Earth Garden Building Book: Design and build your own house. Reviewed as the 'owner-builder's bible', this book is in its FOURTH edition.  Learn the skills of building, renovating and maintaining houses.

Cancer: A personal challenge

This book is for you if you want to reduce your chances of developing cancer. It is for you if you care for someone who is battling cancer, and above all, it is for you if your body is the battleground.

SLEEPER AWAKE

Retired film star Flora Fielding was diagnosed with cancer. Her solution: she had herself put into suspended animation, and invested her fortune in cancer research. She expected to return to life in five to ten years -- but is awakened into an utterly different world, 1433 years later.

ANGER AND ANXIETY: Be in charge of your emotions and control phobias.

A popular self-help book that has helped many thousands to gain a better life.

Dr Bob Rich is a highly sought professional editor working for several publishers. He always has time for writers wanting to improve their work.  http://bobswriting.com/editing.html

ANIKO, The Stranger Who Loved Me

I've always thought that 'an aching heart' was a cliché, a metaphor, a mere turn of phrase. But during my daily visits to my dying mother, I learn that it is an exact description. My heart is where I feel the pain of grief.

Oh, I don't cry, even in private. I haven't cried since childhood. When I am with her, in the antique and under-equipped hospital room, I pretend to be cheerful and optimistic, pretend that of course she'll get better. We both know that she never will.

I watch the solid, muscular body of my brother as he bends over her. His ear is almost touching her lips, so he can hear the less-than whisper of her voice. He repeats whatever he thinks she has said, waiting for the nod or shake of her head before bending over again. She is giving instructions, about paying the car insurance on time, about reading the water meter. She lists the names of people to telephone because they should be able to help me with my book about her life. It's to be my memorial to her, but, even on her deathbed, she is my research officer.

The thinking part of her brain could still vie with a chess champion. Everything else is dying.

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'Woodworking For Idiots Like Me' was Bob Rich's second book. It was in

print in Australia for 5 years, selling tens of thousands of copies. It is

now available worldwide, in a format that uses all the advantages of the

internet.

This book is a collection of short stories that amuse, while teaching

woodcraft as well.

Read Bob's second collection of short stories. The judges of the Dream Realm Awards selected it as one of the three finalists in its category.