Bedtime Stories For Grownups

Author : Ben Holden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781471153785

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Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups by Ben Holden Pdf

There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think about life, a third of which is spent asleep. He deftly explores not only the science of sleep but also why we endlessly tell stories – even to ourselves, as we dream. Holden combines his own illuminating storytelling with a treasure trove of timeless classics and contemporary gems. Poems and short stories, fairy tales and fables, reveries and nocturnes – from William Shakespeare to Haruki Murakami, Charles Dickens to Roald Dahl, Rabindranath Tagore to Nora Ephron, Vladimir Nabokov to Neil Gaiman – are all woven together to replicate the journey of a single night’s sleep. Some of today’s greatest storytellers reveal their choice of the ideal grown-up bedtime story: writers such as Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett, Tessa Hadley, Robert Macfarlane, Patrick Ness, Tony Robinson and Warsan Shire. Fold away your laptop and shut down your mobile phone. Curl up and crash out with the ultimate bedside book, one you’ll return to again and again. Full of laughter and tears, moonlight and magic, Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups joyfully provides the dream way to end the day – and begin the night . . .

Author : Kathryn Nicolai
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780525507499

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Nothing Much Happens by Kathryn Nicolai Pdf

Soothing stories to help you fall and stay asleep, based on the popular podcast Busy minds need a place to rest. Whether you find yourself struggling to sleep, awake in the middle of the night, or even just anxious as you move through the day, in Nothing Much Happens, Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed: through the timeless appeal of classic bedtime stories. Already beloved by millions of podcast listeners, the stories in Nothing Much Happens explore and expose small sweet moments of joy and relaxation: Sneaking lilacs from an abandoned farm in the spring. Watching fireflies from the deck in the summer. Visiting the local cider mill in the autumn. Watching the tree lighting in the park with friends in the winter. You'll also find sixteen new stories never before featured on the podcast, along with whimsical illustrations, recipes, and meditations. Using her decades of experience as a meditation and yoga teacher, Kathryn Nicolai creates a world for you to slip into, one rich in sensory experience that quietly teaches mindfulness and self-compassion, soothes frayed nerves, and builds solid habits for nurturing sleep. A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE

Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724938436

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Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups by Dan Jones Pdf

Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups is a collection of 20 bedtime stories for adults from the 'Dan Jones Hypnosis' YouTube channel. The bedtime stories have been created in a way that encourages sleep and promotes wellbeing, helping with stress, anxiety and worry, three of the main areas behind many sleep problems, so, these bedtime stories are ideal for stressed out adults or those who find they worry or overthink when they should be falling asleep. These sleep stories for adults can be read by the person who wants to fall asleep, or read to someone to help them fall asleep, or audio recorded for personal use to help you fall asleep. Each bedtime story is a transcript of a 20-35 minute long hypnotic healing bedtime story. For most of human history storytelling helped people to share knowledge and wisdom while inspiring change and creativity. Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of verbal hypnosis. Stories stimulate and access the dreaming brain allowing people to update their neurology with new learning to change thinking, behaviours and responses to life events. Somewhere along the way storytelling became associated with children, it was seen as odd if you were an adult who said you liked listening to stories. This has now started to change, adults listening to stories and reading bedtime stories is on the rise. Dan Jones has over 20 years experience using storytelling as a form of therapy and to help people sleep, he also has a successful YouTube channel 'Dan Jones Hypnosis' with over 100 hypnotic healing bedtime stories for adults and over 20 sleep stories for children.

Author : Various
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781473695894

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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults by Various Pdf

PICKED FOR WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2020 THE PERFECT READ TO CALM YOUR MIND IN TIMES OF STRESS **** As recommended by RED magazine **** 'Dreamy' STYLIST 'Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep... the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in the mood for some zzzzzs.' the SUN 'Hurrah for a book that draws us away from the cold blue light of the smart phone and into the soothing glow of poems, short stories and extracts' THE SIMPLE THINGS Introduced by Lucy Mangan * * * Tales to soothe tired souls. A night time companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep. * * * This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep. A good night's sleep is essential for our well being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a page or two away. From classic stories by Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant and Katherine Mansfield, to friendly tales of our childhoods, to poetry that reminds us of the simple joys of life, this lovingly curated book will soothe a tired mind and gently carry you to the peaceful land of sleep. So switch off, snuggle down and allow yourself to escape into new worlds and old; magical, mysterious and tender realms that will accompany you to your own sweet dreams.

