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Nora Roberts

Fiction / Suspense / Fantasy

As Amanda Jamison, Ariel Kirkwood suffered stoically through the daily traumas of a popular soap opera. She was adored by her loyal fans, besides as the real people in her life. Booth De Witt had written his greatest script: from the hurting of a bitter marriage came a bitingly vivid story. Ariel knew she wanted to play the scheming married woman -- a complete change from her sweetness daytime heroine. Only Ariel the actress awakened the ghosts of Booth\'s past with her eerily perfect portrayal of his ex-wife . . . and Ariel the woman broke through his hardened pessimism, tempting him to love again.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction / Poetry

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- well-nigh the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things nigh Sebastian Knight equally a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer than a dozen knew of the two love affairs that so greatly influenced his career, the second one in such a disastrous way. Subsequently Knight'south death, his one-half brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life, starting with a few scanty clues in the novelist's private papers. His search proves to be a story of mystery and intrigue as any of his subject area's own novels, as baffling, and, in the stop, equally uniquely rewarding.

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature & Fiction

The Existent Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a mod revolutionary and a searching business relationship of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English language in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

CustardQuest I - The Real-Life, Truthful Treasure-Hunt Game

Custard Marks

I am Custard. I'1000 11 years onetime and have created a treasure-chase game. Read my paranormal-investigation notes and effigy out the clues subconscious inside the text of the notes. These clues volition lead you to a special rock hidden somewhere in the U.s.a.. If y'all discover the stone, report it on the website (including the lawmaking engraved on the stone), and y'all will be paid reward coin. It'south gratis to play.My name is Custard Marks. I am an 11-twelvemonth-quondam boy. I am the creator of CustardQuest.The game is pretty elementary. I travel around the country investigating paranormal events and unexplained phenomena. Simply read my investigative notes and effigy out the clues hidden within the text of the notes. These clues will pb yous to unique stones subconscious somewhere in the United States. If you find a rock, report it on the website and include the lawmaking engraved on the forepart of the rock, and you will be paid via Paypal whatever the pre-appear reward amount is for that particular CustardQuest. The reward money will be relatively pocket-size at first and will increment as the number of participants increases. The smaller reward amounts will too let me to conduct frequent CustardQuests. New CustardQuests will be released periodically, usually every few months.The notes are almost 10 pages long and are written in plain English -- no ciphers or codes, only maybe a word game or two. Sounds easy enough, right? Skillful luck.

Original stories from real life

Edith Howes

This book was written while Wollstonecraft'southward experience as schoolhouse-mistress and governess was still fresh in her memory. As she explained in the preface, her object was to make upwards, in some measure, for the lacking education or moral training which, every bit a rule, children in those days received from their parents. In addressing a youthful audience, Mary was as securely inspired by her love of goodness, per se, and her detestation of conventional conceptions of virtue, every bit she was afterwards in appealing to older readers. She represents, in her book, 2 little girls, aged respectively twelve and xiv, who have been sadly neglected during their early years, only fall, fortunately, at this flow of their life, nether the care of a Mrs. Mason, who at once undertakes to class their character and train their intellect.

The Life and Times of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh

Shirley Harrison

The true story of the iconic teddy bear who became a beloved children's volume character and continues to inspire children around the world. In this captivating biography, author Shirley Harrison follows the journey of Winnie-the-Pooh, the world's most famous dizzy old bear, from his starting time advent to his concluding resting identify. Winnie-the-Pooh was "built-in" in an Acton toy manufacturing plant in 1921. From there he traveled to Harrods where he was bought by Mrs. Daphne Milne for her baby son, Christopher Robin. At the family's farmhouse in Ashdown Woods, Sussex, deep in the "Hundred Acre Forest," author A.A. Milne transformed his son Christopher Robin'southward playtime fantasies into the stories that would obsess readers the earth over. From England, Pooh emigrated to America, spending many years as a celebrity on tour. Today, he lives in retirement in the Children'southward Center of the New York Public Library along with Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga, and Piglet.

Existent Life

Brandon Taylor

Named ane of the most anticipated books of the year by Amusement Weekly, Electrical Literature, The Rumpus, Paste, Bookriot, and Library Journal. A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern academy boondocks, from an electric new voice.A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend—and a lifetime of cached pain. Virtually everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circumvolve of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight human being, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing subconscious...

CustardQuest III - The Real-Life, True Treasure-Hunt Game

Custard Marks

I am Custard. I'm 11 years old and accept created a treasure-hunt game. Read my paranormal-investigation notes and figure out the clues subconscious within the text of the notes. These clues will atomic number 82 you to a special stone hidden somewhere in the United States. If you find the stone, report it on the website (including the code engraved on the stone), and yous will be paid reward coin. Information technology's gratuitous to play.My name is Custard Marks. I am an 11-yr-sometime male child. I am the creator of CustardQuest.The game is pretty uncomplicated. I travel around the country investigating paranormal events and unexplained phenomena. Merely read my investigative notes and figure out the clues hidden inside the text of the notes. These clues will lead you to unique stones hidden somewhere in the United States. If you find a stone, report it on the website and include the code engraved on the front of the stone, and you will be paid via Paypal any the pre-announced advantage amount is for that particular CustardQuest. The reward money volition exist relatively minor at first and will increase as the number of participants increases. The smaller advantage amounts will too allow me to conduct frequent CustardQuests. New CustardQuests will be released periodically, usually every few months.The notes are about 8-ten pages long and are written in plain English -- no ciphers or codes, just maybe a word game or two. Sounds easy enough, correct? Practiced luck.

