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Meet Nikki Nasco: 40, single, obsessive, neurotic, unorthodox and unexpectedly fun. She is having a very normal day. She goes to the gym, she calls her mother, and she stresses out about not having her Top Five desert island CD s selected

Meet Amber Lawson: 35, lesbian, driven, aerobics instructor. She too is having a very normal day. She attends law school, teaches Boot Camp and receives a phone call from Nikki, the purpose of which she never fully understands, but knows there is a deserted island involved.

And then the darkness comes...

In a world where coffee is no longer available, the only television shows are reality TV re-runs, and the animals are talking back, Nikki, Amber and a singing Coyote in a do-rag are out to restore the light (and hopefully prevent Nikki s eyes from being stolen by an Irish midget).

Normal is missing. Reward.

Del Sesto pays homage to Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore in this clever, insightful, and flat-out hilarious novel while maintaining an entirely original point of view, making All Encompassing Trip one of my favorite books of the year! Jen Lancaster, author of Bitter is the New Black

All Encompassing Trip is a trip! Imagine Kafka, Kerouac, and Douglas Adams on the road, and you ll get a feel for this completely original, witty, and wild book that s (thank goodness!) anything but normal. Del Sesto s prose sparkles. What a great debut. Lori Jakiela, author of Miss New York Has Everything.
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"Stop stressing and start storing! "At last - a book to take the stress out of food storage! Stop worrying about what kinds of foods to buy and how to use your food storage before it goes bad - not to mention how to get your family to eat it. Simple Recipes Using Food Storage is an all-encompassing guide to food storage. This is an essential book for anyone just starting out. The basics of food storage are organized into a step-by-step system. The first section requires only 6 basic ingredients - and then as your food storage grows, so do your recipe options! Plus, comprehensive ingredient substitution charts will help you use what you have on hand, and a shelf-life chart will keep your food fresh.Check out the handy bite-sized tips and the answers to common food storage questions. Learn to:- start slow and build your food storage gradually and wisely- add variety to your meals - keep your meals nutritious - use dehydrated foods in something other than trail mix- make your own yogurt, cream cheese, and sour creamThe counsel to build up food storage has never been more explicit. Simple Recipes Using Food Storage gives you a doable plan to help you follow the prophet's counsel. Whether emergency strikes, your family falls on lean times, or you just need to rotate your food storage, you can use these recipes to make everything from breads and desserts to smoothies and soups. Stop stressing and start storing today!.
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The time has come, the Walrus said, for virtual private networks (VPNs). Such networks allow the geographically distributed elements of an organization to share files and other resources over what acts like a connection to a local area network (LAN) but is really a secured link across the open (and inexpensive) Internet. The authors of Creating and Implementing Virtual Private Networks understand that VPNs have potentially huge appeal, and they set out to explain the technologies that make them possible. In doing so, they focus on Microsoft's Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) and Novell's BorderManager, since those are the most accessible VPN technologies.

The book works through LANs and wide area networks (WANs) and then explains how VPNs can combine the strong points of each (security and geographic flexibility, respectively) with the cost-effectiveness of the Internet. It discusses emerging VPN standards, including Layer 2 Transport Protocol (L2TP), Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F), and the IP Secure (IPSec) standards that have come from those standards and PPTP. The authors walk you through two solutions to the same organization's VPN needs: one based on Novell NetWare 5 and BorderManager and one that uses Windows NT 4 and PPTP. The direct comparison of the two solutions on the same problem is helpful and should help you decide which scenario (if either) fits your needs. --David Wall

Topics covered: Technologies for implementing virtual private networks (VPNs) in both generic and proprietary terms. The authors emphasize Microsoft's Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) and Novell's BorderManager, but also cover the emerging Layer 2 Transport Protocol (L2TP), Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F), and IP Secure (IPSec) standards. VPN architecture gets attention, as do universal problems like cost-effectiveness and security..
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Roger Tory Peterson, one of America's pre-eminent artist-naturalists and arguably the inventor of the field guide, made people love birds like no one since John James Audubon A Field Guide to the Birds, first published in 1934, remains his most famous and wonderful work. The manual stood instantly apart from the dichotomous keys zoologists used to identify species, since Peterson grouped paintings of related species together and used arrows to, as he explained, "pinpoint the key field marks." This way, watchers could spot birds from a distance and avoid, as he archly put it, "the bird-in-hand characters that the early collectors relied on." Birders could use the guide where they needed it most--outdoors--on living birds flitting quickly by. In addition to detailed illustrations, Peterson offers charming (and useful) descriptions of each avian citizen's appearance, behavior, voice, and range. There is also priceless anecdotal information, based on decades of field experience, as in this description of the common house sparrow (Passer domesticus): "Familiar to everyone. Sooty city birds often bear little resemblance to clean country males with the black throat, white cheeks, chestnut nape." His transliterations of song are just as quietly marvelous. For instance, Pluvialis squatarola, or the black-bellied plover, makes things clear with "a plaintive slurred whistle, tlee-oo-eee or whee-er-ee (middle note lower)."

Peterson's original handbook covered birds of Eastern North America, and has since been followed by guides to Western birds, animal tracks, butterflies, and many other natural wonders. He and his team updated "The Birders' Bible" as new species were discovered and classifications modified. Generations of enthusiastic watchers owe Peterson a debt of gratitude for making ornithology accessible. But equally important, he showed scientists that finding beauty in living animals, and not just cataloging the measurements of dead ones, was crucial. Roger Tory Peterson died in 1996. He will be remembered as a passionate naturalist, a keen observer of living things, and a gifted artist and teacher. --Therese Littleton.
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