It's a laugh-out-loud collection of wisecracks, automotive first aid, and roadside philosophy. Tom and Ray have gathered the most outrageous and humorous segments from their weekly call-in radio show, including "Eggs Prestone," "Bad Hair Days," "Clinton Sends Vowels to Bosnia," "Gail, the Tollgate Fugitive," and the Tappet Brothers personal favorite, the tale of Max and his little Schnauzer.

From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of Sex as a Second Language and The Dominant Blonde, comes a witty, romantic, and compassionate new novel about an urban working mom who leaves the city only to find her talents are no match for country life. An accomplished journalist, Zoë Goren can't drive and she doesn't cook. But that's never been a problem in Manhattan, where the streets are filled with taxis and takeout restaurants, and a busy single mother can find everything she needs right at her fingertips. In fact, Zoë can't imagine living or working anyplace else. But when Zoë's daughter is diagnosed with dyslexia, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice, moving two hours from Manhattan in order to enroll Maya in an excellent school for children with learning differences. Stranded in a rural paradise, Zoë must grapple with isolation, coyote howls, and the lack of good delivery services. But when she decides to overcome her fear of driving and take lessons, she meets Mack, an unnervingly attractive townie, back from the war in Iraq and trying to adjust to civilian life. With a budding new romance and a reporting gig for the local paper, Zoë just might survive in the wilderness of small-town America after all. One of today's best breakout authors, who has been called "witty, charming, funny, and real" by Carly Phillips, Alisa Kwitney creates authentic characters that women love to read about -- and talk about. Zoë Goren will have them rooting for her all the way.

Julius, Please Get Back In The Car!A month after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 Benny checked in as the first of two sons born to Julius and Eleanor Wade. Eleanor was beautiful and bright while Julius was talented, handsome, and full of life. Their second son, Toodly, was born in 1943. A picture taken of Julius at age 21 showed a young man in control of his world who might have stepped from the pages of The Great Gatsby. While World War II was raging in Europe and the Pacific the Wade family experienced a serene existence on the family farm in rural South Georgia. The turmoil of war seemed far away except when word was received from family or friends in military service or when the family gathered with neighbors at Mr. Hollum Smith's house to search the azure skies for German planes. Fleeting fear surfaced on occasion at night while visiting his Grandmother in Cordele when Benny experienced all the lights in the city going dark ostensibly as a means to forestall a possible attack by German war planes.For his first six years Benny enjoyed an idyllic time of agrarian exploration and wonder as he roamed freely in the fields and woods of his Daddy's farm. His parents doted on their two sons and each day brought forth an exciting adventure for two preschoolers. Following the close of World War II and with the resumption of commercial automobile production Julius resumed his previous occupation of automobile salesman where bolstered by the post war prosperity of the economy he became super successful. In addition he was exceedingly kind to his wife and children and life was good.The years between 1946-51 are nostalgically recalled as the days of wine and roses but they were not to last. The rose petals faded seemingly overnight. The romance of moderate wine tasting was transformed into a nightly ritual of a steadily escalating consumption of any type alcoholic beverage available. Julius, the successful businessman and loving family provider descended abysmally into alcoholic addiction until by 1953 concern for the next drink took precedence over his regard for work, his family, or any other previously positive aspects of his life.For the 21 years of his life which followed Julius invariably put one step forward and took three steps backward. Alcohol controlled his life and ultimately cost him his life. He got out of "The Car of Life" and never got back in for good either literally or figuratively. But although Julius is a central character in the book the real story reveals the hopes, struggles, heartbreaks and successes of his wife, Eleanor and their two sons.The purpose of the book is to reveal and make public goods times brought about through Julius's influence as well as the telling of circumstances and events once too painful and shameful to share. It is hoped Julius, Please Get Back in The Car! will cause readers to think, wonder, remember, reflect, smile, laugh, shake your heads, and perhaps cry. Humor is at times employed as a palliative preference to the alternative of being engulfed by the results and reality of alcohol addiction. How much of the book came from the writer's memory and how much came from his imagination? I leave that to each reader to determine. When the final line is read it is hoped readers whose parents, children, spouses, and other relatives, have been diminished or destroyed by addiction will embrace this conclusion. Genetics need not be the determining factor in whether one becomes an addict. Toodly, Benny, and a half dozen of their cousins can testify to that reality.

