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A Page in Your Diary by Keith A. Pearson
12 ratingsTen insane days. One miraculous opportunity to re-write the past."If you lived through the 1980s and love time travel novels, you'll struggle to find a more addictive read than Pearson's latest gem." - Joanna JamesIn May 1987 Jackie Benton received a heartbreaking phone call from her boyfriend, Sean Hardy, bringing an end to their five-year relationship...Categorized as:
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![Beyond Forever by Kit Rocha]()
Beyond Forever by Kit Rocha
8 ratingsBefore they were the King and Queen… Six years before the Beyond series started, an ambitious bootlegger named Dallas O’Kane caught a very pretty thief named Lex with her hand in his safe. The rest is very sexy history... -
![Adonis by L. Sherleen]()
Adonis by L. Sherleen
8 ratingsAccused of a hate crime and expelled from school in his final year, Connor returns home to his seaside town to let everything blow over. There, not only does he have to learn to deal with the addition of two new stepbrothers and a new stepdad, but he also has to grapple with a world set against him. It’s not all bad though. Within his dad’s underwater lab, he discovers something in the deep... -
![Logic Beach: Part I by Exurb1a]()
Logic Beach: Part I by Exurb1a
10 ratingsMathematician Polly Hare is missing. She leaves behind: one cat, one scarf, and a hypergeometric theory of everything with the potential to end physics. Her husband Benjamin is determined to bring her home. Papers will be read. Cults will be infiltrated. Cats will be petted. Benjamin Hare cannot tie his shoes, but he may well steer the course of human history... -
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![The Ugly Swans by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky]()
The Ugly Swans by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
14 ratingsSoviet science fiction novel by the Strugatsky brothers... -
![I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman]()
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
18 ratings"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker."A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes.The youngest of forty - a child with no name and no past - she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted...Categorized as:
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![Coming Full Circle by Kian Rhodes]()
Coming Full Circle by Kian Rhodes
6 ratingsFaded from months of exposure to the seasons, lengths of tattered yellow crime scene tape still fluttered in the breeze where it was caught in the branches of the shrubs dotting the old Omega auction house grounds... -
![Dirty Daddies 2023 Spring Anthology by Golden Angel, Emily Tilton]()
Dirty Daddies 2023 Spring Anthology by Golden Angel, Emily Tilton
6 ratingsThis is no April Fool’s Day joke!Some of your favorite Dirty Daddy authors are teaming up to bring you a spring fling of steamy hot and light-hearted Dirty Daddies stories.Scrub Daddy by Kara Kelley- If Mr. Clean was helping naughty little girls shine up their act.Phone Daddy by Lizzy Day - Dial 1-800-Daddy to make a connection... -
![Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak]()
Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak
8 ratingsBlake Fortier and Rachel Kaplan are the perfect couple. Driven and successful in their own pursuits, they're fifteen years into a marriage that will seemingly last forever. When a tragic accident tears them apart, Blake is left with nothing but the harsh light of hindsight and the bitterness of regret... -
![The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado]()
The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado
10 ratings"‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices:Me: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same.The boy who will grow into a man, and be my spouse: robust with his own good fortune.My father: Like your father, or the man you wish was your father... -
![The Good Part by Sophie Cousens]()
The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
10 ratingsBy the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she's always wanted, but is it really a dream come true?At twenty-six, Lucy Young is tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, tired of going on disastrous dates, and definitely tired of living in a damp flat share with flatmates who never buy toilet roll...Categorized as:
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![Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker]()
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
12 ratingsThe baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present...Categorized as:
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![Bedside Manners For Aliens by Dane Griggs]()
Bedside Manners For Aliens by Dane Griggs
6 ratingsan alternate cover edition can be found hereMe: I just can’t stop thinking about you. I know we can’t go further, but I have an idea. Maybe we could sext?L’Vect: What is that?Me: Sexting is when you tell the other person how you want them to touch themselves, and that person describes what it feels like. It’s a sex game.L’Vect: Yes. I want to sext. What do we do next?Me: I will go first... -
![Trapped in Your Storm by Darien Cox]()
Trapped in Your Storm by Darien Cox
6 ratingsAutumn has local DJ and disinformation agent Elliot Nicholson feeling renewed. He’s moved past the depression and anxiety that plagued him over the summer, and lately his job has been blessedly free of crisis. But for Elliot and his colleagues, nothing remains peaceful for long in Singing Bear Village. Baz, their outlandish ambassador, may be missing... -
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![Loved by A.M. Arthur]()
Loved by A.M. Arthur
6 ratingsKell Iverson Cross never imagined he’d find so much joy in his life, and he doesn’t take a single moment for granted. His tireless work championing omega rights have made him a bit of a celebrity across the territory, so when his brother Braun suggests Kell be the first omega to run for public office, Kell doesn’t say no right away... -
![The Red Panda and His Mates by Lorelei M. Hart, Wendy Rathbone]()
The Red Panda and His Mates by Lorelei M. Hart, Wendy Rathbone