Girl (In Real Life)

Tamsin Winter

What'southward it like to abound upwardly online and have every tantrum, every spot - even your kickoff period - broadcast to hundreds of thousands of followers?

How the Hush-hush Changed My Life: Real People. Existent Stories.

Rhonda Byrne

Self Help

An awe-inspiring compilation of the most uplifting and powerful real-life stories from readers of the worldwide bestseller The Secret. Discover how everyday people completely transformed their lives by applying the teachings of The Secret. Since the very kickoff publication of The Cloak-and-dagger a decade ago, Rhonda Byrne's bestselling book has brought forth an explosion of existent people sharing existent stories of how their real lives have miraculously changed for the better. How The Hugger-mugger Inverse My Life presents a selection of the almost heartwarming and moving stories in ane inspirational volume. Each story provides an authentic, real-life illustration of the pathway that leads to success in every area of life: money, health, relationships, love, family unit, and career. The people in How The Secret Changed My Life show time and again that no one is excluded from living the life of their dreams.

In Existent Life

Leticia Sala

In Real Life: An Online Love Story is the first of its kind—a bilingual novel-in-verse written by popular Castilian-language poet Leticia Sala. In Existent Life is non only about a immature Barcelona woman who finds romance online thousands of miles away in New York Urban center, information technology is also an ode to the titanic effort required in staying loyal to a delivery and her ain individuality in the silicon age.Told in a poetic key, the fate of this couple, whose relationship begins with dearest at beginning like, offers a fractured mosaic of essential moments crowded with insecurities and urban neuroses, both contemporary and universal. The characters in the work of Leticia Sala seek light in the chaos churned out by modern culture and are always treated by the author with compassion, regard, and respect for their unfolding desires.In Real Life captures our infatuation with technology and finding new ways of relating to ane another, our fascination with travel...

Lost Sir Massingberd: A Romance of Real Life. five. 1/two

James Payn

Verse / Fiction / Art

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We accept not used OCR(Optical Graphic symbol Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where at that place are images such every bit portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, and then they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally in that location may be certain imperfections with these onetime texts, we feel they deserve to be made bachelor for future generations to enjoy.

Seventeen Real Girls, Existent-Life Stories

Seventeen Magazine

From pranks gone incorrect to sexual corruption and murder, these stories will motivate readers to reflect on their own lives. In 1 case, xiv-yr quondam twin girls rob a bank in a desperate bid to save the family home, while some other tale tells of a female parent who makes a horrifying decision for her pregnant girl. These people share their personal trials and tragedies in the hopes that others can learn from their experiences. Includes a xvi-page colour photo insert.

Is This The Existent Life?

Marking Blake

Is This the Real Life? The Untold Story of QUEEN Marker BlakeDespite the decease of their exuberant frontman Freddie Mercury in 1991, Queen remain i of the most popular bands on the planet. Yet, the total story of their extraordinary success has never been told, until now.Derided past critics, but adored by fans, the band's unmarried-mindedness and sheer ambition paid off when in 1975, Queen'south half-dozen-minute operatic single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' became a Number 1 hitting, changing their lives forever. From and then on, Queen's story was one of constant musical and stylistic re-invention, as the progressive rock of the early '70s mutated into stadium anthems, romantic ballads and pure popular, with a side order of jazz, gospel and heavy metal. And so, in 1985, Queen's incredible performance at Live Aid stole the show and reminded a global television audition of why they were one of the greatest live acts of all time.Mojo and Q journalist Mark Blake has conducted brand new interviews with record producers,...

Real Life

Kitty Burns Florey

Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for maternity when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew, Hugo, comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth most his parents and horrified that she doesn't ain a tv and so he tin scout the soap opera he'southward devoted to. As Dorrie and Hugo attempt to work things out, each learns some hard and surprising, only deeply satisfying truths about real life.

Scribbling Women & the Real-Life Romance Heroes Who Love Them

Hope Tarr

In Scribbling Women and the Real-Life Romance Heroes Who Love Them, twenty-eight romance fiction writers reveal their real-life stories of how they met, wed and love—and are loved and supported by—their spouses and life partners. At times whimsical and laugh-out-loud funny (Jacquie D'Alessandro's Donny & Me?, Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick's Soul Mates for a G Lifetimes), at others poignant and bloodshot (Elf Ahearn's A Lost Friend, A Pic Star, A Man to Love Forever), all unfailingly inspiring (Lisa Renée Jones's Unexpected Treasures; Deanna Raybourn'southward One time in a Blue Moon), each essay celebrates that virtually powerful and sacred of human being bonds.Love.Happily Ever After isn't only the stuff of romance novels and fairy tales. It is every adult female's birthright.Contributors:Deanna RaybournMay McGoldrickJacquie D'AlessandroLisa Renée JonesJulie KennerKatharine AsheDonna GrantPatience BloomLeslie...

The Existent Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Actually Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago

Jacky Hyams

Fans of Julian Fellowes' hit evidence can footstep back 100 years to the earth of the pampered, privileged upper classes and take a wait at exactly what goes on behind the magisterial doors of their favorite stately homeUsing the characters and setting of the popular television show equally a point of reference for the reader, this is a closer look at the Edwardian period. They were the super rich of their times, pampered beyond belief—the early 20th century Edwardian gentry, who lived similar superstars, their every desire or need catered to by an regular army of butlers, servants, footmen, housekeepers, and grooms. Grade, money, inheritance, luxury, and snobbery dominated every aspect of the lives of the upper crust Edwardian family. While below stairs the staff inhabited a completely different world, their very lives dependent on servicing the rich, pandering to their masters' every whim, and rubbing shoulders with wealth and privilege. While privy to the almost intimate and darkest secrets of their masters, they faced ruin and shame if they ventured to make the smallest step outside the boundaries of their class-ridden globe. From manners and morals to etiquette and style, this volume opens the doors to the reality of the era behind TV's favorite stately home.About the AuthorJacky Hyams is a freelance announcer and editor who regularly writes for the Evening Standard.

