Broken Play

Broken Play
Author: Samantha Kane
Publisher: SK Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 173605290X

The Birmingham Rebels series introduces an unforgettable team of bad boys and the sexy, forbidden games they play off the football field. Birmingham Rebels offensive linemen Beau Perez and Cass Zielinski are inseparable, on and off the field. Cass is the team captain and an unapologetic swaggering cowboy with a temper. Beau, the veteran tight end, is a city boy with a rough past he hides behind a cool exterior. Ever since a sex tape of a steamy threesome starring the two of them went viral, their exploits have fueled more than a few tabloid headlines and late night fantasies. Marian Treadwell, the Rebels’ new assistant offensive coach, knows all about the video. She can’t look at Beau and Cass without picturing herself pressed in between their hard, naked bodies. Marian would like nothing more than to indulge those fantasies, but she knows better than to get too close to football players, a bunch of adrenaline-fueled alpha males who don’t always follow the rules. Been there, done that, learned her lesson. Just the thought of sharing the gorgeous yet guarded Marian makes Cass crazy. Beau isn’t sure she’s right for them, though, when all he desires is a little alone time with Cass to explore the new direction their relationship is going. It’s only a matter of time before Cass breaks through both of their defenses. Because when seduction is the game plan, he always plays to win. Broken Play is intended for mature audiences. Don’t miss any of Samantha Kane’s steamy Birmingham Rebels novels: BROKEN PLAY | CALLING THE PLAY | JACKED UP|MISCONDUCT

Broken Play

Broken Play
Author: Amber Kuhlman
Publisher: Amber Kuhlman
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When love takes the field, the playbook gets benched. Kate He’s the arrogant college quarterback and womanizer. The one guy I want nothing to do with, ever ... The legendary Seth Tate is a million things at once, but he’s still just a person hiding behind his precious football. I see right through his facade, and I don’t think he’s used to that. Sexy. Charming. Ambitious. I want him more and more as the days pass, but he could never be really interested in a girl like me. A nobody. Or could he? Seth If there was ever a woman who could kill me with looks alone, it’s Kate. She’s insecure, obstinate, and a pain in my ass. I don’t need her any more than she needs me, but the publicity is good, so hey, why not? Right? I never thought Kate would be one of the few people to take me seriously. She sees through my bullshit, and her blunt honesty is a breath of fresh air. But, people don’t like it. They don’t like us. A guy like me doesn’t belong with a girl like Kate. She’s sweet. Funny. Clever. And damn it all if I can’t keep my hands off of her. I don’t think anyone was expecting what happened next. Especially us.

Broken Play

Broken Play
Author: Nicholas Sheppard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2018
Genre: Gay men
ISBN: 9780994140814

Alec Haudepin has spent the winters of his youth on the rugby field, and now, at twenty-three, his dream of playing for the All Blacks is almost within reach. But his rise to prominence uncovers quiet sadness about the part of his identity he has always struggled to acknowledge. "Broken Play captures magnificently the internal conflict and tumult experienced by so many young gay sportsmen struggling to find their true identity. Their sporting world and their attraction to men appears incomprehensible and irreconcilable. We welcome novels like Broken Play as it highlights, albeit fictionally, that homosexuality is no barrier to rugby skill, prowess, and success. Despite the tremendous LGBT social advances made in the last 20 years, sport lags behind. Many sports have much work to do to truly be inclusive at all levels. Unfortunately, there are remarkably few out gay competing professional footballers." - Andrew Purchas, Chairman of International Gay Rugby.

Play and Wellbeing

Play and Wellbeing
Author: Cindy Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317309073

In an era of increasingly patient-centered healthcare, understanding how health and illness play out in social context is vital. This volume opens a unique window on the role of play in health and wellbeing in widely varied contexts, from the work of Patch Adams as a hospital clown, to an Australian facility for dementia treatment, to a New Zealand preschool after an earthquake, to a housing complex where Irish children play near home. Across these and other featured studies, play is shown to be shaman-like in its transformative dynamics, marshaling symbolic resources to re-align how patients construe and experience illness. Even when illness is not an issue, play promotes wellbeing by its power to reimagine, invigorate, enliven and renew through sensory engagement, physical activity, and symbolism. Play levels social barriers and increases flexible response, facilitating both shared social support and creative reassessment. This book challenges assumptions that play is inefficient and unproductive, with highly relevant evidence that playful processes actually work hard to dislodge unproductive approaches and thereby aid resilience. Solid research evidence in this book charts the course and opens the agenda for taking play seriously, for the sake of health. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Play.

Broken

Broken
Author: J. Matthew Nespoli
Publisher: World Audience Inc
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193544445X

Broken chronicles the tragedies of several strangers who are trying to find happiness in the city of Los Angeles. As their paths cross with one another, each of them becomes an integral thread in the fabric that unifies them and helps them heal. Skye is a teenage homeless musician battling a drug addiction who dreams of unattainable rock stardom. She's befriended by Amber, a young mother on the run from two dangerous men from her past. The two girls form a mutually indispensable bond, one that could ultimately save them. Dylan is a pseudo-intellectual-Chuck Palahniuk wanna-be, and a total cynic. He lives with TJ, an out of work actor, who fails auditions by day, and wears a hamburger suit outside a burger joint at the mall by night. TJ and Dylan are artistic failures in need of a muse to kick start their careers. Broken follows several other interesting individuals (all based on real people), each with their own humorous twisted narrative as they try to put the pieces of their lives back together.

Broken

Broken
Author: A.E. Rought
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1908844329

A string of suspicious deaths near a small Michigan town ends with a fall that claims the life of Emma Gentry’s boyfriend, Daniel. Emma is broken, a hollow shell mechanically moving through her days. She and Daniel had been made for each other, complete only when they were together. Now she restlessly wanders the town in the late Fall gloom, haunting the cemetary and its white-marbled tombs, feeling Daniel everywhere, his spectre in the moonlight and the fog. When she encounters newcomer Alex Franks, only son of a renowned widowed surgeon, she’s intrigued despite herself. He’s an enigma, melting into shadows, preferring to keep to himself. But he is as drawn to her as she is to him. He is strangely…familiar. From the way he knows how to open her locker when it sticks, to the nickname she shared only with Daniel, even his hazel eyes with brown flecks are just like Daniel’s. The closer they become, though, the more something inside her screams there’s something very wrong with Alex Franks. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Against Football

Against Football
Author: Steve Almond
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1612194168

A New York Times Best Seller “Powerful...an important read." —Publishers Weekly New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions: • Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? • What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into a billion-dollar industry? • How did a sport that causes brain damage become such an important emblem for our institutions of higher learning? There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of America’s favorite game with such searing candor.

More Thoughts of Chairman Moore

More Thoughts of Chairman Moore
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0857202472

Pitbull is back and angrier than ever, with another collection of hilariously well-observed and rambunctiously argued grievances about the mad world of sport and beyond. Following the success of The Thoughts of Chairman Moore, Volume I, you might have hoped that sport's powers that be would have sat up and taken notice of its many faults and flaws. But alas no, lunacy prevails and so Brian has taken it upon himself to put forward another collection of his unique insights and not-so-unique frustrations. Uproariously funny and spot-on in its every complaint, Volume II is required reading for anyone who can't live without sport but who also can't help but wonder at its unbridled idiocy!

Broken Innocence

Broken Innocence
Author: Marquita Brown
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2022-01-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 166247282X

This book is about a little girl whose innocence was taken from her. It talks about how it affected her throughout her life when it came to dating and just dealing with relationships in general. It talks about her struggle with anxiety and depression.