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After her parents are killed in a rare grizzly attack, the author is forced into a wilderness of grief. Turning to loves she learned from her father, Polson explores the perilous terrain of grief through music, the natural world, and her faith. Her travels take her from the suburbs of Seattle to the concert hall where she sings Mozart’s Requiem, and ultimately into the wilderness of Alaska’s remote Arctic and of her heart.

This deeply moving narrative is shot through with the human search for meaning in the face of tragedy. Polson’s deep appreciation for the untamed and remote wilderness of the Alaskan Arctic moves her story effortlessly between adventure, natural history, and sacred pilgrimage, as much an internal journal as a literal one. Readers who appreciate music or adventure narratives and the natural world, or who are looking for new ways to understand loss, will find guidance, solace, and a companionable voice in this extraordinary debut.

Do you have a retirement “portfolio” organized to meet your special needs – or a random collection of investments, accounts, and advisers that you’ve acquired over time? By learning the “Personal Portfolio Management” techniques and insights set out here, you’ll gain control over your results along with a better sense of how to deal with the uncertainty we all face as investors, especially as we transition into retirement. Whether you’re a novice or an experienced investor, you’ll find resources, insights, and strategies to make effective decisions upon which a sound financial future can be based. Seasoned portfolio manager and author Julie Jason will help you:

· Graduate from hit-or-miss buying and selling to a big-picture portfolio approach
· Construct a personal portfolio that will serve you and your family for a lifetime
· Establish an oversight system to make sure you stay on course
· Evaluate investment performance and advice

It’s the day after Labor Day, 2008, and the bottom is about to drop out of the economy. Hedge fund owner John Cutter is in the process of an ugly divorce and nearly in financial ruin, except for the assets he is hiding from his wife Mimi in the Cayman Islands. When he concocts a scheme to redeem himself, he enlists Lehman Brothers investment banker Blake Somerset as an accomplice. Blake is ripe for recruitment given that he too is on the verge of being in dire financial straits with Lehman’s decline and imminent bankruptcy. Blake’s socialite wife Grigsby is barely aware of her changing world to begin with and has no idea about the perilous situation her husband is about to enter. As autumn unfolds, Grigsby’s fairytale life starts to unwind. Meanwhile, John and Blake’s scheme comes to light when street-smart Renee Parker begins her new position as John’s executive assistant. Convinced something is amiss, she enlists her friend Sasha Silver, CEO of Silver Partners, to help her decipher what is happening. This story of expulsion from a modern-day Garden of Eden captures what happens when economic decline spells ruin for Manhattan’s pampered elite.

The Year of the Gadfly (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) is an academic mystery about an aspiring teenage journalist who talks to the ghost of Edward R. Murrow and a failed microbiologist-turned-biology teacher, who is haunted by the ghosts of his past. The novel is an emotional and sexual coming-of-age story and an unsentimental look at the obsessions of adolescence. It’s also pretty funny.

Oprah Magazine calls Gadfly “engrossing” and chose it as a must-read for May. Glamour Magazine calls it “entirely addictive.” The Atlantic Monthly online says, “There is a relentless authenticity in Miller’s prose…[in The Year of the Gadfly] she effectively places her characters in a vice and squeezes the truth out of them.”

One of the biggest excuses for not creating the change we want is that we are convinced we just don’t have the time. We’re already on overload. How can we possibly fit one more thing in? We’re convinced we have not a moment to do those things we have to do, much less what we yearn most to.

It Takes An Egg Timer, a Guide to Creating the Time for Your Life intends to prove that excuse wrong. You do have enough time-for everything you have to do and want to, and then some. It’s just a question of what you are letting get in the way.

This is not your typical book on time management. It is part guide and part manifesto. It offers uncomplicated solutions that start with a very simple tool, the egg timer. It is written not just for the self-employed and entrepreneurs struggling to keep themselves on task, productive and happy but also for those who simply dream about making a change in their life, big or small, and are convinced that what is stopping them is not enough time.

For most people, keeping on schedule with a madcap plan for suicide via a Cadillac, duct tape, and a garden hose, would be simple. For Chase Murdock, “simple” becomes very complex, exacerbated by an addiction to irreverence and chronic self doubt. At sixty years old, divorced, childless, unemployed for the third time in ten years, still annoyed by his mandatory Vietnam tour of the Mekong Delta courtesy of the US Army, and irritated by a sporadic prostate problem, the hapless Murdock detests the idea of navigating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. He obsesses his friends will remember him as a diapered vegetable in a nursing home, drooling, mumbling, and subsisting for the next forced feeding. Rather than go quietly, he confides his exit strategy to his best friend, whose camaraderie not only derails his plan, but unleashes a rapid string of events, forcing him to face his ultimate resolution.

The book gives women one invaluable pearl of wisdom for each of these key areas, helping them move beyond outdated financial-planning ideas to enjoy their power, transforming both their money and their lives.

The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom offers women guidance in an era of uncharted opportunities and new financial choices. A woman may set up a foundation in her thirties—when she sells her first company, support her family as the primary breadwinner in her forties, start a new career in her sixties and remarry in her seventies. Today women cycle repeatedly—but not in any traditional order—through these stages: wealth building, romance and marriage, motherhood, power, retirement, crisis and loss, legacy building.

Published by 85 Broads, “Even Par” is the quintessential guide to helping women learn to use golf for business success. Through the use of keen insights and powerful, real-world anecdotes, the authors bring to life the sometimes mysterious world of golf in a humorous and inspirational way. Whether you work at a Fortune 500 company or are an entrepreneur, let Even Par be your guide to get you “on course” in golf and in your career.