The Travel Club - April 2021

Author: Dr Amy Dickman
Publisher: Bradt Guides
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 53

Book Description
Welcome to the 12th issue of The Travel Club! A whole year has passed since the pandemic first hit, a year that seems to have gone in a flash while at the same time dragging on forever. The Travel Club was launched in May 2020, back during the early days of the first lockdown. As guidebook sales slumped, we knew that our survival lay in the support of our readers, a community of dedicated travellers. Your support surpassed anything we could have imagined, and that is something for which we will always be grateful. But The Travel Club was never a charitable endeavour. We wanted to create something that offered genuine and long-term value to its members, something that would become a much-loved, essential resource for those who are serious about travel. I hope you feel we’ve succeeded. The e-zine has gone from strength to strength each month, withstories and contributions from far and wide – just take a look at this bumper issue! – and we’ve continued to build the list of exclusive membership benefits and discounts too (many of which will come in handy as the world begins to open up). Of course, if you’ve any feedback or suggestions of ways in which we could improve things further, or you’d be interested in contributing yourself, please do drop us a line at [email protected]. We want to do the very best we can and – when we start exploring the world again – to do so hand in hand with all those who were with us during the dark times.

To Oldly Go

Author: Brian Jackman
Publisher: Bradt Guides
ISBN: 1784770272
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
Collectie van 41 waargebeurde reisverhalen van 60-plussers.

Agnes

Author: Louise Reynolds
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0886291313
Category : Prime ministers
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
Agnes Macdonald's private papers are used for the detailed study of Canada's "first lady," who became Sir John A. Macdonald's second wife on the eve of Confederation. The author's well-researched telling of Agnes's story paints a picture of a politically astute, naturally adventurous woman who had to change her style due to her position in the public eye, but who nevertheless retained her own opinions and lived her life with courage and integrity.

Gia's Gems

Author: Toni Logan
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1635559162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
Gia Williams is living her dream as a successful travel magazine columnist. Gia’s Gems, featuring a single, thirty-something lesbian who travels around and finds the little gay gems in each town she visits, is the best gig ever, right? There’s just one problem. Gia is agoraphobic, and she hasn’t left her house in years. Gia’s Gems is a complete photoshop fake. Lindsey Speyer is a huge fan of Gia’s Gems, so imagine her disappointment when she accidentally stumbles upon Gia’s secret. Not knowing what to do with the information, a friend talks Lindsey into turning the tables on Gia. Gia must come to Lindsey’s economically struggling Midwestern town and feature it in her next article...or else. Gia just needs to get through one week with one beautiful and captivating blackmailer in a quirky little town she’s never heard of. What could possibly go wrong?

Inspired to Travel; Travel to Inspire - a Travel Memoir

Author: Joan Amon Amorganda
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543751318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
Inspired to Travel; Travel to Inspire – A Travel Memoir describes the author’s many travels and life journey. Coming from a very provincial background, she persisted to follow her passion and eventually fulfilled her dreams to travel and explore other countries and experience other cultures. Joan believes that if she can inspire one other soul to follow his/her dream by reading this book, then the author has fulfilled one more of her own dreams.

What I Remember

Author: Paul C. Valentine
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465343253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
THIS IS THE STORY OF ONE MAN'S MEMORY of the past 80 years of our history in the 20th and beginning of the 21st century -- Recollections of the ending of the Great Depression -- World War II -- Growing up in Elgin, Illinois -- Elgin High School -- College years at DePauw University, Miami University of Ohio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford Law School -- the Air Force -- Polio in the '50s -- Washington D.C. in the Kennedy Years -- Law practice in Palo Alto -- Vietnam protests -- Turmoil on the Stanford Campus -- The Creative Initiative Foundation -- Nuclear power and alternative energy -- Beyond War -- His 57 - year marriage to Nancy Elizabeth Hodge of Niles, Ohio -- their family of three children and seven grandchildren and their living in retirement at The Sequoias in Portola Valley, California. This is a story of ordinary people who found meaning in their lives in extraordinary times.

One Sunday

Author: Carrie Gerlach Cecil
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145166477X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a beleaguered young woman must shed her career, identity, and power persona to learn how to love and forgive herself, others, and God. Alice Ferguson is an A-list tabloid editor from Los Angeles who gets pregnant after a one-night stand with a sports doctor from Nashville. When her health takes a nosedive and her unborn child is put at risk, she is forced to pack her Louis Vuitton bags and take a sabbatical from her high-pressure existence in Hollywood and relocate to the heart of Dixie with a man she barely knows. As she struggles to adjust to her new life, an unlikely friendship with an African-American pastor and his family starts Alice on a touching and surprising spiritual exploration. After months of listening to her new friends asking her to attend church, a meal of fried chicken and angel food cake seals the deal. Alice reluctantly agrees to attend one service to watch her pastor friend put on his weekly show. Sitting in the very last pew, she internally doubts and mocks the Bible-thumpers, but she also begins to reflect on the incidents in her painful past that have brought her to a life of moral ambiguity. As she learns to let go of the pain and accept herself, Alice goes from making fun of them to possibly being one of them. Equal parts humor and heartbreak, One Sunday is Alice’s journey to hope, friendship, laughter, tears, inspiration, forgiveness, and the love and peace that come only from God.

The Sweetness of Forgetting

Author: Kristin Harmel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451644299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
From the author of "Italian for Beginners," a lush, heartwarming novel about a woman who travels to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother--and discovers more than she ever imagined.

En Voyage

Author: Shifa Bi Khan
Publisher: The Little Booktique Hub
ISBN: 9390487919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
Life is a journey, a sum total of the experiences lived. En Voyage is an anthology on the voyage called life. It is a collection of poems, short stories and travel accounts of different life experiences, people, journeys, and places we have come across as we live. The voyage is a myriad of colours, of moments enjoyed, of friends gained or lost, of love, and trust, faith and honesty, of places, and people, of different cultures and varied habitats of real adventures and make-believe tales. This book brings together different personalities to write about their own individual journeys during their life, be it fiction or not, some in verses, while others in prose. Voyage is one of the most desire-able activity of almost every individual. Voyage describes the true passion of the travellers and their travel stories. Happy moments, a romantic trip, divine pilgrimages to holy destinations, experiences with friends, finding soulmates to meeting new strangers, to trips with family and some people lost or gained. Travels which are imprinted to memory, which create moments to be cherished, unforgettable at best, are what this book comprises of.

Buoyant Passages

Author: Daniel J. Demers
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039186300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
What started as a short account of author Daniel J. Demers’ ancestors, including their arrival in Canada and the many challenges they faced while striving to establish a life here, soon morphed into a memoir of the author’s own life as well. While the book still begins by recounting his family’s history before and after their arrival in Canada, the bulk of it focuses on Daniel’s own life experiences, particularly his unique role as an identical twin and the many adventures he’s had while exploring Canada’s natural wonders. As a result, this memoir winds up being a celebration not only of his family’s history but also of the limitless options for escape, adventure, and discovery that Canada has to offer.