their petty differences aside and form Team Terminal, battling their parents' illnesses as best they can, when not otherwise distracted by the chaos that follows them wherever they go. Not even the family cats escape unscathed. As Dan steps into his role as caregiver, wheelchair wrangler, and sibling referee, he watches pieces of his previous life slip away, and comes to realize that the further you stretch the ties that bind, the tighter they hold you together.</div>

Home Is Burning

<div>The author of Life Hacks returns with this indispensable, fully illustrated manual&#8212;featuring 112 ingenious yet simple tricks, shortcuts, and ideas&#8212;every dad needs to solve a host of everyday annoyances and dilemmas.Packed with a wealth of advice, Dad Hacks offers invaluable solutions for more than one hundred common problems fathers face everyday. These hacks&#8212;&#8220;a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency&#8221;&#8212;use basic materials and familiar techniques in ingenious ways. Tired of replacing your razors? Blast the blade with a hairdryer. The shot of hot air will eliminate residual moisture and help prevent oxidization and dulling.Conveniently packaged in a portable flexibound format with rounded corners, Dad Hacks provides creative fixes&#8212;all fully illustrated and easy to follow&#8212;for a wide range of ordinary occurrences, including:&#8226; Household Hacks&#8226; Food and Drink Hacks&#8226; DIY Hacks&#8226; Gadget Hacks&#8226; Health and Well-being Hacks&#8226; Hacks on the Go&#8226; Car and Bike Hacks&#8226; Hacks for the Kids&#8226; Garden and Outdoor Hacks&#8226; Clothing and Grooming HacksWith advice for the car, office, house, electronics, travel, and much, much more, Dad Hacks is essential for every tool kit, glove box, and work drawer.</div>

Dad Hacks

<div>Available in a handy flexibind edition, a time-saving stress-busting manual featuring 100 simple, ingenious ways to clear the clutter in your house and your life from the author of Life Hacks and Dad Hacks.We like our stuff, but sometimes things can get messy. We want a neat, inviting home, but time isn&#8217;t always on our side&#8212;and the effort can be overwhelming. Now, the master of hacks, Dan Marshall provides tricks, shortcuts, and ideas to help de-clutter and solve everyday annoyances. "Life hacking refers to any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency," he explains. "In other words, anything that solves an everyday problem in an inspired, ingenious matter." In Tidy Hacks he shares inventive ways to reuse, recycle, and reclaim your tidy home. Don&#8217;t throw away those breakfast grapefruit halves&#8212;add a little salt and use them to clean your oven. Is space tight in the bathroom? Use hanging tiered fruit and vegetable baskets from the shower rod to stow shower toys and shampoo. Are your shoes looking a little dull and scuffed? Rub the pithy side of a banana skin over the scuffed leather. Instead of tossing that elastic band into a drawer, wrap it from shoulder to shoulder around a hanger to keep your clothes from slipping to the closet floor. Written with a special focus on simplifying, organizing and storing, Tidy Hacks includes dozens and dozens of inspired ideas for every area of your home (and more), including:<ul><li>Kitchen Hacks</li><li>Bathroom Hacks</li><li>Bedroom Hacks</li><li>Laundry Hacks</li><li>Garden Hacks</li><li>Home Office Hacks</li><li>Multiple Use Hacks</li><li>Arts and Craft Hacks</li><li>DIY Hacks</li></ul>An appealing, portable flexibind paperback with rounded corners&#8212;in a handy trim size&#8212;Tidy Hacks contains simple advice for tackling life&#8217;s everyday annoyances. Each tip is fully illustrated and easy to follow, using materials and techniques that are either already on hand or easily attainable. With this invaluable little guide, tidying up is a snap!</div>

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<div>More than one hundred simple yet ingenious tricks, shortcuts, and ideas to help parents solve everyday occurrences and annoyances in one convenient, illustrated, flexibound pocket-sized guide.As the father of two children, Dan Marshall knows that just one time-saving tip can save the day for busy parents&#8212;whether they&#8217;re up to their elbows in dirty diapers with a newborn, chasing a high-energy toddler, or organizing their young scholars&#8217; school projects. In Parent Hacks, he provides simple, easy-to-follow advice for tackling life&#8217;s everyday annoyances using materials and techniques that are either already on hand or easily attainable. Every tip is fully illustrated, making each easy to follow and master.Packaged in an appealing and portable size and designed with an easy-to-open spine and rounded-corners perfect for a back pocket, diaper bag, backpack, or purse, this indispensable guide offers dozens of inspired yet practical techniques for tackling the entire house, from kitchen to playroom to bedroom to bathroom, including:<ul><li>Cleaning Hacks</li><li>Tidying Hacks</li><li>Out and About Hacks</li><li>First Aid Hacks</li><li>Safety Hacks</li><li>Food and Drink Hacks</li><li>Arts and Crafts Hacks</li><li>Early Days Hacks</li></ul>From converting an egg carton into a DIY paint palette to washing germs and goo off of plastic toys in the dishwasher to freezing a bag of marshmallows to make a soft and soothing ice pack that isn&#8217;t too cold for little ones, Parent Hacks offers handy, proven solutions for every mom and dad!</div>

Life Hacks for Parents

<div>Clever ways to solve annoying problems and simplify mundane tasks—includes household, food, drink, office, health, phone hacks, and more. Ever accidentally used your thumb as a hammer cushion while partaking in a spot of DIY? Do you become enraged at the uncontrollable bobbing of the straw in your aluminum can? Are you yearning to find a way to make your toilet paper roll tube enhance your music listening experience? These and dozens of other everyday dilemmas are solved with Life Hacks, your handy guide to tackling little annoyances before they turn into big problems. This fully illustrated manual covers everything from nifty cable management to ingenious cooking methods, and much, much more. Remember: If life throws you a curveball—hack it!</div>

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Home Is Burning

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