New Releases by Bob Greene

American exercise physiologist, certified personal trainer, and writer Bob Greene takes a walk down Main Street, USA in this new collection of essays compiled from his popular newspaper column and magazine articles. Celebrating the astonishing people he has met, places he has been, and things he has seen, Bob Greene has put together a collection of his very best work in this pages of He Was a Midwestern Boy on His Own. Whether he is writing about the man who wrote the hit song “Louie Louie,” the bizarre meeting between Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley, or the father and son that share their love through an annual one-on-one basketball game, Bob Greene presents a collection of stories in which readers will see themselves. Filled with great empathy and insight that will surely evoke tears of sadness and laughter, these pieces of vintage Bob Greene will be enjoyed and savored time and time again.

Teaming up with prominent psychologist Anne Kearney-Cooke and eating disorder expert and nutritionist Janis Jibrin, Greene helps readers recognize how their mindsets might be preventing them from achieving their fitness goals and gives them the tools they need to break down these barriers.

It''s time to turn back the clock! In 20 Years Younger, Bob Greene offers readers a practical, science-based plan for looking and feeling their best as they age. The cutting-edge program details easy and effective steps we can all take to rebuild the foundation of youth and enjoy better health, improved energy, and a positive outlook on life. The four cornerstones of the program are: an exercise regimen for fighting muscle and bone loss, a longevity-focused diet, sleep rejuvenation, and wrinkle-fighting skin care. Woven throughout the text is practical advice on changing appearances, controlling stress, staying mentally sharp, navigating medical tests, and much more. Readers will walk away with a greater understanding of how the body ages and what they can do to feel-and look-20 years younger.

It''s time to turn back the clock! In 20 Years Younger, Bob Greene offers readers a practical, science-based plan for looking and feeling their best as they age. The cutting-edge program details easy and effective steps we can all take to rebuild the foundation of youth and enjoy better health, improved energy, and a positive outlook on life. The four cornerstones of the program are: an exercise regimen for fighting muscle and bone loss, a longevity-focused diet, sleep rejuvenation, and wrinkle-fighting skin care. Woven throughout the text is practical advice on changing appearances, controlling stress, staying mentally sharp, navigating medical tests, and much more. Readers will walk away with a greater understanding of how the body ages and what they can do to feel-and look-20 years younger.

In 20 YEARS YOUNGER, bestselling author Bob Greene helps you unlock the secrets to feeling and looking your best at any age. The 20 YEARS YOUNGER DAILY JOURNAL gives you the tools you need to make the program part of your everyday life. In this essential companion, you''ll find advice on goal-setting; space to record health data, such as weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol; and inspiring quotations to keep you motivated. Each day, you''ll assess how well you''ve met your goals within the four pillars: exercise, nutrition, skincare, and sleep. Weekly summaries and a place to record thoughts help you create as-you-go-sketches of your progress. With this beautiful, easy-to-use spiral-bound journal, you ill be able to see how far you''ve come and where you can improve to achieve lasting success.

"In a warm, affectionate true-life tale, New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene (When We Get to Surf City, Duty, Once Upon a Town) travels back to a place where--when little more than a boy--he had the grand good luck to find himself surrounded by a brotherhood and sisterhood of wayward misfits who, on the mezzanine of a Midwestern building, put out a daily newspaper that didn''t even know it had already started to die. "In some American cities," Greene writes, "famous journalists at mighty and world-renowned papers changed the course of history with their reporting." But at the Columbus Citizen-Journal, there was a willful rejection of grandeur--these were overworked reporters and snazzy sportswriters, nerve-frazzled editors and insult-spewing photographers, who found pure joy in the fact that, each morning, they awakened to realize: "I get to go down to the paper again today""--Jacket.

