From #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's favorite storytellers comes a heartwarming, inspirational book to help us understand our lives as one continuous, never-ending story. God has a story for your life… Debbie Macomber has inspired millions of readers with her inspirational and moving stories for decades. Now with Once Upon a Time, she helps each of us to understand that life is a story, part of a grand narrative that...

"Narrate your very own Dork Diary with this interactive guided journal, filled with questions for every day and complete with art and quotes from Nikki Maxwell herself!As Nikki Maxwell knows, keeping a journal is a great way to get to know the most important person in your life: YOU! This special Dork Diaries guided journal features questions for every day of the year. If you could swap places with anyone for a day, who would it be and why? What song...

Authentic and inspiring, “Everything That Rises” personalizes the realities of climate change by paralleling our relationship to the planet with the way we interact within our own homes. Nineteen-year-old Brianna Craft is having a panic attack. A professor's matter-of-fact explanation of the phenomenon known as "climate change" has her white-knuckling the table in her first environmental studies lecture. Out of her father's house, she was supposed...

A highly successful couples therapist reveals the true story of her own failed marriage-and reflects on why we stay so long in unhappy relationships. For years, Sharyn Wolf was a practicing psychotherapist and "relationship expert" revitalizing the marriages of countless couples. But while she was being interviewed on Oprah and other shows and writing bestselling books, instructing millions on how to flirt, find mates, and "stay lovers for life,"...

This book teaches readers how to plan and write memoirs. They will discover what makes an interesting life story, why details are important to creating an interesting story, and how to organize memories into a compelling narrative. A variety of activities provide hints and tips along the way to support the development of point of view, descriptive detail, logical organization, and the narrative as a whole.

Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult, is dictating his memoirs into the record of Flight 2039. The plane is on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Branson is alone on the flight; the plane is programmed to crash into the Australian Outback. Before the plane crashes, however, Branson will have recorded his transformation from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed...

"We either think our lives are so special that everyone should be interested in what's happened to us, or so ordinary that we can't imagine anyone would care. The truth lies somewhere in between: yes, we are all special, and no, people will not care--unless we write with them in mind. Joanne Fedler, a beloved writing teacher and mentor, has written Your Story to help all people, even those who don't necessarily identify as "writers," value their life...

How come the only thing my family tree ever grows is nuts?
Wade Rouse attempts to answer that question in his blisteringly funny new memoir by looking at the yearly celebrations that unite us all and bring out the very best and worst in our nearest and dearest.
Family is truly the only gift that keeps on giving—namely, the gifts of dysfunction and eccentricity—and Wade Rouse’s family has been especially...