Download or read book I Got Drunk at My Baby Shower written by Susan Bowen and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We had the ingredients, but we still needed an oven.' Susan Bowen is a cancer survivor who underwent a hysterectomy at twenty-nine. With her resilient and bubbly personality, she bounces right back. Devoting herself to her marriage, scrapbooking, and huge Halloween parties, she tucks away the idea of having children. But the dream of starting a family doesn't diminish, and her quest to 'find an oven' to hold her babies begins. Heidi Thompson is a workaholic juggling jobs and her children, hoping to provide the best life possible for her family while grabbing any opportunity to spend time with them. Gentle and reserved, she quietly takes inventory to strike a better balance in life. Never suffering morning sickness a day during her pregnancy, she investigates the possibility of becoming a surrogate. These two women, seemingly the antithesis of each other, unite for the purpose of bringing life to this earth. In their heartwarming 'tell-all' memoir, they raise awareness of the surrogacy process. Amidst the detailed logistics, trials, and tribulations, they still manage to laugh and inspire each other along the way. Their positivity helps them realize everything happens for a reason, and before they know it, getting drunk at a baby shower becomes an exciting possibility.

Download or read book Thirty Life Crisis written by Lisa Schwartz and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious essay collection perfect for anyone dealing with the challenges, indignities, and celebrations that come with being a thirty-something by actor and YouTube star Lisa Schwartz (Lisbug). Lisa Schwartz's stories and musings are all about watching her friends adult like pros, while she tries to understand why she doesn't want or can't seem to find all the things they have for herself. Like a big sister who's already seen it all, Lisa will take readers through her own life experiences to say that one thing we all need to hear: you are so not alone. Unabashed and unfiltered, Schwartz's voice and candor will appeal to anyone in their thirties who just can't deal with the never-ending Facebook feed of friends' engagement photos and baby pictures, the trials of figuring out where their passion meets their career, and everything in between. So, if you've ever had to figure out... Parenting Your Parents (Yikes) Gender Reveal Parties (It's an actual thing.) Discovering That Your Boyfriend Likes Boys (Surprise!) Online Shopping Away Your Anxiety (Don't) or Gender Reveal Parties (Seriously. It's an actual thing.) This book is your new best friend.

Download or read book Secrets of the World s Worst Matchmaker written by Piper Rayne and published by Piper Rayne, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colton is Juno’s best friend. He’d usually be the one she goes to for advice on what do you do when you fall in love with your best Imagine you’re a matchmaker and you realize too late you’re in love with your childhood best friend. You only have yourself to blame—you’re the one who matched him and now he’s engaged to be married. When you find yourself in this position there’s a few secrets you’re going to need to keep… Secret #1 – Smile when he tells you the happy news, even if your heart cracks in half. Secret #2 – Don’t compare yourself to his beautiful French fiancée. You’re just as beautiful. Secret #3 – Don’t tag along to the tux fitting with him alone. Just no. Secret #4 – Don’t help him learn to dance to his wedding song. Secret #5 – Erase all memories of the two of you through the years when lines blurred for even the briefest of moments. And the one you never saw coming… Secret #6 – Definitely, don’t stand and object—someone else might just do it for you.

Download or read book The Worst Perfect Moment written by Shivaun Plozza and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this inventive queer romance asks what it means to be truly happy. Tegan Masters is dead. She’s sixteen and she’s dead and she’s standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most depressing motel in all of New Jersey and the place where Tegan spent what she remembers as the worst weekend of her life. In the front office, she meets Zelda, an annoyingly cute teen angel with a snarky sense of humor and an epic set of wings. According to Zelda, Tegan is in heaven, where every person inhabits an exact replica of their happiest memory. For Tegan, Zelda insists, that place is the Marybelle—creepy minigolf course, sad breakfast buffet, filthy swimming pool, and all. Tegan has a few complaints about this. When Tegan takes these concerns up with Management, she and Zelda are sent on a whirlwind tour through Tegan’s memories, in search of clues to help her understand what mattered most to her in life. If Zelda fails to convince Tegan (and Management) that the Marybelle was the site of Tegan's perfect moment, both girls face dire eternal consequences. But if she succeeds…they just might get their happily-ever-afterlife. A tender and edgy take on coming of age in the afterlife. "Filled with depth and wit, despite its dark tone . . . exceptionally well written . . . A worthy read about a short life brimming with possibility." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Plozza (Meet Me at the Moon Tree) strikes an expert balance between poignancy and irreverence, tackling topics such as death, parental abandonment, and self-worth in this queer romantic comedy that’s as tender as a bruise." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Download or read book Who Should I Be Today written by Jaylene English and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaylene spent the majority of her life as a survivor buried in a multitude of secrets. She lived through intense sexual, emotional and domestic abuse that eventually culminated into a violent abusive lifestyle. After 20 years of living a life filled with hopelessness due to drug, alcohol, pornography, and sexual addictions, she made a choice during a church service that would change the rest of her life. It was at the church altar where she met the "love of her life". She has now been clean and sober for over 20 years and chooses each day to be a Christ Follower. Jaylene has a passion to reach people with a message of hope, and to let others know they are valuable. Together, Jaylene and her husband, Mike, have experienced deep sexual addiction in their marriage, which resulted in a pattern of multiple affairs that would have ended most marriages. However, instead of ending their marriage, they turned to Christ, and through His strength, they made the ultimate decision to see their relationship through these tumultuous times. They have now been married 30 years, and today, they help other couples walk through the pain and victory of healing and restoring broken marriages. Jaylene has a real passion to help encourage women through women's retreats, a place where women can get away from the busyness of life and be reminded of who they are in Christ. She has 3 children and 12 grandchildren that she thanks God for each and every day, and she is so grateful that she can be a part of their lives. They are each a gift from God that she feels she does not deserve, and therefore, she never takes them for granted.

