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For empty-nesters, early retirees, and even established executives, midlife is the ideal time to turn travel fantasies into real and rewarding experiences. This second edition of THE GROWN-UP'S GUIDE covers estimating cost-of-living expenses, the dos and don'ts of international health care, the boom in online travel resources, and much more. Whether planning a monthlong escape or a whole new life in another country, this empowering guide will encourage mature would-be expats to pursue the overseas adventure they've been craving..
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Amazing things happen when Woman taps her inner Girl Scout. In You Can Do It!, Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas and friends present an engaging cast of female "mentors" who share their expertise in activities ranging from money management to firewalking. Fanning the can-do spirit kindled during her own scouting years, Catuzzi goes beyond the badge with this concept; wealthy information and the book's visual charm encourage women to embrace their aspirations and, in turn, to build self esteem. All who completed this commendable handbook following Catuzzi's tragic death deserve applause.
 

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Want to fly airplanes? Break a habit? Learn photography? Grandcolas demystifies 60 popular activities here. Low-key visualization and a biographical page featuring a talented mentor kicks off each chapter. Badge steps follow, conveying all the necessary how-to's. Margins contain revealing anecdotes, plus thumbnail definitions for mastering each skill's language. For example, the wine appreciation chapter offers brief descriptions of common whites and red, tips for ordering in restaurants, a glass guide, and suggestions for creating a wine journal. The final step--stocking your own cellar, in this case--concludes with a hearty "Congratulations!" and tips for venturing "Beyond the Badge." A pageful of resources including books, magazines, web sites, and related organizations completes each chapter. For those who groove on such things, 60 silver-dollar-sized merit badges await earning (okay, they're just really pretty stickers at the book's end). Never motherly nor professorly, You Can Do It! fuses straight talk and wry humor to keep the read enjoyable, and success within reach.--Liane Thomas

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	Badge # 3 - Roam Where You Want to This badge helps you "define your dream trip, prepare for takeoff, and wind up with a departure date, itinerary, and perfectly packed bag. Consider St. Augestine's words: 'The world is a book; those who stay home read only one page.' ...Get ready to say bon voyage. You can do it!
	City Walks: Paris City Walks: New York	Big Sur To Big Basin: California's Dramatic Central Coast Bed And Breakfast Ireland	Sonoma: The Ultimate Winery Guide Second Edition The Wine Lover's Guide to the Wine Country: The Best of Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino
	Badge #21 - Get down to the Knitty-Gritty Whether you're a trendsetter hankering for a hand-knit PDA cover or a traditionalist after a tea cozy just like Grandma's, this badge will have you in stitches - and a new scarf - in no time. As your fingers fly, you'll soothe your soul, relax your mind, and satisfy your creative urges. Get ready to get hooked. You can do it!
	Knit Knack Kit Knitting Pretty
	Badge #27 - Get Well-Read Being well-read means different things to different people. It usually assumes some depth in a specific subject area or breadth across an "established" list of classics. But there is no right or wrong to any great love affair. The purpose of this badge is to open doors to a lifetime enriched by reading on your own terms, without any literary presumption or prejudice. You can read whatever you like, and as much (or little) as you like, so long as you stay true to the call of what really interests and delights you. You can do it!
	This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work 1906	Campfire Collection: Thrilling Chilling Tales Of Alien Encounters This Life She's Chosen	Small Town Odds: A Novel
	Badge #28 - Dine In Imagine this... When afternoon turns to evening and stomachs start to growl, you invite your friends to stay for supper - and bowl them over with your baked ziti...How did someone who used to find cooking for people intimidating turn into such a gracious gourmet chef? By keeping a panic-proof pantry, learning to rustle up a few reliable dishes, and refining your repertoire. Grab an apron. You can do it!
	Pie Pie Pie: Easy Homemade Favorites Big Book Of Easy Suppers: 270 Delicious Recipes For Casual Everyday Cooking	Salmon: A Cookbook Cupcakes	The Wine Lover Cooks Italian What's Cooking Recipe Box
	Badge #29 - Know Your Best Cellars There's a difference between drinking wine and tasting wine. When you are drinking wine, it blends with the experience to become a poignant memory. When tasting wine, the process of swirling, sniffing, sipping, and spitting is educational. It's fun to buy, order, serve, and savor wine. Learning what you like and a willingness to experiment is all you need to get into wine. Grab a corkscrew. You can do it!
	Sonoma: The Ultimate Winery Guide Second Edition The Wine Lover's Guide to the Wine Country: The Best of Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino	Napa Valley: The Ultimate Winery Guide--Revised and Updated, Fourth Edition The Wine Lover's Journal	The Wine Country Deck: 50 Best Northern California Wineries The Wine Deck: 50 Ways to Choose, Serve & Enjoy Great Wines
	Badge #33 - Hang Ten Imagine this... You stride purposefully down the beach, board under your arm, sun on your back, smile on your face. When you reach the water, you gracefully throw down your board, ease yourself onto it, and begin paddling into the clear blue of sea and sky. Thoughts of deadlines and duties recede with the shoreline. You have just one thing on your mind: catching a wave and riding it sure and strong. If this is your beach-chair daydream, this badge will get you up, out to sea, and on a board. You can do it!
	The Girl's Guide To Surfing The Perfect Day	Maverick's

