Who's to say which person is right for us to love? Is it up to man, woman, religion, culture, or tradition alone? Can we, with a clear conscience declare, "Love and sexual expressions must be promulgated solely on the archaic norm of the society"? Family Love Affairs offers possible answers, in a story about the struggles by all mankind everywhere, to search for true love, and their eff orts to understand it.As a sequel to Family Affairs, this novel tells a tale of sexual liberation, passion, regrets, rejections, forgiveness, betrayal, and the pursuit of love as defined by individuals, with a taste of American point of view and African tradition and culture as a backdrop.Bishop Shackles is a popular and beloved clergyman who must finally make a choice: whether to obey the doctrine of his faith and continue to reject his daughter's sexual orientation or stand with her, protect her, against opposition, and officiate her wedding to her lesbian lover, Alice, in his church.Some families will be torn apart, while others will be brought together in love and happiness.

From a seductive betrayal on a New York Subway to a housewife's repressed desires fulfilled in arms of another. This array of exotic stories gives you a glimpse into the lives of everyday women unafraid to seize the moment.

Ever tempted to get inside your yoga teacher's mind? North American author and yoga teacher, Matilda, transparently invites us into her realm of reality vs rendezvous. 'Slim pickins' is defined as a small amount left after others have taken a share... and that describes dating in a mountain ski village perfectly; a small amount of men after others have taken a share. Boooo... The more she mindfully meanders the dating scene in search of true love, the more unique her tastes have become. She amusingly depicts each alluring tale. Yes, ladies and gentlemen... the guy that ends up sticking by her side will be an exceptionally rare breed of human. Liberated by yoga, slinky Matilda excitingly views the world as an open door. Around each corner a new irresistible moment waits to be discovered. She lives in the moment and appreciates the journey. Becoming her true self kinda made her awkward as hell, kind as can be, and fabulously bitchy.;) She takes on the world with not her heart on her sleeve, but her soul. It is comforting to hear that regardless of stature or physique, strength or spirit, people struggle just the same... both with others, and with ourselves.

For Lizzy Wallace, everything changed following the worst year of her life. Once a vibrant, enthusiastic young woman, Lizzy is a shell of her former self. Her closest friends, Kay and Spencer, agonize over her transformation and how helpless they are to help her find herself. Determined to remind Lizzy who she was, they decide to take matters into their own hands. New people, new experiences, and new places are just the key to her return to joy; together, they will help their lost friend. But the best-laid plans sometimes go off in ways that no one can predict, and for Lizzy this strange new world is a little much to absorb. A chance encounter with Dale and Bailey Boudreaux will change Lizzy's life in ways too profound to foretell. They help Lizzy grow beyond her well-earned distrust in people, and that's just one way they will change her entire life. Is what happens next kismet? Only one thing is for sure: when destiny sets its sights on you, there really is nowhere to hide.

Gerald D. McLellan has written another legal thriller wrapped up in Sicilian crime, the Chicago mafia, and boxed into a high-powered Boston container which explodes with family conflicts, ignited by violence, courtroom drama, and intrigue. Emilio Barsanti, a third generation racketeer, suddenly finds himself faced with the most challenging fight of his life: a trial in Massachusetts Family Court for the custody of his son, Gregory-and the inheritance of billions of dollars being held in trusts from the estates of his father and grandfather. Both his father and his grandfather put their estates in trust to be inherited by Emilio only after he produces an heir. Former Judge Ted Eldridge, turned trial partner in a downtown Boston law firm, is hired to represent Doctor Elliott McCord and his wife, Sarah, in a nearly impossible quest for them to become the permanent guardians of Gregory Dobson. His mother, Jennifer Dobson, who is Sarah's sister, battles her own demons while staking her claim for custody in a trial that brings together six participating lawyers to determine the fate of Gregory Dobson. The action in A Silent Cry spans the globe, from Abu Dhabi and Gibraltar to the Norfolk County Courthouse, spinning a web of intrigue and excitement.

It's December of 1959, and Leslie and her roommate, Alice, are suspended from their college sorority, Alpha Beta Eta, for ruining the sorority's prestigious annual party. This, however, doesn't dampen Leslie's quest for fun and romance. As she makes the final break from her family and sorority, Leslie finds comfort in her friends-from her old-fashioned schoolmarm Brenda; to Brian, the left-handed relief pitcher; to her old patron, Mr. Booster.

In this sequel to "My Life as a Girl, Book One and Two," Leslie gets tangled up with a college softball team in the showers and earns her keep from a mysterious woman who rescues her from a nasty fight upstate. She repays a debt at Booster's Haven in Holmby Hills by making an exotic movie, but Sister Bernadette from the high school convent still haunts her dreams.

Leslie misses Gordo and reignites her romance with Jim, but there is a final softball game to play, and it lands her in the hospital where she narrowly avoids marriage and learns something new about her mother, nurses, the cops, and herself.

Set against the backdrop of graveyards, swamps, and other foreboding locales, the five short horror stories in Perchance to Scream conjure images of evil and violence. With his adept characterization, Thomas Brumskill has created a collection of truly horrific and disturbing stories.

In "Swamp Land Tale," a magazine writer makes a trip to her old stomping grounds of New Orleans. The writer's conference offers an opportunity to catch up with her estranged daughter. She is soon horrified when she discovers what her daughter has become. In "Loons," a group of men get together at a friend's funeral - a murdered friend's funeral. They reminisce over old times and piece together the details surrounding the gruesome and strangely humorous death. In "Animals," a young man ventures beyond the edge of madness to find the woman of his dreams. The journey, as well as the conquest, has disturbing consequences. In "Cow Tipping," a priest visits a former patient on death row. The inmate, convicted of slaughtering his three best friends, offers a rather bizarre explanation. And in "Captive," a young man meets a woman at a bar in Myrtle Beach. Unexpectedly, he gives up his life of hard partying and one-night stands for her. True love has finally captured his heart. Well, at least that's how it seems.

"In Perchance to Scream," terror invades the cerebral and everyday world, with evil planting itself in unsuspecting victims and unusual circumstances.

This book is a retro reminder of the halcyon days of cruising and the golden age of sex. The ocean air arouses all the senses and once at sea all inhibitions are left ashore. There are moments of great sex where unmarketable women forfeited the familial unwritten "chores" of servicing the Captain/Officers to the fungible floozies aboard. Their sexual performances surpassed Hollywood's casting couch.

This compelling read also includes some history and geography. It takes place in the 1980's when sailing away parties were de rigueur and long before surveillance cameras dominated the decks.

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces A STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 'Sexy and fun and a little weird ... This riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times 'A revelation ... Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year ... Exhilarating' Entertainment Weekly 'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. I couldn't get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam - by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family - and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey. Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche - both sacred and profane.