The eruption of Laki is one of history's great untold natural disasters. The eruption, spewing out a poisionous fog, lasted for eight months, but its effects lingered across Europe for years, causing the death of people as far away as the Nile, and creating famine that may have triggered the French revolution. Island on Fire is the story not only of a volcano but also of the people whose lives it changed, such as the pastor Jon Steingrimsson, who witnessed and recorded the events in Iceland. It is the story, too, of modern volcanology, and looks at how events might work out should Laki erupt again in our time. Views: 27
I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.'In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Papua New Guinea and Fiji prompted his own post-war mini-empire of dominance. A manipulative and emotionally ferocious man, he rejects his son and creates a second family, shutting Jim out and eventually disinheriting him, but never really leaving him alone.Traversing territory across Australia, South Africa, India, and London, this beautifully written book tells of a time of crushing conformity, sharply reminding us that some experiences can never be written out of our personal histories.'The book calls into question the popular myth that the family is a nurturing and loving place and reminds us, in timely fashion, that families can be destructive and dangerous... Views: 27
WARNING: These are erotic short stories for ADULTS ONLY! All characters are over the age of eighteen and the story contains scenes of oral sex and penetrationFeaturing erotic juicy scenes, these stories are guaranteed to keep you glued to your Kindle like nothing else!122,418 words26 erotic sex stories including:Addicted To Cum by Ethan TaylorCowboy on Heat by Ethan TaylorFinally Free In The Caribbean by Ethan TaylorMy First Time Lesbian Sex by Ethan TaylorMystery Woman by Ethan TaylorSexual Symbiosis by Ethan TaylorThe Gift That Keeps On Giving by Ethan TaylorThe Startup GangBang by Ethan TaylorThe Trade Off by Ethan TaylorTo Rise From The Ashes by Ethan TaylorFucked by my Friend’s Partner by Hanna LoveKeeping the Wolf from the Door by Hanna LoveMy Big, Beautiful, Busty Woman by Hanna LoveSummer of Love by Hanna LoveTrial and Punishment by Hanna Love .Fishnet Fuckers by Hanna LoveThreesome in the Mountains by Layla MillsStrip Football by Layla MillsIntimate Personal Training by Layla MillsEducating the Younger Man by Layla MillsCouples Night Out by Layla MillsConfessions of a Babysitter by Layla MillsAll My Fantasies in One Night by Layla MillsAffair with an old Flame by Layla MillsA Crush in Bondage by Layla MillsA Sexual Break from Homework by Layla MillsExcerpt:As she settled on all fours over me Allen kept himself with his knees on either side of my head and slowly, to allow me to watch, he rubbed the head of his prick up and down Michelle's wet tight hole. Her juices dripped out of her as he did and when he slipped between her folds Michelle swallowed me and moaned through her mouthful. Allen very slowly pushed all the way in and then pulled all the way out dripping Michelle’s fluid on to my face. Once he was parted from her he pushed his erection downward so I could swallow him and to taste his fiance on his manhood. I had to admit the taste was amazing and as his rod slid farther into my mouth I tried to swallow every bit of their mixture as I possibly could. Allen slowly pulled out of my mouth and replaced himself inside Michelle. I could hear Michelle moan deeper as he did and Allen pushed into her again then out to have me swallow him again. Once again I could not believe that I was allowing a man to put his johnson in my mouth but from the position of where Michelle was on top of me and the taste of their sex mixed together I did not care in the slightest. I hoped in that one moment that I could contact them on the other side of our hike and maybe do this again in a bedroom or perhaps we could get a hotel room because this whole experience was changing me and my views on sex. Allen was rock hard as he slowly rotated in and out of my sucking mouth and Michelle never once stopped blowing me as Allen and I had our moment. He pulled out of me and pushed back into Michelle who was quivering and dripping with sweat. He grabbed her hips and began a slow rhythm of penetration allowing me enough space to suck in Michelle's clit. The sex that dripped from her was even more intoxicating than the alcohol we drank earlier and as I licked her flesh she began to speed up her oral pleasure on me. Her moans