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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nevada

A Novel

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2020.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, Real Simple, Electric Literature, and more.
 
"Cinematic . . . The spaces she creates for her characters . . . have the aura of realms." --The New York Times Book Review

A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West.

Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another.

On Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything.

On Swift Horses

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

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Abandoned by her young mother, unsure of her father's identity, and raised by her prominent aunt and uncle near Boston, thirty-year-old Fiona Range has developed a high threshold for emotional pain. Her recklessness, generosity, and poor judgment have landed her in more scrapes than her affluent family-or small-town community-can tolerate. Beautiful, volatile and smart-tongued (or trashy, erratic, and wild, depending on whom you ask), Fiona hits rock bottom after she ends a party with a strange man in her bed. Alienated from relatives and friends but determined to change, Fiona turns to the men in her life-among them, cruel and unstable Patrick Grady, who denies she is his daughter. The arrival home of her gentle cousin Elizabeth with fiance in tow sparks a storm where past mistakes and current passions collide.

Fiona Range

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

A Ruling Passion

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Martie Haselton

Geoffrey Miller

New York

The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser

The hidden intelligence of hormones and their role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially.

Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends with unfit sperm? Behind the "fickle" differences in what women find sexy about men, or what they like to wear, there's a hidden adaptive intelligence that has been shaped over eons.

In this provocative and paradigm-shattering book, Martie Haselton, the world's leading researcher on sexuality and the ovulation cycle, takes a deep, revealing look at the biological processes that so profoundly influence our behavior and sets forth a radical new understanding of women's bodies, minds, and sexual relationships, one that embraces hormonal cycles as adaptive solutions to genuine biological challenges.

At the core of Hasleton's new Darwinian feminism is her remarkable discovery that humans, like our animal cousins, possess a special phase of sexuality, called estrus, which comes with a host of physiological and behavioral changes. Rigorously researched, entertaining, and empowering, Hormonal offers women deep new insights into their bodies, brains, relationships, and affairs, allowing them to make better-informed choices about sex, marriage, friendship, contraception, and more. Above all, Hormonal is a clarion call to appreciate and embrace the genius of female biology.

Hormonal

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#hardcover #fiction #melaniebenjamin #Hollywood #friendship #girlpower #desire #heartbreak #historicalfiction 
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone’s lips these days is “flickers”—the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you’ll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all.

In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium. She also makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have earned her the title “America’s Sweetheart.” The two ambitious young women hit it off instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution.

But their ambitions are challenged by both the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender—and their astronomical success could come at a price. As Mary, the world’s highest paid and most beloved actress, struggles to live her life under the spotlight, she also wonders if it is possible to find love, even with the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks. Frances, too, longs to share her life with someone. As in any good Hollywood story, dramas will play out, personalities will clash, and even the deepest friendships might be shattered.

With cameos from such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Rudolph Valentino, and Lillian Gish, The Girls in the Picture is, at its heart, a story of friendship and forgiveness. Melanie Benjamin brilliantly captures the dawn of a glittering new era—its myths and icons, its possibilities and potential, and its seduction and heartbreak.

Georgia

The Girls in the Picture

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Charles Hunter

Frances Hunter

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This Way Up

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#paperback #darkobsession #missedconnections #savagelove #advancedreadercopy #heartbreak #desire 

Michigan

Marcos feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. When he begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives. The letters become a kind of exorcism as both A.'s epistolary affair and Marcos' personal life reach a crisis point. Possessed by A., he is driven to discover her true identity.

Blue Flowers

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See pictures for condition. Owner signed first page. 

He Was My Man First

Meagan Hatfield

No rips or tears. Binding is creased. Paperback with 361 pages.

Pennsylvania

Vampire princess Alexia Feodorovna has been undead for 125 years, so it's been a while since any man has made her pulse race. Until Declan Black. One look at his bronzed body and a fire like no other consumes her. Then she discovers that he's a dragon lord come to take revenge on the vamps who killed his parents. And claim a crystal said to imbue its owner with incredible powers.