Servants' Hall: A Existent Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance

Margaret Powell

RetailMargaret Powell's Beneath Stairs, a servant'south immediate account of life in the great houses of England, became a sensation amidst readers reveling in the luxury and subtle class warfare of Masterpiece Theatre's striking boob tube series Downton Abbey. In Servants' Hall, some other true piece of life from a time when armies of servants lived below stairs simply to support the lives of those to a higher place, Powell tells the true story of Rose, the under-parlourmaid to the Wardham Family at Redlands, who took a shocking stride: She eloped with the family unit's only son, Mr. Gerald.Going from rags to riches, Rose finds herself defenseless up in a maelstrom of gossip, incredulity and envy amid her fellow servants. The reaction from upstairs was no better: Mr. Wardham, the primary of the house, disdained the friction match so completely that he refused e'er to take contact with the young couple again. Gerald and Rose ally, leave Redlands and Powell looks on with green-eyed, fifty-fifty as the marriage hits on bumpy times: "To us in the servants' hall, it was just like a fairy tale . . . How I wished I was in her shoes."Once again bringing that lost world to life, Margaret Powell trains her pen and her gimlet eye on her "betters" in this next chapter from a life spent in service. Servants' Hall is Margaret Powell at her best—a warm, funny and sometimes hilarious memoir of life at a time when wealthy families similar ruled England.About the AuthorMARGARET POWELL was born in 1907 in Hove, and left school at the age of thirteen to starting time working. At fourteen, she got a chore in a hotel laundry room, and a twelvemonth later went into service equally a kitchen maid, eventually progressing to the position of cook, before marrying a milkman called Albert. In 1968 the get-go volume of her memoirs, Below Stairs, was published to instant success and turned her into a celebrity. She died in 1984.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.1In 1922, when at the age of fifteen I entered domestic service – after 2 years as a 'daily' – servants were considered less than dusty past those who employed them; and ignorant, even positively 'not all there' past that department of the working course, male and female alike, who wouldn't have been seen alive, or dead, as a retainer 'beneath stairs'.Regardless of their poor wages and ofttimes poverty-stricken dwelling house lives, store girls were the romantic dreamers. Didn't they all mean solar day long handle delicate fabrics, perfumes and jewelry? Didn't they serve titled ladies and debutantes; and just serve them, not wait on them hand and foot as domestic servants did? Furthermore, store girls had the opportunity to meet dashing and obviously wealthy young men, who were not averse to a little dalliance with a pretty girl behind the counter. Small wonder that many a girl had visions of marrying ane of those desirable and delectable prizes.But retainer girls too had their dreams. We found them in the pages of Peg'due south Paper and The Crimson Circumvolve where the heroines, without surrendering a fraction of their innocence and virginity, somewhen succeeded in capturing the love – and coin – of the handsome hero. We establish romance, excitement and vicarious sexual emotion in the movie theater, swooning over such cardboard lovers equally Rudolph Valentino or Ramon Navarro. Though, equally I used to say to my friend Gladys, it couldn't be all honey existence courted past one of those sheik types. When he held you in a passionate comprehend, you lot wouldn't know for sure whether he actually cared or was simply getting in a bit of practice for his next film. Gladys reckoned that she'd chance on it, for at to the lowest degree they didn't beginning off by trying to feel a girl in all the wrong places – as the fellows one met at a trip the light fantastic toe did.At the films, we likewise, for a while, could be equally sexy every bit a Clara Bow, or as slinkily seductive as a Pola Negri. But ane place where nosotros never at any time looked for romance was in a higher place stairs. Although living in the same business firm, coming into contact in bedrooms, cartoon-rooms and kitchen, those above stairs were, to servants, a world apart. None of us dreamed, or thought the prospect even remotely possible, of entering their life, of being 1 of them. Their style, their money and perchance even their morals, were totally alien to the way of life below stairs. So, no matter if the sons or nephews occasionally visited the kitchen and servants' hall on some specious excuse, we knew well enough they were merely amusing themselves past slumming. And yet, during my years in service, ane daughter did manage to change her status from downstairs to upstairs past marrying the son of the business firm; much to the Madam'southward dismay and the Principal's fury. I must acknowledge that Rosalie, the parlourmaid, was an exceptionally pretty girl – though a bit slow in the uptake. She had a lovely flossy peel, the bluest of optics, and thick gold pilus that waved naturally. I'd have idea that with those natural advantages, she could have got a better job than existence a parlourmaid. Simply Rosalie's mother was a strict, church-going disciplinarian, the embodiment of respectability. And so what improve task for her daughter than domestic service; that was eminently respectable.All this occurred over fifty years ago. There are only two of us left now; Mary the nether-housemaid, and me. I am therefore able to write about a unique issue and the life of the household.2I was eighteen when I decided that I was fed up with being a kitchenmaid; fed up with having to gauge the disposition of the melt and cater to her whims and fancies; fed upwardly with having to expect on the other servants. I reckoned I'd learnt enough about cooking to become a adept plain cook. So I decided to give a month's notice then to go home for a couple of weeks – I'd