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Girl Crazy
By Sacchi Green. 2009
Girl crazy. It's that surge of longing that floods body and soul, that mad rush of pleasure and pain, from…
tentative self-discovery to the first thrill of girl-on-girl play to deep explorations of the fiercer shores of sex. In this collection, Catherine Lundoff, D. L. King, Cheyenne Blue, Kristina Wright, Jean Roberta, and 15 other writers offer up no-holds-barred, all-holds-hot tales of the highs and lows and kinky twists of first times. Coeds acting out for Girls Gone Wild get even wilder once the cameraman goes home. A lonely businesswoman discovers how far and hard her young chauffeur can drive her. Butch buddies find secret desires racing out of control. A summer job building trails sparks trailblazing into all-new territory. These and a wide range of other irresistible stories envelop the reader in that delicious feeling known as girl crazy.Going Down
By Rachel Kramer Bussel. 2012
When you look back on the best sex you ever had, oral sex will no doubt be a part of…
the picture. Rachel Kramer Bussel is back with more lip-smackingly superb oral sex erotica for everyone with Going Down. Taking in the essence, taste, smell, and sexy up-closeness of a lover is a powerful aphrodisiac that affects one physically, mentally, and emotionally. Once you have your lover in your mouth, the heat of desire, passion, and lust focus, tying your arousal directly to them. These fictive fellatio stories, sizzling 69ings, and talented tonguing give readers lots of new ideas to try at home. In Going Down, lovers give, receive, and explore the many ways oral sex can be an act of love, tenderness, devotion, or pure sexual joy. Just sit back and enjoy this sexy read of explicit stories to get you hot and bothered with more than a mouthful.This Poem Is a House
By Ken Sparling. 2016
From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're…
writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it.Ken Sparling has written six novels, including Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.The Journey Prize Stories 29: The Best of Canada's New Writers
By Grace O'Connell, Kevin Hardcastle, Ayelet Tsabari. 2017
Like The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories series, The Journey Prize Stories…
is one of the most celebrated annual literary anthologies in North America. For almost 30 years, the anthology has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian authors, a tradition that proudly continues with this latest edition. With settings ranging from wartime China to the temporary calm of an airport runway, the twelve stories in this collection represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging voices. A young boy who believes he is being stalked by an unstoppable, malevolent entity discovers that he may not be the only one. For a high school student in desperate straits, writing a short story about a pack of giant dogs and their mysterious owner represents her best chance at survival. In a sweeping story set against the fall of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, a pregnant woman waits anxiously for her doctor husband to leave the city before it's too late. A river that runs through a First Nations community is the source of sustenance, escape, and tragedy for a girl and her family. The haunting footage of the politically motivated self-immolation has unexpected reverberations for a Tibetan-Canadian woman dealing with multiple conflicts in her own life. A man who works a back-breaking job at an industrial mat cleaning service is pushed to his limit. When her mother has to return to Kinshasa to bury a family member, a girl gradually learns of the intricacy and depth of grief, in an evocative piece that illuminates the cultural gaps common within immigrant families, and the power of food and stories to bridge them. The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $10,000 Journey Prize, which is made possible by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener's donation of Canadian royalties from his novel Journey, which McClelland & Stewart published in 1988. The 2017 winner will be announced by the Writers' Trust of Canada in November 2017.El placer del amor
By Alain De Botton. 2006
Escrita hace veinticinco años, El placer del amor es un compendio de humor y sabiduría, una novela provocadora que no…
