Ciji Ware
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Ciji Ware is a bestselling author, reporter, lecturer, broadcaster, and Emmy-award winning television producer. Perhaps best known as a commentator and personality for seventeen years on ABC Radio & TV in Los Angeles, she also covered a wide range of topics in the areas of health, consumer and lifestyle for PBS and all three major networks.
A sought-after event speaker for mid-to-late life audiences, Ciji has been an active online and print contributor to the AARP. She is also the author of six historical novels and was the first female president of the Harvard Alumni Association/Worldwide.
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About the Book:
Rightsizing Your Life
Simplifying Your Surroundings While Keeping What Matters Most
(Grand Central, 2007)
* A Wall Street Journal Top Five Book on Retirement
Millions of midlife Americans are starting to reevaluate their surroundings as their kids begin to leave the nest and they themselves start to think about retirement. Whether they’re going from the multi-bedroom suburban house to a condo in the city, or downsizing from two homes to one, or making room for grandchildren to visit or an elderly relative to join the family, the trend for people in their 50s and beyond is a shift to well-planned living quarters that suit their age, stage, and situation. And in making this transition, they’ll face the daunting task of paring down a lifetime of possessions while furnishing their new lives with things that have meaning.
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Island of the Swans
(Grand Central, 2007)
* Best Biographical Historical Novel and Fictionalized Biography Romantic Times magazine
* First publication sold 250,000 copies
Best friends in childhood, Jane Maxwell and Thomas Fraser wreaked havoc in Edinburgh. Years later, Jane blossoms into a beautiful woman and her feelings for Thomas grow beyond the borders of friendship. When Thomas is reportedly killed in the American colonies, the charismatic Alexander, Duke of Gordon, appeals to a devastated Jane. Until Thomas returns from the dead…
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A Cottage by the Sea
(Sourcebooks, June 2010)
A sweeping, romantic tale set in Cornwall, England, Los Angeles, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming about a distraught bailout from LaLa Land who has lost everything she treasures, colliding with the bawdy eighteenth century world of a bold English heiress whose love story has echoed down through time.
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Wicked Company
(Sourcebooks, October 2010)
* Best Historical Novel ’92-’93 by Romantic Times magazine
A historical novel based on the lives of ‘lost’ women playwrights seeking fame and glory at the rival theaters Covent Garden and Drury Lane in the period 1761-1779.
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A Race to Splendor
(Sourcebooks, April 2011)
The first woman accepted to the architecture section of the L’Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris and the head of the firm of “girl architects,” who were ridiculed and dismissed until discovered in the ruins of the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Julia Morgan’s mentee Amelia Bradshaw races to rebuild the Fairmount before her infuriatingly enticing competitor J.D. rebuilds the Bay View.
A Race to Splendor is the story of how two landmarks—one real, one fictional—were rebuilt and a passion founded.
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Midnight on Julia St.
(Sourcebooks, August 2011)
Set in New Orleans, a romantic novel about a take-no-prisoners TV journalist and a historic preservationist, who fight to save a beautiful Greek Revival building with origins that are linked mysteriously to those of their own ancestors during the Golden Age in the Big Easy.
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A Light on the Veranda
(Sourcebooks, December 2011)
* Original publication was a Los Angeles Times bestseller
A wayward southern belle and professional harpist returns to Natchez, weary from professional battles and personal despair. She has an unexpected rendezvous with her future when she meets Simon Hopkins, a nationally-renowned nature photographer with a dark secret of his own.
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