Download or read book The Hinky Velvet Chair written by Jennifer Stevenson and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fraud cop Jewel Heiss has too much of a good thing. A hot con artist is her new partner and a bossy sex demon is her new booty slave. Now she’s undercover, investigating the Venus Machine, which will make her irresistable to all men! With four con artists vying for possession, it can’t really work, right? Jewel sits in the velvet chair to prove the Venus Machine is a fountain of flimflam. Looks like she’s wrong about that one…

Download or read book Walking On Sunshine written by Jennifer Stevenson and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rock starlet whose biological clock is ticking... An ancient sex demon under orders to make a goddess out of the starlet... A precocious Parisian teen with a bottomless bank account and a stalker obsession for the starlet... And a son of vodou whose life tangles with the others as time runs out for him to claim his rightful title in France... Four lovers. Ancient power. Modern passion. Is love enough to protect their sanity from immortality? _______________________________________________________ "Jennifer Stevenson is the mistress of magic, combining voudou, music, and the call of true love in a unique melange. In Walking on Sunshine, Stevenson makes the ancient seem new again, the ordinary seem exotic, and the otherworldly more real than we ever dreamed it could be. Bravo!” — Mindy Klasky, USA Today bestselling author of the Jane Madison Series

Download or read book Dancing With Cupid written by Jennifer Stevenson and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defrocked Hindu love god seeks virgin amnesiac runaway bride! Sent to Los Angeles by her Delhi family when she was only nine, Rathi grows up into a prim, virginal overachiever. Now she’s a lonely, workaholic attorney in a high-power women’s rights firm in Chicago. Having coffee with the mailroom boy would be a career-limiting move. Kamadeva, once the Hindu god of lusty love, has never forgotten his long lost wife. She stomped out on him after he got demoted via flamethrower by an angry Shiva. After 500 years as a sex demon, he finally finds her! But Rathi has reincarnated so often that she doesn’t remember Kama. Now she can’t find her love button with both hands. And he’s still the happy-go-lucky idiot she left. Can he revive her goddess memories before Shiva’s rage fries him to a crisp...again? And will she still want to dance with her underachiever cupid?

Download or read book Tangled in Time Project Enterprise 3 written by Pauline Baird Jones and published by Pauline Baird Jones. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a timeless love story that defies the boundaries of space and time with Tangled in Time, a charming standalone novella in the Project Enterprise series. Immerse yourself in a tale full of sweet serendipities, lively exchanges, and high-stakes adventure. Dive into Pauline Baird Jones' delightful blend of steampunk style and light-hearted romance. Colonel Braedon Carey embarks on a space-time test flight he assumed would be straightforward. Instead, he finds himself disoriented and stranded in an unfamiliar desert, decades off course. Encountering a steam-powered machine, he realizes that a headstrong scientist has beaten him to his space-time record, and by more than a hundred years. Miss Olivia Carstairs is meticulous with her calculations for her transmogrification machine. What she didn't anticipate was being thrown off course by a man from the future. Lost in time, Olivia forms an alliance with the intriguing traveler, a man who talks in puzzling phrases but whose warm eyes reveal so much. Hunted by a mad doctor with a sinister and twisted agenda, Olivia and Braedon must navigate towards a new future before their histories are erased forever. Embark on a delightful temporal romance that intertwines clocks and chemistry, lost histories, and found futures. Buy Tangled in Time: Project Enterprise 3 now!

Download or read book Project Enterprise Bundle 2 written by Pauline Baird Jones and published by Pauline Baird Jones. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the thrill of time travel, heart-stopping action, and captivating romance in this Project Enterprise bundle, where star-crossed lovers and brave warriors battle against the fabric of time and space. Award-winning author Pauline Baird Jones offers an exhilarating journey into a realm of sci-fi romance that is bound to leave you enthralled. "Tangled in Time," our first adventure, pairs a modern soldier and a vintage scientist. Together, they redefine the boundaries of time and space, weaving a tale of star-crossed love that transcends eras. In "Steamrolled," a time-traveling repo man and an inventor's descendant join forces. Their audacious journey will etch their names into the annals of history. "Kicking Ashe" completes the bundle with an alien warrior and a valiant time-fighter. As their love unfolds, it holds together a galaxy on the brink of collapse. If you're a fan of "unique time travel," sweeping action, quirky steampunk elements, and happily-ever-after endings, this bundle is a must-read. Grab the Project Enterprise bundle today, and plunge into a universe where love defies the constraints of time and space.

