Get your Taboo Romance fix NOW with this naughty standalone Older Man Younger Woman Romance between a BBW and her Dad's Sexy Best Friend.When Jenna finds herself stranded on a deserted road in the middle of the night, she knows she’s stuck. Her cellphone is as dead as the area, and there’s no traffic in sight. Just as she starts to worry that this is a classic “girl in distress” horror flick setup, her savior arrives.Nick can’t believe his best friend’s daughter looks so hot. Typically demure Jenna has turned him on for years. Jenna in sexy clothes drives him crazy. He’d like to do a lot more than just taking her home. But will their age difference cause them both to lose out? Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers. Views: 42
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right.Arranged into five sections—In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free—this new collection poses questions we immediately recognize. What is The Social Network—and Facebook itself—really about? "It's a cruel portrait of us: 500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore." Why do we love libraries? "Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library... Views: 40
From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, in American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up... Views: 38
“A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model… Like Zadie Smith’s much-acclaimed predecessor White Teeth (2000), NW is an urban epic.” --Joyce Carol Oates, *The New York Review of Books*This is the story of a city.The northwest corner of a city. Here you’ll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between.Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds.And then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing a disruption in the whole system. Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Hanwell’s door, seeking help, disturbing the peace, forcing Leah out of her isolation…Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic new novel follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end.Depicting the modern urban zone – familiar to town-dwellers everywhere – Zadie Smith’s NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012: Zadie Smith's NW, an ode to the neighborhoods of northwest London where the author came of age, feels like a work in progress. For most writers, that would be a detriment. But in this case, the sense of imperfection feels like a privilege: a peek inside the fascinating brain of one of the most interesting writers of her generation. Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty) plays extensively with form and style--moving from screenplay-like dialogue to extremely short stories, from the first person to the third--but her characters don't matter as much as their setting. Smith is a master of literary cinematography. It's easy to picture her creations, flaws ablaze, as they walk the streets of London. --Alexandra FosterReview"This is a book in which you never know how things will come together or what will happen next... NW represents a deliberate undoing; an unpacking of Smith’s abundant narrative gifts to find a deeper truth, audacious and painful as that truth may be. The result is that rare thing, a book that is radical and passionate and real."—Anne Enright, The New York Times Book Review"A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model... Like Zadie Smith’s much-acclaimed predecessor White Teeth (2000), NW is an urban epic."—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books"Absolutely brilliant... So electrically authentic, it reads like surveillance transcripts."—Lev Grossman, TIME"Endlessly fascinating... remarkable. ...The impression of Smith's casual brilliance is what constantly surprises, the way she tosses off insights about parenting and work that you've felt in some nebulous way but never been able to articulate."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post"Innovative and moving... This is a rich novel, as crammed with voices and layered with history and pop culture as is London itself. Smith’s flair for dialogue reaches a new height in NW, as she conveys the rhythms and diction of a variety of Londoners with wit and acuity. The story of what happens inside a person when she rises above the situation she was born into was of interest to Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, among countless other novelists. Zadie Smith has delivered her contribution to this literary tradition with aplomb."—*Dallas Morning News"Smith has never been a writer who travels directly from A to B... Smith is not interested in exploring the unbroken line of cause and effect. What NW does offer, in abundance, is the sense of being plunged with great immediacy into the lives of these characters and their neighborhood. How wonderful to have a new version of London to explore."—Boston Globe"If our everyday world suddenly turns dark, zany and lyrically weird one day, it's probably because Zadie Smith has learned how to control us all. In NW, Ms. Smith takes her courageous forays into the vernacular to new heights, using perspectives that are perhaps more native to her but in a form that feels brand new."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Zadie Smith is not merely one of Britain's finest younger writers, but also one of the English-speaking world's best chroniclers of race, class, and identity in urban confines. Smith remains fearless, and there are moments that astonish. Her ambition and talent continue to awe."—Philadelphia Inquirer"[NW is] a real sign of how Smith has developed and grown. It is a terrific novel: deeply ambitious, an attempt to use literature as a kind of excavation, while at the same time remaining intensely readable, intensely human, a portrait of the way we live."—Los Angeles Times *"A marvelously accomplished work, perhaps her most polished yet."