Specialty Books

Save time & money on your next DIY project with the year's best fixes, upgrades and more inside Family Handyman Home Improvement. Inside you’ll find home improvement ideas for every level of DIYer—from beginners to pros—and every room of your home, both inside and out! You'll save hundreds of dollars in home improvements by doing them yourself, with results you'll be proud to show off!

Now, you have the power to change the course of your diabetes with every bite you eat, every walk you take, every pound you lose, and every positive move you make. With the step-by-step advice found in Reader’s Digest Reverse Diabetes, in just 12 weeks you can: Lower your blood sugar by up to 25%, trim inches from your waistline and lose dangerous belly fat and lower the need for diabetes medication. With Reverse Diabetes, you’ll learn how to improve your quality of life and control your blood sugar so that it doesn't control you.

Newly updated with the latest science, Reverse Diabetes Forever offers more than 700 tips, plans, and recipes to beat diabetes. In this comprehensive book, you'll find the latest science and expert advice that enables you—at long last—to take control. Learn how to shop, cook, and eat. Discover how to transform your favorite comfort foods into delectable, diet-friendly meals (your family won't know you've changed a thing). Then find out how you can defeat diabetes by learning how to be more active. With practical tips and simple solutions drawn from the latest science, Reverse Diabetes Forever will help you take charge of your blood sugar once and for all.

The days of inefficient, archaic, time-consuming, unsafe, and impractical fitness workouts are over. The 60-Second Sweat combines hot fitness trends High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) into a single efficient and effective training program, with each exercise requiring no more than 60 seconds. It is not a short-term fix, but, rather, a roadmap to the fittest, most confident you. You’ll learn how to attain phenomenal and sustainable fitness safely and realistically...1 minute at a time...

The Survival Doctor's Complete Handbook will take you step by step through the essentials of medical care during a crisis. Perhaps you’ve been stranded by a sudden storm when out camping. Maybe you live alone in a rural area and can’t easily get to a doctor when you hurt your arm. Or you just want to make sure you and your family are prepared to safely weather the next Superstorm Sandy, polar vortex, tornado strike, heat wave, earthquake, or other natural disaster. Whatever your situation and your health needs, The Survival Doctor's Complete Handbook is your must-have medical resource.

Discover where you can save the most money in your home! In Save Energy, Save Money! you’ll find 201 projects, tips and ideas to help you lower your utility bills and make your home more comfortable. Find out how to save money based on the location and condition of your home, your budget and your skill level.

Most dads get their best material from their families. And that's what you’ll find here with Dumb Dad Jokes: a collection of riddles, jokes, one-liners, hilarious anecdotes and pointed wit that see families for what they truly are—a chief source of amusement! These family-friendly jokes can be shared across generations, around the dinner table or the camp fire. "Did you hear that NASA has launched several cows into orbit? It was the herd shot around the world!" Truly, there’s something for everyone from age 6 to 106!

Get ready to laugh out loud with Fun Jokes for Funny Kids. This entertaining collection is loaded with family-friendly knock, knock jokes and riddles, one-liners, tongue twisters and puns that will keep kids ages 6-12 rolling in laughter for hours. Also includes illustrations and cartoons for extra giggles.

Doctor's Favorite Natural Remedies is a comprehensive A-Z guide that covers 90 everyday health conditions and includes 170 natural remedies to combat them. You’ll find safe and effective medically-approved ways to treat your ailments using natural healing methods such as herbal treatments, different types of exercise, dietary changes, and massage therapy. So, you can tackle stress, look and feel better, improve your sleep patterns and enjoy life more.

Get ready to laugh out loud with the latest volume of Fun Jokes for Funny Kids. This entertaining collection is loaded with family-friendly knock, knock jokes and riddles, one-liners, tongue twisters and puns that will keep kids ages 6-12 rolling in laughter for hours. Also includes illustrations and cartoons for extra giggles.

Now you can discover the joy and pleasure of growing your own herbs for spicing up meals, creating crafts, treating ailments, and more. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated herbal guide you'll find information on herb history, cultivation, propagation, and harvesting, along with a wealth of great ideas for using these wonder plants every day in a variety of ways. Extremely informative and fascinating, this book gives you instructions for creating bursting-with-flavor recipes, health care products, decorative craft ideas, insect repellents, cosmetics, cleaning agents, and much more.

Use Your Words is an entertaining collection from Reader’s Digest that combines the best selection of content from two of the magazine’s most popular columns: Word Power Quizzes and Quotable Quotes. It’s packed with quotes collected from a variety of books, speeches, journals, and articles, plus word quizzes that will help you discover the meaning of unfamiliar words, add new or unusual words to your vocabulary, and help you stay up to date on new words entering the lexicon.

