Sly Kings Of Carnage Mc

Kitten, you're in way over your head-SLY-As treasurer of the Kings of Carnage MC, I collect protection payments from local businesses in our small Georgia town, and one business is behind on payments. When I show up at Mooney's Pub to collect, I find her-the gorgeous new manager with hair the color of pale fire and a body made for sin. I'm instantly attracted, and when she turns that sassy Irish mouth on me, I'm damn near obsessed. She's not what I expected, to say the least, but when it comes to club business, I'll deal with her same as any man. She will bend to my will, one way or another.Because one thing is law in our town; anyone who wants to do business here is either owned by the club, partners with the club or protected by the club-for a price. In this town, no one rides for free.Michaela-At twenty-two, the last place I expect to find myself is back home running my father's bar, Mooney's Pub. But when he dies suddenly and suspiciously, I'm determined to find out why more than the accounting books don't add up. I swear I'll find his killer.Seems my father has secrets he's been hiding; the mortgage is in arrears and now the bank is breathing down my neck, ready to foreclose. All that's holding my family together is my sheer determination and stubborn Irish grit.Then he walks in-a badass biker, demanding payments my father owes the club. I'm beginning to realize where all the money's been going.Oh hell no!Determined to hang on to my family's business, I wonder just how far I'll go when I'm beyond desperate.Series blurb: Six sizzling authors.Six stand-alone romances.One brand new, action packed motorcycle club.Brothers before all others. No exceptions.These men have no f*cks to give about anyone or anything outside of the Kings of Carnage MC.Welcome to rural Georgia where the laws to live by here are set by the Kings. Get in line or get out of the way, this is their world.Six steamy stories sure to push you over the edge.Gear up for an explosive new series from 6 bestselling Authors you love! Hilary Storm - President, Sapphire Knight - Vice President, Chelsea Camaron - Road Captain, M.N. Forgy - Enforcer, Nicole James - Treasurer, Kim Jones - ProspectRelease Dates: Book 1: April 2 Chaos by Hilary StormBook 2: April 16 Bash by Sapphire KnightBook 3: April 30 Jinx by Chelsea CamaronBook 4: May 14 North by M.N. ForgyBook 5: May 28 Bouncer by Kim JonesBook 6: June 11 Sly by Nicole Jam

Bash Sweet Savannah Mae hit me out of nowhere…or, I should say, I hit her—literally. My bike smashed right into her. Talk about a way to make a lasting impression. One look at her, and I swore I’d met an angel. She was the light to my dark that stirred up emotions I didn’t think I possessed. In a blink, Savannah becomes everything to me. When I find out the truth she’s hiding, it rocks my world. I’m the vice president of the Kings of Carnage MC—a spot I’ve earned. If any man thinks they can harm what’s mine, they’ve got another thing coming. But, so do I, because Savannah isn’t all she seems. No, my woman’s an angel with a spine of steel. She doesn’t need a knight in shining armor to save her. She needs a pair of wings to help her fly. -A Gritty MC romance with a brand new club, characters, and storyline. -Bash is a complete standalone that does not need any other books read prior. -Steamy romantic suspense full of action, alpha bad boys, and strong women. Gear up for an explosive new series from 6 bestselling Authors you love! Hilary Storm - President, Sapphire Knight - Vice President, Chelsea Camaron - Road Captain, M.N. Forgy - Enforcer, Nicole James - Treasurer, Kim Jones - Prospect

I’m destined to be in the Kings of Carnage MC. With Bash as my father and club VP, it’s practically in my DNA. Falling for the president’s daughter, however, is not. Leigh’s headstrong and independent, but also my best friend’s younger sister. Her presence is an alluring tease, one I struggle to ignore. Most of all, she’s forbidden, and I’m a rebel. A dangerous combination in our world, where men tend to forge their own rules and retributions. When push comes to shove, I can no longer hold back from going after what I want. My patch and life may be on the line, but where Leigh’s concerned, I soon discover I’ll risk it all. -A Gritty MC romance with a brand new club, characters, and storyline. -Sterling is a complete standalone that does not need any other books read prior. -Steamy romantic suspense full of action, alpha bad boys, and strong women. Praise for Sterling- Loved Leigh and Sterling. Sapphire Knight continues to reign supreme when it comes to writing MC books. - DBrown What a ride. I loved reading about Sterling and Leigh. How they grew up as close friends and became more. It was also great to read about the original characters and where they are at. This book kept me entertained and wanting more. - LaChelle