—Laura Miller, Salon"A triumph... As Smith threads together her characters' inner and outer worlds, every sentence sings."—The Guardian"Smith's fiction has never been this deadly, direct, or economical... Where gifts are concerned, Smith is generous with hers; she writes, one feels, with our pleasure in mind... NW is Zadie Smith’s riskiest, meanest, most political and deeply felt book--but it all feels so effortless. She dazzles."—Parul Sehgal, Bookforum"NW offers a nuanced, disturbing exploration of the boundaries, some porous, some impenetrable, between people living cheek by jowl in urban centers where the widening gap between haves and have-nots has created chasms into which we're all in danger of falling."—NPR.org"A powerful portrait of class and identity in multicultural London. "—Entertainment Weekly"One of the most interesting portrayals of 30- something womanhood that I've come across in a long time. For other readers, Smith's brilliant eye and idiosyncratic ear should be ample enticement."—Bloomberg News"A master class in freestyle fiction writing. Smith mashes up voices and vignettes, poetry and instant messaging, bedroom preferences and murder, and keeps it all from collapsing into incoherent mush with deft, dry wit. Smith defines characters worth reading."—Newsday"In NW, Smith offers a robust novel bursting with life: a timely exploration of money, morals, class and authenticity that asks if we are ever truly the sole authors of our own fate."—BookPage(Praise ) Views: 36
Indulge yourself in this steamy, naughty Taboo Romance between a BBW secretary and her billionaire celebrity boss.When Taylor Sullivan learns that she will be working for her long-time celebrity billionaire crush Zachary Cohen, she is over the moon. The man is not only smart and successful, but he is also sinfully sexy. Very soon, she realizes that billionaires don’t waste any time when it comes to getting what they want, including women. On her very first day on the job, Zachary requests for her to accompany him at a special event in the Hamptons and gives her a hefty bonus for her services. She soon finds out that he sees her as more than just his secretary. Taylor’s job is important to her, but will she fight the urge to give in to Zachary’s advances? Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers. Views: 35
Lexi grew up poor and left home early, even though she knew that it meant that she would live on the streets most of the time. Caught up in the drug scene and trying to get out, she meets Dr. Dan at the restaurant where she works. The two of them get to know each other and he always leaves her large tips to make sure that she is eating while she is at work.When Dr. Dan offers her a complete physical and a place to stay, she jumps at the chance, but finds herself tangled up in a steamy encounter with the doctor and his partner, Dr. Caleb…Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only. Views: 34
The last time she saw Jack, it was as she ran away from him in the rain. Scarlett still doesn't know what to think of the secret he shared with her. Could she ever face him again? The question plagues her just as Matt makes another appearance, but this time it ends with a family member going to the hospital. To add to the stress, people at work are claiming that Scarlett only got the job because she slept with Jack.Just when it seems like everything is falling apart around her, will Scarlett be able to rediscover her inner spirit, the one that pushed her to carve out a better life for herself after her sister's death? And there's still more to learn from Jack Keyes, but does she dare to face the truth? Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only. Views: 30
Fulfill your guilty pleasures with this naughty, standalone Taboo Romance about a BBW who meets her sexy Doctor Stepbrother for the first time.Chris had been dreading this “get-acquainted” weekend with her mom’s fiancé and his family, and things get off to a rough start as she hurts her ankle on the first day. But when she meets her hot doctor of a stepbrother in the emergency room, things change. The attraction between them was electric, and even though they both know it wouldn’t be right, they couldn’t help but act on her desires. Will they be able to keep their passion a secret from their family?Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers. Views: 29
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide. In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political. This is the story of his life, lived large. Views: 27
"Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly—so powerfully and cannily—it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy ExamsFrom columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures—from Sylvia Plath to Britney Spears—in the spirit of Chuck Klosterman, with the heart of a true fan. Mixing Didion's affected cool with moments of giddy celebrity worship, Massey examines the lives of the women who reflect our greatest aspirations and darkest fears back onto us. These essays are personal without being confessional and clever in a way that invites readers into the... Views: 26
Get down and naughty with this HOT standalone Older Man Younger Woman Taboo Romance between a sweet BBW and an exotic, older doctor from Italy.Emma has been saving up for her high school graduation trip since forever. When the time finally comes, she can’t wait to escape her overbearing parents and do some soul-searching in Europe. Unfortunately, soon after she arrives at her first stop in Italy, she becomes sick from food poisoning. But just as things seem to go downhill, she meets Dr. Silvio, the sexy doctor at the Italian clinic. The two of them share an instant, magnetic connection despite the language barrier and age difference. As Emma embraces her womanhood and newfound freedom in a foreign country, she has one of the most memorable and exhilarating nights of her life. Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers. Views: 24
