title: The Sweetheart: A Novel
author:  Angelina Mirabella 
description: You would be forgiven for thinking Angelina Mirabella had herself been a star lady wrestler in the 1950s, given how authentically detailed her debut novel is. Fortunately for us, shes a fiction writerand a superb onewho has penned The Sweetheart, bringing all her glorious gifts of empathy and language to bear on its unforgettable heroine. (Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine)<br /><br />Smart, funny, and poignant, Angelina Mirabellas THE SWEETHEART puts a hammerlock on one of literatures most important themes, the search for an identity, and makes it cry Auntie! This is a delightfully original novel by a champ of a new writer. (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain)<br /><br />Like Gwen Davies, its deeply loveable heroine, THE SWEETHEART is a delightful combination of beauty, brawn, and heart. Angelina Mirabella revives the entertainment of lady wrestling from its black-and-white age and raises it to the level of art. This is a bold, agile, and breathlessly exuberant debut. (Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints)<br /><br />Why havent there been more novels written about the lady wrestling circuit of the 1950s? Thank God the talented Angelina Mirabella has opened up this fascinating world for us in her mesmerizing debut novel, <i>The Sweetheart</i>. Its heroineGorgeous Gwen Daviesis the most feisty and vulnerable character youll ever meet. Once she leaps from the turnbuckle and takes the competition to the mat, youll find yourself out of your seat and cheering. THE SWEETHEART made me downright giddy. (Elizabeth Stuckey-French, author of The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady and Mermaids on the Moon)<br /><br />"An engrossing portrait of the little-known world of women's wrestling with questions about the nature of stardom and showing love. Leonie will fascinate teens, especially girls, as she makes her own way in a male-dominated sport. There's much here for book clubs to discuss." (<i>Library Journal</i>)<br /><br />"Debut novelist Mirabella delivers a powerful blow with her coming-of-age story set in the world of women's professional wrestling in 1953. Leonie Putzkammer is a 17-year-old who's primed to reinvent herself...The novel is bursting with colorful characters who are far more complex than the heels and faces they portray in the theater of professional wrestling. A powerful tale of a person's capacity for reinvention." (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>)<br /><br />An unusual coming-of-age novel with a focus on being true to oneself. (<i>Booklist</i>)<br /><br />Spunky and colorful<i>The Sweetheart </i>is a smart and touching romp through the history of womens wrestling, and it just may give you more respect and understanding for those spangly WWE Divas. (<i>Bustle, "January 2015s Best Books"</i>)<br /><br /><i>The Sweetheart</i> is well-balanced in its humor and pathosfull of seamless sentences and surprising swerves of action. (<i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i>)<br /><br />A wonderfully straightforward coming-of-age story thats set against a backdrop thats anything but. (<i>goop</i>)
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  A BOOK BOYFRIEND SERIES BOOK THREE
  
  CHARLOTTE DANIELS
  
  MOONLIT OW PRESS
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  Copyright © 2020 by Charlie Daniels
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information
  storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
  First paperback edition October 2020
  Book cover design by LYNC Book Cover Designs
  Book edited by EC Editorial
  ISBN 9798687283908 (paperback)
  ASIN B08CBNDGJ6 (ebook)
  authorcharlottedaniels.com
  
  Find your happily ever after.
  
  CONTENTS
  1. Mia
  2. Mia
  3. Mia
  4. Mia
  5. Gabe
  6. Gabe
  7. Mia
  8. Gabe
  9. Mia
  10. Gabe
  11. Mia
  12. Mia
  13. Mia
  14. Mia
  15. Gabe
  16. Mia
  17. Mia
  18. Ga