60 On Up

Dr. Lillian B. Rubian takes a penetrating look at the profound changes—personal societal—that come with the new longevity, for those living it now and the boomers behind them.

Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life

Baby boomers are inventing a new phase of work. In Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Marc Freedman tells the stories of these encore career pioneers, who are working not only for continued income, but for the promise of more meaning and the chance to do work that matters. As their numbers begin to swell, these individuals are transforming work in America - and creating a society that works better for everyone.

The Geography of Bliss

Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss signals the arrival of the next great category of literary nonfiction: the philosophical, self-help, humorous travel memoir. Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, has covered a multitude of catastrophes and maladies from more than 30 countries over the past two decades. For The Geography of Bliss, however, he decided to tell the other side of the story by visiting some of the world's most contented places.

Green Foods Bible

Learn how you can increase your energy, boost your overall health and overcome many illnesses with super green foods like barley grass, wheatgrass, kamut, chlorella, spirulina and others.

The House to Ourselves

The House to Ourselves: Reinventing Home Once the Kids Are Grown by Todd Lawson and Tom Connor celebrates an exciting new time of life for a fast-growing segment of American homeowner — the millions of couples across the country whose kids are heading off to college or moving out on their own.

The twenty-one homes featured in The House to Ourselves offer design solutions for a variety of styles and geographic locations. From a sunny urban villa in Mexico to an island family lodge in Washington State, these homes abound with variety, invention and creativity.

If I Live to Be 100

For two years, author Neenah Ellis visited centenarians—people 100 years of age or older—and was surprised to find so many of them healthy and independent. Ellis' interviews with America's oldest citizens became a hugely popular series on National Public Radio. This book goes deep into questions we all have about aging: how does one get to 100? And what makes life worth living at such an advanced age? The answers from the centenarians are often surprising, funny and very, very wise.

Intentional Grandparenting

Are you ready to be a grandparent? This comprehensive guide, written by Peggy Edwards and Mary Jane Sterne, offers ten basic principles for effective grandparenting and combines solid evidence from experts with inspirational, poignant, and humorous real-life stories from grandparents, parents and kids.

Intentional Grandparenting contains an abundance of pratical ideas, such as how to baby-proof your home, how to stay in touch (including cyber-grandparenting)and how you can best support your adult children in their transition to parenthood. Informative and fun, this book is an indispensible tool for anyone entering this challenging and rewarding life stage.

Leisureville

A first-hand look at America's senior utopias, gated retirement communities where no kids are allowed.

When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retirement community in Florida called The Villages, Andrew Blechman is astonished by their stories, so he goes to investigate.

Started in the 1950s and popularized by Del Webb's Sun City, age-segregated retirement is an exploding phenomenon. More than twelve million people will soon live in these communities, under restrictive covenants, with limited local government, and behind gates that exclude children. And not all of the residents are seniors, or even retirees.

Blechman delves into life in the senior utopia, offering a hilarious first-hand report on all its peculiarities. But Leisureville is more than just a romp through retirement paradise: Blechman traces the history of the trend, and travels to Arizona to show what has happened to the pioneering utopias after decades of segregation.

Live Your Road Trip Dream

Don't just dream it — do it! Boomers, Gen-Xers, Seniors and more — everyone has a dream of that long, "go-anywhere-you-want" trip in the back of their mind. If so many dream it, why do so few do it?

In their award-winning, how-to book, Live Your Road Trip Dream, Authors Phil and Carol White believe it is not only fear of the unknown, but more importantly, inertia. "It takes a fair amount of thinking and planning to take off for an extended period" says Carol, "but the rewards of working through your issues and actually 'getting out of town' to see our country will be with you forever. Don't wait for 'the right time' — it will never come — start planning now."

Mapping Your Retirement

Retirement planning is more than just managing your finances. Good health plays a critical role in living a successful retirement. The importance of making good choices about the food you eat, getting enough exercise, having regular checkups, and maintaining mental fitness are often overlooked in retirement planning.

Retire Retirement

Good news: there may be no need to retire. There may not be the need to pack up your desk or attend one more retirement party. Why? With the widening gap between the number of workers and demand for talent, employers may be looking to keep smart, productive workers in the workplace. The growing talent shortage may allow you to re-negotiate your relationship with "work."

Too Young To Retire

Too young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of Your Life is a book that addresses practical issues such as money, work, community services and wellness, and provides extensive resources for getting started and formulating ideas. Each chapter also includes a "try this" section: simple and doable ideas for making small life changes toward bigger goals. Our most popular chapter, "101 Opportunities for Open Minded"; is intended to trigger the entrepreneurial imagination.

What Color Is Your Parachute? For Retirement

In this essential retirement planning guide, Richard N. Bolles and retirement expert John E. Nelson present a balanced approach to retirement well-being and, in true "Parachute" form, deliver a guide that brightly encompasses all that makes life worth living.

What's Next in Your Life?

What's Next in Your Life? is a guide to the non-financial aspects of retirement, written by Joan Strewler-Carter and Stephen Carter, co-founders of the Life Options Institute, an organization dedicated to helping people plan for life after age 50.

Published by Rockhill Books, What's Next in Your Life? is written to appeal to the nation's 76 million baby boomers who, while they may have already planned for their financial retirement, need the tools to plan for a more fulfilling and rewarding life after 50.