Download or read book Shoot the Moonlight Out written by William Boyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting crime story about the broken characters inhabiting yesterday's Brooklyn, this is the new novel from modern master of neo-noir William Boyle. An explosive crime drama, Shoot the Moonlight Out evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced front yards, and where smudges of moonlight reflect in puddles even on the blackest nights. Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it’s dumb and harmless until it’s too late to think otherwise. Then there’s Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighborhood wrongs through acts of violence. A simple mission to strong-arm a Bay Ridge con man, Max Berry, leads him to cross paths with a tragedy that hits close to home. Fast forward five years: June 2001. The summer before New York City and the world changed for good. Charlie French is a low-level gangster-wannabe trying to make a name for himself. When he stumbles onto a bowling alley locker stuffed with a bag full of cash, he brings it to his only pal, Max Berry, for safekeeping while he cleans up the mess surrounding it. Bobby Santovasco, with no real future mapped out—and the big sin of his past shining brightly in his rearview mirror—has taken a job working as an errand boy for Max Berry. On a recruiting run for Max’s Ponzi scheme, Bobby meets Francesca Clarke, born in the neighborhood but an outsider nonetheless. They hit it off. Bobby gets the idea to knock off Max’s safe so he and Francesca can escape Brooklyn forever. Little does he know what Charlie French has stashed there. Meanwhile, Bobby’s former stepsister, Lily Murphy, is back home in the neighborhood after college, teaching a writing class in the basement of St. Mary's church. She's also being stalked by her college boyfriend. One of her students is Jack Cornacchia. When she opens up to him about her stalker, Jack decides to take matters into his own hands. A riveting portrait of lives crashing together at the turn of the century, Shoot the Moonlight Out is tragic and tender and funny and strange. A sense of loss is palpable—what has been lost and what will be lost—and Boyle’s characters face down old ghosts with grim determination, as ripples of consequence radiate in dangerous directions.

Download or read book Surrender Yourself written by Dianne Crows and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Dianne Crows spirit name is 2Crowsflying. Her spirit guide is High Horse. And this is her story. In Surrender Yourself, she shares the details of her spiritual journey. Her story begins in the seventies at age eighteen, pregnant and married, traveling Australia in a panel van and follows through to the present day as she comes to terms with who she is. This memoir narrates how later in life Crows was finding out who she was, what she wanted in life, and how she was going to achieve it. She was craving the spiritual side. She had experienced the good and the badfrom the breakdown in her marriage to the loss of loved ones. She once questioned how she was going to cope as the universe continued to throw so many lessons at her. Surrender Yourself explains how Crows found peace and her calling in life through her spirit guide, her Indians, and her healing room. She puts a voice to the experiences that have shaped her being.

Download or read book Stuff You Should Know written by Josh Clark and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious—curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Armed with their inquisitive natures and a passion for sharing, they uncover the weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics. The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time—featuring a completely new array of subjects that they’ve long wondered about and wanted to explore. Each chapter is further embellished with snappy visual material to allow for rabbit-hole tangents and digressions—including charts, illustrations, sidebars, and footnotes. Follow along as the two dig into the underlying stories of everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost. Have you ever wondered about the world around you, and wished to see the magic in everyday things? Come get curious with Stuff You Should Know. With Josh and Chuck as your guide, there’s something interesting about everything (...except maybe jackhammers).

Download or read book Operation Bailey Babies written by Piper Rayne and published by Piper Rayne, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRESS RELEASE: Don’t drink the Lake Starlight water! Bailey babies are busy growing in their mommies tummies and the Baileys are having a triple baby shower to celebrate. If you want in on the pool on who pops first and when contact me. ;)

Download or read book Drunk Mom written by Jowita Bydlowska and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intense, complex and disturbing story, bravely and beautifully told. I read Drunk Mom with my jaw on the floor, which doesn’t happen to me that often.” —Lena Dunham Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska’s immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism. In the gritty and sometimes grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska’s account of the ways substance abuse took control of her life—the binges and blackouts, the humiliations, the extraordinary risk-taking—as well as her fight toward recovery as a young mother. This courageous memoir brilliantly shines a light on the twisted logic of an addicted mind and the powerful, transformative love of one’s child. Ultimately it gives hope, especially to those struggling in the same way.

