The perfect gift for anyone who appreciates a simple, relaxed lifestyle. In How to Live in Flip-Flops, Sandy Gingras helps readers forget the complicated in favor of the simple, wonderful things in life. Gingras's delightful watercolors and poetic prose showcase the benefits of slowing down and finding happiness in the things that really matter. Whether or not you're at the beach, everyone can relate to the laid-back easiness that comes with living in flip-flops. Includes charming maxims such as: Lose the uncomfortable shoes Be thankful Smell like a coconut Go slowly to see the little things This is the perfect gift for family and friends - whether for those who already embrace an easygoing harmony with the world or for those who need a gentle reminder of what's truly important. "Sandy Gingras evokes how good things can be when you and your environment are in happy agreement." Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet

Cool! Youre reading the back of my book which means the front caught your eye. Now youre just about ready to open it up and, well, since I still have your attention... So this is my first book, a lifetime in the making. And you wont find any fancy reviews by important people written here. What you will see is my invitation especially for you. Between the covers is an eclectic collection of true stories extracted from my life and imaginati on. Its not a how-to book or a dramatic tale of triumph. Its simply thoughts about everyday life that most anyone can relate to yet spend little time putting much thought into. This compilation of short stories wont change your life. But Im pretty sure it will warm your heart, make you smile and make you think; you might even shed a tear or two. And it just might inspire you to tweak your outlook on life just a little bit. That, my friend, is up to you. So, steal a few moments for yourself and curl up with Life in Flip Flops. And if a bon fire with smores breaks out halfway through, then youre right where you need to be. Enjoy!

A suburban family discovers that trading materialism for a simple life on a tropical island helps them reconnect in unexpected ways. The author chronicles the ultimate triumph of seeing once-frayed family ties grow back stronger from shared challenges and misfortunes.

The millionaire lifestyle isn't about your bank balance. In the revised and expanded second edition of Millionaire in Flip Flops, The Lifestyle Edition, Sue gives you concrete action steps to follow to create your own life the way you dream of living it. With Sue's guidance, it's well within reach.

This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects – flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation. Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows that globalisation along the flip-flop trail is a tangle of unstable, shifting, ad hoc and contingent connections. This book displays both the instabilities of the 'chains' and the complexities, personal topographies and skills with which people navigate these global uncertainties. Flip-Flop provides new ways of thinking about globalisation from the vantage point of the shifting landscape crossed by a seemingly ordinary and everyday commodity.

Set in rural Virginia, this story follows nine-year-old Vinnie and her problems of adjustment to moving house and changing schools, following the death of her father.

We expend massive amounts of energy in pursuit of perfection. If only we could never make mistakes or encounter unpleasant obstacles, oh, wouldn't life be just perfect? Maybe, but it would also be static, unfulfilling, and really, really boring. Humorist Lisa Sugarman knows that life is a work in progress. She knows what we all suspect—life is at its best when it's fluid, unpredictable, and gloriously imperfect. And if this means life sometimes turns ugly and unpleasant, it only makes the good times that much sweeter. Author of opinion column It Is What It Is, Lisa embraces reality, not perfection. We're supposed to be imperfect. We're meant to screw up, make bad decisions, and lose our way. We can't control everything that life throws at us, but we can control how we react to it. With the right attitude and a little guidance from Lisa, anyone can be happy and fulfilled most of the time. Her collection of funny, inspiring, and sometimes poignant columns reminds us that life is not a straight line, even on the best of days, and it's the twists in the road which make the journey so beautiful.

Growing up in a small town, Kellie Elmore learned of love and loss within her humble "backyard" surroundings. Weaving stories inspired by these emotions and the vast nature of the East Tennessee foothills has become her passion. You will feel the enchantment at the center of this collection of prose and poetry as you are completely taken in by the allure of Magic in the Backyard.

Flip Flops, Fiestas, and Flamenco is the first in a series of three books about two best friends, their lives, loves, and adventures after moving to a small village in the Andalusian hills Abby and Lou have been BFF's since the first day at Uni. Despite being opposites in both looks and personality they were drawn to each other sharing a flat, dreams and a love of animals. Through the ensuing years despite heartache and divorce, they remain as close as ever. Abby would be the first to admit her life needs an injection of fun. Middle-aged, divorced and slightly overweight she's a mother/general dogsbody to two layabout sons, a pink-haired Amazonian on-off girlfriend and an incorrigible British Bulldog named Chester, her lifelong dream of living in Spain's glorious sunshine has been long forgotten or has it? Lou was stuck in her own rut, never fully recovered from a tragedy in her past a long list of online dating disasters had left her wondering if she will ever find love again. Her cool ice-maiden persona is shattered along with her cat's eardrums when she wins £400,000 on an online bingo site. Could this be the answer to both their prayers? Flip-Flops packed, they embark on their adventure but it isn't all sun and sangria. Warring pets, new neighbours, Cooking experiments, scary wildlife and an escapee Donkey named Santos combine to make it an unforgettable Summer. Can their friendship survive or will the Mediterranean dream become a nightmare?