CROWN CHASER, KINGMAKER, POSER, PRETENDER, WANNABE HEIR They had it all wrong. I never wanted to rule the world; all I wanted was her. But they couldn’t see past my bad reputation, so they forced us apart. That was ten years ago, and I’ve grown up. I’m still a rebel. I’m still reckless. But I’m also ruthless. Determined. And I have even bigger balls. So, when I find out she’s in trouble, I have to help her. It doesn’t matter that she hates me. She’ll get over it. Fighting for her is what I was born to do. I never wanted to rule until she needed me to, and this time I won’t stop until I get what I want. If they think I will… They have it all wrong.

A dare turns into so much more... All I want to do is get to work on time. But a Prince Harry look-a-like is trying to steal my cab, And I'll fight for it to the bitter end. In the midst of our verbal battle, I discover I lost my wallet. So I bargain--a free ride for a kiss. What starts out as innocent quickly steams up the windows. His lips are soft, and when he tugs me closer, I press my entire body against his hard muscles and practically rip his tie off. This is the best taxi ride of my life. Until it ends just as quickly as it began. Embarrassed over my behavior, I rush out without so much as a goodbye. But fate, that bitch, Has us pounding on the same locked door. Already knowing I'm going to be fired, I curse my new boss and his new rules. The hot suit laughs and dares me to tell my new boss what a dick he's being. With nothing to lose, I accept. Never in a million years could I have imagined he is my new boss. Arrogant. Sexy. And totally off-limits. Dating him is against the rules. His rules. He doesn't seem to care. Until I dare him not to fall in LOVE with me. Even then he doesn't mind. The only four-letter word he lives by is DUTY. Too bad this would-be-king is about to fall hard...for a commoner.

Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory. This innovative anthology reveals an early modern playwright insistently returning to questions of language, identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory. Since many of the contributors do not study early modern literature, Shakesqueer takes queer theory back and brings Shakespeare forward, challenging the chronological confinement of queer theory to the last two hundred years. The book also challenges conceptual certainties that have narrowly equated queerness with homosexuality. Chasing all manner of stray desires through every one of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, the contributors cross temporal, animal, theoretical, and sexual boundaries with abandon. Claiming adherence to no one school of thought, the essays consider The Winter’s Tale alongside network TV, Hamlet in relation to the death drive, King John as a history of queer theory, and Much Ado About Nothing in tune with a Sondheim musical. Together they expand the reach of queerness and queer critique across chronologies, methodologies, and bodies. Contributors. Matt Bell, Amanda Berry, Daniel Boyarin, Judith Brown, Steven Bruhm, Peter Coviello, Julie Crawford, Drew Daniel, Mario DiGangi, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Aranye Fradenburg, Carla Freccero, Daniel Juan Gil, Jonathan Goldberg, Jody Greene, Stephen Guy-Bray, Ellis Hanson, Sharon Holland, Cary Howie, Lynne Huffer, Barbara Johnson, Hector Kollias, James Kuzner , Arthur L. Little Jr., Philip Lorenz, Heather Love, Jeffrey Masten, Robert McRuer , Madhavi Menon, Michael Moon, Paul Morrison, Andrew Nicholls, Kevin Ohi, Patrick R. O’Malley, Ann Pellegrini, Richard Rambuss, Valerie Rohy, Bethany Schneider, Kathryn Schwarz, Laurie Shannon, Ashley T. Shelden, Alan Sinfield, Bruce Smith, Karl Steel, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Amy Villarejo, Julian Yates

With Dead Man's Puzzle, Parnell Hall delivers another stellar, puzzle-packed entry in his entertaining Puzzle Lady series. Sherry is off on her honeymoon when Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of Old Man Overmeyer. Small problem. Cora is the Milli Vanilli of cruciverbalists. Her niece, Sherry, writes the crossword puzzle column for her. Cora pokes into Overmeyer's death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes. She learns the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a forty-year-old stock pooling agreement, and before she can say "capital gain," the town is full of heirs. Complicating things is Sherry's ex-husband, Dennis, who is playing detective in the hopes of impressing his ex-wife. With Sherry out of town, her restraining order against him is moot, and he is taking full advantage of the fact.

