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I get quite the shock when the house I’m moving into just happens to be next door to one of my ex-students, James, and his friends. In return, I give them quite the shock when I decide to sunbathe in a revealing outfit. James decides to confront me, and we have a heated discussion that soon turns racier than I ever imagined. With the both of us brimming with lust, can we really deny each other? Give me that potency, James, I want it inside me!

A long-brewing clash between a Mile High music legend and an aggressive government censor has come to a head, as Pablo Vasquez - a.k.a. "The Soothsayer" - must contend with the diabolical Blatherskite and his minions. To bolster his crusade, Vasquez recruits Earl Danners - a prolific beer drinker with a burgeoning talent for belching forth sonic blasts of guttural decimation.

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When my ex-lodger Evan comes back from college, I decide to treat him and take him clothes shopping. But after spotting his thickness before we leave home, it soon becomes all I can think about. Now, all I want is to have that deliciously forbidden thing of his inside me - and I’m going to get it. Listen as I take him in the changing-room stall!

Britain - sometime in the future. Law and order has broken down and people are fighting each other for the country's dwindling supply of food. Most of the Government have decamped to the Scilly Isles to avoid the riots.

The Winter Years is a book of contemporary modern poetry, crafted for teens and adults. It has a variety of topics and moods. It explores poetry forms from around the world.

My hands took hold of her shoulders, and I began to massage them. She purred under my touch, the relief she desired so deprived to her. It was our secret. Our mutual attraction. Not something found out of a need for grades, but for a woman who needed a real man in her life, where her so called husband had failed her every step of the way.

Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair’s debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores, and they understand the nature of being hollowed out.

Max is determined to change his life around from loser to winner. Fat-boy Max has never been out of Australia. In fact, in his 20-something years, Max has never even been out of his home state, but he is determined to change this. He wants to be visible, not just an invisible “fat guy”, and he has found the perfect way to achieve his goals: lose weight and get that trip overseas that he can’t quite afford.

As the smoke clears from the bloody showdown between Mark Emerson (aka Mike Anglekee) and demented, possessed, one-eyed UPS deliveryman Stanley “Watches” Markesan at the House on the Rock Museum, everyone is relieved that the maniac is finally dead, and life can go back to normal. But soon Mike’s boys and their best friends begin to suspect that Watches isn’t finished with them yet. So, with the help of the enigmatic Mr. Fallway, they form a group called the Armybrats.

After being woken one night by her deceased grandfather, Tali’s life is forever changed. Thrust into a world of shape-shifting, ancient rituals, and universal energies, she soon finds herself on a journey to spiritual awakening. Out of her depth and confronted by things she never thought possible, Tali must rely on her magical teachers to help her navigate this confusing and often-perilous world...and on the way, discover the secrets of her dream state and who she really is.

After discovering her purpose and the secrets of the worlds she must live between, Tali’s abilities have grown to new levels which far surpass anything she could have dreamed. But while helping spirits navigate from death to their new lives, she struggles to find who she really is - and why she does the job she was destined for.

In a time when earthquakes, tsunamis, and other strange occurrences are wreaking havoc across Sicily, word spreads of a young boy from Messina named Cola - a fisherman’s son who spends so much of his time diving beneath the waves that many call “Colapesce” or “Cola the Fish". Rumors of Cola’s incredible diving abilities eventually reach Sicily’s Princess. Defying the wishes of her father, the arrogant King, the Princess appeals to Cola to investigate what lies beneath the sea’s surface and find the cause of the destruction.

When a long-lost love comes knocking, a loyally wedded rancher is tempted by old passions. A bartender wrestling with sobriety is pushed to the edge by a familiar barfly. After her husband's death, a famous composer struggles to write a single note. From international flights to hidden grottoes and a nude beach, 12 wayward souls seek to satisfy their deepest hungers and escape their fears. Body Language explores our often-misguided quest for happiness and connection.

Jehoiakim’s body is dumped outside the gates of Jerusalem, and his son Jeconiah reigns briefly over a city under siege. Jeconiah surrenders and King Nebuchadnezzar takes him to Babylon – as Jeremiah had predicted – along with thousands of others. Zedekiah promises to be Nebuchadnezzar’s vassal, but is weak and easily led. Will he listen to Jeremiah or to his advisors? Can Jeremiah survive the sly schemes of his enemies or will the promised disaster overtake them all? In Judah, the darkness is deepening.

¡Uy! Pues es difícil de explicar, porque tú tocas muchos temas — le contesto. Y se me queda mirando fíjamente, porque es obvio que está esperando más. Así son los libros.

From Rio to Oostend, to Amsterdam and beyond, a troupe of acrobats travel the world performing miracles in the air and enthralling audiences. In between gigs they drink, play, and taunt each other. They get bored. They get up to no good. And then, they jump on a plane to do it all again somewhere else. Sideshow is a funny and rollicking take on the thrill and drudgery of a life on the road and what it takes to perform day after day after day.

When you’re close friends with a doctor, it certainly helps with the healthcare bills. I head in for an ultrasound at Dr. Shepherd's request, and he pulls out all the stops. The gel he’s using isn’t for his regular patients, and I can see why. It immediately has an effect on me that I can’t ignore. I want my own doctor, and I want him now. Listen to how he dines out on my pregnant body, giving me exactly what I yearn for and deserve.

Be present, for now is all that exists. Grow, enjoy, and act morally. Drop your ego, listen, empathise and forgive. Trust your intuition and be compassionate. Nothing more is within your control. Let it go and just feel. Accept yourself.

Flloyd Kennedy's first collection of poems, songs, and stories have been gathered together in much the same way as she has lived her life - moving from place to place when the need arises, stopping to take note of the chaos and the kindness she encounters, and sharing her ideas with a dry Aussie sense of the ridiculous. She writes about her personal experience of life, not as memoir but as a means of making some kind of sense of life in general.