Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy was well aware of literary tradition and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors.In Books Are Made Out of Books...

Consumers around the world often give voluntary sums of money (called tips) to service providers after those workers have served them. There are no good measures of how much is tipped worldwide, but total tips in the US food and beverage industry alone are estimated to exceed $45 billion a year. Thus, tips represent more than small change and their salience and importance have grown in recent years with the advent of digital tipping, which has expanded both the number and types of services...

What if you could sit down with some of the most talented security engineers in the world and ask any network security question you wanted? Security Power Tools lets you do exactly that! Members of Juniper Networks' Security Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and push the most popular network security applications, utilities, and tools available using Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix platforms.Designed to be browsed, Security Power Too...

Winter Magic – where warmth and cheer and all good things associated with the festivities of this magical season are set to make your hearts glow. The Winter Magic anthology features six shifter stories from some of your favorite eXtasy Book authors. Let romance work its magic for you this winter.

The Love at Stake anthology brings you six captivating paranormal tales featuring vampires and their sacrifices, made in the name of love. Blood lust and romance are all consuming for these vamps and their lovers. Six stories of seduction in the shadows that lead to a happily ever after for all.

The shifters move into the autumn season with anticipation of upcoming celebrations and thankful for their family and friends around them. But of course, there is always something, or someone, to add a little spice to their lives.The Autumn Feast anthology features six more shifter stories from some of eXtasy Books’ top authors and follows the lives of those who have previously featured in Spring Fever and Winter Magic. Join them in tales where the fiery color of the leaves may not...

The shifters make plans for a summer to remember but all best-laid plans of mice and shifters often go awry. And that is certainly the case in the final six stories from some of eXtasy Books’ top authors. Follow the lives of those who have previously featured in Spring Fever, Winter Magic and Autumn Feast. Join them for a final fling where the summer heat will cause havoc for our heroes.

There’s only so much taffeta and toile a girl can take.Passionate, talented, and noticeably stunning, Mia Savard is the top designer at her father’s thriving bridal design company. But her life has hit a bit of a snag. Thirty, recently dumped, and suddenly single, Mia has grown weary of white lace and craves couture. But when Mia’ s most spectacular creation is leaked to the competition, the silk hits the fan. Someone inside Savard Creations is trading with the enemy. In the world ...

A demon can change everything – including your heart.Seth had always been on his own. Alone, and nobody special. So why was a demon after him?All he wanted was to live his life, write some poetry, and maybe fall in love with his agent. But with a target on his back, that wasn't happening.Ken was finding it increasingly difficult to resist his client. Seth was adorable, smart, and talented. Unfortunately, he was in a supernatural kind of trouble....

A mysterious bookstore, two lonely guys and pie...Keith is lonely and unsure and it's almost Thanksgiving. He doesn't know what he wants or where he's going in life until a storm forces him inside out of the rain.Sadler runs his family's bookstore. He's open to possibilities. Success. Magic. Love. A future. He only needs one more ingredient—maybe the sexy wet guy who just walked in?This is an insta-love, magical realism romp with a happy ever after ...

Two hearts entwined in one hot nightA chronic gambler, down on his luck, Austin must fight for more than his life.A premiere Jazz musician has been imprisoned. It's been a century since Luc was free to play the streets of New Orleans.When the mafia catches up to Austin and threatens his life, he discovers Luc, cursed by a voodoo witch long ago. Both are caught in a nefarious trap, linked together by a mysterious ring.They need to work together to make it out...

Marriage to such a lord would be a fate worse than death!Lady Amanda Gilbertson hasn't seen the toad-eating wretch Lesley Earnshaw since they were both children, but that doesn't stop her from spending the Duchess of Braxton's party hiding in a tree to avoid the loathsome man.But Fate plays its hand that evening when she finds herself in the potent midnight embrace of the black-masked Captain Rakhell. He is a thief, no doubt, but a romantic dream come true compared to the r...