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Bob Fulmer is author or co-author of over 150 published articles and almost 40 business books, monographs and editions.. As an academic, he has held endowed chairs at Trinity, William & Mary, and Pepperdine, taught management and leadership at Columbia and Emory Universities and was a Visiting Scholar at MIT. He was responsible for worldwide management development at Allied-Signal, was president of two consulting firms and has conducted seminars in 25 countries on five continents. Bob is currently academic director for Duke Corporate Education and a permanent resident of Santa Barbara.

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A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.

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“The odyssey of searching for the perfect place to retire will interest baby boomers and others thinking about the ideal place for their “third age” when pressures for learning and earning no longer dominate decision making. In the tradition of Peter Mayle (A Year in Provence), Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun),and Barry Golson (Gringos in Paradise), Bob and Pat spent the next two years getting to know “almost 600 new best friends”, adjusting to life on “America’s Riviera,” and trying to restore Casa de Alegría without it becoming Hoyo de Dinero (the pit of money).”

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-Steve Cushman, President Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, “Newcomers In Paradise, captures the quirky essence of Santa Barbara; a town of billionaires and beach boys, philanthropists and artists, students and retirees…Bob perfectly expresses the feelings we all have for this wonderful place." -Marty Blum, Santa Barbara Mayor, 2002-2010,“Newcomers in Paradiseis a great read…We can all relate to the elation of finding paradise and the concerns about…making friends and getting involved in the community.” -Dan Burnham, CEO, Raytheon Corporation, 1998-2003, “Love the book. You captured perfectly the quest for paradise that so many of have gone through, but only you can put it into such memorable prose." -Dori Carter, Author, We Are Rich and Beautiful Wasps Having Sex (LA Times Best Seller)…“read your book in two settings and found it delightful…The Chamber of Commerce couldn’t do a better job of portraying Santa Barbara as paradise.” -Paul Orfalea, Founder of Kinko’s and Author, Copy This"Bob and Pat’s adventures in Newcomers in Paradise chronicle their quest for exploration, comfort and aesthetic virtue in their post retirement life together. From the jaw dropping sunsets over the pacific to the idyllic mountain views, perhaps no place in the world embodies these qualities more so than Santa Barbara, a place the Fulmers’ and I proudly call home."

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