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  Story of O

  by Pauline Reage

  The classic erotic novel, THE STORY OF O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and pychological tests. It is a unique work not to be missed.
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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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  Concertina: An Erotic Memoir of Extravagant Tastes and Extreme Desires

  by Susan Winemaker

  Susan Winemaker has lived a life that many women secretly desire, but few admit to... Concertina is the tale of a young chef who abandons her life in the restaurant kitchens of London to satisfy an appetite of a different kind and become one of the most well-known and respected dominatrixes on the city’s S&M scene.  This is a delicious memoir from Susan Winemaker that spans five years, employs all the... (more)
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  Venus in Furs

  by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret; he can only love a woman with a ruthless heart, who will rain her whip upon him in a shower of bloody kisses. When he meets Wanda, the wealthy and beautiful widow living in the apartment upstairs, he wonders if she might be the one to help him realize his darkest desires. But Wanda is better than she ever dreamed possible at domination—and soon Severin realizes... (more)
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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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  My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up

  by Stephen Elliott

  This blistering new collection from literary rising star Stephen Elliott demonstrates once again why his books have been praised as “graceful,” “soaring,” and “fearless.” As with all of Elliott’s work, these stories have the raw ring of truth filtered through the author’s downbeat-poetic sensibility. My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present,... (more)
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  Control Freak

  by Christa Faust

  An erotic horror novel. A grisly murder in New York City's downtown meat packing district leads hardboiled crime writer Caitlin McCullough into the depths of a secret sadomasochistic underground. A perverse playground for the rich and twisted where anything goes and nothing is taboo. Here, Caitlin must risk everything to find not only the truth surrounding the murder, but the dark truth hidden inside herself. (more)
• The World Is Made Of GlassMorris L. West

  

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  The World Is Made Of Glass

  by Morris West

• THE LIFE OF SAINT ROSE OF LIMA.D.D., ed. Rev. F.W. Faber

  

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  THE LIFE OF SAINT ROSE OF LIMA.

  by D.D., ed. Rev. F.W. Faber

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  Nexus Enthusiast

  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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  Walking Bones (High Risk Books)

  by Charlotte Carter

  An American love story cast in deepest noir. It's the story of a black woman named Nettie who comes to New York to be a model but grows too big and ends up as a designer. Like Chester Himes' The End Of A Primitive, Walking Bones is an American tragedy that unpicks the sexuality of racism and the strange contradictions of sexual power. Urban and precise yet oddly dreamlike, Walking Bones , like the blues,... (more)
• Bouquet of Barbed WireAndrea Newman

  

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  Bouquet of Barbed Wire

  by Andrea Newman

• JustineMarquis De Sade

  

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  Justine

  by Marquis De Sade

  The classic erotic novel by the infamous Marquis De Sade, originally published in 1791. This is, according to the front cover, the "first American edition of this long suppressed masterpiece." Includes introduction by L.T. Woodward, author of Sadism.
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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.
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  Justine

  by Marquis de Sade

  -Justine- is a story of two sisters, Justine and Juliette who have been thrown out of an orphanage. Mainly the book is about the sufferings of Justine, the protagonist and her sister Juliette who benefits herself through dissipation. The truth of virtues is the other-way-round to her; it depicts the persistent battle between good and evil.