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Paperback. Condition: Good. Did you just cash your last paycheck?What now? Watch TV all day? Teeter on the front porch? Totter toward obsolescence? Not on your life This ain't your grandma's retirement. Today's baby boomers are the fastest growing retirement population in history. They're healthier than ever, and retirement will never be the same. Get ready to rock your Second Act.In Encore you'll discover: -Techniques for evaluating what you like to do now and how to keep doing it.-Tips for eating right and being active so you can live YOUR best life.-Tools for staying engaged with your friends and making new ones to heighten connection.-Traditions to enhance your spirituality. With wit and compassion, Marilyn Watson also shares stories of people experiencing the groundhog day syndrome, as well as others trying to keep a spouse from alphabetizing the spice shelves. Your remaining years are rich with possibility. The show does go on, so get ready for your incredible Encore.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Poetry. Disability Studies. Politics. In Sylvia Byrne Pollack's debut collection, RISKING IT, the titular poem asks how to prepare for death. Pollack's science background and life experiences inform work that is ultimately joyful, with every pun intended. Her words sizzle even at the darkest subjects, whether pondering serum extracted from lab animals or her own cells gone amok. Through personae, the Deaf Woman and Letitia, she confronts hearing loss and mental illness with a researcher's precision and poet s playfulness. RISKING IT is an invitation to rip open the cocoon and emerge.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Two ancient scrolls, The Secret Annals, are discovered in the 1950's in a Tokyo bombsite. They purport to be the history of an unknown 15th-Century Japanese spiritual teacher who, in a time of social chaos, sets out to establish enlightened society. He begins his teaching saying: Abstinence is no path at all. We are gambling on true love. It is an untested path. In documents from students and spies, the Annals then give an intimate portrait of a charismatic leader, his teachings and the transformative journey he shares with his eccentric band of followers. The scrolls are unmasked as forgeries, but ten years later, a retired professor becomes obsessed. Who created this hoax? And why? To the professor the Annals offer new possibilities from a kind of parallel reality. On his deathbed, he makes his American assistant promise to continue searching and to translate the scrolls. The assistant moves to New York. It is the time of the Vietnam war and the counter-culture. He has doubts about the professor, but the world of the Secret Annals begins to seep into his life. He finds within the Prince's teaching a path through this world of trackless uncertainty. Tantalized, he senses a new world of passionate intensity just within reach. **************************************** A compelling, passionate evocation, an ethos of the imagination, a new kind of metaphoric history, DREAMERS AND THEIR SHADOWS channels a chorus of intimacies in a chronicle of age-old conflicts. - Gaetano Kazuo Maeda, Founding Director - International Buddhist Film Festival and Festival Media *************************************** This incredibly beautiful and unique. DREAMERS AND THEIR SHADOWS entices the reader into rich new worlds of understanding and enjoyment. - William Osborne, composer, author, journalist and, with Abbie Conant, founder of The Wasteland Company.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In Watering the Greyhound Garden, Warren B. Smith recounts his job as a Travelers Aid social worker at the San Francisco Greyhound Bus Terminal. In fifty-one heartfelt stories, Smith describes some of the many people he encountered at the depot and on the streets of San Francisco. Meet Banjo Bobby Brown, Waldo Weinstein, the Pacific Heights Teenager, the Drunken policeman, the Strong Man, the Minnesota Gambler, the Oklahoma Kid, the Tennessee Thompsons, and many more. The Greyhound Bus Terminal was like a modern-day Jericho Road, where broken-down travelers were in urgent need of help. From California dreamers and state hospital runaways to an abused housewife, a stranded grandmother, a suicidal transvestite, and a seventy-three-year-old man still riding the railsthe author met them all when they needed help from Travelers Aid. With compassion and careful attention to detail, the author describes the challenges and joys of working for Travelers Aid and in watering what he calls the Greyhound garden.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In Watering the Greyhound Garden, Warren B. Smith recounts his job as a Travelers Aid social worker at the San Francisco Greyhound Bus Terminal. In fifty-one heartfelt stories, Smith describes some of the many people he encountered at the depot and on the streets of San Francisco. Meet Banjo Bobby Brown, Waldo Weinstein, the Pacific Heights Teenager, the Drunken policeman, the Strong Man, the Minnesota Gambler, the Oklahoma Kid, the Tennessee Thompsons, and many more. The Greyhound Bus Terminal was like a modern-day Jericho Road, where broken-down travelers were in urgent need of help. From California dreamers and state hospital runaways to an abused housewife, a stranded grandmother, a suicidal transvestite, and a seventy-three-year-old man still riding the railsthe author met them all when they needed help from Travelers Aid. With compassion and careful attention to detail, the author describes the challenges and joys of working for Travelers Aid and in watering what he calls the Greyhound garden.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Semi-Finalist, Thurber Prize for American Humor. Marty Wu, compulsive reader of advice manuals, would love to come across as a poised young advertising professional. Instead she trips over her own feet and blurts out inappropriate comments. The bulk of her brain matter, she decides, consists of gerbils spinning madly in alternating directions. Marty hopes to someday open a boutique costume shop, but it's hard to keep focused on her dream. First comes a spectacular career meltdown that sends her ricocheting between the stress of New York and the warmth of supportive relatives in Taiwan. Then she faces one domestic drama after another, with a formidable mother who's impossible to please, an annoyingly successful and well- adjusted brother, and surprising family secrets that pop up just when she doesn't want to deal with them. Mining the comedic potential of the 1.5-generation American experience, NOT A SELF-HELP BOK is an insightful and witty portrait of a young woman scrambling to balance familial expectations and her own creative dreams. A breezy and charming tale . Anyone who's grown up immersed in a profoundly rich old-world culture and feels its constant pull will commiserate--and be entertained.--Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family Marty is a wonderful character who learns to stand up for herself and discovers what she really wants in life.--Booklist An expert combination of humor and deep feeling. Digs deep into the particular challenges of defining and asserting an artistic identity in the world.--PANK Magazine Ceaselessly surprising and entertaining. Lai's debut is an unexpectedly radical book on our deeply complicated relations with parents.--Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Kelly Halpin (illustrator).

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Did you just cash your last paycheck?What now? Watch TV all day? Teeter on the front porch? Totter toward obsolescence? Not on your life This ain't your grandma's retirement. Today's baby boomers are the fastest growing retirement population in history. They're healthier than ever, and retirement will never be the same. Get ready to rock your Second Act.In Encore you'll discover: -Techniques for evaluating what you like to do now and how to keep doing it.-Tips for eating right and being active so you can live YOUR best life.-Tools for staying engaged with your friends and making new ones to heighten connection.-Traditions to enhance your spirituality. With wit and compassion, Marilyn Watson also shares stories of people experiencing the groundhog day syndrome, as well as others trying to keep a spouse from alphabetizing the spice shelves. Your remaining years are rich with possibility. The show does go on, so get ready for your incredible Encore.…