Kissing Games Of The World

✍ Scribed by Maddie Dawson

• Publisher: NYLA;Shaye Areheart Books
• Year: 2017;2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 225 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1299000509

✦ Synopsis

Warmhearted, insightful, funny and poignant, bestselling
author, Maddie Dawson, takes the
unfathomable ways of love and family, and celebrates [the joys of] the ordinary
craziness of being human.

Devoted, creative
single-mom Jamie McClintocks world is thrown into chaos by the sudden death of
Harris, her vibrant, elderly landlord. Not only does she mourn him terribly, but she
has to face the unkind gossip about their unorthodox living arrangement (free
board in exchange for watching adorable grandson Christopher, her own sons
best friend) and assume full
responsibility for grieving Christopher, who was left in Harris care by his
estranged, highly successful son, Nate.

Then Nate returns to
claim his son and thats when life reallygets chaotic...

Sexy hero, lovable heroine, adorable kidsKissing Games
of the World has it all. A complete delight. Fall into this buoyant,
funny, genuinely touching story of two incomplete people finding the rest of
themselves in each other. I loved it.Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling
author of Mad Dash

Kissing Games of the Worldhas the shape
of a classic romance, in which opposites at first repel, then attract, and
after many ups and downs find love. It's been done countless times, but rarely
as engagingly as Shelton does it in this novel. The Boston Globe

Quite wonderful. . . . Like Anne Tyler, Shelton seems to
possess a nearly boundless capacity for empathy. She has the ability to make us
love her characters for their faults, not in spite of them. Connecticut
Post

An engrossing, charming, and often funny exploration of love
and relationships that resultthe author [explores] love in its different
incarnations. Library Journal, starred review

An absolute treat, Sheltons work rarely falters and is
filled with realistic twists, complex characters and a moving conclusion. Publisher
Weekly

[A]s the seemingly star-crossed lovers navigate their rocky
path, with children in tow, they eventually discover their true destination,
their true home. Booklist

"A warm, sentimental love story is told with a
tenderness of heart and a nurturing eye guiding complexly drawn characters. She
effortlessly melds love and loss with heartrending care, exposing the layers of
a budding romance with a deft hand. It's full of humor, flaws, and a
togetherness of spirit fit for any modern love story where family is what you
make it." Romantic Times

Sexy hero, lovable heroine, adorable kidsKissing Games
of the World has it all. A complete delight. Fall into this buoyant,
funny, genuinely touching story of two incomplete people finding the rest of
themselves in each other. I loved it.Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling
author of Mad Dash

Sheltons greatest talent is a gift for juxtaposing comedy
and tragedy to the pulsing beat of the modern-day mating dance. BookPage

**This book was originally published under the pen name, Sandi
Kahn Shelton.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:

I grew up in the South, born into a family of outrageous
storytellersthe kind of storytellers who would sit on the dock by the lake in
the evening and claim that everything they say is THE absolute truth, like,
stack-of-Bibles true. The more outlandish the story, the more it likely it was
to be true. Or so they said.

You want examples? There was the story of my
great great aunt who shot her husband dead, thinking he was a burglar; the
alligator that almost ate Uncle Jake while he was waterskiing; the gay cousin
who took his aunt to the prom, disguised in a bouffant French wig. (The aunt,
not the cousin.) And then there was my mama, a blond-haired siren who, when I
was seven, drove a married man so insane that he actually stole an Air Force
plane one day and buzzed our house. (I think there might have been a
court-martial ending to that story.)

And in between all these stories of crazy,
over-the-top events, there was the hum of just daily, routine crazy: shotgun
weddings, drunken funerals, stories of peoples affairs and love lives, their
job losses, the things that made them laugh, the way theyd drink Jack Daniels
and get drunk and foretell the future. There were ghosts and miracles and dead
people coming back to life. You know, everyday stuff.

How could I turn into anything else but a
writer? My various careers as a substitute English teacher, department store
clerk, medical records typist, waitress, cat-sitter, wedding invitation company
receptionist, nanny, daycare worker, electrocardiogram technician, and Taco
Bell taco-maker were only bearable if I could think up stories as I worked. In
fact, the best job I ever had was a part-time gig typing up case notes for a
psychiatrist. Everything the man dictated bloomed as a possible novel in my
head.

Today I live in Connecticut, and spend part of
every day on my screened-in back porch with my trusty laptop, writing and
writing and writing, looking out at the willow tree and the rosebush and the
rhododendron that has a nice nest of cardinals, who I imagine to be yelling at
me to get back to work whenever I wait too long to write the next sentence.

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