This is the story of Rusty Boetners journey with God. She experienced many heartbreaking events in her and began to head down a road of alcohol and drugs, living apart from God. All along her journey, God was with her, watching over her and trying to draw her back into his arms. Her joy and peace and right living as a believer now is an encouragement to all of us that God can do the same in our lives. Linda invites you to accept Jesus as your Savior and begin to walk with God.

An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year: "A heartwarming, profane memoir about humor and resilience in the face of tragedy." — PeopleFor the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.At twenty-five, Dan Marshall has a good job, a great girlfriend, and a dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world....

Comedian Mike Birbiglia’s hilarious New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture co-written and produced by Ira Glass (This American Life) starring Birbiglia and Emmy-nominated actress Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under).Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorSleepwalk with Me is a comedic memoir, but I’m only thirty-two years old, so I’d hate for you to ...

Intense stories of life-and-death suspense—by the teenage girls who survived them.What would you do if your house were robbed—while you were in it? What would you do if you were kidnapped? Or if you needed brain surgery? In Seventeen's Terrifying True Teen Stories, eleven teen girls share how they bravely handled life's most tragic and frightening challenges. The details are crazy, but their stories are amazing!

Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids. It didn't take long before these moms began to reveal their Dirty Little Secrets—surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn't told anyone else. Cringe-worthy moments ("I bit my daughter's finger trying to steal a bite of her cookie.") meet real insights ("I love my kids but I didn't always. It took time t...

The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity.For Todd Bridges early stardom was no protection from painful childhood events that paved the road to his own personal hell. One of the first African-American child actors on shows like Little House on ...

Although written in first person, this fourth volume of Haunted is a recounting of ghostly encounters from several of my friends. As with the other volumes, all stories are believed to be 100% true. Each story teller has been carefully questioned about any and all details pertaining to the story they had to tell. Unlike the other three volumes, there are no sweet little blue girls, or protective entities to be found among these frightening tales of diabolical occurrences. This is an adult ...

Friendly, affable Bobby looks like a younger version of Richard Gere, but with even more charm. You'd love to have him for a next door neighbor until he tells you stories of his life as a drug addict. In this article, he talks about robbing a pharmacy at gunpoint to get the drug OxyContin, which is a painkilling opoid. Young men like Bobby are robbing drug stores throughout the United States to get this drug. Bobby also hijacked a van, crashed during a police chase, faked seizures in the h...

PRAISE FOR MARK YOSHIMOTO NEMCOFF and PACIFIC COAST HELLWAY "Imagine Howard Stern dropping acid with Trey Parker and Jon Stewart..." — PLAYBOY MAGAZINE PACIFIC COAST HELLWAY PRESENTS: "PISSED OFF: Is Better Than Being Pissed On," a comedic tour-de-force by best-selling and award-winning author and humorist Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff as he uses his acid wit to shred the topics that cause his blood to boil, including: CHILD B...

It was quite the wild ride! A wonderful courtship, a fabulous engagement and a fairy tale wedding. I walked into the relationship with my eyes wide open..... at least I thought I had. I took my time getting to know him and we were together two years before we decided marriage was the next step. Our engagement was even a year long.... and somewhere in there I should have seen signs that things were not quite right. But I never did. Until I was pregnant with our son, everything seemed to be ...

"Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath." -- Marya Hornbacher, New York Times Book ReviewZack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audit...

Couldn’t we all use a good laugh?Whether you’re running full-speed-ahead or disappointed that it’s Monday (again), you’ll find joy in these pages where women—and a few men—share their hilarious stories and insights on daily life. Pets, potlucks, husbands, hot flashes, typos, tykes...This world can be a funny place, and these stories are bound to prove it.Read a chapter to brighten your morning, or catch a few words to make you smile before bed. There’s neve...