The Ideal Vacation: Music for Life

Versatile tracks to spice up your holiday or travel footage. From fun, cultural-specific pieces to easy-going originals, these selections can enhance that once-in-a-lifetime vacation or memorable adventure. Tracks include: Mediterranean Cafe The festive and lively music traditions of southern Europe personify this virtuostic quartet, complete with a contrasting slower melodramatic section. Equally at home in a French cafe, Italian restaurant, or a Greek bistro. Hawaiian Holiday Sandy beaches...

This is a lasting voice for breast cancer awareness. This poignant book will appeal to anyone who has had to face challenges brought on by tragedy or illness. Soraya, a Grammy winning singer songwriter, sang soulful pop melodies in both English and Spanish. She had two No.1 songs on Billboard's Latin Pop Airplay charts and recorded five albums during her career. Then, in June 2000, she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. After a year of grueling treatments, she mounted an impressive comeback...

Moving and insightful, these nine related stories present characters caught at the crossroads of painful crisis and defining experience. While life is often harsh in these tales, it is the bold determination with which Rowell's characters persevere that compels and entertains.