Download or read book The Crane Wife written by CJ Hauser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer ​us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.

Download or read book Fire Born written by Val St. Crowe and published by Punk Rawk Books. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Caspian again. Nine months pregnant. Big as a house. And there’s another serial killer loose in Sea City. This guy uses compulsion to kill his victims, forces them to do it themselves, and makes it look like a suicide. But my boyfriend Detective Lachlan Flint and I have uncovered his gruesome methods and are on his trail. As the bodies pile up, we know we have to stop him. What else? Oh, my cousin showed up, pregnant as well, disowned by my grandparents. An old flame of Felicity’s is driving a wedge between her and Jensen. And Lachlan and I are struggling with our vow not to share blood. We know that if we do, we’ll rekindle blood bond, and we aren’t going back to that darkness. But every time we touch, it tempts us. So… we’re not touching so much these days. And I miss touching him. I miss kissing him. I miss all of him. Topics: urban fantasy, shifters, dragons, fairy tales, legends, magic, fantasy romance, witch, witches, witch fantasy, contemporary fantasy, shapeshifter, dragon romance, dragon urban fantasy, supernatural mystery, paranormal, paranormal romance, urban fantasy series, love, gothic, dark fantasy, new adult, alpha, anti-hero, strong female lead, kickass female, kickass woman, badass woman, mystery, murder mystery, procedural, police, paranormal mystery, witch mystery, dragon mystery,

Download or read book Even Though the Grass Is Greener Dirt Is There Also written by Dontavius M. Foster and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-06-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Dontavius Foster and in this book I give you my most vivid and lucid thoughts about how easily it is for a man to lose his way. Especially when his love falls between the two. In this case, whether or not to be in love is truly the question? Furthermore, the purpose was through love or lust. (Love under sexual trance)I’ll let you decide.Unless you're willing to take a ride. Don’t always expect the grass to be greener on the other side.

Download or read book My Baby Shower Record Keeper written by Virginia Reynolds and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- a fun way to record and save important information and special memories -- concealed brass wire-o binding A great way to record the fun and games at the baby shower. Includes space for photos, guest list, gift record, predictions, and advice from family and friends.

Download or read book Your Mouth Drives Me Crazy written by HelenKay Dimon and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Let Me Go Annie Parks came to Hawaii to settle a score, not spend time handcuffed to a sexy stranger's bed--even if said stranger saved her from drowning after she was pitched overboard by some goons. Looking at six feet of hard, Hawaiian muscle and gorgeous cool that's making forgotten parts of her say, "Aloha!," Annie needs to stay focused. But a side dish of Kane Travers is awfully tempting. Kauai Police Chief Kane Travers is not a vacation kind of guy. So it figures that when Internal Affairs suspended him, he'd end up rescuing a sarcastic, dishonest, extremely hot redhead who is clearly hiding something. Kane's got half a mind to give Miss Whoever She Is something she'll never forget, even if his cop senses tell him she needs his protection. But how can he get her to tell him anything when his mouth won't stop covering hers?

Download or read book Brother Love Runs Deep In These San Jose Streets written by ,Hopper and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about my troubles after my little brother was murdered at only fourteen years young, the changes that I put myself through, then how I had become a better and wiser man. Amen. It is also about growing up in San Jose, Northern California, living in the mean eastside ghetto, living poor, and just trying to live a better life and make my way to a better surrounding. Maybe the new generation will make better choices from my story.

Download or read book Totally Yours written by Claire Raye and published by Claire Raye. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totally Yours is a hilarious insta-love, family-drama, workplace romance set in beautiful Napa, California. It features hilarious workplace antics, a few laughs and a whole lot of steamy goodness! Love finds a home in truth… What do a former boss and a current boss have in common? Other than both being an employer…nothing! One is a narcissistic jerk on a huge ego trip and the other is a handsome, tattooed smooth talker. At least that’s how Hannah Murphy feels when she takes a job as a sous chef at the famous Somerville Winery and Vineyard. And her new boss, Leo Marsh is definitely easy on the eyes. But Leo is determined to get to the bottom of Hannah’s secret former employer. Even if the fiery beauty has her past locked up tight. As their cooking heats up in the kitchen, so does their attraction to each other. But it’s Hannah’s secret that could ruin it all. And you know what they say about secrets… Totally Yours is the fifth book in the steamy Love & Wine new adult romance series. While each book can be read as a standalone, it offers so much more if read as a series. Happily ever after guaranteed with each book!