Winner of No Awards! Panned by Critics! But a Favorite ofAdult Readers! Lorna Heineriche is still a virgin in her last year of high school, butshe has a budding sensual hunger. Unaware that her desires areabout to be fulfilled, she takes an after-school job as a secretaryat the Santa Barbara, California, estate of renowned architectLorenz Are. A gifted artist with a penchant for fantasy, Mr. Are enjoys havinghis employees dress up in costumes. On her first day, Lorna isgiven a skimpy feather outfit to wear and asked to pose forpictures in front of an admiring staff. Soon Lorna explores her sexuality with an unconventional groupof characters. Steve Alligrini, the estate's Renaissance man, takesparticular interest in Lorna but is frustrated by Mr. Are's ruleforbidding anyone to deflower the eighteen-year-old until shefinishes high school. Stella Tailor, an alluring designer, becomesLorna's role model, but hides a secret past. The employees delight in living out their erotic fantasies-until amystery causes an upheaval in their halcyon existence. Lorna andStella, struggling to avoid becoming victims, must get to thebottom of the enigma in time. "Pulses with a warm eroticism!" -Bart Aikens, writer, producer, and director, "The Vampire's Dance"

From head to toe to breast to behind, Charles Hodgson's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully intoxicating tour of the words we use to describe our bodies. Did you know: -eye is one of the oldest written words in the English language? -callipygian means "having beautiful buttocks"? -gam, a slang word for "leg," comes from the French word jambe? A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words, Carnal Knowledge is also the perfect gift for anyone interested in the human body and the many (many, many) ways it's been described.

An essential cornucopia of 500 of the best, trickiest and often misused words in the English language.

This dictionary contains around 130,000 English terms with their French translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms. The terms are translated from English to French. If you need translations from French to English, then the companion volume The Great Dictionary French - English is recommended.

The founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history's best words. This collection features scores of unique words from history that deal with surprisingly modern issues like sleeping in and procrastination--proving that some things never change! The Little Book of Lost Words presents each term that's ready to be brought back into modern-day use, complete with definition, hilarious sample sentence, and cheeky historical art. You'll learn new words for the cozy room where you like to Netflix and chill (snuggery), for a dishonest politician (snollygoster), and for a young person who sleeps through the day and doesn't work (dewdropper). If you like Lost in Translation, Shakespeare Insult Generator, Drunk History, and Roald Dahl--and you delight in the way words like blatteroon and flapdoodle roll off the tongue--then you're the word lover this book was written for. Want to know what a fizgig or groke is? Read this book!

Mind-effing factoids—from anatomy awareness to CIA cats—and quirky commentary that give the traditional trivia book a fun reboot. Which came first, Brad Pitt or lasers? Who, what, or where is “shrapnel” named after? And can you really use cheese to tell the future? These questions and many more are answered in Good Job, Brain!, a collection of freaky facts, perplexing puzzles, and quirky quizzes based on the award-winning podcast of the same name. So step up, silly scholars seeking stupendous stimuli, for some . . . Crazy-but-true stories Hilarious quizzes Rebus puzzles Challenging crosswords Strategies and tips to win at pub quiz