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  Coldheart Canyon

  A Hollywood Ghost Story

  by Clive Barker

  Following extensive cosmetic surgery, Hollywood superstar Todd Pickett needs somewhere to hide away while his scars heal. His manager finds the ideal location, Coldheart Canyon - a dream-palace hidden away in a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on a map. In the 20s, -A- list stars came to the Canyon to have the kind of parties nobody was supposed to know about. It was'-t just the wild sex and the... (more)
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  The Breast

  by Philip Roth

  Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that brings us... (more)
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  The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Book 1

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume I

  1931-1934

  by Anaïs Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

  This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.
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  In Praise of the Stepmother: Book 2

  The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

  by Mario Vargas Llosa

  A companion to the scandalous bestseller In Praise of the Stepmother, Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel is "an amazingly seductive work" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). The boundary between physical reality and the imagination has been at the heart of literature in Spanish ever since Don Quixote. In The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto , his most generous and ambitious novel in years, Mario Vargas Llosa draws on that... (more)
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  Earthbound

  by Richard Matheson

  David and Ellen Cooper came to the lonely beachside cottage in hopes of rekindling their troubled marriage. Yet they are not alone on their second honeymoon. Marianna, a beautiful and enigmatic stranger, comes to visit David whenever Ellen is away. Who is Marianna, and where has she come from? Even as he succumbs to her seductive charms, David realizes that Marianna is far more than a threat to his marriage, for... (more)
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  The Danish Girl

  by David Ebershoff

  Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of... (more)
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  The Double Life Is Twice as Good

  Essays and Fiction

  by Jonathan Ames

  JONATHAN AMES' LATEST BOOK, his eighth, is a hilarious, erotically charged and insightful collection of articles, essays, cartoons and short stories. With an HBO series based on this collection's centerpiece, "Bored to Death;" a beloved novel, The Extra Man, soon to be released as a movie; a critically acclaimed graphic novel, The Alcoholic; and an ongoing series of strange literary and not-so-literary performance... (more)
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  Erotism

  Death & Sensuality

  by Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood

  essays, tr Mary Dalwood
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  The Wild Boys

  A Book of the Dead

  by William S. Burroughs

  The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
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  Metamorphoses

  by Ovid

  Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and... (more)
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  As 100 Melhores Histórias Eróticas da Literatura Universal

  by Flávio Moreira da Costa

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  House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

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  The Art Of George Quaintance

  by Reed Massengill

  The flamboyant life and forbidden art of George Quaintance George Quaintance was an artist ahead of his time, a man who forged several successful careers, yet never enjoyed mainstream fame. Had he been born a few decades later, we might know him today as a multi-tasking celebrity stylist, as a coach on Dancing with the Stars , or perhaps as the fine artist he aspired to be. But Quaintance, who died in... (more)
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  THE MAGIC THEATER II---experiences to increase creativity, sexuality and fulfillment.

  by Ernest Kinnie

  Welcome to THE MAGIC THEATER II. Many years have gone by since the publication of the original MAGIC THEATER. A lot of blood, sweat, and delicious spring water have gone under the bridge since then. This revised version is the result. 1. Eric Berne---fun and games 2. Fritz Perls---crazy old man of Esalen 3. Skinner and Pavlov 4. Freud---the unconscious and the fertile void 5. Moving among the realties 6. ... (more)
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  Footjob

  by Christa Faust

  FOOTJOB “Have you ever done one?” Lula asked me this while standing on a man’s chest. I was standing on his face. “No,” I told her “Have you?” We were talking about footjobs. Know what a handjob is? Same deal but with your feet. “Sure I have,” she said with a lazy smile. A kinky foot-fetish session goes too far in FOOTJOB, a 3500 word hardboiled short story. Originally published in UNCAGE ME, edited by Jennifer... (more)
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  El Erotismo

  by BATAILLE GEORGES

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  Dreams

  by Luis Royo

  An artist of the spectacular. Each collection sparkles with pieces seen on book covers from around the world. Fantasy, science fiction, eroticism, etc... Royo has devised a special personal mix of media that makes his work so uncannily real, so beguilingly engaging as to make him a best-selling star.
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  Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future

  by Perry Brass

  From 6-time Lambda Literary Award finalist Perry Brass comes an explosive book set in the near-enough future. In the year 2075, what is the real price of staying young, handsome, and alive forever? In this exciting thriller set in the near-enough future, super design-star Jeffrey Cooper will find out with a seductive young man who delivers mind-bending sex and Jeffrey's own lost soul. ?Unlike most other science... (more)
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  The Mirror in the Well

  by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  A woman's sexual awakening is a tragedy when the woman is married to someone other than the man who awakens her. But until then, her marriage, now doomed, was a sleepwalker's tragedy. This novel will shock and offend some readers. Unapologetically explicit in its language, extreme in some of the acts it catalogues, it makes no pretense of submission to middle-class decency, let alone to expectations of happy... (more)
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  The Ice Queen

  by Alice Hoffman

  Alice Hoffman's most spellbinding novel yet.The story of a small-town librarian who, after being struck by lightning, is afforded the opportunity to begin her life anew. A magical story of passion, loss, and renewal. "THE ICE QUEEN" is Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best.