saved enough money to pay my mother for my keep – while I looked effectually for another job and a new status.I needed a brusque interval between leaving the old job and inbound the basement of a new i, because working out a month'due south discover was purgatory. The cook was invariably extremely irritated because you wanted to go abroad from her, and she'd as well have to first training another girl. Yet, however awful she was, it would have been very unwise to answer rudely considering she might tell Madam that you weren't a good kitchenmaid, and then, if Madam didn't give you a adept reference, you'd no hope of getting a decent task.I'd ever kept in contact with Mary, the nether-housemaid from my first job below stairs, and then I wrote to let her know that I contemplated taking a job every bit a cook. Mary was still an nether-housemaid, working now in a large country house near Southampton. I'd been dwelling house only two days when she came to see me, principally with the object of persuading me to get a temporary kitchenmaid. In a calendar week's time they would exist in urgent need of 1.'Information technology's e'er such a dainty place, Margaret. Madam, Mrs Wardham, is a lovely lady to piece of work for, and so considerate. He's a bit of a swine, but then you'd never come across him, he never goes down to the basement except once in a while to audit the wine cellar. And it'southward only for a calendar month or two, until the melt's niece tin can come as a kitchenmaid. There's a between-maid so y'all'd go help in the kitchen; and Mrs Buller, the cook, though she's a scrap churchy, she'southward easy to get on with.''Don't make me laugh, Mary. Yous're always telling me that people you don't have to piece of work under are easy to get on with. Yet when I told you that I quite liked Alice, the upper housemaid where nosotros were at Mrs Clydesdale, you lot went upward in the air and said she was an quondam witch. Still, you were correct near the cook in that location; Mrs McIlroy was quite nice.''At that place yous are then, Margaret. She'due south married now too.''Married? Never! Not Mrs McIlroy. Why, she was fifty at least. Who would ally her?''You call back the butler, Mr. Wade? He got the sack for going out in one of the reverend'south suits and coming habitation every bit drunk as a lord. Mrs McIlroy married him about a month ago. I await she thought, any port in a storm. Anyway, he'south got a good job equally a hall porter in a posh hotel. Ah! that was a night, wasn't it, when he got the sack; made a lovely bit of excitement for united states of america. D'you remember he came rolling in well-nigh ten o'clock, went into his sleeping accommodation and came out with a sheet draped circular him like a surplice. Then, waving a whisky bottle in one manus and a Bible in the other, he shouted to u.s. goggle-eyed servants, "Down on your knees, sinners" – like we had to at prayers every morning with that erstwhile hypocrite the reverend giving us sermons on counting our blessings. So Mr Wade said:Dearly beloved brethren, isn't it a sin,to swallow new potatoes and throw abroad the skin.Though the skins feed the pigs and the pigs feed us,Dearly dearest brethren, swallow them you must.'Ah! Wasn't Mr Wade the one for making up rhymes at the driblet of a hat.''Yep, but worse than that, Mary, was when he went on imitating the reverend's voice, saying, "Hither endeth the kickoff lesson", and then to our horror – because we could see the reverend on the basement stairs – adding, "I'm every bit drunk every bit I can be, all on the reverend'due south fine whisky. What a stingy sometime human is he".'We had almost burst trying to suppress our laughter while the reverend was there – for we hadn't wanted to follow Mr Wade into the wilderness. Merely up in our bedroom nosotros'd giggled like mad over the thunder-struck expression on the reverend's face up; such an outrageous event had never been known in the reverend's house. That a servant should get drunk and utter blasphemous words! It was worth a month's wages, £2, to have been a spectator.These reminiscences didn't deflect Mary from the purpose of her visit. When I asked why couldn't they manage in the Wardham business firm with merely the betwixt-maid if information technology was only for one month, she said that Mrs Buller needed somebody who could melt for the servants and make sauces because, as Madam was giving her niece a London Season, there was a lot of entertaining going on in the firm. I was nigh to protest that plain there must exist a lot of work, when Mary hastened to explain that Madam didn't look the servants to do all the actress work for nothing. She thanked them all, and often gave them extra money. To heed to Mary the place sounded like a domestic's dream of heaven.'Yes, Mary, that'due south all very well,' I said, 'but I was only about to write after this job advertised in the Forenoon Postal service: Skilful PLAIN COOK REQUIRED. £40 PER ANNUM. OWN BEDROOM. USUAL FREE Fourth dimension AND One WHOLE DAY OFF PER MONTH. It's in Belgravia.''For the last twelvemonth we've had one whole day off a month, and we're immune to stay out until eleven o'clock on that night. As for wages, I know the kitchenmaid gets £30 a year; that's not bad, is information technology?'With such inducements offered me I couldn't turn it downward. So, some days later, and carrying simply a suitcase as I wasn't staying long, I travelled by train to Southampton and and then got on a omnibus to this remote state residence. I suppose information technology wasn't all that remote, really, but to me, used to crowds of people and shops, the motorcoach seemed to be going into the back of beyond. I felt considerably dismayed when at terminal, after more an hour'due south ride, I was set downwardly at the gates of a very long drive. What on world would I do with my free time in this place, with not a sign of habitation, people, shops and cinemas? The rain was pouring downward, and owing to the tall trees which near met overhead the broad ...

