title: Shut Up and Deal: A Novel
author:  Jesse May 
description: The vignettes in <i>Shut Up and Deal</i> are a bizarre mingling of <a href="/exec/obidos/exact-author=Runyon%2c%20Damon/${0}">Damon Runyon</a> and <a href="/exec/obidos/exact-author=Mamet%2c%20David/%{0}">David Mamet</a>. Mickey, the book's narrator, is always playing cards with people who have monikers such as Uptown Raoul, Hot Mama Earl, Johnny World, and Vinnie the Greek, and he himself generally wears at these card games something like "yellow pants and a green double-breasted jacket from the seventies and a green and yellow flowered shirt with dark sunglasses" in order to sucker the unsuspecting mark into maybe thinking that he is not such a good poker player and that his money can be easily won, which it usually cannot. Yet the dialogue, relecting life on the professional poker circuit, is stark and brutal, as in Mickey's advice to a dilettante who is considering following in his footsteps: "All I can tell you is that it's lonely out there, real fuckin' lonely, and your play doesn't matter so much as how tough you are and whether or not you fall apart."
zlib_text: TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Title Page
  Book Description
  Book 1: Serve
  Book 2: Grate
  Book 3: Fusion
  Book 4: Taste
  Book 5: Heat
  Book 6: Scorched
  Book 7: Simmer
  Book 8: Blend
  Book 9: Treat
  Book 10: Savor
  Epilogue
  Copyright
  
  SERVED
  A Bad Boy Billionaire Romance
  Box Set
   
  By Ashlee Price
  
  Book Description
  I can't stop thinking about that Bad Boy.
  Jesse
  Jesse Olson has a full plate.
  When her father dies suddenly of an aneurism, her whole world seems to
  come to a stop.
  But with a bistro to run by herself and one of her special coffee blends getting
  a lot of attention in the city, Jesse is busier than ever.
  She doesn’t have time to do much of anything except work and sleep, and she
  isn’t thinking about anything else – until she meets a rude businessman with
  flashing dark eyes and a wicked tongue.
   
  Scott
  Scott comes to the bistro for one reason, but changes his mind when he meets
  the young owner and decides that he can find something else that he wants
  there.
  When Jesse is quick to put him in his place,