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When the power's out, the phones are dead and no one is coming… will you know exactly what to do?

The Siegeproof Vault: 43 plain-English, picture-by-picture books, plus Ranger, a survival expert in your pocket 24/7. Water, power, emergency medicine, food, shelter, radios, herbal remedies and 28 brand-new books you won't find anywhere else. Everything your family needs to get through anything, in one place.

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It's not a movie. It already happened.

February 2021. Texas. Not a war zone. A winter storm.

Most Texans went to bed on a Sunday night thinking it was just a cold snap. By the end of the week, 69% of them had lost power, on average for 42 hours. Almost half lost running water for more than two days. Pipes burst. Stores emptied.

246 people died. Most from hypothermia. The youngest was under a year old. The oldest was 102.Texas Department of State Health Services, via NPR, Jan 2022 · University of Houston Hobby School / YouGov survey, 2021

Three years later, in September 2024, Hurricane Helene tore through the mountains of North Carolina. It knocked out 4,562 cell sites, the most ever recorded in a hurricane. In three mountain counties, one tower in ten was still working. Parents couldn't find out if their kids were alive.

April 28, 2025, 12:33 p.m.: all of mainland Spain and Portugal went dark at once. Trains stopped. ATMs died. Gas pumps froze. In the Madrid region alone, crews pulled people out of almost 300 stuck elevators.

And it's getting worse, not better. In 2024 the average US electricity customer spent 11 hours with no power, nearly double the figure from a decade earlier (US Energy Information Administration).

About half of Americans believe they're prepared for a disaster. Only 18% tested how their family would reach each other in the past year. Over 60? Only 28% have made an emergency plan. In Canada, only 28% have an emergency kit.FEMA National Household Survey 2023 · Angus Reid Forum for FirstOnSite, 2026

Here's the hard truth: when it happens, no one is coming for hours. Maybe days. The only thing standing between your family and the dark is what you know, and what you have ready.

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If your family rolls their eyes

You're not paranoid. You're the one who'll know what to do.

Nobody calls a smoke alarm paranoid. Nobody laughs at a first-aid kit. This is the same thing, for the week the power's out. Your grandparents just called it being sensible.

This isn't about bunkers or the end of the world. It's about getting your family through a bad week or two, the kind millions of people have already lived through. In the ten true survival stories in Volume 1, from the siege of Leningrad to the Texas freeze, the same lesson keeps coming back: the people who knew what to do, and who helped the people around them, came through best.

When the whole street goes dark, people walk over to the one house that has a plan. Make it yours.

Why most families are dangerously unprepared

Your survival plan is probably a phone. And it's the first thing to die.

You're not lazy and you're not naive. You've just been sold the wrong kind of help.

📵

"I'll just Google it."

Google and YouTube need a signal. In Helene, whole counties had one tower in ten. No signal, no video, no answer. Right when you need it most.

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The 900-page manual

Small print, no pictures, no index you can use in the dark with a bleeding child. Nobody reads a doorstop in a crisis.

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Survival TV and viral "hacks"

Some of the most-shared tricks online don't work. A few of them can burn your house down or poison your family. (Test yourself below.)

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The flashy online survival book

A pen-name author, a long video, a "book" that turns out to be a download, then upsell after upsell and bonuses that never show up. Those are the most common complaints in buyers' own reviews.

60-second test

Lifesaver or killer?

Six things people believe about survival. Flip each card and see how you'd do.

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Got even one wrong? Volume 38, The Forgotten Tricks, has 25 famous survival myths like these, and 101 little-known methods that actually work.

Find yourself here

Whatever your family looks like, there's a shelf for it

Most survival books are written for a fit young man in the woods. Real families look like this.

You look after an aging parent

"You can't get them out, and you can't leave them."

Inside: Vol. 41, the medicine plan for older parents, power and oxygen, and getting everyone out the door in 15 minutes. Vol. 15, caring for a bedridden person without bedsores.

Over 60? Only 28% have made an emergency plan (FEMA, 2023).

Someone depends on insulin, oxygen or a CPAP

"The power's out, and the medicine is in the fridge."

Inside: Vol. 15, Chapter 8: keeping insulin and other medicines safe when the power is out. Vol. 7: sizing a battery and solar setup for a CPAP, in plain numbers.

About 3.35 million people on Medicare rely on medical equipment that needs electricity (HHS emPOWER data, 2026).

You have kids or grandkids

"They're at school when the towers go down."

Inside: Vol. 41: the pocket card for a child in case you're separated, calm words for scared kids, babies and formula. Vol. 13: texting your family with no towers.

You have pets

"Will the shelter even take the dog?"

Inside: Vol. 41, Chapters 8 and 9: pet food, papers, the shelters that take pets, and keeping animals safe in the heat and the cold.

You rent, or live in an apartment

"No yard, no storage, and the lease says no gas generator."

Inside: the two-bucket toilet that works in an apartment (Vol. 37), heating one room on a fraction of the fuel and what's safe to use indoors (Vol. 11), and a neighbour group you can start on one floor of a building (Vol. 39).

Money's tight, or you're on a fixed income

"I can't afford a $2,000 generator."

