Explosive worldwide use of the internet is causing more anxiety over personal privacy than ever before. Mara stumbles upon the darker side of the issue. Beginning with the disappearance of her brother, she finds out that the stakes are much higher than personal privacy! Against the ambiguity of a shadowy, corporate enemy, the only way she can survive is is to play their game... HER way.Exponential will fuel the paranoia surrounding today’s personal privacy issues. Caught in a cat and mouse contest of exploitation versus murder, the main character of the story, Mara Chandler, frantically tries to outwit a vague enemy with vast political and economic power.After her brother mysteriously vanishes, she unravels the dark secrets that are critical to the success of her faceless enemy. When her mother is caught in the middle of the conflict and loses her own life, Mara realizes that she must overcome her despair and fight back or she will be next.Deception leads to desperation as she realizes the enemy will stop at nothing to stop her. Trusting no one, she knows that she alone must discover the secret behind the enemy’s power and expose their flagrant corruption before they can catch her.Bewildered by a final act of ultimate betrayal, she is surprised to find out who she can trust. If she succeeds, her discoveries will leave the world reeling in controversy.No matter your personal interest – technology, contentious disagreement over today’s issues or just good old fashioned murder and deceit, Exponential will seize the reader’s fascination by it’s combination of delightfully tense and surprising elements.

After Andrew Wentz loses his job, his parents take pity and invite him to join them on a Mediterranean cruise. He jumps at the chance, but once he's aboard, he feels guilty. Shouldn't he be figuring out what to do with his pathetic life instead of lazing around on a ship? The cruise was supposed to be Eric Schofield's honeymoon, but one cheating fiancé later, he's traveling solo. Fine. He's been working too much anyway, so a vacation is exactly what the doctor ordered. He's on a boat with plenty of hot men, and he's determined to invite as many of them as he can into his stateroom's king sized bed. When the two men run into each other—literally—it's crush at first sight. Now Andrew can't think of anyone else, and Eric only wants one man in his bed. The sparks fly, and it's the perfect vacation fling, especially since ten days isn't nearly enough time to develop feelings. At least, it's not supposed to be. This transgender gay...

Assassin FantasticEditors: Martin H. Greenberg , Alexander Potter5 • Death Rites • (2001) • novelette by Tanya Huff

Sequel to UnobtainableHaydon Cliff Police Detectives Sean Callahan and Andy Mantegna are investigating the second murder of an elderly lady strangled with socks. They really hope they don't have a serial killer on their hands, because Haydon Cliff hasn't recovered fully from the homeless serial killer of a few months before.Soon they begin to connect the killings in a strange way to a weekly bingo game. When more murders occur just as their own personal partnership heats up, they can no longer deny the killer is one and the same for all the victims.But the killings might be even more sinister than first thought. It's up to Sean and Andy to figure it out before their detective team is split up just when they don't want to be parted.

Four words always came to mind whenever Elizabeth thought about marriage: No way in Hell!!!For Taylor, marriage meant three things: Love, a beautiful family and the life he never got to have.So, what'll he do when he gets an incredible offer to get married to his friend's daughter?Four words always came to mind whenever Elizabeth thought about marriage: No way in Hell!!! It always gave her the chills just to think about the subject, and also break out in hives. Besides, with her background she always assumed no one would want her in the first place.For Taylor, marriage meant three things: Love, a beautiful family and the life he never got to have.So, what'll he do when he gets an incredible offer to get married to his friend's daughter?When Elizabeth find out about the plans she throws a tantrum and refuses to have anything to do with the general. That is, until she discovers that Mr. Iversely ignites a fire in her like no other...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten aliveA little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape.'Her work shows us new ways to imagine the world ... so many themes of Audre's work have endured' Renni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration' Jackie Kay

Wet Socks Anonymous Vs. High Socks AnonymousRound 3Who ever thought that love could erupt just at a fringe of sight? Almost each person (mostly males) debate most on love at first sight. . .although such might be said; mine though begun with a single blink of my eyes. Do female angels exist? Why doesn't the bible mention anything to clear our conscious if really female angels do exist? All we get to read about is Angel Micheal, Angel Gabriel, and Angel Lucifer. I guess female angels are divine, and might even be among us. And sure worth the search.

All Robbie Fontaine ever wanted was a place to belong. After the death of his mother, he bounces around from pack to pack, forming temporary bonds to keep from turning feral. It's enough—until he receives a summons from the wolf stronghold in Caswell, Maine.Life as the trusted second to Michelle Hughes—the Alpha of all—and the cherished friend of a gentle old witch teaches Robbie what it means to be pack, to have a home.But when a mission from Michelle sends Robbie into the field, he finds himself questioning where he belongs and everything he's been told. Whispers of traitorous wolves and wild magic abound—but who are the traitors and who the betrayed?More than anything, Robbie hungers for answers, because one of those alleged traitors is Kelly Bennett—the wolf who may be his mate.The truth has a way of coming out. And when it does, everything will shatter.

Suspenseful, comic, and touching, the ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane—on a road trip that will take her deep in her past. Now a fragile ninety-two years old and committed to the notion of "leaving like a lady," Anna Madrigal has seemingly found peace in the bosom of her "logical family" in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker, Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins; Brian's daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada where sixty thousand revelers build a temporary city (Michael calls it "a Fellini carnival on Mars") designed to last only one week. Anna herself has another Nevada destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the sixteen-year-old boy she used to be ran away from the whorehouse he then called home. With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty, troubled heart of her Depression-era childhood, where she begins to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams, and to attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.