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This a book of short stories. They will make you laugh, cry and probably blush a little. Some the stories are fiction. Some have some adult humor. I added my own dry humor, that I think everyone, will appreciate and laugh out loud. My book is definitely not going to put you to sleep, but, I think you will forget about serious things for awhile. I hope my stories, give you, a different way of looking at life. Remember, nothing but happy endings. Just...
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Chonda Pierce, the top-selling female comedian of all time, is telling tales. From the way men and women give directions, to her up-close-and-personal view of NASCAR racing. From the danger of believing fairy tales, to not getting the "facts" straight about the first story in the Bible. This show includes two unforgettable vocal performances, before Chonda wraps the night up with a tender and reavealing true story from a heart passionately in love...
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My name is Cassidy and have I got a story for you. Do you remember that man who fell asleep for twenty years? That's what I did, but instead of twenty years I slept for five hundred years. Do you know how much can change in five hundred years?-a lot. Everyone I've ever loved is now dead, been dead for a long time. The world is so different. I don't even know where to begin. Everyone lives in glass domes. There are two opposing sides, and I don't even...
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What's wrong with Wende?
I've known since I was young that something was wrong with me.
Four-year-olds don't read newspapers.
Ten-year-olds aren't supposed to be given their Mommy's wake up pills or slapped at eleven for telling on the man who raped her.
I didn't mean to rob 7-11, when I was fifteen or get kicked out of the Navy at 17.
I married too young and was a mommy too soon.
Another marriage ended, when they arrested him as a serial rapist suspected...
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After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who has not yet been seen on the radar? Kerry's older sister Aline, a twenty-eight-year-old guidance counselor,...
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"Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth book in the series, Have a Nice Guilt Trip, "Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives once again and better than...
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Jim Croce, singer-songwriter of the #1 hits “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” and “Time in a Bottle”, was at the height of his career when his life was cut short in a plane crash while on tour. Just 30 years old on September 20, 1973, Jim was revered by an adoring audience for his gentle melodies and everyman demeanor.
Now, for the first time, this memoir reveals the man behind the denim jackets and signature mustache, a hard-working, wry charmer who...
11) My lovely wife
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2019.
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"Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder."--
Millicent...
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"Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood--blighted by his mother's death but redeemed...
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"In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth. We've all dropped anchor in places that suited us for a time: a city, a perspective, a lie we mistook as truth. This book is an invitation to a kind of life...
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"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief...
16) We told six lies
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"Remember how many lies we told, Molly? Its enough to make my head spin. You were wild when I met you, and I was mad for you. But then something happened. And now you're gone. But don't worry. I'll find you. I just need to sift through the story of us to get to where you might be. I've got places to look, and a list of names. The police have a list of names, too. See now? Theres another lie. There is only one person they're really looking at, Molly....
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"Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)! If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping by and take control of your money and your life with this savvy and smart guide. Broke Millennial shows step-by-step how to go from flat-broke to financial badass. Unlike most...
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"Let's be honest--none of us were given an owner's manual at birth. If you're having trouble solving a problem or making a dream happen, the problem isn't you. It's not that you're not hardworking, intelligent or deserving, but that you haven't yet installed the one key belief that will change everything. My mom, who has the tenacity of a bulldog and curses like a truck driver, explained it to me this way, "Nothing in life is that complicated. You...