In the irreverent spirit of A.J. Jacobs and Michael Moore, Keep the Change by Steve Dublanica is a pavement-pounding exploration of tipping, a huge but neglected part of the American economy—the hilarious and eye-opening follow-up to his smash-hit New York Times bestseller Waiter Rant. Subtitled “A Clueless Tipper’s Quest to Become the Guru of the Gratuity,” Keep the Change follows the popular blogger known as “the Waiter” from restaurant to casino to strip club and beyond as he explores what to tip and how tipping truly plays out in practice in a series of candid, funny, and sometimes uproariously cringe-inducing adventures.

Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.

Achieving goals in life, love, and work is only half the battle. To make permanent transformation last, you have to make change a way of life. This revolutionary book is the answer. The strategies, if dilligently followed, will result in positive and permanent change in any area of personal development.

Kristina Taylor is a born storyteller and reading her "Keep the Change" stories and poetry is reminiscent of those porch-sitting days when the tales of relatives evoked both giggles and snuffles. Taylor's poetry expresses delicate sentiments about her son, John, and the rich Sioux City antics of her stepfather in A Cowboy Named Jack. Short stories tell of Amanda's frustrating relationship with her Southern Belle mother, to the Saucier boys skinny dipping in Rouse's pond. Taylor's impressive debut collection mixes relaxed storytelling of small-town life with keen insights into the human condition.

THIS NOVEL WAS MUSCLE TESTED AT A REMARKABLE 474 LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS WITH KINESIOLOGY. Keep the Change explains a fictional world where the monetary system has collapsed and the implications are just beginning to materialize. Can we survive? If we do survive, what will our world look like, feel like, etc? Is there something that could take its place? The planet stops dead silent still and waits for direction of how to reshape the new world. The old monetary exchange system refuses to heal, cant be fixed. In Keep the Change, we follow the stories of Able and Ted through the maze of a new perspective where man and machine become partners in the search and restore or find another solution. The quandary that the collapse of the monetary system creates, mirrors events in todays world. As the characters converge on an unexpected discovery, the question that must be answered is; will this be the best solution to resolve the global crisis so that all can move ahead or not! The book is fiction, visionary and metaphysical and relates to anyone who uses money in their everyday life. With all of the controversy concerning countries and governments about debt and policy I'm surprised that society hasn't placed this novel on the best sellers' list. One review explained it would make a great movie or series.

This brilliant story of one man’s struggle to change his life, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, is “full of wry wit and graceful depictions of family relations, first love and the stark beauty of the Montana prairie” (Wall Street Journal). Joe Starling, a man teetering on the edge of spectacular failures—as an artist, rancher, lover, and human being—is also a man of noble ambitions. His struggle to right himself is mesmerizing, hilarious, and profoundly moving. "No American novelist provides greater pleasure—sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page—than this Montana icon." —Chicago Sun-Times

This is Michele Heeney's second book of poems and photos. She has lived in Marin and Monterey counties of California, and also Maui, Hawaii. Michele now lives and writes in New Mexico. Her house is on the Cochiti Reservation, just south of santa Fe, in the little town of Cochiti Lake.