Last Time Out

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Publisher : John F. Nogowski Sr.
ISBN 13 : 1493066536
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Time Out by : John Nogowski

Download or read book Last Time Out written by John Nogowski and published by John F. Nogowski Sr.. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION – Last Time Out Finding the right ending is a problem equally shared by writers, filmmakers, poets, songwriters and, thanks to Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, maybe even baseball players. Unleashing that flawless swing one last time on a dark, nasty fall afternoon in Boston, Williams’ perfect parting shot, launching a majestic home run into the Fenway Park bullpen in his final appearance at the plate, set a standard for baseball farewells that has rarely been equaled. It was as if Williams himself was saying to the game – take that! Gracefully walking away from the game that had been such a crucial part of any major leaguer’s life is a trick managed by only a few. The great Babe Ruth, stuffed into an unfamiliar Boston Braves’ uniform, walked off the field for the last time with no fanfare. Ty Cobb left before his final season was even over, his final bid for a World Series title gone after a Yankees’ sweep of Connie Mack’s Philadelphia A’s. And so it goes; Bob Gibson cursing out a mediocre player who’d just reached him for a grand slam on his final pitch, the extraordinary Willie Mays stumbling in the outfield in a World Series, Nolan Ryan unable to get out of the first inning of his final start and on and on. Considering that all these men had been so triumphant in the game – just making it to the major leagues is an extraordinary achievement – even for one game - choosing where to go out was intriguing. And of course, the mystique of Williams’ final HR started with the work of an author, the great John Updike, who came to Boston anticipating a romantic liaison. Instead, Updike turned his disappointment into a trip to Fenway Park and brilliantly captured the final moments of a historic career. His legendary New Yorker piece “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” made a nation reconsider Williams’ career and made me, eventually, come up with the idea for this. True enough, that was where “Last Time Out” started. Working for the local newspaper, I’d had a chance to meet and chat with Updike after his appearance at a Florida State workshop in 2000 and we chatted about his oft-discussed essay. “Looking back,” he said, “I’m still surprised that it was his last game and there was nobody there.” He was right. Fenway Park had just 10,453 fans – and Updike - that September afternoon. On the way home, I wondered about how other great players had left the game. I remembered Babe Ruth had hit three homers in a game, was it his finale? And, teary-eyed, I remembered Carl Yastrzemski’s last game in Boston, his trot around the field, slapping hands with watery-eyed Fenway Faithful. What about Hank Aaron, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson…I’d have to look. And did. Times have changed, of course, since Williams’ finale in 1960. The final games of these recent stars, like so many other events in professional sports, have become important. Sometimes they become a scripted, carefully planned, media circus like departures of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, David Ortiz and a few others. Sometimes, they just leave. Take a spin through YouTube, for example, and you can find video documentation of all sorts of farewells to the game. But in most cases, you might see video but not the stories. In this, the sequel to my original book, I’ve looked back at the departures of some of the most memorable players in my lifetime, all of whom I watched play, some of whom I even got to interview in my 25-year career as a sportswriter. There are even a few personal moments sprinkled in. And, as my connection to the game has deepened in a way I couldn’t have anticipated, only dreamed about, I had another renewed interest in our National Pastime. My son, the kid you see leaning on my shoulder on the back jacket of my original book, is now 28. After a long, sometimes bumpy stint in the minor leagues, is a major-league baseball player in the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization. John made his big-league debut in Chicago a week before my birthday in 2020. I share the story of his big-league debut in the concluding chapter. I’m hoping that his final at-bat is a few years away. As a writer and fan, what has been truly fascinating in the intervening 16 years since the first publication of “Last Time Out” is suddenly how accessible everything is. Writing and researching that original book pre-Internet, I remember spending hour after hour in Florida State’s Strozier Library, eyes blurry from the trusty microfilm machine, sifting through ancient box scores, game stories and newspaper columns. For this edition, almost all the material was found online or in books I had in my own library. Enjoy!