6 ratingsFate sometimes shows up in the form of a cookie. Human alpha Kash inherited his grandfather’s bakery knowing exactly one thing about the bakery business: Cake is delicious. Now after three years of work, work, work, Kash finally has the place breaking even and maybe, just maybe he can start going out and meeting people.Alpha vampire-bear hybrid Ben is ready for a change... -
![Death’s Door by April White]()
Death’s Door by April White
8 ratingsA master of the macabre and an ageless crusader cross paths in the shadows of time. “Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows.” ~ Edgar Allan PoeThe first time Alexandra “Ren” Reynolds meets Edgar Allan Poe is the night he walks into her underground bar — over 170 years after his mysterious death...Categorized as:
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![The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing]()
The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing
10 ratingsDorris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in the 1950's and 60s, Doris Lessing transformed her fascinating life into fiction, creating her most complex and compelling character, Martha Quest...Categorized as:
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![The Untethered by S.W. Southwick]()
The Untethered by S.W. Southwick
10 ratingsWhat Roble wants to create is illegal...if not impossible.And everyone seems determined to stop him from trying. But when a few unrepentant ladies join his fight to live free, the Las Vegas desert is going to light up like the 4th of July. ----------------------- "If you want a cross-breed between an Ayn Rand novel and a techno-thriller, this is the best you'll read...Categorized as:
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![Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters]()
Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters
10 ratingsIn the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with the way she sees her trans friends treated by society and resentful of the girl who spurned her love... -
![The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders]()
The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders
10 ratingsNovelette, Free online fiction.From newyorker.com“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” deals with a family in a not-too-distant future (or perhaps an alternate present or past?) that is struggling to keep up with the Joneses—which, in this society, means leasing some unusual garden ornaments... -
![The Works of Rudyard Kipling (500+ works) by Rudyard Kipling]()
The Works of Rudyard Kipling (500+ works) by Rudyard Kipling
6 ratingsWith A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature... -
![Of Mice and Mooshaber by Ladislav Fuks, Mark Corner]()
Of Mice and Mooshaber by Ladislav Fuks, Mark Corner
6 ratingsLadislav Fuks (1923-94) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems... -
![Deep in Your Shadows by Darien Cox]()
Deep in Your Shadows by Darien Cox
6 ratingsIt’s been three months since the team were instructed to stay off the mountain, and Christian is going a little stir crazy. Until one rainy afternoon an object crashes into the water in Singing Bear Village, creating temporary chaos and confusion in the peaceful lakeside community... -
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![Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth]()
Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth
6 ratings"The story of this migration is magnificent, informative, breathtaking and exotic". Los Angeles TimesMore than three million readers around the world have been touched by this conservation classic, the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's last perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species...Categorized as:
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![Velvet Glove: Volume III by Sean Michael]()
Velvet Glove: Volume III by Sean Michael
6 ratingsThis edition features two Velvet Gloves tales of dominance and submission, and bondage and discipline: Ghost and Velvet Need... -
![Remember Me, Omega by Lorelei M. Hart, Summer Chase]()
Remember Me, Omega by Lorelei M. Hart, Summer Chase
6 ratingsAn MPreg Romance Sometimes all it takes is a few words to change everything: Remember Me, Omega. Omega Ethan loved being a parent. But now that his son is moving away from home, Ethan has decided to recapture his identity as the strong, intelligent, determined, and fun omega he used to be—and to follow his artistic dreams... -
![Omega Sight by Maggie Hemlock]()
Omega Sight by Maggie Hemlock
6 ratingsOmega Ross Hemlock has waited a long time to meet his true-mate. Blessed with the unique gift of omega sight he knows how, but just not when his sexy true-mate Alpha will walk into his life. When his brother, Darian, the Patriarch of the Hemlock Pack, calls upon his gift to solve a mystery involving the disappearance of omegas from nearby territories he stumbles into the fated love of his life... -
![Adventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher]()
Adventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
12 ratingsAdventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events...Categorized as:
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![Czarne oceany by Jacek Dukaj]()
Czarne oceany by Jacek Dukaj
12 ratingsDukaj od nowa skonfigurował klasyczną twardą fantastykę naukową.Mroczna, sugestywna, boleśnie realistyczna wizja społeczeństwa posthumanistycznego.Czarne oceany – przerażająca otchłań myśli ludzkiej.Nicolas Hunt kieruje tajnym projektem rządowym, badającym komercyjne zastosowania telepatii. Rezultaty tych badań zmienią nieodwracalnie nie tylko jego życie, ale także losy całego świata... -
![The Marriage Act by John Marrs]()
The Marriage Act by John Marrs
14 ratingsWhat if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey?Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills — the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single... -
![Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson]()
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson
16 ratingsKevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents...Categorized as:
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![At Your Service by Alessandra Hazard]()
At Your Service by Alessandra Hazard
12 ratingsHe’s a powerful man who makes decisions that shape the world.Troy is just a pleasure servant. A thing to be used. A toy.They have nothing in common, two men from different worlds. The arrangement between them was never supposed to become anything other than convenience for his client and a job for Troy. Attraction and feelings should have never entered into it... -
