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Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children.

Showing how we can avoid the suffering caused by comas, this book reveals the wide variety of conscious states that can arise during comas, both positive and negative, and how accepting the reality of these experiences is crucial not only to the recovery of coma survivors, but also to the field of consciousness and near-death experience (NDE) studies.

We live in a heavy world, and leaders feel the brunt of it. We need practical ways to not only avoid the burnout epidemic, but lead well for the long haul. Leadership Coach, Alan Briggs, shares practical steps and tools to help you avoid burnout and reach more impact that come directly from his coaching experience with leaders across sectors.

Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contention that it is "better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied," Alan Ryan evokes the lives and minds of our greatest thinkers in a way that makes hearing about them a transcendent experience.

Acclaimed author and historian Alan Furst has written several historical fiction novels, such as Blood of Victory and Kingdom of Shadows. In Dark Star, André Szara is a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Through Szara’s character, the beginnings of World War II are revealed.

Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening.

The ancient Gods exist. Although they withdrew from Earth so we could develop, they still watch us. There are many realms: Olympus, Indus, Inca, and more. Olympian women are enslaved due to an unforgivable treachery. Earth females are taken to Olympus and used to bring Olympian genetic material to Earth. Criminals are sentenced to become permanent pony girls. Male or female criminals are sentenced to become pony girls. Service as a pony girl bestows public shaming, does useful work, and is a significant deterrent. So much the better when the criminal started as a male. Pony girls are ...

Beautiful beyond reason, Amber modeled the clothes and jewelry of the world's great houses. Desired by many, she is acquired at the whim of a powerful man. Destined for his harem she is taught a courtesan's skills and a slave's obedience. The coffle is an elegant way of controlling and transporting young women. Steel chain defeats education, skill, fitness, and desire, leaving her no choice but to walk the path chosen by her captor. Rescued by the strongest man she has ever known, the coffle still binds her. Will she ever escape its obdurate grasp? Does she want to? Reaching civilization ...

Plagued by a recurring dream of romantic submission, Lori's attempts at romance have been frustrating. She's found a modicum of relief by submerging herself in work as a masseuse to the wealthy ladies of New York. She shares her dream with Evelyn Carstairs, a client who manages the newly remodeled Vault, a restored BDSM club energized by the rash of interest following the 50 Shades phenomenon. Ralph, Evelyn's husband and a wealthy industrialist, thought the Vault was a good investment and purchased it out of foreclosure. He paid for its restoration and hired a first class staff. Evelyn ...

Cynthia learns a pretty face, a good memory , and a love of kinky sex is all a girl needs to succeed in business. Unfortunately, a dalliance with a man with a jealous wife gets her canned and desperately looking for work. Greed overcomes her good sense and she accepts a year's position in a billionaire's bondage harem for an outrageous salary. She finds this life exciting and she quickly becomes her Master's favorite. Unexpected challenges bring out talents no one knew she had and she exceeds her master's hopes. Not everyone is pleased and she is kidnapped and tortured. Her master rescues ...

Terra’s overwhelming new weapon promises to finally make it a fair fight with the Rill. Its operational limitations require close combat with the myriad Rill ships. The Rill swarm is decisively defeated, but it was a close call and Second Fleet takes grievous losses. Jalen is sent to the Coalen Slave Training class. It was well known that their trained slaves were the best…Uncounted orgasms later she began to understand the scope of her slavery and helplessness. Her trainers, men, any man, controlled her completely. Her wishes and opinions and fears were meaningless. She was nothing but...

Larry takes Emma and Ruth back to Jefferson County, WA. Reinaldo has hired him as Regional VP of Superior Products and given him the two girls. Emma and Ruth like being his slaves but have been kept in the dark about their new home and his intentions toward them save that they will be kept enslaved and exposed to the public.

Laura Billings knew she was known as “The Ice Queen” and a ball-buster. She went through lovers like a wind through the trees, beautiful, passionate, full of promise, until the cusp of love. Then she blew away, leaving frustration and dashed hopes in her wake. She lured the best and brightest with her flawless, tanned skin, her dancer’s body, and her beauty queen face. Every man she gazed at with interest was drawn to her like a moth to a flame and ensnared by her frank desire that promised endless pleasure. Every one was singed by her flame and discarded before they had hardly begun....

Part 6 of the Adventure of Emma and Karma Larry takes Emma and Ruth back to Port Townsend, WA, as his slaves where he takes over management of Reinaldo’s factory. He wants them to become publicly known as slaves and installs them as his personal assistant and secretary. His long range plans include starting video pornography operation using his first two slaves and adding more with the assistance of his co-opted county commissioners to let him acquire more performers. Soon he has two classes of bondage performers being recorded 24/7; pack girls and slave girls.

The world was shiny and new, technology had cleaned man’s droppings from the earth, eliminated hunger and disease and ensured that everyone had fit, healthy bodies and long lives. There were colonies on Mars, Luna and in the asteroids. Smart machines relieved humans of dangerous, dirty, and repetitive jobs. Females had committed such an atrocity that no one, man or woman, trusted them now. Female slavery was legal everywhere and women were never educated. Ellie and her twin, Virginia, were beautiful, healthy, intelligent, and poor, like every girl. Their competition was fierce for the ...

Karma Knox was the experimenter of the Knox sisters. While down to earth Emma was studying and working, first as a cop, then as a private eye, Karma played. She modeled, dabbled with BDSM and married a pilot who let her play housewife in the suburbs. Until one day she went shopping with her sister and woke up in a dungeon naked, with a steel collar on her neck, chained to a wall in a bare cell. Then life got interesting again.

Stacey was bored and wanted more from life when Ariane entered her life. Out of nowhere she sat beside Stacey on a bus and said she is her friend before vanishing soundlessly into thin air. Stacey is afraid she is becoming psychotic. Ariane comes and goes bringing new clothes, helping with her makeup, as solid and real as anyone, but capable of appearing and vanishing in the blink of an eye. Young, beautiful, submissive enjoying kinky sex, Stacey Sanders is chosen to have her dreams fulfilled. Mysterious Ariane steps into Stacey's life and steers her into Ben's arms and harness. Alternating...

Julie Henderson was a rising star in the New York legal profession and, like so many in that pressure cooker, she had no personal life, no close friends, no one she had time to be intimate with. Intelligent, beautiful, and ambitious, she had no idea she had been conditioned, trained, and steered into her life by hidden forces who had plans for her, quite different plans than she could have imagined. Her climb to the top of her profession had been guided by her mother, her teachers, and her superiors, all following the guidance of those unseen forces who needed her molded to fit their plan. ...

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Alternate Universe England 1913 Lady Anna greatly enjoys having a slave girl in the house, Predictably, her husband greatly enjoys Regina too. Surprisingly, Regina is the happiest of all, thriving in her sexual submission, driving Lady Anna to envy her slave’s passion.