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In this lyrical and unconventional memoir, a road trip to California's Central Coast becomes an epic journey through family history, loss, and connection. When three generations of women—a middle-aged narrator, her seventy-seven-year-old mother, and her twenty-two-year-old Gen Z daughter—set out for a quick trip to California's Central Coast, their road trip transforms into something far richer: a modern-day Odyssey.

21st Century Paradigm Shift: What It Is and How to Thrive In It is about economics, philosophy and so much more. In her new book, Carol E. Leutner traces the history of how 300+ years of Newtonian-based science has framed our perception of reality. She then proposes that the new field of quantum physics contains the building blocks for a revised method of perceiving reality suitable to the his¬torical challenges we face. Carol drills down to challenge listeners on how a revised worldview might impact economic thought and behavior.

Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock - a fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring the book and lyrics for the first time in print, backstage stories and the real history behind the show's events, character design sketches, and songs that ended...

Irena is a Russian Jewish immigrant, a PhD in comparative literature, a former Stanford admissions officer, and a private college counselor in Palo Alto, California—a city where everyone has to be good at something and where success often means the name of a prestigious college on the back of a late-model luxury car. But as Irena works with some of the most ambitious, tightly wound students in the world, she struggles to keep her own family from unraveling, and that sharp-edged divide lies at the heart of her memoir.