Download or read book My Part Time Paris Life written by Lisa Anselmo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant, touching, and lively, this memoir of a woman who loses her mother and creates a new life for herself in Paris will speak to anyone who has lost a parent or reinvented themselves. Lisa Anselmo wrapped her entire life around her mother, a strong woman who was a defining force in her daughter’s life—maybe too defining. When her mother dies from breast cancer, Lisa realizes she hadn’t built a life of her own, and struggles to find her purpose. Who is she without her mother—and her mother’s expectations? Desperate for answers, she reaches for a lifeline in the form of an apartment in Paris, refusing to play it safe for the first time. What starts out as a lurching act of survival sets Lisa on a course that reshapes her life in ways she never could have imagined. But how can you imagine a life bigger than anything you’ve ever known? In the vein of Eat, Pray, Love and Wild, My (Part-time) Paris Life a story is for anyone who’s ever felt lost or hopeless, but still holds out hope of something more. This candid memoir explores one woman’s search for peace and meaning, and how the ups and downs of expat life in Paris taught her to let go of fear, find self-worth, and create real, lasting happiness.

Download or read book Those Lockdown Days written by Sarmita Dey and published by Penprints Publication. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book These Days Are Numbered written by Rebecca Rosenblum and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of a woman longing for community in a crowded downtown in pandemic times, when casual intimacies are forbidden. Novelist Rebecca Rosenblum lives in St. James Town, Toronto — the most densely populated square kilometre in all of Canada. When the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns arrive, she’s cut off from colleagues, friends, and family, and not allowed to go near neighbours. As the world constricts, Rebecca keeps a weird and worried diary online — a love letter both to the outside world that she misses so desperately, and the little world inside St. James Town that she can see from home. As Rebecca watches and wonders from inside her box in the sky, her diary entries mix an account of a tough time in a tough place with joyful goofiness and moments of unexpected compassion.

Download or read book Memoirs of a Gurkha Wife During Lockdown written by Lila Seling Mabo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila Seling Mabo became a qualified teacher and later promoted to head teacher of Dharma Bhakta Primary school in Oyam, Panchathar Nepal. When she first arrived in the United Kingdom from Nepal with her British Army husband Shree Prasad Mabo. she had to start from scratch. Unable to use her formal Nepali qualifications she faced many obstacles and was often left home alone with her small children.She endured many challenges as an Army (Gurkha) wife but she was determined to carry on her studies and voluntary work whilst caring for her family. In a collection of diary entries beginning in March 2020, Seling Mabo details her life during lockdown as the pandemic ravaged the world. Her insightful comments her personal experiences cover during the two hundred and twenty-eight days of lockdown and two hundred and forty-four days of Covid-19. In this period Lila includes information on dramatic events such as the positive Covid diagnosis of the UK’s prime minister, social distancing rules and the public adulation for NHS staff. Lila Seling Mabo’s reminisces of past times, the rising of death toll, and the resilience of the British public. Memoirs of a Gurkha Wife during Lockdown shares diary entries from a military wife and mother as she endured the Covid-19 pandemic from inside her UK home.

Download or read book Life In The Midst of COVID 19 written by Plethora Hope and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes my testimony, diary or stories during the battle against COVID-19 in the year 2020. It also includes other people’s stories which I’ve heard from the radio or read from social media. Actually if I would be going to describe this pandemic it would be like a comet which accidentally falls to the earth. It creates a big impact and causes lots of chaos to us. These are the reasons why I wrote this book: I want to share these stories to serve as an inspiration to everyone; to remind them in not giving up and to help them remember the important lessons about life. In addition, the purpose of this work is to let the people know (especially the next generation) about the learning while taking the journey in the midst of COVID-19. This will also serve as an eye opener to them about the partial happenings during the year 2020.

Download or read book Patty and the Pandemic written by Peter Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patty loves playing with her pals. But now, the bad bug is trying to make them sick! How will Patty fight back to save her friends and herself from the bad bug? Join Patty as she learns all about the bad bug's tricks, and makes some tricks of her own that you and the rest of her friends can use to defeat the bad bug! Written by medical student, Nicole Crimi, and peer reviewed by public health specialist Dr. Joanne Kearon, and Dr. Peter Adamson, Patty and the Pandemic aims to educate and empower children 3-8 years old about COVID-19 in a fun and relatable way. Full of fun, rhyming verses and original watercolour paintings, children can giggle as they learn all about what COVID-19 is, how it is spread, what to expect if they are sick and the key tricks to staying safe. 100% of profits from book sales are being donated to Face the Future Foundation - so with the purchase of this book, you are supporting the health of children in your community, as well as those around the world.

Download or read book Living and Studying in the Pandemic written by LIT Verlag and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has traumatized many in Europe, but especially those in the border regions. The effects of bordering have caused a feeling of the end to a Europe without borders, where free circulation is no longer possible. This is especially the case for young people and students of the Erasmus generation who all profit from the possibility of mobility. What sort of experiences were typical among university students in border regions throughout the period of the COVID-19 pandemic? Many of the students have no experience yet of a "normal" university course, of a tutorial or even a lecture at their university. With this book, Katarzyna Stok?osa and Birte Wassenberg, decided to give a platform to their students at the University of Southern Denmark (the German-Danish border region) and the University of Strasbourg (the Franco-German border region). The students write about their studies and life during the circumstances of COVID-19. Katarzyna Stok?osa is Associate Professor for Border Region Studies at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark. Birte Wassenberg is Professor in Contemporary History at Sciences Po at the University of Strasbourg.