Bob Greene has helped millions of Americans become fit and healthy with his life-changing Best Life plan. Now, for the first time, Oprah''s trusted expert on diet and fitness teams up with a leading endocrinologist and an expert dietitian to offer a Best Life program tailored to the needs of people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Coping with the unique challenges of living with these conditions can feel like a full-time job. That''s why The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes takes a gradual, three-phase approach to improving diet and increasing physical activity and provides strategies for staying motivated. While offering clear guidance, the program is flexible enough that you can tailor it to your needs and abilities. The result: A way of living that improves blood sugar and helps you stave off heart disease, neuropathy, and other diabetes- and pre-diabetes-related conditions while reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. This comprehensive yet readable volume offers the information you need to protect your health whether you are controlling your disease simply with diet and exercise, are taking drugs orally, or need injected insulin. Detailed but flexible meal plans take the guesswork out of eating without making you a slave to the food scale or measuring cups. With complete nutritional analyses, the recipes for budget- and family-friendly dishes such as Vanilla Peanut Butter Smoothie, Cheesy Cornbread, and Slow-Cooked Pork ensure that you never have to sacrifice tasty food. Extensive reference sections, including a complete guide to diabetes drugs and a chart of the carbohydrate value of foods, give you quick answers you can trust, while a log for tracking your blood sugar readings, exercise, and medication helps you stay organized without hassle or added expense. With The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes, you won''t have to let your life be defined by your diagnosis.

A highly personal and moving true story of friend-ship and remembrance from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, population 13,000, Bob Greene and his four best friends -- Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack -- were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob''s very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they met on the first day of kindergarten. They grew up together, got into trouble together, learned about life together -- and were ultimately separated by time and distance, as all adults are. But through the years Bob and Jack stayed close, holding on to the friendship that had formed years before. Then the fateful call came: Jack was dying. And in this hour of need, as the closest of friends will do, Bob, Allen, Chuck, and Dan put aside the demands of their own lives, came together, and saw Jack through to the end of his journey. Tremendously moving, funny, heart-stirring, and honest, And You Know You Should Be Glad is an uplifting exploration of the power of friendship to uphold us, sustain us, and ultimately set us free.

When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before—thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world. Greene''s father—a soldier with an infantry division in World War II—often spoke of seeing the man around town. All but anonymous even in his own city, carefully maintaining his privacy, this man, Greene''s father would point out to him, had "won the war." He was Paul Tibbets. At the age of twenty-nine, at the request of his country, Tibbets assembled a secret team of 1,800 American soldiers to carry out the single most violent act in the history of mankind. In 1945 Tibbets piloted a plane—which he called Enola Gay, after his mother—to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb. On the morning after the last meal he ever ate with his father, Greene went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unlikely friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his father''s generation of soldiers, that he never fully understood before. Duty is the story of three lives connected by history, proximity, and blood; indeed, it is many stories, intimate and achingly personal as well as deeply historic. In one soldier''s memory of a mission that transformed the world—and in a son''s last attempt to grasp his father''s ingrained sense of honor and duty—lies a powerful tribute to the ordinary heroes of an extraordinary time in American life. What Greene came away with is found history and found poetry—a profoundly moving work that offers a vividly new perspective on responsibility, empathy, and love. It is an exploration of and response to the concept of duty as it once was and always should be: quiet and from the heart. On every page you can hear the whisper of a generation and its children bidding each other farewell.

In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today—a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons. During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town, wanting to offer the servicemen warmth and support, transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen. Every day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen—staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers—was open from five a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only 12,000 people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended. In this poignant and heartwarming eyewitness history, based on interviews with North Platte residents and the soldiers who once passed through, Bob Greene tells a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.

In The Best Life Diet, bestselling author Bob Greene gave you the keys to losing weight and keeping it off. In The Best Life Diet Daily Journal, the essential companion volume, Greene gives you the tools you need to stay motivated. No matter what phase of the program you are in, this beautifully designed book will reinforce your long-term personal plan for health and emotional well-being. Each day has space that helps you assess how well you''ve met your daily goals as well as a place to record your feelings and eating patterns. A weekly summary gives you an easy-to-evaluate snapshot of your progress, allowing you to begin the next week of your program with a clear picture of what you did well, where you fell short, and how you can improve.

