The book contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts, including BDSM in its various forms. Rebecca is a submissive character, at least to start with, but she has a background as a Dominatrix. She is a pre-operative transsexual, as are many of her friends and acquaintances, and there are characters in the story who are not. Their sexual exploits will leave you wanting more.

Lisa and Rebecca have been super close friends forever. Both are single freelancers in their early 30s and frequenlty meetup for lunch dates. One cold, winter afternoon, close to Christmas, they arrange to go out for evening cocktails. If they knew that afternoon what the night would bring, would they have gone? One might have..., the other....I'm not so sure! Both were flustered with deep-seated questions. Neither were sure talking about it would bring the relationship back to what it once was or at least what they thought it was. Did they secretly crave more? Were they just going to blame it on the alcohol and move on? The question they both keep asking themselves, is not the question they should have asked! Do they want their mid-day lunches back or do they want their steamy evenings? Neither know what they want, but they both know, they can't ignore their awakening!

Roses, pleasure and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. 'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' Margaret Atwood 'Expansive and thought-provoking' Independent Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening - George Orwell Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell is said to have planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. Following his journey from the coal mines of England to taking up arms in the Spanish Civil War; from his prescient critique of Stalin to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism, Solnit finds a more hopeful Orwell, whose love of nature pulses through his work and actions. And in her dialogue with the author, she makes fascinating forays into colonial legacies in the flower garden, discovers photographer Tina Modotti's roses, reveals Stalin's obsession with growing lemons in impossibly cold conditions, and exposes the brutal rose industry in Colombia. A fresh reading of a towering figure of the 20th century which finds solace and solutions for the political and environmental challenges we face today, Orwell's Roses is a remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance. 'Luminous...It is efflorescent, a study that seeds and blooms, propagates thoughts, and tends to historical associations' New Statesman 'A genuinely extraordinary mind, whose curiosity, intelligence and willingness to learn seem unbounded' Irish Times

Poetry. Brittany Cavallaro and Rebecca Hazelton began with the proposition that the opposite of a dream song might be waking speech. Or a sleepless anthem. Or wakeful silence. Then they reversed that notion, and reversed it again. Through an intrepid, always devoted, often cheeky engagement with John Berryman's The Dream Songs, the 26 poems in NO GIRLS NO TELEPHONES strike out for an unmapped horizon where ruined fairy stories, dreams, and self-deception all collide in a perfect storm of "the possibility of Past and Perfect" and "the certainty of the Now and New." These poems are no mere act of homage. Suggestive of the brittle aspirations, illusions, and delusions that permeate our everyday lives, NO GIRLS NO TELEPHONES invites us into a world where, "naïve on the rim / of a glass teacup," men and women exist at odds with one other and with a frighteningly indifferent, fiercely beautiful world.

A blood-witch's mission to assassinate the prince she is betrothed to is compromised by the discovery of a deadly plague--and the beautiful princess intent on stopping it.

This lesbian erotic short story will have your senses ignited from the first page. Follow along as Lisa and Rebecca navigate their feelings for each other in the second installment of their story. Do you have a desire to have your senses electrified? Do you yearn for a love story that shows the passion and erotic nature that these two women share for each other? By reading this book, you will be able to find new sexual activities and practices that you didn't know existed, things that you didn't know two women could do, and things that you will want to try as soon as you put the book down. You may even discover your new favorite position or sexual practice! This book is full of erotic scenes between Rebecca and Lisa, and between Lisa and her new man, that will make you tingle from your head to your toes. You do not need to look any further than the pages of this book if wish to find a story that will stimulate your deepest urges and desires. It may even teach you a new move that you can try in your own sex life. Discover today what you didn't know you liked and didn't know you wanted. You and your partner will be thankful you did! Enjoy your sexual awakening. This book is filled with twists and turns that will keep you engaged and on the edge of your seat until the final sentence! As Rebecca and Lisa explore the world of BDSM together, you can explore it with them. This book will open your mind and awaken your fantasies, as you witness Rebecca and Lisa doing the same. This book will help you to improve your ability to get in touch with your deep-seated sexual fantasies and desires. This book will show you the way to becoming the best you in terms of your sex life and your sexual awakening. This book will ignite your fantasies and get you thinking about how you can achieve the best orgasms of your life, regardless of your sexuality. Read this book to begin thinking about sex in a new way and see how you can change your sex life for the better! Will Lisa fall into her desires for Rebecca, or will she turn to the man she met on a dating app instead?

