Heather Swain

On their way to a wedding, Megan and Joel crash their car in Elise Juska's 'Perfect Weather for Driving'. It makes for a great drunken story at the rehearsal dinner, but they've found themselves stuck indefinitely at a hotel in Vermont. In 'The Happiest Day of Your Life' by Heather Swain, everyone tells Annie that her wedding day will be the best yet, but her invitations have the wrong name, and a tornado destroys the bar where the is supposed to take place. But when a bomb explodes on the subway line that her fiancé, Ben, takes every morning, everything changes. In 'Losing California' by Tara McCarthy, L.A. surfing teacher Allison Beyer cancels her wedding and flies to Nova Scotia to infiltrate the life of a singer in her favourite band. And in 'Jules & Emily' by Lisa Tucker, two lonely people meet on an online board for agoraphobics, but both will be forced to change when one is invited to her estranged brother's wedding all the way across the country.

An ingeniously simple and fully-illustrated book for crafting toys from objects found around the house. This clever guide focuses on fun, homemade projects using materials anyone can find around the house or that can be purchased for a fraction of what a commercially-produced toy can cost. Using everyday objects from cardboard tubing to paper to clothespins, readers will discover how to make such projects as: - A milk carton balloon boat - A rubber band banjo - A cardboard tube kaleidoscope - An embroidery hoop tambourine - And more Perfect for parents and teachers, these projects enable families to spend less while keeping entertained. Because fun doesn't always have to come in a box-sometimes, it's the box itself.

25-year-old Junie is adrift. She's got a cool drummer boyfriend who loves her, a great east-village funkadelic wardrobe, a series of well-paying but seriously bizarre temp jobs, but still she feels that life is eluding her. She can't quite put her finger on it, and she knows she should be happy, or at least grateful, but she just can't seem to stop searching. So when she meets Eliot, a brilliant, if somewhat unemployed Sci-Fi writer, she thinks he's the answer she's been looking for. She will be his muse and his love and adoration will provide her with the life she's been looking for. What ensues is nothing short of mayhem - she finds herself in Eliot's bed, on his closet floor, his dining room table...and bizarrely pursued by his cat Alfie--who apparently believes he's her soulmate and will do anything to keep Junie and Eliot apart. But it's not Alfie who ultimately makes Junie face up to the fact that she's just been avoiding life in Eliot's bed...it's what she finds out about herself, and her past, that eventually make her realise that her life has been waiting for her all along, if only she can stop running from it.