Alexia is ordered to torture and kill the dragon lord. Yet with each reckless encounter, she finds herself consumed by his fiery passion. A passion Declan battles, as well. Will he be able to resist the fire of lust she kindles within him and keep revenge in his heart? Or will he risk everything to quench the burning desire and claim the vampire as his own?



Shadow of the Vampire

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When a biographer proves to know more about his life than the now-immortal Lord Byron expects, he draws her into a dangerous game—and his passionate arms.

Divine Fire

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3 harlequin desire Texas Cattleman's Club books

Harlequin Desire Texas Cattleman's Club bundle

Sarah McCarty

Alabama

Caine Allen is definitely not the marrying kind. But when he rescues a kidnapped woman and returns her to town, his honor and his desire for Desi won't allow him to let her go. From the moment he beds Desi, Caine knows turmoil will follow. Desi might have the face of a temptress, but she also has a will of iron. And while she needs his protection, she's determined that no man will control her again. They establish an uneasy bond, but it isn't enough for Caine. All he wants is to keep her in his bed. But with a bounty still on her head, first he must keep her alive.

Caine's Reckoning

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#paperback #religion #nonfiction #Christian #desire #soul #longing 

Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed Of

In this groundbreaking book, now being offered in trade paper, Eldredge invites readers to acknowledge the significance of desire, abandon resignation, and embark on an adventure he calls "our heart's most important journey".

The Journey of Desire

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Louisiana

They struggled to deny their forbidden love, their splendid passions imprisoned by unspoken desire. A sizzling story of love and desire swept away upon the sea.

Captive Splendors

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#fiction #romance #paperback #love #desire #manofthemonth

Kentucky

Master of Fortune

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#paperback #desire #fiction #supernatural #vampire #werewolfs #paranormalromance #steamy

California

Dhampire Riley Jenson, a hybrid of vampire and werewolf, journeys to Melbourne and into the heart of the city's seductive and dangerous urban underworld to find an enigmatic killer who has been using a nightclub that caters to its denizens' every fantasy as his stalking grounds. Original.

Dangerous Games

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Virginia

From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller--a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her. Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and desire--a story that only America's #1 beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author could have created.

Run, Rose, Run

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Emilie Rose

Washington

After drowning in a slow-burning kiss with Tracy Sullivan at their high school reunion, an enamored Cort Lander realized she'd blossomed from a bookworm into a sultry beauty with a body made for lovin'. His lovin'. Whoa!

A Passionate Proposal

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#desire #contemporaryromance #fiction #paperback #harlequin 

Can he tell her the truth...this time? The stakes are high and the chemistry is hot in this Texas Cattleman's Club: Inheritance story by Reese Ryan!

Will he risk everything for a reunion? Will she give him the chance?

Discovering he's a long-lost heir isn't the only surprise awaiting Darius Taylor-Pratt in Royal, Texas. He's next door to his ex after five long years. Darius broke off his red-hot relationship with designer Audra Covington without explanation. He still has regrets...and truths he's hiding. Rekindling their flame may cost him...especially when new secrets surface to threaten their second shot at seduction.

From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire--welcome to the lives of the American elite.

Texas Cattleman's Club: Inheritance:
Book 1: Tempting the Texan by Maureen Child
Book 2: Rich, Rugged Rancher by Joss Wood
Book 3: From Boardroom to Bedroom by Jules Bennett
Book 4: Secret Heir Seduction by Reese Ryan
Book 5: Too Texan to Tame by Janice Maynard
Book 6: Her Texas Renegade by Joanne Rock

Secret Heir Seduction

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Cover has w/t, but the inside is in excellent condition.

From Danielle Steel, one of the world's bestselling authors, comes a special reissue of her very first novel, in which a woman is forced to flee her past and come to terms with the truth.