Inside: most of what gets a family through a bad week costs little or nothing: the one-room heat plan, the no-power slow cooker, safe water with household bleach, the two-bucket toilet. Vol. 42 covers cash, documents and the scams that follow every disaster.

You're over 70, or your eyes aren't what they were

"Most of these lists aren't practical for anyone my age."

Inside: short books, plain words and big diagrams. Zoom in on a tablet or print any page as large as you like. Vol. 41 has the extras people forget, like spare glasses and hearing-aid batteries.

You live in Canada

"Does any of this work north of the border?"

Inside: both units of measurement, Canadian radio rules and emergency numbers, cold-weather and wildfire chapters, and the 1998 Ice Storm and Quebec's 1989 blackout.

Only 28% of Canadians have an emergency kit (Angus Reid Forum for FirstOnSite, 2026).

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Introducing

The Siegeproof Vault

43 books on 10 shelves. One for every way the world can let you down: water, power, medicine, food, shelter, radios, your family and your home. Each one short, plain and drawn step by step, so you can read it tonight and do it tomorrow. And when you've got a question at 2 a.m., Ranger answers it.

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Shelf 1 · 3 books

The First 72 Hours

It hits at 2 a.m. The power's out, the phone has one bar, and everyone is looking at you.

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The First 72 Hours book cover
"The lights go out at 2 a.m. Everyone is looking at you."

Vol. 02 · The First 72 Hours

Hour by hour: exactly what to do when the power, the phones and the stores all stop at once
  • The first 10 minutes: the 5 things to do before you even light a candle
  • Stay or go? The simple test that tells you, before the traffic jam starts
  • The family plan that works when phones don't: meeting points, kids at school, the 'who calls whom' card
Little-knownWhy a generator just a few feet from the house still poisoned families after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Shelf 1: The First 72 Hours60 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Get Home, Get Out book cover
"Wildfire. Evacuate in 10 minutes. What do you grab?"

Vol. 03 · Get Home, Get Out

Go-bags, get-home bags and the 10-minute evacuation that saves what matters
  • The 10-minute grab list, room by room, taped inside your closet door
  • The get-home bag for the car: the 20-mile walk home when the roads lock up
  • The 'documents in a zip-top bag' trick that can save you weeks or months of paperwork
Little-knownThe pack-weight rule long-distance hikers use, and why a go-bag packed to the official water rule breaks it
Shelf 1: The First 72 Hours57 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
Ready for Anything book cover
"I don't even know where to start."

Vol. 01 · Ready for Anything

Real lessons from people who lived through war, collapse and disaster, and a plan to put them to work at home
  • What people who lived through Sarajevo's siege, Cuba's Special Period and the Texas freeze say they wish they'd done first
  • The patterns that show up in every collapse, and the order to prepare in
  • Your three-level household plan: 72 hours, 2 weeks, 3 months
Little-knownThe 'long walk for water' lesson from a city under siege for almost four years
Shelf 1: The First 72 Hours66 pages · illustrated step by step$37 value, included
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Ready for Anything book cover
"I don't even know where to start."

Vol. 01 · Ready for Anything

Real lessons from people who lived through war, collapse and disaster, and a plan to put them to work at home

Inside: The 'long walk for water' lesson from a city under siege for almost four years
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Shelf 2 · 3 books

Water

Three days without water. That's all the time your body gives you.

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Safe Water Anywhere book cover
"The taps stop. The store sold out of water in an hour."

Vol. 04 · Safe Water Anywhere

Find it, filter it, make it safe and store it, even from a ditch, with no power
  • The exact drops of plain household bleach per gallon (and the kind of bleach you must never use)
  • The sand filter invented in Calgary that now helps clean water for millions of people, and a bucket version you can build (then still disinfect)
  • The pine-branch filter MIT engineers tested, and the vines and trees that hand you drinkable sap in late winter and spring
Little-knownWhy the famous 'survival solar still' can burn an hour of digging for a cup or two of water
Shelf 2: Water60 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Your Own Water Well book cover
"Our well pump runs on electricity. No power, no water."

Vol. 05 · Your Own Water Well

Find groundwater, drive or drill a well by hand, and put a hand pump on the well you already have
  • The pipe-and-post-driver well that can reach water about 30 feet down in sandy ground
  • The hand-drilling rig a missionary designed for about $150 (2006 prices) that reaches 100 feet (30 m) and more in soft ground
  • The hand pump that sits beside your electric pump and lifts water from up to 325 feet down (maker's rating, largest model)
Little-knownWhy water dowsing seems to work, and the free government records that actually show where the water is
Shelf 2: Water59 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
Water When It Counts book cover
"Drought. Water bans. The garden that feeds us is dying."

Vol. 06 · Water When It Counts

Catch rain, drought-proof your soil, and keep the garden alive when the taps run dry
  • Your soil is the biggest water tank you own: how to fill it
  • Rain catchment from a roof, sized for your yard
  • The emergency plan when the hose goes dry
Little-knownWhy roof water is not drinking water, and what to do about it
Shelf 2: Water27 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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Water When It Counts book cover
"Drought. Water bans. The garden that feeds us is dying."

