Play it Again, Sam

Play it Again, Sam
Author: Maryann Miller
Publisher: Uncial Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1601740581

When her husband comes home from work one day to announce he's moving out, Samantha Rutgers thinks it's a joke. She hopes it's a joke. It's not. He packs his suitcase and moves out. For twenty-five years, Sam was a corporate wife, a stay-at-home mom. Now she's divorced, adrift, and alienated from her daughter who blames her for the divorce. Ill equipped to be a single woman in a whole new dating culture, she would have foundered without help from an old friend who challenges her to finish up the art degree she put on hold when she married. Her classes open the door to a job at an advertising agency, where Sam makes several new friends and one enemy. There she meets Frank Reynolds, who invites her to take that first step into new love. Gradually, as she slowly builds a new life for herself, Sam learns how to stand strong in the face of adversity, personal and professional.

Play It Again

Play It Again
Author: Laura Dower
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1480422541

DIVDIVWhen Far Hills Junior High puts on a play, can Madison survive the drama?/divDIV The seventh grade gets stage fever when Far Hills Junior High decides to perform the musical The Wiz. Since Madison doesn’t sing or dance, stage manager seems like the perfect role for her—until she begins to feel left out from all the cast action. Worst of all, her two best friends are partnering up with their nemesis, Ivy, both in and out of rehearsal. The play is bringing out the worst in her enemies and her friends, and Madison isn’t sure where she fits in anymore. How can she be the glue keeping the play together when she herself feels so unglued?/div/div

Play It Again Samantha

Play It Again Samantha
Author: Carolyn Douglas
Publisher: Inkwell Productions
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780972811835

Samantha Malcom's inner voice shouts that it is time for a change, so she climbs abord her son's mountain bike and heads into an indefinite future. Hours later, exhausted and lost, she falls asleep on the doorsteps of an abandoned building, awaken the next morning to the bustling activity of a town in the mist of the California Gold Rush of 1852. The rich tale that follows is one of the awakening and discovery, of wishes renewed and dreams fulfilled.

Play it Again!

Play it Again!
Author: Norman A. Bert
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Twenty-five contemporary one-act plays by nationally known playwrights designed to fit many needs. Includes plays for one, two, or three actors with a playing time of 10 to 15 minutes with about 5 minutes acting time per character. Each play is a complete work--no cuttings-- and are of contest caliber.

Thanks for the Pain

Thanks for the Pain
Author: Josh Gates
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 149177617X

Scarlett was just shy of her thirteenth birthday when her mother, Staci, abandoned the family. Scarlett and her father, Jacob, are forced to co-exist in their grief. Five years later, Staci dies, leaving her husband and daughter to wonder what has transpired in the intervening years. After the funeral, Jacob decides its time to introduce Scarlett to his extended family via a scrapbook of storieshe fails miserably. Scarletts wit sees through her fathers deceit to the truth about her mothers abandonment of them. The pain of this truth and Jacobs continued efforts to hide it from his daughter lead Scarlett to emotionally abandon her husband, Michael, at a time when he needs her most. Scarletts attempts to cope and heal result in dangerous choices for herself and her son Bailey. Eventually, Scarlett finds a kindred spirit in a young woman named Jade. With the help of her mothers words and an incredibly adaptable spirit, Scarlett attempts to make sense of a life filled with pain.

The Man Next Door

The Man Next Door
Author: Gina Wilkins
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426818041

Dani Madison was determined to make a fresh start. To cast off her princess persona forever. To be independent from any man. Too bad Teague McCauley lived down the hall. Enigmatic FBI agent Teague's closest relationships were with the cases he toiled on day and night. After ending up on the wrong end of an arrest gone awry, the last thing Teague expected was for Dani to nurse him back to health—or awaken feelings in him that he could swear were long gone. But something about his beautiful but distant "friend" was cause for further investigation…perhaps even into love?

The Lady and the Lawman

The Lady and the Lawman
Author: Joyce Brandon
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626819033

A lady journalist finds love with a rough-riding ranger in this Western historical romance “so vibrantly written [it’s] like seeing a good movie” (Affaire de Coeur). Arizona Territory, 1880. After attending college back east, Angie Logan returns to her family ranch in Durango. Her hometown has changed—and so has she. A vivacious young woman and professional photographer, Angie’s turned her childhood knack for trouble into a serious nose for news. But when riots break out against an influx of Chinese settlers, Angie doesn’t just get the story, she appeals to the governor for help. And help arrives in the form of the sexiest man Angie’s ever seen. Lance Kincaid became a ranger to avenge the murder of the woman he loved. While in Durango to resolve the current upheaval, he catches the murderer’s trail. Now his revenge is finally in sight. Nothing will stop him from catching his quarry—except perhaps Angie, the mysterious woman whose awakened in him a stirring he thought he’d never feel again. Winner of the RT Outstanding New Western Historical Author Award “This heart-warming novel will hold a special place in readers’ hearts.” —RT Book Reviews “One of the best historical romances to reach my reviewer’s stack in ages.” —Wayne Barton, Western Writers of America “So vibrantly written it was like seeing a good movie. I wanted to read it again.” ―Barbara Keenan, Affaire de Coeur

Crackling Ice

Crackling Ice
Author: Nicholas Walker
Publisher: Nicholas Walker
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2022-05-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Samantha is thrown out of dance school and told she will never dance again…and dancing is her whole life. Then she meets 14 year old Alex who is an ice dancer and secretly they start skating together. Can Samantha hide her obsession from her parents? Will they even stay as partners when his attitude is so casual? Will their tempestuous relationship tear them apart before they ever get to perform? This gripping novel by best seller Nicholas Walker tears the top of the ice skating world and reveals all the agony and heartbreak that lies underneath.

Revenge

Revenge
Author: Sue Wolcott-Whitten
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644248859

Although "He" enjoyed playing the game and tried to avenge his beautiful daughter's death, Phillip's plan failed. First, he stalked Samantha and purposely put her into a state of emotional anguish. Then he got Jill, Samantha's best friend and office assistant, involved so there was no way out for Jill, but to do exactly as he said. Phillip had kidnapped and beaten Samantha, then buried her alive for the purpose of making her suffer like he had when she took his beautiful daughter, Heather, from him. In the future, he'd have to take more time with Samantha and make sure he was the reason she was taking her final breath.

Red Hook Road

Red Hook Road
Author: Ayelet Waldman
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385517866

Traces the lives of the Tetherly and Copaken families in the aftermath of a child's tragic death, which results in a broken marriage, a bonding between bereaved siblings and healing in the form of an adopted girl's prodigious violin talent. By the author of the best-selling Bad Mother.