Last Time Out

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493068474
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Last Time Out written by John Nogowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most sports fans know that Ted Williams ended his major league career with style, swatting a home run in his final at bat. But what about Babe Ruth? Ty Cobb? Joe DiMaggio? Willie Mays? How did some of baseball's greatest players bow out of The Game? Last Time Out answers that question as it examines how the greatest players in baseball history left the game they once ruled. The stories of these men and how they finished their careers, never collected anywhere before now, show another side of the men whose achievements on the field made them legends. After hours and hours of research, through biographies, microfilm, magazines, and memories, award-winning sportswriter John Nogowski culled the stories of the final games of 25 of The Game's greatest athletes-Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Dizzy Dean, Satchel Paige, Carlton Fisk, Bob Feller, Joe Morgan, and Carl Yastrzemski are among those featured. This impressive work recounts the circumstances surrounding these final games and puts you in a box seat to witness and sense the moment as these glorious careers ceased, most often with little fanfare. Whether it be Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lou Gehrig, Pete Rose, or Cal Ripken, Jr., Last Time Out beautifully captures in words and photographs the essence of these players' last time in uniform and celebrates the magic of the game these famed players mastered and loved.

The Last Fine Time

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226443355
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Fine Time by : Verlyn Klinkenborg

Download or read book The Last Fine Time written by Verlyn Klinkenborg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history, The Last Fine Time is a tour de force of lyrical style. Verlyn Klinkenborg chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days as a prewar Polish tavern to its reincarnation as George & Eddie's, a swank nightspot serving highballs and French-fried shrimp to a generation of optimistic and prosperous Americans. In the inevitable dimming of the neon sign outside the restaurant, we see both the passing of an old world way of life and the end to the postwar exuberance that was Eddie Wenzek's "last fine time."

The Last Time I Saw You

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 074811260X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Time I Saw You by : Elizabeth Berg

Download or read book The Last Time I Saw You written by Elizabeth Berg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As onetime classmates meet over the course of a weekend for their high school's fortieth reunion, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy Shauman, it is the possibility to finally attract the attention of the class heartthrob, Pete Decker. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice Mayhew, it's a chance to re-examine a painful past. For Lester Heseenpfeffer, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vet - or at least that's what he tells himself. For Candy Armstrong, the class beauty, it's the hope of finding friendship before it is too late. As Dorothy, Mary Alice, Lester, Candy, and the other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: Desires and personalities from their youth re-emerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen.

Last Man Out

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147514916
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Man Out by : Mike Lupica

Download or read book Last Man Out written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Fantasy League comes a story of heroes, family, the thrills of skateboarding, and football. When the Brighton Bears suit up on game day, 12-year-old Tommy Gallagher is the toughest kid on the football field. And the bravest. After all, his father Patrick is a Boston firefighter--one of Boston's bravest. Tommy's dad taught him everything he knows about football--and life. Yet even Tommy isn't strong enough for what happens when the sirens ring and, for the first time, they're racing away from the fire. "First man in; last man out" had always been his dad's motto . . . yet he never said anything about leaving in an ambulance. Now Tommy's biggest battle has nothing to do with football. And the kid who always had such respect for risk on the gridiron finds himself drawn to it off the field. Set in New England, home of the Patriots' football dynasty, Mike Lupica shows off his trademark knack for spinning a tale that's equal parts sports action and heart. Last Man Out is a thoughtful tribute to the bravery of firefighters and the need we all have to live up to the level of our heroes. "As is characteristic of Lupica’s books, the sports segments, most particularly the football portions, are exceptionally well written." —VOYA "In the best traditions of sports writing, this will leave readers both breathless and thoughtful." —Booklist

Last Lecture

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Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Lecture by : Perfection Learning Corporation

Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I ROCK Poetry

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480995487
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis I ROCK Poetry by : Kendall Reimink

Download or read book I ROCK Poetry written by Kendall Reimink and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I ROCK Poetry By: Kendall Reimink (2019, Paperback, 120 pages)

Time-Out in Child Behavior Management

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Publisher : Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
ISBN 13 : 1613345097
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Time-Out in Child Behavior Management by : Corey C. Lieneman

