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  The Blue Plateau - An Australian...

  Mark Tredinnick

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  The author of The Land’s Wild Music depicts Australia’s Blue Mountains through stories of the land and the lives within it. 
   
  At the farthest extent of Australia’s Blue Mountains, on the threshold of the country’s arid interior, the Blue Plateau reveals the vagaries of a hanging climate: the droughts last longer, the seasons change less, and the wildfires burn hotter and more often. In The Blue Plateau, Mark Tredinnick tries to learn what it means to fall in love with a home that is falling away. 
   
  A landscape memoir in the richest sense, Tredinnick’s story reveals as much about this contrary collection of canyons and ancient rivers, cow paddocks and wild eucalyptus forests as it does about the myriad generations who struggled to remain in the valley they loved. It captures the essence of a wilderness beyond subjugation, the spirit of a people just barely beyond defeat. Charting a lithology of indigenous presence, faltering settlers, failing ranches, floods, tragedy, and joy that the place constantly warps and erodes, The Blue Plateau reminds us that, though we may change the landscape around us, it works at us inexorably, with wind and water, heat and cold, altering who and what we are. 
   
  The result is an intimate and illuminating portrayal of tenacity, love, grief, and belonging. In the tradition of James Galvin, William Least Heat-Moon, and Annie Dillard, Tredinnick plumbs the depths of people’s relationship to a world in transition. 
   
  Praise for The Blue Plateau 
   
  “One of the wisest, most gifted and ingenious writers you could hope to find.” —Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma 
   
  “I’ve never been to Australia, but now—after this book—it comes up in my dreams. The landscape in the language of this work is alive and conscious, and Tredinnick channels it in prose both wild and inspired. . . . Part nonfiction novel, part classic pastoral, part nature elegy, part natural history, the whole of The Blue Plateau conveys a deep sense, rooted in the very syntax of a lush prose about an austere land, that there can be no meaningful division between nature and culture, between humans and all the other life that interdepends with us, not in the backcountry of southeastern Australia, nor anywhere else.” —Orion 
   
  “Absorbed slowly, as a pastoral landscape of loss and experiment in seeing and listening, the book richly rewards that patience.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Senior Living: Senior Housing:...

  Ace McCloud

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  Would you love to live carefree and happy in your golden years?Whether you want to discover great places to live in the USA and around the world that are inexpensive, set your home and social life up for optimal enjoyment, or explore the many ways you can live happily and productively in retirement, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know.Choose wisely how you retire.As you prepare to ramp down from full-time employment, now's the time to think through what your life will look like when you're retired. Take steps now to plan a lifestyle that accommodates the activities and relationships that are important to you and that bring joy into your life.Plan ahead for comfort.Learn strategies for living comfortably in your retirement years. Plan for a healthy balance of social interaction and solitude, physical activity and rest.Live where you want.Whether you prefer to stay put or you've been just itching to get out of town, this audio book will help you weigh your options. Included are tips for adjusting to retirement in your own home, making the move to another city, or enjoying your sunset years in an entirely different country.Live a full life in retirement.Get some of the best strategies in the world to prepare yourself for a meaningful life after retirement. Discover a host of practical wisdom to help you choose how you will enter your next stage of life.Make your retirement years truly golden: Buy It Now!

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  Where Crocodiles Roam - A...

  Hollie and Jamie Manuel

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  My goodness! How are you boys still alive? 
  Because survival is by co-ordination, good luck, respect and karma and ‘sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare.’ David Brower 
  Where Kingsley Holgate explores Africa beneath an outrageous beard with a keg of rum by his side – 40 years his junior I decided to explore my Africa with naiveté, invincibility and the testosterone fueled charisma of boyhood. 
  Unprepared, untested, unperturbed – who said that an explorer needs to be tried and tested? 
  Taking six months from our boyhood lives to find adventure? That’s easy. Undertaking a Zambezi source-to-sea paddling expedition with no previous kayaking experience? That’s harder. And stupid. 
  Staying alive amongst crocodiles and hippos, rapids and whirlpools, sunstroke and dysentery – now that’s almost impossible ... or commendable if you can live through to the end of your own story. 
  Now throw in two marauding rhino and appendicitis and see if you would still predict survival and start packing for your own adventure. Did I worry that each day may be my last? Of course I did but in the end ‘the principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose successful navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurers nerve and wits. It is always exhilarating to live by one’s nerves and toward the summit of one’s wits.’ Tom Robbins. Another Roadside Attraction

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  We Are Soldiers Still - A...

  Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway

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  “Powerful. . . . A candid, highly informative, and heartfelt tale of forgiveness between former fierce enemies in the Vietnam War.” —St. Petersburg TimesThe #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young brought to life one of the most pivotal and heartbreaking battles of the Vietnam War. In this powerful sequel, Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway bring us up to date on the cadre of soldiers introduced in their first memoir.Returning to Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley more than four decades after the battle, Moore and Galloway renew their relationships with ten American veterans of the fabled conflict—and with former adversaries—exploring how the war changed them all, as well as their two countries. We Are Soldiers Still is an emotional journey back to hallowed ground, putting a human face on warfare as the authors reflect on war’s devastating cost. The book includes an Introduction by Gen H. Norman Schwarzkopf.

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  Neon Road Trip

  John Barnes

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  Neon Road Trip chronicles the history of the commercial neon sign with a curated collection of photographs capturing the most colorful and iconic neon still surviving today. This vibrant book contains vivid photographs, sixteen iconic landmark signs and their brief history, and a resource section with an index and a Neon Museum's Visitor's Guide.

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  Travels with Epicurus - A...

  Daniel Klein

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  The best-selling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, Daniel Klein delivers a stirring meditation on the simple pleasures to be found late in life. Traveling to the Greek island of Hydra, Klein set out to discover what could be learned about aging from the sage philosopher Epicurus. Equal parts travel book and guide to living well, Klein’s delightful work shines a welcome light on the richer aspects of one’s golden years.

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