Authors:Lisa Severy, Phoebe Ballard, Jack Ballard,
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: meaning, purpose, transitions, career, points, managing, turning
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1434365484
ISBN-13: 9781434365484

Don’t be a minor character in life’s story…be your own hero!Our world is changing at a faster pace than ever before. New technologies, global communications,diverse populations and shifting expectations drive the changes that impact ourdaily lives. This rapid rate of changeleaves many of us feeling uncertain, overwhelmed and confused. Many have choices; yet we lack asystematic and conscious approach to make the important kinds of quality oflife decisions we face in this changing world. Often bouncing from one turningpoint to another without any sense of control; when we finally stop for

Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: sun, empire
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0743265238
ISBN-13: 9780743265232

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the daw

Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: wild, running
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1999-04-30
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0374525463
ISBN-13: 9780374525460

The thirty-two adult members of an exclusive residential community in West London are brutally murdered, and their children are abducted, leaving no trace. Through the forensic diary of Dr. Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Adviser to the London Metropolitan Police, the brutal details of the massacre that has baffled the entire police department unfold.

Author: Jim Ballard
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: chaotic, world, balance, keeping, water, mind
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-09-05
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0471086975
ISBN-13: 9780471086970

Acclaim for Mind Like Water "From What’s the Rush? to Whale Done! Jim Ballard is mentor to millions. Now, in Mind Like Water, Ballard, as always, doesn’t just show where his powerful and perceptive intellect has been, he takes you along and gives you the tools to revisit and explore on your own. Mind Like Water is a journey to places and spaces you realize you are visiting again for the first time. It’s an easy, charming read that shows you how to be exactly where you need to be: calmly in control, regardless of the situation." -Sheldon Bowles, coauthor of Raving Fans "Readin

Author: Pat Ballard
Publisher: Pearlsong Pre
Keywords: perfect, nobody
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0971324794
ISBN-13: 9780971324794

Nella Covington can’t believe she’s agreed to marry the arrogant Samuel L. du Cannon, even if it is only a marriage for convenience. He needs a mother for his small son, and she needs to keep her beloved childhood home. But will she be able to stand his egotistical attitude? His domineering manner? But Jake is such a darling little boy! And he’s already captured her heart. What does she have to lose? If Sam’s work keeps him on the road enough, she won’t have to deal with him much at all. Maybe - this just might work. All Sam du Cannon wants is a good mom for his s

Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: nights, cocaine
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1582435707
ISBN-13: 9781582435701

When travel writer Charles Prentice arrives at Estrella de Mar, a resort town near Gibraltar populated primarily by British retirees, to find out why his brother Frank has been jailed, he’s shocked to find that Frank has confessed to a spectacular act of arson that left five people dead. Charles tries to find the real culprit by hanging around Estrella de Mar, which one resident describes as "like Chelsea or Greenwich Village in the 1960s. There are theatre and film clubs, a choral society, cordon blue classes.... Stand still for a moment and you find yourself roped into a revival of Wai

Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: ballard, stories, complete
Number of Pages: 1216
Published: 2009-09-21
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0393072622
ISBN-13: 9780393072624

“More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent, and individual imaginations in contemporary literature.”—William Boyd The American publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a landmark event. Increasingly recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic novelists, J. G. Ballard was a “writer of enormous inventive powers,” who, in the words of Malcolm Bradbury, possessed, “like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of imagination.” Best kno