![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for "Best Fantastic Erotica" (a previous Circlet publication): "Tan (Sex in the System) presents the top stories from Circlet's Best Fantastic Erotica contest in an anthology that runs the gamut from sensual SF to surreal fantasy. Circlet Press is still the place to go For The very best in erotic fantasy, As we cherry-picked the stories for this hot collection from among all the nominations we received. ![]() Robb), while the mainstream of science fiction and fantasy have moved in an ever-more erotic direction (Catherine Asaro, Jacqueline Carey). Since then, paranormal romance has taken off to become the bestselling romance subgenre (Sherrilyn Kenyon) and even futuristic settings have taken hold in steamy romance (J. When Cecilia Tan founded Circlet Press in 1992, The house was one of the only places where readers who enjoyed a mixture of erotica with fantasy or science fiction could get their fix. A compilation of the very best speculative erotica our editors could find. ![]()
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![]() Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole). Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences. ![]() ![]() Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Make no mistake: this is a stunningly brisk thriller. There’s just too much going on that wraps together far too neatly. Its core premise holds a tantalizing amount of promise, but as the narrative becomes increasingly convoluted, the reader’s enjoyment begins to diminish. MISSING YOU is a riveting page-turner that ultimately fails to satisfactorily untangle its many plot threads. He took the blame – – but for who, and why? Meanwhile (as if that wasn’t enough) Kat has discovered evidence suggesting the man who confessed to killing her policeman father wasn’t responsible. Because as Kat digs deeper, she discovers a correlation between Jeff and the disappearance of a young boy’s mother and a sociopath by the name of Titus who buries men and women alive on an Amish farm. Good news, right? A chance to rekindle lost love? Not quite. ![]() So, naturally, this being the modern age, she turns to online dating – – and is shocked to discover a profile belonging to her ex-fiancé. It has been eighteen years since NYPD Detective Kat Donovan‘s last meaningful relationship, when her soul mate, Jeff, broke off their engagement and disappeared. ![]() ![]() Worse still, we begin to see Katniss lose some of her only friends outside of the games. So to pull a 180 and claim that in honor of the 75th Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell would bring back past victors to compete for their lives once again was actually pretty genius. And with two young adults out-smarting a government system, it was only inevitable that the government would have to get smarter as well. We all know Katniss and Peeta cheated their way to a joint-win in the first novel. However, I believe this story challenged reader’s minds exactly as the first book did. ![]() It made people wonder if all goes wrong, is this how bad things could become? So when Catching Fire invited us into another Hunger Games match, it is understandable why readers were disappointed. ![]() It strayed away from the fantasy realms that were popular in the 2000s and invited us into post-apocalyptic America. As a first novel, Hunger Games had already pushed the envelope. ![]() ![]() ![]() And she realizes he is beginning to care for her in return. As he pushes her limits, she learns to trust…Īnd then to love. Under his capable hands, her body comes alive, and she begins to heal. His only demand is that she never lie to him. As Master Nolan takes Beth under command, compelling her submission, she’s terrified, but the experienced Dom brings her pleasure, not pain. Asked to take on a problem sub, Nolan sees the issue immediately although truly submissive, the little redhead is too scared to relinquish control and her Doms have let her get away with it. The last thing Beth wants is a ruthless, powerful Dom, but that’s just what she gets. The Master of the Shadowlands gives her an ultimatum: accept the Dom he assigns or lose her membership. But her fears limit her to Doms who won’t overwhelm her the very ones who cannot arouse her. Only at the Shadowlands BDSM club does she feel like a woman. ![]() ![]() But that’s just what she gets, and exactly what she needs…Ī sad*istic husband left Beth scarred, inside and out. The last thing she wants is a ruthless, powerful Dom. Beth must yield to become aroused, but she’s too scared to give up control. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini. ![]() ![]() So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. ![]() Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. About the Book In her long-awaited new book, Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in "Seabiscuit." Telling an unforgettable story of a young lieutenant's journey into extremity, "Unbroken" is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.īook Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. ![]() ![]() ![]() She rejects him, too, but he vows to pursue her until she consents to marry him. His curiosity and, subsequently, his emotions are seriously aroused, and he becomes Bathsheba's second suitor. Indeed, it is caprice that prompts her to send an anonymous valentine to a neighboring landowner, Mr. Her farmhands have reservations about the abilities of this woman, whom they think is a bit vain and capricious. She intends to manage the farm by herself. Bathsheba inherits her uncle's farm, and it is she who employs Gabriel as a shepherd. Chance has it that in the search he spies a serious fire, hastens to aid in extinguishing it, and manages to obtain employment on the estate. Oak's flock of sheep is tragically destroyed, and he is obliged to seek employment. ![]() Perceiving her beauty, he proposes to her and is promptly rejected. The first to appear is Gabriel Oak, a farmer as ordinary, stable, and sturdy as his name suggests. Bathsheba Everdene has the enviable problem of coping with three suitors simultaneously. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I push the thought away, swallow it down until my mouth tastes of copper and salt. I bite back a cry at the pain, grabbing his other hand before he makes the scratches worse. I cling tight to Arien, whispering to him, “I’m here, I’m here,” not letting go even when he growls viciously and starts to claw me. The shadows are like midwinter frost against my skin, a cold that burns. Darkness pours through our clasped fingers, blotting out the moonlight. I take his hand, starting to tremble, hating myself for it but unable to stop. Then his voice changes to a drawn-out snarl. “Leta?” He calls for me again, sounding frightened. Then they build and build, until all the light is gone, and there’s only me and Arien and the gathering dark. ![]() At first they’re smoke, a haze that thickens. I move toward him as the shadows cloud over us, filling the room. He looks at me with eyes gone solid black they change when he dreams, and those blank eyes in his frightened face are so wrong. Shadows spill from his hands like unfurled ribbons, shrouding the floor with an inky mist. He calls my name and reaches out as the darkness rises through him. A hot night, airless, even with our window wide open. ![]() Curled up on my narrow bed in the small, plain room we share. I can feel them coming even before he does. All day it’s followed me, that familiar heaviness in the air. It’s been weeks, longer, since Arien’s last nightmare, but I knew they would come tonight. They find their way into my brother’s dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nathaniel's connection to the Mohican (Mahican) people is a strong one he considers Hawkeye's adoptive father, Chingachgook, his grandfather, and his own wife was a Mahican woman who died in childbirth several years earlier.Įlizabeth learns from her father that her inheritance is a part of his lands, a mountain known as Hidden Wolf, to be granted to her when she marries. ![]() Though Elizabeth has no intention to marry, she is immediately drawn, not to Richard, but to backwoodsman Nathaniel Bonner, son of Dan'l "Hawkeye" Bonner, hero of the James Fenimore Cooper classic. It is his intention to find her a husband, preferably the well-respected physician, Richard Todd. Her widowed father has promised Elizabeth that she can become the schoolteacher for the local children, but on her arrival at Paradise, her father's property, she learns that he has brought her to America under false pretenses. In this ambitious and vibrant sequel to The Last of the Mohicans, Elizabeth Middleton, a well-educated spinster of 29, journeys from her home in England to her father's lands in upstate New York in 1792. ![]() ![]() ![]() In religious and cultural studies, these types of narratives are often referred to as Myths. ![]() Instead, these stories explain a deeper truth that cannot be understood outside of the narrative device. In the novel, Rushdie places the Old Zone in the Twilight Strip, representing his belief that the oldest of narratives are not representations of either good or evil. These stories became sacred because they attempted to put a narrative to the deepest seeded beliefs of humanity. These stories were originally oral traditions that were later written down and edited into texts that some came to view as sacred. The Old Zone is Rushdie’s metaphor for the religious and spiritual traditions that provide the oldest stories in humanity. To do so, he travels to the Old Zone in the Twilight Strip of Kahani, a place in between darkness and light, to battle Khattam-Shud, the Prince of Silence. Haroun must find a way for his father to tell stories once again. In the novel Haroun must travel to Kahani, an invisible moon of the earth that holds the Sea of Stories. The novel is partly autobiographical, partly philosophical, partly theoretical, but mostly a fun adventure story that itself relies on narratives dating back to the earliest oral traditions. ![]() In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie uses an adventure narrative to ask complex and nuanced questions on the role of story and fiction in modern culture. ![]() |