In Munich 1942-43, handbills appeared-some in mailboxes-some left secretly on parked cars-others still, surfaced in city phone booths. The words condemned Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime and called Germans to passive resistance. The message, penned and distributed by a handful of student-soldiers and other youthful associates who had come of age during the twelve-year catastrophe of the Third Reich, hoped to stir the conscience of a nation. The regime had tempted them with promises of power and prosperity. In time, the youths made their way through a labyrinth of propaganda, confusion, and personal conflict, arriving at the threshold of their own inner convictions-a passage bringing them to a destination called the White Rose. Among the recipients of the Leaflets of the White Rose were teachers the group hoped would spread the call to resistance. A university professor accepted their challenge. Sixty years later, an American teacher felt compelled to learn and follow the story, not knowing when she began, that it would lead her to the spirit of the White Rose that lives yet today. Along with three fellow educators, Ruth traveled to Germany to dialogue with schools now named for members of the White Rose. On a quiet country lane or a busy city street, teachers toil daily, urging students to think critically, stay informed, and develop skills that will nurture and renew the freedoms the White Rose could only imagine. Journey to the White Rose in Germany is an invitation to encounter a past that inspires the present and the future. Ruth Bernadette Melon recently celebrated more than three decades as a New Jersey middle school educator. During her tenure, she taught Humanities, World Cultures, and writing. Now enjoying the "writing life," she considers herself a life-long learner. Having received a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland, she is currently a candidate for a D.Litt degree with a concentration in writing. Ruth was named a 2003 Morris County Teacher Fellow by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Ruth lives with her husband Ira in New Jersey and enjoys the frequent company of her children and the larger family circle.

Explore Southern Germany's rich automotive history and discover the culture and personalities that define it today. Exclusive interviews with Hans-Joachim Stuck, Derek Bell, Susie Stoddart, Sabine Schmitz, and Wolfgang Kaufmann. Coverage includes over 2 dozen automobile museums, specialty car tuners, the legendary Nürburgring and Hockenheimring race tracks, and the car manufacturers that made Munich, Stuttgart, and Ingolstadt famous. This is the ultimate travel guide for anyone who loves the car.

Explore Southern Germany's rich automotive history and discover the culture and personalities that define it today. Coverage includes over 20 automobile museums, specialty car tuners, the legendary Nurburgring and Hockenheimring race tracks, and the car manufacturers that made Munich, Stuttgart, and Ingolstadt famous. This is the ultimate travel guide for anyone who loves the car.

Germans born in the second decade of the last century will have been a subject of no less than six political regimes, seven if they lived in the former German Democratic Republic. Today, Germany's democratic polity, pluralistic society, institutional structures, and market economy are growing increasingly strong. In clear and compelling prose, Hancock and Krisch argue that German politics today is the politics of a normal European democracy moving toward the EU. The authors discuss Germany's course of modernization, which involves rapid industrialization and social development following the nation s first unification in 1871 and its subsequent torturous course of political change embracing Imperial authoritarianism, the democratic experiment of the Weimar Republic, Nazi totalitarianism, and postwar variants of communism and Western-style democracy. Chapters detail the country s political history, as well as its culture, new constitutional debates, parties, and economic policy, and culminate in a look at Germany in global context.

Explore Southern Germany's rich automotive history and discover the culture and personalities that define it today. Exclusive interviews with Hans-Joachim Stuck, Derek Bell, Susie Stoddart, Sabine Schmitz, and Wolfgang Kaufmann. Coverage includes over 2 dozen automobile museums, specialty car tuners, the legendary Nürburgring and Hockenheimring race tracks, and the car manufacturers that made Munich, Stuttgart, and Ingolstadt famous. This is the ultimate travel guide for anyone who loves the car.

