A funny, fearless, and inspiring novel about dating after the age of sixty.THE NOVEL THAT PROVES THERE’S PLENTY OF LIFE—AND HOT SEX—AFTER SIXTY!Just because Anny Applebaum qualifies for a senior discount doesn’t mean she’s ready for retirement. But if she wants to keep her job at the San Francisco Times, she’ll have to find a way to spice up her lifestyle column. Even if it means posting her profile as an eligible single on JDate ....

In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. With case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, the book looks at the ways that artists generated social commentary and tried new ways of working together as the political and economic atmosphere shifted during this time. Drawn from a variety of sources, the case studies illustrate how young musicians r...

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Thei...

Anecdotes of a writer's personal journey as a author, as she ascends into the world of agents, publishing, publications, Hollywood, editors, and a bestseller. The author's Writing Aerobics are exercises that guide the writer from title, premise, table of contents, outline, dialogue, story, scene, point of view, and all elements of craft, into a beginning, middle, and end."I have never seen the aerobics fail," Barbara Rose Brooker says. " I have seen miracles. Read this book and you ...

Anny Applebaum is sixty-five and writes The Viagra Diaries, a San Francisco weekly column researching sixty-plus boomers looking for love. She places ads on Internet singles sites and interviews men over sixty. Is love possible in the Viagra generation? Divorced for thirty years, Anny has given up on love and concentrates on her career. She is looking for controversy and hopes that her column will bring her fame and fortune.On a date, Anny meets and interviews Marv Rothstein, a han...

After publishing many books, and many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel, The Viagra Diaries, and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist’s age from sixty to twenty-something, Bette angrily confronts Network CEO Joshua Bitterman. She demands that her protagonist maintain her original age, but he insists the public “wants young.” After betrayal, intrigue, bartering with the multi-milli...

Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical world and human societies are always inextricably linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of kn...

Lazy Dogs Dance is a novel about Rachel Rosenbloom who writes a book about her ex-husband who left her fifty years ago on her wedding night. When the novel is made into a movie, and as Rachel's career evolves, she falls in love with Max Taylor, a film producer. Struggling with her conflict about love, the industry, daughters, loving two men, and letting go of her obsession, Rachel is faced with new decisions, until on the end she makes new choices.

Readers should enjoy this collection of colorful tales about Lily, an extraordinary ladybug. Her story begins in a beautiful garden of calla lilies. On the day that Lily was hatched, the glow that surrounded her has left some in her garden community speechless. Everyone would soon realize that there was something amazing about her. All the little ladybugs love to frolic about the beautiful gardens with Lily. Meanwhile, all the birds in the garden community love to chatter about Lily, and t...

Anyone Can Write Is For Every Writer. Everyone has a story! Anyone can write and publish a book. This book is for every writer at every age and every genre. The most ordinary incident, recollection, dream can develop into a novel, a movie, a short story. Use your life experiences, and write! ANYONE CAN WRITE /WRITING AEROBICS/is an anecdotal book about the author's process and experiences with agents, publishers and process. The writing aerobics are a step by step guide into the beginning,...

A passionate, sixty-eight-year-old author single-handedly fights ageism in the Hollywood networks and risks her TV series, fame, and fortune—finding controversial true love along the way.After publishing many books, and after many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel, The Viagra Diaries, and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist's age from sixty to twenty-some...

Anny Applebaum is a seventy-eight-year-old author who wonders if great sex and love are possible after sixty. She wants it all. A novelist and journalist, she writes a successful column, interviewing and dating men of all ages. She records her sexcapades, insights, and telephone conversations into her columns. As she struggles with her relationships, ageism, and Hollywood, wanting to find her truths and authentic self, she goes deeply inside her dreams, her past, and her poetry. She wins i...