In the sun swept beauty of San Francisco, Gillian Forrester is filled with the joy of a love that will surely last. But a painful betrayal forces her to flee to New York and begin a new life. There she discovers an exciting new career and a deep, enveloping passion...only to have her newfound happiness shaken to its core. Now Gillian must choose between her future and her past, and find in the deepest desires of her heart the one way, the only way of Going Home.

Going Home

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West Virginia

A Sexy Workplace Romance

She's wanted her boss for way too long. Now she's got him right where she wants him...or does she? Find out in this steamy workplace romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child! From invisible assistant...to irresistible siren! She's crossed the line. For Tessa Parker, the most intoxicating thing about working at premium vodka producer Graystone Spirits is her off-limits boss. Yet she's never gotten CEO Noah Graystone to see her as anything but his loyal assistant. Finally fed up enough to tender her resignation, she agrees to one last business trip to London together--and seizes her chance for a no-strings-attached seduction! But is their steamy six-day fling the last call? From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire--welcome to the lives of the American elite.

Six Nights of Seduction

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Three nights of passion… With a turn of the cards, her father is ruined -- and innocent Aveline Stoddard is lost. To honor the gambling debt, she agrees to submit for three nights to Lucien DuFeron's every desire, three nights of blistering sensuality and unparalleled ecstasy in the arms of the dashing, dark rogue they call "Lucifer." But the time passes all too quickly…and when the debt is paid, the handsome devil vanishes. An eternity of desire Treachery delivered Lucien into the hands of evil brigands. Now five years after his abduction and imprisonment he has returned to London, searching for the enemy responsible -- and finding instead the beauty who still haunts his dreams. Aveline has grown more alluring since those unforgettable nights when she melted beneath his touch. Yet Lucien's need for vengeance must be satisfied. If the trail leads to someone close to Aveline, will it destroy forever the one love powerful enough to free his tormented heart?

Three Nights...

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Larissa Ione

A Demonica Novel

Pleasure is their ultimate weapon . . . Runa Wagner never meant to fall in love with the sexy stranger who seemed to know her every deepest desire. But she couldn't resist the unbelievable passion that burned between them, a passion that died when she discovered his betrayal and found herself forever changed. Now, determined to make Shade pay for the transformation that haunts her, Runa searches for him, only to be taken prisoner by his darkest enemy. A Seminus Demon with a love-curse that threatens him with eternal torment, Shade hoped he'd seen the last of Runa and her irresistible charm. But when he wakes up in a dank dungeon chained next to an enraged and mysteriously powerful Runa, he realizes that her effect on him is more dangerous than ever. As their captor casts a spell that bonds them as lifemates, Shade and Runa must fight for their lives and their hearts-or succumb to a madman's evil plans.

Desire Unchained

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In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life . . . She's a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life. Two lovers will dare to risk all. Eidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. Torn between his need for the truth and his quest to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable-and let Tayla possess him, body and soul . . .

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Shannon Pufahl

On Swift Horses

Mary McGarry Morris

Fiona Range

Judith Michael

A Ruling Passion

Martie Haselton; Geoffrey Miller

Hormonal

Melanie Benjamin

The Girls in the Picture

Charles Hunter; Frances Hunter

This Way Up

Carola Saavedra

Blue Flowers

Nancey Flowers & Courtney Parker

He Was My Man First

Meagan Hatfield

Shadow of the Vampire

Melanie Jackson

Divine Fire

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Harlequin Desire Texas Cattleman's Club bundle

Sarah McCarty

Caine's Reckoning

John Eldredge

The Journey of Desire

Fern Michaels

Captive Splendors

Katherine Garbera

Master of Fortune

Keri Arthur

Dangerous Games

James Patterson; Dolly Parton

Run, Rose, Run

Emilie Rose

A Passionate Proposal

Reese Ryan

Secret Heir Seduction

Danielle Steel

Going Home

Maureen Child

Six Nights of Seduction

Debra Mullins

Three Nights...

Larissa Ione

Desire Unchained

Larissa Ione

Pleasure Unbound