Posted By admin on November 9, 2009

About Your Money Ratios: 8 Essential Tools for Financial Success and Security

Hardcover: 272 pages

Publisher: Avery (December 24, 2009)

According to the 2009 Retirement Confidence Survey, only 13% of workers were “very confident” about saving enough money for a comfortable retirement—down from 27% in 2007.  But they need not worry.

YOUR MONEY RATIOS: 8 Essential Tools for Financial Success and Security (Avery, January 2010, $26.00) by Charles J. Farrell, financial advisor and CBS MoneyWatch columnist, will revolutionize the way people manage their personal finances.  Regardless of bull or bear markets, YOUR MONEY RATIOS  helps readers take control of their finances through its unique and accessible ratio system. By implementing Farrell’s ratios, people of every age and tax bracket will have an integrated, proven approach to successfully managing personal finance.

YOUR MONEY RATIOS offers tips and strategies for everyone from those just beginning to build a financial future to the savviest of investors. Regardless of age or income, this program helps to obtain financial security and provides a logical system to stay there. There is also an online calculator available to all who purchase the book that allows the reader to plug in their own numbers and receive an instant evaluation.

Unlike needlessly complicated guides, YOUR MONEY RATIOS simplifies personal finance, providing readers with incredibly practical, no-nonsense tools for creating a healthy financial present and future and helps answer the basic questions of personal finance:

How much should I be saving each year?

How much should I have saved at my age?

How much debt should I carry?

How do I invest my savings?

What insurance do I need?

Visit the Your Money Ratios website HERE.

About Charles Farrell, J.D., L.L.M.

Charles Farrell, J.D., LL.M., is an investment adviser with Northstar Investment Advisors. His column “Retirement Roadmap”, appears on the CBS Moneywatch site, and his research is frequently cited in The Wall Street Journal, Smart Money,theChicago Tribune, and many other consumer and professional media outlets. He lives in Denver.

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Posted By admin on November 9, 2009

The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan

Monday, November 9th: The 3 R’s: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness

Wednesday, November 11th: The Book Lady’s Blog

Thursday, November 12th: Cozy Little House

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Looking After Pigeon by Maud Carol Markson

Monday, November 9th: Clever Girl Goes Blog

Tuesday, November 10th: Book Club Classics

Thursday, November 12th: Caribousmom

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Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg

Monday, November 9th: Bibliofreak

Tuesday, November 10th: Readaholic

Thursday, November 12th: Raging Bibliomania

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A World Without Ice by Dr. Henry Pollack

Tuesday, November 10th: It’s Getting Hot in Here

Thursday, November 12th: Solve Climate

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Now and Then by Jacqueline Sheehan

Monday, November 9th: Eclectic Book Lover

Thursday, November 12th: I’m Booking It

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The Hidden by Tobias Hill

Tuesday, November 10th: Book Magic

Thursday, November 12th: Word Lily

Friday, November 13th: Educating Petunia

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Saving Sammy by Beth Mahoney

Monday, Nov. 9th: One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books

Tuesday, November 10th: not that you asked

Wednesday, November 11th: Overstuffed

Thursday, November 12th: It’s All a Matter of Perspective: Mine

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After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr

Tuesday, November 10th – The Bluestocking Society

Thursday, November 12th – As Usual, I Need More Bookshelves

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Posted By admin on November 7, 2009

About Don

Don Lattin is one of the nation’s leading journalists covering alternative and mainstream religious movements and figures in America. He is the author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge, Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today, and is the co-author of Shopping for Faith – American Religion in the New Millennium.

His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where Don covered the religion beat for nearly two decades. He has also worked as a consultant and commentator for “Dateline” NBC; “PrimeTime Live,” “Good Morning America” and “Nightline” on ABC Television; “Anderson Cooper 360” and “American Morning” on CNN; and “Religion and Ethics News Weekly” on PBS.

Visit Don Lattin’s website here.

About The Harvard Psychedelic Club

This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1960-61, and how their experiences in a psychedelic drug research project transformed their lives and much of American culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

They came together in a time of upheaval and experimentation, and they set the stage for the social, spiritual, sexual, and psychological revolution of the 1960s. Huston Smith would be the teacher, practicing every world religion and educating three generations of Americans to adopt a more tolerant, inclusive attitude toward other culture’s religions. Richard Alpert would be the seeker, traveling to India, returning to America as “Ram Dass” and reborn as a spiritual leader with his “Be Here Now” mantra, inspiring a restless army of spiritual pilgrims. Andrew Weil would be the healer, becoming the undisputed leader of alternative medicine, devoting his life to the holistic reformation of the American health care system. And Timothy Leary would play the rebellious trickster, the premier proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD, advising a generation to “turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

Theirs’ would be a time of joy, a time of peace and a time of love. There were also times of backstabbing, jealousy and outright betrayal. But each in his own way, the members of The Harvard Psychedelic Club changed the way Americans view religion and practice medicine, nothing less than the way we look at body and soul.

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Posted By admin on November 4, 2009

About How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places

• Pub. Date: January 4, 2010
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
• Format: Hardcover, 160pp

Michael Gill’s lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including:

·Leap…With Faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim).

·Let Yourself…Be Helped: Pride is even more paralyzing than fear.

·Look…with Respect at Every Individual You See: Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path.

·Lose…Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness.

Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, How to Save Your Own Life provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves.

About Michael

Michael Gates Gill is the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill and he was a creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising where he was employed for over 25 years. He currently lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works, and has no plans to retire from what he calls the best job he’s ever had.

Michael Gates Gil’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Tuesday, January 5th:  Life and Times of a “New” New  Yorker

Wednesday, January 6th:  Books on the Brain

Thursday, January 7th:  The Written World

Tuesday, January 12th:  TexasRed’s Books

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Posted By admin on November 3, 2009

About Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.

This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept.

Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. 

Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart.

About Jamie

Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the Western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.

Visit Jamie’s website HERE and his BitterSweet Blog HERE.

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