Author : Larry Skeeter Mance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955622515

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Bedtime Stories for Grownups by Larry Skeeter Mance Pdf

Bedtime Stories for Grownups is a collection of Christian short stories with moral messages; they are designed for husbands to read to wives and vice versa at bedtime and for children to read to parents or relatives who are in nursing homes, hospices, hospitals, and assisted-living centers. Many are based on true stories that occurred in Toccoa, Georgia.

Author : Apurv Nagpal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8129129825

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Eighteen Plus by Apurv Nagpal Pdf

Eighteen Plus: Bedtime Stories. For Grown-Ups is a raunchy collection of short stories that will make you roll on the floor with laughter. Filled with vivid descriptions of fantasies becoming true and hilarious situations, the book is light and entertaining, apt for your nightstand. Read about a programmer who is about to see his dreams come true when an exceptionally beautiful woman sits next to him on a flight, in Eighteen Plus: Bedtime Stories. For Grown-Ups. One of the other stories tells us about a kitty party, where Menu Verma shows the attendees a PowerPoint presentation about going down to reach the top. Find out how the mice play when the cat is away in Malti and Manoj's story, or how a sexologist couple gets kidnapped but nobody wants their ransom in the story, The Sexologist Reveals. If you're looking for pure entertainment and naughty tales, this is the book for you. Eighteen Plus was published in 2013 and is available in paperback.

Author : Anna Mcnuff
Publisher : Anna McNuff
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1914074025

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Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups by Anna Mcnuff Pdf

Pour yourself a cup of cocoa, get those jim-jams on and prepare to escape into a world of adventure with this collection of life-affirming short stories from award-winning adventurer Anna McNuff.

Author : Brad Montague
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780525537854

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Becoming Better Grownups by Brad Montague Pdf

A New York Times-bestselling author looks for the meaning of a good life by seeking advice from the very young and the very old. When his first book tour ended, Brad Montague missed hearing other people's stories so much that he launched what he dubbed a Listening Tour. First visiting elementary schools and later also nursing homes and retirement communities, he hoped to glean new wisdom as to how he might become a better grownup. Now, in this playful and buoyant book, he shares those insights with rest of us --timeless, often surprising lessons that bypass the head we're always stuck in, and go straight to the heart we sometimes forget. Each of the book's three sections begins with the illustrated story of "The Incredible Floating Girl." Brad weaves this story together with lessons of success, fear, regret, gratitude, love, happiness, and dreams to reveal the true reason we are here: to fly, and to help others fly. Beautifully designed and featuring Montague's own whimsical 4-color illustrations that appeal to the kid in all of us, Becoming Better Grownups shares the purpose and meaning we can all discover merely by listening, and reveals that--in a world that seems increasingly childish--the secret to joy is in fact to become more childlike.

Author : Margery Williams
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788728138809

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The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Pdf

"The Velveteen Rabbit" is a timeless classic that has captivated readers for over a century.An enchanting tale about a soft toy rabbit's journey to becoming Real. Through his adventures with his best friend, Boy, the rabbit learns about the transformative power of love, loyalty, and imagination. When Boy falls ill, the rabbit faces the ultimate test of strength and resilience. "The Velveteen Rabbit" is a heartwarming story of childhood innocence and the bonds of friendship that continues to inspire generation after generation. Rediscover the magic of a world where toys can become real, and dreams can come true. Margery Williams was a successful writer who authored a number of beloved children's books and novels, but she is best known for her classic tale "The Velveteen Rabbit." She also wrote other popular children's books such as "The Little Wooden Doll" and "Poor Cecco," as well as several novels for adults, including "Winterbound" and "The Thing in the Woods." Her writing career spanned several decades, and her works continue to be cherished by readers of all ages around the world.