The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero

Joel Southward. Baden

David is one of the most celebrated characters in the Bible. Nosotros know him as the dauntless fellow who defeated Goliath, the outset king of a united Israel, the composer of the beloved Psalms, and, for Christians, the messianic forerunner to Jesus. And yet for all the glory nosotros attribute to David's legend, the historical reality is both fascinating and disturbing. In The Historical David, Joel Baden reveals that, in David's case, the Bible is political spin, "the goal of which is to absolve David of any potential guilt and to prove him in a positive light." Through deep textual analysis, Baden reveals how the historical David has been painstakingly and successfully diminished, replaced past the portrait of a glorious king we are now familiar with. To question David'south fable opens up a debate about what it ways to exist a descendant of David--exist it nationally, ethnically, or religiously. In The Historical David, Baden confronts this claiming, bringing the historical David vibrantly to life, and ultimately revealing that the mankind-and-blood man was far more circuitous and interesting than the mythical king.

In Real Life

Chris Killen

Withal FRIENDS A DECADE ON? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and bedrooms that smell similar cabbage were never part of the programme. The real globe doesn't await quite like any of them imagined. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a long-forgotten Hotmail account, she comes face up to face with the people these 3 friends used to be . . . For two of them it will mean a new showtime to an one-time dear story. Hilarious and heart-breaking, In Existent Life paints a searingly honest portrait of a generation and captures a world where human being connection is easier than ever before but where relationships remain just as tricky.

The Ugly Girl: A Thrilling Real Life Journeying to Self Discovery, Riches and Spirituality

Julia Legian

The Ugly Daughter is a thrilling memoir, the gripping truthful story of a young woman who witnessed horrific murders and who overcame cruel abuse and unimaginable tragedies to find dear and peace; to ascension from rags to riches. Julia Legian's emotionally, harrowing and fascinating memoir reveals how she endured a series of unbelievable tragedies and heartbreaking abuse from the hands of her parents and great aunty, and how she rose above her horrendous past to accept a successful and happy life. Information technology'southward beautifully written with simplicity and shocking honesty. The Ugly Daughter is a wonderful reminder that regardless of your social groundwork or environment you came from, you can rise above the tragedy and survive. This book also clearly demonstrates that annihilation is possible if only you have firm faith in God or your creator. It's an amazing story of miracles, shocking reality of domestic violence, survival and extraordinary luck. This really is a powerful and touching story that must be read.Review"Nosotros have no idea. No-one not brought up in a war-torn country can have whatever conception of what it'southward like. This is a story of a little girl who was. Bodies are commonplace, expiry unsurprising, and poverty and danger extreme and ever-nowadays. Simply the worst attribute of it all must take been the utter hopelessness. Most children came to accept the state of affairs. Only this little daughter didn't. And that is the joy of this volume. Written with not bad wit and wisdom 30 years after the result, The Ugly Girl is well-nigh the ugliest of events. Yet the reader is constantly reminded that this is not what this book is really about. Instead, like The Odyssey, it is about the resilience of the human being spirit in the face of extraordinary odds, a hugely inspirational and uplifting work. It shows the upside of the motive that collection a young girl to find joy in an execution: the want to be much amend than she might have been. Because this little girl goes through these horrors and not only survives, but does so with her spirit and sense of humour firmly intact. Surely, we in this lucky country of Australia, tin exercise likewise? Perhaps we could start by welcoming our boyfriend-humans instead of turning our back on them." - C. Southward. Boag author of Mr Rainbow series "Julia Legian's memoir is among the nearly harrowing and moving life stories I have come beyond. While the life in Vietnam her family unit escaped from was beyond any horror fiction, unfortunately the children did not escape their torturers, her parents. The writer'due south rise through luck, conclusion and intelligence to a place where she could write and publish a book in a 2nd language is both a relief and a testament to the human spirit. iv stars and 5 tissue boxes." - Tom Inundation author of Oceana FineAbout the AuthorJulia Legian (aka Loan Thi Nguyen) was built-in in 1972, Southward Vietnam. Or was information technology 1971? Nobody actually knows and so she prefers to err on the immature side. In the 80s her parents fled Vietnam as "gunkhole people" and immigrated to Australia. For about of her adult life she has worked in real estate. She quit her job in 2002 and became a successful belongings investor. In 2004 she fix her ain business as a buyer agent to assist others follow her footsteps. She is at present officially retired to concentrate full fourth dimension on writing. She is happily married to Simion and has a wonderful, kind and loving son, Jeremy. Dawn Burke is a creative writing instructor and editor. She has published books on writing and has written and published works of fiction. She has two cute daughters and nine grandchildren. In her view, working with Julia Legian has been an honour and a privilege. Helping Julia to recount the story of her struggle for survival against painful obstacles, has been a rewarding experience.

In Existent Life

Jessica Honey

Hannah Cho and Nick Cooper have been best friends since 8th grade. They talk for hours on the phone, regularly shower each other with presents, and know everything there is to know about i another. There's just one problem: Hannah and Nick have never actually met.Hannah has spent her entire life doing what she's supposed to, only when her senior twelvemonth spring break plans get ruined by a rule-breaker, she decides to break a dominion or two herself. She impulsively decides to road trip to Vegas, her older sis and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick and finally declare her more than-than-friend feelings for him.Hannah's romantic gesture backfires when she gets to Vegas and meets Nick's girlfriend, whom he failed to mention. And it turns out his relationship status isn't the simply matter he'due south been lying to her well-nigh. Hannah knows the real Nick tin't be that different from the online Nick she knows and loves, but now she merely has i night in Sin City to effigy out what her...

