Mistress Carrie whips men for money and not without a degree of relish too. She dislikes men because they remind her of an abusive childhood. Tiring of the conveyor belt of clients she now abuses instead; she advertises for an innocent boy of legal age to train. She meets Adam and soon his sensitive nature grows on her and this starts a long-awaited healing process. But Carrie has a dark secret, one she has buried deep throughout her thirty-eight years. She confides in the only person she ...

Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities—discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality, and success with the boldest of bold-faced names. But which interviews are his favorites? It’s one of the questions he gets asked most frequently. Howard Stern Comes Again delivers his answer.Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobster...

Nicole has made more mistakes in the last six months than most people make in a lifetime. She got involved with an evil organization and found out too late just how terrible they are. Now everyone's out to kill her: the scientists, the dragons, and perhaps most of all, her former lover.Living among the dragons wasn't supposed to be easy, but it was supposed to be safe.She didn't realize just how long they can hold grudges though.Lee doesn't have time for drama. He d...

One alien princess + one Malum warrior = an unforgettable alien romance.I never should have flown this close to Malum.If I had stayed away, maybe it wouldn't have come to this. Maybe I wouldn't have crashed into the planet's ocean and maybe I wouldn't have climbed right into the cliff-side home of a creature so big, so wild, and so terrifying that I'm both horrified and aroused at our close proximity.Now that I'm deep in the heart of Malum, a planet both forbidden a...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries previously unimagined by humankind. T...

One bear. One human. One big, fat lie.JustinYou'd think that with a backstory like mine, the idea of taking a mate is unbelievable.You'd be right.The only reason I'm agreeing to this entire "mates" thing is so that my mother gets off my back, my shareholders are happy, and I continue moving forward in my career. I'm the face of a multi-billion dollar company. I don't need any scandals in my midst.RebeccaThe offer is for one year. One year of pr...

Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder...

A planet with more cats than people...Grimalkin needs brides.Earth is a dystopian nightmare that's going to be destroyed very, very soon. Nobody knows exactly when or how, but the threat of destruction looms in the background of everyone's mind.Holly is ready to escape from her planet, but there's a problem: only rich people actually get to leave Earth, and she's barely got five bucks to her name.Enter the Grimalkin Bridal Exchange.Th...

'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, ...

Building on the innovative work of Unformulated Experience, Donnel B. Stern continues his exploration of the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis with Partners in Thought.The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from unformulated experience are catalyzed by the states of relatedness in which the meanings emerge. In hermeneutic terms, what takes place in the consulting room is a particular kind of ...

Anything can happen on Sapphire Island...The Chrysolite Isles are a place where magic happens and dragons roam free. Well, most of them do. When Declan Monster is working on a security evaluation for a client, he notices something strange. There's a girl lurking around, but she doesn't seem to want to be there. In fact, he's pretty sure that she's been captured, and he'll do whatever it takes to save her.Zoa didn't mean to get herself kidnapped, but, well, she's never been ...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. It was not always held in high esteem by other writers (Samuel Johnson responded that, "Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last."), but its bawdy humour was popular with London society, and it has come to be seen as one of the greatest comic ...