SUTHERLIN, Ore., Sept. 12, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nostalgia is one ingredient that sometimes brings a bittersweet taste to our life's buffet of experiences. But for author Douglas D. Hubbard, nostalgia is ``such a pleasant helpmate.'' It has helped him visit bits and pieces from his past, rediscovering memories long buried in yesterday's trunk. These experiences are now etched in a captivating collection of the author's life stories.

Seagulls And Camels, And Other Tales That Touch The Heart is a delightful montage of a lifetime of stories, reflections, and observations by the author on his way to becoming an octogenarian -- a person who is in his eighties. It is a feel-good book for relaxed, unhurried, recreational reading, and readers will appreciate the author's intentional avoidance of politics, gloom and doom, confrontational or divisive issues of any kind, or the advocating of any sort of ``causes.'' This book is for sheer time-out enjoyment.

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About the Author

As a young man, Douglas D. Hubbard ran a tugboat on Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. By his early sixties, he was a management consultant to the Jordanian government in the Middle East, and, as Mr. Hubbard himself has observed, ``that's quite a stretch by anyone's standards.'' At the age of eighty, Mr. Hubbard acknowledges that he has, indeed, lived a remarkably colorful life, and as an award-winning author, columnist, essayist, and humorist for well over half a century, he has succeeded in creating a unique mixture of insightful and amusing descriptions of it as he went along.

 Seagulls And Camels, And Other Tales That Touch The Heart* by Douglas
                                 D. Hubbard

                        Publication Date: 08/29/2008
       Trade Paperback; $23.99; 502 pages; ISBN 978-1-4363-3935-3
       Cloth Hardback; $34.99; 502 pages; ISBN 978-1-4363-3936-0

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