A provocative celebration of the cycles of life, the companion volume to a PBS series of the same name provides a witty, cross-cultural odyssey that explores attitudes about death and dying around the world. TV tie-in. $50,000 first printing. Tour.

Death: The Trip of a Lifetime

Palmer, Greg

Parenting & Relationships

Harpercollins

A cross-cultural study that explores attitudes about death and dying around the world includes interviews with Stephen King, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, and the Dalai Lama

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

The companion to the upcoming PBS series of the same name, this fascinating ride around the globe--and across the Styx--with affable Everyman guide Palmer is a lighthearted, cross-cultural expedition that revels in the ways we live with the knowledge that we will die. Photos.

Death : The Trip of a Lifetime

HARPER/COLLINS

(2006 Independent Publishers Book Awards: Honorable Mention in Autobiography/Memoir Category) (2005 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award: Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir Category) Like many parents, Greg Palmer worries about his son's future. But his son Ned's last year of high school raises concerns and anxieties for him that most parents don't experience. Ned has Down syndrome; when high school ends for him, school is out forever. The questions loom: What's next? How will Ned negotiate the world without the structure of school? Will he find a rewarding job in something other than food service? To help him sort out these questions and document his son's transition from high school to work, Palmer, an award-winning writer and producer of PBS documentaries, keeps a journal that s the basis of this thoughtful and entertaining book. Ned's talents and interests in poetry, music, and history help him connect with other travelers on a nautical excursion around the British Isles, while his father watches from a distance. The years Palmer and his wife nurtured Ned's interests seem to pay off when Ned shares a favorite poem with a stranger or wins "Employee of the Month." Gratified and a little surprised at how easily Ned sometimes lives by his wits, Palmer also acknowledges the parenting challenges: Ned has some gaps in self-help skills; rarely considers eating anything but peeled wieners for breakfast; and needs help knowing when to curb his passions, such as bombarding people with unsolicited accounts of his family genealogy. Preparing Ned for the working world teaching him to handle money and public transportation, and finding him a job is both amusing and stressful. Palmer wisely stays out of the way when Ned is working happily in the same office and he recognizes the value of good job coaching when his son is lucky enough to get it. But it's trickier business when Ned loses money and skips the bus. Worry over Ned's vulnerabilities leads to discussing what it means to have Down syndrome and, Palmer hopes, offering him a dose of reality. ADVENTURES IN THE MAINSTREAM is a lively and insightful account allowing readers to enjoy Ned's strengths and foibles just as his father does. This personal chronicle also gives us a better understanding of what's involved for parent and child in a young man's journey from adolescence toward adulthood and greater independence.

Adventures In The Mainstream: Coming Of Age With Down Syndrome

Family Relationships

Woodbine House

CHEESE DELUXE: A Memoir, is a collection of mostly true tales of a group of baby boomers in a time of transition. They are high school seniors, full of their own good fortune, bright prospects and parents’ money, unaware of a world waiting impatiently to gobble them up. But they are beginning to get some inkling of that world as they make tentative forays into it and then come rushing back to the shelter of home. That home is the Samoa Drive In, a classic teen hangout, and purveyor of the Cheese Deluxe, one of the world’s best burgers. The time is 1965, and the place is an upper middle class suburb of Seattle called Mercer Island, known for fancy houses on the lake, one of the best public school systems in America, and an almost entirely white citizenry composed of attorneys, doctors, accountants, middle management, and the ubiquitous Boeing engineers of the Northwest 1960s. It is in many ways an idyllic place to grow up, the kind of community where one of the “gangs” in high school is made up of members of the drama club. Moreover, the class of ’65 is the last drug-free class in America―at least on the West Coast―as well as the last class where the boys don’t feel the increasingly ominous presence of a war in Southeast Asia awaiting them if they opt out, drop out or flunk out of college. Cheese Deluxe author Greg Palmer was a member of the Mercer Island Class of ’65, who worked evenings, weekends, and all summer after graduation as the Samoa’s main cook. Over many a Cheese Deluxe he and his fellow Samoans enjoyed the vicarious escapades of their colleagues. Sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an observer and sometimes as a confessor, Palmer tells fourteen stories; some romances, some comedies and one or two tragedies.

