![]() Play With Me is the third book in the With Me In Seattle Series. But she can’t deny the overwhelming attraction to the sexy, tattooed athlete, and when Will starts breaking down her defenses and grabs hold of her heart, will she be able to admit her feelings for him? Or will her troubled past cause her to lose the first man she’s ever truly loved? She doesn’t have time for a relationship, and if she’s learned anything in life, it’s that loving means losing, so she guards her heart ferociously. Megan McBride is not impressed with Will Montgomery, his fat contract, fancy car, or his arrogant public persona. He’s determined to show her that he’s not the arrogant jock she thinks he is, and to get her into his bed. So when he turns his charms on his sister’s sexy rocker-chick friend Meg, he’s not only turned down, but met with open hostility, piquing his curiosity and libido. Come Away with Me (With Me in Seattle 1) 87 pages Kristen Proby. Under the Mistletoe with Me (With Me in Seattle 1.5) 19 pages Kristen Proby. He’s not used to being told no, and certainly doesn’t take no for an answer. Play with Me (With Me in Seattle 3) 70 pages Kristen Proby. Will Montgomery is a successful professional football player and seemingly has it all. ![]() ![]() Get this audiobook free when you try Audible: Play with Me by Kristen Proby on Audible: ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pushkin Press is publishing Daniel Hahn's translation of nine short stories and one novella by Machado de Assis on December 13th. I imagine it's not often that you can read an ARC collection of stories originally published between 18. This beautiful new collection of fresh translations offers the perfect gathering of his most beloved stories: The reading of a much-loved elder statesman's journals reveals hidden thoughts of merciless cruelty. A young lieutenant basks in praise, but in solitude feels his identity fray into nothing. This new selection of his finest work, translated by the prize-winning Daniel Hahn, showcases the many facets of his mercurial genius.Ī brilliant scientist opens the first asylum in his home town, only to start finding signs of insanity all around him. ![]() What appear at first to be stately social satires reveal unanticipated depths through flashes of darkness and winking surrealism. Machado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever lived. “Machado de Assis showed the human comedy is the same everywhere, and in conflicts between man and society, society usually wins.” - The New Yorker ![]() Enchanting, fresh translations of the finest stories by Brazil’s greatest writer and author of short stories, cited as the greatest black writer in Western literature ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, to know a name is not to know the person. But when one day he comes across the birth certificate of an anonymous young woman, he decides that this cannot have been mere chance, he has to discover more about her. In the evenings, and on weekends, he works on bringing up to date his clipping file of the famous, the rising stars, the notorious. ![]() A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily preoccupations. "Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. An excellent, collector's-quality copy with an elusive signature. SIGNED by the Nobel Laureate - without further inscription - on the title-page. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new the original price is intact. The textblock is immaculate no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. There is a mild bump to the head of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A moving and often very funny story about the convergence of an awkward age (13 to 14) with an awkward age (America’s racial reckoning)…. ![]() ![]() New Kid, the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal, is now joined by Jerry Craft’s powerful Class Act. He wants to pretend like everything is fine, but it’s hard not to withdraw, and even their mutual friend Jordan doesn’t know how to keep the group together.Īs the pressures mount, will Drew find a way to bridge the divide so he and his friends can truly accept each other? And most important, will he finally be able to accept himself? To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? This time, it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school.Įighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. ![]() |