American Legend: The Existent-Life Adventures of David Crockett

Buddy Levy

From Publishers WeeklyLevy presents a sympathetic but unremarkable biography of the legendary frontiersman in colloquial if occasionally florid prose (an election loss "burned into Crockett like a make searing a cow's flank"). Those whose paradigm of Crockett was formed by the cultishly successful Disney treatment volition observe much that is familiar: the Indian fighter with Andrew Jackson, the congressmen from Tennessee and, finally, the Texas patriot who died defending the Alamo. Simply Levy (Echoes on Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partridge) offers more (although non a lot more) in the way of groundwork and complexity, and is willing to betrayal some of Crockett's deficiencies without making judgments: Crockett clearly indulged his wanderlust at the expense of his wife, a strong figure in her own right, and was, for a variety of reasons, an ineffective, bumbling politician. But despite his faults, readers volition discover Crockett likable and talented. In Levy'southward view, Crockett'due south abilities were expansive, and he opines that Crockett's bestselling 1834 autobiography "prefigures by some 50 years the literary genre of 'realism,' with nothing remotely similar it" until Mark Twain'south Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And Crockett's falling out with President Jackson over, in part, Jackson's brutal Indian Removal Human activity of 1830 is to the frontiersman'southward credit. B&west illus. (January.) Copyright © Reed Business concern Information, a sectionalisation of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistCrockett was built-in in 1786 in Tennessee and died at the Alamo in 1836. In his brief lifetime, he became a folk hero, a three-time congressman, and a potential presidential contender. In this meticulously researched book, Levy chronicles Crockett's remarkable rise to fame. For most of the start half of his life, Crockett lived from day to day, driven by the barest necessities of food, clothing, and shelter. He married then rented a modest subcontract, and the couple had two sons and a daughter; his wife died from complications after their girl'southward birth. He fought in the War of 1812 against Groovy Britain and afterward became a magistrate, the commencement step in his career in public life. In the end, as Levy has it, Crockett transcended the facts of his life to become an enduring symbol of possibility, remembered not for his deeds or his greatness, just for the tenacity of his spirit. George CohenCopyright © American Library Clan. All rights reserved

Life Is A Beach / A Existent-thing Fling

Pamela Browning

Life is a BeachHunky rancher Slade Braddock is tired of roping the wrong female, so he signs on every bit a client at Rent-a-Yenta matchmakers of South Beach, Miami. He's willing to leave it to the professionals to find him a mate! Karma O'Connor is desperate to make a successful lucifer for Slade, her, gulp, but client. Why, she'll even become and then far as to date him herself…hey, information technology's a tough assignment and some gal'due south gotta do it!A Real-Thing FlingKarma'due south sister is in town mixing business organisation with pleasure. Azure O'Connor is to consult with a local high-flying businessman. Petty does she realize that the businessman is Leonardo Santori, aka Lee Sanders, the beach bum she met at Karma's hymeneals and affectionately nicknamed Lust Puppy. He doggedly pursues Azure—but will it be a real-thing fling?

Nosotros Are Never Coming together in Real Life.

Samantha Irby

Sometimes yous only have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta swallow" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking most how her hard childhood has led to a problem in making "adult" budgets, explaining why she should exist the new Bachelorette—she's "35-ish, but could hands pass for threescore-something"—detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-holiday to Nashville to scatter her estranged male parent's ashes, sharing awkward sexual encounters, or dispensing communication on how to navigate friendships with old drinking buddies who are now suburban moms—hang in there for the Costco loot—she'south as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.

Real Life

Sharon Butala

In 1985, Sharon Butala' s first collection of curt stories, Queen of the Headaches, was nominated for a Governor General' s Award. Her 2nd, Fever, won the 1992 Authors Accolade for Paperback Fiction and was nominated for a Democracy Laurels. The publication of Real Life, her newest collection, one time again shows she is a primary of the genre. Real Life contains ten perfectly formed stories, singular moments of emotional intensity virtually the inner lives we all share. In " Calorie-free," a woman whose sister is dying an agonizing death from cancer finds a compelling attraction to the stories of Holocaust survivors. In " Existent Life," Raine, a middle-aged divorced woman, runs into her former husband-- and the still-abrupt pain of an affair that changed the course of their lives. " Keeping House" tells of a daughter' southward impending divorce, forcing her mother to re-examine her ain calumniating offset marriage. Each story presents the...

Life Real Loud

Beak Reynolds

The human who gave it all awayAt historic period fifty, when some people offset planning for retirement, John Lefebvre striking the digital motherlode. Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet offset-upwardly that processed payments between players and online gambling arenas, rocketed into the stock market place. In its early years, Neteller had been a cowboy operation, narrowly averting disaster in creative ways. Co-founder Lefebvre, a gregarious hippie lawyer from Calgary, Alberta, had toked his way through his practice for decades, aspiring all the while to be a professional person musician. With the profit from Neteller and his stock holdings, he became a multi-millionaire. He started buying Malibu beach houses, limited edition cars, complete wardrobes, and a jet to fly to rock shows with pals. When that got boring he shipped his fine suits to charity, donned his honey t-shirt and jeans, and started giving away millions to the Dalai Lama, David Suzuki and other eco-conscious people, as well equally anyone else who might...

Real Life Rock

Greil Marcus

For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called "Real Life Rock Top Ten." Information technology has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings, reflections, and sallies amount to a subtle and implicit theory of how cultural objects fall through time and circumstance and frequently evangelize unintended consequences, both in the nowadays and in the hereafter.Existent Life Rock reveals the critic in total: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for fine art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.

