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Finally women can talk about what they used to only dream about.... Forbidden Flowers is Nancy Friday's second collection of sexual fantasies -- and it's even more explicit and outspoken than her original erotic masterpiece, My Secret Garden. The constant refrain from the legions of women across America who read My Secret Garden was, "Thank God I'm not the only one..." who had those wild, exciting... (more)

Women on Top

by Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday's phenomenal bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers broke new ground, revealing for the first time the complexity of women's secret sexual fantasies. In Women on Top, she returns to the subject that made her famous, examining the erotic fantasy lives of more than one hundred and fifty modern women. Drawn from Friday's personal interviews and letters, Women on Top contains... (more)

The Star of Kazan

by Eva Ibbotson

Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants’ quarters, surrounded with friends, including the elderly woman next door who regales Annika with stories of her performing days and her countless admirers—especially the Russian count who... (more)

My Secret Garden

by Nancy Friday

When it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More outspoken, graphic, and taboo-shattering than any book before its time, My Secret Garden quickly became the classic study of female sexuality. Today, millions of women have made Nancy Friday's groundbreaking... (more)

Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples

Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples

by Violet Blue

Looking for a little inspiration? You’ll find it here, in expertly crafted, explicit stories of couples who try out their number one sexual fantasies — with explosive results. Sex educator Violet Blue brings together a collection of erotic fantasies sure to keep you up past bedtime. Sweet Life is your ticket to a front row seat for first-time spankings, breathtaking role-playing scenes, sex parties, women who... (more)

Inkworld Trilogy: Book 1

Inkheart

by Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke, the enormously talented author of the international best-seller THE THIEF LORD, brings readers another spellbinding tale of adventure and magic. Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret-- he posseses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this sinister character and... (more)

Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples

by Violet Blue

Do try this at home! Taboo will feed you erotic stories of forbidden desire like fingerfuls of warm chocolate dripping onto your tongue. Here are twenty-two superbly written erotic stories featuring couples who want it so bad they can taste it—and they do, making their most taboo erotic fantasies come true. What is your deepest, darkest, sweetest, most stunningly wicked fantasy? The couples whose... (more)

Black Masses- Lord LyllianJacques d'Adelsward Fersen

Black Masses- Lord Lyllian

by Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen

The first English translation of the eccentric Baron Fersenâ€™s decadent gay novel. Originally published in 1905, it was one of the first novels written about Oscar Wilde after his demise and is filled with outrageous descriptions of fin de siÃ¨cle excesses, including Fersenâ€™s own addiction to opium and adolescent boys. The edition is limited to 500 copies, bound in black silk with a tipped in color image on... (more)

Sweet Life 2: Erotic Fantasies for Couples

Sweet Life 2: Erotic Fantasies for Couples

by Violet Blue

Couples everywhere look for inspiration to keep their sex lives hot. The sales of books about sexual fantasy aimed at heterosexual couples prove how determined readers are to ignite that erotic spark. But most of those books are boringly tame, selling short the sexual refinement of their readers. Good Vibrations sex educator Violet Blue improves on this trend, showcasing imaginative, sophisticated stories to... (more)

Lust: Erotic Fantasies by Women

Who can live without lust? All day and night, our minds run through delicious possibilities — a silky hand beckoning us into the VIP lounge; a stranger in the backseat; the hunky FedEx driver bringing his package to the door — not to mention our own lascivious memories. Lust is a collection of erotica by and for women, a fierce and joyous celebration of female desire — and the triple-X trouble it gets us into.... (more)

MY MOTHER MY SELF

by Nancy Friday

This pioneering book by the author of Women on Top plays a major role in our understanding of the powerful influence the mother/daughter bond has on a woman's identity, her relationships with men, and her self-esteem. Through candid self-disclosure and hundreds of interviews, Nancy Friday investigates this feminine legacy and reveals the conflicting feelings of anger, hate, and love that daughters hold for their... (more)

Lips Like Sugar: Women's Erotic Fantasies

Lips Like Sugar: Women's Erotic Fantasies

by Violet Blue

Lips Like Sugar dishes up a feast of unabashedly sexual scenarios. This exciting new collection from Violet Blue (editor of Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples) celebrates women’s erotic imagination with expertly crafted stories of hot, hot sex. You’ll find women on top, bottom, and everyplace in between. Sure to keep you up past bedtime, the stories in Lips Like Sugar will arouse your appetite for... (more)

Pleasure

by Eric Jerome Dickey

The bold new blockbuster from the New York Times bestselling author. Born in Trinidad and living in Atlanta after a relationship gone bad, Nia Simone Bijou is an ambitious writer who has it all. Except for the one thing that’ll give her the control she craves—and the power she deserves: absolute, uninhibited sexual satisfaction. Now, in the sweltering days and nights of summer, the heat is on. Nia’s fantasies... (more)

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a WomanIan Kerner

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

by Ian Kerner

My Secret Garden

by Nancy Friday

by Alison Tyler

Why should you play hard to get when you can play with fire? The forbidden has never been so appealing as it is in Alison Tyler's latest collection. In these incendiary stories that explore the taboo side of erotica, couples go about setting their boundaries aflame. Committed to each other without question, they play out their naughtiest fantasies, pushing the limits of sex, lust, and the imagination as far as... (more)

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Tags: fantasies

Forbidden Flowers

by Nancy Friday

Women on Top

by Nancy Friday

The Star of Kazan

by Eva Ibbotson

My Secret Garden

by Nancy Friday

Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples

by Violet Blue

Inkheart

by Cornelia Funke

Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples

by Violet Blue

Black Masses- Lord Lyllian

by Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen

Sweet Life 2: Erotic Fantasies for Couples

by Violet Blue

Lust: Erotic Fantasies by Women

MY MOTHER MY SELF

by Nancy Friday

Lips Like Sugar: Women's Erotic Fantasies

by Violet Blue

Pleasure

by Eric Jerome Dickey

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

by Ian Kerner

My Secret Garden

by Nancy Friday

by Alison Tyler