Moments of Ecstasy (Sexy Stories Collection Volume 29)

Moments of Ecstasy (Sexy Stories Collection Volume 29)
Author: Juli Mateson
Publisher: Xplicit Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623276101

Moments of Ecstasy is the first short story collection from erotica author Juli Mateson. Featuring twenty-two deliciously sexy tales, be prepared to dive into the worlds of paranormal, womens erotica, menage, and couple's themed stories. Containing many multi-part stories, you will feel as if you are living in the world of these characters and tales as you gain intimate knowledge of their thoughts and feelings. With twenty of the twenty-two stories being traditonal male-female pairings, there are two stories involving lesbian sex and sex with multiple partners to add some spice into things. Each series will draw you into it’s depths and arouse your senses, satisfying every desire. The Green Man From Xenot Alexis Purchet had a sexual encounter with a green “man” that she thinks is an alien. Instead of being scared, she is strangely satisfied. The Xenotian Ecstasy Alexis could not forget the alien that she had made wild, passionate love with. She wondered what she would have to do to see him again. Xen and I Xen has made suggestions about Alex joining him in his kingdom, and she finds herself willing to do so, even if it’s just as part of his harem. The Stirrings Of Pleasure Part 1 - 2 Wealthy Arya McComb meets a handsome stranger when she returns home from college. Arya is filled with unbridled sexual desires and she grows lonely as her longing for Ron drives her closer and closer to insanity. The Clamor Of The Mountains Part 1 - 5 A story of a city girl falling in love with a wild, native man from a fierce head-hunting tribe. Aganas, the village young man, is unable to forget Lucy. Aganas and Lucy found a way to be together again, in spite of all circumstances. Before Aganas and Lucy can hope and plan for their future, they are interrupted and separated again because of his tradition. Aganas’ parents did not have any option but to search for a suitable partner for him outside of their village. Would he now pursue Lucy, the girl from town? Lines From Heaven Part 1-4 Jessica wasn’t looking for love, but then she met Amir, a stunningly handsome younger man from India. Jessica and Amir’s long distance relationship continues to develop as he sends her thoughtful emails confessing his love for her. Jessica begins letting go of her shyness and starts to open up more to the man that is stealing her heart. Amir and Jessica have both finally accepted their love for each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together in wedded bliss. Flight In Paradise Part 1-4 Dave and Amy first met each other in the Philippines, where Dave was stationed and Amy lives. They are instantly attracted to each other. Things begin to change. Dave starts to withdraw from Amy. Only after following him to the base hospital one day does she find out the real reason for Dave’s departure. After Dave is given a clean bill of health, things are finally beginning to look up for the young couple. Until a woman from Dave’s past returns. Amy and Dave move back to his hometown, where they struggle to adjust to their circumstances. Can the love they share survive all of these changes? Moments In Time Part 1-4 Carla meets a girl while attending a beach party, and they spend a night together. Later, she meets Ken, who is also very interested in everything that the now sexually confused Carla has to offer. Carla soon discovers Ken's identity and what she actually had done: he is Helen's ex-husband and she had made love to both. Carla is torn between the love of her new fling, Ken, and that of her new girlfriend and lover, Helen. Carla’s relationship with Ken seems to be going swimmingly when, all of a sudden, Helen calls her.

The Girl Who Couldn't Come

The Girl Who Couldn't Come
Author: Joey Comeau
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Sex
ISBN: 9781460920145

This is a book of dirty stories. They are weird and fun and often bewildering, like sex itself.

Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir).

Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir).
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936070650

Haiti has had a tragic history and continues to be on of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Here, however, editor Edwidge Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the calibre of Haitian writing is of the highest order. Features stories by Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, Jessica Fievre, Marilene Phipps, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Katie Ulysse, Yanick Lahens, Evelyne Trouillot, Kettly Mars, Rodney Saint-Eloi and many more.

Candide

Candide
Author: Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2016-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681959526

Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.

Great Books

Great Books
Author: David Denby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1439127158

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “A lively adventure of the mind...The tone of the prose...is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy, vigor, intellectual curiosity, and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative journalism.” —The New York Times Book Review At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books, he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche. Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiography -- an inspiration for anyone in love with the written word.

