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Planning a holiday to Greece? Go the easy way with "GREECE - 100 Travel Tips." It's a must-read for independent travelers. This is not a guide book, but it contains guidelines and helpful advice, liberally sprinkled with personal experiences and descriptions. Here's a quote: "Greece is not a pretty country - rather it’s stunning, and at times awesome, and always fascinating. There is a magical quality to Greece - it's a place where you can have a sudden overpowering feeling of belonging on God's earth, where you can discover self-worth and well-being. Rugged mountains rise so high the ...

When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids; lost parents and lost jobs; powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year; and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around.

The best-selling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern lady.

Meet the women of American Housewife: They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These 12 irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam.

Today, we're living in a world of squiggly careers, where moving frequently and fluidly between roles, industries, locations and even careers, is becoming the new normal. Squiggly careers can feel stressful and overwhelming, but if you know how to make the most of them, they can be full of opportunity, freedom and purpose. And to make the most of our increasingly squiggly careers we need to answer some important questions: What am I good at? What do I stand for? What motivates and drives me? Where do I want to go in the future?

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New York Times bestselling author paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.

The most successful people have always benefitted from professional coaching to help them develop their careers, solve dilemmas and get them through challenging moments. Now, in You Coach You, the UK's leading career experts, Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, will give you the knowledge and tools to coach yourself.

Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a distance family? This audiobook tells the candid story of how distance parents and distance grandparents struggle - and succeed - to adapt to their new reality. This isn’t family life as they had imagined it. If you are a distance parent or distance grandparent, all those how, why, and what-if questions will find answers in these sections. You’ll realise, perhaps for the first time, that you’re not alone on your journey.

Rosanne, Dorrie, Ethel and Charmaine are four Seniors – friends – each battling with their own problems. Why shouldn’t they battle together? This novella is a humorous introduction to four ditzy, loveable, oldies… There comes a time in life when friendship is not only important, but necessary, for age is not for sissies, and the four friends have to make lifetime decisions. But Rosanne knows you have to laugh at yourself and grab at the fun moments. With Rosanne leading the way, these four ladies are in for the best time in their lives! If you enjoy What Are Friends For? you must ...

Low Winter in Mirribool. Deluge, torrent and passion – set to music! After her disastrous marriage, Elle Charlwood now lives in Mirribool, an Australian country town. It’s the home of her childhood friends Shelley and Liam, and where Tolstoy’s War and Peace is being adapted into a stage musical! But will it ever happen? Two celebrities are invited to do major roles for the musical society, and as the cold rain sets in, the resulting drama is not just on the stage. What ties raging rivers, murderous wives, scores to be settled, new horizons, and love together? Girl in a storm! This ...

An adventure story with a difference! Funny and fast moving, Max and the Gang of Five is an exciting adventure over back fences - through grass, rivers, and into tunnels and dark caves. It will entertain readers of all ages about friendship and teamwork, and instruct how to clean burrs from the fur. Max and the Gang of Five has been loved by adults and children for years - you (and cat lovers) are going to love this new eBook edition... Monifieth Maximilian is a pedigree Burmese cat, who lives with his people (his Giants), the Marshalls. Life with the Marshalls is good, until one day Max ...

Max and the Gang of Five are back! It is the end of winter, and Max, the brown Burmese cat, joins up once again with his four friends - Blotch, Gingernut, Midnight and Ticklewhiskers. The Gang of Five are challenged - first, by the new neighbour down the street, Happy Chappie, a clown from the visiting Circus, who has a pet - a huge dog called Slobberchops! Also a series of house break-ins in Our Town upset the residents, not to mention the cats. Then there is the Circus itself and Mister Big who runs it. Where does Happie Chappie fit in? And Slobberchops? Questions the Gang of Five must ...