It’s not supposed to be love. Eric has been looking for the right woman – one who will keep him in his place. Lists, tasks, discipline. He wants it all. Madeline, cut deep by a past love that tore her apart, isn’t looking to start something new. Yet when the tall man with shaggy dark hair succumbs to her desires with perfect precision, all at once casual D/S play no longer seems like enough. Their meeting isn’t supposed to lead to anything permanent. They’re not supposed to want more than something temporary. They’re definitely not supposed to fall head-over-heels for each other. But they do. Dive in to the first in a brand-new series by acclaimed author Megan Hart. Bad at Love, the series, spans the stories of old character favorites and introduces new heroines and heroes to fall in love with. How many short, sexy romances can you possibly read before it’s too many, anyway? As many as you want to, friend. As many as you want.

"In the sequel to The Fever King, Noam Alvaro seeks to end tyranny before he becomes a tyrant himself."--Provided by publisher.

A marathon dance mix consisting of thousands of mashed up text and image samples, In the House of the Hangman tries to give a taste of what life is like there, where it is impolite to speak of the noose. It is the third part of the life project Zeitgeist Spam. If you can't afford a copy ask me for a pdf.

A NOVEL FOR OUR TIMES AND A RADICAL PROOF THAT “AMERICA WAS FABLE BEFORE IT BECAME FACT.” In the 1950s, a Puerto Rican Jew with roots in Leipzig and the Middle East lands in New York Harbor. So begins In the House Un-American, where Carlos ben Carlos Rossman, wannabe heir to the American poet William Carlos Williams and distant cousin of Kafka’s boy immigrant sensation Karl Rossman, is forever an absurdist stumble away from falling into a satirical wormhole. In his wanderings among Americans and “un-Americans,” Carlos leads us through a mirage of genres and historical lenses—memoirist fictions, essayistic stories, fables, anti-communist scripts. He comes to the Coney Island boardwalk only to arrive in his own mind at the shores of the Mediterranean. As he journeys from the golden age of Spain to the Statue of Liberty among East Coast Jewish Buddhist pilgrims going West, Carlos reinvents the rest of us as he remakes himself. In a Mecca of his own making in the heart of America, Carlos offers a prophetic new vision reconciling Islam and the American. In the House Un-American maps the continual transformation of where and who Carlos is and where America might someday arrive with him.

From New York Times bestselling author Kim Karr comes a dashing new, sexy standalone royal romance. A simple notification turns my world upside down... The tabloids are reporting, I’ve taken the crown and run. (Not entirely true) As you might have guessed, I’m not an ordinary girl and I don’t lead an ordinary life, But that doesn’t mean I always follow the rules. This time, though, I feel compelled to obey. Which means I have to find a king, To sit alongside my throne, Or lose it all. With only the clothes on my back, I head to the land of majestic playboys, Where a royal rebel strides right into my life. With his sultry eyes and sinful lips, He turns my world right-side up. The press is calling him washed up. (I think he’s anything but) Gorgeous, sexy, irresistible, And utterly charming, He’s exactly what I’m looking for. Everything is almost too perfect, Too easy. Until I discover, This hot-blooded royal has a reason for being here. And it’s more than just me. That thing I said about easy, Turns out… Nothing ever is. My royal rebel has a name, It’s Prince Adrien Laurent. My name is Princess Victoria Blanchette. And this is our story.

Male prostitutes, vampire wannabes, and a cloned movie star . . . 2045 is shaping up to be a rough year for detective Drew Parker. What started off as a simple case involving a deaf woman and her cheating boyfriend is getting complicated. It doesn’t help that the boyfriend is one of five identical actors cloned from the frozen corpse of a dead movie star. Or that he’s up to his neck in a convoluted blackmail plot. Or that the guy is being stalked by a secret agent, some dame in a clown mask with the combat skills of a ninja. And besides, Drew has his own problem to deal with. A personal matter involving a rent boy, a privatized version of the KGB, and a vampire sex cult. Well at least his Wiccan partner, Jen, is back to help him out. He may not believe in all her psychic mumbo-jumbo, but she sure gets results. And there’s no one he’d rather have at his back in a fight. The exciting sequel to The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse. "Like its predecessor, it employs the same irresistible zaniness and wit, multiple viewpoints, high sexual content (both gay and straight) and cheerfully chaotic narrative technique. The author has produced another engagingly weird novel of the near future, satirizing everything he can get his word processor on and doing most of it extremely well." -- Publishers Weekly