Download or read book True Story Romance Special 2019 written by Editors of True Story and True Confessio and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Story Romance Special 2019In this special collection filled with romance, marriage and also hope you will find the comfort as well as the courage that comes from shared experiences. Plus in each story you can get the resolution for self-improvement and the encouragement to explore new possibilities. Read and be inspired.Stories include: . Shocking Proposal. Love With No Strings. Pickup Victim. I Had To Cheat To Teach My Husband Not To!. I Belong To 5 Women. A Witch Made Me Pregnant!. My Husband Bet My Body In A Poker GameAnd more....Excerpt: Later, after Frank had fallen asleep, I lay beside him wide-awake, restless- yet afraid to move, afraid of disturbing him. My head started aching again, and that made me more restless than ever. What was wrong between Frank and me? It used to be that whenever we made love, I had been raised to the heights of passion. Lately, though, like tonight, I found it more and more difficult to respond. Tonight I pretended to respond when actually I felt nothing

Download or read book Based on a True Story written by Delphine de Vigan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wonderful literary trompe l'oeil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling' Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated and unusually intuitive, she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. And as their lives become further entwined, L. begins to threaten Delphine's identity and her safety.

Download or read book Like a Love Story written by Abdi Nazemian and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time "A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating. Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart—and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known. This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.

Download or read book Modern Love Revised and Updated written by Daniel Jones and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column—including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcée in her seventies looks back at the beauty and rubble of past relationships. These are just a few of the people who tell their stories in Modern Love, Revised and Updated, featuring dozens of the most memorable essays to run in The New York Times “Modern Love” column since its debut in 2004. Some of the stories are unconventional, while others hit close to home. Some reveal the way technology has changed dating forever; others explore the timeless struggles experienced by anyone who has ever searched for love. But all of the stories are, above everything else, honest. Together, they tell the larger story of how relationships begin, often fail, and—when we’re lucky—endure. Edited by longtime “Modern Love” editor Daniel Jones and featuring a diverse selection of contributors, this is the perfect book for anyone who’s loved, lost, stalked an ex on social media, or pined for true romance: In other words, anyone interested in the endlessly complicated workings of the human heart. Featuring essays by: Veronica Chambers • Terri Cheney • Deborah Copaken • Trey Ellis • Jean Hanff Korelitz • Ann Hood • Mindy Hung • Amy Krouse Rosenthal • Ann Leary • Andrew Rannells • Larry Smith • Ayelet Waldman • and more!

Download or read book Chase Darkness with Me written by Billy Jensen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***With an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation between Billy Jensen and retired detective Paul Holes on the Golden State Killer, their favorite cold cases, and more*** Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect? Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common—they didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of a friend, crime writer and author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara, Billy became fed up. Following a dark night, he came up with a plan. A plan to investigate past the point when the cops had given up. A plan to solve the murders himself. You'll ride shotgun as Billy identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You'll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle McNamara's pursuit of the Golden State Killer and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown Four. And Billy gives you the tools—and the rules—to help solve murders yourself. Gripping, complex, unforgettable, Chase Darkness with Me is an examination of the evil forces that walk among us, illustrating a novel way to catch those killers, and a true-crime narrative unlike any you've read before.

Download or read book My Name is Memory written by Ann Brashares and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest from Ann Brashares, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, a magical story of reincarnation and a love that lasts more than a lifetime Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. For all the times that he and Sophia have been connected throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. But just when Sophia (now "Lucy" in the present) finally awakens to the secret of their shared past, the mysterious force that has always separated them reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together.

Download or read book True Love Story written by Willow Aster and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in an idealistic home, Sparrow Fisher is sheltered and innocent. When she meets Ian Sterling, a musician who is rising in popularity, she instantly falls for his charm. They run into each other over the next few months and eventually begin an unconventional relationship. At different places in their lives, Sparrow is off to college in New York, and Ian is traveling the country with the band. When they see each other, all seems wonderful and lighthearted, but when they're apart, Sparrow is left to wonder if Ian really cares about her the way he says he does, or if she's just another pretty face to him. Once their relationship steadies, they're both happier than they've ever been, and it's hard to not get caught up in the magic they have together. Until something so devastating comes to light that threatens to shatter everything they've built with each other. True Love Story is a story about the real highs and lows that come with a relationship-happiness, pain, angst, and finding out if love really is enough.

Download or read book Tiny Love Stories written by Daniel Jones and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Charming. . . . A moving testament to the diversity and depths of love.” —Publishers Weekly You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be swept away—in less time than it takes to read this paragraph. Here are 175 true stories—honest, funny, tender and wise—each as moving as a lyric poem, all told in no more than one hundred words. An electrician lights up a woman’s life, a sister longs for her homeless brother, strangers dream of what might have been. Love lost, found and reclaimed. Love that’s romantic, familial, platonic and unexpected. Most of all, these stories celebrate love as it exists in real life: a silly remark that leads to a lifetime together, a father who struggles to remember his son, ordinary moments that burn bright.

Download or read book Fatal Romance written by Lisa Pulitzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Romance is the shocking true story of the romance novelist who dreamed of the happiness she wrote of - only to die at the hands of the man she loved.

Download or read book Westering Women written by Sandra Dallas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail AG Journal's RURAL THEMES BOOKS FOR WINTER READING | Hasty Book Lists' BEST BOOKS COMING OUT IN JANUARY “Exciting novel ... difficult to put down.” —Booklist "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she’s not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.

Download or read book True Story Romance Special 2021 written by Editors of True Story and True Confes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Story Romance Special 2021 True Story Romance Specials magazines were always everyone's favorite periodicals. With this new collection of 35 stories of women in very challenging surroundings, the minority of women are trying to hold a marriage together while finding answers to life's problems. All these accounts will expand your viewpoints and raise your curiosity, so read and appreciate. Stories include: . Our Love Was For Sale . I Became A Nude Model . The Sound Of Evil . I Married A Minister Who Preaches Pot And Passion . Diamonds Are Her Weakness . The Love Treatment . I Streaked My Sister's Wedding And more.... Excerpt: Kip didn't have enough time to do anything but yell just once. The truck forced us off the pavement into a deep ditch on the side of the highway. I heard Kip yell, "Hang on!" My hands were locked around his waist. The bike bounced high when it hit something, and then it was turning backward in the air. I heard the scream and didn't even know it was mine. Everything seemed to be in slow motion. Kip and his bike tore away from me, and I watched him and the motorcycle leave me. Then nothing. . . .

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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 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 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 Authentics written by Abdi Nazemian and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Authentics is a fresh, funny, and insightful novel about culture, love, and family—the kind we are born into and the ones we create. Daria Esfandyar is Iranian-American and proud of her heritage, unlike some of the “Nose Jobs” in the clique led by her former best friend, Heidi Javadi. Daria and her friends call themselves the Authentics, because they pride themselves on always keeping it real. But in the course of researching a school project, Daria learns something shocking about her past, which launches her on a journey of self-discovery. It seems everyone is keeping secrets. And it’s getting harder to know who she even is any longer. With infighting among the Authentics, her mother planning an over-the-top sweet sixteen party, and a romance that should be totally off limits, Daria doesn’t have time for this identity crisis. As everything in her life is spinning out of control—can she figure out how to stay true to herself?

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