Spruce up your home and yard with 500 simple projects and tips inside Family Handyman Refresh Your Home! From small fixes like stopping drafts and repairing a leaky faucet to bigger interior upgrades and repairs, you’ll find hundreds of ways to increase the value of your home without hiring expensive contractors.

Laughter, the Best Medicine is a collection of the funniest jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, anecdotes, and laugh-out-loud captions from the pages of Reader's Digest magazine. This hilarious collection offers up over 1,000 funny moments that get us through our day in the form of jokes, gags and cartoons that will have readers laughing out loud.

Over the years, Reader’s Digest has covered notorious crimes both large and small, and its latest collection, True Crime, has them all: petty theft, serial killers, lottery scams, kidnappers, art heists, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all: crimes of passion. Inside this gripping novel, you’ll find 24 tales of murder and mayhem that are guaranteed to surprise, shock, and fascinate as they offer a glimpse into the twisted minds of criminals and the dedicated crime fighters who catch them.

Magic Foods, a Reader’s Digest health book, is packed with 57 foods that will help you to lose weight, increase your energy, slash your diabetes risk and generally make you feel better. Inside you’ll find 100+ delicious recipes specially designed to promote better blood sugar, plus meal makeovers that show you how. With a few simple fixes, you can transform any meal into a “magic”' one. You’ll also enjoy handy meal plans for three different calorie goals that will help you put the whole program together. Nothing could be simpler or more effective.

In The Way of the SEAL, retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Along the way, you’ll reaffirm your ultimate purpose, define your most important goals, and take concrete steps to make them happen. A practical guide for businesspeople (or indeed anyone) who need to know the secrets to success, the book will teach you how to be tough, cool under fire and lead without fear.

Home Hacks features surprising new uses for common items that will help you streamline your chores—all while saving time and money! Whether you are looking to organize your space, find simpler ways to clean including natural cleaning solutions, create systems to keep things tidy, keep your clothes in tip-top shape, or know which hooks are best for wall hangings, here you’ll find the smartest hacks for everyday problems.

America’s favorite source for humor, Reader’s Digest magazine, is back with another edition in their sidesplitting comedy series titled, Laughter Totally Is the Best Medicine. This entertaining collection is packed with over 1,000 funny new jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, anecdotes, and laugh-out-loud captions, all selected by the editors of Reader’s Digest. As you turn the pages of this amusing collection, you’ll realize once again that life is often funnier than fiction.

Based on the latest research, Run Your Fat Off gives everyone—from marathon runners to casual runners and nonrunners—a personalized plan on the best running workouts to lose the most weight. The book will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to begin running, explains how not to be intimidated by running, and offers research-based information on how to create a running regimen that is the most effective for losing weight. Featuring success stories from people who have lost weight and changed their lives through running, this book successfully combines two of America's leading obsessions into one effective plan.

Reader's Digest Soldier Stories is a chronological retrospective of the best military pieces Reader's Digest has run, from World War I through the war in Iraq. Featuring stories from the battlefield to the home front, this inspiring collection honors the men and women of America’s armed forces and gives readers a glimpse into life in uniform. This book gives a complete perspective on the hell that is war, the love that grows from camaraderie, the pride from accomplishing the impossible, the humor that springs form the military bureaucracy, and more.

Take your love of crafting outside with the 71 projects in Handmade Outdoor Crafts. From magical fairy gardens and adorable yard accents to impressive planters and nature-inspired works of art, these delightfully simple ideas add a pinch of whimsy to your yard and home alike.

Food Cures is the definitive, hands-on guide to healing, treating, and preventing 56 common ailments and health complaints. Inside, you’ll learn how to clean out your medicine cabinet and, instead, restock your fridge with healing and appealing items from the supermarket. Plus, you’ll discover 75 delicious recipes that will help bring healing right to your plate!

America’s favorite source for humor, Reader’s Digest magazine, is back with another edition in their sidesplitting comedy series titled, Laughter Really Is the Best Medicine. This entertaining collection is packed with over 1,000 funny new jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, anecdotes, and laugh-out-loud captions, all selected by the editors of Reader’s Digest. As you turn the pages of this amusing collection, you’ll realize once again that life is often funnier than fiction.

Keep This, Toss That answers the one key question you need to get organized and live happily with just the stuff you love. Featuring dozens of illustrated Keep/Toss Checklists, this book shows you exactly what you need—and what you can safely toss, regret-free. Plus, this newly updated edition addresses the challenges of modern life, such as how to clean up digital files and what to do with the stuff your kids left behind when they moved out.