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Join the millions of cyclists who swear by the name Zinn. Now in its sixth edition, Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling guide to bicycle repair and maintenance.

Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling guide to bicycle repair and maintenance. From basic repairs like how to fix a flat tire to advanced overhauls of drivetrains and brakes, Lennard Zinn’s clearly illustrated guide makes every bicycle repair and maintenance job easy for everyone.

Lennard Zinn is the world’s leading expert on bike maintenance and repair. His friendly step-by-step guide explains the tools you’ll need and how to know you’ve done the job right. The book’s interior is easy to read, even in a dimly lit garage or workshop. Hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations and exploded parts diagrams show just the right level of detail to lead you through every bicycle repair task. In over 450 pages, Zinn’s guide includes simple instructions for hundreds of bike maintenance and repair jobs, including:

  • Basics: How to fix a flat tire, lube a bicycle chain, adjust the brakes
  • Emergency repairs: How to fix a broken chain, tighten loose spokes, repair a bent derailleur
  • Easy shifting: How to adjust shifters, derailleurs, and cables for clean and smooth shifting
  • Wheels: How to true a wheel, install a new tire, change a cassette, replace broken spokes, build your own wheels
  • Overhauls: How to service and replace pedals, chains and chainrings, saddles, handlebars, stems, headsets, forks, bottom brackets
  • New tech: How to maintain 11-speed systems, electronic and wireless shifters, disc brakes
  • Cyclocross: How to set up a ’cross bike for racing, select the right components, and make quick repairs
  • Troubleshooting: How to figure out what’s wrong with any bike and fix it

Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance makes bicycle repair and maintenance easy, quick, affordable, and fun. With Zinn at your side, you’ll know how to keep your bicycling running smoothly for years.

Ube Cooking

Add a taste of the Philippines to your favorite cookies, brownies, cakes, breads, and more with the first-ever baking cookbook dedicated to the yam called UBE!

Ube, meaning “tuber” in Tagalog, is a purple yam originating from the Philippines. Ube is totally unique—it is flavorful, sweet, nutty, and bright purple! Its one-of-a-kind flavor and showstopping color have made it the trendiest ingredient in baked goods and desserts in Asia and around the world.

Now, with the first ube-dedicated baking book, you can make your own violet and exceptional creations. With over 50 beautiful photographs and easy-to-follow recipes, award-winning baker Henry Awayan offers his traditional childhood favorites as well as brand-new creations, including:

  • Ube halaya (Filipino jam)
  • White-chocolate chip ube brownies
  • Halo halo
  • Mango ube cream tart
  • Ube crème brûlée
  • And more!

Perfect for fans of Trader Joe’s Ube Mochi Pancake and Waffle Mix or home chefs of all levels, this book will add a pop of color to your baking game.

Turn of the Screwdriver

Shake up some dark and brooding cocktails with 50 drink recipes inspired by your favorite gothic horror books, like Interview with a Vampire, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights—a perfect gift for booklovers and mixologists!

Calling all booklovers and at-home mixologists! Get out a chilled glass and prepare to get chills down your spine with these sinisterly scrumptious cocktail recipes. Inspired by your favorite gothic tales, The Turn of the Screwdriver offers up 50 creative drink recipes so you can shake or stir up some liquid trouble to serve at any event. There’s a cocktail for every dark and twisted soul out there, including:

  • The Haunting of Highball House (The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson)
  • The Portrait of Dorian Grey Goose (The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)
  • Mexican Hot Gothalate (Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
  • Her Brandy and Other Parties (Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado)
  • InterVieux with the Vampire (Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice)
  • The Legend of Slushy Hallow (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving)
  • And more!

Perfect for book nerds, horror fans, and those who celebrate Halloween all year round, The Turn of the Screwdriver is the ultimate gift to give your favorite goth or anyone obsessed with Wednesday AddamsStephen King, and more gothic greats.

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Laugh out loud with this collection of silly dad jokes that have just enough cringe to make kids, dads, and the rest of the family face-palm—a perfect gift for Father’s Day!

Discover the ultimate laugh-out-loud joke book for kids that’s full of groan-inducing puns, silly one-liners, and hilarious dad jokes! Inside, kids will find clean, fun jokes that are as clever as they are embarrassing. This collection covers everything from food to the moon, with jokes including:

Why was the birthday cake as hard as a rock? Because it was a marble cake.

Why don’t ducks tell jokes when they fly? Because they would quack up.

Why does a moon rock taste better than an earth rock? It’s a little meteor.

What do cows in Hawaii wear? They wear moo-moos.

Rumor has it that George Washington had a lot of children. People say he was the “father of our country.”

Brain Games for 9 Year Olds

Discover the perfect summer bridge book containing over 100 engaging and educational problems to help your fourth grader strengthen their critical thinking and toughen their minds.

 

Whether you’re a teacher or parent, finding new and exciting ways to stimulate your child’s mind has never been easier! Designed especially for nine-year-old children, Brain Games for 9 Year Olds is packed with a variety of captivating activities and brain-teasers, including:

  • Sudoku puzzles
  • Mazes
  • Picture codes
  • And so much more!