From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene''s Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You''ll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you''ll have Bob to encourage you at every step. Unlike a celebrity, however, you don''t need to hire a staff of experts to aid and advise you, because Bob''s plan, easily tailored to an array of tastes, lifestyles, and activity levels, acts as your personal trainer and private nutritionist. Just open the book and let Bob help you get started down the path toward your best possible life. What sets Bob apart from all the other experts who claim to have plans that work is that he admits that weight loss is difficult: seventeen years of watching people struggle to lose weight on a seemingly endless string of trendy crash diets, only to backslide and regain the pounds they''ve shed, have taught him that dropping pounds is not simply a numbers game. By acknowledging that it is not simple laziness but a complicated web of social rituals, cultural expectations, and habits that drives people to gain weight, Greene is able to attack the problem of weight loss realistically and offer not a short-lived, quick-fix formula, but a long-term program that accounts for the challenges and constraints of the real world. Divided into three phases, The Best Life Diet gives you the tools you need to change your life. In each phase, you''ll be asked to reexamine the decisions you make on a daily basis and gradually alter your habits to achieve lasting results. The book also includes easy-to-follow meal plans that make it simple to meet your daily energy and nutrient requirements, whether you are on the run and breakfast means a quick smoothie or you have time to shop for fresh produce and make something special. You''ll watch the weight disappear as you learn to prepare festive and flavorful dishes like Fire-Roasted Tomato-Shrimp Veracruz, Chicken Sausage Jambalaya, or Flank Steak with Chimichurri Topping and indulge in desserts like Roasted Peaches with Ricotta and Almonds or Apple Rhubarb Walnut Crisp. And for each delicious recipe, there is a detailed nutritional analysis, so you know exactly what you are eating and how it fits into your personal eating plan. Most important, Bob''s plan doesn''t end once you''ve lost the weight. Instead, it gives you the tools you need to make living your best life second nature, because for Greene, a diet is not something you go "on" or "off" but a set of guidelines that will help you claim the life you deserve.

In a dazzling and exhilarating display of narrative on-the-road reporting, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene takes readers on an unforgettable American journey of music, memories, and universal longing. Running away to join the circus is a dream we''re told to put away once we''re no longer young. But, as Bob Greene writes, "just when in our lives we give up on capturing the freedom and bright mornings of our world when it was new, sometimes something happens to keep the sun high in the sky a while longer. Sometimes we find something we weren''t even aware we were looking for." For fifteen years beginning in the 1990s, Greene stepped into a universe that, out in the country every summer night, is hiding in plain sight: the touring world of the great early rock bands who gave America the car-radio and jukebox music it still loves best. Singing backup with the legendary Jan and Dean as they endlessly crisscross the nation, Greene takes us to football stadiums and minor-league ballparks, to no-name ice cream stands and midnight diners, to back roads and carnival midways as he tells a riveting story of great fame and lingering sorrow, of unexpected friendship and lasting dreams, of the things that keep us going in the face of all the things that threaten to stop us. Striking chords of recognition and yearning, When We Get to Surf City glistens with cameos by the men and women with whom Greene traveled the United States on his deliriously unlikely journey, including Chuck Berry, Martha and the Vandellas, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beach Boys, the Monkees, the Kingsmen, James Brown, Lesley Gore, the Drifters, Little Eva, and the Coasters. All of them—not just the people on the stage, but the people in the audiences, too—are seeking their private versions of the mythical destination Jan and Dean came up with all those years ago: Surf City as the perfect, cloudless place we all believe is out there, if only we can find it. Hilarious and heartbreaking, moving and brilliant, this is the trip of a lifetime, a travelogue of the heart, accompanied by a thundering guitar chorus of Fender Stratocasters. It is a story destined to touch readers not just today, but for generations to come, as long as the music itself echoes.

Explains how to lose weight permanently in a resource that complements dietary guidelines with dozens of nutritionally balanced recipes.

