We Could Almost Eat Outside

We Could Almost Eat Outside

Author: Philippe Delerm

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1999-06-19

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780312203641

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A number-one bestseller in France: A charming medititation on the pleasures of life, from shelling peas to reading on the beach. "A tiny breeze of delirious wisdom which changes everything and nothing...We could almost eat outside." An enchanting valentine to the everyday delights life has to offer, this short book captured the imagination of the French public last year and became a number-one bestseller. Sales are now over 600,000 copies. In each brief chapter the author contemplates the seemingly ordinary experiences that add joy to life, whether it's the first sip of beer, the snowstorm inside a paperweight, reading an Agatha Christie novel, or the smell of apples. At once uniquely French and yet universal, told with a lively, almost childlike curiosity, this charming book reminds us to enjoy and appreciate the small things that make life worthwhile.


Sometimes I Lie

Sometimes I Lie

Author: Alice Feeney

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1250144833

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ALICE FEENEYS NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Boldly plotted, tightly knotted—a provocative true-or-false thriller that deepens and darkens to its ink-black finale. Marvelous.” —AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?


In Defence of Food

In Defence of Food

Author: Michael Pollan

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0141908513

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'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday Telegraph This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.


The Geography of Bliss

The Geography of Bliss

Author: Eric Weiner

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-10-30

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1448168481

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What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between... After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) ·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! ·He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.


Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Author: Henry Mills Alden

Publisher:

Published: 1867

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13:

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Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.


Open the Door to the Truth

Open the Door to the Truth

Author: Michael Porter

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1639370781

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Open the Door to the Truth By: Michael Porter It’s not always easy to know what you want, let alone how to get it. When a young couple, Jack and Diane, are offered the opportunity to learn the truth behind getting the things you desire, they learn there’s a reason for everything; that small, financially responsible decisions add up; and hard work pays off in the end. Learn the secrets of success in getting what you want through the real-life scenarios presented in Open the Door to the Truth. Finally, it’s time to take action, take control of your life, and start getting what you want.


Finding a Life Partner

Finding a Life Partner

Author: Rajendra Gour

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1456726455

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This is a valuable journey that the writer takes us all on in his book. He hopes the lesson he learned and the tips his book off ers its readers will make their life journey smooth and happy. Is There a New and Better Way? The writer tries to show how we can find and build a good relationship with a marriage partner. He deals with important cultural and societal issues that might lead to our not getting married and problems that can lead to divorce or worse after marriage. The author also discusses practical solutions and ideas for how we can address and resolve the problems that do often appear in all relationships and marriages. It is most interesting that at the end the author strongly suggests that most good marriages do come full circle and both partners do accept that what they have is positive and spiritual and worth keeping. Th at is the valuable journey this writer takes us all on in this book and the lesson he hopes this book gives to his readers Society always evolves, and it is always good to take what worked well in the past with you to create a better future.


What Is Left Over After

What Is Left Over After

Author: Natasha Lester

Publisher: Fremantle Press

Published: 2022-11-04

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1760992488

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Gaelle has a dream job working for a fashion magazine, and a husband who loves her. Life should be perfect, but life does not always go according to plan. Feeling lost and alone, Gaelle flees to a tiny seaside town on the other side of the country. As she revisits the legacy of a strange, sometimes magical childhood in France, Gaelle finds unexpected help from a thirteenyear-old stranger.As if she was experiencing her childhood all over again, she must ask: when you lose everything you love, what is left over after?