The Maven and the Maverick: A Culinary Rivalry Romance


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A STEAMY STRAIGHT-TO-GAY ROMANCE. Chef Bennet Page has worked for years to earn the first Michelin star for his fine dining restaurant. Now the hipster gastropub down the street is muscling in on his business and his star. To add insult to injury, his younger brother (and head of PR) has even started sleeping with their goddamn bartender. Worst of all: their executive chef, Alex Murry, is really nice. And handsome. And awakening feelings Bennet has always tried very hard to deny. But none of that matters - Bennet's first priority is the restaurant. He doesn't have time for love. Too bad love has other ideas. "The Maven and the Maverick: A Culinary Rivalry Romance" is a 44,000 word straight-to-gay erotic love story full of many steamy encounters, including first times, age gaps, oral worship, office sex, and finding the perfect recipe for happily-ever-after where you least expect it.




DILF Island


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A STEAMY, HIMBO X DADDY GAY LOVE STORY. Darren Moss isn't really a Himbo, but when he agrees to play one on hot new reality TV show 'DILF Island' to help his best friend Quinn out of a tight spot, it seems like an easy gig. But somehow his plan to seduce a few hot daddies, break hearts and get kicked off the island turns into secret after-hours encounters with the handsome, technically-a-Daddy Carson Andrews... who's definitely on DILF Island to find love. With Daddies and Himbos hooking up around him - and his best friend possibly in a threesome with Carson's hot younger brother and another hot Daddy - can Darren manage to admit his feelings for Carson, and will Carson forgive him when he finds out that he's been faking the entire competition? 'DILF Island' is 50,000 words of multi-couple erotic gay romance, including hot muscle DILFs, falling in love with your former professor, having sneaky sex when the cameras aren't rolling, angst and longing and threesomes and reality TV possibly turning into real love after all.




Unscripted Desires: Love Between Takes


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AN EROTIC, SMUT-FILLED ROMANCE. Lucas Wolfe doesn't mind that he's become one of his adult film studio's go-to actors when it comes to deflowering the straight boys who go gay-for-pay. In fact, it's one of the easiest perks of the job. Until he signs up to have sex with Alex Livingston: beautiful, overworked Alex, who's just getting naked on camera to help pay for his mother's medical bills. Meanwhile, his coworker and best friend Sterling (ofttimes with-benefits) has fallen head-over-heels for a little blond cam boy who bears a striking resemblance to Lucas's new costar. It's hard to find a lasting relationship while working in the industry, and seems even more impossible that best friends would find love with twin brothers, but maybe the cards aren't as stacked against them as it seems... Unscripted Desires: Love Between Takes is a 50,000 word straight-to-gay erotic love story full of many steamy encounters, voyeurism, exhibitionism, sex on the beach and finding the one you want to bang happily ever after.




Idea Man


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What's it like to start a revolution? How do you build the biggest tech company in the world? And why do you walk away from it all? Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an entire industry. This is the story of how it came about: two young mavericks who turned technology on its head, the bitter battles as each tried to stamp his vision on the future and the ruthless brilliance and fierce commitment.




Cygnet


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Winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel An utterly original coming-of-age tale, marked by wrenching humor and staggering charisma, about a young woman resisting the savagery of adulthood in a community of the elderly rejecting the promise of youth. “Season Butler has written an imaginative, atmospheric and original novel that lingers in the memory long after reading. She is a bright new voice in literature.” —Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other “It’s too hot for most of the clothes I packed to come here, when I thought this would only be for a week or two. My mother kissed me with those purple-brown lips of hers and said, we’ll be back, hold tight.” The seventeen-year-old Kid doesn’t know where her parents are. They left her with her grandmother Lolly, promising to return soon. That was months ago. Now Lolly is dead and the Kid is alone, stranded ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire on tiny Swan Island. Unable to reach her parents and with no other relatives to turn to, she works for a neighbor, airbrushing the past by digitally retouching family photos and movies to earn enough money to survive. Surrounded by the vast ocean, the Kid’s temporary home is no ordinary vacation retreat. The island is populated by an idiosyncratic group of the elderly who call themselves Wrinklies. They have left behind the youth-obsessed mainland—“the Bad Place”—to create their own alternative community, one where only the elderly are welcome. The adolescent’s presence on their island oasis unnerves the Wrinklies, turning some downright hostile. They don’t care if she has nowhere to go;they just want her gone. She is a reminder of all they’ve left behind and are determined to forget. But the Kid isn’t the only problem threatening the insular community. Swan Island is eroding into the rising sea, threatening the Wrinklies’ very existence there. The Kid’s own house edges closer to the seaside cliffs each day. To find a way forward, she must come to terms with the realities of her life, the inevitability of loss, and an unknown future that is hers alone to embrace. Season Butler makes her literary debut with an ambitious work of bold imagination. Tough and tender, compassionate and ferocious, understated and provocative, Cygnet is a meditation on death and life, past and future, aging and youth, memory and forgetting, that explores what it means to find acceptance—of things gone and of those yet to come.




We Are Everywhere


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Have pride in history. A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, from the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account LGBT History. “If you think the fight for justice and equality only began in the streets outside Stonewall, with brave patrons of a bar fighting back, you need to read We Are Everywhere right now.”—Anderson Cooper Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride, We Are Everywhere is an essential and empowering introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. Combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, the book traces queer activism from its roots in late-nineteenth-century Europe—long before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969—to the gender warriors leading the charge today. Featuring more than 300 images from more than seventy photographers and twenty archives, this inclusive and intersectional book enables us to truly see queer history unlike anything before, with glimpses of activism in the decades preceding and following Stonewall, family life, marches, protests, celebrations, mourning, and Pride. By challenging many of the assumptions that dominate mainstream LGBTQ+ history, We Are Everywhere shows readers how they can—and must—honor the queer past in order to shape our liberated future.




The Curse of the Bear Prince


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AN EROTIC QUEER SHAPESHIFTER FAIRY TALE. Austin Eisenschreiber, the seventh Prince in his family, has traded his freedom to save his brother's life. Now he's bound to a cursed land in service to a mysterious Queen and her son, Prince Dave, with a dark secret. Fortunately, Dave is extremely handsome, and the dominant lover Austin's always dreamed of. Soon, Austin finds himself learning complex magics while joyfully becoming the perfect submissive for Dave though ever-intensifying sexual service and BDSM. But with time running out, Austin will need every skill Dave has taught him to break the curse on his bear prince... which proves a far bigger undertaking than just kissing a frog.... 'The Curse of the Bear-Prince' is a 100,000 word erotic gay fairy tale, full of loving dom/sub play, kinky spankings, bears and size kink and bears, and enough smut throughout to satisfy the most voracious appetites.




Desert Oracle


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The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.




Bull!


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In 1982, the Dow hovered below 1000. Then, the market rose and rapidly gained speed until it peaked above 11,000. Noted journalist and financial reporter Maggie Mahar has written the first book on the remarkable bull market that began in 1982 and ended just in the early 2000s. For almost two decades, a colorful cast of characters such as Abby Joseph Cohen, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget, and Alan Greenspan came to dominate the market news. This inside look at that 17-year cycle of growth, built upon interviews and unparalleled access to the most important analysts, market observers, and fund managers who eagerly tell the tales of excesses, presents the period with a historical perspective and explains what really happened and why.




Buyology


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.




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