Overflowing with juicy gossip, passion, over-the-top antics, and more drama than a Jerry Springer marathon, Big Booty keeps readers on the edge of their seats wondering what happens next. Born in the projects and bred in the streets, Cassandra has been on her own since age fourteen. She learned how to make a way out of no way--from boosting clothes to credit card scams to sex, doing whatever she had to do to survive. Unfortunately for her, seducing men out of their money (and their minds) came easy. And it didn't take much for a young Cassandra to have guys of all ages eating out of the palm of her hand. A blessing and a curse, the alluring sway of her hips commands attention--wanted and unwanted. But escaping the ghetto has never been a desire for her. And she has no qualms about sleeping with anyone who is willing to satisfy her libido and help her in her quest to get to the next level of ghetto-fabulousness--no matter the costs. Views: 47
Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan -- both native New Yorkers -- came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Written in two separate voices, Back Then is thecandid, anecdotal account of these two children of privilege -- one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side -- pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books.Infused with intelligence and charm, Back Then is an elegant reflection on the transformative years in the lives of two young people and New York City. Marked by their youthful passions, this double memoir marries the authors' distinct literary styles with a riveting narrative that captures the density and texture of private, social, and working life in the 1950s. Views: 47
At the heart of the evil of Nazism was Hitler's "witch doctor," Heinrich Himmler, and his peculiar and deadly organization with the mundane name Schutzstaffel, literally "protective squadron." Undoubtedly you know them better as the feared SS, the very essence of Nazism. Their threatening double lightning bolt is perhaps the most dreaded symbol of the Third Reich. The facts of the SS's origins are truly stranger than fiction. If you thought Raiders of the Lost Ark was an inspired Hollywood fiction, think again. Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts reveals the hidden "truths" of the SS in full and morbidly fascinating detail. Views: 47
A short sampler (about 6050 words) of three erotic short stories from Adrian Black: a man encounter two women on an art walk; a black doctoral candidate visits a white professor in his office after hours; a tennis coach gives his student some lessons off-court. Views: 47
Noted psychologist Dr. Mike Dow uses the Chicken Soup for the Soul stories to show you how to be your own therapist. He addresses the key issues that most of his patients have and clearly explains how you can use the same techniques he uses with patients to solve your problems at home. This combination of personal stories, clear explanations, and fun journal entries you write yourself will inspire you and help you work on the problem areas in your life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It's a term that sounds daunting and intimidating, but as Dr. Mike Dow explains in this insightful book, it's a therapy that is quite practical and easy to use. In fact, you can teach it to yourself. By reading these stories from real people who overcame their own challenges, and by following the common-sense steps explained by Dr. Dow, you'll be empowered to use your brain to become your own therapist, and learn to think, act, and be happy, for real. Views: 47
Some problems are really unrecognized opportunities. Suppose, for example, that certain common “exaggerations” are simple truth… Views: 47
A love letter to the author's home town of Paradise, California!CALIFORNIA LEGENDS...These are chronicles of the Old West--of the native people who lived on the land for generations and the pioneers who came from all over the world in search of riches...the struggle to survive in a land without laws...the strange bedfellows that resulted from the clash of cultures...and the common language of the heart that spoke of a love more precious than gold. NATIVE WOLF: Book 2Half-breed twin Chase Wolf has returned to the town of Paradise to take revenge on the rancher who enslaved his grandmother and sent his kin to a reservation. But when Claire Parker, the rancher's beautiful daughter, gets in his way, he ends up taking her hostage instead. The spirited young lady with a taste for dime novels turns out to be more than he bargains for, especially when she starts getting under his skin. Deciding he hasn't the will to make her pay for the sins of her father, he vows to give her back. Intrepid Claire feels like she's fallen into one of her Wild West adventures. By the time she begins to tame the scowling savage who's abducted her, she realizes he's found his way into her heart. Delivering her home is not going to be easy, especially when they're being pursued by her very determined father and when the last thing she wants to do is leave Chase. Only the help of Chase's gunslinger twin and Claire's knowledge of derring-do can get them out of trouble and turn bitter vengeance into breathtaking romance. Book DetailsAn original novel based on the history of the author's home town of Paradise, California R-rated for sensual passages Includes historical information and vocabulary from the Konkow and Hupa tribes Coming soon, Book 3--NATIVE HAWK More Historical Romances by Glynnis CampbellThe Knights of de WareMY CHAMPIONMY WARRIORMY HERO The Warrior Maids of RivenlochTHE