And While You Re Here

This work covers his early life as an evacuee during World War II, to National Service in the RAF, student days, work in general practice and beyond. There are many dramatic, amusing and revealing episodes in his life which are covered The books title will resonate with all who do visits, be it a house call or a task on a farm. A classic `while you’re here` episode is described which is quite amusing now but was frightening at the time.

Whether he was trying to geld a spooked stallion in a blizzard or found himself in the middle of an all-out fracas involving a monkey's abscessed tooth and a shotgun, he took it in stride, with great affection for both his four-legged patients and his two-legged clients.

In her moving debut poetry collection, Leeza Jayde bravely examines and reflects on the most important relationship in our lives- the one we have with ourselves. This beautifully tender, vulnerable, and deeply intimate collection will speak to the hardest parts of yourself, and yet will still leave you inspired, filled with humbling wisdom, and wrapped in self-love. Separated into three chapters, While We're Here's sections each deal with different kinds of lessons in heartache, pain and love, the raw reality behind poor mental health, inner transformation through struggles and hard truths, and the gentle magic of hope and human kindness. Alluring line art illustrations by admired instagram artist Philipp Frohnapfel also accompany Leeza Jayde's poetry and visually aids in guiding you through the book's journey. An honest journey of what it means to live while we're alive.

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull over the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have . . . and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

In a parallel universe, the classic bad boy falls for the class science geek. "The perfect blend of sci-fi and swoons."—Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of These Broken Stars One minute Danny was running from the cops, and the next, he jolted awake in an unfamiliar body—his own, but different. Somehow, he’s crossed into a parallel universe. Now his friends are his enemies, his parents are long dead, and studious Eevee is not the mysterious femme fatale he once kissed back home. Then again, this Eevee—a girl who’d rather land an internship at NASA than a date to the prom—may be his only hope of getting home. Eevee tells herself she’s only helping him in the name of quantum physics, but there’s something undeniably fascinating about this boy from another dimension . . . a boy who makes her question who she is, and who she might be in another place and time. And don't miss Duplexity, Part II: While You Were Gone flips this story on its head and tells the tale of the alternate Danny and the alternate Eevee, living in Danny’s parallel world.

One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin’s holiday camps.