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  Kingfisher

  Rozie Kelly

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  She smelled like jasmine. No, not exactly. She smelled like the earth beneath a jasmine plant on a hot day. 
   
  Most of us are poets, she said. It’s just a question of how it comes out. 
   
  When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants. 
  While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods. As he slips between his old life and this new one, his fixation grows into something more powerful. The poet, his Kingfisher, is his sole focus. He is hypnotised. 
  But when simultaneous illnesses threaten to destroy the precarious reality he clings to, he’s forced to question what he can and cannot take from someone. This is a story about grief, power and desire – and the tangles in between that make up a life.

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  Pink

  KD Williamson

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  Fresh out of a relationship, Shawnna Green is heartbroken, lost, and almost penniless. She decides to start over in New Orleans to find a new sense of self, despite her ex hampering her progress. With the help of her best friend, Veda, she finds employment at Stumpy's Sex Emporium where she deals with customers that range from the strange to the hilarious. 
   
   
   
  At the same time, Shawnna discovers that women, sex, and dating, are not what they used to be, but neither is she. In finding herself, she uncovers a part she didn't know existed, and that's not always a good thing. 
   
   
   
  Can Shawnna pick herself up, reach out, and connect with the people around her? 
   
   
   
  A smoldering look at the things we hide from ourselves. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Literal Madness - 3 Novels:...

  Kathy Acker

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  A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: “Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative.” —Catherine Texier, author of Victorine 
   
  Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined” (Los Angeles Times). 
   
  My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini—wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronté sisters—is a “scathing commentary on false values in art” (The Hartford Courant). 
   
  In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves “a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials” (Booklist). 
   
  “There’s a haunting method to Acker’s ‘madness’: a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  Double Blind - Special Delivery...

  Heidi Cullinan

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  Know when to show your hand… and when to hedge your bets. Special Delivery, Book 2. Randy Jensen can’t stand to just sit by and watch as a mysterious man throws money away on the roulette wheel, especially since Randy’s got his own bet going as to the reason this guy is making every play like it’s his last day on earth. The man’s dark desperation hits Randy right in the gut. Half of him warns that getting involved is a sucker’s bet, and the other half scrambles for a reason—any reason—to save the man’s soul. Ethan Ellison has no idea what he’s going to do with himself once his last dollar is gone—until Randy whirls into his life with a heart-stealing smile and a poker player’s gaze that sees too much. Randy draws Ethan into a series of wagers that leads to a scorching kiss by midnight, but he isn’t the only one with an interest in Ethan’s vulnerability. Soon they’re both taking risks that not only play fast and loose with the law, but with the biggest prize of all: their hearts. This book has been previously published and has been revised from its original release. Warning: This story contains high-stakes poker, gangsters with a weakness for kittens, foursomes, and kinky consensual sex.

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  Savage Tides

  Scarlett Devereaux

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  The sea doesn’t forgive. And it never forgets. 
  Pirate captain Corinne Vayne lives by three rules: trust no one, take what you can, and never bleed for love. But when she hauls Selene Marrow from the wreckage of a storm, she doesn’t just rescue a survivor—she takes in a secret. Selene is curvy, cunning, and on the run from a blood-soaked betrothal, with a bounty on her head and a fire in her eyes that threatens to unravel everything Corinne built. 
  As ghost ships rise and cursed mist closes in, Corinne and Selene must fight back-to-back to survive the wrath of a sea that demands sacrifice. But love—fierce, forbidden, and blood-bound—may be the deadliest risk of all. 
  They weren’t made to kneel. 
  They were made to burn. 
  Sapphic pirate romance meets dark nautical fantasy. Full of storm-soaked kisses, soul-deep vows, and women who’d rather drown the world than be caged by it.

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  To the Moon and Back

  N.R. Walker

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  Gideon Ellery had the perfect life. Nice house, great job, and a long-time boyfriend. Weeks after adopting his nephew, his boyfriend splits, leaving Gideon a single father to a newborn. Overwhelmed, sleep deprived, and unsure how to navigate fatherhood, he’s asked to return to the office. He’s overwhelmed and at his breaking point. 
  Toby Barlow is back in Sydney after three years of studying, travelling, and nannying in the UK. He needs work and a place to live, and the perfect solution drops in his lap. After all, caring for a sweet baby in a beautiful home owned by a gorgeous single man isn’t exactly terrible. 
  Gideon isn’t too keen to share his life with a stranger, but his need for help is too great. Sunshiny Toby isn’t prepared for a grumpy Gideon or his utterly adorable son, Benson. Or how easily he slots into their lives. And Gideon’s not prepared for how much he needs Toby. 
  Or how much he wants him. 
  Neither is prepared for the complications of falling in love.

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