In Real Life

Lawrence Tabak

15-yr-old math prodigy Seth Gordon knows exactly what he wants to exercise with his life—play video games. Every spare minute is devoted to honing his skills at Starfare, the earth'southward about popular calculator game. His goal: South korea, where the top pros are rich and famous. Just the best players train all twenty-four hours, while Seth has schoolhouse and a task and divorced parents who hold on simply 1 matter: "Get off that damn computer." Plus there'southward a new distraction named Hannah, an aspiring photographer who actually seems to understand his obsession.While Seth mopes about his tournament results and mixed signals from Hannah, Team Anaconda, 1 of the leading Korean pro squads, sees something special. Before he knows it, information technology's goodbye Kansas, goodbye Hannah, and hello to the strange new globe of Korea. Only the reality is more complicated than the fantasy, as he faces cultural daze, disgruntled teammates, and behemothic pots of sour-smelling kimchi.What happens next surprises Seth....

Into the King of beasts'due south Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond

Larry Loftis

James Bail has zippo on British double agent Dusko Popov. As an operative for the Abwehr, SD, MI5, MI6, and FBI during World State of war II, Popov seduced countless women―including agents on both sides―spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslav diplomat... On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugal by throwing down an outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his opponent. The Serbian was a British double agent, and the money―which he had just stolen from the Germans―belonged to the British. From the sideline, watching with intent involvement was none other than Ian Fleming... The Serbian was Dusko Popov. Equally a youngster, he was expelled from his London prep schoolhouse. Years later he would be arrested and banished from Germany for making derogatory statements virtually the Third Reich. When World War II ensued, the playboy became a spy, eventually serving three dangerous masters: the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI. On August 10, 1941, the Germans sent Popov to the United states of america to construct a spy network and get together information on Pearl Harbor. The FBI ignored his High german questionnaire, but J. Edgar Hoover succeeded in blowing his comprehend. While MI5 desperately needed Popov to deceive the Abwehr virtually the D-Mean solar day invasion, they assured him that a return to the German Secret Service Headquarters in Lisbon would result in torture and execution. He went anyway... Into the Lion's Mouth is a globe-trotting business relationship of a man's entanglement with espionage, murder, assassins, and lovers―including enemy spies and a Hollywood starlet. It is a story of subterfuge and seduction, patriotism, and cold-blooded backbone. It is the story of Dusko Popov―the inspiration for James Bond. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS **Review **Praise for Into the Lion'due south Mouth **"For those wanting to know the existent-life inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, hither information technology is. ... A piece of work of not-fiction that'south more thriller than biography. It's well-researched, but provides only enough historical background to prep u.s.a. for Popov's unsafe exploits into espionage, politics and warfare." —The states Today "Gripping ... This one volition go along y'all planted in your reading chair from commencement to finish." —Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Excellent book—very impressive research ... A scholarly thriller." —Dr. Robert Kuckuck, Managing director, Los Alamos National Laboratory (ret.) "Loftis recounts the exploits of the model for Ian Fleming's James Bail graphic symbol with slap-up skill. ... Will accept readers on the edge of their seats and immersed in this sometimes unbelievable tale." —Library Journal "Who needs fiction. Truth is a thousand times better, and this true-life adventure has it all. Action, history, secrets, conspiracies—a sizzling piece of entertainment that'southward real." —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author **"Sifting through declassified documents from World War II — also as hotel bills, letters and long-forgotten memoirs — Loftis painstakingly pinpoints the exact moment Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, first encountered this real-life 007." —New York Post "Superspy Dusko Popov—The Real-Life James Bail." —Parade "First-class integration of master and archival sources ... Impressive evidence ... Highly readable." —Naval Historical Foundation "The real-life inspiration for James Bail proves to exist equally every bit riveting as any of Ian Fleming'southward creations ...One of the most remarkable books we've read all twelvemonth... Although Into the Lion's Oral fissure reads more like an intelligence antic than a biography, the book is impeccably researched and cited, making information technology an excellent read for even the most discriminating history buffs." *—*BestThrillers.com "Sometimes truth is not only stranger, just more exciting than fiction. If one is an Ian Fleming aficionado and a World War Ii history buff, yous will find Into the Lion's Rima oris a merger of the virtually heady and fascinating aspects of both genres. '007'south' exploits in the fourteen James Bond books almost stake in comparing to the actual exploits of Dusko Popov." —Admiral R. J. Zlatoper, U.Due south. Navy (ret.) "The description of UK's successful attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto and how that served as the model for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor provide an interesting insight. Most shocking, however, is the fact that J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Manager, was provided this primal intelligence by Dusko Popov 4 months before the Japanese attack, and plain didn't tell anyone. Many thousands of lives could have been saved and the war in the Pacific could have been brought to a successful conclusion much sooner." —Admiral James A. Lyons, Jr., U.Southward. Navy (ret.) "007 inspiration: Bolder than James Bond." —*Orlando Lookout man* "Gripping, thrilling, and too crazy to be truthful—except that it is...Reads less similar a biography and more like a thriller...One of the most fascinating things I've read, catamenia." —*The Real Book Spy* "Packs the dial of a cyanide capsule." —Joshua Hood, author of Clear by Fire and* Alert Order "James Bond is not the amalgamation of several bits and parts from people like Frankenstein's monster, just based on i individual ... Reads much similar a novel, and a thrilling ane at that." —The Big Thrill "A true tale fraught with danger, suspense, beautiful women, and a fateful summer meet at a certain Casino Estoril in 1941. ... Loftis makes the strongest case yet for why Bail fans should consider Popov as Fleming'southward true inspiration." —James Bond Radio*** "An espionage volume that seems and so highly improbable it could simply be true. ... Even without the Fleming/Bond connexion, Into the Lion'due south Oral fissure is difficult to put downwardly and the exploits ... incredible." *—The James Bond Dossier *** Most the Author Larry Loftis is an author and attorney. He has published legal articles in the Academy of Florida Law Review, Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Florida Bar Journal, National Law Journal, and Florida Banking. He received a BA from the University of Florida, an MA from Reformed Theological Seminary, and a JD from the University of Florida Constabulary School, where he served on the Law Review as the senior executive editor and senior manufactures editor. He also served at the law school as a didactics fellow for Legal Research and Writing/Appellate Advancement. He as well has taught law as an adjunct professor for Belhaven University.

