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Hot & Cold Gift Pack: The Duck & Herring Co. Pocket Field Guides for Summer 2006 and Cold Weather 2006-2007

SAVE ON SHIPPING CHARGES! As we balance precariously on the cusp of cold weather passing and warm weather lingering, celebrate both weather effects with this gift-pack purchase combining two of our finest Field Guides: Summer 2006, a mint-hued tasty wonder, features writing from Johnny Pence, Gale Martin, Alistair Simons, Jamie Allen, Gary Beck, Andy P. Jones, David Kennerly, and Tom Barlow; and Cold Weather 2006-2007, pure as newfallen snow in color, and boasting writings from Chuck Rosenthal, Jack Pendarvis, Hollis Gillespie, Camille Osborne, Trae Brookins, Al Kaufman, Dan Kopcow, Nadine Darling, Michael Fowler, Stewart Haddock, and Linda Sand.

The Duck & Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide Four-Issue Subscription

SAVE ON SHIPPING CHARGES! If you would like to subscribe to our PFGs, starting with the issue that will be released the soonest, we are currently offering a subscription sans shipping charges.

+ SALE! $7.99! The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Cold Weather, 2006 - 2007 SALE! $7.99! +

- International correspondent and novelist Chuck Rosenthal
stalks the Yeti in India (no kidding; he actually went to India
and looked/listened for their version of Bigfoot! And he found something!)

- Atlanta memoirist and humorist and all-around good motherist Hollis Gillespie
shares with the world her splendid (and cheap) Killer Cupcakes!

- Jack Pendarvis, whose newest short story collection ("Your Body Is Changing")
arrives in bookstores in 2007, bestows upon us an excerpt from that collection!

- Plus: Fiction from Camille Osborne,
Trae Brookins, Al Kaufman,
Dan Kopcow, and Nadine Darling!

- Also: Funny things from
Michael Fowler, Stewart Haddock, and Linda Sands!

- And: Recipes for Steel Cut Oatmeal
and White Hot Chocolate!

- As well as: The Duck & Herring Co. offers readers
Cold-Weather To-Dos,
Signs That You Might Be Alcoholic,
and How to Build a Snowcave!

The color of the cover is pure snow white. Nail hole in upper left-hand corner. SALE! $7.99.

SALE! $5! + The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Summer 2006 + SALE! $5!

And what a deal! Helping readers everywhere battle summertime heat, D&H presents writings from Johnny Pence, Gale Martin, Alistair Simons, Jamie Allen, Gary Beck, Andy P. Jones, David Kennerly, and Tom Barlow, on summery subjects like eternal baseball, fishing, Ben Franklin's pre-electricity notes, wiping out on a motorcycle, a convenience-store crush, the threat of violence at summer school, being a bigot, eating too much fast food, poetry and sex.

This issue also features special D&H sections on highlights in the summer night sky (now dated), food/drink you should serve/eat/drink (along with their recipes; never dated), and summer gardening (always in fashion).

And the following extras: a song contest and a summer scavenger hunt.

The color turned out to be mint-ish, with a hint of lime. Nail hole. Lightweight construction. Now only $5.

The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Spring 2006 - SOLD OUT!!

The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Spring 2006, our fourth PFG, is ready to order. This one is the first to feature our new logos on the cover. A real keepsake.

In this issue: Stories on or having to do with love, Mexican travel, mistaken celebrity, tulips, Mario, immigration, April Fool's, haiku and death, with our patented seasonal to-do list, another language lesson from our Montreal correspondent, recipes for a spring cocktail and deviled eggs, and highlights in the spring night sky. Sections for notes/sketches included.

Contributors are: Laurel Snyder, Murray Brozinsky, Matthew Boyd, Joseph Young, Thomas Bell, Terra Elan McVoy, Rachel Trousdale, Sharon McGill, John Ritchie, Maria Robinson, Peter Sapira, Larry Gaffney, and Risa Dickens.

Sized to fit neatly in one's back pocket, backpack, purse or inner jacket pocket, the PFG features a nail hole in the upper lefthand corner, so that you might hang it from your garden shed by the tools while you go out and weed and plant and cultivate in the sun. The color of the cover is a dynamic blue, to match the spring air.

SOLD OUT!! $6.

The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Winter 2005 - 2006 -- SOLD OUT!!

The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Winter 2005 - 2006, our third PFG, includes true stories about Montreal, telemarketing, John Bonham and Julia Roberts; things happening with the moon and Venus this winter; recipes for a cold whiskey drink and Gramma's Cheese & Onion Pie; fictional tales on reality TV, being drunk, deadly encounters, a mysterious onion, how to avoid a kidnapping, and a sweet, poignant moment in a bar between two very different people. And more! It's just the kind of stuff to help you through the daylight-challenged days of winter.

Contributors include: David C. Card, Max Ruback, Kate Simonsen, Dave Roos, J.D. Smith, Tania Casselle, Grant Perry, Tom Barlow, Evan Reese, Ed Higgins, Keith Lord, David Kennerly, and Risa Dickens.

Sized to fit neatly in one's back pocket, backpack, purse or inner jacket pocket, the PFG features a nail hole in the upper lefthand corner, so that you might hang from a kitchen wall or leave dangling from a backpack. The color of the cover turned out to be very similar to the two previous PFGs.

$10. SOLD OUT!!

The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Fall 2005 -- SOLD OUT!!

Twice as thick as the summer issue, now at a discount rate. Included in our second issue: another language lesson from our French-speaking correspondent in Montreal, cold-weather recipes, stories about ghosts, a story about dressing up in an owl costume (in the name of crime-fighting and love), funny pieces that are short, a nonfiction story about pumpkin theft, an eerie tale about a wannabe writer, a story about a football bookie, stories about break-up and heartache, The Duck & Herring Co.'s patented list of seasonal to-dos, and more.

Contributors are: Joshua Booth, Marc Peacock Brush, Andrew Day, Risa Dickens, Kathy Fish, Liesl Jobson, Mike Jones, Michael Hartford, Shauna McKenna, Johnny Pence, Evan Reese, Shelly Rich, Jim Ruland, Nathan Thornton and Jim Tomlinson.

SALE! $6. SOLD OUT!!

The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Summer 2005 -- SOLD OUT!!

Our first issue, The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide for Summer 2005 is nearly 90 pages of content that helped readers through the summer of 2005 and might soon be considered a collector's item. We still have a few left; buy now.

Contributors are: Thomas Bell, Lee Klein, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Randa Jarrar, Caroline Kepnes, Kay Sexton, David Kennerly, Christopher Stevens, Risa Dickens and Terra Elan McVoy.

Cover is light-brown cardstock; ink is stain-proof. Features a nail hole in the upper lefthand corner.

SALE! $4. SOLD OUT!!

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