Thinking of Retiring? You Need This Book! Ready to relocate to sunnier climes, free from responsibilities, schedules, and alarm clocks? And absolutely determined this will be the best time of your life? Wait! Read this first! U.S. News & World Report tells us that the typical retiree today spends four hours a day watching television. You don't want that! And many retirees report feeling, stuck, blue, disappointed, and wondering why the heck they are so bored relaxing in the Costa Rica sun sipping Margaritas. Hello? The truth is, retirement is an enormous life transition that can trip you up if you're not vigilant. Or it can be the best time of your life. It's like a huge tidal wave of change sweeping over you. The Retirement Rebel is required reading for anyone getting ready to retire. Funny, practical, upbeat- it's an entertaining, practical, and sometimes surprising self-help guide for retirees committed to making it work from the get-go. This is not a book about pensions, savings, insurance, or health plans. Instead, it will show you how to avoid 4 major retirement pitfalls that can spoil your peace of mind. Discover the #1 reason you can get stuck and how to avoid it. Realize exactly why you get the blues and what you can do about it. Uncover what it is you really miss about work... and it may surprise you. This book is your insurance policy against those pitfalls. Read it and you're covered. Comprehensive policy. Full indemnity against the blues and full warranty for a great retirement! Margaret Nash spends her time as a self-help writer, life-coach, and seminar leader in San Miguel de Allende, a lovely, artistic, alternative haven in the central highlands of Mexico. She grew up in the States, lived in England for several decades, and now resides in sunny Mexico. She has been a successful practicing NLP trained coach and trainer for nearly 20 years. She enjoys her semi-retirement.

"How do rebels give up arms and return to the same political processes that they had once sought to overthrow? The question of weaning rebels away from extremist groups is highly significant in the context of counterinsurgency as well as pacification of insurgencies. Existing explanations focus mostly on state capacity, counterinsurgency operations, or on socioeconomic development. This book, drawing primarily on several rounds of interviews with Maoist rebels as well as other stakeholders in conflict zones, shows that from the rebel's perspective, what is of paramount importance in whether or not they quit extremism is the ease with which they can exit and lay down their arms without getting killed in the process. This fear is further exacerbated by the belief that while they could lose their lives, the Indian state, they believed, would lose nothing even if it failed to protect retired rebels and keep its side of the bargain. This created a problem of credible commitment, which, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, is addressed locally by informal exit networks that grow out of grassroots civic associations in the gray zones of democracy-insurgency interface. The book shows that a lot of Maoist rebels quit in the South of India because robust and harmonic exit networks in the South resolve the problem of credible commitment locally and create conditions for safety and reintegration of former Maoists. In the North, on the other hand, very few rebels quit the same insurgent organization during the same time because scrawny, discordant exit networks in the North exacerbate rebels' fear, discouraging retirement and impeding reintegration. This book also highlights how the various steps in the process of disengagement from extremism are linked more fundamentally to the nature of societal linkages between insurgencies and society, thereby bringing civil society into the study of insurgency in a theoretically coherent way"--

Triple-crown winner of mystery’s most coveted awards—the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus—Rick Riordan and his Texas-style take on the crime novel have never been bigger or darker than in this latest Tres Navarre thriller. This time Navarre faces a killer as unstoppable as a force of nature. Tres Navarre had given up private investigation—and with it a violent past that had buried too many friends. Newly married, with a baby on the way, it was time to find a safer line of work. He and Maia had come to Rebel Island to celebrate their honeymoon and a new future. But no sooner had they arrived than a reminder of the past showed up in the form of a corpse shot dead in room 12. Just like that Tres finds himself flashing back on the memory of a grim childhood summer spent on the island—a summer that changed everything in his life. A summer he could never forget but never entirely remember either. And when a second corpse turns up, it’s clear to Tres that the past is not dead and buried after all, but is stalking Rebel Island with unfinished business of its own. What really happened that long-ago summer, what dark secrets were kept, and who has come back to avenge them…these are the questions Tres, his brother Garrett, and the very pregnant Maia must answer—and time is running out. For a monster hurricane is about to hit Rebel Island, cutting them off from the mainland and leaving them trapped on a flooding island with the hotel’s remaining guests brutally dying one by one. Tres knows better than anyone that the bloodlines of South Texas are as twisted as barbed wire. This time they’re guarding a revelation that can turn his dreams of happily ever after into the ultimate nightmare.

When it starts to snow, Robby builds a different snowman of each of his neighbors. Mr. Perry thinks that his snowman is the best. Read the story to find out why.

Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates the maverick and celebrates the individual. It is an essential read for the left of field.

"Ms. Brooks delivers romance and page-turning events that entertain and amaze."—Long and Short Erotic Romance Reviews He's Had a Galaxy of Women A refugee of the annihilated planet Zetith, Onca has no family and no surname—only the fortune accrued by selling his prime services in a high-class brothel. When he comes to the rescue of a homeless Zetithian woman, passion flares, but he dares not touch someone who seems so young and innocent... But None Has Touched His Heart Kimcasha has lived by her wits on the streets since the age of ten. When her friends start to go missing, Kim uses herself as bait to find them, but her plans goes awry when Onca intervenes. As they are led into a dangerous underworld, Onca offers to join her crusade to liberate her friends, and Kim cannot refuse... Praise for Wildcat: "Out-of-this-world sexy...the ultimate reading experience."—Long and Short Reviews "Cheryl Brooks has taken the Cat Star Chronicles to a new level."—Night Owl Reviews "Scorching hot...keeps you turning pages."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars

Rebellious Aging; A Self-help Guide for the Old Hippie at Heart This is a book for old hippies at heart-adventurous spirits and risk takers-who due to their unorthodox life choices frequently find themselves without conventional support networks during times of transition. If that's you, this guide will help you deal with disorienting life changes-such as retirement, relocation, divorce, empty nest-that may be arriving thick and fast and all at the same time for you right now. You will learn how to battle your inner dragons, go on a hero's journey, and find your true calling... in order to make this the best time of your life. Don't be fooled by the kind of off-beat, sometimes wacky approach, and references to 60's music. This book contains serious life coaching tips and techniques for personal inner transformation; enabling you to age like a rebel. This is a revised and edited version of Age With Passion! A Boomer's Guide to Fearless Aging (2013) by the same author.