Nothing Is Impossible: The Real-Life Adventures of a Street Wizard

Часть #36 серии "Autobiography" автора Dynamo

"I immersed myself in magic. I read every book I could get my hands on and practised and practised, day after mean solar day and night after night. Magic became my world...some might say an obsession." When you lot're a kid life can seem tough; tougher for some than others. But the darkest of times can as well be the near enlightening. When his belatedly granddad showed him magic for the first fourth dimension, Steven Frayne knew there was more than to life than hiding from bullies. He had a destiny. A calling. In that moment Dynamo was born: the most exciting sorcerer of the 21st century. Since then, Dynamo has shocked, thrilled and amazed men, women and children, from all walks of life, all over the world. With his heed-bravado illusions, he has catalysed a whole new era of magic. Now, in his very starting time book, Dynamo invites you to join him on a breathtaking journeying across the globe. Be prepared to levitate Lindsay Lohan in Singapore, transform snow into diamonds in the Austrian mountains, and walk on water across the River Thames. Along the way, he reveals how to brand the incommunicable possible, what information technology takes to pull off the greatest stunts man has seen, and why everyone needs magic in their lives. This is no illusion. This is the existent story of the monumental Dynamo.

Analee, in Existent Life

Janelle Milanes

Young Adult / Gimmicky

A Cuban-American teen navigates social anxiety, her begetter's remarriage, and being torn between ii very cute boys in this heartfelt and funny contemporary novelEver since her mom died three years agone, Analee Echevarria has had trouble saying out loud the weird thoughts that sit in her head. With a best friend who hates her and a dad who's marrying a yogi she tin't stand, Analee spends well-nigh of her time avoiding reality and part-playing every bit Kiri, the night elf hunter at the center of her favorite online game. Through Kiri, Analee is able to limited everything real-life Analee cannot: her bravery, her force, her inner warrior. The ane affair both Kiri and Analee tin can't do, though, is piece of work up the nervus to confess her romantic feelings for Kiri'southward partner-in-crime, Xolkar—a.1000.a. a teen male child named Harris whom Analee has never really met in person. So when high school heartthrob Seb Matias asks Analee to pose every bit his girlfriend in an attempt to make his ex jealous, Analee agrees. Certain, Seb seems kind of obnoxious, only Analee could use some exercise connecting with people in real life. In fact, it'd perhaps even aid her with Harris. But the more Seb tries to coax Analee out of her comfort zone, the more than she starts to wonder if her broken-hearted, invisible self is fifty-fifty gear up for the real world. Can Analee effigy it all out without losing herself in the procedure?

You lot Look Different in Existent Life

Jennifer Castle

Readers of John Green, Sarah Dessen, and Laurie Halse Anderson will exist touched by the emotional depth and realistic characters of Jennifer Castle'due south YA novel You Expect Different in Real Life. Justine charmed the nation in a documentary film featuring five kindergartners. V years after, her edgy sense of humor made her the star of a second pic that defenseless upwards with the lives of the same five kids. Now Justine is sixteen, and another sequel is in the works. Justine isn't ready to take viewers examining her life once again. She feels like a disappointment, not at all like the girl everyone fell in love with in the kickoff two movies. Just, prepare or not, she and the other four teens will presently exist in front of the cameras again. Smart, fresh, and ofttimes funny, You Look Different in Real Life is a piercing novel about life in an age where the lines between what's personal and what'due south public aren't always clear.

Just Another Twenty-four hour period in My Insanely Existent Life

Barbara Dee

Twelve-year-old Cassie has a lot to cope with when her father moves "out of the moving picture." Her mom's constantly working overtime, her teenage sister's going AWOL, and her little brother seriously needs attention. It'southward up to Cassie to prevent total anarchy at home -- or then she thinks. She can't control everything, though. At school Cassie'southward two "best" friends are turning nasty, and a cute boy is sending mixed signals. And then there's Mr. Mullaney -- the weirdest, hardest English instructor in the 7th class -- who hates everything she does. Since Mr. Mullaney isn't even reading her bright work, Cassie starts submitting periodical entries similar "A Virtual Tour of My Insanely Messy Desk." But her sassy humor isn't winning her whatever friends or helping her ailing grades. What's a daughter to do when life gets totally insane? Barbara Dee has created a witty, poignant portrait of an intense, honest, feisty daughter who is ferociously funny and only besides human.

The Antelope in the Living Room: The Existent Story of Two People Sharing One Life

Shankle, Melanie

Welcome to the story of a real marriage.Marriage is simultaneously the biggest blessing and the greatest challenge ii people tin can ever have on. It is the joy of knowing in that location is someone to share in your joys and sorrows, and the claiming of living with someone who thinks it's a good thought to hang a giant antelope head on your living room wall.In The Antelope in the Living Room, New York Times best-selling writer and blogger Melanie Shankle does for matrimony what Sparkly Greenish Earrings did for motherhood—makes us laugh out loud and smile through tears as she shares the holy and the hilarity of that magical and mysterious union called marriage.