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At last--the long-awaited complete compendium
of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living!

In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new articles never published before in book format. Dacyczyn describes this collection as "the book I wish I'd had when I began my adult life." Packed with humor, creativity, and insight, The Complete Tightwad Gazette includes hundreds of tips and topics, such as:

¸   Travel for tightwads   ¸   How to transform old blue jeans into potholders and quilts   ¸   Ten painless ways to save $100 this year   ¸   Picture-framing for pennies   ¸   A comparison of painting versus re-siding your house   ¸   Halloween costumes from scrounged materials   ¸   Thrifty window treatments   ¸   Ways to dry up dry-cleaning costs   ¸   Inexpensive gifts   ¸   Creative fundraisers for kids   ¸   Slashing your electric bill   ¸   Frugal fix-its   ¸   Cutting the cost of college   ¸   Moving for less   ¸    Saving on groceries   ¸   Gift-wrapping for tightwads   ¸   Furniture-fusion fundamentals   ¸   Cheap breakfast cereals   ¸   Avoiding credit card debt   ¸   Using items you were about to throw away (milk jugs, plastic meat trays, and more!)   ¸   Recipes galore, from penny-pinching pizza to toaster pastries   ¸   And much much more . . .

Three books in one--a $38.97 value for only $19.99!.
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We, the editors of the Wasilla Iron Dog Gazette, have known Sarah Palin all her life—as a teenage basketball star, a beauty queen, a city council member, mayor, governor, and now vice-presidential candidate—and so much more. The stories that have previously circulated about her barely scratch the surface. Indeed, if we wrote down everything we know, you probably wouldn't believe us. However, thanks to tireless investigative work and access to a crucial source close to the Governor, we have managed to obtain a private col­lection of family photos, published here for the first time. Some of them are annotated in the Governor's own hand, providing a fascinating running commentary on her life. . . .

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The New York Times Best-Selling Series Continues! Return to Grantville, the American town lost in time, as Heavy Metal Music, Power Mowers, Insider Trading, and the "Semper Fi" Attitude Bewilder and Subvert the Seventeenth Century Beyond Recognition.

After the West Virginia town of Grantville was unceremoniously hurled back through time to the 1630s, the seventeenth century would never be the same. Teenage capitalist girls have formed an investment group; a linotype operator, whose profession was wiped out by computers, finds a new life in an old century; a narrow gauge railroad, with a sit-down mower doubling as a locomotive, revolutionizes military transportation; the proud tradition of the U.S. Marines is started ahead of schedule among downtime Europeans; and what will the master musicians and composers of the pre-Bach era make of heavy metal sounds? Interwoven are factual articles on the problems of beginning an oil industry, building a machine gun, and starting up the manufacture of textiles centuries ahead of their time. All this and more in a new and absolutely indispensable volume for the many followers of the 1632 series..
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A mysterious cosmic force -- the "Ring of Fire" -- has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to form the United States of Europe, changing the course of history -- in ways both small and large. University students, a restless breed in all centuries, become even more rambunctious in Cambridge, England because of the personal and theological impact of the time-lost Americans. At the same time, American teenagers conquer new financial worlds when their elders are looking the other way. A Lutheran pastor schemes to gain new adherents among the Americans. A Benedictine monk finds a new calling for his order. Practitioners of 20th century medicine and its 17th century counterpart struggle to find common ground in healing the sick and injured. These and other new stories -- including a new story by Eric Flint himself -- return the reader to one of the most popular series in alternate history science fiction..
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Grantville, formerly in West Virginia in the 20th century, now in Germany in the 17th century, is the most unusual town in the world-and probably in any century The mysterious cosmic phenomena which the former West Virginians call the "Ring of Fire" hurled the town back through time into the middle of the Thirty Years War. In spite of their advanced technology, the men and women of Grantville are greatly outnumbered and must deal carefully with the squabbling local tyrants-but they have no shortage of American courage and ingenuity. Eric Flint, a bright new star of science fiction and creator of the Ring of Fire universe, now presents a book of new fiction about the heroes of Grantville, as well as articles examining the problems of maintaining 20th century technology in the 17th century. (Can you make penicillin from bread mold? To conserve your limited supply of gasoline, can you use literal horsepower to run a dynamo? Can you make a radio using 17th century glassware and metallurgy?) The Grantville Gazette is a fascinating exercise in alternate history and imagination and will be a must-buy for everyone who read 1632 and 1633.