Vol. 06 · Water When It Counts

Catch rain, drought-proof your soil, and keep the garden alive when the taps run dry

Inside: Why roof water is not drinking water, and what to do about it
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Shelf 3 · 6 books

Power & Heat

No grid, no furnace, no fridge, no phone charger. For days.

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Make Your Own Power book cover
"Day 4 without power. The freezer is thawing. The phone is at 3%."

Vol. 07 · Make Your Own Power

Solar, wind, pedal and water power for the home: keep the lights, the fridge and the radio running
  • Size a battery and solar setup that keeps a fridge, phones and a CPAP alive, in plain numbers
  • Build a small wind turbine stage by stage, with clear drawings, and where to get the proven plans
  • Pedal power, a creek and a camp stove: 3 strange ways to charge a phone
Little-knownThe 1989 FEMA plans for running a tractor on wood chips, from a garbage can, an old drum and plumbing parts
Shelf 3: Power & Heat54 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Batteries That Last book cover
"Car battery dead. Power bank flat. The generator won't start."

Vol. 08 · Batteries That Last

Charge, store, test and revive the batteries that keep your lights, radios and phones alive
  • Bring a 'dead' lead-acid battery back: when it can be saved and when it can't
  • The 'sleeping' lithium pack trick, and the one condition when you must never try it
  • 3 popular battery 'fixes' from online videos that fake a fix or ruin the battery
Little-knownOf 294 phone batteries returned as faulty, a battery-testing company restored 91% to 80% capacity or better
Shelf 3: Power & Heat56 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Make Your Own Fuel book cover
"The pumps are dry. Or it's $7 a gallon."

Vol. 09 · Make Your Own Fuel

Biodiesel from used fryer oil, charcoal from yard scraps, and how to store fuel so it's good when you need it
  • The kitchen-scale method people have used since the 1990s to turn restaurant fryer oil into diesel fuel, step by step
  • The 'top-lit' tin-can kiln that turns yard scraps into charcoal
  • Which fuel can start going stale in as little as 30 days, which keeps for years, and how to stretch it
Little-knownAt the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, a Diesel engine ran on peanut oil, at the French government's request
Shelf 3: Power & Heat55 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Hot Water From the Sun book cover
"No power, no gas. Two weeks without a hot shower or a hot meal."

Vol. 10 · Hot Water From the Sun

Solar water heaters, solar showers and sun ovens: hot water and hot meals with no fuel at all
  • The drum water heater a Florida solar lab published plans for: about $70 in 1988, up to 150°F
  • The Montana engineer whose homemade solar hot water has come through −30°F winters
  • Sun ovens that cook stew and bread with no fuel, and the wax-tube trick that shows when water has been heated enough to kill germs
Little-knownYou don't have to boil water to kill germs: the lower temperature that does it, and how to see when you've reached it
Shelf 3: Power & Heat53 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Heat & Cook Without the Grid book cover
"It's 19 degrees inside. The furnace won't start without power."

Vol. 11 · Heat & Cook Without the Grid

Keep one room warm, cook every meal and stay alive through a winter blackout
  • The one-room plan that keeps a family warm on a fraction of the fuel
  • A rocket stove from 16 bricks that boils water on a few handfuls of twigs
  • The 'slow cooker with no power': a box, some blankets and a pot, the way grandmothers saved fuel
Little-knownThe viral 'flower-pot candle heater': why it can't heat a room, and the house fire it caused
Shelf 3: Power & Heat58 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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When the Sun Strikes book cover
"One flash and everything with a chip goes dark. Is that real?"

Vol. 12 · When the Sun Strikes

Solar storms and EMP: what really happens, what's myth, and how to protect your family and your electronics
  • March 13, 1989, 2:44 a.m.: how all of Quebec went dark in under a minute
  • What the US EMP Commission found when it tested 37 cars (it's not what the movies say)
  • Storing spare radios and chargers in metal: what the tests show and what they don't
Little-knownIn 1859 a solar storm set telegraph paper on fire, and some operators kept sending messages with their batteries unplugged
Shelf 3: Power & Heat51 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included

Water, power and heat sorted. Now the part most people never think about until it's too late…

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Shelf 4 · 1 book

Communications

The towers go dark and you can't reach your kids.

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When the Towers Go Dark book cover
"Cell towers down. Your daughter is across town. Silence."

Vol. 13 · When the Towers Go Dark

Text your family with no cell service and no internet: mesh radios, walkie-talkies, ham and emergency radio
  • The $30 to $40 pocket radio that lets your family send texts with no towers and no internet
  • Set up a neighborhood network in an afternoon, with every app screen drawn step by step
  • The family comms plan: who calls whom, which channel, what time, written on one card
Little-knownHow a church network in one Florida county is building its own off-grid text network for hurricane season
Shelf 4: Communications59 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Shelf 5 · 4 books

Emergency Medicine

Someone you love is hurt and 911 is busy, or not coming.

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When Help Isn't Coming book cover
"Your child is bleeding. 911 is busy, or the roads are gone."

