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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of San Diego by Sheri McGregor  It's time to take a hike! Hikers, grab your boots and get outside! Using clear, concise, and illuminating narrative, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: San Diego eliminates doubts about where to hike and what to expect when you get there. To easily locate and assess the best hikes in and around San Diego - much has changed since the wildfires of 2003 - this guide is indispensable. Whether you live in the San Diego area or plan a vacation here, this guide will help you discover the wonders of nature while not having to travel too far from the city. The natural open spaces in and around San Diego are a prized natural resource for area hikers. Bounded by San Diego Bay and the Pacific coastline to the west, the Santa Rosa Mountains to the east, Mexico to the south, and the lower reaches of the Los Angeles metro area to the north, the 60-mile radius beyond San Diego creates a large, rich wedge of scenic, natural wealth. Whether you're an experienced hiker or a casual day hiker, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: San Diego is the perfect tool to explore it all.

Product Idea to Product Success by Matt Yubas  Do you have a dream of creating a new invention?  Do you have a great idea for a product but don't know how to turn that idea into reality?  Then Matt Yubas has a book for you! Suppose somebody handed you a proven step-by-step guide that showed you how to turn your ideas into successful products. If you had this guide not only would your ideas become reality, you could earn extra money. Is it possible? Why not! You're clever and have ideas for products that people want to buy. Maybe all you need is information and practical advice. With Product Idea to Product Success, Matt Yubas will teach you the steps to get to market, how to protect and evaluate your ideas, make a prototype, get your product manufactured, self-market or license your idea, and much, much more.

You Don't Have to be Rich by Jean Chatzky You Don't Have to be Rich:  Do you have to be rich to be happy? Would being richer make you happier? Does money buy happiness? Not the sort of questions you usually hear from a personal finance expert, especially one as popular and respected as Jean Chatzky, of Money magazine and The Today Show. But in these difficult times, when many of her fans are struggling with job insecurity, declining investments, and fear of the future, Chatzky decided to write a different kind of personal finance book showing how to regain our financial power.

Love, Lauren and Greg by Greg Manning Love, Lauren & Greg: Griping insight into the struggle for survival and the determination of love.   Lauren Manning, a wife, the mother of a ten-month-old son, and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, came to work, as always, at One World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split second her life was changed forever. Lauren was burned over 82.5 percent of her body.   This book is the detailed e-mails her husband sent to friends and family recapping her brave recovery.  His devotion to her as he read her love poems and kept her motivated to get well enough to hold her 10 month old son is an inspiration to all.

Romancing the Holidays Volume II by various authors including Sheri McGregor Romancing the Holidays Vol. II In this heart-felt collection, ten talented authors bring us together with some of our favorite and some lesser-known holidays to create a round of reading that reminds us of the most endearing quality of the human spirit - love.   Sheri McGregor's story 'Freudian Slip' starts out the collection with a delightfully touching tale of  a woman cautious of getting involved with a business associate.  She would have kept her feeling secret except when she accidentally send him the wrong e-mail.

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery: This book is not about slavery. It is a story of overcoming obstacles.  Mr. Washington not only lifted himself up from poverty and ignorance, but made it his life's work to assist others in their own efforts at bettering their lives.

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: "Those who don't know how to fight worry, die young." This ominous advice begins Dale Carnegie's bestseller, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, an eight-part treatise on the follies of worrying. Like other Carnegie books, this one is packed with good old-fashioned common sense, illustrated with examples drawn from research on historical figures and interviews with business leaders.

Tongue Fu!®  How to Deflect, Disarm, and by Sam Horm Tongue Fu!®: What do you say when someone does something unfair or unkind? Learn how to stand up for yourself when people are putting you down.  This is an excellent book.  Also, if you get the chance to see Sam speak, please consider attending her dynamic, personable program.

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese?: Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze.  Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide by Sean Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more.

Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters by Phillip C. McGraw Life Strategies: Phillip C. McGraw, who is a psychologist but describes himself as a strategist, is determined to make sure that his readers are the creators of their lives, not created by their lives. McGraw helped Oprah Winfrey survive--and win--the 1998 'Mad Cow' lawsuit. He helped her face the facts about the lawsuit, after which she was better able to participate in crafting a strategy to win it. He then describes in depth all 10 "Life Laws"--the rules by which the world plays--that he learned the hard way. Laws such as "You Either Get It, or You Don't," "Life Is Managed; It Is Not Cured," and "You Have to Name It to Claim It". These laws make up the bulk of McGraw's realist philosophy.

Self-Help Stuff That Works: How to Become More Effective with Your Actions and Feel Good More Often by Adam Khan Self-Help Stuff That Works This is a no-nonsense, practical self-help handbook written in a friendly, entertaining, and concise style. You'll find ideas that work written in an enjoyable and interesting way that leaves you with solid tools you can use to better your life. You will learn how to become more effective with your actions and feel good more often. To read some sample chapters, check out the following web site: www.youmeworks.com

Beauty Bites Beast Ellen Snortland was featured on a recent NBC Dateline segment called, "Girl Power." Ellen's book, Beauty Bites Beast, explores why so many women put off learning how to defend themselves until something happens. There are lots of great success stories, both verbal and physical, of what women (and kids) did to defend themselves. As Stone Phillips says in the Dateline Segment, "Violence against women is epidemic in this country. Experts agree that our best hope for curbing it is early intervention: Teaching boys not to be bullies and teaching girls they don't have to be victims." When women learn how to defend themselves, their self-esteem goes up and they are less likely to be taken advantage of. Check out the story on the MSNBC page. (You can catch a glimpse of me in the video assisting in the kid's class. Hint: I'm wearing a red shirt.)

Unstoppable : 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You by Cynthia Kersey Unstoppable: Cynthia Kersey tells how dozens of people (some famous, but more who are not) triumphed over amazing obstacles to achieve their dream. These are real people facing the same stuff you and I do every day. The stories are sometimes touching, sometimes funny, but always inspirational. Most importantly, she tells how you can become "unstoppable" in your own life.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul : 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: This book, the latest in the hugely popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, contains stories, poems, and cartoons relating to the specific troubles that traumatize teenagers everywhere. It doesn't shy away from the big issues, with essays on suicide, dying young, and drunk driving. This book stems from the knowledge that teens know their own concerns best thus, much of the book is written by teens themselves. This book doesn't minimize any of the dramas of adolescence. It does, however, mete out plenty of perspective. This wise, tender, funny book is filled with wisdom useful to teens (and everybody else, too).

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