grew in volume as Allen and I both pleased her and before I knew she was cumming harder than the first time. Allen began ramming deeper and harder into Michelle which turned her into a tiger on top of me and as her climax ripped through her she bucked her hips making it nearly impossible for me to keep a hold of of her love nub. She stayed on my erection through out Allen's slamming motion and what ever it was that she did during her explosion with her mouth was all it took for me to begin mine. Allen's own groans increased and he shoved one good time deep inside Michelle when he held still so I could watch his balls empty in to Michelle's eager vagina. Michelle had a third orgasm that was more just a part of the second and sucked as hard as she could on my shaft which made me release. The org Views: 27
The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time. Views: 27
AliceCOULD BE ANYONE. AliceCOULD BE SOMEONE YOU KNOW. AliceUSES DRUGS. With over a million copies in print, Go Ask Alice has become a classic of our time. This powerful real-life diary of a teenager's struggle with the seductive -- often fatal -- world of drugs and addiction tells the truth about drugs in strong and authentic voice. Tough and uncompromising, honest and disturbing -- and even more poignant today -- Go Ask Alice is page-turning and provocative reading. Views: 27
Mia's ambition is to be a real musician. She'd love to enter a song she's written in the Silver Spires Star contest, but then she'd have to play live onstage too. And performing in public is her biggest fear ever - can she find the courage to overcome it? "Refreshing, fun and really re-readable!" - CITV Views: 27
After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books - it's just a wonder she's found the time. These are missives from the authorial front line - urgent and vivid, full of the excitement, fury and frustration of trying to make thousands of words into a publishable book. At the core of On Writing is the hugely popular blog that Kennedy writes for the Guardian - and we follow her during a three-year period when she finished one collection of stories and started another, and wrote a novel in between. Readers and aspiring writers will have almost everything they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction, but they will be receiving this wisdom conversationally, from one of the funniest and most alert of our contemporary authors.Alongside the blogs are... Views: 27
One night to remember with the perfect cowboy...Or one step toward the perfect revenge?Nothing in Hannah Ryder's plot included a hot fling with a drop-dead-sexy cowboy. Especially when her cowboy turns out to be Brock McNeill—a potential enemy with ties to the man Hannah wants to destroy. When an accident claims Brock's memory, Hannah is caught in an intricate web of scandal, falling dangerously for the one man she shouldn't trust...Don't miss a single story in The McNeill Magnates series!The Magnate's Mail-Order BrideThe Magnate's Marriage MergerHis Accidental HeirLittle Secrets: His Pregnant SecretaryClaiming His Secret HeirFor the Sake of His HeirThe Forbidden BrotherWild Wyoming NightsOne Night Scandal Views: 27
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down.A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, and bombs, the family man from New Jersey killed for fun, for money, to cover up his own crimes, and to satisfy his inner rage. Law enforcement officials knew all about Kuklinski and had a list of his victims, but couldn’t get near him—until undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse.In this harrowing true-crime account, Anthony Bruno delves into the mind of a cold-blooded killer, chronicling the Iceman’s grisly crimes and probing the bizarre dynamics of Agent Polifrone’s dangerous liaison with him. For as Polifrone carefully built up a case against Kuklinksi, he knew he was running out of time—because the Iceman was planning to kill him too.“Bruno puts his writing talents to white-knuckle use with a tight focus on a killer with no human feelings.”—*Kirkus Reviews “Excellent . . . [re-creates] the tension and stress Polifrone experienced in fulfilling his risky undercover assignment.”