Afraid for her life, Mary Illingford abandons her home in Sydney and her abusive and violent husband, Paul. With her daughter, Jenni, she embarks on a journey to a place where she thinks he will never find her - the island of Santorini, Greece. On Santorini they meet Mary's two friends - Eleni Kambouridis, owner of Apartments overlooking the beautiful caldera lake, and Julia Jeffries from England. Jenni, meets Eleni’s diffident son Marios who runs a local internet café, and they are immediately attracted. Unknown to Mary, Paul is facing a fraud charge involving his real estate business. ...

Make mine a moussaka? Yes, please. Discover Greece. This book is a jolly good travel read and added cooking challenge. One can seek adventure, culture and new horizons in Greece, depending on the whim of the moment - or do nothing successfully in very picturesque surroundings. Oh to eat moussaka at sunset overlooking a tiny bay, while listening to the waves lap on the pebbles nearby ... Move over Shirley Valentine! Here's a sample from the chapters, recipes included: Athens - Maybe it’s not the Paris of the Mediterranean, but nothing quite eclipses the Acropolis. Moussaka - the authentic ...

Survive and thrive in uncertain times by listening to the insights and inspirational ideas of world-leading experts on staying calm, focused and in control, brought to you by Penguin. Too much time on your hands? Too busy to think? Too tired to do anything? Too anxious? Life as we know it presents us all with different challenges - whether it's the anxiety of loneliness or the stress of being cooped up with the kids 24/7, working at all hours from home or finding yourself unable to fill the long hours of each day.

In today’s working world, careers are characterized by change. You can take control of your own development at any time, but many of us don't as we feel held back by time, money, or imposter syndrome. Careers used to be linear and ladder-like. They were about following in other people’s footsteps and focused on getting to the top. This predictable approach to careers no longer fits. Enter the lobster, which never stops growing. Inspired by the lobster, superstar career coaches Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis show you how to achieve a meaningful and motivating career.

High summer in Mirribool. Humour, drama, and romance – in song! So, what if you found a letter from your husband saying he has left you for the Barbie-doll office receptionist? Elle Charlwood heads off to the Australian country town of Mirribool, home of her childhood friends, Shelley, and Liam. They offer Elle sanctuary while she tries to glue her life back together. It’s high summer, and she soon becomes absorbed into life in the country town. The wacky local characters are anything but boring, and the musical society gives everyone a place to express themselves in song. Tolstoy’s ...

The Scottish conflict between the MacDonalds and the Campbells, stemming from the 1692 massacre at Glencoe, has come back to haunt Australian girl Caroline MacDonald. It seems ridiculous, but working in the London office of the irascible Robert Campbell becomes a battle of wits. Forced to give up her European travel plans to assume the temporary job as his secretary, Caro is challenged when he instructs her to get on a plane for Scotland. Problems have arisen over Robert’s inheritance of a Scottish castle. His presence is required in Scotland to sort things out and he needs her assistance...

The last thing Lainie Greenwood expects is to tumble off her mule on the Greek island of Santorini and then have to watch her cousin, Marigold, fall for her rescuer. She's so irritated by all their lovey-dovey nonsense that she decides to leave them to it, escaping to the nearby island of Naxos. Here she meets Andreas Galanis, a Greek/Canadian businessman, who needs a housekeeper for a few days. Unexpectedly, after the death of his ex-wife, he has to take care of his young son, Jamie, and right in the middle of house renovations, too. To Lainie's surprise he offers her the job. What has she...

A holiday on a Greek island? Yes, please. Offered the chance to flee dismal London for some peace, quiet and sun, Kate Barrington leaves her editor job and sets off with alacrity. She’s never heard of the island of Sifnos, but reckons if celebrity actor Marcia Gold has a holiday house there it must be okay. And it is – stunning views, great food, and the gorgeous next-door neighbour Theo Laskaris, aka Tim Firth, popular crime writer. However, things turn sour. Kate learns that, back in London, Marcia hasn’t turned up for rehearsals for her current play, and seems to have totally ...