![Aurélia and Other Writings by Gérard de Nerval]()
Aurélia and Other Writings by Gérard de Nerval
10 ratingsAurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon...Categorized as:
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![Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen R. Donaldson]()
Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen R. Donaldson
10 ratingsSeducer or savior? He came to a small American town - and suddenly nothing was the same. Meek and mild men discovered the raw power of lust. Sensually starved women learned the ecstasy of fulfillment. Icy hearts were melted by the warmth of aroused flesh, and the spirit blossomed in a lush garden of desire that this stranger planted and nurtured... -
![My One-Night Stand, My Forever by Giovanna Reaves]()
My One-Night Stand, My Forever by Giovanna Reaves
8 ratingsYoung and on the rise in his career, Christen Travers wanted a new lease on life, moving to a new state and accepting the dream position he worked so hard for Christen just needs to blow off some steam. Not wanting a relationship, his goal is to find the perfect one-night stand, one he will hit it and forget it, then go back to the life he strived for... -
![Shadows of Death by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Shadows of Death by H.P. Lovecraft
6 ratingsDescend into the nerve-shattering realm of America’s master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft–to a dank place where gloomy maelstroms await the unwary, where the unnatural is surpassed only by the unspeakable, and where all pleasure is perverse. Take a chance. . . . All you can lose is your sanity...Categorized as:
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![Bug Week by Airini Beautrais]()
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
6 ratingsA science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger’s party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night... -
![Six American Poets by Joel Conarroe, Walt Whitman]()
Six American Poets by Joel Conarroe, Walt Whitman
6 ratingsHere are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume... -
![Omegas by Design by Aria Grace]()
Omegas by Design by Aria Grace
6 ratingsBook 3 in the Omega For Hire series Dallas and Denver work as stylists for Omega For Hire. They're usually called in when someone in power needs to be styled for the media. These sweet twins are best friends who do everything together, and when they meet the alpha they're hired to travel the country with for a three-month tour, they quickly realize they are destined to stay together--forever... -
![Cool. Awkward. Black. by Amerie, Kalynn Bayron]()
Cool. Awkward. Black. by Amerie, Kalynn Bayron
6 ratingsA multi-genre YA anthology of bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors challenging the concept of the geek, featuring contributions from Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame Mbalia, Tochi Onyebuchi, Shari B. Pennant, K... -
![Saving Hearts by Claire Cullen]()
Saving Hearts by Claire Cullen
6 ratingsAiden has spent three years of his life as the live-in Omega of Vincent Hart, a wealthy Alpha with exacting standards and a cruel streak. Aiden wants to leave but it’s not just him he has to think about. Enter Mac, the new security guard. Aiden avoids him at first, but the Alpha is kind in a way Vincent has never been, and there’s no denying the attraction between them... -
![Alpha's Solace by Hawke Oakley]()
Alpha's Solace by Hawke Oakley
6 ratingsOmega Mason doesn’t trust alphas. Any of them. Not after the abuse he’s suffered at Scarlet Ridge pack. When he’s given the chance to escape, he takes it - only to find himself in stuck in an animal trap set by an alpha named Jericho from Indigo Mountain pack. After Jericho frees him and takes him home, Mason is irritated and just wants to run... -
![Stealing A Cowboy's Heart by Beau Brown, Beau Ryan Brown]()
Stealing A Cowboy's Heart by Beau Brown, Beau Ryan Brown
6 ratingsTex Greerson can have just about any omega he wants. He’s pretty much plowed through all the single omegas in Sweet Water. Even though Tex secretly yearns to find an omega of his own, no one has been able to convince him to settle down. Griffin Kantain is seven months pregnant and running from his abusive alpha. When he tries to steal Tex’s truck, the cowboy stops him cold... -
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![Overcoming Stereotypes by Shea Balik]()
Overcoming Stereotypes by Shea Balik
6 ratingsIn a world where everyone was against them, they needed a Miracle. What no one had expected was to find their salvation in an abandoned town that was ready to collapse. Yet, that is exactly what happened when they moved to the town of Miracle, Oregon. Kellach Alder hadn’t been given a chance in life to be the man he knew he could be... -
![Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
18 ratingsLook at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction...Categorized as:
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![The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs]()
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
14 ratingsA good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western Lands... -
![Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban]()
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
14 ratingsThe turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves. Detail by detail their diaries record a world in which thought leads to action and action brings William G. and Neaera H. to their own open sea... -
![Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky]()
Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
12 ratingsWritten in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling “everything you need for suicide”; an absentminded...Categorized as:
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![The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing]()
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing
10 ratingsFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’. The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on their bountiful planet, its weather consistently nurturing, never harsh. They live long, purposeful, untroubled lives...
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