Cheese Deluxe

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Bennett & Hastings Pub

Greg Palmer, an award-winning writer and producer of PBS documentaries and plays for families, chronicles two of the most important years in the life of his son, Ned, who has Down syndrome-the time when he's making the transition from high school to work. This intimate, often humorous, account is woven with vivid anecdotes concerning school, family, relationships, and work (both Ned's and Greg's), including a father-son cruise around the British Isles;, Ned's band conducting debut;, and an amusing visit to a Hooters restaurant. Greg makes us care about his son's strengths and foibles as he does, whether describing how Ned impresses strangers by reciting poetry and playing the piano or his struggles to learn to handle money, responsibility, and the death of a friend. An absorbing and insightful read, ADVENTURES IN THE MAINSTREAM offers reassurance to other parents and enlightens us all about what's really involved-for father and son-in a young man's important journey from adolescence toward adulthood. This edition includes an afterword about the experiences of Ned and his family in the decade since ADVENTURES was written.

Adventures in the Mainstream: Coming of Age with Down Syndrome, 2nd Edition

Bennett & Hastings Publishing

Who said the reaper has to be grim? Filled with the frightening, funny, poignant, & just plain weird, this delightfully different travelogue follows one man's quest to discover how people around the world cope with the incontrovertible fact of death. The result is a wise, witty, decidedly quirky celebration of how we all face life. Explores human beings simultaneous fear & fascination with death; the physiological & psychological experience of death; the world s funeral & grieving rites; & religious, spiritual, & philosophical theories about immortality. This edition includes an Epilogue.

Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, 2nd Edition

Self-Help

Death & Grief

CHEESE DELUXE: A MEMOIR, is a collection of mostly true tales of a group of baby boomers in a time of transition. They are high school seniors, full of their own good fortune, bright prospects and parents' money, unaware of a world waiting impatiently to gobble them up. But they are beginning to get some inkling of that world as they make tentative forays into it and then come rushing back to the shelter of home. That home is the Samoa Drive In, a classic teen hangout, and purveyor of the Cheese Deluxe, one of the world's best burgers. The time is 1965, and the place is an upper middle class suburb of Seattle called Mercer Island, known for fancy houses on the lake, one of the best public school systems in America, and an almost entirely white citizenry composed of attorneys, doctors, accountants, middle management, and the ubiquitous Boeing engineers of the Northwest 1960s. Coincidentally, Mercer Island High is where President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, graduated in 1960. The island is in many ways an idyllic place to grow up, the kind of community where one of the "gangs" in high school is made up of members of the drama club. Moreover, the class of '65 is the last drug-free class in America-at least on the West Coast-as well as the last class where the boys don't feel the increasingly ominous presence of a war in Southeast Asia awaiting them if they opt out, drop out or flunk out of college. Cheese Deluxe author Greg Palmer was a member of the Mercer Island Class of '65, who worked evenings, weekends, and all summer after graduation as the Samoa's main cook. Over many a Cheese Deluxe he and his fellow Samoans enjoyed the vicarious escapades of their colleagues. Sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an observer and sometimes as a confessor, Palmer tells fourteen stories; some romances, some comedies and one or two tragedies.

Cheese Deluxe, Revised Edition

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

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Death: The Trip of a Lifetime

Death: The Trip of a Lifetime

Death : The Trip of a Lifetime

Adventures In The Mainstream: Coming Of Age With Down Syndrome

Cheese Deluxe

Adventures in the Mainstream: Coming of Age with Down Syndrome, 2nd Edition

Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, 2nd Edition

Cheese Deluxe, Revised Edition