A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land—this is a “winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of unknowns accrue into a life” (Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror). When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she’d given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself? In a deft mix of memoir and reportage, drawing on literature and art, recent and ancient history, and the experience of encounters with individuals, environments, and landscapes in New York City and in England, Mead artfully explores themes of identity, nationality, and inheritance. She recounts her time in the coastal town of Weymouth, where she grew up; her dizzying first years in New York where she broke into journalism; the rich process of establishing a new home for her dual-national son in London. Along the way, she gradually reckons with the complex legacy of her parents. Home/Land is a stirring inquiry into how to be present where we are, while never forgetting where we have been.

When the mermaid performers at Oceanica Marine Park turn violent and attack their handlers, it's Finn Jarvis' job to euthanize them. The work is dangerous, and he botches his latest assignment, causing the death of two additional—and expensive—Mer. His dream of becoming a superstar trainer seems lost until a newly-caught mermaid offers him the opportunity to prove himself. Erie isn't just any mermaid, she's an ocean-princess that's been ripped from her home. She doesn't know what the landfolk want from her, but she's determined to learn air-words and find out. Alone and voiceless, she watches as the other merfolk are broken into submission, but Erie refuses to be subjugated. To avoid the fate of Oceanica's other Mer and eventually make it home, she needs to make the crowds love her as something more than entertainment. While Finn trains Erie in her routine, she teaches herself English. Finn has always seen the Mer as ruthless aquatic predators, but Erie seems more human than fish. Soon he finds himself breaking the number one rule at Oceanica: "Never humanize the Mer." Finn's awe-inspiring routine breaks too many rules, and he's soon fired, with a new trainer taking over Erie's show. One that will do whatever it takes to break and silence her. Finn needs to free Erie before she's broken or killed by her new trainer… or snaps and kills the new trainer herself. To do that, he'll have to launch a campaign to take down one of the most popular attractions in the world, turn his back on his closest friends and family, and protect Erie from ever being captured again.

Love. Lies. Mortal Danger. A lot can happen with an affair at Innamincka. Rebecca Boucher loves to get the job done. As a respected junior partner in a London law firm, the brief couldn't be simpler. Fly out to meet the owner of a vast cattle property in Australia, check over some paperwork, fly home. She certainly doesn't have time for love, not even in the gorgeous shape of the property owner Cooper Anders, all six foot something of smiling casualness. Then again, maybe Cooper can change her mind, given time... But when Rebecca is practically kidnapped by the client over stepping the line, everything changes. Cooper falls under the suspicion of the security services who suspect him of complicity. Unknown to anybody, Cooper has been watching suspicious activity on his vast property. Could this new development be connected to Rebecca's mysterious confrontation with Eastern European thugs?

In this futuristic novel, John Seeger accidentally travels from 1986 to 2076 and lands in a revolutionary society where he soon manages to blend in with the utopian lifestyle. Seeger eventually discovers that past influences have left all the intelligent life forms of the local universe converted into euphoric machines. Jeso, a euphoric robot housing a human mind, has a grand plan to spread his Hedonistic Expansion crusade over the vast Local Group of galaxies via his vintage spacecraft, La Cielo, built three millenniums ago. Seeger realizes that robots have the capability to devour and reconstruct cities and microbots can take over anyone's emotions in this strange new world where money and property are of no value. After he falls in love with a beautiful woman, Mahea, Seeger inadvertently changes the course of his future in a perfect world as he uncovers a deep secret. Meanwhile, Seeger's beloved sister, Kayla, is still living in 1986, trapped in a bad marriage and in failing health, and Seeger must choose between returning to his former world or moving on with his new life. Jeso and Seeger's paths eventually converge and take them on a collision course that, in the end, will decide the future of their universe.