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Christmas Book Flood | Recommending reading

Education, teaching studies and self-help

Please visit our Book Bulletin 2019 crowdfunding project at CrowdPatch to buy recommendations for our Winter 2019 catalogue and to volunteer your skills, experience and contacts. All funds raised will support not-for-profit Jolabokaflod CIC’s forthcoming programme of events.

The Lazy Girls Guide to Life
Jennifer Byrne
(USA: Adams Media, @adamsmedia, 2017)

Do you have a lot to do but can’t seem to bring yourself to do it? The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Life can teach you how to get things done with as little effort as possible. Learn to simplify your beauty routine, keep up with your friendships, hack the dating game, and get by in the corporate world with these easy, low-commitment suggestions. You’ll find over 100 solutions to your most common problems …

UK: ‘Bookshop Search‘ (independents) | Amazon | Blackwells | Foyles | HiveWaterstones | WHSmith
USA: NewPages (independents) | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Hummingbird (ebooks and audiobooks)
Canada: FindaBookstore.ca (independents) | Amazon | Indigo
India: Bookstores in India (independents) | Amazon (ebook) | Flipkart | GoodreadsSapnaOnline
IrelandBookshop Search (independents) | AmazonEason | Kennys
Australia: Bookshops.com.au (independents) | Amazon | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia | Dymocks
New Zealand: Find a Bookshop (independents) | Amazon | Dymocks | Paper Plus
South Africa: Bookshops (independents) | Amazon | Exclusive Books
Rest of the world: Book Depository | Wordery

Recommended by:
Adams Media: at BookExpo America

Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, informs, instructs and inspires readers across a variety of lifestyle categories by providing the content they’re looking for, from the experts they follow and trust. From parenting to DIY, personal finance to self-help, Adams Media researches, identifies, creates and distributes accessible content with implicit discoverability. Embodying a uniquely flexible ‘ground-up’ publishing model, Adams Media navigates within or between consumer categories as market opportunity dictates. These are the books for which people are searching.

Pause: Reflect, Evolve and Design Your New Lifestyle
Christine Trainer
(USA: RED Integrative, @REDIntegrative, 2015)

Pause expresses the author’s journey to find balance and health, whilst overcoming an auto-immune condition. The book is a guide to help you get on the right path to overall health and wellness, helping you to get the most out of your life and contribute to a healthier lifestyle and routine, inside and out. Pause offers guidance on how to make a healthier lifestyle a reality. Whether you are dealing with chronic auto-immune disorders or just uncomfortable in your own skin, there is hope – you deserve it. Find your right path to a happier, healthier, sexier, glowing and more chic you by reading Pause.

UK: Bookshop Search (independents) | Amazon | Blackwells
USA: NewPages (independents) | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Hummingbird (ebooks and audiobooks)
CanadaFindaBookstore.ca (independents) | Amazon
India: Bookstores in India (independents) | Amazon (ebook) | Flipkart | Goodreads | SapnaOnline
IrelandBookshop Search (independents) | Amazon
Australia: Bookshops.com.au (independents) | Amazon | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia
New Zealand: Find a Bookshop (independents) | Amazon
South Africa: Bookshops (independents) | Amazon | Exclusive Books
Rest of the world: Book DepositoryWordery

Recommended by:
RED Integrative at BookExpo America

Christine Trainer is a Board Certified Integrative Health and Wellness coach; a member of the International Association of Health Coaches; a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, a published author, an inspirational speaker; marathoner; avid yogi; student and lover of life. Based in Chicago, she trades as RED Integrative Health Coach.