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This is the heart-wrenching story of the author's mother, diagnosed with the fatal brain disorder---Alzheimer's. Together, she, and her eight-year-old dachshund, Rusty, confront the harrowing challenges of this powerful degenerative disease, in near total anonymity as they shut themselves off from the outside world. For two long years after diagnosis, they lived in solitude, until circumstances dictated a different approach. Even round-the-clo...

Zoe Brennan has everything sorted. Finally, she's good friends with the ultra cool Jas and part of her popular group. She even has plans to make new boy, Chad Everett, fall for her. But on one disastrous day at the beach all that changes when she encounters Rion, an extremely annoying alien who informs her they are connected - for life. Bossy and egotistical, he has no hesitation in telling her that exercise, studying and green tea should take...

Greg Palmer, an award-winning writer and producer of PBS documentaries and plays for families, chronicles two of the most important years in the life of his son, Ned, who has Down syndrome-the time when he's making the transition from high school to work. This intimate, often humorous, account is woven with vivid anecdotes concerning school, family, relationships, and work (both Ned's and Greg's), including a father-son cruise around the Briti...

Calla Ogden's carefully organized life as a social worker in Washington's Central Cascade Mountains begins to fall apart when her half-brother is arrested for murder. The investigation centers on a fish hatchery operated by a local Native American tribe, and soon draws in Mayor Phil Bianchi and Greg Takarchuk, a junior police officer. As Phil and Calla grow close, they confront causes for the murder that bring them face to face with a dangerou...

Evidence indicating that the U.S. employed germ weapons in the Korean War and a lively but scholarly skewering of official denials.

Who said the reaper has to be grim? Filled with the frightening, funny, poignant, & just plain weird, this delightfully different travelogue follows one man's quest to discover how people around the world cope with the incontrovertible fact of death. The result is a wise, witty, decidedly quirky celebration of how we all face life. Explores human beings simultaneous fear & fascination with death, the physiological & psychological experience of...

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Starting Off On The Wrong Foot' is an exhaustive study of the history of relations between the United States and China, as well as Korea, and examines the roots of tension which still linger among these three nations.

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Standing no more than 5' 7" tall, Sam Langford was one of the 20th century's greatest fighters. In 1951, the great featherweight champion Abe Attell was asked if Sugar Ray Robinson was the best of all time, either as a welterweight or middleweight. He named Stanley Ketchel as the greatest welterweight he'd ever seen and said that, as for the middleweights, he'd take Sam Langford, "the greatest of them all at that poundage." Remarkably, the ...

We all have dreams and life passions, and those of us who somehow figure out ways to spend our lives in their pursuit are indeed among the fortunate ones. Kelly Jurgensen has two such passions: horses and storytelling. Watch her ride and you will see a kind of mastery that can stun you to silence. Read her work and you will find yourself in the good old days when reading was a full-bodied experience. Like standing in the heart of an old tack r...

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During World War II there were hundreds of camps that housed American prisoners of war throughout Japan. Every surviving prisoner and their families had amazing stories to tell. Ed and Ivet Bacon were no different-and yet their story is unique. Ed was an American civilian employed by a large construction firm that was building a naval base in Guam in 1941 just prior to being taken prisoner after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ivet was the daughte...

In the beautiful Puget Sound valley, there are bones beneath our feet . . .BONES BENEATH OUR FEET is the lively historical epic tale of the conquest of the Natives of Puget Sound by the "Boston" tribe. Focused on the period from 1844-1858, BONES BENEATH OUR FEET explodes with political intrigue, stormy intermarriage, misunderstanding and fear, sudden massacres, tender mercies, greed and sacrifice, trials of law and of spirit, open warfare and ...

Like many great artists throughout the millennia, Richard Wagner wrote his operas as allegories which can be represented in ways that range from the mundane to the esoteric. When Wagner's cryptic esoteric messages are deciphered they tell a story about the evolution of human freedom and consciousness that would be told two generations later in a different format, by the physicist/philosopher Rudolf Steiner. The allegories of The Ring bear a me...

Considering moving to Mexico? LeRoy Jose Amate has lived and worked in Mexico for the past 25-years. He is a former IBM executive, working as a foreign investment consultant. This book shares his experiences and wisdom. In an irreverent, straight-ahead style that is all his own, he gives the scoop on living in paradise.

The Lady in the Mirror is a tragic love story of a man and his wife caught in the cyclone of devastation caused by Alzheimer's. But this is also a story of hope for Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers - the millions of people searching for solutions to their sufferings. You'll witness a man's desperate pursuit to find the magic bullet that will save his wife's mind and restore her lost abilities. You'll see him wade through the maze of t...

The next transformation in education is already on our doorstep. We are seeing a shift from the old theories of education - rote memorization led by an authoritarian force - to a more collaborative environment where students are empowered to become lifelong learners and encouraged to be responsible for their own learning. This book attempts to explain how student-centered practices are superior to older models of education.

An original work of art and whimsy, retelling Plato's Allegory of the Cave in a bizarre, "think outside the [box]" way. Colorfully illustrated with 46 original works by Seattle artist Sid Santiano.

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