Tag: Trailing

Packing Up Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse


Free Download Brigid Keenan, "Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1408846926 | EPUB | pages: 307 | 0.7 mb
Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a ‘trailing spouse’, Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts of thousands in countries all over the world. Now, in her further adventures, we find Brigid in Kazakhstan, where AW, her husband, contracts Lyme disease from a tick, the local delicacy is horse meat sausage and Brigid’s visit to a market leads to a full-scale riot from which she requires a police escort. Then, as the prospect retirement looms, Brigid finds herself on the cusp of a whole new world: shuttling between London, Brussels and their last posting in Azerbaijan, navigating her daughters’ weddings while coping with a cancer diagnosis, and getting a crash course in grand-motherhood as she helps organise a literature festival in Palestine. Along the way, dauntless and wildly funny as ever, Brigid learns that packing up doesn’t mean packing in as she discovers that retiring and moving back home could just be her biggest challenge yet.

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Haunted Mantorville Trailing the Ghosts of Old Minnesota


Free Download Christopher S. Larsen, "Haunted Mantorville: Trailing the Ghosts of Old Minnesota"
English | 2011 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1609491092, 1540205290 | EPUB | 6,6 mb
Stroll into Mantorville, and you get the sense that it is a place where you could comfortably live forever. Ghosts seem to feel the same way, and this excursion into the stories of their activity keeps pace with the feverish bustle buried in the town’s heritage. From ruined breweries to opera house mummies, Christopher Larsen takes the measure of one of Minnesota’s most historic and haunted places. The tale of his investigations might not rob Mantorville of its charm, but when you walk into a gift shop that was once a funeral parlor, you might be a little more susceptible to a shiver.

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