Dating Memoir

A história de uma nação é feita não apenas de brados retumbantes, mas também de palavras de amor sussurradas, muitas vezes, às escondidas. Este livro conta as dificuldades que importantes personagens da nossa história tiveram para efetivar suas paixões, nem sempre aceitas pela sociedade. Os casais retratados neste livro viveram, cada um a seu modo, um romance proibido, deliciosamente apresentado pelo autor, o jornalista e pesquisador Maurício Oliveira. Os cenários são as ruas fracamente iluminadas do Rio de Janeiro, a cabine de um navio rumo à Europa e até um cemitério de São Paulo.

In Millennial Love, journalist Olivia Petter explores the questions, quirks and anxieties that consume the contemporary dating landscape. Olivia scrutinises the myths surrounding modern romance and asks why, despite having endless technology designed to aid communication, it’s harder to meet someone now than ever before.

Feminism was a religion in Alisa Valdes’s childhood home. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the place of Barbies and left Valdes impressed with a feminist ideology that guided a prolific writing career - at 22 Valdes was named one of the top feminist writers under thirty by the editor of Ms. Magazine. Yet despite her professional success, Valdes hit forty-two a single mom and a serial dater of inadequate men in tweed jackets - until she met the Cowboy. A conservative rancher, the Cowboy held the traditional views on gender roles that Valdes was raised to reject.

Better Man is a story about love, heartbreak, and the difficult lessons learned while traveling the treacherous road of dating. Striving to become a better man, the author learns about his own values, what he's looking for in a partner, and that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is run. Getting through break-ups, navigating partners with differing values, and having the realization that just because sparks fly when you meet doesn’t always mean it’s meant to be–these are just a few of the harder truths the author learns along the way.

“Never underestimate a former Buckhead debutante.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Charlotte Laws is a woman of a thousand faces.” Sábado magazine “I didn’t realize quite how brave Charlotte is until I see her in action.” The Guardian Dr. Charlotte Laws—“the most well-known unknown”—is a TV star, best-selling author, and world-renowned advocate for women, animals, and the LGBTQ community. NBC News calls her a “crusader.” BuzzFeed voted her one of the 30 fiercest women in the world, and MSNBC labels her a “hero.” But who is this former Atlanta debutante who gave ...

When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest - her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car - and the residents of Anna Maria Island, with few facts to fuel their speculation, begin to fear the worst. Then, with the days passing quickly, her motel is set on fire, her boyfriend flees the county, and detectives begin digging on the beach. Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehler's motel as the search for the missing woman gained momentum.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so, too! Listen to Dating in the Electric Age and learn about the author's experience with online dating.

When Delia's beloved first husband, Jerry, died of cancer in 2015, after 35 years of marriage, she struggled without him. Focusing on the day-to-day, she decided to make one small move forward and cancel Jerry's dedicated landline. This spiralled into days of frustration, prompting Delia to turn to words to process her grief and bewilderment. Her New York Times piece about the woes of customer service caught the eye of Peter, who emailed to commiserate.

Martha is ambitious, competitive, successful, and now divorced. As she seeks to reinvent herself, she joins a dating site looking for companionship. Instead, she finds her soul mate in Stephan. They do everything together: work, travel, dance, sing, and love. Everything changes when Stephan is diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and then with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS—Lou Gehrig's disease). As the diseases progress, the dynamic, vivacious man Martha married disappears. Does Martha have what it takes to care for him?

Na, auch noch Single als Frau oder Mann? Hast du auch alles Erdenkliche an Datingapps ausprobiert und dich durch das World Wide Web gematcht und nach rechts und links gewischt, bis der Arzt kommt? Und dennoch sollte es nicht klappen mit Mr. oder Mrs. Right? Mach dir nichts draus, denn ich habe auch keinen Volltreffer gelandet. Aber ich habe eine Menge Gründe gefunden und daraus sind meine Top 61 Gründe entstanden. Diese beschreiben mein Single Dasein als alleinerziehende Mutter auf humorvolle Art und Weise.

Whether you are new to the dating scene or you have had your share of first dates, you'll take comfort in knowing it could be worse after this terrible but true story. You will laugh, you will cringe, and you will laugh some more at this funny and relatable tale. Just 30 minutes from start to finish, The Worst First Date Ever is the perfect short story to make you smile while waiting for an oil change, making the commute to work, or basking on the beach.

Rebooting in Beverly Hills is the witty, charming, and absolutely true account of Marcy Miller, a competent, attractive professional woman, as she struggles to reenter the dating world after an esteem-killing divorce of an adulterous husband.

Set in the opulent oasis of Beverly Hills, Marcy riffs on pickups, fix-ups, Internet dating, matchmaking, divorce, and all the other craziness - like psychics, girlfriends, and sex - that pop up along the road of leaving single life behind.

This fun, engaging memoir, written by a loveable and slightly saucy storyteller, is for anyone who has faced rejection and the need to start again.

In our lifetimes, most of us endure a number of relationships in which we struggle to define the time spent there. In each, we search to find connections to call our own, but silently as we reluctantly resist our forthcomings, so do the individuals we “commit” ourselves too. When - and if - that connection becomes disturbed or disconnected altogether, what transpires next?

Growing up, Walter Carter knew only a few basic facts about his father. Shattered by the loss of her husband, Walter's mother rarely spoke of memories that caused her pain for the rest of her life. After his mother's death in 1995, Walter finds his life transformed when he discovers, hidden away in her attic, a journal and some 150 letters that his father had written in the months, weeks, and days before his death. The discovery propels him on a journey of his own, and this audiobook takes us on that journey with him.

This book called Forever Love: How to Stay Married Without Losing Your Mind is about the personal experiences and married life of Tim and April Bell, who have been happily married for over 30 years. They share stories about how they met, subjects that they think are important in a successful marriage, as well as some helpful tools and resources for a long-lasting, loving, and intimate marriage.

Anna Faris has advice for you. Since October 2015, a whole lot of people have been getting relationship advice from a very well-intentioned but untrained source — actress Anna Faris — on her ridiculously popular podcast, Unqualified. Anna's own personal life was messy, even while her career soared as the lead in the Scary Movie franchise, and as the star of the CBS comedy, Mom.

I grew up in Normal, Illinois, but had lived in New Jersey for more than 30 years when my father died at the age of 84. I was 54 at the time and soon learned that family secrets had been kept from me. Strange deaths, tragedies, indiscretions, and relationships lay in my past, totally hidden. It took me seven years to uncover these secrets from personal interviews, genealogical studies, public records, and cutting-edge scientific work done by worldwide experts. Along the way, I trace my own life path from wanting to be a mechanic to gaining a master's degree at MIT.

In Hidden Treasure, Kara Adams teaches us that we are more than just our past life experiences, no matter how harsh these may have been. She leads us through a harrowing and deeply inspiring walk through her own past including infidelity, infertility, family trauma, and her life-threatening illness to show us that despite any circumstance, we can rise to live the passion and purpose designed for us. Part memoir and part personal development book, Hidden Treasure is beautifully written. Kara engages the listener with her contemporary, colloquial, and chatty voice.

What happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did their marriage, like so many royal marriages past and present, fizzle into a loveless bond of duty? Victoria and Albert were the royal couple that broke the mould - it may have been an arranged match, yet their union was a passionate, tempestuous relationship between two extremely strong-willed individuals.

From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out. From an affectionate alcoholic, to the classic New York City commitment-phobe, to a hipster aged past his sell date, and not one, but two novelists with Peter Pan complexes, Giulia has cooked for them all.