International BestsellerA sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel — an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fas...

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREYFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret“One of the best books I’ve read in my...

Extreme adult content! Deep in the arctic tundra two lonely scientists are isolated in a one room glorified igloo 50 weeks a year. They ask the wealthy cooperation they work for some companionship. Tyler took the high-paying gig thinking he was going to teach the two men English. When he gets there it's obvious the pent-up scientists have other ideas for the cute 26 year old. Tyler has no where to run in the frozen wasteland. After several weeks he's starting to think what his tenacious ne...

Explicit Adult Content! Enjoy a supremely smutty broadcast of the Tri-University Sex Wars. Senior Red will never forgive his exboyfriend Tai for transferring over to the school of their greatest rivals. Unfortunately for Red the two now have to compete against each other in the most intimate event of the meet! Meanwhile, one college fights a curse that's plagued them all season: they always get too many DQs to compete in the final event! This is particularly tragic for Duke, who's been sav...

Explicit adult content! When an evil force threatens the kingdom prince Alatore is forced to ask for help from Vartan: a powerful and domineering demon who has a crush on him.As the third-born prince Alatore is obligated to become a soldier. This is the last thing the intellectual and romantic prince wants, but when his mother is killed his father makes him swear he'll devote himself to protecting the kingdom.Alatore heads off to a neighboring kingdom for training. On the wa...

Explicit Sexual Content! Caleb knew he was from a special race born to serve the Crystalline gods. Monks trained him as a priest until he reached adulthood, and then he went to Crystalline palace to serve his masters—as a sex slave.Caleb's world is shattered. His beloved gods are lascivious pigs. He can't accept that the righteous faith he built his whole life around is a farce. Caleb flees the god's harem to try to be a missionary for them. He hopes putting some distance between hi...

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston GlobeIn this pow...

**"Everything I look for in a fantasy." -- George R. R. MartinAll paths lead to war. . .**Marcus' hero days are behind him. He knows too well that even the smallest war still means somebody's death. When his men are impressed into a doomed army, staying out of a battle he wants no part of requires some unorthodox steps.Cithrin is an orphan, ward of a banking house. Her job is to smuggle a nation's wealth across a war zone, hiding the gold from both sides. She knows ...

From debut author Daniel Abraham comes A Shadow in Summer, the first book in the Long Price Quartet fantasy series.The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit, Seedless, an andat bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, a juggernaut of an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Sarayke...

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist“A fine mix of compassion and precision . . . Verghese makes indelible narratives of his cases, and they read like wrenching short stories.”—Pico IyerFrom the author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone comes a story of a doctor who was changed and shaped by his patients, medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, Self-Actualization and S...

As a bad joke born from desperation, priestly Prince Harsen offers himself as the 'bride' his demonic conquerors have demanded. Unfortunately for Harsen the bizarre prince Romi is thrilled to accept him.Crystalline Priest Prince Harsen's world has turned upside-down. The people have switched their allegiance to the gods of Darkhelm, thus ending Harsen's regime. Worse still, his sister has run away meaning they don't have a bride to offer their new rulers. Harsen knows he can't surv...