Download or read book The Grown Up Gap Year Diaries written by Laura Bloom and published by Vacation Work Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us watch in envy as school or university-leavers jet off to far away places to relax, explore or fulfil a long-held ambition. Now, many adults are taking the bull by the horns and going on their own gap year adventure. The author of this book did just that. The Grown Up Gap Year Diaries recounts the highlights of a mid-life female traveller, including unexpected experiences and tips on how to be a responsible traveller wherever you go. Laura Bloom, author of three successful novels, has backpacked around Australia, survived an Oz Experience 'party on wheels' bus and lived off £5 a day after losing her bank card in Asia. This book warm-heartedly details her highs and lows of her time travelling, providing a rare insight into the day-to-day life as an adult traveller. It advises adults on the practicalities of travelling, offering money-saving tips and advice on where to go. Once you have read about one person's intrepid adventure, be sure to use its sister book, Gap Years for Grown Ups, to find ideas for your own gap year journey.

Download or read book The Gap Year for Grown Ups written by Annie Sanders and published by Orion. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to take a holiday from your life? After twenty years of comfortable marriage, and with the kids finally off her hands, Sarah Lewis realises she has filled the washing machine once too often. Surely there must be more to life than this? What she wants is an adventure - a wild, unpredictable adventure - but her husband, good old reliable David, is very happy with the status quo. Besides, he's got his old car to tinker with, when he eventually gets round to it. What Sarah needs is a gap year for grown-ups - and she wants to do it alone. Confident the grass must be greener elsewhere, she heads for France, leaving behind a devastated and resentful David, faced with an empty house and a freezer full of meals for one. But is life really better on the other side of the fence? With a gorgeous French man demanding her company and a renewed joie de vivre, Sarah certainly seems to think so. But then a catastrophe threatens to derail much more than Sarah's little adventure. Pretty soon, she begins to wonder whether gap years are for grown-ups after all...

Download or read book Over the Hill and Far Away written by Jo Carroll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There must be something between the retirement party and buying a zimmer frame. JO CARROLL decided this was the time to revive her teenage dreams and go round the world. So she packed her rucksack, a round-the-world ticket, and a notebook. Not prepared, then, for being marooned on a beach in Australia with the tide rising and nothing but cliffs behind her; nor negotiating with a gunman who wanted to marry her in Lucknow. Let's not think about the snakes and leeches in the jungles of Malaysia. But could anything have prepared her for the drama that brought her home? Nor the kindness of strangers who kept her safe at that moment when she was least able to do it for herself.

Download or read book From Growing Up Pains to the Sacred Diary written by Adrian Plass and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book combining two favourites of Adrian Plass's writing: The Growing Up Pains of Adrian Plass and The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 3/4 along with a new Preface by Plass.

Download or read book The Carbon Diaries 2015 written by Saci Lloyd and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the year 2015, and global warming is ravaging the environment. In response, the United Kingdom mandates carbon rationing. When her carbon debit card arrives in the mail, sixteen-year-old Laura is just trying to handle the pressure of exams, keep her straight-X punk band on track, and catch the attention of her gorgeous classmate Ravi. But as multiple natural disasters strike and Laura's parents head toward divorce, her world spirals out of control. With the highest-category hurricane in history heading straight toward London, chronicling the daily insanity is all Laura can do to stay grounded in a world where disaster is the norm.

Download or read book The Diary of Elizabeth Lee written by Colin Pooley and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal diaries provide rare glimpses into those aspects of the past that are usually hidden from view. Elizabeth Lee grew up on Merseyside in the late nineteenth century. She began her diary at the age of 16 in 1884 and it provides an unbroken record of her life up to the age of 25 in 1892. Elizabeth’s father was a draper and outfitter with shops in Birkenhead, and throughout the period of the diary Elizabeth lived at home with her family in Prenton. However, she travelled widely on both sides of the Mersey and her diary provides an unusually revealing picture of middle-class life that begins to challenge conventional views of the position of young women in Victorian society. The book includes a detailed introduction to and analysis of the diary, together with a glossary relating to key people in the diary and maps of the localities in which Elizabeth lived her everyday life. There have been a number of diaries published relating to ‘ordinary’ people, but most accounts were written retrospectively as life histories by people who eventually gained some degree of fame or prominence in society. This very rare first-hand account provides a unique insight into adolescent life in Victorian Britain.

Download or read book Gap Year Diary written by Paul Scotton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gap year for many students is one helluva mind-blowing, exciting, never-want-to-end, adventure that truly deserves documenting in a journal such as this one. We have even included small gridded World maps on every other page so that you can highlight the countries you have visited. A great keepsake to show your future children and grandchildren ...and maybe publish your journal for potential gap year students to follow your trail. We have included more than enough sections for you to write a short description of your daily adventures to cover a full year. Included on the first page there is an area to put all your personal details in case of an emergency. As an extra added bonus we have included a large gridded World map on the last page to plan your route. A must have for all students on their exciting World journey! LET THE ADVENTURES BEGIN! For other titles in this series just search for the authors name: Mr Paul Scotton

Download or read book Transitions written by Tania Zittoun and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do young people do with the novels they read, the films they see, the music they hear and sing? How do these cultural products act as ‘symbolic resources’ in the process of development? And what can we, as researchers, learn by studying people’s uses of fiction? This monograph approaches development through the study of transitions and the processes of exploration that follow ruptures in people’s lives. Specifically, it examines young people’s symbolic responsibility as they have to choose among the wide range of cultural products societies exposes them to. The book thus examines the books, films and music that young people mobilize when they need to redefine their identity, learn informal know-how, or have to confer meaning to what happens to them in transitions. The book has a theoretical scope. It draws on cultural psychology and psychoanalysis to formulate the importance of semiotic mediation in thinking, feeling and acting. Its main contribution is to propose a model for analyzing uses of symbolic resources, such as books and films, in everyday life. It thus shows how uses of symbolic resources can enable new forms of experiences and conduct. It finally highlights social and personal conditions that might facilitate or hinder developmental uses of symbolic resources. The book, based on in-depth case studies, is addressed to scholars, professional and students in the fields of youth, culture and the media, cultural and developmental psychology, and life-long education.

