Christopher J. Maloney

Are you married to a "Disney mom?" Do you have no interest in Disney World, but feel like you should take your kids? Does going to Disney sound overwhelming and stressful? Do you just want to do Disney and "Get it over with?"This book is for you Follow the advice in this book and - SURPRISE - you may soon be booking your second Disney World vacation Before my first trip to Disney World, my all-time favorite vacation was in a monastery in Thailand. Now I go to Disney every year and love it. Disney is my new Zen center.

Are you at war with your stomach?Gas pains? Odd gurgling? Melt-your-face bowel movements?Has your stomach been upset since you took antibiotics? Did you know that you're up against a jungle, and that you're outnumbered 10-to-1?In this short, packed, and often humorous book, Dr. Maloney takes you on a tour of your inner world and explains how to make peace with your stomach. Over the last ten years, researchers have begun mapping the human gut or microbiome. What they've found changes everything we've thought we knew about our relationship with bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Rather than living separately, we are intimately dependent on our own ecosystem. Dr. Maloney has condensed hundreds of studies into a readable, cutting-edge look at how to survive and thrive with our microbiomes.

Page lives in a world where a person's name determines her character. So why does she think Ebenezer will be a good match, and follow him blindly to the big city? It will take a fair amount of luck and a good bit of magic for Page to survive the trap set for her.I live next to a cemetery. James G. Blaine, Maine's most famous senator, sleeps at the top of the hill. Just down from him is the Turner family, resting together. The youngest Turner, Page, was born on my birthday in 1889. She would have visited the original Lithgow Library during her lifetime. But she didn't live very long. Page died in 1906, just shy of seventeen. It seemed so sad to me that someone named Page Turner should die before her life really got started. So I wrote a book for her. A little austenesque, a little steam punk, a little weird, Page in my book is defined by her name. All the characters are, like self-aware Dickens characters who can't escape their fates because of a few letters applied like a spell to their destinies. Of course she had to be a librarian, but how could Page become engaged to Ebenezer? A series of unfortunate events leave Page working in a magic book shop where she meets a horrible man. Then she has to save an even more horrible man from himself. Imagine Douglas Adams had tried to write Jane Austen and decided to throw in a little magic as well. A little steampunk, a little Victorian romance, a little magical revenge.