Vol. 14 · When Help Isn't Coming

Emergency medicine made simple: bleeding, wounds, burns, breaks, fever and more, picture by picture
  • Start controlling serious bleeding in the first minute: pressure, packing and the tourniquet, drawn step by step
  • Clean and close a wound: when strips do the job, when glue does, and the basic stitch, practiced on a banana first
  • Burns, breaks, sprains, choking, heat stroke, hypothermia: what to do in the first 5 minutes
  • The home remedies traditional healers from Africa to Russia still use on cuts and burns, and what each one is for
Little-knownThe kitchen ingredient a Zimbabwe-born nurse brought from his father's village to British hospital wards
Shelf 5: Emergency Medicine61 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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The Sick Room book cover
"The ER has a 12-hour wait, and Dad is getting worse."

Vol. 15 · The Sick Room

Caring for the sick at home when the hospital is full: fevers, stomach bugs, infections and the elderly
  • The salt-and-sugar drink described in the World Health Organization's diarrhea manual, made from what's in your kitchen
  • Fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhea: the warning signs that mean 'go now'
  • Keeping insulin and other medicines safe when the power is out
  • Old-World and North American folk remedies families have used for fevers, coughs and upset stomachs, each one marked as tradition, with who should skip it
Little-knownWhat a US military program found about medicines long past their expiry date (and why that doesn't make your old pills safe)
Shelf 5: Emergency Medicine69 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
The Emergency First-Aid Stockpile book cover
"I have a box of bandages and some aspirin. Is that enough?"

Vol. 16 · The Emergency First-Aid Stockpile

What to have on hand before you need it: a room-by-room checklist for your home, car and garden
  • The home kit, the 2-week kit, the car kit and the garden kit, item by item
  • Medicines to talk over with your pharmacist now
  • Store it, check it, rotate it
Little-knownThe kit item most families forget until the night they need it
Shelf 5: Emergency Medicine20 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
The Herbal First-Aid Field Manual book cover
"No pharmacy for 50 miles. What in the garden helps?"

Vol. 17 · The Herbal First-Aid Field Manual

Cuts, scrapes, burns, stings, sprains and a sick stomach, with plants and the 'call 911' line first
  • The plant pharmacies in Russia still sell for minor wounds, and how to use it
  • Burns: what the trials found works better than most creams
  • Every page starts with the 'call 911 if' list
Little-knownA weed growing in your lawn right now that Old-World grandmothers put on cuts
Shelf 5: Emergency Medicine42 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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The Emergency First-Aid Stockpile book cover
"I have a box of bandages and some aspirin. Is that enough?"

Vol. 16 · The Emergency First-Aid Stockpile

What to have on hand before you need it: a room-by-room checklist for your home, car and garden

Inside: The kit item most families forget until the night they need it
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The Herbal First-Aid Field Manual book cover
"No pharmacy for 50 miles. What in the garden helps?"

Vol. 17 · The Herbal First-Aid Field Manual

Cuts, scrapes, burns, stings, sprains and a sick stomach, with plants and the 'call 911' line first

Inside: A weed growing in your lawn right now that Old-World grandmothers put on cuts
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Shelf 6 · 4 books

Herbs & Natural Remedies

The pharmacy shelves are empty. What grows in your yard?

CORE LIBRARY
The Garden Medicine Cabinet book cover
"If I could only grow a few medicinal plants, which ones?"

Vol. 18 · The Garden Medicine Cabinet

Herbs our grandparents grew, what research says about them, and how to use them safely
  • 32 herbs: grow, harvest, use, research and safety
  • Plan your medicinal herb bed
  • Harvest, dry and store like a pro
Little-knownEvidence at a glance: which herbs are tested and which are only tradition
Shelf 6: Herbs & Natural Remedies71 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
The Interaction Checker book cover
"Is this herb safe with my blood pressure pills?"

Vol. 19 · The Interaction Checker

Herb vs common medicine: the clashes to know before you take anything
  • Herb vs common drug classes in one table
  • Who must ask the pharmacist first
  • Take it to the pharmacy and go through it together
Little-knownThe popular herb that can stop birth control from working
Shelf 6: Herbs & Natural Remedies46 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
Babushka's Tea Blends book cover
"Simple things I can make from my garden, that taste good."

Vol. 20 · Babushka's Tea Blends

30 classic Old-World herbal blends for breath, calm, belly, winter and summer
  • 30 blends with exact ratios
  • The zavarka method
  • Winter blends from what you can grow
Little-knownThe 'Koporye tea' that was cheaper than China tea
Shelf 6: Herbs & Natural Remedies37 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
The Kitchen Spice Pharmacy book cover
"What in my kitchen cupboard actually does something?"

Vol. 21 · The Kitchen Spice Pharmacy

Ginger, garlic, cinnamon, turmeric, honey and mustard: what's tested and what's tradition
  • 6 kitchen staples, what trials found
  • How much and how often
  • Who should skip each one
Little-knownThe kitchen staple a big medical review found eased children's night cough (never under age 1)
Shelf 6: Herbs & Natural Remedies35 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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The Garden Medicine Cabinet book cover
"If I could only grow a few medicinal plants, which ones?"

Vol. 18 · The Garden Medicine Cabinet

Herbs our grandparents grew, what research says about them, and how to use them safely

Inside: Evidence at a glance: which herbs are tested and which are only tradition
$19 value, included
The Interaction Checker book cover
"Is this herb safe with my blood pressure pills?"

