How to Change Your Life: What We Know

Path to Ambivalence People who are stuck in life, are often ambivalent. They want two things, but can’t have both. They are in conflict. But this broken path, or cross-roads paralysis can so easily lead to real failure in life – failure to become happy and fulfilled, to achieve life purpose, to do the things […]

Beach Books: ‘Return to Treasure Island,’ by John O’Melveny Woods

John O’Melveny Woods rediscovered “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson one summer when he was staying with friends who had a bookcase full of classics. While Woods had loved the book as a child — especially the pirate characters — he was surprised to find that the story had elements that delighted him as an […]

Author Event: John O’melveny Woods Reads From "Return To Treasure Island”

The Book Works, Monday August 23rd, 7:00 Pm. Know about the Return to Treasure Island event in detail. The Book Works, Monday August 23rd, 7:00 Pm. "A first-class sequel to the original. Woods has skillfully brought us back into the life of Jim Hawkins in the most successful way imaginable.” — LeVar Burton, PBS’ Reading […]