Lyla Wilder is done being the shy, chemistry nerd extraordinaire. While every other college student is out having fun, Lyla is studying. With her cat. Well, she's played it "safe" quite enough, thank you. So she creates a "College Bucket List" with item number seven being a night of uninhibited, mind-blowing sex... Now she just needs some help from her best friend. Hockey player Beck Davenport thought Lyla's transformation would be subtle. Man, was he wrong. With every item she ticks off, Beck finds himself growing seriously hot for his sweet, brainiac best friend. And if he's not careful, he'll end up risking their friendship in order to convince Lyla that he might just be her lucky number seven... Each book in the Taking Shots series is STANDALONE: * Getting Lucky Number Seven * Anatomy of a Player * Crazy Pucking Love * Confessions of a Former Puck Bunny

Natasha Winters, a twenty-one-year-old English actress, never expected to be invited to New York, but as she nervously awaits the powers that be, she is greeted by the ultimate power. The boss. The much older and incredibly sexy, James Maybury.Before Natasha knows what has happened, she is in James' hotel room and playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse, with him prowling around, determined to capture his prey. It's a game she shouldn't be drawn into, given her history, and it is a game she will likely lose. With his own track record of failed relationships, James can't quite believe it when the beautiful, bright and funny Natasha Winters stands before him, bending over in a dress with legs that beg for hands to trace the full, delicious length of them. Could this woman be everything he's been looking for, his salvation? Or could she be his damnation?

Elena Nevares is on the run. She's a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She's a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations. Together, they must find the rest of Sasha's crew: Cherry, the engineer and explosives expert; Rami, the master of disguise; Doc, the wunderkind Medical Officer; and Rock, the mechanically modified muscle. But Axys Generations has bigger plans than taking down Sasha's crew. Elena, Sasha, and the rest of the Lucky 7 must go on their most dangerous mission yet-not for credits or tech, but to save the world.

Cultural Writing. This expanded version of THE HASTY PAPERS is a seamless vision of the literary, artistic, political and cultural concerns of the 20th century, concerns that still engage us today and lead us into the future. This oversized archival edition (11" x 14 1/2") includes nearly 400 photographs, drawings and paintings, along with 5 plays (Aristophanes, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Terry Southern, Derek Walcott), 16 poems (Kenneth Koch's is 104 stanzas), Fidel Castro's famous 1960 United Nations speech (uncut), along with the complete United States response, a full length novel on hashish, an epistolary novel-of-sorts, an examination of the paintings of Hitler, Churchill and Eisenhower and more.

Mathematician Emily Kogan's family is good at keeping their secrets. But when she uses her visit to the vacation lodge they own to conduct research for a graduate thesis on measuring the influence of interpersonal relationships, she learns far more than she bargained for.

A collection of outstanding short stories by masterful voices in Southern literature features a broad spectrum of twenty works by both established and new writers, including Pinckney Benedict, Ron Rash, Clyde Edgerton, and Holly Goddard Jones, among others, all selected and introduced by guest editor ZZ Packer. Original.

The Last Word investigates the debased art of eulogy. Through insightful, surprisingly playful readings of famous eulogies (from a scene in Love Actually to Jacques Derrida’s heart-rending essays on the deaths of his peers), Cooper argues against the socially sanctioned desire to avoid thinking about death that results in clichéd memorials, honoring neither the living nor the dead.

The 7th funny book in the girly series with a dark twist. For younger readers who also enjoy modern vampire stories.