"Her nearly bare shoulders from her slipping gown were hunched upwards, while her hands buried themselves in the roots of the man between her legs. A man recognized to be none other than Charles. Hands gripped onto the outer of both Emilia's thighs to support her, he knelt before her, steadying her weight on the windowsill and his shoulders to allow his head to nuzzle.The sound of her constant panting - a desperate attempt to keep the loud moans at bay - quickly warmed the peeping c...

Veronica's a blonde, busty bully who knows how to get what and who she wants.Cody's a Black Ops-playing water boy who hasn't quite mastered the map of life.Jared's the hot quarterback, just looking for some attention.And Luna's just trying to stay alive long enough to get to finals.College isn't anything like Luna had planned. No one's who she thought they were - including herself. Every semester seems to be filled with drama, sex, and mind-blowing revelations,...

An offspring of two tremendously powerful beings, Saphora is the child of a forbidden love. The only one of her kind to exist - threatening the world as we know it.Only ... she doesn't know it.Having lost her memory in the crash to Earth, Saphora, until now, has tried to fit in - hiding the powers she has in the hopes that she will be left alone. But that all changes when her past comes looking for her. The memories she's been trying so hard to get back suddenly come knocki...

Returning back home to Athena and the Kiran kingdom, Saphora is finally reunited with her mother, queen Vida - and the rest of the kingdom. Now she must begin her training in order to prepare herself for the approaching war. But anything and everything seems to be getting in the way. Vida is refusing to tell Saphora the story of how the war came to be, and is making it known that she does not approve of her relationship with Maverick. And she's not the only one. Dakota, her trainer, also w...

Daughter of Athenian and Guardian, a forbidden pairing of the two dominant species on Athena, Saphora is the key to the war's end and the tool in the start of another.Each species on their own hold tremendous power. But combined, should Saphora survive its capacity like none before her, her power could mean supremacy.And Ares can't have that.Exiled heir to the Kiran throne, she's bent on reclaiming it - even if it means exterminating the remaining bloodline to do so...

Caroline and Isaac have come a long way with their star-crossed love, and have made a decision to try and make it work. But the stress of having their parents and friends find out is proving to be a bit much for them to handle. Caroline is continuing to crack under the loss of her mother, and it is interfering with her personal life, as well as spiritual. On top of that, her father and Isaacs mother have decided to get married! Can their relationship survive under such pressure and secrecy...

Caroline and her father Robert are looking to move on from her mother's death five years earlier. Her father has found a girlfriend, while she still suffers from mental breakdowns and episodes where she visually relives witnessing her mother's death. As it turns out, Caroline's father's new girlfriend has a son, Isaac, who takes a liking to her. Too much of a liking. The two realize they have a connection and Caroline is fearful of what will become of the relationship. She tries to resist ...

When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard “Now’s The Time” by Charlie Parker, she was instantly hooked—and so began a seventy-year jazz journey. In 1962, she emerged as the first jazz singer to record on the prestigious Blue Note label with her debut album Portrait of Sheila. Exploding on the jazz scene, this classic work set the bar for her career as an iconic jazz vocalist and mentor to other promising female vocalists. As The New York ...

J.J. Johnson, known as the spiritual father of modern trombone, has been a notable figure in the history of jazz. His career has embodied virtually every innovation and development in jazz over the past half-century. Covering his life from childhood and education through his adult musical career playing with jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, this book offers an illustration of Johnson's technical and stylistic development, as well as a thorough catalogue of his compositions, film scores...

Welcome fledging Social Climbers! Allow us to show you the way.Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, so what’s the big deal? You shouldn’t be punished for wanting to improve your lot in life! This is America, after all.Johnson & Johnson heiress Jazz Johnson is a lifelong insider in that rarefied world that fans of both Downton Abbey and Gossip Girl dream about. Raconteur Dirk Wittenborn is old enough to remember when sex was safe and cocaine ...

The last thing on prince Xander's mind was becoming king. He'd much rather explore the world, make new discoveries. Unfortunately, he gets his wish in ways he hadn't imagined. Upon Saphora's return, he finds himself infatuated with the idea of visiting Earth. And so he does. But what he finds is unexpected. Seems like someone's found use for Saphora even in her absence. And it looks like people are lining up to get a taste of it. But what does that mean for Earth? With him being called bac...

Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes of the global jazz diaspora and its implications for jazz historiography in general, arguing for its relevance to the fields of sonic studies and cognitive theory. Until the late twentieth century, the historiography and analysis of jazz were centred on the US to the almost complete exclusion ...