Product Description: Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial devastation in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and is now one of the most celebrated shorelines in the world...read more

Product Description: Sergeant Jebb―S.J. as he is called―is a distinguished British historian. He has shaped his life pretty much as he wished, subordinating personal responsibilities and professional rewards to his private standards of integrity and scholarship...read more

Product Description: A Place with Promise is a magical, generation-spanning fable about everything we think we've lost―except, as the denizens of Camp Ruby learn, it's all still there, if we only know where to look for it.

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Product Description: Today's grandparents aren't content to sit in their rockers doing needlepoint or whittling wood—modern grandparents are healthy and active. Grandma may be traveling the world, writing a book, or taking dance lessons and Grandpa might be camping with the grandkids, playing a golf tournament, or skydiving! Nana may have entered the family by marrying Grampa later in life, or Pop-Pop may be a beloved family friend who's always there when someone needs him...read more

Product Description: Shortlisted for Best New Writer of the Year―The British Sports Book Awards 2012 This book is both a lesson in true grit and determination, but its goal is one that is attainable. Andy isn't a sporting superstar, he holds down a nine-to-five job and all the pressures that go with it; he isn’t blessed with speed and talent; there are no multi-million pound sponsorship deals; yet this remarkable "common man" is inspiring in a way that some of today’s sporting superstars have forgotten how to be...read more

Product Description: Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat. In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person could be disastrous for another...read more

Product Description: Ding. Ding. Ding. The sound of the bell echoes in Drake “Roky” Rokmonov’s head. For him it signals more than just the fight to come, more than the inevitable outcome, more than the unwanted accolades. The bell is his prison and the ring is his cell...read more