Download or read book Time-Out in Child Behavior Management written by Corey C. Lieneman and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, evidence-based guide to using time-out safely and effectively Written by leading experts Highlights applied research Reviews parent training programs Details parent–child interaction therapy Addresses controversial issues Includes downloadable tools This book is essential reading for psychologists, therapists, students, and anyone who works with children and their families. It is a compact, comprehensive guide to understanding, administering, and teaching caregivers to implement time-out effectively for child behavior management. Readers will learn about time-out's history and scientific research base, particularly with respect to child age, cultural groups, and presenting concerns. Practitioners will appreciate the focus on applied research highlighting the efficacy of specific time-out parameters, such as duration, location, and handling escape. Overviews of behavioral parent training programs that include time-out are also provided. The authors then share their expertise in the use of time-out in parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT), both conceptually and by using an in-depth case study. They also thoroughly examine controversial issues related to time-out, from theoretical and practical standpoints. The appendix provides the clinician with hands-on tools: step-by-step diagrams for administering time-out and managing escape, handouts for parents about issuing effective instructions, and a list of further resources.

The Last Time I Lied

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593473124
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Time I Lied by : Riley Sager

Download or read book The Last Time I Lied written by Riley Sager and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Survive the Night and Final Girls comes a tense and twisty thriller about a summer camp that’s impossible to forget—no matter how hard you try. Two Truths and a Lie. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out into the darkness. The last she—or anyone—saw of the teenagers was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.... Fifteen years later, Emma is a rising star in the New York art scene, turning her past into paintings—massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches over ghostly shapes in white dresses. When the paintings catch the attention of the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to come back to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Despite her guilt and anxiety—or maybe because of them—Emma agrees to revisit her past. Nightingale looks the same as it did all those years ago, haunted by a midnight-dark lake and familiar faces. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, although the security camera pointed at her door is a disturbing new addition. As cryptic clues about the camp's origins begin to surface, Emma attempts to find out what really happened to her friends. But her closure could come at a deadly price.

One More Last Time

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ISBN 13 : 9781945346088
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis One More Last Time by : Eric Ugland

Download or read book One More Last Time written by Eric Ugland and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruined life. A broken heart.?He thought it was the end, and his gun sat ready to make sure.But an oddball offer from his only friend comes at the literal last second. Curiosity gets the best of him, and he finds himself sucked into iNcarn8, a game claiming to be a whole new life. Now as Montana, the larger-than-life tank warrior, he has one more last time to get his life right.One More Last time is the first book in The Good Guys, a LitRPG GameLit series. If you like fast-paced adventure, RPG mechanics, and sweet level progression with a deep magic and game system, this book is for you. It has notes of The Land and classic Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, and stars a lovable idiot of a main character who can't seem to shake his dark past and find the quiet life he so wants.

Last One Out Shut Off the Lights

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316423424
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by : Stephanie Soileau

Download or read book Last One Out Shut Off the Lights written by Stephanie Soileau and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lightning bolt of a literary debut." ---Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner "Enchanting and so neatly planed they feel made by time, these stories mark the debut of a writer to watch." ---John Freeman, Literary Hub Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is an evocative portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants' sense of home. These eleven piercing stories feature indelible characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place so continually in flux. In a collection whose resonant echoes abound, we meet a reluctant teenage mother who stows her baby in a closet to steal a night out; a spiteful retiree who sabotages his neighbor in the wake of a hurricane; a Pentecostal singer in a children's theater company who confronts the cultish leader of her troupe; a community of elderly Cajuns who conspire with a family of Sudanese immigrants to hide an escaped cow from the authorities; and a desperate young woman who tries to drag her brother to Mexico for surgery, determined to save his life and her own. As Lauren Groff did for the state of Florida in her recent collection Florida, Stephanie Soileau demonstrates that Louisiana is as much a state of mind as it is a place on the map. A love letter to the Cajun language, life rhythms, and customs that still make the region unique, Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is also a powerful reminder of the treacherous escape routes that bedevil anyone longing to leave home, and the traps that remain for those who desire to return.

Very Last First Time

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Publisher : New York : Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780689819605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Very Last First Time by : Jan Andrews

Download or read book Very Last First Time written by Jan Andrews and published by New York : Aladdin Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva, an Inuit girl, gathers mussels from underneath the ice for the very first time.

