05309cam a2200373 4500 233412404 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781415945056 1415945055 dd2cbc94-6606-4475-a82a-f5d874c51700 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 132942 OverDrive (Product ID) 132942 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Steel, Danielle. Dating Game [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2003. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 332MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 332MB. Fiction. Romance. Paris Armstrong never thought she'd be divorced at 46, or at any other age. Her husband has dumped her for a younger woman just as their youngest child is leaving for college. Picking up the pieces, Paris discovers new resources and talents in herself. Sam Freed refrains from the mawkish sentimentality so pervasive in Steel's work, instead focusing on the humor and developing the characters' vocal personalities. Paris's gay employer in San Francisco sounds both flamboyant and likable. Freed's portrayal of Paris herself carries conviction even beyond the material in the text. His finest work in this novel centers around the ridiculous people she encounters, from obnoxious blind dates to a spaced-out massage therapist. R.P.L. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when she's thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the <b>Dating Game</b>.<br /> <br /> Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn' t imagine what he was about to say.<br /> <br /> "I want a divorce," Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.<br /> <br /> The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to "fix her up" with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move—as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.<br /> <br /> Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchman—so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris's age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That's when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life's unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.<br /> <br /> In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.<br /> <i>From the Paperback edition.</i>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. Freed, Sam. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=dd2cbc94-6606-4475-a82a-f5d874c51700 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/132942-DatingGame.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/132942-DatingGame.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD2CBC94-6606-4475-A82A-F5D874C51700&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/132942-DatingGame.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/132942-DatingGame.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD2CBC94-6606-4475-A82A-F5D874C51700&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)