Written by an internationally bestselling puzzle author, Brain Games for 9 Year Olds is the perfect mix of zany entertainment and mind-bending games to keep your child engaged and delighted as they sharpen their logic and learn new skills.

The Cloud

Create your own story as you make your way through this wordless picture book about how to handle big feelings and emotions like anxiety, grief, and fear, perfect for children ages three to five.

The main character of The Cloud discovers one day that he’s being followed…by a cloud! It starts out small, but soon it grows and grows until all of a sudden, the boy is swallowed up by it. When things seem to be at their worst and the cloud bursts into a rainstorm, the boy is able to summon up his resilience and use it to deal with the cloud in a positive way.

This book has no words, providing parents and kids with the opportunity to interact with the illustrations and interpret the story in the way that they want. From dealing with a loss in the family or hard-to-handle emotions like fear and anxiety, readers will be able to create a story that relates back to their own circumstances and will also be able to talk about solutions that make the most sense for them. Discover examples at UlyssesPress.com!

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Wednesday Word Search

Celebrate your love of the macabre with 50 word search puzzles based on the life of everyone’s favorite goth girl.

 

This highly entertaining collection of word search puzzles based on that classic American family covers all the bases–from morbid topics like the funeral industry to favorite characters. Each of the 40 puzzles in Wednesday Word Search: An Unofficial Activity Book are challenging, fun, and completely original. Perfectly sized to slip into your purse, backpack or travel urn, this is the collection of activities you’ll want to have with you at all times.

The weird world of Wednesday

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Grab your favorite knives, guillotines, and other torture devices and join Wednesday Addams on a culinary journey with 66 deliciously dark and twisted recipes inspired by the hit Netflix show.

 

Welcome woeful readers to the wonderfully weird world of Wednesday. Beloved since her debut in 1938, Wednesday Addams’s signature double braids and murderous ways have captured the hearts and minds of a dreadfully large number of outcasts. Now you can join her on her latest adventure navigating the mysterious and magical halls of high school with the first-ever unofficial Wednesday cookbook made by fans for fans.

 

The Unofficial Wednesday Cookbook offers fare inspired by your favorite goth girl’s quirky family, macabre adventures, gothic authors, murderous schemes, and more. Inside you’ll find frightfully fantastic recipes, like:

  • Taxidermied Mushrooms
  • Gorgon-zola and Pear Salad
  • Piranha Punch
  • “Secret” Ginger Snaps
  • Death by Chocolate Birthday Cake
  • And more!

For the ultimate Wednesday fans

What Would Wednesday Do?

Step into the eerie world of Wednesday Addams with this book filled with unofficial advice and cryptic counsel for navigating the peculiarities of everyday existence.

 

Written by an expert and in an appropriately sinister style, this captivating and delightfully morbid book is your guide through the shadows of life. From relationships gone awry to embracing your inner darkness, this giftable advice book provides dark wisdom that will leave you both unsettled and entertained. You will learn the most devious of important life skills, including how to:

  • Navigate unconventional relationships and dreadful family dynamics
  • Find the best outfit for greeting local police officers when they come to inform you of your husband’s mysterious demise
  • Explore the depths your inner darkness for personal growth
  • Defy societal expectations
  • Uncover the most effective way to align yourself with the ghastly ghosts haunting your abode
  • Identify key poisonous plants and the best tea to pair them with
  • Find the most effective way to brood in shadowy corners
  • Cultivate a hauntingly fulfilling existence

Whether you’re a fan of the Netflix series, movies, TV shows, cartoons, or comics, this book is a must-read for Addams Family enthusiasts and fans of the macabre.

Must-reads for Wednesday fans

Upgrade Your Vagus Nerve

Unlock the full potential of your vagus nerve with this transformational guide, including practical strategies to treat headache, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and more.

 

Harness the power of vagus nerve (VN) function and heart rate variability (HRV) in the long-awaited follow-up to bestseller Activate Your Vagus Nerve by Dr. Navaz Habib. This entirely new book goes beyond activation alone to explore stressors, measurement techniques, and practical protocols to create a roadmap to a healthier, happier life.

 

Cowritten by functional medicine expert Dr. Navaz Habib, this book offers an approachable overview of recent research, easy-to-implement strategies, and more. With Upgrade Your Vagus Nerve, you’ll learn how to:

  • Understand the impact of psychological and physical stressors, such as traumatic incidents and nutritional deficiencies
  • Explore the intricate functioning of the vagus nerve and its connection to the parasympathetic nervous system and the microbiome-gut-brain axis
  • Learn how to measure vagus nerve function using heart rate variability (HRV) and other devices
  • Discover a wide range of strategies to upgrade your HRV/VN tone, including non-invasive electrical stimulation, breathwork techniques, nutritional optimization, sound therapy, temperature exposure, circadian biology alignment, and more

Find balance, become resilient, and embark on a journey toward improved well-being with the help of the vagus nerve.

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