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Armchair Travel February 2021
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Wintering : the power of rest and retreat in difficult times
by Katherine May
"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down....Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season."
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The people on the beach : journeys to freedom after the holocaust
by Rosie Whitehouse
"One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine."
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Cold case north : the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett
by Michael Wallace Nest
In 1967, prospectors James Brady and Absolom Halkett disappeared in northern Saskatchewan while looking for the next big claim, but fifty years later, they are still missing and their Indigenous community is still searching for answers.
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A promised land
by Barack Obama
"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both hispolitical education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil."
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My Year of Living Spiritually : From Woo-Woo to Wonderful-- One Woman's Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life
by Anne Bokma
In My Year of Living Spiritually, Bokma documents a diverse range of soulful first-person experiences—from taking a dip in Thoreau’s Walden Pond, to trying magic mushrooms for the first time, booking herself into a remote treehouse as an experiment in solitude, singing in a deathbed choir and enrolling in a week-long witch camp—in an entertaining and enlightening way that will compel readers (non-believers and believers alike) to try a few spiritual practices of their own. Along the way, she reconsiders key relationships in her life and begins to experience the greater depth of meaning, connection, gratitude, simplicity and inner peace that we all long for. Readers will find it an inspiring roadmap for their own spiritual journeys.
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Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
by Scott Kelly
An illustrated memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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Lost among the birds : accidentally finding myself in one very big year
by Neil Hayward
The author, at a crossroads in his life, found a calm among birds that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans and, entering a race to find the most birds in one year, shocked the birding world—and himself—by finding 749 species of bird and breaking the long-standing Big Year record.
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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's...
by John Marshall
Maine TV producer John Marshall and his yoga-instructor wife had always wanted to travel around the world with their kids. With time running out (their son was 17 and their daughter 14), they figured out how they could afford it: voluntourism! Traveling to multiple countries in six months, the Marshalls spent time at a wildlife sanctuary in Costa Rica, at several organic farms in New Zealand, at schools in rural Thailand and the Himalayas, and at an orphanage in India. As an added bonus, Marshall briefly explores the family's reentry to regular life. Richly detailed and inspirational, Wide-Open World tallies up the spider monkey bites, depicts the family's experiences, and ends with a reconnected family.
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