Face it -- love is a crapshoot. Say no to one guy and you might miss out on your soul mate. Say yes to another and you might find yourself in the middle of the world's most awkward threesome. This book grants you the ultimate dating fantasy: a do-over! Choose Your Own Love Story puts YOU in the driver's seat and lets you make over 50 choices and pick from 20 possible endings. Will you make out with sexy, brooding Zack, the mayor of red-flag island? Or will you settle down with Anthony, a gentle plumber with restless leg syndrome? If you don't like where you end up, go back and start again! How will your story end? Are you ready to find out?

Be the star of six fun and twisted little romance stories. Explore the playfulness, action, and sudden mortal danger of these adventures with built-in hyperlinks where you choose the direction the stories take. Thirty-five possible endings, but only a few will be a happily ever after. Can you find them? "For a well-written, light-hearted distraction from the annoyances of flying or watching your kid’s Little League game, this gamebook may well be your next best friend." - Lauri J. Owen, Critique de Book This gamebook's six stories include: "Meeting the Barbarian" - You've lived inside the ground for as long as you can remember. "The Lifeguard" - You're riding a bicycle down a beach trail when disaster strikes. "Blood Rock" - You're rock climbing when you encounter a creature from a nightmare... or a fantasy? "Luck in Love" - Con man or policeman? Your luck in love is about to change. "Baxter and Bunny" - The love of your life dumps you for a blond receptionist named "Bunny." "Unfamiliar Ground" - You're a mermaid lured to the shore by a powerful impulse. Gamebook Directions: When choices are presented to you, highlight and select your desired choice. If you change your mind and wish to make a different choice, press the BACK button (not the Previous Page button) to go back to your previous location. New edition includes a 1,600-word excerpt from romance novel Thrill of the Chase.

Write Your First Love Story is an exercise for understanding, outlining, and writing love stories. Whether or not you're new to writing, this book will help you craft complete stories. It provides writers with a solid foundation for understanding the love story genre and gives suggestions, guidance, and a few bonus story-writing tips to help them bring their ideas to life. This book will raise the critical questions, who, what, when, where, why and how? Who are the characters, what are the problems, when and where will the story take place, why are you writing the story, and how is a love story structured? Finally, with all of those questions answered, it looks at the different perspectives in which writers may present a story to the readers. Also, included in this book is a detailed scene by scene walk-through for helping writers develop love story outlines. This step by step exercise will enable you to Write Your First Love Story!

Being a Christian does not mean never having to say you're sorry - that's ridiculous. In fact, we American Christians may have so much to apologize for before we can begin to mount an apologetic, we seem to have lost our voice with the lost and all credibility for the Gospel. In each our own individual act of idolatry, we have each chosen our own Jesus to match our beliefs, rather than choosing our beliefs to match Jesus. We have recreated God in our own image and we have lost our way. Love Story isolates on some large, vitally important ways that we have drifted from our faith, making it much more American than Godly - we have become idolators of individualism, freedom, democracy, capitalism and even idolators of America itself. We have little understanding of suffering, little to say about the meaning of life, and we've missed entirely the spectacular nature of the universe and life. We have much to unlearn before we can dare to speak of our faith.

A tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell--an NPR Best Book of the Year. As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian —regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the “good news” that they were going to hell. Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran and artist of denial who insists that he’s only “locked up for a tune-up,” and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author’s closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, "Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God."

“Amy Webb found her true love after a search that's both charmingly romantic and relentlessly data-driven. Anyone who uses online dating sites must read her funny, fascinating book.”—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project After yet another disastrous date, Amy Webb was preparing to cancel her JDate membership when epiphany struck: her standards weren’t too high, she just wasn’t approaching the process the right way. Using her gift for data strategy, she found which keywords were digital-man magnets, analyzed photos, and then adjusted her (female) profile to make the most of that intel. Then began the deluge—dozens of men who actually met her own stringent requirements wanted to meet her. Among them: her future husband, now the father of her child.

The month must have been like November-December. The sky was clear, the sun had set. We were enjoying the sun with our friends sitting in the college campus itself, today we friends were throwing things here and there, when my attention was fixed near the main gate of the college. Someone was coming, wearing a light blue sweater, a yellow salwar suit and turning her silky hair forward. The light sunlight falling on his face and the red dot of his lilar was blooming wonderfully. When she came near me, my eyes were wide open. Hey! This is Nisha. His name suddenly came out of my mouth. I had proposed Nisha many times but till now no response was received from her. She never refused and never agreed. She just smiled and avoided it. This was the reason why my friend always used to tell me that Nisha also loves you, that's why she doesn't deny you. Seeing her so well-dressed today, I had also decided that today I will keep taking answers from her. Now we had gone to class but as soon as we got a chance in the break, I asked him "Nisha! I want to ask you one thing" "Ask," said Nisha. I was speaking while suppressing my voice that she said while cutting my words, "Okay! Today you will not say anything, I will speak only" On hearing this, my heartbeat started beating loudly. The whole body shook like lightning. But my happiness knew no bounds on hearing that voice. Today was the most beautiful moment of my life, which I was waiting for for many year