The Last Night Out

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786895013
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Night Out by : Catherine O'Connell

Download or read book The Last Night Out written by Catherine O'Connell and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six friends. Three secrets. One murder. Maggie is destined to marry the perfect man in two weeks. Desperate for a last wild night on the town before the big day, she gathers her closest friends for a night to remember. Only things go wrong – horribly wrong. Angie’s body is found in the park the following morning and their night to remember quickly becomes a nightmare they wish they could forget. Under police scrutiny, how far will Maggie and her friends go to keep their secrets? Far enough to protect a killer?

Rise Up and Walk

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595203264
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Book Synopsis Rise Up and Walk by : Ann Hazard

Download or read book Rise Up and Walk written by Ann Hazard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With a sensitive heart and introspective mind, Ann Hazard has written a concise and deeply practical devotional guide for any man or woman trying to navigate the treacherous waters of Divorce Country. “Ann shares highly personal parts of her own journey through divorce and invites you, the reader to embrace the wise and practical discoveries she has made. “This profound guidebook offers no easy answers, but carefully guides the reader to face each day with courage. You will identify with the myriad of feelings that can scramble the life of any person facing a journey through the lonely, barren land of divorce. You will find points of personal healing and growth as you move from day to day and page to page in this chronicle of hope. “There is a bright light shining at the end of your tunnel through divorce. That light is hope, and Ann helps you open your heart each day in this powerful book. You are not alone. God loves you! Read slowly. Grow consistently.” Jim Smoke Author of: Growing Through Divorce, Single Again: The Uncertain Journey, Moving Forward: Finding Hope and Peace in the Midst of Divorce and Growing Beyond Divorce

Last Times

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375141
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Times by : Victor Serge

Download or read book Last Times written by Victor Serge and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France. Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris in June 1940 and joined the chaotic mass exodus south to the unoccupied zone on foot with nothing but his manuscripts. He found himself trapped in Marseille under the Vichy government, a persecuted, stateless Russian, and participated in the early French Resistance before escaping on the last ship to the Americas in 1941. Exiled in Mexico City, Serge poured his recent experience into a fast-moving, gripping novel aimed at an American audience. The book begins in a near-deserted Paris abandoned by the government, the suburbs already noisy with gunfire. Serge’s anti-fascist protagonists join the flood of refugees fleeing south on foot, in cars loaded with household goods, on bikes, pushing carts and prams under the strafing Stukas, and finally make their way to wartime Marseille. Last Times offers a vivid eyewitness account of the city’s criminal underground and no less criminal Vichy authorities, of collaborators and of the growing resistance, of crowds of desperate refugees competing for the last visa and the last berth on the last—hoped-for—ship to the New World.

CAUGHT One More for the Good Guys

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469124386
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book CAUGHT One More for the Good Guys written by J.J. Parker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAUGHT - One More for the Good Guys tells the enduring, true story of a female undercover officer who faced and overcame great odds in the line of duty. It provides an insight into what it was like for a woman to be on the street with real life druggies,thieves and murderers lurking around. Through the author's view, readers will experience every emotion that a soul could experience: the excitement, fun, fear, danger, disappointment and the sense of accomplishment in doing something worthwile. Along the way, this book also reveals the politics of law enforcement, the impact crime has on the local community and much more.

One Last Time

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ISBN 13 : 9781957309071
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis One Last Time by : Corinne Michaels

Download or read book One Last Time written by Corinne Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm getting really good at cutting my losses. First, the husband. Divorcing him was the best decision I ever made. But between single-parenting and job-hunting, I can't catch my breath. When a celebrity blogging position falls into my lap, I'm determined to succeed. That is, until I get my first assignment and actually see Noah Frazier for the first time . . . practically naked and dripping wet. My heart races and I forget how to form complete sentences. His chiseled abs, irresistible smirk, and crystal blue eyes are too perfect to be real. So, what do I do? Get drunk and humiliate myself, of course. I'm ready to forget the awkward night, yet Noah has no intention of allowing me to move on. Instead, he arranges for me to write a feature on him, ensuring a lot more time together. One embarrassing moment after another, one kiss after another, and before I can stop myself, I realize-I'm falling in love with him. But when the unthinkable happens, can I even blame him for cutting his losses? What I wouldn't give for just one last time . . .