Vol. 19 · The Interaction Checker

Herb vs common medicine: the clashes to know before you take anything

Inside: The popular herb that can stop birth control from working
$19 value, included
Babushka's Tea Blends book cover
"Simple things I can make from my garden, that taste good."

Vol. 20 · Babushka's Tea Blends

30 classic Old-World herbal blends for breath, calm, belly, winter and summer

Inside: The 'Koporye tea' that was cheaper than China tea
$19 value, included
The Kitchen Spice Pharmacy book cover
"What in my kitchen cupboard actually does something?"

Vol. 21 · The Kitchen Spice Pharmacy

Ginger, garlic, cinnamon, turmeric, honey and mustard: what's tested and what's tradition

Inside: The kitchen staple a big medical review found eased children's night cough (never under age 1)
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Shelf 7 · 10 books

Food

Grocery stores carry about three days of food. Then what?

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The Free Grocery Store book cover
"The shelves are empty. Is there food growing all around me?"

Vol. 23 · The Free Grocery Store

50 wild foods across the US and Canada, season by season, and how to make them safe to eat
  • The 'supermarket of the swamps': one plant that gives you flour, vegetables and pollen
  • Acorns: how Indigenous cooks turned a bitter nut into mush, loaves and flour, and how you can bake with it
  • 50 plants by season, with the look-alikes to avoid
Little-knownWhy the 'universal edibility test' from survival TV is a dangerous gamble
Shelf 7: Food62 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Catch, Clean & Cook book cover
"Could I actually feed my family if I had to?"

Vol. 24 · Catch, Clean & Cook

Fish and small game with simple gear, how to clean it, and how to cook it with no kitchen
  • The spring-loaded fishing reel that fishes for you while you sleep (where legal)
  • Fishing gear from a soda can, a safety pin and a pull tab
  • Clean and cook a panfish over coals in about 10 minutes, and keep your catch from spoiling
Little-knownThe licences and rules to check first, so a survival skill doesn't become a fine
Shelf 7: Food55 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Food That Lasts book cover
"The power's out and the freezer is full of meat."

Vol. 25 · Food That Lasts

Preserve food with no fridge and no power: salt, smoke, sun, clay and the old ways
  • The clay-pot 'cooler' that keeps vegetables fresh in hot, dry weather with only water and shade
  • Pemmican: the trail food of the fur trade that polar explorer Robert Peary called 'absolutely indispensable'
  • Salt curing, smoking, drying and fermenting, with the safety rules
Little-knownThe 1920 government egg trick for keeping your own unwashed eggs for months, and what food scientists say about it today
Shelf 7: Food61 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Backyard Protein book cover
"Egg prices went through the roof, when the store had any."

Vol. 26 · Backyard Protein

Eggs and meat from a small yard: quail, chickens, ducks and rabbits, and the rules to check first
  • The little bird that starts laying at about 6 weeks old, and 8 to 10 of them fit in the space of one chicken
  • One mother rabbit, up to 56 fryers a year on a commercial schedule (about 35 at home): the university extension numbers
  • The duck that can lay up to about 300 eggs a year
Little-knownWhy Toronto ended its backyard-hen pilot (bird flu and cost), and how to check your own town's rules before you buy a single bird
Shelf 7: Food49 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Grow Food All Winter book cover
"Six months of snow. Nothing grows. Then what?"

Vol. 27 · Grow Food All Winter

Underground greenhouses, cold frames and hotbeds: fresh food through the snow, even in Canada
  • The underground greenhouse a US university built in the Andes for $250 to $300 in materials (2002, volunteer labor)
  • The Maine farmer who harvested spinach and carrots all winter in unheated tunnels
  • The manure-heated hotbeds old Paris market gardeners used to grow salads in January
Little-knownA simple cold frame is like moving your garden roughly 500 miles south
Shelf 7: Food55 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
Safe Foraging book cover
"I'd forage, but I'm scared of poisoning my family."

Vol. 22 · Safe Foraging

25 wild remedies and their deadly look-alikes, side by side, with the 100% rule
  • 25 wild plants with their deadly twins drawn side by side
  • The 100% rule
  • Where and when to pick
Little-knownThe 'wild carrot' look-alike that is among the most poisonous plants in North America
Shelf 7: Food50 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
The Off-Grid Pantry book cover
"How do I keep a whole harvest without a fridge?"

Vol. 28 · The Off-Grid Pantry

Store your harvest for months without power: root cellars, curing, drying and cold storage
  • The four storage keys
  • Crop-by-crop storage table
  • Root cellars from free to buried
Little-knownThe root cellar you can make with a trash can
Shelf 7: Food35 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
CORE LIBRARY
The Calorie Garden book cover
"A salad garden won't feed us. What will?"

Vol. 29 · The Calorie Garden

How much to plant to feed your family, and the staple crops that do the heavy lifting
  • The heavy lifters, crop by crop
  • Worked example: feeding one adult
  • A plan for a family of four
Little-knownWhy most survival gardens grow the wrong crops
Shelf 7: Food29 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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The Survival Food Garden book cover
"I want food that comes back every year without replanting."

