""Ruby, the unpopular granddaughter of a hippie, feels betrayed when she discovers her beloved grandmother's dark secret. Ruby wakes up from a make-believe life, created by her grandmother, to the realization that, in the real world, she is disliked and placed in the category of the very peculiar, the object of ridicule. Her make believe life was necessary to cover up life in an old peeling house next to a garbage dump. An orphan, she was raised by her fading flower child grandmother. The crises emerges when she discovers her grandmother's dark secret, and finds it impossible to forgive her, as well as her mean classmates at school. How will she make her unbearable life bearable?""""""

This is the story of a man who, at age fifty, found his world crashing in on him. In addition to losing his job, he found that he was afflicted with a heart condition that could be fatal within five years. Rather than sitting back and awaiting the arrival of the Grim Reaper, he elected to start a new career in franchising, cofounding a retail concept that had never been tried. With the assistance of new medications and numerous groundbreaking surgeries, he continued to lead the fledgling company for twenty years, building an international network of retail private postal facilities that now exceed six thousand outlets spanning the whole globe. The purpose of this book is to provide encouragement to individuals who have arrived at middle age and feel that life has passed them by, that their unrealized goals in life are now unachievable. We agree with that sage, Yogi Berra. "It ain't over till it's over!"

Frank Waters has written a book about the Golden Age of Show Jumping. Starting as a groom, and jumper, he switched to announcing.

"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.

"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."