Download or read book The Hong Kong Diaries written by Chris Patten and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China - then and now.

Download or read book Women s Fiction written by Rebecca Vnuk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience—fans as well as librarians—this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles. Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this broad genre—titles that explore the lives of female protagonists, with a focus on their relationships with family, friends, and lovers. After a brief introductory history and a chapter that defines the characteristics of women's fiction, the author showcases annotations and suggestions of approximately 300 titles by more than 100 authors. She explains how women's fiction differs from romance fiction, enabling readers to appreciate this rich body of literature that encompasses titles as diverse as Meg Cabot's lighthearted chick lit to the more serious novels of Elizabeth Berg and Maeve Binchy. The book identifies some of the most popular and enduring women's fiction authors and titles, and provides invaluable reading lists and readalike suggestions that will be appreciated by both librarians and general readers.

Download or read book Diary of a Crush Kiss and Make Up written by Sarra Manning and published by Atom. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edie's having major boy issues. Trying to get over Dylan is hard, but snogging new boy Carter isn't hurting. . . When everyone heads off to a summer festival, Edie wants to forget her troubles and try and have fun. But she didn't count on her leftover feelings for Dylan and now she's all churned up again. Edie's got some big decisions to make, but is she ready to kiss and make up?

Download or read book DIARY OF A SHY GIRL written by Rejoyce Zikpi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary Of A Shy Girl is a memoir of an adolescent girl. From a strict Pentecostal home, she feels alone and doesn’t open up easily to others about her home life, which she describes as unfair. She enjoys visiting her home country but she feels out of place. Her life is changed forever as she searches for the meaning of God in her life after her father passes away. When she finally falls in love, she doesn’t know how to make her feelings known to the one man she considers to be her first true love. Diary Of A Shy Girl is sure to amuse and perplex as it reveals the heart of an adolescent child growing up through the pressures and difficulties of puberty.

Download or read book A Tycoon Too Wild to Wed written by Caitlin Crews and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CEO will claim his innocent in this sizzling marriage-of-convenience romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews. He’ll claim his convenient bride But she has her own demands! Powerful CEO Asterion Teras has no intention to wed. Yet even he can’t ignore his beloved grandmother’s outrageous dictate to marry a woman of her choosing. Brita Martis is part of the local convent. However, Asterion is certain he can convince her to say yes! All innocent Brita craves is freedom from her grasping family. The chemistry that burns between her and Asterion at first sight thrills her. She’ll accept his proposal, but when their passion explodes, she is lost! Unless she can tame the wildest tycoon of all… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Teras Wedding Challenge books: Book 1: A Tycoon Too Wild to Wed by Caitlin Crews Book 2: Enemies at the Greek Altar by Jackie Ashenden

Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit written by Heike Missler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous product of women's popular culture since the late 1990s. This study traces the evolution of chick lit not only as a genre of popular fiction, but as a cultural phenomenon. It complicates the genealogy of the texts by situating them firmly in the context of age-old debates about female literary creation, and by highlighting the dynamics of the popular-fiction market. Offering a convincing dissection of the formula which lies at the heart of chick lit, as well as in-depth analyses of a number of chick-lit titles ranging from classic to more recent and edgier texts, this book yields new insights into a relatively young field of academic study. Its close readings provide astute assessments of chick lit's notoriously skewed representational politics, especially with regard to sexuality and ethnicity, which feed into current discussions about postfeminism. Moreover, the study makes a unique contribution to the scholarly debate of chick lit by including an analysis of the (online) fan communities the genre has fostered. The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit weaves a sound methodological network, drawing on reader-response criticism; feminist, gender, and queer theory; affect studies; and whiteness studies. This book is an accessible and engaging study for anyone interested in postfeminism and popular culture.

Download or read book Diaries of a Serial Killer written by Sheng Sun and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial killer Sebastian lived in Stockholm, Sweden, targeting single young women as his prey—the life of which was giving him a huge problem when he woke up every day in the morning. He then sought medical help from the psychiatrist Margareta, a married woman who was bored with her life, and this experience would alter Sebastian’s life forever. In the book, you will also find a diary written by Sebastian as a young boy who lived in the Swedish countryside of Östersund. And the diary reveals a dark secret in his dysfunctional family.

Download or read book Diaries 1971 1983 written by James Lees-Milne and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce Chatwin and the Mitford sisters) and the diarist's varied emotional experiences. Having made his name as the National Trust's country houses expert and a writer on architecture, he now established himself as a novelist and biographer. With some misgivings he published his wartime diaries, little imagining that it was as a diarist that he would achieve lasting fame.

Download or read book The Diary of Heinrich Witt 10 vols written by Ulrich Muecke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 7913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Heinrich Witt (1799-1892) is the most extensive private diary written in Latin America known to us today. Written in English by a German migrant who lived in Lima, it is a unique source for the history of Peru, and for international trade and migration.