Download or read book The Very Best of True Story Romance Special written by Editors of True Story and True Confessio and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this second volume The Best of True Story Romance Special, you'll find carefully collected tales that will make you smile, cry and lift your spirits. Share the exciting experiences of soldiers, encounters with quicksand and love affairs with airplane pilots, as well as many more of the kinds of adventures you can always count on from True Story. Stories include: Happily Ever After With a Married Pilot! Starved for a Man's Love My Husband Vanished Without a Trace! Safe In My Soldier's Arms Quicksand Sunk Our Dream The Baby Is His! ... and more! Excerpt: I heard his breathing before I felt the arm pull me back. His shirt hung from his trousers, his hair fell over his forehead, and the blood had already begun to dry on his chin. "Honey-wait!" I gasped. I wanted to slap his face again. Honey! As though we were still happily married! As though the girl in Long Beach had never been! As though he hadn't run off without a word to me, like a coward.

Download or read book The Very Best of True Story Romance Special Volume 2 written by The Editors of True Story and True Confe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this second volume The Best of True Story Romance Special, you'll find carefully collected tales that will make you smile, cry and lift your spirits. Share the exciting experiences of soldiers, encounters with quicksand and love affairs with airplane pilots, as well as many more of the kinds of adventures you can always count on from True Story.Stories include: Happily Ever After With a Married Pilot!Starved for a Man's Love My Husband Vanished Without a Trace!Safe In My Soldier's ArmsQuicksand Sunk Our Dream The Baby Is His!... and more!Excerpt: I heard his breathing before I felt the arm pull me back. His shirt hung from his trousers, his hair fell over his forehead, and the blood had already begun to dry on his chin."Honey-wait!"I gasped. I wanted to slap his face again. Honey! As though we were still happily married! As though the girl in Long Beach had never been! As though he hadn't run off without a word to me, like a coward.

Download or read book The Very Best of the Best of True Confessions written by Editors of True Story and True Confessio and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a little bit of hope, some suspense and a lot of love, the second volume of The Very Best Of The Best Of True Confessions embarks on another reading adventure. It begins with a ghost and continues with an incredibly desperate woman and finishes up with a family's disillusionment. Read these experiences and you'll come to believe that things will always get better. Stories include: The Ghost Who Shadows Me! Our Secret Afternoons of Passion Weep No More I Gambled to Keep My Lover My Voodoo Spell Cursed Me! Affair without End ... and more! Excerpt: I stopped talking. There it was, the truth. I resented the child because her small face and body were a living, constant reminder to me that Rick Porter had touched and kissed and made love to the woman I loved. "I'm sorry," I said. "Claudia, I'm sorry, honest."

Download or read book The Very Best of the Best of True Confessions written by Editors of True Story and True Confessio and published by True Renditions. This book was released on 1914-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of some of the very best stories from The Best Of True Confessions, handpicked by our editors, will surely capture your heart and mind. From young love to nightmare in-laws, and cheating spouses to summer romance, these tales will take you on an incredible adventure through the familiar Trues themes we all know and love. We think you'll agree that this latest installment from our archives will be hard to put down! Stories include: I Traded My Kids For A Lover! Monster-In-Law! Puppy Love I Played The Field Our Affair Killed Her! Love For Sale ... and more!

Download or read book The Very Best Of True Story Romance Special written by Editors of True Story and True Confessio and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of The Very Best Of True Story Romance Special, Volume 4 is a compilation of the finest stories from the True Story Romance Special magazines. This book is full of the affairs of women who have had tragic times and furthermore all of them deserve better times. Also, these difficult experiences that they have had with their sisters, their husbands or just friends will change your perspective forever. This book will inspire your hope for the future and inspire an understanding of the past.Stories include: Hot Nights as a Private Dancer!Obsessed with Another's Husband!I Made My Husband Brain Damaged!Murder Plot!My Husband Wants Sex with My Sister!Sex with a Pilot! ... and more!Excerpt: The man was coming toward me. I opened my mouth, and no scream came out. He moved closer. For a second, I stood frozen, staring at him. Then I made an instinctive rush for the door.His hand reached out and grabbed me, snapping my head back so violently my throat throbbed with pain