Author : Mariana Ruiz Johnson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452168982

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While You Are Sleeping by Mariana Ruiz Johnson Pdf

While you are sleeping, does the rest of the world sleep, too? Not everyone. In this dreamy book, which won the 2015 Silent Book Contest at the prestigious Bologna Children's Book Fair, Mariana Ruiz Johnson conjures up the ordinary yet extraordinary world outside the window of a sleeping child. Some people are working. Some people are eating. Some are walking their dogs, others are watching the stars. And some are setting off on an adventure that might inspire an artist to create a book. As magical as the night sky, readers will return to Mariana Ruiz Johnson's illustrations again and again, finding new stories each time they visit. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which looks almost identical to the print edition.

Author : Tony Bayliss
Publisher : Stamford House Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Erotic stories, English
ISBN : 9781904985709

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Red Hot Riding Hood by Tony Bayliss Pdf

Author : Sue Gallehugh, Ph.D.,Allen Gallehugh, M.B.A.
Publisher : HCI
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1558743618

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Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups by Sue Gallehugh, Ph.D.,Allen Gallehugh, M.B.A. Pdf

Is Goldilocks a manipulator? Do Hansel and Gretel have abandonment issues? And what happens after "happily ever after" anyway? Therapist Sue Gallehugh and her son Allen adapt classic fairy tales to illustrate the fundamental principles of self-love through mental health and psychological growth. Through wit and humor, these tales tackle serious issues such as anger, isolation, taking responsibility, bitterness, labeling, emotional boundaries, staying connected, abandonment, manipulation, fear and forgiveness. This little gem of a book cuts through the dreary mire of conventional self-help books to help you discover real solutions to the common problems that prevent us from growing. You'll laugh out loud while reading "The Low Self-Esteem Duckling," "Cinderella, Inc.," "Little Red in the Hood," "Jack the Beanstalker," "The Third Little Pig" and more. A truly delightful book!

Author : Hillary Rollins
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307238788

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The Empress's New Lingerie and Other Erotic Fairy Tales by Hillary Rollins Pdf

Once Upon a Time ... A haughty princess paraded in front of her people but ended up showing off far more than her leadership skills. A modern-day Cinderella went to the ball in a pair of black patent-leather stiletto heels guaranteed to bring the foot-worshipping prince to his knees. The seven dwarves proved that what they lacked in size they more than made up for in numbers. And Goldie learned that nothing is too hot when it comes to finding out which of the three “bare” bachelors is neither too big nor too small, but just right. In The Empress’s New Lingerie your favorite childhood fairy tales have taken a decidedly adult turn. So dim the lights, get cozy, and lose yourself in sexy bedtime stories with a naughty twist. . . . Pleasant dreams.

Author : Zachary Seager
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529070774

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Sleepily Ever After by Zachary Seager Pdf

A selection of stories from your favourite classic authors that will make you smile, relax and fall gently to sleep

Author : Dominic Dimilano
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595347810

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Holiday Bedtime Stories from Around the World by Dominic Dimilano Pdf

Tribal lore has handed down customs and secrets from one generation to the next over several centuries. My people practice them and hold them very close and dear. It's not only part of our culture; it's in the very fabric of what we are.--Nadya, "A Russian Valentine's Day" From the pirates of Australia and Russian gypsy romance to ancient Ireland and the French Revolution, author Dominic DiMilano takes you through passionate and mystical holiday memories across time and around the globe. Throughout the seven tales of steamy, sensual escapades featuring different cultures, time periods, and exotic locales, Holiday Bedtime Stories will reshape the history you thought you knew of holiday origins, customs, and folklore, while daring you to explore aspects of your own pleasure psyche. Let DiMilano take you across time to the cultures of old.