Surviving at seventeen from a life threatening illness, and emerging from a hospital ward of terminally ill patients, Louise Collins is determined to make the most of life while it lasts. A naturally adventurous nature, combined with this new urgency, soon propels her to England and shipboard romance, fearless hitchhiking alone through Europe, the vagaries of temporary winter work in London in the fifties, and political activism in the age of McCarthy in America and capital punishment in Britain. Back in Australia, she settles to marriage and child-raising, but is soon back in the work force embarked on a career in the world of art and artists. Through Louise's relationships with the four generations of women in her life, the author documents changing morals and mores and the evolving status of women. NO TIME TO WASTE, the first novel by M.G. Johnson, draws on personal experience and is set against the historical events and politics of on life time.

A certified personal trainer whose amazing weight loss was featured in People magazine shares her secrets! Debbie Lazinsky once weighed over three hundred pounds. Then she transformed her body and her health so successfully that she was profiled in People. Now, Debbie is a certified health coach and trainer who dedicates herself to helping others overcome their own obstacles—safely and sensibly. No one wants to be on a diet—and it’s just as well, because diets don’t work. Learning the essentials is the key to successful, natural weight loss, and Debbie teaches anyone struggling how to achieve and maintain a healthy weight without ever dieting again. How did she lose 185 pounds and keep it off? In this book, she tells her story—and explains how foods that are currently being eaten are contributing to excess weight and how to settle into a pattern of steady weight loss. If you’re sick and tired of all the false promises and gimmicks, No Time to Lose can help with a proven system that’s simple and efficient and can be tailored for each individual. Discover the truth about what’s been getting in many people’s way of having a body they enjoy and being at a weight that works for them!

New Mouse City is in danger! There is only one way to bring harmony back to the island. Geronimo and friends must travel back in time to retrieve King Solomon's Ring. Along the way Geronimo visits Napoleon, the Vikings, and the ancient Cretans!

In this timely and essential book that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks. We are all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the twenty-­four hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduced down to ten minute units of efficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants or our brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children are overloaded with “extras.” Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t have time to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our time-driven existence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in “wasting time,” of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks. Gustav Mahler routinely took three or four-­hour walks after lunch, stopping to jot down ideas in his notebook. Carl Jung did his most creative thinking and writing when he visited his country house. In his 1949 autobiography, Albert Einstein described how his thinking involved letting his mind roam over many possibilities and making connections between concepts that were previously unconnected. With In Praise of Wasting Time, Professor Alan Lightman documents the rush and heave of the modern world, suggests the technological and cultural origins of our time-­driven lives, and examines the many values of “wasting time”—for replenishing the mind, for creative thought, and for finding and solidifying the inner self. Break free from the idea that we must not waste a single second, and discover how sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing at all.

A collection of poems by a Bahamian author inspired by life on the islands. Peace of Mind is sure to put a little sunshine in a rainy day.

Haven't you ever wondered where time comes from, or what it's made of? Does it go on endlessly, or is there just a certain amount of it, like grains of sand in an egg timer? Is every bit of time the same as every other, or are there different types here and there? Why do some people struggle to cope if they have too much time, whilst others never seem to be able to find enough?What if time works differently for some people? People like Timothy Swift, for instance. He's always trying to find some time, to make time, to buy a little time...because he always has too much to do, and never enough time to do it in.But the funny thing is, no matter how little time Timothy has, he somehow gets everything done. And, remarkably, even when he doesn't have a single moment to spare, he can almost always find enough time do one more thing.And what about dreams? Does time work the same in dreams?