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FBI special agent Devyn Nash is obsessed with taking down Coterie, a deadly group out to control the multibillion dollar a year diet product industry. The FBI's plan to expose Coterie places Devyn's best friend and her partner's fiancé in the crosshairs of this ruthless organization. Can Devyn protect her friend and bring the coldblooded killers to justice before they strike again, while distracted by injury, a sexist bully, and a long-distance relationship with a handsome Wyoming sheriff?

A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a 25-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and other countries scarred by violence, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world and laboring to tell its stories.

Katherine built a size machine. After letting her friends abuse it, she is captured by the US military, but it isn't because she's in trouble. A scientist in the secret lab wants to use size manipulation to further her orgasm drug. Now, Katherine is given full reign of the lab, so she calls over a few friends. Tom, Brice, Angel, Haley, and Kristen all join her and Melanie for the biggest smallest orgy ever!

This is the story of publishing as you've never heard it before, told by one of the most provocative and informed voices building its future. It's the tale of prophets and storytellers, of entrepreneurs and shop-owners, of those who fashioned the world of book publishing as we know it.

A great collection of short stories based on the theme of love. Stories by famous writers including Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde.

Che cosa ci possono dire sulle tecniche della scrittura, John Banville, Emmanuel Carrère, Javier Cercas, Jhumpa Lahiri, Petros Markaris, Yasmina Reza, Colm Tóibín, Edward St Aubyn, Elizabeth Strout e Luis Sepúlveda? Caterina Bonvicini e Alberto Garlini, da scrittori, ma soprattutto da attenti lettori, hanno chiesto a ciascuno il segreto della sua maestria: dall'incipit ai dialoghi, dalle descrizioni ai personaggi, dal giallo alla biografia, dieci scrittori stranieri rispondono alle domande di due scrittori italiani. Ne nasce un piccolo compendio, agile e sapiente, sull’arte di raccontare.

Estamos a principios de la primavera de 2016 en el castillo de Windsor, donde Isabel II ultima los preparativos de las celebraciones de su nonagésimo aniversario mientras saborea una matutina taza de té.

When my editor told me I had to write a story about anal sex, I didn't know what to do! I'd never done it, so how the hell was I supposed to be realistic. Fortunately, I had a friend who was willing to help me research. In this case, research meant I'd be bent over and have my first anal sex experience ever!

Charlize used to be a man, but then, she met her future wife Gwen, a sexy futa. Gwen transformed Charlize into a woman, and the pair have enjoyed all their fun. Now scientists, the pair are researching Gwen's fertility with sexy experiments. But they need money. The futa billionaire Madam Deumont is willing to fund them, but the pair need to seduce the vivacious futa. With all her sexy wiles, Charlize and Gwen put on a show, but Madam Deumont is a dominatrix, and Charlize is about to learn the joys of being dominated.

Stephanie had grown bored with writing typical love stories. After careful consideration, she decided to try her hand at writing an erotic lesbian romance. She didn't have any experience to build on for the story so she posted an ad on a dating site to hook up with another woman. After her experience, she detailed it in a story. Steve, her boyfriend, loved the idea of her and this other woman and encouraged her to do a little more research for more stories.

Alexander's Bridge was Willa Cather's first novel and one of her best. Bartley Alexander was the world's leading bridge builder, something that was considered an awesome skill in the early 20th century. Alexander has the strength and regret that weave throughout Cather's male characters much as they do through those of her contemporary authors, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dreiser, Anderson, Lewis, and others.

Este es el relato de una reportera de guerra, Adriana Aristizábal, quien estuvo atrapada en la tormenta del conflicto y quien presenció a finales de los años noventa, el fuego cruzado entre guerrilleros de las Farc, paramilitares y las fuerzas armadas, época en la que se registró el punto más álgido del conflicto en Colombia.

From the Corner of Bad and Ass is a collection of Carrie Schiffler’s memories about growing up in welfare housing to absentee and alcoholic parents. Throughout these heart-wrenching and often-hilarious stories, we cheer her on as she fights to survive domestic violence, sexual abuse, and cycles of poverty and addiction ... all before her 18th birthday. Prepare to laugh at her attempts to earn the attention she craves and prepare to cry over the inappropriate attention she receives.

Mario Vargas Llosa dirige a todos aquellos que tienen la ilusión de llegar a ser escritores unas magníficas reflexiones en forma epistolar acerca del arte de narrar. Cómo comenzar a cristalizar esa vocación en obras literarias, por dónde empezar esa aventura, de dónde salen las historias que cuentan las novelas... son algunas de las preguntas a las que el Premio Nobel de Literatura da respuesta en este libro, que se convierte así en una lección magistral del oficio de escribidor.

Este audiolibro continúa las aventuras del El Agujero Negro y El Zurcidor del Tiempo. En ella, los oyentes gozarán una historia en la que la amistad, la solidaridad y el valor son muy importantes. En esta ocasión Camila ayudará a Oriana, su abstraída compañera, a comprender la importancia de recordar lo alegre y lo doloroso de la vida para seguir existiendo. En una noche de confusión y valor, Camila se enfrenta a los trasgos para evitar que su amiga se "borre".

“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich”, writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society....

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A soldier struggles with the emptiness left behind by amnesia until he learns he is more than the world would have him remember. The Earth is desolate, and only one ship of humans remains. An assassin plays god, dealing out justice and mercy as he sees fit. Explore the outer reaches of the imagination through these and other short stories. From brainwashed clones to winged aliens of destruction, the stories in Stellar Cloud will pull in any lover of science fiction and fantasy.

This book explores the stages and outlets of grief and how to implement them into your fiction to create deep, interesting characters and a more engaging plot. Some topics of this book include: grieving before the loss, spiritual matters, and how grief affects different ages, personality types, and genders. Find out how to implement heavy emotional scenes authentically, without crossing over into melodrama. Learn which authors have done this well, and how they did it.

How can you find out things you don't know? What is a just-right question? What are sources? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this book about how to find, gather, and present information.