In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller’s life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb. The tale is also the precursor to a meeting between the writer and the infernal miracle worker, Lucia—a meeting that ultimately forces the writer to make a fateful decision about her own inner essence. Carnality is a novel about the universal need for spirituality and truth—not to mention a good story—set in the seemingly unspiritual grimy underbelly of society.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire saga. MISLED Special Task Force agent Derek Atkinson has a craving for luscious vampire Sable Taylor. But Sable's a bounty hunter, which makes him direct competition in the capture of wanted criminals. Despite the obvious attraction between them, she won't give him a chance and after two years, he's tired of waiting for her to come around. So he's got a plan to give them both what they want... each other. Sable's on a dangerous mission. She's not who Derek thinks she is, so anything personal just isn't possible. But like most master vampires, Derek's wily and used to having his way. When he traps her on his ship, she decides to indulge. Two straight days of mind-blowing sex should be enough, but it isn't, not for either of them. Her heart is involved now, but Sable can't let Derek get too close. If he finds out what she's doing, he'll never forgive her. Derek, however, refuses to let go. Now he's getting shot at and asking questions she shouldn't answer. Sable has to reveal the truth... Derek's love has been misled... KISS OF THE NIGHT Special Task Force agent Alexei Night has had a crush on Interstellar Council Representative Briana Michaels ever since the first time he saw her on the vid comm. But their lives are worlds apart. He's a vampire. She's not. There's no possibility of a relationship between them. Yet he still dreams of her... When Briana's unpopular position supporting vampiric rights threatens her family, Alex leaps at the chance to protect her and be with her. It's a two-week journey to her homeworld, and he'll spend it making love with the woman he can't keep, trying to get enough of her to last an eternity. Their erotic connection is easily established but their bond doesn't overshadow the danger surrounding Briana. A hopeless romance with a woman whose mortal life is threatened... Things can't get any worse for Alex. And then somehow...they do.

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.

Acclaimed personal writing from one of our most out-spoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opporunities and "gifts" of a difficult life.

-Does it seem like your life is void of purpose? -Are your prayers going unanswered? -Has your witness for God become tainted? -Do you find it difficult to make the right decisions? -Does it seem hard to break bad habits and addictions? -Do the blessings and favor of God seem to evade you? -Does it seem like your life is void of joy and happiness? -Do you find yourself asking, "Do I really matter?" Millions of Christians around the world have been saved from the wrath of God through belief in the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. Still, we Christians struggle with temporary times of digression from God's will and purpose. Every single Christian in this world experiences this continual vacillation between operating in the Spirit and the flesh. Carnal Striving Spiritual is an exciting, encouraging, inspirational and life-changing book that explores carnality in the hope of helping millions of people around the world to discover their purpose and to grow and mature in Christ. Carnal Striving Spiritual is a book for children of God of all ages, races, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. In his book, Jerrod explores and analyzes a plethora of contemporary and current topics, including the above-mentioned questions. Jerrod examines carnality relative to the mind, the church, the tongue, trials, and relationships and poetically reveals solutions. "Anthony Jerrod is a brilliant poet with a bold message: that Christian love in all its glorious forms deserves expression. Don't miss this book " - Dr. Cornel West, New York Times best-selling author, Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, American philosopher and public intellectual, multi-book editor and pastor "In these days of calamity and uncertainty, we often have two choices. Succumb or overcome. Anthony Jerrod has engaged and connected with the reader in a manner that simplifies the choice. Carnal Striving Spiritualbegs the attention of the reader to become immersed in the spirit of God -the ordinary reader to exchange in the extraordinary." - Bishop Donald Hilliard, Jr., multi-book author, Senior Pastor of The Cathedral International, Presiding Bishop and founder of the Covenant Ecumenical Fellowship and Cathedral Assemblies

Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes “all the way down,” carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body. In this volume, an impressive array of today’s preeminent philosophers seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world.

CARNAL features three stories of carnality and sweetness between manly men! In "Hunk Tank," two hot cops meet while working the public intoxication beat at a Pride march. What follows their meeting would give anyone reason to celebrate. "Your Turn" is a story of two telenovela-hot papis who make a winning team for domino games...and for everything else! Finally, in "Connecting," a beardo IT cub cannot resist temptation and snoops around the folders of the crashed laptop of a professor daddy bear. So he sets to restore the professor, too...