It's tough to find a great woodworking project that you can finish in just one weekend. But with the straightforward, step-by-step projects in this book, weekend woodworkers can stay busy for months! Practical Weekend Projects for Woodworkers offers dozens of exciting projects for a range of beautiful contemporary items, from shelves and storage units to birdhouses and bookends. Each project is designed to be simple to make while having a really professional look, and can be made using either hand or power tools. With easy-to-follow instructions and how-to photographs, this book will provide practical advice and inspiration for both amateur and experienced woodworkers. Exploded diagrams and templates ensure precise results, and there's also a practical, illustrated reference section on tools, techniques and wood choices.

Phillip Gardner's collection of stories "Somebody Wants Somebody Dead" pretty much corners the market when it comes to people living on the wrong side of the law--which is usually the "right" side of the law in these locales --and taking matters into their own hands. Throw in a garbage collecting voyeur, an obese drowning victim, a Bicycle Man, and a whole knot of ne'er-do-wells and these fantastic stories will make you think, "My life's bad, but it ain't "this" bad, " which is to say that Gardner's hit the mark in the tragi-comedy venue. George Singleton --author of "The Half-Mammals of Dixie" BOSON BOOKS also offers the screen play "Necessary Evils" and the collection of short stories "Someone To Crawl Back To" by Phillip Gardner. For a sample read, reviews, a bio and a photo visit bosonbooks.com.

SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they ve always wanted or what they ve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serverance s, forms the spine of the book, but included in this small community of seekers are George Scarborough and his softball-playing wife; Evander Baker, who helps his sister bury a bag of chocolate chip cookies near the septic line; and Warren Oxendine, whose wife buys a vibrator at a yard sale. Structured more like a Robert Altman film than a traditional novel, reading SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is like going to The Paradise Lounge for a drink, slipping inside a patron s skin, going home with that person, then coming back to The Paradise and leaving with another sojourner of love.