The Player and the Pretender
Title | The Player and the Pretender PDF eBook |
Author | Erin McCarthy |
Publisher | Erin McCarthy |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2022-04-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Don’t fall in love with your boss, or onto his head, lap, or any other body parts… Miles Williams was not my target. So when I fall off a balcony and land on his head the last thing I expect is for him to hire me. I may be a private investigator, but the hot, sexy, pro football player wants me to be his girlfriend. Fake girlfriend, that is. He wants to be free of female attention for the last few games of his career before he retires, and certain women in his life haven’t gotten the message. It’s not my usual job, but I’m game. Only certain people don’t seem to believe we are actually a couple, which is ironic, because my plan to stay professional and not let Miles touch me is an epic failure. Worst. Plan. Ever. Not only am I deliciously ensconced in the player’s bed, I might just have broken through both our defenses and fallen off more than the balcony. I might have fallen head over heels (literally) into love…
Reckless
Title | Reckless PDF eBook |
Author | Chrissie Hynde |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-09-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0385540620 |
Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness into such a potent and alluring package. From “Tatooed Love Boys” and “Brass in Pocket” to “Talk of the Town” and “Back on the Chain Gang,” her signature songs project a unique mixture of toughness and vulnerability that millions of men and women have related to. A kind of one- woman secret tunnel linking punk and new wave to classic guitar rock, she is one of the great luminaries in rock history. Now, in her no-holds-barred memoir Reckless, Chrissie Hynde tells, with all the fearless candor, sharp humor and depth of feeling we’ve come to expect, exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed. Her All-American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity. Her soul capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland—Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul Butterfield and Iggy Pop among them. Her shocked witness in 1970 to the horrific shooting of student antiwar protestors at Kent State. Her weakness for the sorts of men she calls “the heavy bikers” and “the get-down boys.” Her flight from Ohio to London in 1973 essentially to escape the former and pursue the latter. Her scuffling years as a brash reviewer for New Musical Express, shop girl at the Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood boutique 'Craft Must Wear Clothes But The Truth Loves To Go Naked', first-hand witness to the birth of the punk movement, and serial band aspirant. And then ,at almost the last possible moment, her meeting of the three musicians who comprised the original line-up of The Pretenders, their work on the indelible first album “The Pretenders,” and the rocket ride to “Instant” stardom, with all the disorientation and hazards that involved. The it all comes crashing back down to earth with the deaths of lead guitarist James Honeyman Scott and bassist Peter Farndon, leaving her bruised and saddened, but far from beaten. Because Chrissie Hynde is, among other things, one of rock’s great survivors. We are lucky to be living in a golden age of great rock memoirs. In the aptly titled Reckless, Chrissie Hynde has given us one of the very best we have. Her mesmerizing presence radiates from every line and page of this book.
The Player and the Bookworm
Title | The Player and the Bookworm PDF eBook |
Author | Erin McCarthy |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-07-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781944172565 |
The Great Pretender
Title | The Great Pretender PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah Cahalan |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2020-01-02 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1838851429 |
'Destined to become a popular and important book' Jon Ronson 'Fascinating' Sunday Times In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Dr Rosenhan conducted an experiment, sending sane patients into psychiatric wards; the result of which was a damning paper about psychiatric practises. The ripple effects of this paper helped bring the field of psychiatry to its knees, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But what if that ground-breaking and now-famous experiment was itself deeply flawed? And what does that mean for our understanding of mental illness today? These are the questions Susannah Cahalan asks in her completely engrossing investigation into this staggering case, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Dating the Player
Title | Dating the Player PDF eBook |
Author | Erin McCarthy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Athletes |
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"Dak: I've got a big pro football contract, a big appetite for women, and a big mouth. It gets me into trouble more often than not... but this time it lands me with a nerdy little PR gatekeeper who is supposed to control me. But good luck with that. Eloise and her kitten sweathers and adorable glasses have me thinking about her in a whole different way. Eloise: I'm not your typical nerd girl. Instead of video games, I love football. I've landed my dream job managing social media for my favorite team, but with Dakota North as quarterback it's a 24/7 job. When I'm told I have to spend a week making sure Dak doesn't tweet, he seems determined to use that time to flirt wiht me. I have to ask my self, what is more important - losing my virginity to a bad boy quarterback or keeping my perfect job." -- publisher
The Pretender (Animorphs #23)
Title | The Pretender (Animorphs #23) PDF eBook |
Author | K. A. Applegate |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2017-07-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1338216864 |
Someone's looking for Tobias. Someone who says she's his long-lost cousin. Tobias isn't sure the person is telling the truth, but she's really nice, and knows a lot about him. And what she tells Tobias definitely gets his attention.It seems a lawyer has discovered Tobias's father's last will and testament. So, Tobias needs to attend the reading. His cousin even offers to go along. But something just doesn't feel quite right. That's when Tobias and the other Animorphs decide to do a little checking on this "cousin." And what they discover will change the rest of Tobias's life...
Rex Zero, The Great Pretender
Title | Rex Zero, The Great Pretender PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Wynne-Jones |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2010-10-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1429989289 |
Rex Zero's family is moving, again, this time to a different school district, and his old friends will probably forget he even exists. What's more, a trio of bullies is out to get him. Rex's wild and funny adventures continue as he stumbles into seventh grade, pretending to be someone he's not, and using his overactive imagination to resolve one of life's most vexing problems: just when everything is going well, why does it have to change?