Get-Away Music
Dan Croll - Compliment Your Soul - Alternative
Clare Maguire - Light After Dark – Dance
Noir Desir – Oublie – French
Laura Mvula – Can’t Live With the World – R&B/Soul
Reads
Harvard Square: A Novel - Author André Aciman
Many Not The Few - Author Richard North,
The Grammarian - Author Annapurna Potluri
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm - Author Monte Reel
Music for your Enjoyment
Rachael Yamagata - Duet – Pop
Thomas Dybdahl – Songs - Rock
Club Squisito – Latin Trip – Dance
Echocell – Vessel – Electronic
Book Reading Ideas
I Am Forbidden: A Novel - Author Anouk Markovits
The Connected Company - Author Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Outdoor Lives) - Author Suzanne Roberts
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea: A Novel - Author Dina Nayeri
Music for your Playlist
Other Lives – Desert
The Lone Bellow – Tree to Grow
Lira - Dance of Life
Merchandise - Satellite
Reading Recommendations
Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can’t Really Afford It – Author G. Bruce Knecht
Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice - Author Mary Robinson
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health - Author William Davis
A Thousand Pardons: A Novel - Author Jonathan Dee
Music for your Travels
Matt & Kim - Cameras
Passion Pit – Take a Walk
Walk the Moon – Quesadilla
Ben Howard - These Waters
Download to your Music Playlist
William Orbit – Swan Lake - Electronic – Travel
Ivy – Lost in the Sun – Alternative – Travel
Submarine – Welcome to this World - Electronic - Travel
Marsmobil - Dark Star – Pop - Travel
Books for you to Read
No Daughter of Mine is Going to Be a Dancer! – Author Sharry Underwood, Deborah Jowett
Half-Blood Blues: A Novel – Author Esi Edugyan
Honey, Do You Need a Ride? Confessions of a Fat Runner - Author Jennifer Graham
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers - Author Anne Lamott
Music for your Relaxation
Nouvelle Vague - In a Manner of Speaking
Land of Talk – Quarry Hymns
If By Yes - Lighting In Your Eyes
Teddy Thompson – Shine so Bright
Books to Read for the Fitness Minded
Yoga – A Journey Within - Author Derek Biermann
The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing . . . and Love –
Author Jaimal Yogis
Running Ransom Road: Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time – Author Caleb Daniloff
The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes - Author Biju K. Thomas and Allen Lim PhD
Travel Music
Mathien Boogerts – Ondule – French pop
Hector Zazou – By the Sea – Electronic
Cocteau Twins – Road, River and Rail - Indie Rock
Vetiver - Down at El Rio – Folk
Reads for your Get-Away
Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling with the Stars - Author Steven Rea
The Things That Matter - Author Nate Berkus
Sweet Tooth: A Novel – Author Ian McEwan
Running the Rift: A Novel – Author Naomi Benaron
Music to Download
Emil & Friends – Royal Oats – Electronic
Cranes - Paris and Rome – Indie
Waldemar Bastos – Dongo – World
Marco Benevento – Escape Horse – Jazz
Book Gift Ideas
Bike Tribes: A Field Guide to North American Cyclists – Author Mike Magnuson
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet - Author Stephen Manes
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity - Author Andrew Solomon
Beautiful Ruins: A Novel - Author Jess Walter
Music to Relax to
Chateau Flight – Poesie Champetre – Dance
Meshell Ndegeocello - Oysters - R&B Soul
Islands – The Drums – Indie
Towa Tei - Siesta – Electronic
Reading Choices for You
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Author Daniel H. Pink
Personal History - Author Katharine Graham
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life – Author Gretchen Rubin
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid: A Novel – Author Shani Boianjiu
Music While Dining
Cranes - Long Walks on the Beach - Indie
Darondo – Listen to My Song - R&B/Soul
Nina Miranda – Troubleman - Singer/Songwriter
Kruder & Dorfmeister – Gotta Jazz - Jazz
Book Recommendations
The Orchardist: A Novel – Author Amanda Coplin
She’s Come Undone – Author Wally Lamb
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work – Author Jeanne Marie Laskas
The Art of Fielding: A Novel – Author Chad Harbach
Music to Listen to While Traveling
St. Lucia - Before the Dive - Electronica
French Horn Rebellion - New Florida – Rock
Young Magic - Vivid & Vivid – Tribal Electronic
One Eskimo - Amazing – Pop
Favored Books for you to Read
Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes: A Novel - Author Betsy Woodman
True Believers: A Novel - Author Kurt Andersen
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) - Author Luisa Weiss
A Hundred Flowers: A Novel – Author Gail Tsukiyama
Exercise Music
The Shoes – Let’s Go - Electronic
Crazy P - Your Dark Energy - Dance
Gui Boratto – Colors - Electronic
Atropolis – Mbria Funk – Latino
Books for you to Read
Yes, Chef: A Memoir – Author Marcus Samuelsson
More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself - Author Nick Hornby
Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge - Author John Gimlette
The Eskimo and The Oil Man: The Battle at the Top of the World for America’s Future - Author Bob Reiss
Relax to this Music
Morcheeba – Moog Island – Electronic
Paul Weller – Wild Wood - Rock
Nada Surf – Weightless - Alternative
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Glacier - Pop
Reads
The Age of Miracles, Debut Novel - Author Karen Thompson Walker
A Bolt from the Blue: The Epic True Story of Danger, Daring, and Heroism at 13,000 Feet – Author Jennifer Woodlief
In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel - Author Vaddey Ratner
Swim: Why We Love the Water - Author Lynn Sherr
Music for your Travels
Smith Westerns – Dance Away – Rock
Brett Dennen – Desert Sunshine – Singer/Songwriter
Cultura Profecica - Baja la Tension – Reggae – Travel
M. Ward – Shangri-La – Alternative
Several Books for you to Read
Calling Invisible Women: A Novel - Author Jeanne Ray
Gold: A Novel - Author Chris Cleave
Gone to the Forest: A Novel - Author Katie Kitamura
The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food - Author John S. Allen
Dinner Music
Paolo Fresu – Evening Song – Jazz
Cranes - Long Walks on the Beach – Alternative
Darondo - Listen to My Song - R&B/Soul
Taima - Viva Forever – World
Books
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Author Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety - Author Daniel Smith
All That I Am: A Novel - Author Anna Funder
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Author Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon
Travel Music
Monsters of Folk - Map of the World – Alternative
Lali Puna - Geography 5 - Electronic
Issa Bagayogo - Nogo - World
Bambino – Intidgagen - Hip-Hop