Download or read book A Reading Guide to Pauline Baird Jones Romantic Science Fiction written by Pauline Baird Jones and published by Pauline Baird Jones. This book was released on with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Science Fiction * Space Opera * Time Travel * Futuristic Mystery This guide will steer you through what she calls the “alternate reality” side of her fiction, answering questions, including the ones that you didn’t know you had. Inside you’ll find information about her romantic science fiction, space opera, cyborg series, and more! Grab the guide and dive in! You might find something you didn’t know that you needed to know!

Download or read book Trash Sex Magic written by Jennifer Stevenson and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Midsummer Night's Dream transported to the woods of Illinois.

Download or read book The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl written by Tim Pratt and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent—and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us. . . . As night manager of Santa Cruz’s quirkiest coffeehouse, Marzi McCarty makes a mean espresso, but her first love is making comics. Her claim to fame: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, a cowpunk neo-western yarn. Striding through an urban frontier peopled by Marzi’s wild imagination, Rangergirl doles out her own brand of justice. But lately Marzi’s imagination seems to be altering her reality. She’s seeing the world through Rangergirl’s eyes—literally—complete with her deadly nemesis, the Outlaw. It all started when Marzi opened a hidden door in the coffeehouse storage room. There, imprisoned among the supplies, she saw the face of something unknown . . . and dangerous. And she unwittingly became its guard. But some primal darkness must’ve escaped, because Marzi hasn’t been the same since. And neither have her customers, who are acting downright apocalyptic. Now it’s up to Marzi to stop this supervillainous superforce that’s swaggered its way into her world. For Marzi, it’s the showdown of her life. For Rangergirl, it’s just another day. . . .

Download or read book Blind Sight written by Carol O'Connell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The nun was dead. Her body lay on the lawn outside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York City's mayor, and it wasn't alone. There were four of them altogether. They'd been killed at different times, in different places, and dumped there. There should have been five--but the boy was missing. Jonah Quill, blind since birth, sat in a car driven by a killer and wondered where they were going. Though he was blind, Jonah saw more than most people did. It was his secret, and he was counting on that to save his life. Detective Kathy Mallory was counting on herself to save his life. It took her a while to realize that the missing-person case she was pursuing was so intimately connected to the massacre on the mayor's lawn"--

Download or read book The Brass Bed written by Jennifer Stevenson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of a back-to-back paranormal romance trilogy, three unlikely sleuths--a sex demon, a con artist, and a female fraud investigator--find themselves united in a seductive and dangerous case. Original.

