Addicted

Addicted
Author: Charlotte Featherstone
Publisher: MIRA Spice
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2009
Genre: Erotic stories
ISBN: 9781921797781

Friends since childhood, Anais Darnby and Lindsay Markham have long harbored a secret passion for one another. When they finally confess their love, their future together seems assured, sealed with their searing embrace. But when a debauched Lindsay is seduced by a scheming socialite, a devastated Anais seeks refuge in another man's bed while Lindsay retreats to the exotic East. There, he is seduced again -- this time by the alluring red smoke and sinister beauty of opium. Back home, Lindsay's addiction is fed by the vogue for all things Oriental -- especially its sensual pleasures -- in fashionable London society. In his lucid moments, Lindsay still lusts after Anais, who can neither allow him near nor forget his smoldering touch. Tortured by two obsessions -- opium and Anais -- Lindsay must ultimately decide which is the one he truly cannot live without.

Somatic Fictions

Somatic Fictions
Author: Athena Vrettos
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804725330

This book focuses on the centrality of illness—particularly psychosomatic illness—as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public, and how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition.

The Death-Doctor

The Death-Doctor
Author: William Le Quex
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434467546

William Tufnell Le Queux (1864-1927) was a British journalist and writer. He wrote mysteries, thrillers, and espionage, particularly pulp-fiction spy stories such as "The Invasion of 1910," "The Poisoned Bullet," and "Spies of the Kaiser."

Survival: The inspirational story of the Thredbo disaster's sole survivor

Survival: The inspirational story of the Thredbo disaster's sole survivor
Author: Simon Bouda
Publisher: Pan Australia
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1743340362

"My body is shaking, uncontrollably shuddering. Everything's rattling, crashing down. I'm choking on dust. I can't breathe... I'm coughing, choking. Sal's screaming ..." On the night of July 30th 1997 a landslide shattered the tranquility of Thredbo Village, sweeping away two ski lodges and burying 19 people beneath tonnes of concrete and mud. In the days that followed, the world mourned as rescuers dragged body after body from the rubble. But out of tragedy sprang an amazing story of survival. Stuart Diver, whose young wife Sally died beside him in the first moments of the slide, had clung to life buried beneath a concrete slab for 65 freezing hours. This is Stuart Diver's story. The story of how one man found the mental and physical strength to live through tragedy and survive against impossible odds. Stuart relives the event that changed his world forever and talks honestly about what went through his mind during his long hours alone beneath the rubble, his painful recovery, and his inspirational attitude to life and the future. And he reveals how the lessons he learned at Thredbo can help each of us find the inner strength to become a survivor. This special edition includes four bonus chapters that covers Stuart's life in the more than ten years since the original publication of Survival.