Download or read book The Great Lockdown written by Shivaji Das and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of insider accounts describing the organizational impact of COVID-19 In The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the Globe, expert strategists Shivaji Das, Aroop Zutshi , and Janesh Janardhanan deliver an insightful exploration of this once-in-a-lifetime event to unearth invaluable learnings for the future. Told through the experiences of CXOs at billion-dollar companies, star start-ups, and non-profits from around the world, the book chronicles the ups and downs of sophisticated organizations as they navigated the COVID-19 crisis through initiatives impacting people, processes, and technology. Revealing case studies contributed by the CXOs of companies spanning multiple geographies - from the USA to Iran, Uganda to Hong Kong, and multiple sectors – social media, technology, aviation, luxury retail, healthcare, etc. Incisive analyses of the techniques and strategies that worked—or didn’t—for organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, covering the role and evolution of leadership, organizational culture, innovation and digitization Practical guidance for business leaders to apply to their own firms in times of great economic upheaval: the next pandemic, climate disasters, cyber-attacks The leaders contributing their organization's survival and revival stories include those from Julius Baer, SAP, Terumo, IndiGrid, Tapsi, Fonterra, Hornet Networks, Globalization Partners, beCuriou, GoGoX, Abacus Pharma, Real Wear Inc, SOS Children's Villages, Bangalore International Airport, and A Lange & Sohne. Perfect for executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Great Lockdown is an invaluable addition to the libraries of anyone interested in case studies of corporate resilience and endurance in the face of unprecedented economic challenges.

Download or read book Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind written by Kyle D. Evans and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is 4% of 75? Can you calculate 60 + 60 x 0 + 1? Which is bigger, an 18-inch pizza or two 12-inch pizzas? Join award-winning maths presenter Kyle D Evans on an entertaining tour of viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years. From the infamous 'Hannah's sweets' exam question to percentages 'life-hacks', viral maths problems seem to capture the public's imagination without fail. In Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind, Kyle presents over 50 viral maths problems with background information, explanations and solutions to similar problems, all in a humorous, accessible and inclusive manner. Want to dazzle and delight your friends and family? This book shows you how!

Download or read book The 28 Day Immunity Plan written by Rosemary Conley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAKE YOUR BODY FEEL FIGHTING FIT IN JUST 28 DAYS 'The perfect way to get healthier and into shape . . . If you're fed up with feeling tired, and want to lose some weight, then The 28 Day Immunity Plan is for you' BELLA A strong and healthy immune system is important at any age - especially if you're over 65 - and now more than ever it's vital to protect yourself from illness _______ Renowned diet and fitness expert Rosemary Conley CBE has created a simple and effective 28-day plan specifically aimed at doing just this. Her specialist guidance will help you boost your immunity, lose excess weight and increase your chances of living a longer, fitter and healthier life. This essential guide includes practical nutritional advice (what to include in your diet to promote good health, including good gut health which is increasingly being linked to immunity) as well as a no-fuss, easy-to-follow daily eating plan. These delicious, defence boosting recipes include . . . · Ginger beef stir-fry · Tandoori salmon with spicy noodles · Horseradish fish pie · Beef and ale stew · Thai sweet chilli chicken · Spicy butternut squash soup · Rich mushroom tagliatelle · Tomato, basil and lemon penne · Aubergine tagine with couscous . . . And much, much more! What's more, you will also learn from highly respected fitness expert, Mary Morris MSc, exactly how regular exercise supports the immune system - by strengthening your muscles, bones, and boosting your circulatory system. Her safe and progressive exercise programme encourages you to take small and achievable steps towards better fitness, no matter what level you're starting from. With almost 50 years' experience in helping people transform their body and health, Rosemary and Mary have condensed their joint expertise into this simple and accessible plan so you can become fighting fit from home in less than a month.

Download or read book MumLife written by Louise Pentland and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller 'Hilarious, honest, heartwarming, like a hug from a friend, just perfect. I couldn't love this "mumoir" more' Mrs Hinch 'An honest account of becoming a woman and mother... an engaging read' Giovanna Fletcher MumLife; noun: the inescapable swirling vortex of love, guilt, joy, annoyance, laughter and boredom that makes up the life of a mum. Louise Pentland has been through a lot. From a traumatic birth with her first daughter, to single motherhood, to finding love again and having a second child, Louise's parenting journey has been full of surprises. Discussing the realities most working mums face, plus the impact of maternal mental health, Louise is on a mission to make other mums feel less alone, and very much heard. She beautifully reveals her own imperfect but perfect route to motherhood, as well as the loss of her mum so early in her life, how it shaped her and the mother she became. Reflective, uplifting and with her signature hilarious wit, MumLife will share Louise's ups and downs, reflecting on her route to motherhood and what she has learnt along the way. This is the honest truth, from someone who's been there and experienced it all. ***** For each book sold Bonnier Books UK shall donate 1% of net receipts and Louise Pentland shall donate 100% of her royalties to the NSPCC.