SHIPWRECK (a novella)LADY DANGERCAPTIVE HEARTKNIGHT'S PRIZE Medieval OutlawsDANGER'S KISSPASSION'S EXILE Scottish LassesTHE OUTCAST (a novella)MacFARLAND'S LASSMacADAM'S LASS California LegendsNATIVE GOLD About Glynnis CampbellThe California Legends trilogy--Native Gold, Native Wolf, and Native Hawk--is a love letter to USA Today bestselling author Glynnis Campbell's home town of Paradise, California, where she once reigned as the Gold Nugget Queen in the town's celebration of its Gold Rush roots. Currently a resident of Los Angeles, Glynnis has written over a dozen internationally bestselling historical romances and has been translated into five languages. When she's not writing novels, she's a voiceover actress with credits including leading roles in Star Wars audio adventures, the MTV animated series The Maxx, and Blizzard's videogames, Diablo and Starcraft. She's married to her high school sweetheart, now the bass player for the classic rock band, America, and they share two grown kids. Glynnis loves transporting readers to places where bold heroes have endearing flaws, the women are stronger than they look, the land is lush and untamed, and adventures lurk around every corner! From Glynnis...I love writing "stories to keep you up all night"! Keep in touch...Visit me at glynnis.netFriend me at facebook.com/GlynnisCampbellFollow me at twitter.com/GlynnisCampbellShare with me at pinterest.com/GlynnisCampbell Views: 47
“Literary hybrids of Jane Austen novels and zombie stories? That’s so last year. Quirk Books, which released the best‐selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, has seen the future of the mashup novel, and it is Leo Tolstoy and robots.” -New York Times “Anna’s nightmare, one of the most famous passages in Anna Karenina, clearly anticipates the “steampunk‐inspired” atmosphere of Android Karenina… Tolstoy didn’t know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half‐human status of the Russian peasant classes.” -Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed, via The New Yorker “Whenever a truly pulpy trend reaches its apotheosis like this, I can’t help but wonder if we’ll get a new classic out of it.” -io9 “No word on whether she’ll [Anna] be bionically rebuilt following the ending, though. It’s good that this series is branching out to other authors…” -Entertainment Weekly *** Android Karenina – Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina-an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society's high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen. Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction. Leo Tolstoy wrote two of the greatest novels in world literature: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Ben H. Winters is coauthor of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as a "sheer delight" and by Library Journal as "strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria." Mr. Winters lives in Brooklyn. Views: 47
Andrew Riemer's masterful account of the changes in Australian society in the years after World War II, as experienced by the author and his family after leaving Hungary.On a freezing November day in 1946, Andrew Riemer, then a 10-year-old with mumps, left a bomb-scarred Budapest on his way to Australia. In 1990, just a few days before Christmas, he returns to the city of his birth where, amid the decay of a world waking from totalitarian rule, he tries to reconstruct the past from shreds of memory and family myth.In the years between, his career had taken him from being an expert in French-knitting, a skill acquired when, unable to speak English, he was put in a class for intellectually handicapped children, to Sydney University, where he taught English Literature. Views: 47
Twenty years in the future is five-hundred years in the past. It is just two decades after the worldwide societal collapse and the Vallenses, an Amish-like “plain people” living and surviving in what was once Central Texas, are under attack by the King of Aztlan and his armies. The pacifistic Vallenses are defended by the shadowy Ghost Militia and their inspiring leader Phillip... Views: 47
Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment at the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem. A repackage of the twelfth book in the New York Times best-selling Left Behind series. Views: 47
The Four-Chambered Heart is an autobiographical novel by French-born writer Anaïs Nin, part of her Cities of the Interior sequence. It is about a woman named Djuna, her love, her thoughts, her emotions, her doubts, her decisions, and her sacrifices. Views: 47
Five Men. One Robbery. A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin. Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes $500,000. If he doesn't get the money soon, he dies. From nowhere, he is offered a lifeline. A hit on al-Queda, sanctioned and helped by MI5. Matt gathers a small team of former SAS men to steal $10 million in gold and diamonds from the world's most deadly terrorist organisation. MI5 will give them all the equipment and information they need. No charges will ever be pressed. Matt thinks it's the perfect crime. Safe, quick, and patriotic. But after the money is stolen, the killing starts. Someone is taking down the members of the team one by one. A silent, expert assassin is stalking the team, gruesomely murdering both them and their families. And Matt knows that he's next. *Greed* is an explosive story of what happens when terrorism, money, love and jealously combust — an explosively violent tale from the established master of the military thriller. Views: 47
