Editora: Free Spirit
These stories are themed arounf the phrase 'Speak Of THe Devil' . By doing this we get you, real life excerpts or imaginative creations of writers. The writers in this book are from Canada and USA.
What if the moment you thought would define your forever… was the beginning of everything falling apart? In The Booth Test, Kayla Crockett shares a raw, unfiltered look at life in a bigger body—but this isn’t just about weight. It’s about the quiet calculations no one sees. The seats you hope will hold. The rooms you try to disappear in. The moments that slowly shape how you see yourself. But beneath all of that… is a story of survival. From childhood trauma and loss… to a marriage she fought desperately to hold together… to the day everything changed— the day the SWAT team showed up. This deeply personal memoir takes you through the moments no one talks about:being assaulted and learning to survivefeeling abandoned and trying to rebuildloving someone through chaosand finding yourself when everything you thought was “forever” disappears This audiobook brings you inside the story—not just the events, but the emotions behind them. Honest. Vulnerable. Unapologetically real. This isn’t just a story about what happened. It’s about what it takes to keep going after. Perfect for listeners who enjoy: memoirs about resilience, trauma recovery, real-life transformation, and deeply personal storytelling.Ver livro
Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution. Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it. Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words. Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves. But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves. But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.Ver livro
The tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, triggered an unprecedented worldwide outpouring of grief from the public that adored her ever since she was first identified as the girlfriend of the Prince of Wales in 1981. Ever since August 31, 1997, people have struggled to account for the depth of the impact she seemed to have on people’s hearts and minds. First the little girl who felt that she had disappointed her family by not being a boy, then the schoolgirl who preferred pranks to studying, then the shy kindergarten teacher who won the heart of Prince Charles, Diana’s anonymity ended forever only a few weeks after she began dating the heir to the British throne. Over the next sixteen years, she lived her life in the public eye—a smiling, dutiful royal wife and mother, who eventually rocked the monarchy to its foundations by disclosing the details of her troubled marriage to the world, shining a light on the hidden life of the notoriously private royal family. This book examines the contrast between the private Diana and the public princess—the troubled yet radiant woman who believed that one must suffer in order to have compassion for others.Ver livro
The aspects of Anne Boleyn's life and death are fiercely debated by historians, yet her ladies-in-waiting remain an understudied topic. Much emphasis is usually put on Anne's relationships with the men in her life: her suitors, her royal husband, her father and brother, and her putative lovers who were executed on May 17, 1536. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of Anne Boleyn's female household, this book seeks to identify the women who served Anne and investigate what roles ladies-in-waiting played in this Queen's household.Ver livro
Have you ever seen your life flash before your eyes? Follow one man’s journey of positivity and resilience as he reconstructs his life after a near-fatal accident! Atta Ahmad was determined to make his dreams come true. So unwavering, in fact, that he was willing to forgo sleep just to reach his goals. Eventually, it caught up to him on September 5, 2015. That fateful day, an exhilarating road trip from Boston to Michigan turned into a fight for his life when his exhaustion drove him to fall asleep at the wheel. It all happened in an instant. One minute, he was blasting music with the windows down, while drinking water and enjoying snacks. The next, he was flying through his truck’s windshield and catapulted into a ditch. A promising and ambitious young man was reduced to a mangled, bloody heap of flesh and bone on the ground. Any other person would have given up and let go. But not Ahmad. Ahmad is a survivor and “Reconstructed: A Survivor’s Memoir” is his story of determination, grit, and triumph… despite the odds stacked against him. “Don’t let anyone put you in a box and tell you ‘this is how it should be.’ Go get your second wind and keep running toward that finish line.” — Atta AhmadVer livro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume our classic authors share their narratives in the form of letters to create both intimacy and the knowing that the events unfolding, line by line, will bring both knowledge and revelation in very short order. 01 - Top Ten Stories - Epistolary - An Introduction 2 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 3 - Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant 4 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 5 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 6 - Diary of a Plain Girl by Amy Levy 7 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 8 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 9 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 10 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 11 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee 12 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon LeeVer livro
