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Journals with a sense of humor.
Find practical help for your home, explore business ideas, discover upcoming hobby guides, or choose a funny Gen X journal. Browse the collection by what interests you.
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Home & Property Guides
Clear guidance for homeowners, renters and anyone planning an ADU or hiring a contractor. Understand your options, ask better questions and take the next step with confidence.
First Home, Now What?
A practical guide to maintenance, repairs, emergencies, contractors, and the everyday responsibilities of owning a home.
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Nobody Taught Me How to Rent a Place
A practical guide to comparing rentals, understanding leases, protecting your money, keeping records, and moving out well.
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Nobody Taught Me How to Add an ADU
A practical guide to planning, permits, costs, design, financing, contractors, and avoiding expensive project mistakes.
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Nobody Taught Me How to Hire a Contractor
A practical guide to planning the work, checking candidates, comparing bids, managing payments and changes, and keeping useful records.
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Practical ideas and tools for evaluating a business, understanding startup costs and making informed decisions about your time and money.
10 Rental Businesses You Can Start for About $1,000
Compare 10 practical rental and experience business ideas, understand the startup economics, test demand, and choose the concept that best fits your money, time, storage, vehicle, and local market.
Explore the book →Games & Hobbies
Discover a new hobby, take a break from scrolling, and make time for face-to-face fun. Learn American mahjong with clear explanations, color illustrations, and guided practice.
Easy American Mah Jongg
Learn American mahjong with step-by-step rules, detailed color images, card-reading examples, Charleston diagrams, and guided games. The paperback includes a Premium Digital Package with the complete digital book, table-side guides, glossaries, a practice card, and worked rack examples.
Explore the book →Gen X Journals
For the generation that remembers its first phone number but occasionally forgets why it opened the fridge. Find a journal for your notes, lists and memories—or a gift for someone who gets the joke.
Gen X Journal: I Grew Up on Hose Water and Now I Can't Remember Shit
A funny, nostalgic Gen X journal with 110 lined pages for notes, lists, reminders, ideas, and occasional rants—plus a different Gen X joke, memory, observation, question, fact, or cultural reference on every page.
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A Gen X Journal: Gen X: Raised on Secondhand Smoke, Hose Water, and Bad Decisions
A funny, nostalgic 110-page journal with lined writing space for notes, lists and memories. For the generation whose childhood came with very few warning labels—and plenty of stories.
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A Gen X Journal: I Remember My First Phone Number but Not Why I Opened the Fridge
Your childhood phone number is still there. Today's grocery list? Write it down. A funny 110-page journal with lined writing space, Gen X humor and nostalgia for everyday use or a memorable gift.
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A Gen X Journal: My Brain Still Runs on Cassettes
Your brain remembers every song on that old mixtape. Appointments? Not so much. A funny 110-page lined journal with a different Gen X memory, question, fact or humorous observation on every page. No rewinding required. Just write it down.
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A Gen X Journal: My Memory Is Somewhere Between VHS and Dial Up
You remember rewinding movies and the sound of dial-up internet. Why you walked into this room? Still buffering. A funny lined journal for notes, lists and memories—or a nostalgic birthday gift, white elephant gift or stocking stuffer for the Gen Xer in your life.
Explore the journal →Digital companions & tools
Printable and fillable resources are included with selected paperbacks or available separately as optional upgrades. Product pages clearly identify what is included and whether the book is sold separately.
Companion Tools
Reusable calculators, worksheets, checklists, logs, and records designed to support selected Book Man titles.
Blueprints
Deeper step-by-step packages for readers ready to turn an idea, project, or business into action.
Digital Products
Optional companion upgrades, printable resources, fillable PDFs, templates, and eligible direct digital packages.
Some of life's biggest decisions do not come with instructions.
The Nobody Taught Me series tackles subjects people are often expected to understand without anyone sitting down and explaining them. No jargon for the sake of jargon. No pretending you already know the basics. Just practical information designed to help you make informed decisions and know what to do next.
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