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  We - The book that inspired...

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

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  In a utopian future society, where all social unrest has been engineered away, a man has an awakening. Starting as a happy worker drone, he meets a woman who reveals to him the reality of life outside the state's control - the glories of chaotic nature in the world and in the heart. They become entwined with a conspiracy against the state, and eventually try to escape beyond the walls of the state's control... only to meet betrayal, failure, and a dark ending in the glorious light of the state's total control.Sound familiar? It's probably because you've read Orwell's nineteen eighty-four, which he wrote eight months after he read We, wrote a review of it, and said he was taking it as the model for his next novel. Or Huxley's Brave New World.Or maybe you've read Vonnegut's Player Piano, which of Vonnegut said he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We". You might even have come across other plays on the theme, such as Ayn Rand's Anthem or Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading, written while Nabakov was reading We. Or even possibly Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed.The tale is familiar, but the satirical and farcical comedy is a delight all of its own.

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  How to Kill Your Next-Door Neighbor

  Elliot Sonder

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  The simple life she knew transforms into a nightmare when Penelope decides to trust a group of strangers in hopes of joining a new community. Among them, one is not who they seem. As strange behaviors emerge and hidden motives come to light, Penelope is forced to question everyone around her. Tensions rise when she learns that someone within her circle is out to kill her. Surrounded by strangers, she must tread carefully, piecing together clues to catch the killer before they catch her. 
  With the help of a determined detective, Penelope embarks on a high-stakes game of life and death, where every move could be her last. In How to Kill Your Next-Door Neighbor, trust becomes a dangerous gamble, and the line between neighbor and enemy blurs. This gripping psychological thriller will keep you questioning every shadow and every smile and make you look at your neighbors a bit differently.

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  Earthmen Bearing Gifts

  Fredric Brown

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  Earthmen Bearing Gifts by Fredric Brown is a gripping classic science fiction short story exploring humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization. As Earth launches a rocket toward Mars, unaware of its intelligent inhabitants, the telepathic Martians watch with hope for peaceful exchange—only to face a tragic misunderstanding. This thought-provoking tale delivers a timeless message about communication, conflict, and the unforeseen consequences of human assumptions. A must-read for fans of vintage sci-fi and speculative fiction.

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  The Creepy-Crawly Killer

  Emmy Ellis

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  THE MOST DEPRAVED KILLERS. THE MOST DETERMINED DETECTIVE. MEET DI BETHANY SMITH. 
   
   
   
  No one likes being led down the garden path . . .  
   
   
   
  Ellie White is found dead at the bottom of her own garden, propped up against a stone fountain. 
   
   
   
  Her eyelashes have been replaced with spider's legs. Her ears are stuffed with dead ants and a slug, a worm is wedged in her nose, and a plastic butterfly is left in place of her tongue. She's wearing a red dress and glittery shoes, her face painted like a clown. 
   
   
   
  Detective Inspector Bethany Smith arrives at the scene of the crime still dressed in her funeral attire. Her head thick with emotion. Her colleagues think she's mad. But she wants to be there. She needs to be there. Even if what she sees makes her skin crawl. 
   
   
   
  The next day another body is discovered. The victim has suffered a similar gruesome fate. Left for dead at the bottom of his garden where the creepy-crawlies can get to him. 
   
   
   
  Two down. Two to go. The clock is ticking for Detective Bethany Smith and her team.

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  Waves Take Your Bones

  Athena Giles

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  The dead rise and the sea is calling.Tallis and Finn, simple farmers, find their quiet village overrun by shriekers, a horde of undead revenants. After a devastating attack and heartbreaking losses, they must flee the only land they've known for the capital of the kingdom of Okaesa. Along the way, Tallis and Finn are separated from the other refugees, with their only escape across the Nightmare Bridge, a thing of horrific legends, which leaves them both scarred from the experience.In the capital, there is still no safety, for Tallis and Finn are drafted into the navy aboard separate ships, under dueling commanders. Amid struggling with the loss of their home they might find themselves crossing blades with those dearest to them who have fallen to the mysterious undead disease. The capital, an island fortress seems to be the last refuge of the kingdom, until Tallis discovers the undead have learned to sail . . .

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  Spankee

  Ronda DeMure

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  Spankee follows the development of Rebecca from frustrated housewife, initially just curious about spanking, into a true submissive spankee under the guidance of Don, an English dominant. 
  Psychological Erotica 
  By understanding the psychology of her journey, from initially rationalizing and hiding behind ageplay to ultimately accepting her need to submit and be spanked as an integral part of the person she is, the reader is given excellent insight into the proper training of a submissive. 
  Submission and Dominance 
  Upon discovering her submissive nature, Rebecca realizes her desires are actually needs. She not only becomes comfortable with Don as her guide, but develops an almost insatiable need for his approval; eventually submitting to him orally which is is something she had never conidered doing before. 
  Don also touches her in ways to provide sexual gratification. His manual stimulation soon gives way to forced orgasms, ultimately taking Rebecca into sub space. 
  Spanking Erotica 
  Rebecca is hooked on spanking right from the start; it excites and arouses her tremendously and the more she experiences it the harder she wants it. As the sessions proceed Rebecca is systematically introduced to the crop, switch, paddle, cane and flogger and Rebecca learns she also craves scenes involving verbal and physical discipline followed by being permitted sexual release. 
  Erotic spanking involves spanking her to such heightened arousal where a mere touch will bring orgasm, but the mark of a true spankee is to achieve orgasm through spanking alone. 
  Bondage 
  Rebecca finds that the need to control her instinctive reactions to being spanked and flogged are detracting from the experience for her so Dom includes bondage. She finds that having no control enhances her experience and enables her to take more. 

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