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Can someone recommend me books based on true stories, please? (But not with sad endings) Thank you!

Can someone recommend me books based on true stories, please? (But not with sad endings)

Thank you!

Sana #recommend

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Edward

The Same Kind of Different as Me. Wonderful story of the lesson of who is helping who when volunteering.

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Kate

Eat pray love
Into the wild
WILD
Based on true story: Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister

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Gail

I enjoyed both of Laura Hillenbrand’s books – Unbroken and Seabiscuit.

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Lynn

Anything by Erik Larson.

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Christina

Love all he’s written.

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Gail

In the Garden of Beasts!

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Jennifer

The Glass Castle is good.

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Christina

The author Nathaniel Philbrick is always good, I’ve enjoyed all of his books. Real page turners.

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Laraine

Hidden Figures

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Michelle

The Girl with Seven Names

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Jill

May I recommend my novel, True Stories at the Smoky View? It’s about some short stories (fiction) which are true enough to provide clues to two suspicious deaths. More info at http://amzn.to/2mQLdbc

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Terry

Historical fiction like America’s Fist Daughter.

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Jean

Victoria by Daisy Goodwin

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Christie

I liked America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie.

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Megan

Rob Lowe’s Stories I only tell my friends, Shonda Rhimes Year of Yes, The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines

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Courtney

Tom Hanks has a collection of short stories. Not sure if they are true or not.

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Kelly

https://www.amazon.com/Spilled-Milk-Based-True-Story-ebook/dp/B00D9GY2BU/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=K.l+randis&qid=1370683943&ref_=sr_1_1&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

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Lisa

Do you like memoirs? If so, there are a lot of great ones. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is fantastic.

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SanaQuestion author

Yes I do. Thank you.

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SanaQuestion author

I’ve got so many to read on my list! Thank you everyone!

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Dale

The Ink Run – A Novel Vigilante by Dale Brendan Hyde has been revamped and is now available to purchase in Paperback form at:

?http://amzn.to/2nLmxlW

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐THE MUST HAVE BOOK OF THE YEAR. If you want a book that you just can’t put down – ‘Govesy’ Media Designer.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐DESTINED TO BECOME A CULT CLASSIC! –
Amazon fan review.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐JUSTIFIABLE VIOLENCE? I used to love plays on the ‘wireless’ they triggered your imagination into giving form to the characters, dress them and paint in the background. THE INK RUN had me chiming in with Dale Brendan Hyde’s narrative in a similar fashion. I was gripped from the opening bleak realism (thankfully something I myself had been spared) I soon shared the author’s hate. I was impressed by his long, quiet, considered, trip to revenge himself. It is a disturbing ‘novel’. The realism is too convincing to be fictional. A very powerful, well written tone – Glenmore Trenear-Harvey. British intelligence analyst.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Ink Run is an extensive & fascinating novel which stays in your head long after finishing it. Bitsaboutbooks.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐AN ACCOMPLISHED DEBUT.A lyrical and often poetic tone with an assured pace, and boldness in its own patois and turns of phrase. Hyde’s almost gothic flair redolent of the Victorian canon, is a plucky and driving presence. A strong grip on his characters and voice lends an equally jostling energy against the evocative and personal prose. I see THE INK finding a loyal and returning fan base – Mr Paul Van Carter, Award winning producer and writer of Churchill, Gascoigne and The Guv’nor, my name is Lenny.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐IT ONLY INTENSIFIES WITH EACH NEW PAGE TURNED – Amazon fan review.

The Plot …

OTISS is an abused child, physically & mentally tortured for years in the home by his sadistic parents. His Father STAN plots an elaborate alibi enabling him to set up the boy for the murder of his own Mother.

A trial of sorts, hanging on the basis of a defense of automatism( murder when sleepwalking) sees a detainment to the FABERON institution for the criminal insane.

In this cloudy pond, where the staff are every bit as dangerous & disturbed as the patients.

Young OTISS is placed on a wing funded as a trial by the Government which uses olden day methods from centuries past to cure madness.

Eventually released a decade later as an even more tortured soul, he sets up THE VILLAGE EYE pub as a front to his real nocturnal activities of being a VIGILANTE.

Warning beatings on the scum of the village soon becomes tiresome as he reaches new limits of retribution.

Still traumatized from youth, will he find the courage to finally confront STAN?

You can’t truly escape your blood lines DNA as fatal mistakes see a familiar face from the INSTITUTION reveal that our main protagonist has not been the only one keeping the VIGIL & upping the ANTE.

About The Author Dale Brendan Hyde…

DALE BRENDAN HYDE was born in Salford in 1974, yet has lived most of his life in the City of Wakefield West Yorkshire.

A troubled life throughout his teens crescendoed in a lengthy prison sentence for robbery. Upon release a mixture of attending college to retake failed schooling & continued trouble with the police & high courts until a university place seemingly became the catalyst to a more determined path of making his occupation that of a Writer.

He published his first poetry book by Route at the Yorkshire Art circus for the TS Elliot prize. Contributions to other writers books followed & magazine articles on his passion of bare knuckle boxing reveal his extensive repertoire in his writing styles.

Trouble free now for over a decade, his debut novel finally shows the true depth of his talent.

It’s so peaceful in the night But outside creeping is a fright Too scared to see who’s there Young Otiss does not care A village vigilante by the moon By day he waits n quietly fumes If you go on the list Then just too bad He must hate you like his Dad If you’re a friend then relax your safe But for the others the raft awaits …

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dale-Brendan-Hyde/e/B06XBKY8CP/

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Laurie

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, if you enjoy history. Book was SOOOOO much better than the movie. Isn’t it always?

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Gail

“Never judge a book by its movie.”

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Laurie

So true, Gail. ?

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Sarah

Zoo Keeper’s Wife (Warsaw, Poland during WWII). I don’t like sad endings either. And I thought they did a good job w/ the movie.

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Joanne

The most recent true to life thing I’ve read is Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and it was very good. It’s a memoir though.

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