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Sandy is a young, very conservative museum curator who is well known for her family's philanthropies. However, away from the office, she is also a bonafide, closet sub, a masochist of the first magnitude. She wants to try almost everything kinky, but conscious and social restraints, and her concerns about propriety keep her in an endless circle of auto bondage and intense, erotic dreams. Even at work, she daydreams about being a captive English woman spirited away from home by fierce and s...

A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery“The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco ChronicleThe North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. Complicity reveals the c...

9/11: An Investigation Into the Networks, Alliances, and Complicity takes you behind the official narrative of 9/11 and into the shadowy world where jihadist networks, intelligence agencies, governments, and geopolitical interests intersect.From Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to Qatar, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Washington, this explosive investigation follows the money, the connections, the warnings that went unheeded, and the decisions that helped shape the rise of Al-Qaeda a...

“Vivid and meticulous ... Through painstaking documentation, Johnson shows how anti-Palestinian racism among elite liberals and liberal institutions primed Western audiences for genocide” from the foreword by Noura Erakat, author of Justice for SomeAs bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US me...

For generations, America has thanked its veterans for their service but then forgotten promises made to them.That’s why some former soldiers have always ended up on the barricades or picket lines, demanding justice for themselves or fellow workers back home. From Revolutionary War volunteers who later joined Shays’s Rebellion to World War I soldiers who staged a multiracial march on Washington to Vietnam War–era GIs who helped end the war they served in, such rank-...

NARRATED: A Novel About Love, Complicity, and the Moment You Realize Your Entire Life Has Been Permanently Captured by Someone Else's UnderstandingYou already know this feeling: someone is telling a story about you, and they're getting something true about you that you didn't even know was true about yourself. And the moment you recognize it, you understand something else—you can never untell that story. It exists now. It's public. It belongs to them more than it belongs to you.

"Political Complicity: The Society is Lost" by Luvolwethu Ngani offers a thought-provoking examination of South Africa's societal pillars and their impact on the country's political landscape. Ngani's personal experiences, combined with insightful interviews from friends, family, and colleagues, provide a unique perspective on the nation's transformation...

You've spent years wondering why good people protect predators. You've read the think pieces about institutional corruption. You've watched systems persist despite exposure. But you've never found a book that doesn't offer you false comfort.Until now.Complicit is not about redemption. It's about three sisters who discover that the only way to survive a corrupt system is to become part of it. Jenny, Corinne, and Stephanie Carmichael...

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 remains an indelible scar on the conscience of the global community. As a human rights advocate and scholar deeply invested in the intersections of state power and human dignity, I felt compelled to revisit this pivotal moment in history, not just as an academic inquiry but as a call to action for humanity. This book is an evolution of my Master's dissertation, State Sovereignty Versus Individual Rights in the Case of the Rwanda Genocide, 1994, present...

You've spent years wrestling with the same question: Can anything be repaired, or are we all just choosing between different kinds of running away?In 1983, a seventeen-year-old girl and boy discover something buried in the Yorkshire moor that should have stayed buried—a Viking grave that's been violated, artifacts extracted, violation concealed. They keep the secret for fifteen years, each carrying it separately, each understanding without speaking that what was st...

An alien encounter with a post woman, programmer and a pig during a pandemic.What is the real reason for the pandemic, and can the alien help save humanity from the dreaded Greys…The Greys and their minions use a secret code to communicate their plans.Can the code be broken, and can they be stopped before humanity falls under their control…

An alien encounter with a post woman, programmer and a pig during a pandemic.What is the real reason for the pandemic, and can the alien help save humanity from the dreaded Greys…The Greys and their minions use a secret code to communicate their plans.Can the code be broken, and can they be stopped before humanity falls under their control…