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Home Grown Indiana is an essential guide to the foremost sources of local foods in Indiana Highlighting more than 400 producers, restaurants, farmers' markets, winemakers, brewers, and food festivals, this book is not only an enjoyable read, but an excellent companion during a weekend drive in the country, a day out with the family, or a holiday food-shopping expedition. Recipes from chefs who put local foods at the heart of their cooking provide inspirational ideas for what to do with the bounty you bring home.

In addition to the 177 lively profiles of Hoosiers who produce fabulous food in Indiana, Home Grown Indiana discusses topical issues such as grass-fed beef, raw milk, and pastured poultry and eggs. Indiana residents who love flavorful food will want to own this insightful and entertaining guide..
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life..
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Do you know that you need to grow a carrot differently from a tomato? Do you know that lettuce needs a different type of energy to grow than beans? Do you know how to measure the nourishment levels in the food you grow in your gardens, as well as the food you purchase in the market? Do you know how to make plant food mixtures that ideally nourish the plant? Do you know the relationship between soil and sickness? Nourishment Home Grown shows you how and explains why.

• Nourishment Home Grown is for those who are serious about having top quality food available.
• Nourishment Home Grown is the only book of its kind. It is positively not an ordinary garden book. It reveals how ideal health can only be promoted by foods that are intentionally grown and nourished by using the electromagnetic soil secrets discovered over sixty years ago by Dr. Carey Reams.
• Nourishment Home Grown is a how-to book. It tells how to understand and work with the little known secrets that ensure you are growing the absolute best food possible for life and health.
• Nourishment Home Grown reveals to you the whys behind some of your most puzzling questions about gardening and farming. It will even answer questions you didn't know how to ask..
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In 1951 Steve Clark accepts a teaching job in a one-room school in the Missouri Ozarks and moves with his pregnant wife Lacey to the colorful backwoods community of Indian Glade. There they are surrounded by Ozark characters who are absorbed with old customs and beliefs and school children who speak in Elizabethan terms. The Clarks move into what they consider an ideal house, but are forewarned by the locals that, The last folks lived there claimed it weren t natural... Steve and Lacey encounter their unnatural inhabitant and attempt to unravel the mystery of the fiddler s ghost , who becomes more lifelike as they discover his time-travel connection to music..
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An unconventional management book by an unconventional businessman: how Patrick Kelly built a company where everybody works hard, has a great time, makes a ton of money--and leaves competitors wondering what hit them.

Patrick Kelly is the founder of Physician Sales & Service (PSS), which in only 15 years has gone from a start-up company in the mundane business of distributing medical supplies to doctors' offices to the industry leader with $1 billion in revenues. Its annual growth rate is nearly 60% and today it has 3,600 employees.

What's Kelly's secret? A dynamic, even nutty culture! PSS employees can fire their bosses. Truck drivers have "CEO" on their business cards. There are no policy manuals. The company's leaders--there's no such thing as a "manager" at PSS--are required to study Plato and Dostoevsky. Many have become millionaires, and despite the pressure, they love their jobs. PSS is that most unusual of organizations--a fast-track, high-growth business that's also a great place to work.

Kelly himself is the ultimate success story: after growing up in an orphanage, flunking out of college, and serving in Viet Nam, he built an incredibly successful career--his way. In Faster Company, he tells you how he did it--how he built the company that has been dubbed "a cross between the U.S. Marines and Animal House."

Patrick Kelly (Jacksonville, Florida) is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Physician Sales & Service (PSS)/World Medical, Inc. It is the fastest-growing company in the history of the medical supply industry, with annual revenues for this year projected at $1 billion. Among his many awards, Kelly just received (along with Ted Turner) the Horatio Alger Award for 1997. John Case (Cambridge, MA) is editor-at-large for Inc. Magazine, and is the author of several books, including The Open-Book Experience.

Marketing:
* National Publicity Campaign.
* 5-City Events Tour.
* National Advertising in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review.
* Author Column in Inc. Magazine..
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