Vol. 30 · The Survival Food Garden

The hardiest crops that keep feeding you year after year
  • Plant once, eat for decades
  • Fruit, nut and perennial staples
  • Small-yard and homestead planting plans
Little-knownThe perennial crops that kept families fed through hard years
Shelf 7: Food38 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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The Seed Vault book cover
"If the seed racks are empty next spring, what then?"

Vol. 31 · The Seed Vault

Save your own seed from every crop, store it for years, and never depend on a seed rack again
  • Crop-by-crop seed tables
  • Dry it right, store it for years
  • The germination test
Little-knownHow to keep seed alive for years in a jar
Shelf 7: Food41 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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Safe Foraging book cover
"I'd forage, but I'm scared of poisoning my family."

Vol. 22 · Safe Foraging

25 wild remedies and their deadly look-alikes, side by side, with the 100% rule

Inside: The 'wild carrot' look-alike that is among the most poisonous plants in North America
$19 value, included
The Off-Grid Pantry book cover
"How do I keep a whole harvest without a fridge?"

Vol. 28 · The Off-Grid Pantry

Store your harvest for months without power: root cellars, curing, drying and cold storage

Inside: The root cellar you can make with a trash can
$19 value, included
The Calorie Garden book cover
"A salad garden won't feed us. What will?"

Vol. 29 · The Calorie Garden

How much to plant to feed your family, and the staple crops that do the heavy lifting

Inside: Why most survival gardens grow the wrong crops
$19 value, included
The Survival Food Garden book cover
"I want food that comes back every year without replanting."

Vol. 30 · The Survival Food Garden

The hardiest crops that keep feeding you year after year

Inside: The perennial crops that kept families fed through hard years
$19 value, included
The Seed Vault book cover
"If the seed racks are empty next spring, what then?"

Vol. 31 · The Seed Vault

Save your own seed from every crop, store it for years, and never depend on a seed rack again

Inside: How to keep seed alive for years in a jar
$19 value, included
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Shelter

Your home is cold, damaged, or you had to leave it.

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Shelter Anywhere book cover
"Stuck outside overnight in freezing weather. What now?"

Vol. 32 · Shelter Anywhere

From a tarp in the woods to a warm room in a cold house: shelter for every situation
  • 6 tarp shelters you can pitch in minutes, plus the 4 knots that hold them, drawn step by step
  • The leaf hut that can keep you warm with no sleeping bag, if you build it thick and dry
  • The cold-water and stranded-car rules, from a Canadian scientist who first lowered himself into icy water in 1986
Little-knownThe sandbag-dome orphanage that stood through the 2015 Nepal earthquake while 15 houses below it collapsed
Shelf 8: Shelter62 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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After the Flash book cover
"A nuclear strike, a plant accident. Where do we go? How long do we stay?"

Vol. 33 · After the Flash

Fallout, radiation and sheltering in place: the plain facts and the homemade meter from Oak Ridge
  • Get inside, stay inside: the best spots in your house to block fallout, ranked
  • A step-by-step guide to the radiation meter you can build from a tin can and foil, from free Oak Ridge National Laboratory plans
  • How long to shelter, what to eat and drink, and when it's safe to come out
Little-knownA Cold War scientist's free plans that families can still use to measure radiation at home
Shelf 8: Shelter60 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included

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Shelf 9 · 6 books

Skills & Self-Reliance

Matches wet, GPS dead, toilets not flushing. The basics, gone.

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Fire When Matches Fail book cover
"Wet woods, cold hands, no lighter."

Vol. 35 · Fire When Matches Fail

15 ways to make and keep fire, in rain, wind and snow
  • The battery-and-steel-wool trick that glows in seconds (and how to store it safely)
  • Char cloth: the old trick that catches a single spark
  • The fire lay that keeps burning in the rain
Little-knownWhy the 'bow drill' from survival shows is the last thing you should rely on
Shelf 9: Skills & Self-Reliance53 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
NEW FOR 2026
Find Your Way book cover
"The phone is dead and every road looks the same."

Vol. 36 · Find Your Way

Navigation, knots and signals when GPS and phones are dead
  • Find north with a stick and the sun in 15 minutes
  • Map and compass, plainly explained
  • 10 knots and the signals rescuers look for
Little-knownThe watch trick that turns any analog watch into a compass
Shelf 9: Skills & Self-Reliance60 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
NEW FOR 2026
When the Toilets Stop book cover
"No water to flush. A family of five. Day 3."

Vol. 37 · When the Toilets Stop

Sanitation, hygiene and staying healthy when there's no running water
  • The two-bucket toilet that doesn't smell
  • The hand-washing station from a jug and a stick
  • Soap from wood ash, and laundry by hand
Little-knownThe two-bucket toilet New Zealand's emergency planners adopted after Christchurch, where chemical toilets ran out and overflowed
Shelf 9: Skills & Self-Reliance53 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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The Forgotten Tricks book cover
"I've watched every survival video. What am I still missing?"