—*Publishers WeeklyFrom the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyRichard Kuklinsky, son of a brutal, alcoholic father who came home only infrequently and a mother who vented her resentment on her children, grew up to be an efficient mass murderer. By the time of his trial in 1988 at age 53 he had killed upwards of 100 men by shooting, stabbing, choking or poisoning them. Kuklinsky, a New Jersey family man with two daughters and a son, was finally brought to justice through the efforts of Special Agent Dominick Polifrone of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, working with the New Jersey Attorney General's Office and the New Jersey State Police. The "Ice Man" will not be eligible for parole until he is 111 years old. Bruno ( Bad Blood ) has done an excellent job of re-creating the tension and stress Polifrone experienced in fulfilling his risky undercover assignment. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsSmoothly written bio of a lone-wolf executioner for the mob. In his first nonfiction book, mystery author Bruno (Bad Moon, 1992, etc.) puts his writing talents to white-knuckle use with a tight focus on a killer with no human feelings except toward his wife and three sons. Kuklinski--who'd used derringers, shotguns, baseball bats, tire irons, knives, ice picks, and his bare hands to kill--had been dubbed The Ice Man'' by the New Jersey Police after it was discovered that the body of one of his victims had been stashed for two years in an ice-cream truck owned by a friend of the killer's known asMr. Softee.'' A genius at assassination when he wasn't serving kids popsicles, Mr. Softee had schooled the Ice Man in the use of cyanide, a car- bomb invention called the ``seat of death,'' and other exotic methods of murder. Cyanide proved to be Kuklinski's first love: It was quiet and discreet--you could walk by your victim, spray his face with the poison while pretending to sneeze, and he'd be dying even as he crumpled to the sidewalk. Bruno details how Dominick Polifrone, a cop who grew up with the wiseguys in Hackensack, goes undercover and gets in with the cagey Kuklinski. The hit man wants cyanide and a rich Jewish kid to sell coke to, and Polifrone wants to record Kuklinski proposing murders. As cop and killer play cat and mouse, and the bartering goes bad, the danger of Polifrone being shot at any moment is torqued tighter and tighter by Bruno. Finally, Kuklinski is caught and tried: It's determined that he's committed approximately one hundred murders, including that of Roy DeMeo, a killer so dangerous that he intimidated even John Gotti. A fast-paced, suspenseful re-creation of how a vicious killer was run to ground. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Views: 27
From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history.Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents-and one hundred and twenty-three other souls-died in the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster. He was only two years old when he was ripped from his mother's arms. But now Dillard, who lives off the grid with only a passel of dogs for company, is fighting for his life one more time: He's on trial for murder. Prosecutor Bell Elkins faces her toughest challenge yet in this haunting story of vengeance, greed and the fierce struggle for social justice. Richly imagined, vividly written and deeply felt, Last Ragged Breath is set in West Virginia, but it really... Views: 27
A fun, fresh frolic of a novel starring a spoiled but lovable Texas heiress out to reclaim her fortune Pippa Walker's wedding was to be huge--Texas huge--complete with twelve bridesmaids under contract from Pippa's mother to stay lean and long-haired, gondolas flown in from Venice, A- and B- guest lists. But when Pippa finds out her handsome husband-to-be isn't what she thought, she bolts from her own wedding, shocking society and getting herself disinherited. The only way she can get a piece of the family fortune back is to earn a degree from a school. Any school. It's a tough assignment for a girl who dropped out of SMU after pledging Kappa Kappa Gamma and shopping at Neiman's for a year. But Pippa is nothing if not up for a challenge. Attracting one hilarious misadventure after another, she tries to earn her sheepskin at: driving school, matchmaking school, even a circus academy. It's only when she hits rock-bottom--The Mountbatten... Views: 27
Father in training!For Jake Hallam and Amy Jones it was love at first sight. Amy recognized it—the trouble was, Jake refused to! Only, he couldn't refuse to acknowledge that, after a night of tender lovemaking, Amy was expecting his baby.Jake was horrified...yet fascinated. He couldn't stay away from Amy—or ignore the growing life he'd helped create. But he was a confirmed bachelor wedded to his work. Could he learn to be a husband and father before the baby arrived? Views: 27
