“In most respects, the bored character resembles those in chronic, neurotic depressed states. There is a lack of appetite for life, a lack of any deep interest in anything or anybody, a feeling of powerlessness and resignation; personal relations—including erotic and sexual ones—are thin and flat, and there is little joy or contentment. Yet, in contrast to the depressed, chronically bored persons do not tend to torture themselves by feelings of guilt or sin, they are not centered around th...

Normally Jason greatly enjoyed his families annual summer vacation in Newport. But with his father dying of cancer it's hard to enjoy anything these days.On the first day Jason's father tells him he has to promise to take care of his beautiful mother, Cynthia. Jason agrees, but then his father shocks him by saying he wants Jason to do more than care of her, he wants him to become her new lover.

In this fast-paced and thoroughly gripping story, we meet two criminals, the appositely named Moon and Sky, without being given any indication originally of what their crime has been. We get to know them and begin to understand them only gradually as we see them through the eyes of Linda Maddison, a young and innocent secretary to a bank official. The crimes they commit against Linda are certainly real and reprehensible enough—but the thoughtful reader will want to know what forces drove t...

18-year-old Jake is graduating, and his Aunt Sinclair is coming up from Florida for the occasion. Jake hasn't seen "Aunt Sin" since she and his mother had an argument a couple of years ago. Jake has no idea what it was about, but knows his aunt is a former stripper and the hottest woman he’s ever seen. Jake’s been having fantasies about her for years, and can’t wait to see her.When she arrives, Jake discovers not only what the fight between his aunt and mother was about, but that h...

We have seldom read a novel with such a varied and yet totally convincing cast of characters. The heroine, Tricia Goode, is a typical innocent young girl, but she is deeply disturbed because she seems to hate everything about her life without fully understanding why. In strong contrast to her is the cold, selfish Vicky Martin, the “beautiful bitch” of the book's title, whose arrogant actions directly or indirectly influence all of the action. Then there are the men— Roger Martin, Patrick D...

Tale of a young girl who finds herself abducted from the arms of her lover in Paris. She's eventually returned to her family, but not without gaining in experience.

Alma Werdon's story places the powerful bank vice-president Milton King under microscopic examination as he plays puppet master and moves his subordinates about the carpeted and chromed stage of his establishment. The strings he pulls affect the lives of half a dozen people. They include two of his employees whose future careers in the banking circles depend upon his personal acceptance or rejection. Just as cattle, oxen, and other beasts of burden were used in early times for bartering an...

When twenty-year-old Tina Wilson moves into the old Victorian house that had been left to her, she suddenly becomes aware of a heightened new sexuality flooding through every fibre of her being.The mystery of what had triggered this powerful change is discovered in the attic, where she finds a hidden torture chamber and old diaries that reveal the true nature of the occult force that has possessed her with this haunting lust.

Sexual tensions and frustrations obviously affect the lives of officers and enlisted men alike, even those assigned to the comparative tranquility and comfort of a Navy postgraduate school like the one which provides the setting for this novel. No one could be more aware of this than its hero, Carl Crandall, Ph.D., who wants to bring such up-to-date techniques as “off-site” encounter groups into general use to improve the psychological health of today's Navy. Unfortunately, his awareness i...

Here, in A Bride for Torment, the very clear delights and dangers of wife-swapping are graphically portrayed. Mr. Roberts candidly admits that much of the material contained herein is autobiographical. After reading this book, we think you will agree with the noted sociologists who claim that swapping is now as much a part of the American scene as apple pie. We think you will see that swinging—for some couples—can be an extremely perilous pastime, ripping apart the fragile fabric of their ...

Statistics are usually thought of as the dullest of all possible subjects, but statistics that represent people are anything but dull. They can represent change, growth, progress—and they can also represent human misery of the worst kind. Let's take a few examples. Statistic one: in the spring of 1969, President Nixon met in the Cabinet Room of the White House with the mayors of ten great American cities. The ten had been chosen to be as representative as possible, and the group was a high...

Duke had a gambling joint, and this joint had many girls--and Ape was there to make sure the girls behaved themselves for the customers. But Duke's beautiful wife had an even more beautiful teen-age sister, and that was the start of their big trouble.