ha perdido un ápice de su actualidad. Un día gris cualquiera, un hombre cualquiera y un vuelo de lo más aburrido entre París y Londres... y de repente, ese hombre levanta la vista y ve a Chloe, su vecina de asiento, una joven de ojos verde agua, hombros quebradizos y uñas mal cuidadas. Cuando el avión aterriza, él ya sabe que esa es la mujer de su vida. Es más: su amor es único y va a ser eterno. A la semana siguiente, los dos cenan juntos por primera vez, y poco después dormirán juntos. Empieza la aclimatación a ese país extranjero que es el cuerpo del ser amado, pero aún no sabemos si este momento mágico tiene mimbres para convertirse en un proyecto de futuro, cabalgando los fastidios de un desayuno donde falta la mermelada que más nos gusta o una cena con los padres de ella. Habrá que esperar... Mientras esperamos y leemos, Alain de Botton pone en tela de juicio ese misterio llamado amor, y en la tarea le ayudan los consejos de grandes intelectuales, empezando por Marx y siguiendo con Voltaire, Oscar Wilde y Camus.Arráncame la vida
By Ángeles Mastretta. 1996
Cuando conoce al general Andrés Ascensio, Catalina es una muchacha que lo ignora todo de la vida. Él, en cambio,…
es candidato a Gobernador del Estado de Puebla, y sabe muy bien cuáles son sus objetivos de cacique. A las pocas semanas están casados. Pero Catalina descubre muy pronto que no puede aceptar el modo de vida que le impone la nueva situación. No acepta, sobre todo, vivir sin amor. Es una criatura apasionada e imaginativa, casada con un hombre a quien sólo preocupan sus intereses políticos, en un contexto social donde la mujer no pasa de ser una figura exquisita, siempre bella pero al margen de lo importante... Luego ocurre lo inevitable, y Catalina vuelve a amar, y se sabe correspondida, y vuelve a sentir en su alma todas las ilusiones y todas las esperanzas de ser mujer en un mundo que los hombres rigen de manera despiadada. Y ante ello quizá no le quede otra alternativa que reclamar, como en la canción popular de la que toma título la novela, Arráncame la vida.Message in a Bottle - Saggi sull'autocoscienza
By Isabel Duarte Soares, Federico Jorio. 2017
Raccolta di saggi letterari sull'autoconoscimento, scritti in pergamenino, sigillati, arrotolati e infilati in bottiglie di vetro incolore, senza tracce di…
etichetta, chiuse con tappi di sughero delle querce dell'Alentejo. Il destinatario sei tu.Tales of Ordinary Madness
By Charles Bukowski. 1983
With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground--people seem either to love him…
or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.West of the Jordan
By Laila Halaby. 2003
A poignant novel of four Arab women; the first Bluestreak original. This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by…
a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling with national, ethnic, and sexual identities. Mawal is the stable one, living steeped in the security of Palestinian traditions in the West Bank. Hala is torn between two worlds--in love in Jordan, drawn back to the world she has come to love in Arizona. Khadija is terrified by the sexual freedom of her American friends, but scarred, both literally and figuratively, by her father's abusive behavior. Soraya is lost in trying to forge an acceptable life in a foreign yet familiar land, in love with her own uncle, and unable to navigate the fast culture of California youth. Interweaving their stories, allowing us to see each cousin from multiple points of view, Halaby creates a compelling and entirely original story, a window into the rich and complicated Arab world.Maintenance
By Rob Benvie. 2011
It is the summer of 1999, and the Sweltham family leads an ordinary suburban existence. Former high school volleyball champ…
Parker crisscrosses the continent as a sales rep for DynaFlex Sporting Goods, while his wife Trixie serves as the managing editor of Record of Truth, an unsuccessful genocide studies journal. Their son Owen has just returned from juvenile prison to the vast horrors of high school. Heath, Parker's brother, has vowed to cut down on weed and fried chicken for a regimen of self-improvement. All appears normal. Yet in this summer's swelter and the rise of Y2K anxiety, grim truths will be revealed. Sprawling yet scalpel-sharp, Maintenance, like some twenty-first-century White Noise, takes the suburbs to a geography you won't recognize.Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon
By Nicole Brossard, Susanne De Lotbini. 2005
Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to…
finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquiHow the Blessed Live
By Susannah Smith. 2002
Minor earthquakes every day; that's what they say. Lucy feels the tremors like a needle sensitized to respond to the…
slightest movement. She feels the push, the blind thrust of the earth's elastic body, pushing out, pulling in, behaving unpredictably.Down Sterling Road
By Adrian Michael Kelly. 2005
Eleven-year-old Jacob McKnight doesn't like running. He doesn't like the hills, the cold wind, the slushy electrolyte drinks, the interval…
