This book of practical gardening advice is a superb value. It tells how to extend the growing season, various simple methods to store your produce, and details on storing specific fruits and vegetables. If you want to save money growing your own food, if you want to have tasty home-grown produce all year long, if you want to know how to store purchased produce without processing it, this book is for you. You really can make your summer garden last all year!

There is a section on alternative methods to store produce. Not everything has to be canned, frozen, dehydrated, etc. And not all produce storage has to be indoors. Read how to store food in your attic or basement, how to build a root cellar, how to store produce in the ground or under straw mounds, and so on.

There are many pages of information about storing your produce, giving details such as ideal storage temperature, moisture level, and any materials that extend the life of your stored produce items. Also covered are which are most suited to which storage methods.

Another section details methods and plants for winter gardening. Learn how to build cold frames, sheltered nursery beds, and even a simple greenhouse. Learn about plants you can grow in the cellar in winter, others you could grow in a cool closet, or elsewhere in your home. Learn about crops that prefer cooler weather, to plant in spring and fall, and those that will grow outdoors well into winter with just the shelter of a home-made green house.

Rose Berry, thrifty-living fanatic

Why would you do all the research yourself when the information is all available right here?

I really enjoy all of Mary Engelbreit's books and my little girls do, too. We like to look at them over and over again. This book is full of ideas from recipes, to summer crafts, to gardening, and to sewing so that you can make your home an interesting place to visit.

This is a really fun book about a special summer vacation. Matthew is new in town, and meets a lot of exciting friends in all sorts of strange circumstances, from stopping runaway cars to tracking boat thieves. Lots of fun!

This book is a good way to get children interested in analizing what they see on tv. I thought it was an easy way to help determine what is "under the surface" in television today. I think that parents should examine what their kids are watching and this book helps give them a head-start.

What a shame this wonderful, elegantly written little book is out of print. I read it when I was 12 and I haven't forgotten it. In this book, Midsummer is a dreamy, magical time when love is in the air, the good can get their due, animals may speak and longed for hopes can, with luck come true.

Ms. Wilde's Santa's Sexy Secret is a hoot. Funny and sexy this story is a must read for everyone who is looking for the magic of Xmas all year long. This sassy read will entertain the bah humbugs out of any fan. Brava, Ms. Wilde.

A beautiful little book about baseball in the days before money mattered, and life in the rural Northwest. Reading it was like watching Twin Peaks with fewer dead bodies and more baseball.

I read this book when I was a kid -- many moons ago -- and though I can't remember much about it now, I do remember that I loved it. If you have a child in the right age group, give this one a try. It left me with a glow that hasn't left me yet.