Alison Harper: 9 books

No-one’s looked at him naked in fifteen years. Not properly. But the Mistress he’s just met is looking at him now, and she’s expecting things of him that will introduce him carefully to vulnerability and humiliation.  No names. No backstory. Very short and gently intense in places. This...

There’s a lot to be said for a lengthy story we can sink into for a few hours or more. But there are times when something much shorter is just enough to stir the imagination. This book gathers together a series of very short glimpses into Female Dominance and male submission. Micro stories...

‘I’ve left you a list on my desk,’ Rick said . . . The house fell silent and I wandered into the study to collect my instructions. There was only one scrawled piece of paper on the desk so there was no mistaking the single command. It said: organize Christmas. Helen is finally finding...

EIN MÄRCHENPRINZ FÜR MICH von HARPER, FIONA Ein Märchenschloss mit einem Prinzen? Von wegen! Zwar ist Faith zuerst wie verzaubert, als sie kurz vor Weihnachten auf Marcus Huntingtons malerischem Anwesen ankommt. Doch obwohl es immer heißer zwischen ihnen knistert, versucht Marcus sie plötzlich...

Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors...

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Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...

The days I had previously filled with the duties of chief cook and bottle-washer now lay strangely empty and stretched out before me like a blank canvas. I kept looking at it, but couldn't think of anything to paint . . . Preparing dinner for her husband’s colleagues, nervous, and listening...

"Heaven save us from ourselves. And if you can’t manage that, I’d settle for saving me from me. Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water, here I am again, drowning for all to see. Not waving, as the troubled swimmer once famously said. I busied myself with any household task I could...