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"My Secret Life", the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter' is one of the most idiosyncratic and sexually obsessed books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society.

My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as 'the strangest book ever written'. Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as 'Walter'), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

This daughter of a rock star has it all—until murder crashes her world.The exciting and suspenseful Rayne Tour series features sixteen-year-old Shaley O’Connor, on tour with her mother’s popular band. Shaley lives in a whirlwind of backstage secrets, hotels, and limos. With beauty and fame...

"My Secret Life", the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter' is one of the most idiosyncratic and sexually obsessed books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society.

The year is 1960 and everything in Cathy's life seems perfect. She envisages a secure and happy life with the man she adores and whose plans appear to dovetail entirely with her own. She cannot foresee the chain of events which will take her from her cozy Gloucester home into the beautiful but remote Gower peninsula, to live in a decrepit wooden shack where she must face a series of events destined to challenge her to the utmost.

Desperate people make desperate choices. Twenty-nine year-old Lisa Newberry can barely make it through the day. Suddenly widowed and the survivor of a near-fatal attack, she is wracked with grief and despair. Then, she hears of a medical trial for a tiny brain chip that emits electrical pulses to heal severe depression. At rope’s end, Lisa offers herself as a candidate. When she receives her letter of acceptance for the trial, Lisa is at first hopeful. But . . . brain surgery. Can she really go through with that?

Helen Meeker is back and has less than 30 days to stop the execution of an innocent pastor who has unbelievably confessed to being a Nazi spy. While on a case that has dynamic implications to uncovering an espionage ring operating on American and British soil, Helen defuses a hostage crisis in a bank robbery gone wrong, unearths an explosive coffin, and is introduced to a dead English hero who seems very much alive.

The Dream Woman is a strange tale of a man who has a dream about a beautiful woman attempting to murder him in bed by stabbing him with a buck-handled clasp-knife. He relates the details of the dream to his mother, who makes careful note of every detail. Then one day he meets the woman of his dream....

When Broadway diva Veronica Cagney is caught with the smoking gun over her dead husband, the private eye she hired pulls out all the stops to protect her in this 1940s noir inspired novelette. The fun really begins when the detective starts to piece together a puzzle of intrigue and murder as he finds himself involved with a gangster, the local sheriff, and the beautiful mistress of the victim. A fun little who-dunnit for a cold winter's night.

Jackie Collins’s most outrageous, erotically charged New York Times bestseller is a sexy, shattering roller-coaster thrill ride! From chic New York and the exclusive Hamptons to the hungry heart of LA, this high-suspense tale pulses with deadly obsessions and relentless desires in the...

Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them…and then removing that problem, as well. So far he's rid of the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights?

More than 200 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, governments around the world continue to address many of the issues discussed in the book. The most powerful states in the world are still committed to international trade, but questions are repeatedly asked about the role of governments in the economy and the effectiveness of the free market.

Arizona remained a raw, rather uncivilized territory before it became one of the last states to enter the Union. Few towns exemplify this more than Prescott. Within six years of establishment, at least five prostitutes operated in Prescott. As their clientele grew, so did their influence. Mollie Sheppard, Lida Winchell, Gabriell Dollie, and many more women were integral forces on the city that should not be forgotten. Join author Jan MacKell Collins to discover the soiled doves of Prescott's red-light district.

What if you could jump into any movie in the world? 14-year-old Blake Connors and his 11-year-old sister Becky discover that their parents invented a device that could make that very dream come true. After every government agency on the planet began hunting them they found themselves in their worst nightmare. Forced to fake their own deaths and hide out in the worlds they had unlocked, it now falls on Blake and Becky to jump in and find them, before somebody else does.

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the US ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. Can American women look to European policies for solutions?

Little Girls Need Their Daddy is about the importance of what the man means to a little girl. The daddy is placed at the head of the household by God for a reason. He is to lead, guide, and protect the home. Because of the dysfunction that is going on in the homes today, women are being abused, and a lot of it stems from childhood. They were not shown that love and affection from their fathers. Therefore, they go out into the world to find it elsewhere. This is my story.

When a hitman shows up at retired gunman Quarry's refuge, who is the target? Is it Quarry? Or is the assassin on a different mission - and if so, can Quarry foil it for revenge and profit? This audiobook is fourth in the classic hard-boiled Quarry Series from the 1970's.

Wilkie Collins was an early master of the mystery and detective story and the first English novelist to write in this genre. "Blow Up with the Brig" is a short story written in 1859, just a year before he wrote his famous novel The Woman in White.

While on vacation in Sedona, Arizona, retiree Darren Stevens starts to have strange dreams of murder. When the young couple next door begin to fight, he realizes the man is the person in his dreams. After telling the local police chief, newly appointed Margo Stanton, he is at first met with skepticism, but then as a series of murders in Sedona begin to happen, she starts to come around. Then the FBI is brought in on the case as they try to connect the recent murders with those of the past.

March 1932. After the recently incarcerated Al Capone offers to negotiate the return of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh, Nathan Heller of the Chicago P.D. is sent to Hopewell, New Jersey, as a police liaison. As a part of Lindbergh’s inner circle, Heller investigates crooks, cranks, socialites, and psychics in a frustrating, fruitless attempt to solve the case. Max Allan Collins makes the crime that captivated a nation the focal point of yet another fascinating and thoroughly spellbinding foray into his world of historical crime fiction.