title: A Life in Men: A Novel
author:  Gina Frangello 
description: Two college students and lifelong friends are vacationing in Greece in the 1980s. This is just one in a string of adventures for sexy, confident Nix, but for Mary its a radical departure from the sheltered life overseen by her adoptive parents to keep her cystic fibrosis in check. Three years later, Mary is in London, grieving for Nix, whose fate remains a mystery for much of the novel. Mary lives on the edge, exacerbating her chronic illness, which Frangello (Slut Lullabies, 2010) depicts with unnervingly clinical specificity. She falls in love with a South African gymnast, and they travel the world. Frangello describes each setting with elegiac intensity, assembles a six-degrees-of-separation cast of characters lanced by secrets and pain, and embroiders a suspenseful, melodramatic, wildly excessive plot of interconnectivity, embodying Marys desperate attempt to fill her numbered days to the brim. In this bravura performance, a quantum creative leap, contrivances and all, Frangello astutely dissects the quandaries of female sexuality, adoption, terminal illness, and compound heartbreak in a torrent of tough-minded observations, audacious candor, and storytelling moxie. --Donna Seaman
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  A DIRTY OFFICE ROMANCE
   
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  A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS, 3
   
   
  FLORA FERRARI
  
  CONTENTS
   
  Copyright
  A Man Who Knows What He Wants Series
   
  Built
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Epilogue
   
  Extended Epilogue
   
  Excerpt: Bambino
  
  COPYRIGHT
   
  Copyright © 2016 by Flora Ferrari.
  All Rights Reserved.
   
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  This book is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the
  author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
  events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
   
  The following story contains mature themes, strong language and sexual situations.  It is in