Dirty DesiresA Christmas RomanceLost love can be hard to overcome, but maybe she can help me find my way back again …Her backside is what first caught my attention.Round, firm, plump, juicy. Those are the words that ran through my mind when I first saw her bent over the table in front of me.For a couple of years, she'd filled my fantasies, and now she was filling my dreams too.But someone else had lived in my dreams for a long time. I didn't want her knocking that person out of my life forever.Pushing her away seemed impossible. No matter how hard I tried, my arms kept pulling her back to me.And just when I was able to let it all go, it all came crashing down on me again.Had I been cursed? Doomed to live life without love? Or could she break that spell? Views: 145
'JACOBS IS ADORED BY A WHOLE ARMY OF WOMEN READERS FOR HER HEART-WARMING STORIES OF LOVE AND LIFE' LANCASHIRE EVENING POSTRosalind's husband forces her to move from Australia to England because of his job with a multi-national company. But he's called away to deal with a crisis in Singapore and she's left to settle into a new country on her own. One by one, her three grown-up children need help with major life problems and there's only her to help them, because as usual, Paul puts his job first. Then she finds out that her husband's been unfaithful for years, and it's the final blow to their marriage, especially as she's met another man she finds attractive and kind. Her confidence grows as she wins acclaim as an embroidery artist and then she comes into an inheritance. Will her loyalty keep her with her husband, as it has before, or will Paul get more than he'd bargained for with the new, independent Rosalind? Views: 145
The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired. In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer's most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuff—a topic that allowed Bukowski to explore some of life's most pressing questions. Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friend—though often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled "Drinking,": "for me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and... Views: 144