Download or read book Sin in the Second City written by Karen Abbott and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh “butterflies” awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot’s earnings and kept a “whipper” on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac. Not everyone appreciated the sisters’ attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters’ most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of “white slavery”——the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America’s sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With a cast of characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, “Hinky Dink” Kenna, and Al Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott’s colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation’s hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America’s journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity. Visit www.sininthesecondcity.com to learn more! “Delicious… Abbott describes the Levee’s characters in such detail that it’s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.” —— New York Times Book Review “ Described with scrupulous concern for historical accuracy…an immensely readable book.” —— Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal “Assiduously researched… even this book’s minutiae makes for good storytelling.” —— Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Karen Abbott has pioneered sizzle history in this satisfyingly lurid tale. Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.” —— USA Today “A rousingly racy yarn.” –Chicago Tribune “A colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel… a compelling and eloquent story.” —— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Gorgeously detailed” —— New York Daily News “At last, a history book you can bring to the beach.” —— The Philadelphia Inquirer “Once upon a time, Chicago had a world class bordello called The Everleigh Club. Author Karen Abbott brings the opulent place and its raunchy era alive in a book that just might become this years “The Devil In the White City.” —— Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine (cover story) “As Abbott’s delicious and exhaustively researched book makes vividly clear, the Everleigh Club was the Taj Mahal of bordellos.” —— Chicago Sun Times “The book is rich with details about a fast-and-loose Chicago of the early 20th century… Sin explores this world with gusto, throwing light on a booming city and exposing its shadows.” —— Time Out Chicago “[Abbott’s] research enables the kind of vivid description à la fellow journalist Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City that make what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read." – Seattle Times “Abbott tells her story with just the right mix of relish and restraint, providing a piquant guide to a world of sexuality” —— The Atlantic “A rollicking tale from a more vibrant time: history to a ragtime beat.” – Kirkus Reviews “With gleaming prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder — What's not to love?” —— Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants “A detailed and intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Sisters Minna and Ada attracted the elites of the world to such glamorous chambers as the Room of 1,000 Mirrors, complete with a reflective floor. And isn’t Minna’s advice to her resident prostitutes worthy advice for us all: “Give, but give interestingly and with mystery.”’ —— Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City “Karen Abbott has combined bodice-ripping salaciousness with top-notch scholarship to produce a work more vivid than a Hollywood movie.” —— Melissa Fay Greene, author of There is No Me Without You “Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.” —— Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng “This is a story of debauchery and corruption, but it is also a story of sisterhood, and unerring devotion. Meticulously researched, and beautifully crafted, Sin in the Second City is an utterly captivating piece of history.” —— Julian Rubinstein, author of Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

Download or read book The Saint Zita Society written by Ruth Rendell and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the well-manicured London locale of Hexam Place is not as placid and orderly as it appears. Behind the tranquil gardens and polished entryways, relationships between servants and their employers are set to combust. Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord's wife and his university-age daughter. Montserrate, the Still family's lazy au pair, is helping to hide Mrs. Still's illicit affair with a television actor--for a small fee. June, the haughty housekeeper to a princess of dubious origin, is hard at work forming a "society" for servants to address complaints about their employers. Meanwhile, a disturbed gardener, Dex, believes a voice in his cellphone is giving him godlike instructions--that could endanger the lives of all who reside in Hexam Place. A deeply observed and suspenseful update to the upstairs/downstairs genre, The St. Zita Society is Ruth Rendell at her incisive best.

Download or read book Bread Upon the Waters written by Rose Pesotta and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Omaha Obsession written by Miss Cassette and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.

Download or read book Leave a Cheater Gain a Life written by Tracy Schorn and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life is a no-nonsense self-help guide for anyone who has ever been cheated on. Here's advice not based on saving your relationship after infidelity—but saving your sanity. When it comes to cheating, a lot of the attention is focused on cheaters—their unmet needs or their challenges with monogamy. But Tracy Schorn (aka Chump Lady) lampoons such blameshifting and puts the focus squarely on the-cheated-upon (chumps) and their needs. Combining solid advice that champions self-respect, along with hilarious cartoons satirizing the pomposity of cheaters, Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life offers a fresh voice for chumps who want (and need) a new message about infidelity. This book will offer advice on Stupid sh*t cheaters say and how to respond, Rookie mistakes of the recently chumped and how to disarm your fears, Why chumps take the blame and how to protect yourself, and more. Full of snark, sass, and real wisdom about how to bounce back after the gut blow of betrayal, Schorn is the friend who guides you through this nightmare and gives you hope for a better life ahead.

Download or read book The Rapture of the Nerds written by Cory Doctorow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk SF, a brilliant collaboration to rival 1987's The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Download or read book Brain Jack written by Brian Falkner and published by Ember. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Top Ten YALSA Pick for Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults! Fans of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and M. T. Anderson's Feed will love this high-octane cyber thriller. In a dystopian near-future, neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and it's the Internet at the speed of thought. For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he masters the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to an attack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hacked? Brian Falkner, author of The Tomorrow Code and The Project, delivers an action-packed and thought-provoking sci-fi thriller in which logging on to a computer could mean the difference between life and death.