Tessie McGuire is a department store clerk. When her sweetheart, auto mechanic Johnny Hogan goes to Detroit with a gas saving invention, Tessie's friend, Pinkie, drags her to a party. The host, sculptor Robert Brand, finds Tessie's talent at impersonations amusing (she mimics Charles Chaplin), and hires her as a model. But when he tries to "manhandle" her, she goes to work at the shop of Arno Riccardi. Her job is impersonating a Russian countess. Every man she encounters at the upper reaches of society tries to have his way with her, but Tessie remains staunchly chaste. However, when Hogan returns from his trip (his invention sold), he sees her fancy dresses and believes she is less than spotless. Ultimately, he realizes that Tessie has been faithful all along and the couple is happily reunited.

In the spirit of "Flesh and the Word" and the "Friction" series comes a sizzling, original gay erotica collection of more than 30 short stories by some of the most well-known names in the genre.

When Kandor is threatened by a plague of thefts, Superman and Batman shrink down to super-small size to unravel the mystery.

A guide to the art of handling men draws parallels between the human male and the bird, identifing such common types of male birds--the Pterodactyl, Bald Eagle, or Dodo--and offing advice on how to understand and catch a compatible mate.

MANHANDLING, by M. J. Rennie - Women of indomitable will, arise! M. J. Rennie's super celebration of dominant women and their submissive men proves just how hot a relationship between unequals can be. In fifteen intriguing tales of full time Femdom, an array of femme fatales assume a total control over the manhood of their masculine minions. The opening story REUNION considers a capricious wife as she convinces an old beau to help her cuckold a sniveling toady of a husband. VIRGIN GROOM features an advanced young woman who consummates a modern marriage via a ritual deflowering of her new husband's most private chamber. A dominant but weary wife farms her younger husband out to a widowed friend in TASTING TAPIOCA, resulting in surprisingly stimulating results. A one-time outlaw Feminist masquerades as the prim spouse of a wealthy, successful attorney in THE RADICAL AND THE LIBERAL. Behind the doors of their upscale boudoir, she rules her meek mate with a white-gloved hand. Title tale MANHANDLING follows a young woman as she discovers the seven key signs of a submissive man. These auspicious offerings and more exquisitely adorn an arousing, artful collection. A virtuoso of literate Femdom, M. J. Rennie's provocative stories raise a vibrant erotic genre to hitherto unmatched heights of imagination. Along the way, we see how relationships between the genders could be, often are, and perhaps permanently ought to be, for the sake of our common future. See secret advice on page 4-Print Edition only! ADULTS ONLY. Cover art by Rebecca.

Commentary and analysis on how black women are viewed and treated in society.

In early 2000 the bottom dropped out of the life of writer David Denby when his wife decided to leave him. Propelled to make some money quickly, and seized by the 'irrational exuberance' of the stock market, then approaching its peak, Denby enthusiastically joined the investment frenzy. Over the next few months he listened raptly to bullish stock analysts, dreamy hi-tech gurus and boastful heads of companies. He plunged into a season of mania and was swept forward on currents of hope, greed and hucksterism - with cataclysmic results. American Sucker is a mesmerising account of those years of madness. What begins as a money chase and an engagement with rampant capitalism soon becomes an encounter with such timeless issues as love, envy, true value - and life and death itself. This is a classic tale of the bubble related not by a market guru or an investment professional but by a witty, perceptive and eloquent outsider.

Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in didactic poetry concerned with wisdom, teaching and learning, and in comedic texts that were designed to make their audiences laugh, not least by submitting various figure-types to the indignity of having their beards manhandled. Four main chapters each offer a reading of a work or poetic tradition of particular significance (Pfaffe Konrad’s Rolandslied; Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm; ‘Sangspruchdichtung’; Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Ring), before examining cognate material of various kinds, including sources or later versions of the same story, manuscript variants and miniatures and further relevant beard-motifs from the same period. The book concludes by reviewing the portrayal of Jesus in vernacular German literature, which represents a special test-case in the literary history of beards. As the first study of its kind in medieval German studies, this investigation submits beard-motifs to sustained and detailed analysis in order to shed light both on medieval poetic techniques and the normative construction of masculinity in a wide range of literary genres.

Manhandled is book 1 of the Sigma Saints MC trilogy. Books 2 and 3, Mangled and Roughed Up are available everywhere now! SHE'S ABOUT TO GET MANHANDLED. When you stick your nose where you don't belong, then some punishment is in order. It's too late for "I'm sorry" or "It was an accident." She trespassed on the wrong man. And I'm about to show her how delicious this punishment can be. She was nothing special. At least, that's what I used to think. When she first barged in and heard some things she definitely should NOT have heard, I didn't think much of her. She was cute, sure. Sexy even, in an innocent kind of way. But she was a loose end, and that meant one thing: She needed to be tied up. I cuffed her down until I could decide where to dispose of her once I'd done what had to be done. But the longer I stared at her, the more my hunger grew. A prize like this shouldn't be just thrown away. It needed to be tasted. Savored. Devoured. I'd had a million girls before her, but Jess is another species entirely. She brings out sides of me I never knew were there. I don't know whether to thank her for it… Or bend her over my knee and spank her to teach her a lesson. Lucky for me, I don't have to choose between the two. We've got plenty of time for both.