Play My Game by Lara Adrian (The fifth book in the For 100 Days series)
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 238 MB
Overview: She stands out like a flame in the dark. Out of place in my orbit, she is a bright splash of color in an abyss of darkness. An innocent in a den of sin. And I, Jared Rush, am a master of corruption.
Like my paintings - dark, carnal images that have crowned me the king of the avant-garde art world while also making me a very rich man - I don't flinch away from my baser instincts. And now, every one of those instincts is hungry for the fresh-faced beauty who made the mistake of wandering into my lair.
I don't know her name yet, but that's inconsequential. I know who she belongs to. And while she has nothing to do with the bad blood that's been festering inside me for decades, I can't help thinking about that old, unsettled score. I'm thinking about payback. And I already have a price in mind. One that begins with her.
Genre: Audiobooks > Fiction > Paranormal Romance


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Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness by Sam V H Reese
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2.6mb
Overview: Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. In Blue Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness , Sam V. H. Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the cultural narratives often associated with it, noting how they have, in turn, shaped readers’ judgments and assumptions about the music.

This illuminating critical study contemplates the relationship between jazz and literature from a perspective that musicians themselves regularly call upon to characterize their that of the conversation. Reese traces the tradition of literary appropriations of jazz, both as subject matter and as aesthetic structure, in order to show how writers turn to this genre of music as an avenue for exploring aspects of human loneliness. In turn, jazz musicians have often looked to literature―sometimes obliquely, sometimes centrally―for inspiration. Reese devotes particular attention to how several revolutionary jazz artists used the written word as a way to express, in concrete terms, something their music could only allude to or affectively evoke. By analyzing these exchanges between music and literature, Blue Notes refines and expands the cultural meaning of being alone, stressing how loneliness can create beauty, empathy, and understanding.

Reese analyzes a body of prose writings that includes Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and midcentury short fiction by James Baldwin, Julio Cortázar, Langston Hughes, and Eudora Welty. Alongside this vibrant tradition of jazz literature, Reese considers the autobiographies of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, as well as works by a range of contemporary writers including Geoff Dyer, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, and Zadie Smith. Throughout, Blue Notes offers original perspectives on the disparate ways in which writers acknowledge the expansive side of loneliness, reimagining solitude through narratives of connected isolation.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General jazz, music, literature


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Here Goes Nothing by Alexander C. Eberhart (There Goes Sunday School Book 2)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 3.2 Mb
Overview: A continuation of There Goes Sunday School.

For high school senior Mike Hernandez, everything is finally falling perfectly into place. He’s publishing his first web comic with his new boyfriend, his friends and family are totally supportive, and he’s looking towards a future he never let himself imagine.

Chris Myers is a boy on the mend. After an almost deadly altercation with his father a year ago, he and his mother are finally moving back to Atlanta and back to the boy he left behind. A boy who he can’t seem to forget even if that boy seems to have had no trouble moving on without him. When they reconnect in school, they can't escape each other's pull, even with Mike’s new boyfriend and a huge tragedy between them. Now Mike has a choice to make, keep his new safe relationship, or return to the boy he lost, the boy he just can’t stop thinking about.

Choosing Chris means facing their dark past, a darkness Mike isn’t sure Chris can handle. Can the boys trust their hearts and give in to their feelings or will ‘here goes nothing’ lead to them losing everything?
Genre: Fiction > Romance > MM, Young Adult


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Dating A Music God by Laura Greenwood & Arizona Tape (Jinx Paranormal Dating Agency #5)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 276 kB
Overview: Can one night with a god of music lead to forever?

All Mei wants is the chance to be herself while not being treated like an international pop star, which leads her to a dating app and swiping right on a man who might be able to give her just that.

Chiguo's life as a Heavenly King has lost its sparkle, and even music has lost some of the enjoyment it used to hold. Until he meets Mei, and falls under the spell of the enchanting singer.

Has the music god found a new muse?
Genre: Fiction > Romance


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