A feel-good, coming of (middle) age comedy about a mismatched pair who helps each other overcome life's road blocks.

Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.

Pink argues that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

The author presents eight short stories about his mother and other family members as they grew up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.

Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...

"Once a vibrant part of american culture, drive-ins reached their peak in the late 50s with almost 5,000 dotting the nation from big cities to small rural towns. Although drive-ins are experiencing a resurgence in the new millennium, today less than 400 remain. In a nation that loves cars and movies, why haven't they survived?

"At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life--and gave her an unprecedented, profound experience of dwelling in the right hemisphere and the sense of oneness and peace to be found there. Her recovery led to her writing the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight, being named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential...