Author: Tia Fanning Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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Often impulsive and rash to a fault, Martha left the love of her life, Nicholas, after she found herself falling for his best friend and business partner, Peter. Deeply in love with both men, Martie's heart could not choose between the sweet HoH of her dreams and the sexy Dom of her fantasies. Rather than confess the truth of her feelings to Nick, she fled his home like a thief in the night and disappeared.For Nicholas, having his sassy ex-lover come back into his life after two years without a word his way could be considered a Christmas miracle. However, now that Nick knows why she left, he intends to fill the next twelve days with various Secret Santa gifts meant to draw Martie closer to both him and Peter. After all, what is Christmas without a little compersion? And what is Domestic Discipline without a little spanking?While Nicholas is an indulgent and soft-spoken Head of Household who uses discipline as a behavior modifier, Peter is a Dominant who uses discipline for pleasure. However, Pete has been presented an opportunity to enter a poly-fi "vee" triad-a relationship dynamic that would allow Martha to become his submissive with Nick's full blessing and support. But could such an arrangement work? Or will a Twelfth Night misunderstanding ruin this Christmas love story?
Author: Paula Mann Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Secret Santa gifts that have arrived each day this week have all been implements that could be used to spank Wendy Campbell. A leather belt on Monday, a leather slipper on Tuesday, a hairbrush on Wednesday and a riding crop on Thursday. On Friday the Secret Santa gift left under her desk was a simple note that said that the gift had to be delivered by hand. Friday was Christmas Eve, however, and she knew it would be something that explained the gifts and why she had been singled out to receive them. During the week she had met a fat man on the bus who visited her to spank her for her naughtiness and she wondered if the Secret Santa gifts could be anything to do with him. It turns out that they were, but not in the way she was expecting.
Author: Paula Mann Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Wendy Campbell is surprised by the Secret Santa gifts she gets each day as Christmas gets closer. On Monday and Tuesday, the gifts were a leather belt and a leather slipper and she dreams about how they could be used to spank her bottom by some of the people she knows. On Wednesday the gift was an expensive hairbrush and she dreamt how her stepfather could use that in her bottom as punishment for a mistake she made ten years ago, that is still spoiling her family life. On Thursday the gift was a riding crop. During the week she is spanked by a fat stranger and in her dreams by an old man on a train. Wendy is battling to separate dreams from reality as this story progresses.
Author: Paula Mann Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Wendy Campbell is a shy girl. At twenty-six she has never had a boyfriend and is not likely to get one if she declines every request. Five days before Christmas Wendy Campbell starts to get Secret Santa gifts left under her desk at work. On Monday the gift is an old leather belt and on Tuesday it is a leather slipper. Wendy discards the gifts as nonsense but the gifts appear in her dreams each night, being used by strong men and women as punishment implements. Wendy enjoys the gifts in her dreams and orgasms wildly before she wakes up in the mornings. She has no idea who is leaving the gifts for her or why they are creating such lurid dreams.
Author: Courtney Petruzzelli Publisher: ISBN: 9781955151979 Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
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Santa Claus has a secret team of especially kind and caring children who he tasks with spreading gifts and Christmas cheer on the twelve days of Christmas. And now, he's asking YOU to join! This book will initiate you into the Secret Santa Team and give you ideas of how to share love and joy during the Christmas season.
Author: Gary Soto Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 0307817431 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 178
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In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.
Author: Julia Alvarez Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616200995 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com
Author: Laura Hillenbrand Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0812974492 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 530
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Richard Condon Publisher: RosettaBooks ISBN: 0795335067 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 312
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The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time
Author: Tia Fanning
Author: Paula Mann
Author: Paula Mann
Author: Paula Mann
Author: Courtney Petruzzelli
Author: Courtney Petruzzelli
Author: Gary Soto
Author: Julia Alvarez
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Author: Richard Condon