Paddle Your Own Canoe

***Parks and Recreation* actor and *Making It* co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this *New York Times* bestseller. ** Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman–who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as *Parks and Recreation* ‘s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking–he runs his own woodshop– *Paddle Your Own Canoe* features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois–I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield–to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, *Paddle Your Own Canoe* will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.