A boy is a stowaway on his uncles' fishing boat and when discovered enjoys a splendid summer.

A Time to Live does not dodge the challenges with which aging confronts us. Rather it uses them to show how they can serve as keys to unlock our full human potential of being, feeling, thinking, and growing. True, we must face loss. Yet this can serve as a stepping-stone toward deeper wisdom, generosity of spirit, and richer appreciation of the mystery and wonder of life. Robert Raines - an ordained minister and former director of a nondenominational...

Taking listeners step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced. Offering an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap for successfully navigating change and moving into a hopeful future, this process is ever relevant and applicable today.

First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life. Transitions takes readers step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced. The book offers an elegant,...

At summer camp, twelve-year-old Max reinvents himself as daring and fearless "Mad Max," and although he regrets some of his behavior among strangers, he tries to keep some of that fearlessness when he returns home to his friends.