With more and more people discovering the pleasures of a good smoke, interest in cigars has ignited, and cigar smoking has become the hottest trend of the 90s. Today, such high-profile people as Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenneger, David Letterman, and Madonna are often seen sporting stogies, and according to the Cigar Association of America 3.5 billion cigars were sold in 1995, with sales of premium cigars up an astounding 45 percent. 
 For this growing number of aficionados comes The Handmade Cigar Collectors Guide and Journal. The rich journal pages provide space for the user to affix the cigar band and record vital statistics for the cigars they sample, such as draw, ring gauge, flavor and burn. What's more, these pages are adorned with sepia-toned images of famous cigar smokers and memorable quotes. 
 The guide section features never-before-published information on how to locate, acquire and preserve the worlds hardest-to-find cigars, as well as color photographs of more than 20 of the most coveted handmade cigars. 
 Beautifully designed to reflect the discriminating tastes of cigar lovers, The Handmade Cigar Collectors Guide and Journal is a keepsake that no discerning connoisseur should be without.

Handmade Cigar Collector's Guide and Journal

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Connor, Tom

Crafts & Hobbies

Harper

An irreverent spoof of entertainment guides by the authors of Is Martha Stuart Living? offers a wide variety of ingenious and offbeat tips on how to make any occasion unforgettable, including recipes, dinner party plans, and hilarious home projects. Original. $40,000 ad/promo.

Martha Stuart's Better Than You at Entertaining (A Parody)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Harper Paperbacks

From the humorists who brought you, Martha Stuart's Excruciatingly Perfect Weddings andMartha Stuart's Better Than You at Entertaining bring you this parody about the domestic diva and her magazines plus some easy to follow projects that you can try at home.

Is Martha Stuart Living?

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

"In a time before time, in a place before place, Mysogino ruled with odiferous power. Intrigue was rampant in the court. The King's warriors, having gone eons without food or promotions, were very upset. Hurt feelings, dyspepsia and blood soaked the land. Plots to dethrone the King were an everyday occurrence as horrible tales of dishonesty and spousal abuse spewed out of the mouth of the towne-crier every morn." "Into this tumult rode a freelance known only as Drazxcycheromaticolitis. He came from a faraway world in another realm next to another universe directly across the Galaxy from a place before yesterday. His mission - and he chose to accept it - was to bring light back into this dark, dusty and furball-covered place. He would accomplish this onerous task by entering the psyche of Mysogino and healing his twisted soul from within. Ride along with Drazxcycheromaticolitis as he navigates through the multiple warped personalities of the evil King and struggles to bring three squares a day to the people."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Re-Wired: A Parody

Downey, Jim

Hayes,Dennis

Perennial

She's back -- with hundreds of impossible, uncomfortable and frequently physically painful ideas to turn a perfectly lovely wedding into a perfectly controlled disaster.
Observe from the safety of your living room as Martha demands, insists, berates, accuses, but, above all, controls everything and everyone in sight. This final (we promise) installment of the Martha Stuart parody trilogy confidently answers the question "Isn't everything sacred?" with a well-aimed kick to the shins! 
By the authors of the perennial bestsellers Is Martha Stuart Living? and Martha Stuart's Better Than You at Entertaining.

Martha Stuart's Excruciatingly Perfect Weddings

Reference

William Morrow Paperbacks

The diggerati, as Time magazine christened the '90s gardeners in a recent feature story, do not really want to garden; they just want to have a garden, which means they're more willing to spend money than time outdoors. For these diggerati with more greenbacks than green thumbs, the Smith & Hawken Gardening Catalog is the undisputed king of catalogs. Mailed out to more than 18 million customers, its lavish, four-color spreads hawk everything from outlandishly expensive tools and gardening fashions to river stones. Here to skewer the bible of pretentious gardening are Tom Connor and Jim Downey. Yes, the bad boys of parody are back, and this time they're out to get their hands dirty. Born from a hugely successful two-page spoof they did for Mirabella last summer, this hilarious catalog parody features a whole range of items that are only just slightly more ridiculous than Smith & Hawken. How about a 24-foot-wide rake? With one swipe, the lawn's done. There's a portable divining rod for those hard-to-find water sources in the garden. Then there's Happy Landings, a narcotic birdseed guaranteed to keep your avian friends grounded. Or how about your very own English Gardening Couple for a mere $98,500? Filled with the cutting wit that made their previous parodies so successful, Smyth & Hawk'em is the perfect gift for today's diggerati and everyone else who loves parodies.

Smyth & Hawk'em: Parody, A

Harper-perennial

Gathers quotations by the new Speaker of the House about affirmative action, the budget, and health care

Newtwit

DOUBLEDAY

A guide to performing a makeover on an old home offers miraculous before-and-after photographs depicting low-cost efforts to remodel old homes. 12,500 first printing.

Suburban Renewal: Transforming Standard Capes, Ranches and Builders Colonials into Classic Homes

Viking/Studio

Young men and women entering the business world today face competing impulses—the desire to be entrepreneurial and a fear of taking risks. Not surprisingly, many business owners and corporate executives are confronted with the same dilemma. But as William M. Raveis, Jr. illustrates in The Way of the Entrepreneur, if the global marketplace is fraught with risk, it is also brimming with opportunities. One of the most daring, innovative and successful residential real estate visionaries of the last half century, Raveis revolutionized the industry by adapting technology early on and by constantly refreshing his business model in order to stay ahead of the competition. More importantly, he has stayed true to his values, vision and goals. From blue-collar beginnings in a tight-knit Hungarian immigrant community in the East End of a gritty city not known for producing success stories, the young Raveis realized at an early age that if he could change his mindset, he could change his destiny. At 27, he left a promising if stifling corporate career at Westinghouse to pursue his vision to build a family-owned business for his children and their children. Over the past forty years, the company has grown from one office with five women no one else would hire, to over 112 offices with 3,500 agents, over $8 billion in annual real estate sales, $9 billion in mortgages, and over 6,000 insurance customers. Bill Raveis’ journey is one of the great success stories of modern entrepreneurism. The Way of the Entrepreneur takes readers on a roller-coaster ride through recessions, drastic downturns in the industry, near bankruptcy, bank workouts and personal crises to unprecedented accomplishments and success. In The Way of the Entrepreneurs, he offers an up-close, clear-eyed understanding of what it takes to succeed in business in spite of naysayers, economic turmoil, and enormous odds.

The Way of the Entrepreneur: Lessons from the Journey to Build a Family-Owned Business Empire

Business & Money

Raveis, William M.

Biography & History

Raveis House

A parody of Martha Stewart's postponed autobiography covers such topics as her senior prom experience, her encounters with professional analysis, and her farmhouse on Turkey Hill Road in Westport, Connecticut.

Martha, Really and Cruelly: The Completely Unauthorized Autobiography

Andrews McMeel Publishing

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