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Author : Sarah Sands
Release : 2024-09-19
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 201/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The Most Poignant and Heartwarming Memoir of the Year' by : Sarah Sands
Download or read book The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The Most Poignant and Heartwarming Memoir of the Year' written by Sarah Sands. This book was released on 2024-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Sands
Release : 2023-09-14
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 039/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hedgehog Diaries by : Sarah Sands
Download or read book The Hedgehog Diaries written by Sarah Sands. This book was released on 2023-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting." Daily Mail "This charming book weaves hedgehogs into our hearts, our lives and our national identity." John Witherow A few days after her elderly father is admitted to hospital, Sarah Sands and her grandson find a poorly hedgehog in the garden. They name her Peggy, and her fate becomes a matter of pressing concern. There is something about hedgehogs - homely and yet mysterious, prickly and defenceless, wild and tame - that makes us feel deeply sympathetic to them. Having managed to outlive roads, dogs, strimmers and pesticides, hedgehogs are now an endangered species. For Sarah Sands, our failure to protect them is a symptom of our alienation from the living world. But all is not yet lost. In this charming book, Sands explores the meaning and morals of hedgehogs, and finds, in hedgehog world, a source of deep solace and wisdom.
Author : Muriel Barbery
Release : 2008-09-02
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 132/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Elegance of the Hedgehog by : Muriel Barbery
Download or read book The Elegance of the Hedgehog written by Muriel Barbery. This book was released on 2008-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: She furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants—her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors” (Kirkus Reviews). “The narrators’ kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Anderson’s fluent translation) propel us ahead.” —The New York Times Book Review “Barbery’s sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.” —The New Yorker
Author : Grace Bonney
Release : 2021-10-26
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 112/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Collective Wisdom by : Grace Bonney
Download or read book Collective Wisdom written by Grace Bonney. This book was released on 2021-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over 100 trailblazing women describe the ups, downs, and lessons learned while forging their unique paths. Collective Wisdom celebrates the stories of those who have been there and know the road—from an Olympic athlete and a NASA team member to award-winning artists, activists, writers, and filmmakers, from women in their fifties to centenarians. It is also a tribute to the importance of intergenerational connections between women, with interviews conducted by daughters, friends, mentors, and colleagues. Collective Wisdom creates a living, breathing sense of community—a space where all of us can gather, listen, share, and learn.
Author : Sarah Sands
Release : 2021-03-11
Genre : Self-Help
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 551/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Interior Silence by : Sarah Sands
Download or read book The Interior Silence written by Sarah Sands. This book was released on 2021-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspirational" - The Daily Mail "Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on earth, and introduces us to people whose inner peace is a balm for our troubled times. I loved every page of it." - Nicholas Hytner Suffering from information overload, unable to sleep, Sarah Sands, former editor of the BBC's Today programme, has tried many different strategies to de-stress... only to reject them because, as she says, all too often they threaten to become an exercise in self-absorption. Inspired by the ruins of an ancient Cistercian abbey at the bottom of her Norfolk garden, she begins to research the lives of the monks who once resided there, and realises how much we may have to learn from monasticism. Renouncing the world, monks and nuns have acquired a hidden knowledge of how to live: they labour, they learn and they acquire 'the interior silence'. This book is a quest for that hidden knowledge - a pilgrimage to ten monasteries round the world. From a Coptic desert community in Egypt to a retreat in the Japanese mountains, we follow Sands as she identifies the common characteristics of monastic life and the wisdoms to be learned from them; and as she discovers, behind the cloistered walls, a clarity of mind and an unexpected capacity for solitude which enable her, after years of insomnia, to experience that elusive, dreamless sleep.
