Dating Memoir

At 49, famed Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales was nursing a broken heart and wondering, “How did I wind up alone?” On the advice of a young friend, she downloaded Tinder, then a brand-new dating app. What followed was a raucous ride through the world of online dating. Sales, an award-winning journalist and single mom, became a leading critic of the online dating industry, reporting and writing articles and making her directorial debut with the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age. Meanwhile, she was dating a series of younger men.

Kayla is still holding on to Lainie’s secrets. After all, Lainie is Kayla’s best friend. And despite Lainie’s painful obsession with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, and the ways he has tried to come between them, friends don’t spill each other’s secrets. They don’t betray each other’s trust. The murder at the end of the summer doesn’t change all that. Besides—Kayla knows that the truth is not the whole story.

Single life in New York City is something Shaunie thought was far behind her. That is, until her husband dropped a bomb, days after her birthday that left her with no choice but to end their union. Challenged by the reality of heartbreak, she breaks free from regret and never looks back. This charming, career-driven event planner would enter her 30s as a single, independent woman, ready to embrace her new beginning. Armed with wit, a sense of humor, and plenty of wine, she embarks on her bright future full of hope to find love again.

A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces - between Black and White, rich and poor, thin and fat.

Smile is a chilling account of Rodney Alcala, one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Ryan Green gives a suspenseful narrative that draws the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a captivating thriller.

The good, the bad, and the ugly about dating after 40. Beverly and Jessica have managed to make a bad situation funny as hell to listen to. What to do and what not to do so you don't waste anymore time on the wolves. This book was so much fun to write. Jessica and I had very similar circumstances with our love lives. As we told each other stories and secrets we could not help but laugh at what the hell we were thinking getting hooked up with these men.

Can I Be Honest with You? is way more than a collection of (hilariously) entertaining dating stories. It is a poignant inner ride through one woman’s sharp mind and deep heart, a mythic journey of love, authenticity, and personal empowerment. Listeners have the opportunity to receive a very special gift: expanded clarity and excitement about living more closely to their own personal truths.This book is a fresh balm for the wounds of all people-pleasers, inspiring us to bring our biggest selves forward.

Emma Nash may be down, but after months of wallowing, stalking her ex online, and avoiding showering - because who’s going to care? - Emma’s ready to own her newly single status, get out, and chronicle her dating adventures on her private blog. But life online doesn’t always run smoothly. Stumbling upon her mother’s Tinder dating profile, getting catfished, and accidentally telling the entire world why her ex-boyfriend Leon’s not worth any girl’s...um...time.... Okay, those were disasters. But surely nothing else can go wrong?

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

A divorced woman in her forties finds herself suddenly single after thirty-two years with the same man. Does she head off to a resort on the Indian Ocean? Does she become a stand-up comedian? Does she conquer the online dating world by scheduling three or four dates a day for several years? Renata Lubinsky managed to do all three, and by the time she had dated eighty men, she had learned many things in her quest to remain a vital and exciting woman as she headed into the next stage of her life.

Dumb is not a word usually affiliated with Ivy Wright. Accomplished, successful and inspirational are usually more common. So focused on success in her career, Wright misses that her love life is actually only a sex life. Her relationships begin with passion and romance and change to drama and pain long before she makes her way out of them. As she creeps past her 30s she realizes she has a problem and seeks help from "The Husband Whisperer." Wright tracks her bad decision making back to emotional damage from her childhood and her first godforsaken exploration of sex.

Einmal "Alles wird gut" zum Mitnehmen, bitte! Eine wahre Geschichte, die beweist, dass eine lebensgefährliche Krankheit kein Grund ist den Kopf in den Sand zu stecken. Wir reagiert man, wenn man mit 24 Jahren im Fitnessstudio einen Herzstillstand erleidet und aus der mühsam aufgebauten Carpe Diem Welt gerissen wird? Richtig. Sich nach dem Aufstehen erst mal fragen wie viele Menschen einen bewusstlos und oben ohne gesehen haben, und dann - aufstehen, dem Schicksal den Mittelfinger zeigen und verdammt nochmal weitergehen!

Online dating has become the norm for many of us. Busy lives, children, sometimes working two jobs in order to provide as a single parent, means that it's not so easy anymore to meet people in "real life". But this profile is different - this profile belongs to prisoner Mark Twitchell, a convicted murderer who used one of the most popular dating sites around, PlentyofFish.com, to lure his victims to an empty garage, where he hoped to satisfy his lust for blood.

Il ne faut pas séparer les amoureux. Pour préserver son couple, Sylvain, 10 ans, prend une grande décision.

It's been three years since Miles fell for Vivian, a talented and dazzling transgender girl. Eighteen months since a suicide attempt left Vivian on life support. Now Miles isn't sure who he is without her, but knows it's time to figure out how to say goodbye. He books a solo trip to Iceland but then has a hard time leaving the refuge of his hotel room. After a little push from Oskar, a local who is equal parts endearing and aloof, Miles decides to honor Vivian's life by photographing her treasured Doc Martens standing empty against the surreal landscapes.

Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Mississippi's own Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious best seller The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love. Fortunately for us, that was not the final chapter in the Queens' saga. The Sweet Potato Queens still have plenty to say and valuable wisdom to impart about how they went from being Cute Girls to Fabulous Women.

All my life, I've been a man-magnet. Everywhere I go, guys drop at my feet. After all, I have a perfect body, insatiable sex drive, and a razor wit. I'm also modest (can't you tell?). Trouble is, I've never been lucky in love. I only attract guys who forget their wallets and show up to dates wearing #@%#-stained clothes. With my best friend's wedding around the corner, I finally decide enough is enough. I'm not only going to find the perfect date to her wedding, but I'm going to find Mr. Right.

Amy Cohen always imagined that by age 30 she would be juggling a thriving career, a devoted English husband, and two adorable children who had shag haircuts and a room in their loft where they could play the drums. But at 35, as she struggled to come to terms with the loss of her adored mother, she found herself "between jobs" (she'd been fired), "between boyfriends" (she'd been dumped), and "between apartments".

In this hilarious and helpful handbook, best-selling author Ian Kerner introduces us to the DSI team, a top-secret unit within the FBI (that's the Federal Bureau of Intimacy) whose sole mission is to investigate dating dilemmas and equip you with the skills you need so you're never again a dating victim.

Hiding in the shadows of depravity, Rodney James Alcala was one of the most cunning and terrifying of all serial killers. Highly mobile, and able to fit in anywhere, Alcala "flew under the radar" during his murderous career in the 1960s and 1970s. Even though he was arrested and in prison since 1980, his trials and appeals were not complete until March 2010. He was sentenced to death for the murders of four young women and a 12-year-old girl. However, it is firmly believed that his victim count is much higher.