Vol. 38 · The Forgotten Tricks

101 little-known survival methods that work, and 25 famous ones that can get you killed
  • The MIT engineering trick that turns a pine branch into a germ filter
  • The African clay-pot cooler, the Mexican lime-water corn trick, the Andes underground greenhouse
  • 25 famous survival tips from TV, the internet and old manuals that can hurt you, and what to do instead
Little-knownMethods from inventors, nurses, villagers and explorers, with the source for each one
Shelf 9: Skills & Self-Reliance70 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Clean Without the Store book cover
"The shelves are empty. How do I keep my family clean?"

Vol. 43 · Clean Without the Store

Make your own eco soap, toothpaste, laundry and dish detergent from fat, ashes, plants and a few cheap basics
  • The farmhouse way to make lye from wood ashes, and real soap from kitchen fat
  • Soapwort and soap nuts, washing plants used for centuries, plus the conker and ivy laundry liquids now popular in Europe, and how well they really work
  • Pantry tooth powder, and the viral homemade toothpastes that can wear down your enamel
Little-knownSoap, laundry, dishes and teeth with no store, almost no plastic and only a few simple basics
Shelf 9: Skills & Self-Reliance68 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Tools From Nothing book cover
"If I lost everything, could I make what I need?"

Vol. 34 · Tools From Nothing

Make the tools you need from what's around you: cordage, containers, digging sticks, fishing gear
  • Cordage from plants
  • Containers from bark
  • Fishing gear from found materials
Little-knownThe plant fibre that makes rope stronger than you'd believe
Shelf 9: Skills & Self-Reliance34 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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Tools From Nothing book cover
"If I lost everything, could I make what I need?"

Vol. 34 · Tools From Nothing

Make the tools you need from what's around you: cordage, containers, digging sticks, fishing gear

Inside: The plant fibre that makes rope stronger than you'd believe
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Shelf 10 · 4 books

Family & Security

Kids, parents, pets, your home. Everyone you have to protect.

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The Gray Home book cover
"Everyone on the street knows we have food. That scares me."

Vol. 39 · The Gray Home

Home security without weapons: harden your doors, hide your supplies and keep your family safe
  • The $40 door upgrade a police department says deters most forced entries through a door
  • Don't be the house that stands out: light, smell and noise when the grid is down
  • Neighbors as your best security: the block plan
Little-knownWhy a running generator at night tells the whole street what you have
Shelf 10: Family & Security55 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
NEW FOR 2026
Kids, Elders & Pets book cover
"My mother is on 6 medicines. My son is 4. The dog is 80 pounds."

Vol. 41 · Kids, Elders & Pets

Prepare the ones who can't prepare themselves
  • Kids' go-bags and the calm words to use when they're scared
  • The medicine and mobility plan for older parents
  • Pets: food, papers and the shelters that take them
Little-knownWhat to put in a child's pocket in case you're separated
Shelf 10: Family & Security60 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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When the Money Stops book cover
"The card machine says 'offline'. I have $12 in cash."

Vol. 42 · When the Money Stops

Cash, barter, documents and skills when cards, ATMs and banks go down
  • How much cash to keep (a rule of thumb, not an official number), in which bills, and where
  • 20 goods and skills that actually traded in besieged Sarajevo, Venezuela and Argentina, and who reported each one
  • The grab-and-go document binder
Little-knownWhat actually traded in a besieged city, according to people who were there
Shelf 10: Family & Security55 pages · illustrated step by step$27 value, included
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Eyes in the Sky book cover
"Drones over my property at night. What can they see?"

Vol. 40 · Eyes in the Sky

Drones, thermal cameras and your privacy: how they work and how to stay low-profile
  • How drones and thermal cameras really work
  • Everyday privacy at home
  • Your rights and the law
Little-knownWhat a thermal camera can't see through
Shelf 10: Family & Security24 pages · illustrated step by step$19 value, included
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Eyes in the Sky book cover
"Drones over my property at night. What can they see?"

Vol. 40 · Eyes in the Sky

Drones, thermal cameras and your privacy: how they work and how to stay low-profile

Inside: What a thermal camera can't see through
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  • The US Army's own survival manual, written at its Special Forces school
  • FEMA, the CDC and the Red Cross: the official safety guidance
  • Wilderness-medicine, off-grid power and homesteading experts
  • People who lived through it: the siege of Leningrad, Sarajevo, Cuba's hungry years, Katrina, the Texas freeze
  • Old-world know-how from home remedies used around the world
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Not one expert's opinion. The best of all of them, in one place.

This isn't one TV survivalist's bag of tricks. Max Sidorov spent years hunting down the most trusted survival know-how he could find, from soldiers, doctors, engineers, homesteaders and ordinary people who lived through sieges, storms and blackouts, and boiled it all down into plain, picture-by-picture steps any family can follow.

Where the experts disagreed, he went with the safer answer. Where a popular "hack" turned out to be dangerous, the book says so. Every step was checked against official safety guidance, and the sources are at the back of every book so you can check them yourself.

Max trained in wilderness survival and tactical field medicine and served in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve. His health books have sold more than 300,000 copies. But this library isn't about him. It's about getting the best of what works into your hands before you need it.

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Buyers of other survival books complain about the same things: no book, surprise charges, missing bonuses, refunds nobody answers. Here's exactly how this works.

