Название: The Planet's Most Spiritual Places
Автор: Malcolm Croft
Издательство: Ivy Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This majestically illustrated and deeply insightful guide explores 100 of the most spiritually significant places throughout the world, seeking to understand what it is that defines these sites. Spirituality has a multitude of meanings for the many who seek deeper significance in their lives. From ancient religions with their timeless places of worship to modern, contemporary followers of faith and new age travellers seeking enlightenment and illumination, we are drawn to all kinds of places in the search for profound meaning. From a Polish Catholic praying in a large cathedral to a Portuguese surfer speechless in wonder at the majesty of the ocean, spirituality knows no bounds.ThePlanet’s Most Spiritual Places brings together all definitions to present some of the most important places of spiritual significance, in stunning and immersive detail.

Название: Wilderness Adventure Camp: Essential Outdoor Survival Skills for Kids
Автор: Frank Grindrod
Издательство: Storey Publishing
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 35 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This hands-on guidebook teaches kids aged 10 and up essential outdoor camping and survival skills, with step-by-step photos for how to build a fire, pick a campsite, make a lean-to, use a knife, cook over an open fire, and more. Whether in the rugged backcountry or a suburban backyard, kids can experience the sense of personal independence and self-confidence that come from outdoor proficiency, while also developing a deeper connection to and understanding of the natural world. With this skills-based book, kids learn essential safety and survival tips and bushcraft that they need to have a safe wilderness experience.

Название: One Jump at a Time: My Story
Автор: Nathan Chen
Издательство: Harper
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 44 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success, reflecting on his life as a Chinese American figure skater and the joys and challenges he has experienced—including the tremendous sacrifices he and his family made, and the physical and emotional pain he endured. When three-year-old Nathan Chen tried on his first pair of figure skates, magic happened. But the odds of this young boy—one of five children born to Chinese immigrants—competing and making it into the top echelons of figure skating were daunting. Chen’s family didn’t have the resources or access to pay for expensive coaches, rink time, and equipment. But Nathan’s mother, Hetty Wang, refused to fail her child. Recognizing his tremendous talent and passion, she stepped up as his coach, making enormous sacrifices to give Nathan the opportunity to compete in this exclusive world.

Название: The Wonder of Little Things
Автор: Vince Copley
Издательство: ABC Books
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

'Welcome to my story. It's a simple story of a simple person, who's lived a long life now with some struggles along the way. I didn't learn a lot in school, not in the classroom, anyway. But I learned a lot from life.' Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he was fifteen, five of his family had died. But at a home for Aboriginal boys, he befriended future leaders Charles Perkins, John Moriarty and Gordon Briscoe. They were friendships that would last a lifetime.

Название: Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
Автор: Bill Shapiro
Издательство: Clarkson Potter
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 47 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People’s Love Letters, Bill Shapiro has searched America’s attics, closets, and cigar boxes and found actual letters–unflinchingly honest missives full of lust, provocation, guilt, and vulnerability–written only for a lover’s eyes. Modern love, of course, is not all bliss, and in these pages you’ll find the full range of a relationship, with its whispered promises as well as its heartache. But what at first appears to be a deliciously voyeuristic peek into other people’s most passionate moments, will ultimately reawaken your own desires and tenderness…because when you read these letters, you’ll find the heart you’re looking into is actually your own.

Название: Mark Twain for Cat Lovers: True and Imaginary Adventures with Feline Friends
Автор: Mark Dawidziak
Издательство: Lyons Press
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

America is cat crazy, and Mark Twain may have been the American writer most crazy about cats. From his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his last years in Connecticut, Mark Twain spent much of his life surrounded by cats, and they stalk through many of his best-known books, including The Innocents Aboard, Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and Puddn’head Wilson. In this lighthearted book, Twain scholar Mark Dawidziak explores the writer’s lifelong devotion to cats through stories, excerpts, quotes, photos, and illustrations, illuminating a little-known side of this famous writer’s life that will appeal to Twain aficionados and cat lovers alike.

Название: Me: Stories of My Life
Автор: Katharine Hepburn
Издательство: Ballantine Books
Год: 1991
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Admired and beloved by movie audiences for more than sixty years, four-time Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic and an extraordinary, enduring presence on the international cultural scene. Yet her private life has been obscured by mystery. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence in this absorbing and provocative memoir. With characteristic gusto and candor, Katharine Hepburn reflects on the events, people, and places that have shaped her life--her childhood and family, her early days in New York, and her experiences with political activism. She talks about the ups and downs of her career, her long friendship with Spencer Tracy, and of course, her close collaborations with several of the leading actors, directors, and producers of the past half century. Illustrated with 165 photographs from family archives, many of which have never been published, it is an unforgettable portrait of Katharine Hepburn as we have not seen her before.

Название: World's Greatest National Parks, 4th Edition
Автор: Future Publishing
Издательство: Future Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Размер: 127 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar explores the greatest national parks of the world, giving insider tips on how best to discover their secrets.

Название: Notes From the Sofa
Автор: Raymond Briggs
Издательство: Unboun
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From Raymond Briggs, the beloved and bestselling author of The Snowman, comes his first book in a decade, now in an updated edition with new columns and illustrations. Notes from the Sofa is a beautifully illustrated compilation of reflections on life and what it means to get older. Raymond dips into his past to remind us of scrumping apples, National Service, party lines on telephones, the torment of cinema organs and the endless obsession with laxatives, alongside his take on the absurdities of the modern world. This collection gives us warm and memorable sketches of Raymond’s life now and reminds us why he is one of our best-loved storytellers.

Название: Christmas Sentiments: 19 Nostalgic Songs Arranged by Phillip Keveren
Автор: Phillip Keveren
Издательство: Hal Leonard
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

(Easy Piano Songbook). 19 wonderful seasonal songs for the aspiring pianist and/or singer cleverly arranged by Phillip Keveren. Songs include: Because It's Christmas (For All the Children) * Believe * Blue Christmas * Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) * Christmas Time Is Here * Mary, Did You Know? * Merry Christmas, Darling * River * Star of Bethlehem * White Christmas * Who Would Imagine a King * and more.