Now in its sixth edition, Daytrips Germany has long been a favorite guidebook for adventurous travelers who prefer to make theor own tours. This latest revision covers the tremendous changes taking place, especially in Berlin and the East. Each of the 60 one-day adventures is complete with a do-it-yourself walking tour, a map, full travel directions, time and weather considerations, restaurant suggestions, background information, and concise descriptions of all worthwhile sights.

In these chilling true stories, Gorman Woodfin celebrates God's powerful intervention in terrifying circumstances and the heroic reactions of those who suffered the traumas. Beth faced a parent's worst nightmare when her son was murdered; John and Glenys were caught in the crossfire when a neighbor's husband shot her; Reesee was a vibrant preacher's daughter until she was raped at gunpoint -- yet each of these individuals not only survived but moved into amazing ministry as a result of God's healing power. A dramatic and inspiring read for everyone who knows that truth is stranger -- and more exciting -- than fiction!

Hands-On Race Car Engineer looks at every part of the process required to make a car better than its competitors. Drivers will gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the vehicle. Race engineers will better understand the practical implications of set-up. Design engineers will gain insight into practical applications of their designs. Mechanics will better understand why engineers design things a certain way. In short, this book will help racing professionals and enthusiasts learn to recognize why they won, or lost a race - key information to continually improving and reaching the winner's circle.

The Only Girl in the Car Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer's spirit, and a child's terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy's Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her "cheesecake," and suddenly saw her path. "Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten"--the very words seemed to be "doors opening" to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a "full-grown man," fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car with four boys on the outskirts of her small suburban town, she finds it. Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the "boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future," she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did. And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. The story of how she came to be in that car, and how she stepped out of it forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, is the theme of this extraordinary coming-of-age tale. "From the Hardcover edition.

DISCOVER THESE 63 GREAT PLACES ON YOUR OWN: Ammersee, Aschaffenburg, Augsburg, Baden-Baden, Bad Homburg, Bad Reichenhall, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Berchtesgaden, Berlin — 6 Walking Tours, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Celle, Chiemsee, Cologne, Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Füssen & Neuschwanstein, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Goslar, Hamburg — 2 Walking Tours, Heidelburg, Koblenz, Leipzig, Limburg, Lindau, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Mainz, Marburg, Michelstadt, Miltenberg, Mittenwald, Munich, Nürnberg, Nymphenburg, Oberammergau & Linderhof, Potsdam, Regensburg, Rhine Valley, Rothenburg, Rüdesheim, Sans Souci, Schleswig, Starnberg, Triberg, Trier, Ulm, Wendelstein, Wiesbaden, Wittenberg, Worms, Würzburg and Zugspitze. Now in its seventh edition, each of the 63 one-day adventures is complete with: a do-it-yourself tour, a detailed map, full travel directions, time & weather considerations, restaurant suggestions, background material & websites and a concise description of the sights. Additionally, the book is thoroughly illustrated with 71 maps and many photos for easy use.

Richard sees treasure everywhere. In that old eight-track quadraphonic stereo, that pink granite bowling ball, or a Niagara Falls napkin holder. While most people scramble for the newest and the best, Richard searches for the odd and obsolete -- and sells it at his second-hand shop on the edge of Detroit.Why does he do it? For Richard, junk is a way of life, a calling, and a passion. Until his comfortable second-hand life gets a first-hand jolt.Richard's mother has died, and left behind a valuable house full of packed-away junk -- including some old photos that will change everything Richard thought about his parents. And then there's the hip, thrift-attired woman who comes into his store with more than junk on her mind.... Suddenly some very unexpected things are entering Richard's life, including some surprising revelations about love and loss -- and what's really important in life.With an unerring blend of the comic and the poignant, Michael Zadoorian has written an unforgettable novel about knick-knacks, garage sales, romance, and the bonds we form with people and things -- the perfect story for anyone who has ever loved something second hand.

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