Pick your disaster

• the Rule of Three Confirmations
• five plants you cannot get wrong, growing within four minutes of where you’re standing
• two chapters on mushrooms, the first of which is just the word “don’t”
• what an oak delivers annually to a fixed address, free, forever
• the preservation chapter for people who own one shelf

“He is banned from this market.”Vendor, farmers' market

146 pages · 14 illustrations · 3h 47m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-255-7

• the arithmetic you’re avoiding, in gallons per person per day
• storing a fortnight in an apartment without committing crimes
• boiling, filtering, chemistry and distillation — what each kills, and the one that doesn’t kill the thing you’re worried about
• the forty gallons already in your home and which of them you can drink
• eight drops of civilization, and the shelf life nobody mentions

“Please stop calling me.”Doreen

156 pages · 22 illustrations · 3h 48m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-257-1

• calories vs. vibes, settled with a calculator
• the two-week larder, itemized, for one shelf and a normal budget
• water-bath vs. pressure canning and the exact line between them, written entirely without jokes
• FIFO, because your pantry is a nightclub
• the root cellar you already own and have been keeping shoes in

“He is banned from this market.”Vendor, farmers' market

148 pages · 14 illustrations · 3h 46m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-259-5

• fire is a supply chain and yours has one link
• five ways to start one, with the failure rates nobody prints
• heat one room, not the home — the doctrine that got a family through nine days
• watt-hours for the innocent, in real numbers
• the first ten minutes of a blackout, minute by minute
• fuel storage, written in a fireproof voice

“Chirp.”the smoke detector, 3 a.m.

150 pages · 13 illustrations · 3h 49m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-261-8

• the real kit, built by function rather than by product, in three tiers starting at $25
• bleeding: pressure is the treatment
• burns, breaks, choking, and the four-minute room
• the medicine cabinet excavated — what interacts, what expired in 2019
• the bright line, and the list where you stop reading and call

“Please stop calling me.”Doreen

166 pages · 24 illustrations · 3h 56m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-263-2

• the $80 kit that out-fishes the $900 one
• reading water — the fish has a mortgage and it isn’t in the scenic middle of the river
• honest failure rates, published
• the Four Rules, with no jokes in that chapter
• field dressing and the temperature clock
• buy the license first, that part isn’t a bit

“He is banned from this market.”Vendor, farmers' market

158 pages · 14 illustrations · 4h 02m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-265-6

• PACE, on one index card
• walkie-talkies without the marketing, and what “36-mile range” means (nothing)
• the license: thirty-five questions between you and the endgame, and a ten-year-old passed it last month
• your first radio, programd before the sky turns green
• EMP — the physics, then the fan-fiction, clearly separated

“73.”callsign withheld

156 pages · 13 illustrations · 4h 08m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-267-0

• the five-minute walkaround between you and the hard shoulder
• changing a tire without an app, an audience, or a man named Kevin
• jump-starting — dead is a diagnosis, not a personality
• the half-tank religion, unbroken in nineteen years
• generators: sizing, fuel, and the one that kills people every winter
• small engines die of the same three things and all three are your fault

“Please stop calling me.”Doreen

156 pages · 21 illustrations · 3h 42m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-269-4

• awareness, avoidance, de-escalation — in that order, and the tools chapter is Chapter Six on purpose
• your door is lying to you: the $14 fix and the two hours
• losing an argument on purpose, as a skill
• stay or go, and the go-bag that isn’t cosplay
• the full autopsy of the $700 backpack (empty weight: five and a half pounds)
• drills that don’t traumatise a nine-year-old

“★☆☆☆☆ Too real.”a man in Brooklyn

172 pages · 27 illustrations · 4h 06m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-271-7

• the census of quiet competence, and what it means if your third list is empty
• the potluck is infrastructure, and this is not a metaphor
• the texting tree, the generator commons, the skills economy
• the quiet emergencies, which are the ones that actually happen
• the Gerald Accords
• ten volumes, and the real reason he wrote them

“73.”callsign withheld

156 pages · 13 illustrations · 4h 06m read aloud
ISBN 979-8-90623-273-1