Pacific Book Awards Finalist “Best Health" RECOMMENDED by the US Review There are few fit healthy lifestyle consultants with over 40-years’ experience willing to give up programming trade secrets at the expense of losing clients and revenues. I’ve been on a mission to expose the half-truths and lies within the fitness, health, big-pharma, agriculture, sports, and diet and celebrity industries including government and why they don’t want this information as common consumer knowledge. To reveal it is considered taboo by my colleagues and unwelcomed by the marketplace. However I can’t sit idly by and watch the charlatans put the next generation’s health at risk for the sake of profit. My only regret, taking so long to write the book. After each chapter I relate my mobility and pain depression challenges after being diagnosed with Avascular Necrosis (AVN) bone disease. That’s right, through my immobility adversity misfortune you also learn how to apply a customized fit healthy habit program to live life to the fullest regardless of ailment. This timeless and incredible consumer safety information is for anyone who wants to get fit, feel well and look good at any age. It also includes educational ill-health prevention and community recreation concepts to “Save the Next Generation’s Children from obesity and related disease.” mirrorathlete.com mirrorathlete.org

Acclaimed writer and illustrator Kelley Donner's debut picture book Ball! Ball! Ball! is about an autistic boy and a mother's love. Tom, a young autistic boy, is fascinated with all things round and enthusiastically points out any object he can find that looks like a ball. From peas to balloons, Tom learns that "balls" can be smooth, squishy, pop, and even have different temperatures. A delightfully uplifting sensory story, Ball! Ball! ball! shows that even love can come in the shape of a ball. Kelley Donner has worked as an educator for over 20 years in various settings across the US, Germany, and the UK. She currently works full time as a writer/illustrator and is a mother to three sons. As an advocate for children with special needs and autism, she believes strongly that all children need representation in children's literature, especially picture books. This is why she began the A Little Donnerwetter Books - Happy Heads Mental Health Series. Each book tells the story of one fictitious child with special needs and/or autism and his or her individual challenges and triumphs. Ball! Ball! Ball! is about Tom, a young boy with autism who speaks only a few words and has a fascination for round objects. It is a book about sensory awareness and self-discovery. This is Tom's story.

"Meet 18 masters athletes and learn why so many older men and women are passionate about fitness and athletics"--P. [4] of cover.

Covers the most commonly performed pulmonary function tests, separated into individual chapters to allow a full overview of each test ...contains updated material including the latest guidelines and recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, the American Association for Respiratory Care, and the European Respiratory Society. Also included are new expanded chapters covering Maximal Inspiratory Testing, Expiratory Pressures Testing, Pediatrics, Blood Gases, and Reference Values. This text is a guide for both classroom learning and application in the clinical setting. -- Provided by publisher

This book is about my journey as well as the stories of several other seemingly unathletic, sedentary middle-aged people who, by discovering their own Ageless Athletes inside of them, were able to learn the power of athleticism and its ability to improve how they live their lives. It is a book not only of hope and inspiring stories but also a basic and clear guide on how to discover your own Ageless Athlete, train him or her to achieve athletic goals that you set, and change your entire self-image and way of thinking about life.

What can we learn from former top athletes that is especially relevant for our health and lifestyles? Even though most athletes are essentially performance minded rather than maintenance and wellness minded, it's still a compelling revelation why 90 percent of them don't continue a program to try and retain some of their skills and conditioning. Learning from the 10 percent who do stay fit and healthy is where we can all benefit. The Aging Athlete chronicles the fitness and mindset of a group of retired and semi-retired athletes, of what's worked for them over the years since they stopped competing or serving in the armed forces. Some of the top athletes include Billy Mills - 1964 10,000m race gold medalist once considered the most famous living Native American; Ken Shamrock - former UFC heavyweight champion who was named the World's Most Dangerous Man; Sam "Bam" Cunningham who starred in the famous 1970 Civil Rights Football Game; and Allen Winder - a blue-eyed basketball player who was called upon by Meadowlark Lemon to break the color barrier ... in reverse. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS BOOK1. Why? Why all of the attention on athletics and aging athletes? What might it be like to be the caregiver/spouse of a 28-year-old athlete who was until recently one of the most physically powerful athletes on the planet? How old is an aging athlete? Hockey great Bobby Orr was injured, and partially hobbled, at the end of his first year as a pro--age 18. His kids have never participated in competitive skating or hockey. Why did kids used to play different sports year round, all seasons, and today it's common for young people to only take up one sport and train for it the entire year?2. Why isn't wellness emphasized more for all and especially for performance oriented athletes? What are the payoffs of recreation vs. performance oriented sports?3. Why don't we learn to coach ourselves? Why do high numbers of performance athletes (inc. ex military and ex ballet performers) stop maintaining fitness soon after leaving their performance time?4. The importance of downtime.5. How to pursue self-mastery.

What can we learn from former top athletes that is especially relevant for our health and lifestyles? Even though most athletes are essentially performance minded rather than maintenance and wellness minded, it's still a compelling revelation why 90 percent of them don't continue a program to try and retain some of their skills and conditioning. Learning from the 10 percent who do stay fit and healthy is where we can all benefit. "The Aging Athlete" chronicles the fitness and mindset of a group of retired and semi-retired athletes, of what's worked for them over the years since they stopped com-peting or serving in the armed forces. Some of the top athletes include Billy Mills -- 1964 10,000m race gold medalist once considered the most famous living Native American; Ken Shamrock -- former UFC heavyweight champion who was named the World's Most Dangerous Man; Sam "Bam" Cunningham who starred in the famous 1970 Civil Rights Football Game; and Billy Hayes of "Midnight Express" fame whose practice of yoga helped keep him sane during his five years of brutal imprisonment in Turkey before his memorable escape.

Nominated into the National Book Awards, the Pacific Northwest Book Awards, Pacific Book Award, American Book Awards, Moonbeam Award, and eLit Book Awards For those who love reading books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister's Keeper. HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS is book club fiction. MACKENZIE FRASER witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she's in the fight of her life...on the inside! And she's losing.

The Aging Athlete: What We Do to Stay in the Game looks at twelve active seniors who are coping with the effects of aging on their lifelong pursuits of running, skiing, bicycling, swimming, hiking, and triathloning. After pushing their bodies for most of their lives, they are having to accept aches and pains, injuries, surgeries, joint replacements, and loss of muscle power. These stories are about how they are not giving up easily, and how they are keeping their optimistic attitudes and abilities to relish the almost impossibly hard work it takes to stay fit. This is a fascinating mix of effort, strategy, training schedules, diets, and philosophies these aging athletes bring to readjust and redesign their endeavors - whatever it takes!

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Hart's warm-hearted sleuth returns in the ninth Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel, with a case that will test even her Heavenly powers After a busy morning dispatching emissaries from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to those in need, Bailey Ruth Raeburn is feeling flush with success. So when an urgent call for help comes through from her old hometown, she can't resist taking on the mission herself. After all, what could go wrong? With the shouted warning of her boss, Wiggins - "Irregular! Problematic!" - ringing in her ears, she arrives to face a shocking scene: Professor Iris Gallagher leaning over the corpse of her colleague Matt Lambert, the murder weapon clutched in her hand. Bailey Ruth is only sent to help the innocent, but things are looking very black for Iris. With Wiggins breathing down her neck, and her old friend Police Chief Sam Cobb casting doubt on her every theory, Bailey Ruth must uncover the truth - or this could be the last trip to earth she's ever allowed to make.