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Tightwad Gazettes I, II, and III all in one volume..
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This third collection of the best of Dacyczyn's popular newsletter presents all-new advice and tips, culled from the fifth and sixth years of The Tightwad Gazette. A tireless advocate of "voluntary simplicity, " Dacyczyn offers lessons in advanced "tightwaddery, " such as how to cut back APR interest points on credit cards, strategies for comparing food bills, guides to saving on the cost of college, and the secrets of yard sales and store bargains. Illustrations. 320 pp. Author tour. Radio ads. 150,000 print. (Reference).
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The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane Doolittle Raid on Paris, France. The target: their arch-enemy, Cardinal Richelieu. Meanwhile, an ambassador from the Mughal Empire of northern India is being held captive in Austria by the Habsburg dynasty. Mike Stearns decides to send a mercenary company to rescue him, led by two seventeenth-century mercenary officers: an Englishman and a Irishman, who seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do the enemy. Mike Spehar's "Collateral Damage" and Chris Weber's "The Company Men" are just two of the stories contained in this second volume of the Grantville Gazette. In other stories:

*A prominent Italian musician decides to travel to Grantville to investigate the music of the future. * An American archer and a Finnish cavalryman become friends in the middle of a battlefield. * A Lutheran pastor begins a theological challenge to the establishment based on his interpretation of the Ring of Fire. * American and German detectives become partners to investigate a murder. * And, in a complete novel by new alternate history star Danita Ewing, An Invisible War, the new United States founds a medical school in Jena despite resistance from up-timers and down-timers alike.

The second volume of Grantville Gazette also contains factual articles which explain some of the technical background for the 1632 series, including articles on practical geology, telecommunications, and seventeenth-century swordsmanship.

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The Tightwad Gazette II

The Perfect -- and Cheap -- Home Chili Recipe! New Uses for Old Blue Jeans!

Make a Quilt for Ninety-five Cents!

In 1993, Amy Dacyczyn's first book featured advice from the pages of her two-year-old newsletter The Tightwad Gazette. Over 250,000 copies were sold, inspiring millions of people to profit through thrift. Now, The Tightwad Gazette II serves up all-new help and hints from the newsletter's third and fourth years, yielding still more savings for millions of converts to tightwaddery.

Save More Money! Save More Time! Save More Resources!

Some of the Exciting, Money-Saving Topics Include:

A Reader's Guide to The Tightwad Gazette
-- Penny Pinching Pizza
-- Car Maintenance Tips
-- Calculate Your Cost Per Muffin
-- How to Make a Solar Box Cooker
-- Store-Brand Common Sense
-- Think Small to Save Big
-- Where to Get Insurance Information
-- Breakfast Breakthrough
-- Picture-Framing for Less
-- Gas Versus Electric
-- Reupholstery Savings
-- Army Surplus Bargains
-- The Tightwad A to Z
-- Saving Space to Save Money
-- How to Stop Flushing Money Down the Toilet
-- Frugality and the Economy
-- Whoopie Pies
-- How to Fix Up a House
-- Should We Use Used Shoes?
-- Where to Get Something for Nothing
-- What to Do with Old Blue Jeans
-- Warehouse Clubs and Savings
-- Cheap Holiday Accommodations
-- The Femme Frugal
-- Shared-Housing Programs
-- How to Work Out How Much You're Saving
-- Mail-Order Eye Care
-- Budgeting and Keeping Records
-- Dumpster Diving
-- How to Shop Thriftily
-- Money-Saving Recipes
-- Homemade Goo
-- Coupon or Not Coupon?
-- Splitting Pills to Cut Costs
-- Stained-Glass Cookies
-- The Tightwad Christmas
-- Candles and Decorations
-- Practical Gift-Giving
-- Synthetic Motor Oil
-- Bartering and Exchange
-- Detergents Determined
-- CDs Versus LPs
-- Long-Distance Phone Call Charges
-- Moving for Less --

Just Look Inside For Much, Much More....
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The story line begins when a 34-year-old novice scribe arrived at The News-Gazette in the autumn of 1966, just missing football greats Jim Grabowski and Dick Butkus and basketball standout Don Freeman, and only four months ahead of the traumatic UI "slush fund." Tate's version of Illini athletics begins in that distant time, and comes to life in what were once daily columns. But it won't be told chronologically. Rather it weaves back and forth through the athletes, coaches and great rivalries, and through events that often tested the university.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Loren Tate has covered University of Illinois sports for The News-Gazette in Champaign for more than four decades. Although he claims to be semi-retired he still produces four columns per week, and there is never any question about which side of an issue he stands on. Readers love him and readers hate him. But no matter what, they read him..
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