Real Diaries

These captivating, all-new anonymous accounts, compiled by Alyssa Shelasky, in the style of her New York magazine column, pull back the curtain on non-monogamy, answering questions like: How does it really work? Who’s taking care of the kids? And who’s making breakfast? Featuring an...

The official companion book to the HBO series Gentleman Jack created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. This is her remarkable, true story. Anne Lister was extraordinary...

The Last Supper with a Psychopath A Criminologist’s Chilling Diary of a Real Family Murder On a cold November night in 1987, the quiet town of Ina, Illinois, was devastated by a crime so brutal it defied comprehension. The Dardeen family—Keith, Elaine, their 2-year-old son Peter, and a newborn baby girl—were found murdered in their modest trailer home in one of the most disturbing and mysterious homicides in American history. Why was there no forced entry? Why was nothing stolen? And who could commit such unimaginable violence—murdering even a baby born during the attack? In The ...

In 2014, Mackenzie Basham dropped her little boy off at her Mother's house on a Friday night, and never returned. The following week her family saw 19-year-old Mackenzie's mug shot on the local evening news channel, she has not been home since. This is the true story of Mackenzie's mother's personal diaries to her daughter through years of her incarceration, and Mackenzie's letters written back.

A completely revised, expanded and definitive edition of the memoir first published in 2020. What happens when a fifteen-year-old boy, determined not to be sent to boarding school, tries everything to escape—including running away, hitchhiking across Africa and even disappearing from the school bus? In 1984, Gordon Wallis arrived at Plumtree School on the Botswana border convinced his life was over. Instead, he discovered a world of unforgettable characters, outrageous adventures, lifelong friendships and lessons that would shape the rest of his life. From failed escape attempts and ...

The star-studded and sidesplitting follow up to The Andy Cohen Diaries. This program is read by the author. The megapopular host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, better than ever, and telling stories that will keep his publicist up at...

You no longer have to trade your time for dollars. A wise person learns from OPE (other people's experiences) and methods. This book will help you discover how to invest in real estate the right way, with proven methods used by thousands of investors across the United States.

In January of 1928 — two years before she met Clyde Barrow — a seventeen-year-old Dallas waitress named Bonnie Parker started a diary. A few pages in, the entries stop, because, she complained, nothing ever happened to her. This novel begins in that silence. There Is No Fair Country imagines the diary Bonnie kept when everything finally did — the private record behind the most famous outlaw love story in American history. It follows her from the café counter to the boy who looked at her like a compass finding north; to the Waco jail door with a smuggled pistol under her dress; ...

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of General Practice? Read it all in this eye-opening book and find out what it means to be a GP. Diary of a Female GP slides back the curtains on UK General Practice before COVID-19. Let Joni Martins take you behind the scenes of General Practice as only a doctor could. She describes a typical week in the life of a female GP as she goes about her life at home and at work. Encounter grateful and pleasant patients, abusive and angry patients, emotional encounters with people at the End of their Life on earth. Examine how a career and family life ...

The story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who consumed Parisian high society in the 19th Century, and the inspiration behind masterpieces such as Alexandre Dumas Fils' The Lady with the Camellias and Verdi's La Traviata, is one that overwhelms with its soul-searing tragedy. This peasant girl, who endured cruelty, abandonment, and the torment of a woman’s lot in her time, clawed her way through the class and cultural strata of Paris from one rich man to another, with her sensational beauty lighting the way. Yet her beauty wasn’t the only thing capturing hearts, but also her ...

A PureWow Best Beach Read of 2022 A frisky, feminine, funny, and profoundly genuine essay collection on relationships, sex, motherhood, and finding yourself, by the editor of New York magazine's "Sex Diaries." Alyssa Shelasky has a lot to tell you. In this hilarious and intimate essay collection...

This work investigates Bram Stoker, his life, his friends, his associations and in so doing we find clues to the real truth behind the tale of Dracula. We enter the dark world of the vampire, its past, present and future. We delve into the dark recesses within the mind of man and come away with mysteries only guessed at in each age. We discover that to be dead, really dead, is indeed glorious.

Aged and increasingly ailing European film icon Lída Baarová is taken care of by her stepmother Marcela, a woman five years her junior. As Lida becomes distraught by the effects of the Parkinson disease ravaging her body, and riddled with the fear of dying, her stepmother thinks up a way to distract her—she should recount her life, and leave a lasting legacy to her fans. For the next several months, Marcela records on paper as the actress tells her story. In 1936, at the height of her career, the film star has it all—recognition, a man she loves, worshiping fans all over the continent...

J. Massey wasn't always a highly skilled investor, but through action steps that he shares in this book, he amassed an impressive portfolio of hundreds of properties in just six years using an intensive approach to learning and then putting to use what he learned immediately and at the Speed of Instruction. Starting from less than zero, he used other people's cash and credit to invest in properties, from single-family homes to multi-family dwellings and large apartment complexes to commercial properties.

A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street. Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors...

Diary of a Teen Mother – From Homelessness to Homeowner in Eighteen Months (Updated Edition) Teen pregnancy. Homelessness. Unbreakable love. At just 18 years old, I was homeless, scared, and about to become a mother. With no roadmap and no safety net, I turned to the only motivation I had - my baby. Diary of a Teen Mother is a raw, inspiring memoir of survival, resilience, and the power of maternal love to transform a life. In just eighteen months, I went from squatting in a vacant apartment to buying my first home and launching a business. This is the true story of how impossible ...

Deftly combining his Santa persona with his passion for God, Butchart reveals himself as a once-hardened Marine who found Jesus and began to serve others in unusual ways. Listeners will be enthralled by Santa's day job refurbishing medical equipment for the disabled, to the sweetest of secrets written in letters, to the story of how he found "Mrs. Claus". Woven throughout is a faith and a joy of giving that energizes Butchart's mission to spread love to all kinds of children and adults.

Diario de un médium es el cofre en el que están guardados todos los secretos de un joven vasco decidido a seguir las señales que ha recibido y que viaja a Montreal para desarrollar su don al lado de Marilyn Rossner. Con Marilyn y su equipo, Mikel Lizarralde aprende a abrazar la misión de su vida: ayudar a las personas transmitiéndoles los mensajes de los espíritus. Mikel nos cuenta sus avances y tempranas experiencias como médium, sus primeras ceremonias y contactos con los espíritus, sus miedos y nostalgias, así como su necesidad de aprender a confiar en su energía.

(THE TONKS IN SPAIN containing SETTLING IN SPAIN and PROSPERING IN SPAIN is now also on sale at a reduced price.) Ken E. Tonks, husband of the celebrated travel writer Doreen B. Tonks, has finally put pen to paper to give his version of their first months in Spain, before recording the exciting events of the following spring and summer. Ken, usually a man of few words, bares his soul in this eventful narrative set on and around the Costa del Sol. His budding friendship with Fede the artist proves to be his passport into a life far removed from the insular expat community, and the singular ...

* BERYL AND FRED IN SPAIN now available, containing this book plus A Cat called Cheryl, with Fred and Beryl at a reduced price.* When Beryl and Fred decide to sell up and take a camper van tour around Spain with their lovable Cocker Spaniel, Ted, little do they realise how eventful their poorly planned trip will turn out to be. Intending to tour the whole country thoroughly in an anti-clockwise direction, one unexpected incident after another throws them off track and sees their faithful VW Camper, Vernon, transporting them to the south coast well ahead of any real or imagined schedule. ...