“What if you set off on a vacation trip in search of history—and your destination was the men who had been president?” Asking himself that tantalizing question, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene embarked on a long journey across the breadth of the nation, hoping to spend time with Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Ronald Reagan. The result of his odyssey is Fraternity. Rich with the sounds of the presidents’ own voices, Fraternity is dramatic, surprising, funny, revealing, inspiring, tragic, touching and unforgettable: a story destined to be read and enjoyed not just now, but far into the future as Americans think about who we are as a people. Here is Nixon, in an unmarked office high above Manhattan, explaining the reason for his solitary walks through New York streets at 5:30 every morning. Here is Carter, riding in a Secret Service van, recalling the sting of his family’s being mocked for their rural Southern heritage, even after he had won the White House. Here is Ford, beside a golf course fairway, laughing at his startled discovery that of all his presidential papers, the one worth the most on the open market was a letter from a woman who tried to kill him. Here is Bush, on the road with his son, remembering his despair and anger at encountering a swastika carved into the sand behind an elegant resort on American soil. And here is Nancy Reagan, in a Beverly Hills hotel, on the haunting first night she must stand in for her husband after the announcement of his illness. A travelogue of the national spirit that chronicles a quest stretching over fifteen years and starring the biggest names in the modern American saga, this is living history of the most human kind, and Bob Greene at his very best.

The bestselling author of "Make the Connection" delivers the keys to losing weight and staying fit for a lifetime. "Get with the Program!" can inspire readers to reach and maintain their weight and fitness goals.

It''s not where you eat, it''s what you eat! From Bob Greene, the bestselling author of Get With the Program!, comes a handy portable guide to dining out. With healthy choices from more than 75 fast food and family restaurants, including Applebee''s, The Olive Garden, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald''s, Burger King, Domino''s Pizza, Subway, Dairy Queen, and Taco Bell, now you can feel confident about staying on the Program when dining out with friends or family. There are no confusing nutritional charts or graphs -- just simple, honest advice for those of us who enjoy dining out. Each restaurant listing offers Bob''s Top Picks for healthy and delicious options, as well as a list of menu items that are not on the Program. With tips on portion control, beverage choices, and balancing fat, carbohydrates, and protein, this is an indispensable book for anyone who dines out once a year or once a week. Whether you''re on the Program or just getting started, you will turn to The Get With the Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family Restaurants to make smart choices when dining out.

Bob Greene’s bestselling Get with the Program! showed hundreds of thousands of people how to make a habit of healthy living and fitness. Now, in The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating, Greene presents a blueprint for a lifetime of healthful eating, with detailed, easy-to-follow guidelines and 85 delicious recipes. Greene knows that you''re not going to stick to an eating plan if you''re bored or feeling deprived, so he''s developed a program based on balance, moderation, flexibility, and variety. After you make the commitment to Get with the Program!, you''ll discover the keys to boosting your metabolism. Next, you''ll take the four steps to healthy eating, making one change at a time: eating a nutritious breakfast, setting an eating cut-off time, redistributing your calories, and making healthful food choices. Greene shows you how to determine the perfect way to eat for your unique needs, how to stock a healthy kitchen, how to dine out enjoyably, and how to “cheat” without guilt. Finally, there are eighty-five easy-to-prepare recipes that are as full of flavor as they are good for you. Try a Peaches and “Cream” Fresh Fruit Smoothie or some Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes for breakfast. Salmon Burgers or Tomatoes Stuffed with Couscous, Cucumber, and Mint make a satisfying lunch, and how about Spinach Penne with Spicy Roasted Pepper Sauce or Baked Lemon Herb Halibut for dinner? Hungry for more? Satisfying soups, tasty side dishes (including luscious Mashed Potatoes), and tempting desserts, like airy Pavlova with Raspberry Sauce or Chocolate Almond Angel Food Cake, make healthful eating a pleasure. The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating is an effective and enjoyable approach to good health, good eating, and weight loss that you can trust.

Bob Greene''s blockbuster Get With the Program! helped thousands of people do just that -- adopt a style of living based on fundamental fitness techniques that are sure to become a habit. The fourth part of the program gave readers the bare basics of good eating, and it is that essential topic that he expands upon in this equally empowering book. Greene''s blueprint for a lifetime of healthy eating is based on the idea that balance, moderation, and variety are all vital. Nobody is going to stick to a program if they feel bored or deprived. With that in mind, he shows us how to determine the perfect diet for our unique needs, how to stock a healthy kitchen, the secrets to "cheating" without guilt, and the key to dining out enjoyably. Best of all, he offers more than fifty recipes that are as scrumptious and easy to prepare as they are good for us -- from Grilled Tuna with Roasted Red Pepper Vinaigrette to a Peaches and "Cream" Fresh Fruit Smoothie. Carefully constructed by an expert with a proven track record, this is a lasting plan for health that''s easy, pleasurable, and effective.

