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  Bad Behavior (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Mary Gaitskill

  Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)
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  The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

  by Marquis de Sade

  This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.
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  The Roquelaure Reader: A Companion to Anne Rice's Erotica

  by Katherine Ramsland

  A comprehensive reference on Anne Rice's erotic writings-- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, and Beauty's Release --includes a biographical discussion of Rice's writing process, a concordance to the three novels, and other fascinating trivia.
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  Under My Master's Wings (Nexus)

  by Lauren Wissot

  The true story of a French-Canadian master and his American slave girl and how they navigate the fine line separating reality and fantasy, love and lies in Manhattan. Lauren Wissot is an extraordinary and beautiful young woman. Her book begins at a Times Square strip club where she meets David – a beautiful male dancer – and ends after exploring and documenting their numerous orgies and S&M rituals in midtown... (more)
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  Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

  Book Club Edition
• Venus in Furs With Selected Letters of Sacher MasochLeopold Von Sacher-Masoch

  

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  Venus in Furs With Selected Letters of Sacher Masoch

  by Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Uwe Moeller

  The quintessential Sacher-Masoch novel, in which he most succinctly sets out his obsessions. -- John Strausbaugh, New York Press
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  Philosophie dans le boudoir. (English)

  by Joachim Neugroschel

  This most joyous of de Sade’s works follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate Eugénie de Mistival in "the principles of the most outrageous libertinism."
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  Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (People Series)

  Bob Flanagan (1952-1997) grew up with Cystic Fibrosis (a genetically inherited, nearly-always fatal disease) and lived longer than any other person with CF. The physical pain of his childhood was alleviated by masturbation and sexual experimentation, resulting in his life-long practice of extreme masochism. In Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist, the only book in existence on this amazing individual, Flanagan reveals, in... (more)
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  Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices

  by Brenda Love

  This unusual volume contains more than 700 entries and 150 original and sometimes shocking illustrations. Brenda Love covers strange methods of arousal as will as hundreds of bizarre sex activities such as erotic balls, and love potions.
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  Philosophy in the Boudoir (Velvet Ser. ; Vol. 1))

  by Marquis de Sade

  This new Creation Books edition couples this erotic masterpiece with The Lusts of the Libertines, a document taken from 120 Days of Sodom, in which de Sade's depraved imagination is given free reign to catalogue 447 of the wildest depravities and atrocities he can conceive, from incest and coprophilia through to mutilation, torture and bloody murder. Originally intended to be fleshed out later, their reduction to... (more)
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  Kushiel: Book 1

  Kushiel's Dart

  A Novel of Passion, Magic and Betrayal

  by Jacqueline Carey

  The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good...and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a... (more)
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  The Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty: Book 1

  The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

  by Anne Rice, A. N. Roquelaure

  Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure. In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.