Download or read book The Very Best Of True Story Romance Special Volume 5 written by Editors of True Story and True Confessio and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This copy of The Very Best Of True Story Romance Special is the 5th volume and is like no other volume. Its contents are stories about mothers who worried about their families' safety and unprepared wives who can't handle the uncertainty in their lives. Share these experiences and be encouraged.Stories include: I Married 3 Brothers!Sex On the Love Boat!Four Missing Children!"Don't Lock Up Grandpa!"Love 'Em and Leave 'Em!I Drove My Lover Insane! ... and more!Excerpt: Then I heard my voice crying out; I felt myself move. I realized I must get her to the hospital in Hillsdale, the nearest town. The small car we used for errands was outside. Before the lights had completely blacked out, I had Katie bundled up and ready to go. I put on a coat, and, holding her carefully, I climbed into the car and swung it onto the country road, already deep in snow.At the next turn, the two front wheels sank into the snow, and the car stalled. I sat there, tears running over my cheeks. Where I found the strength I never knew, but I took Katie into my arms, and while every nerve in my body cried out for me to hurry, I slowly reached the highway.

Download or read book I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-03 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.

Download or read book The Very Best of True Story Romance Special Volume 3 written by True Story and True Confessions and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into new, exciting experiences in The Very Best Of True Story Romance Special, Volume 3. Begin with the life of a woman who is working for the peace corps then take a walk in the shoes of a woman full of hatred and then join the circus alongside another adventurous female character! All these stories and more are included in the new third volume of this collection for you to enjoy and share with family and friends. Stories include: Angel of Mercy! "I'll Make My Priest Break His Vows!" Why Wasn't He There When Our Baby Was Born? I'm A Circus Freak! Mother Locked Me Up for 9 Years! Abandoned at the Bus Depot! ... and more! Excerpt: My chest began to feel as if it had been pumped full of air and lack of oxygen made me drowsy. Now the wild peaks were all around us as we flew through a pass so narrow it seemed that I could reach out and touch the mountainside. In the open again, an updraft caught our plane and buffeted it mercilessly. I clung tensely to the arms of my seat, as the old plane strained and shuddered in the powerful air current. Suddenly, the turbulence subsided, and just below was a green mountain meadow, set beside a jewel-like lake. We were all gasping from lack of oxygen now, but we knew that this antiquated plane carried a supply sufficient only for emergencies. Unless we passed out or became very ill, we wouldn't get any.

Download or read book The Very Best Of True Experience written by Createspace Independent Pub and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second collection of The Very Best of True Experience was especially selected to keep you enthralled and keep your spirits raised. Reading these stories of cheating wives, office romances and families full of violence will take you from deep concern to complete serenity. Come along with us on this voyage through the human experience! Stories include: - The Ring - Novocaine And A New Romance! - Desperate For Illicit Sex - Let It Not Be In Vain - Behind Closed Doors - For Love-Or Money? - My 5 O'Clock Lover And more.... Excerpt: "No, they're not." I moaned, thinking of some of the tortured evenings we'd spent during the last week. "It gets harder all the time to keep control. It's wrong to have this barrier between us." "Then why keep control?" he whispered into my ear. "Let's jump the barrier. It's right, as far as you and I are concerned. That's all that matters." I pulled away. "No! Don't do this to me, Randy. I want you as much as you want me. I'm a woman in love and I'm getting desperate, but I want you the right way." He pulled me closer. "This is the right way. Love is all that matters."

Download or read book Based on a True Story written by Norm Macdonald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”

Download or read book How to Fall in Love with Anyone written by Mandy Len Catron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

Download or read book Silent River written by C. M. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smile A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.

Download or read book Sisters A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.

Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

Download or read book The Last Letter written by Rebecca Yarros and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story.“—InTouch Weekly Beckett, If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride. My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. It’s not fair. And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart. She’s going to need help. So if I’m gone, that means I can’t be there for Ella. I can’t help them through this. But you can. So I’m begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family. Please don’t make her go through it alone. Ryan

Download or read book Queen of the Air written by Dean N. Jensen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona, of the famous Flying Codona Brothers. Like today's Beyonce, Madonna, and Cher, she was known to her vast public by just one name, Leitzel. There may have been some regions on earth where her name was not a household expression, but if so, they were likely on polar ice caps or in the darkest, deepest jungles. Leitzel was born into Dickensian circumstances, and became a princess and then a queen. She was not much bigger than a good size fairy, just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds. In the first part of the 20th century, she presided over a sawdust fiefdom of never-ending magic. She was the biggest star ever of the biggest circus ever, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Show on Earth. In her life, Leitzel had many suitors (and three husbands), but only one man ever fully captured her heart. He was the handsome Alfredo Codona, the greatest trapeze flyer that had ever lived, the only one in his time who, night after night, executed the deadliest of all big-top feats, The Triple--three somersaults in midair while traveling at 60 m.p.h. The Triple, the salto mortale, as the Italians called it, took the lives of more daredevils than any other circus stunt.