A daily companion journal to the "New York Times" bestseller "Get With the Program!, " this book is conveniently spiral-bound, so it''s easy to fill in the written exercises and view instructions and photos of the physical exercises. It''s highly recommended for people who have had trouble losing weight and are serious about getting in shape--physically and emotionally. Illustrations.

No writer in America has a better feel for the country''s rythms, richness, and rewards than bestselling author and syndicated columnist Bob Greene. With the color and depth of a novel, this treasury of best-loved columns captures America''s small triumphs and all-too-human tragedies as Greene travels across the country to tell the stories that don''t make the headlines. A small-town cop saves a child''s life by double-checking, on a hunch, a closed case of suspected abuse. Frank Sinatra, on his last concert tour, shares off-the-cuff wisdom about fame, craft, and shifting fortunes. An impoverished father gives his son the best trip he can -- on the free trains out to the Atlanta airport''s boarding gates. Funny, gripping, heartrending, and exhilarating, these unforgettable stories are guaranteed to lift the spirit and stir the soul.

Michael Jordan - wie ihn keiner kennt. Der Journalist Bob Greene hat den wohl berühmtesten Sportler unserer Zeit mehr als zwei Jahre lang auf der Suche nach sich selbst begleitet und darüber ein Buch geschrieben, das zum ersten Mal den Menschen hinter dem Sportstar zeigt. Einen Menschen, der auf Schritt und Tritt von der Medien-Meute verfolgt wird und doch nur eines will: ein Stück Normalität. Dieses Buch ist ein Muss für alle Basketball- und Michael Jordan-Fans, die endlich auch mal die anderen Seiten ihres Idols kennenlernen wollen: das ungewöhnliche Leben einer aussergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeit.

Greene makes getting with the program easier than ever with this new guide to great food for good health. Includes more than 50 recipes that are as scrumptious and easy to prepare as they are delicious.

The trainer who helped Oprah and millions of others, make the mind-body connection now shows readers how to keep their bodies looking and feeling better than ever! In Make the Connection, millions of readers joined Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene in their groundbreaking and highly successful campaign of weight loss and exercise. Now Greene helps readers take the important next step, keeping the weight off and developing and maintaining great muscle tone. In this series of step-by-step instructions for firming up those hard-to-change body parts such as thighs, hips, abdominals, and upper arms, Greene offers the same no-nonsense and highly manageable strategies that made Make the Connection a godsend for so many struggling dieters. Each exercise in the book is illustrated with photographs of Greene and his clients, allowing readers to work out safely and effectively. In addition to his exercise tips, Greene provides motivational techniques on looking and feeling great, as well as delicious, low-fat recipes that are easy to prepare. By showing readers that it is possible to achieve their goals without fads or quick fixes, he offers the tools to reach a whole new level of health and well-being.

The 50 Year Dash is a wonderful book of reflections on everything that''s part of life at fifty: looking at aches and pains as a growth industry, and seeing the constant onslaught of new pain relievers as a new version of the British invasion of rock groups in the 1960s; finding that the world is no longer sufficiently quiet, and that you''re the one yelling "Turn that down!"; realizing you''re older than James Bond ever was; hearing yourself say, "The fruit plate looks good," and meaning it; understanding that the one thing that seems to be going away from you the fastest is that first-time feeling--first job, first house, first kiss--and knowing that the best thing you can do for yourself is to find ways to keep finding those feelings again and again. Between now and the year 2014, seventy-seven million American men and women--most of the baby boom generation--will turn fifty. That''s about ten thousand birthdays per day. The 50 Year Dash is the perfect book for every single one of them.

Published in 1993, "To Our Children''s Children" made writing a personal or family history as easy as writing a letter. At the end of the book, Greene and his sister, D.G. Fulford, posed a question to readers: "If you had to write a note and leave it on your kitchen table for future generations to read, what would it say?" "Notes on the Kitchen Table" is a heartwarming collection of answers to that question--homespun advice that''s filled with love sent in by people who truly care.