Download or read book Her Lockdown Diary A Tale of Her Broken Heart written by Ajanta Basu and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book:  A non fictional diary which depicts the 21 days tale of her broken heart during the first wave of pandemic. According to psychology, it has been said that anyone can form their habits by completing a task for 21 days in a row. During the pandemic, being locked within her apartment, she started believing this 21 - day myth to sooth her broken heart and she started to pen down her thoughts every night. Is closure really important in a relationship? - Set against the backdrop of the global pandemic, this is what makes 'Her lockdown diary' so breathtakingly real - a tale from one of the world's amateur storytellers. About the Author: An IT professional living in Brussels since 2018 for her professional work. Her passion for dance, writing stories and poems, vlogging, acting and photography is unparalleled. She has done various dance and drama projects to represent Indian culture with Art India Belgium. In today's digital world, she continued writing stories and poems for an Indian digital platform called “StoryMirror”. She had been a winner of “Women write now” contest and she had been nominated as author of the year of 2020 by StoryMirror. She believes that words are free to be used to explore, to learn, to teach and if we find the right words to write, that's what defines a writer.

Download or read book The Diary of a Bookseller written by Shaun Bythell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..."—Daily Mail The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland—and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . . When Bythell first thought of taking over the store, it seemed like a great idea: The Bookshop is Scotland's largest second-hand store, with over one hundred thousand books in a glorious old house with twisting corridors and roaring fireplaces, set in a tiny, beautiful town by the sea. It seemed like a book-lover's paradise . . . Until Bythell did indeed buy the store. In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us what happened next—the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs (such as ski-suit-wearing, dumpster-diving Nicky). And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be. But then too there are the buying trips to old estates and auctions, with the thrill of discovery, as well as the satisfaction of pressing upon people the books that you love . . . Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite —or maybe because of—all the peculiar characters there.

Download or read book Notes on Grief written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

Download or read book Of Covid and Curfews written by Christine C. Elliott and published by Christine C Elliott. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Melbourne, Australia, on 6th August 2020, the Victorian government issued stay-at-home orders. What began as a six-week ordeal, lasted for 112 days. As thousands fought to survive the Covid-19 virus rampaging through their bodies, millions more battled it in a different arena. Financial ruin devastated families, pitted landlords against tenants, and lowered living standards. Meanwhile, an invisible virus cut a mile-wide swathe through the mental health of millions. Of Covid and Curfews is an intimate portrayal of one writer's journey through this historic lockdown. Dated entries highlight mounting statistics from around the world interspersed with reflections on ambition and parenting. This is a brave sharing of a troubled time personally and collectively.

Download or read book Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything written by Kristin Bair and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, nervous wreck of a New England mom is forced to face her many fears in this touching, irresistible novel from author Kristin Bair. Agatha Arch's life shatters when she discovers her husband in their backyard shed, in flagrante delicto, giving the local dog walker some heavy petting. Suddenly, Agatha finds herself face to face with everything that frightens her...and that's a loooooong list. Agatha keeps those she loves close. Everyone else, she keeps as far away as possible. So she's a mystery to nearly everyone in her New England town. To her husband, she's a saucy, no-B.S. writer. To her Facebook Moms group, she's a provocateur. To her neighbor, she's a standoffish pain in the butt. To her sons, she's chocolate pudding with marshmallows. And to her shrink, she's a bundle of nerves on the brink of a cataclysmic implosion. Defying her abundant assortment of anxieties, Agatha dons her "spy pants"--a pair of khakis whose many pockets she crams with binoculars, fishing line, scissors, flashlight, a Leatherman Super Tool 300 EOD, candy, and other espionage essentials--and sets out to spy on her husband and the dog walker. Along the way, she finds another intriguing target to follow: a mysterious young woman who's panhandling on the busiest street in town. It's all a bit much for timorous Agatha. But with the help of her Bear Grylls bobblehead, a trio of goats, and a dog named Balderdash, Agatha may just find the courage to build a better life. "Fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will love this clever romp." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

Download or read book O M The Indian Science Fiction Anthology written by Archana Mirajkar, and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coronavirus Pandemic was the single biggest battle of humanity against the unseen. Whenever the world has ever needed answers to some prominent questions, it has either turned to history or the imagination of philosophers, scientists and also the fictionists. Science Fiction, as a genre, aims to unlock the limitations created by the 'known' and the 'real', and explore the plausible with a backdrop of experience and observation. Few of the most revered Indian Science-Fictionists have created their own renditions of the Cavid-19 story of India, predicting the best-cases, worst-cases as well as other scenarios that we could have had to face. The essence of these stories is in 'how we would have arrived at that stage and what we would have done before and after it. The more we got to learn abou the virus, the less we seemed to know about the beings of the Universe as well as our own future. And with such a rising uncertainty, all we could do was hope for the best and be prepared for the worst. -RISHABH DUBEY 'KRIDIOUS