Winner, Independent Publishers Book AwardTwelve Senses. Dreams. Travels. Relationships. Actions. Spirit. Achievements. Your Life. The IPPY Award–winning Writes of Life begins where your personal experiences and pen intersect—the starting point for great stories that touch others. In this compact book, journey to learn and practice the many ways to turn your experiences into compelling memoirs, short stories, essays, lyrics, poems, fiction, journaling, and articles of all types. Sub...

This book is a backstage pass to the ups, downs, and all-out craziness of arena rock—deep discussions with Rod Stewart, jamming with legends like Mick Jagger and Justin Timberlake, gaining groupies, and striking out solo. Stevie Salas was one of many boys coming of age in the 1980s—when the American dream was rock superstardom. As lead guitarist for a San Diego band, Salas played backyard parties and school dances and even scored the music for the cult classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Advent...

"Clay Marzo is an amazing, nearly amphibious surfer with a one-of-a-kind life story. What an inspiring book!" —Matt Warshaw, author of The Encyclopedia of SurfingFrom childhood, it was obvious that Clay Marzo's single-minded focus on surfing was unique, his skills otherworldly. But the deeper reasons for this obsession didn't become clear until his late teens, when Marzo was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.Marzo was already a surfing phenom, winn...

Beyond ADHD weaves Jeff Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific, and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can be attributed to m...

This book is a backstage pass to the ups, downs, and all-out craziness of arena rock—deep discussions with Rod Stewart, jamming with legends like Mick Jagger and Justin Timberlake, gaining groupies, and striking out solo. Stevie Salas was one of many boys coming of age in the 1980s—when the American dream was rock superstardom. As lead guitarist for a San Diego band, Salas played backyard parties and school dances and even scored the music for the cult classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Advent...

Music. Love won, lost, regained. Festivals. Tours. Legends. Welcome to Voices.Legendary rock and roll singer/songwriter Tom Timoreaux, who like many began during San Francisco's epochal Summer of Love, emerges from a long retirement with his band, The Fever. When his backup singer cannot tour, he brings on his estranged daughter, Christine. As they sing together and heal their relationship, The Fever tours to national acclaim—and Christine becomes a star. Meanwhile, in Italy, Tom's ...

Beyond ADHD weaves Emmerson’s personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can be attributed to many other disor...

Clay Marzo has an almost preternatural gift with a surfboard. From his first moments underwater (he learned to swim at two months old) to his first ventures atop his father's surfboard as a toddler, it was obvious that Marzo's single-minded focus on all things surfing was unique. But not until late in his teens, when this surfing phenom was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, did the deeper reasons for his obsession—and his astonishing gift for surfing—become clear.Just Add Wat...

An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini expl...

Author of Oprah’s Book Club Pick—The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self“The best known life coach in America” (Psychology Today) and bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star provides a new transformational program for creating an unconventional life path to a sustainable way of life. Martha Beck’s program has been practiced by Oprah and featured on Super Soul Sunday!Finding Your Way ...

Following the success of his New York Times bestselling memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends, acclaimed actor Rob Lowe returns with Love Life—a funny, heartfelt, and deeply personal collection of stories that “invites readers into his world with easy charm and disarming frankness” (Kirkus Reviews).In Love Life, Lowe continues to pull back the curtain on his life in Hollywood, delivering a candid and often hilarious take...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this powerful sequel to New York Times bestselling novel If I Stay, a young couple explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.It’s been three years since Adam’s love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it . . . and three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever.Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard’s rising star a...