training. He doesn't like the way his dad is always pushing him: harder, faster, what's wrong with you, boy? ButAutobiography of Childhood
By Sina Queyras. 2011
The Combals are not unacquainted with death: they have never quite recovered from the loss of one of them in…
childhood. And now, on Valentine's Day, they are losing another. Guddy races to see her sister, Jerry and Bjarne avoid the phone and its news, Jean finds himself on a beach, and Annie fends off her mother's persistent questions about what's happening. And Therese tries to forgive them all before it's too late. As each is forced to face the news of Therese's impending death, their actions weave a nuanced portrait of a family, of the devastating reach of childhood grief.The Steve Machine
By Mike Hoolboom. 2008
Auden flees the small town of Capreol for Toronto, bewildered, HIV positive, and in search of an entirely new personality.…
He falls in love with orgy maestro Wrik, mainly because the old Auden would never even have talked to him. And through Wrik, he mThe Dying Poem
By Rob Budde. 2002
On the afternoon that two tonnes of explosives are set to dismember Toronto's Metropolitan Library, poet Henry Black hides himself…
away in his favourite wing; when his mangled body is uncovered, there's a book lodged in his chest.Eye Lake
By Tristan Hughes. 2011
Eli has lived in Crooked River his whole life, and he knows better than anyone about that sinking number. His…
father, uncle and grandmother are dead; he didn't know his mother, and his grandfather Clarence, an eccentric builder of hotels and a now-underwater castle, walked to the river one day and never returned. Eli's childhood friend, George, also went missing, back when they were kids, and was never seen again. Told in taut, spare prose, Eye Lake is the haunting story of three families, three generations and three disappearances.When Fenelon Falls
By Dorothy Ellen Palmer. 2010
A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy…
drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind takes its giant leap, Jordan May March, disabled bastard and genius, age fourteen, limps and schemes her way towards adulthood. Trapped at the March family's cottage, she spends her days memorizing Top 40 lists, avoiding her adoptive cousins, catching frogs and plotting to save Yogi, the bullied, buttertart-eating bear caged at the top of March Road. In her diary, reworking the scant facts of her adoption, Jordan visions and revisions a hundred different scenarios for her conception on that night in 1954 when Hurricane Hazel tore Toronto to shreds, imagining her conception at the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital or the CNE horse palace, and such parents as JFK, Louisa May Alcott, Perry Mason and the Queen of England.Amphibian
By Carla Gunn. 2009
Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. He knows that rockfish have swim bladders that…
can burst and push their intestines out their butts, and he knows that barnacles have the longest penises in the animal kingdom. He's obsessed with animals; it's practically all he talks about, and he spends all his spare time watching the Green Channel or researching obscure facts on the internet or in books. And he's worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet and its other animals. But although he seems to know absolutely everything about the animal world, what he doesn't know is why his granddad had to die or why Lyle the bully always picks on him or why his parents can't live together. He misses his grandad terribly, and he hates to see his grandmother - the only person who understands his eco-worrying - so sad. He misses his dad, too, and wishes he could see him more, and that the separation didn't make his mom so lonely - though he sure doesn't like her talking to creepy Brent. And things only get worse when Phin's mom, desperately worried about his animal obsession, takes him to see a rather unsympathetic psychologist. When his Grade 4 class gets a pet frog - a White's Tree Frog from Australia - it becomes the perfect focus for all Phin's worrying. He can't bear to see Cuddles penned up in a cage so very far from his natural habitat just for the amusement of humans. It's just another example of how cruel and self-centred humans are. And so Phin and his best pal, Bird, are spurred to action.Mauve Desert: Roman (Narradores Contemporaneos Ser.)
By Nicole Brossard, Susanne De Lotbini. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor, chasing fear and desire and the mysterious Angela Parkins,…
and breaking free from her mother and her mother's lover in their roadside Mauve Motel. And then we are with Maude L