Its 1982 near San Francisco, and 17 year old Gabe wants to marry Jasmine, but as a Jehovahs Witness, he must not lust. Dirty thoughts can banish him from Gods favor, leading to eternal death. Gabe caves in to his desires, and is excommunicated, banned from friends and family. To repent and reenter the faith, he frequents the library, and discovers Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski and Louis-Ferdinand Celine. The authors open the door to life thats romantic...

Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.

"Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they're dismissed...

Traces a time of radical transformation of black life in early twentieth-century America, revealing how a large number of black women forged relationships, families, and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to moral dictates.

"A the story of an Orthodox boy in the Bronx who discovers masturbation during Passover dinner as a child, gets caught with porn on Yom Kippur, fantasizes about marrying his grade school classmate (if only he could get up the nerve to speak to her), and finally figures out that the way into a girl's pants is through her heart. But maybe the heart is all that ever mattered anyway. Eytan Bayme's hilariously honest memoir is the true story of how an...

Come on. Admit it. He may not be that into you, but were you ever really that into him? He was never "the one," but you lowered your standards and dated him in the meantime. Why? For any number of reasons: you thought dating him was better than being alone, all your friends are getting married--you name it. And before you knew it, you got hung up on the jerk. Go figure. Now clinical sexologist Kerner explores the battlefield of sex and the dismal...

Bondar examines the sex lives of our animal cousins, which are fiendishly difficult, infinitely varied, and often violent. They involve razor sharp penises, murderous cannibals, and chemical warfare in an epic battle between the sexes. Like us, animals must first find the perfect partner. You think we have it tough? Try having to do it while being hunted down by predators, against a backdrop of unpredictable or life-threatening conditions. Then, sperm...

Ash, Jace, and Gabe: three of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the country. They are accustomed to getting anything they want. Anything at all. For Ash, it is the woman who changes everything he has ever known about dominance and desire. When it comes to sex, Ash McIntyre has always explored his wilder side. Extreme and uncompromising, he demands control. And he prefers women who want it like that. Even the women he has shared with his best friend,...

"From the author of Daniel Isn't Talking and Dying Young comes a shattering new novel, a page-turner about an estranged mother and daughter who must come to terms with their shared painful past. Thirty years ago, June was a young widow with a hopeless crush on a Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at a local rock station. To her surprise, the two struck up a friendship that seemed headed for something more. But it was June's thirteen-year-old daughter, Bobbie,...