Between juggling lunchboxes, piano lessons, and baby-sitters, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum promises to help her famous friend clear her brother's name of murder. But what will she do when she begins to suspect her friend may not be as innocent as she seems? Views: 22
Fin is gone again, and Marisol is left wondering if they're ever going to be together. But the situation is further complicated by a blast from Fin's (recent) past that has the power to change everything. *This is a novella of 20K words and the eighth in a series of novellas. They will release on the third Thursday of every month. The total number of episodes isn't final, but it will be from 12-14, which is two novel's worth of content. Due to adult content, this is not appropriate for anyone under the age of 17* Views: 22
Smart, witty mystery from the author of Bad Mother and Love and Treasure..."Juliet Applebaum is smart, fearless, and completely candid about life as a full-time mom with a penchant for part-time detective work."—Sue Grafton Ever since her four-month-old son was born, Juliet hasn't slept for more than fifteen minutes at a stretch. (Has she given birth to some sort of mutant vampire? She's beginning to wonder.) It's been ages since she took her three-year-old daughter to the park. (Just one more reason why she's a front-runner for the "Worst Mother of the Year" award.) Her workaholic husband is spending way too much time with his perky, oh-so-pretty producing partner. (Juliet's sure her own post-pregnancy pounds are at least partly to blame.) She's started answering the door topless. (Don't even ask.) And now her son's babysitter—a beautiful young Chasidic woman—has vanished. Juliet can't help wondering if Fraydle was fleeing... Views: 22
This 1987 winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award contains 12 stories that focus on contemporary Americans: their fragile relationships, their interest in activism and their experiences with rape, drugs and homosexuality. Views: 22
Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a masterpiece about the unbreakable bonds of memory and desire. Views: 22
Aidan Pierce led a charmed life. Wealth, power, the love of a good woman - until his taste for kink triggers a devastating accident that forever changes his life. Now a mysterious recluse, Aidan doesn't let anyone see what he's become. In order to save a loved one, Lily Gray is forced into an agreement that gives Aidan absolute power over her body for one year. Lily has sacrificed her freedom and surrendered her body, but she never imagined he'd take possession of her heart. What will happen when Aidan threatens to dominate her entire life? Steeped in darkness for so many years, Aidan never dreamed his sweet little sub would come to command him with a single smile. Can her love lead him into the light? Will beauty tame the savage beast, or will his dark desires tear them apart? This is a dark, erotic retelling of the classic fairy tale and contains elements of BDSM. Not intended for readers under 18. This book contains a cliffhanger. The conclusion, Lily and the Beast 2, is due out March 21, and available for pre-order now. Views: 22
Ann Hood's "delightful" (NYT) historical series continues with one of America's great female heroes! Great-Uncle Thorne sends Maisie, Felix, and the Ziff twins on a dangerous trip back in time through The Treasure Chest and into the Congo to find Amy Pickworth, Thorne's missing aunt. When Maisie and Felix get separated from the twins, they use the magic of The Treasure Chest and find themselves in early twentieth-century Kansas with a young girl named Amelia Earhart. Every Treasure Chest book features a biography of the featured historical figure along with Ann's Favorite Facts from her research! Views: 22
Enter a decaying far, far future society, a time when anything and everything is possible, where words like 'conscience' and 'morality' are meaningless, and where heartfelt love blossoms mysteriously between Mrs Amelia Underwood, an unwilling time traveller, and Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time. The Dancers at the End of Time, containing the novels An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands and The End of All Songs, is a brilliant homage to the 1890s of Wilde, Beardsley and the fin de siecle decadents, satire at its sharpest and most colourful. Views: 22
Bad Guys, the first book in the Gibbons and Tozzi thriller series, introduces FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons, odd-couple partners and dedicated mob-busters. Hot-headed Tozzi goes renegade, and Gibbons is pulled out of retirement to stop him. Together they uncover a secret crime family headed by Richie Varga, a convicted mobster pulling the strings from the safety of the witness protection program. When Tozzi gets involved with Varga's sexy ex, the fur really starts to fly."Grisly…tense…good stuff!" Washington Post"This series dazzles with fast, intricate plotting, terrific characters and humor…" Publishers Weekly Views: 22
“An optical illusion novel: savor the shimmering wit and sharp writing
from a distance; or get close and risk seeing something that may shock you.”
—Details
Jeremy
Acidophilus is twenty-nine and his life is going nowhere—until he meets Lady
Henrietta, a painter of nude
men.
She wants Jeremy as her next subject, and he agrees to pose nude, lie thinks he
is falling in love with her, but i( is Henrietta’s precocious, voluptuous
eleven-year-old daughter who seduces Jeremy—in one of the most unsettling and
brilliantly comic scenes in recent literature.
Nude Men explores sexual mores
with uninhibited freshness and originality, shaking our allegiance to
conventional moral codes. Il is “playful, perverse, and wonderfully funny,”
says Kaihryn Ilarrison.
“an irresistible introduction to a
sublimely precocious writer.’’
“Exuberantly inventive...Droll,
mesmerizing and memorable...with a particular brand of sly naivete all its own”
—Publishers Weekly
Cover design by Michael Ian Kaye Cover
photograph by Melissa Hayden
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In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would challenge every idea he ever had about mercy and compassion. An animal control officer had found a neglected donkey on a farm in upstate New York, and she hoped that Jon and his wife, Maria, would be willing to adopt him. Jon wasn't planning to add another animal to his home on Bedlam Farm, certainly not a very sick donkey. But the moment he saw the wrenching sight of Simon, he felt a powerful connection. Simon touched something very deep inside of him. Jon and Maria decided to take him in. Simon's recovery was far from easy. Weak and malnourished, he needed near constant care, but Jon was determined to help him heal. As Simon's health improved, Jon would feed him by hand, read... Views: 22