The Flowering Wand

The Flowering Wand
Author: Sophie Strand
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2022-11-29
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1644115972

A deep exploration of the regenerative and magical secrets of sacred masculinity hidden in familiar myths both ancient and modern • Reveals the restorative fungi archetype of Osiris, the Orphic mysteries as an underground mycelium linking forests and people, how Dionysus teaches us about invasive species and playful sexuality, and the ecology of Jesus as depicted in his nature-focused parables • Liberates Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s hero’s journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge Long before the sword-wielding heroes of legend readily cut down forests, slaughtered the old deities, and vanquished their enemies, there were playful gods, animal-headed kings, mischievous lovers, trickster harpists, and vegetal magicians with flowering wands. As eco-feminist scholar Sophie Strand discovered, these wilder, more magical modes of the masculine have always been hidden in plain sight. Sharing the culmination of eight years of research into myth, folklore, and the history of religion, Strand leads us back into the forgotten landscapes and hidden secrets of familiar myths, revealing the beautiful range of the divine masculine, including expressions of male friendship, male intimacy, and male creative collaboration. In discussing Dionysus and Osiris, Strand encourages us to think like an ecosystem instead of like an individual. She connects dying, vegetal gods to the virtuous cycle of composting and decay, highlighting the ways in which mushrooms can restore soil and heal polluted landscapes. Exploring esoteric Christianity, the author celebrates the Gnostic Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas, imagining the ecology that the Rabbi Yeshua would have actually been referencing in his nature-focused parables. Strand frees Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s hero’s journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge. Strand reseeds our minds with new visions of male identity and shows how each of us, regardless of gender, can develop a matured ecological empathy and witness a blossoming of sacred masculine powers that are soft, curious, connective, and celebratory.

The Klone and I

The Klone and I
Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1999-07-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440225698

Stephanie had a rat for a husband. But after 13 years of marriage and two kids, she was devastated when he left her for a younger woman. Suddenly Stephanie was alone. And after months of trying to find a little romance on New York's wild singles circuit, she was ready to give up, reconciled to just raising her two great, but outspoken, kids. Then a spur-of-the-moment trip to Paris changed everything. She met him on the Left Bank. Peter Baker was a marvelously handsome high-tech entrepreneur also visiting the city. Stephanie was certain it couldn't possibly work. Peter was just too perfect. But much to her amazement, he contacted her when they returned to New York. And at the Long Island rental cottage she shared with her kids, Stephanie embarked on a bizarre and hilarious adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Shy, serious Peter, chairman of a bionic enterprise, was supposed to be away on business. Instead, he's standing at her door, wearing day-glo satin and rhinestones. Naturally, Stephanie thinks it's a joke--until the truth suddenly dawns: this isn't Peter playing a role. This is his double! Calling himself Paul Klone, this wild, uninhibited creature isn't even remotely like Peter except for his identically sexy good looks. This uproarious novel explores the outrageous love triangle that develops between Stephanie, Peter...and the Klone. In a wickedly funny, right-on-target look at finding the perfect mate in an imperfect world, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel reveals insights into the human heart that have made her novels #1 bestsellers around the world.

Between Ecstasy and Truth

Between Ecstasy and Truth
Author: Stephen Halliwell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191612413

As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias's Helen, Isocrates' treatises, Philodemus' On Poems, and Longinus' On the Sublime. The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture.

Prelude to Bruise

Prelude to Bruise
Author: Saeed Jones
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2014-08-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1566893844

Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."—FlavorWire "I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy."—D. A. Powell "Prelude to Bruise works its tempestuous mojo just under the skin, wreaking a sweet havoc and rearranging the pulse. These poems don't dole out mercy. Mr. Jones undoubtedly dipped his pen in fierce before crafting these stanzas that rock like backslap. Straighten your skirt, children. The doors of the church are open."—Patricia Smith "It's a big book, a major book. A game-changer. Dazzling, brutal, real. Not just brilliant, caustic, and impassioned but a work that brings history—in which the personal and political are inter-constitutive—to the immediate moment. Jones takes a reader deep into lived experience, into a charged world divided among unstable yet entrenched lines: racial, gendered, political, sexual, familial. Here we absorb each quiet resistance, each whoop of joy, a knowledge of violence and of desire, an unbearable ache/loss/yearning. This is not just a "new voice" but a new song, a new way of singing, a new music made of deep grief's wildfire, of burning intelligence and of all-feeling heart, scorched and seared. In a poem, Jones says, "Boy's body is a song only he can hear." But now that we have this book, we can all hear it. And it's unforgettable."—Brenda Shaughnessy "Inside each hunger, each desire, speaks the voice of a boy that admits "I've always wanted to be dangerous." This is not a threat but a promise to break away from the affliction of silence, to make audible the stories that trouble the dimensions of masculinity and discomfort the polite conversations about race. With impressive grace, Saeed Jones situates the queer black body at the center, where his visibility and vulnerability nurture emotional strength and the irrepressible energy to claim those spaces that were once denied or withheld from him. Prelude to a Bruise is a daring debut."—Rigoberto González From "Sleeping Arrangement": Take your hand out from under my pillow. And take your sheets with you. Drag them under. Make pretend ghosts. I can't have you rattling the bed springs so keep still, keep quiet. Mistake yourself for shadows. Learn the lullabies of lint. Saeed Jones works as the editor of BuzzfeedLGBT.