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What's inside
  • Shelf 1: The First 72 Hours (3 books): Ready for Anything, The First 72 Hours, Get Home, Get Out
    $91
  • Shelf 2: Water (3 books): Safe Water Anywhere, Your Own Water Well, Water When It Counts
    $73
  • Shelf 3: Power & Heat (6 books): Make Your Own Power, Batteries That Last, Make Your Own Fuel, Hot Water From the Sun, Heat & Cook Without the Grid, When the Sun Strikes
    $162
  • Shelf 4: Communications (1 book): When the Towers Go Dark
    $27
  • Shelf 5: Emergency Medicine (4 books): When Help Isn't Coming, The Sick Room, The Emergency First-Aid Stockpile, The Herbal First-Aid Field Manual
    $92
  • Shelf 6: Herbs & Natural Remedies (4 books): The Garden Medicine Cabinet, The Interaction Checker, Babushka's Tea Blends, The Kitchen Spice Pharmacy
    $76
  • Shelf 7: Food (10 books): Safe Foraging, The Free Grocery Store, Catch, Clean & Cook, Food That Lasts, Backyard Protein, Grow Food All Winter, The Off-Grid Pantry, The Calorie Garden, The Survival Food Garden, The Seed Vault
    $230
  • Shelf 8: Shelter (2 books): Shelter Anywhere, After the Flash
    $54
  • Shelf 9: Skills & Self-Reliance (6 books): Tools From Nothing, Fire When Matches Fail, Find Your Way, When the Toilets Stop, The Forgotten Tricks, Clean Without the Store
    $154
  • Shelf 10: Family & Security (4 books): The Gray Home, Eyes in the Sky, Kids, Elders & Pets, When the Money Stops
    $100
  • Ranger, your 24/7 AI survival expert (30 days included)
    $15
  • Free printable: The 72-Hour Blackout Checklist
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Is this a physical book?

No. You get instant digital access to every book (PDF) plus the AI expert. Print any book at home or at a print shop. If you'd like the most important volumes professionally printed and shipped, you'll see that option after checkout. It's optional.

I'm not technical. Will I understand it?

That's who it's written for. Plain words, short chapters, a picture for every step, and a 'Do this today' list at the end of each chapter. If any step isn't clear, ask the AI and it'll explain it differently.

Does it work for Canada?

Yes. It's written for the US and Canada: both units of measurement, both countries' radio rules, Canadian cold-weather and wildfire material, and the right emergency numbers for each.

Is the medical book safe to follow?

It sticks to what first-aid and public-health guidance supports, written so anyone can follow it, with 'call 911 now if…' at the top of every page. It's for when help is far away or delayed. It doesn't replace a doctor, and we say so.

Who wrote it?

Max Sidorov put it together. He spent years gathering the most trusted survival know-how he could find: the US Army's survival manual, FEMA, CDC and Red Cross guidance, wilderness-medicine and off-grid experts, and the stories of people who lived through sieges, storms and blackouts. Then he turned it into plain, picture-by-picture steps. Every book lists its sources at the back.

How is this different from the free survival PDFs online?

Free dumps are thousands of old, scanned, unsorted files you'll never read in a crisis. This is one organised library: modern topics (mesh radios, solar batteries), a diagram for every step, myths debunked, and an AI that points you to the exact page.

Is this another one of those survival books with a made-up author?

No. It's put together under a real name (see above), every book lists its sources at the back, and you can look inside every single book on this page before you buy.

I already have water and canned food put by. Do I need this?

Good: you're ahead of most people. This covers what a jug of water can't: keeping one room warm, making more water safe when the jugs run out, reaching family with no towers, medicines with no power, the generator rules that prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, and first aid when 911 is slow.

I'm over 70 and my eyes aren't great. Can I read it?

Yes. Short chapters, plain words and a picture for every step. Zoom in on a tablet or print any page as large as you like. Volume 41 has a whole plan for older adults.

I rent an apartment. Is it still useful?

Yes. Plenty of it is written for small spaces and renters: the two-bucket toilet, heating one room, radios that text with no towers, and what you can and can't safely use indoors.

What if the AI gets something wrong?

The books are the plan; Ranger is the helper. It puts the warning signs first, tells you when it isn't sure, and points you to the book and chapter so you can check the picture yourself. In an emergency, call 911.

I'm on a fixed income. Is it worth it?

It's $47 once, about a dollar a book. And most of what's inside costs little or nothing: the one-room heat plan, the no-power slow cooker, safe water with household bleach, the two-bucket toilet.

What if it's not for me?

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Will I be pushed into upsells?

After checkout you'll see a couple of optional extras, like the printed library. One click on 'No thanks' and you go straight to your downloads.

Your move

Two kinds of families when the lights go out

The ones who hope

They hope the power comes back tonight. They hope the phone has signal. They hope 911 answers. They hope someone else knows what to do. And when it lasts longer than they hoped, they find out the hard way.

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They know how to make water safe, stop the bleeding, keep the kids warm and reach each other with no towers. Their family isn't scared, because they're looking at the one person in the house who knows exactly what to do. For $47, that's you.

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