If it doesn't concern the Kings of Carnage Motorcycle Club, then it isn't my business. Nothing, and I mean, nothing matters but the Kings. As Road Captain my life is about the ride. She doesn't belong in my world. Then again, if you ask her, she doesn't belong anywhere. Catching out-Talia Peppertree lives her life from one ride to the next ... train rides that is. Her life is rail hopping, and somehow, she lands in rural Georgia. Stealing rides seems to be more than her pastime. When she steals my truck, she enters my world in a way I don't intend to let her off the hook for. As much as she infuriates me, she intrigues me. She's fearless in a way that frustrates me. She's hot in a way that I can't stop thinking about. The more time I spend with her, the more I crave her. As everything from Talia's rail-life falls off track, I have this primal urge to protect and punish her. I don't know her history, and I don't care. Bottom line, she stole more than my truck, she claimed my very soul. She's mine, and I'm not letting her slip away, no matter the cost. Series blurb: Six sizzling authors. Six stand-alone romances. One brand new, action packed motorcycle club. Brothers before all others. No exceptions. These men have no f*cks to give about anyone or anything outside of the Kings of Carnage MC. Welcome to rural Georgia where the laws to live by here are set by the Kings. Get in line or get out of the way, this is their world. Six steamy stories sure to push you over the edge. Gear up for an explosive new series from 6 bestselling Authors you love! In this series: Chaos by Hilary Storm Bash by Sapphire Knight Jinx by Chelsea Camaron North by M.N. Forgy Bouncer by Kim Jones Sly by Nicole James

One focus. One drive. Earn my place with the Kings of Carnage Motorcycle Club. No distractions. My father, Jinx, paved the way, and as his legacy, I will not get lost or side-lined. Brothers before all others. Except five-feet-seven-inches of wild abandon crashes into my world by the name of Indigo Knight. In an instant, everything shifts. Unwilling to deny the urge to claim her, I’ll risk it all just to keep her as my own.

Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines "Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." "Beast." These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans—for political, religious, ethnic, or sexist reasons. Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human. This tendency has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible, and yet we still find it in phenomena such as xenophobia, homophobia, military propaganda, and racism. Less Than Human draws on a rich mix of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain why we so often resort to it. David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted in human nature, but gives us hope in also stating that biological traits are malleable, showing us that change is possible. Less Than Human is a chilling indictment of our nature, and is as timely as it is relevant.

Explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food production.

Included in NPR’s Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade (2011-2021) A Nebula Award Winner A Ignyte Award Winner A Compton Crook Award for Best New Novel Winner A Locus First Novel Award Winner A RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner A Hugo Award Finalist A World Fantasy Award Finalist A NEIBA Book Award Finalist A Mythopoeic Award Finalist A Dragon Award Finalist A Best of 2021 Pick in SFF for Amazon A Best of 2021 Pick in SFF for Kobo Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world forty years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. Alongside her Ministry colleagues and a familiar person from her past, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city—or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems... Novellas by P. Djèlí Clark The Black God's Drums The Haunting of Tram Car 015 Ring Shout The Dead Djinn Universe contains stories set primarily in Clark's fantasy alternate Cairo, and can be enjoyed in any order. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Being the enforcer of the Kings Of Carnage MC it's my job to watch over the women and protect them from dirt bags that strut into Centerfolds.Aspen worked the pole like every other stripper that night. She wasn't trying to get my attention, she just wanted what was in my wallet ... cash.The more she was unfazed by me, the more I wanted to be someone she wouldn't dare forget.I get off on a challenge.I had plans to make it rain dollars on her c-cups with an arrogant smirk on my face all while she worked.That was before I realized she brought her little girl to work that night.Now having my full attention, I find Aspen in depths of trouble only my brotherhood can help her and her daughter escape.I'll be her prick, and she'll be the pain in the ass I never wanted. I didn't need her to fix me, I just wanted her to sit with me in the dark and accept that neither of us was meant to be normal. But can she?

The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

THE following work has been prepared by authority of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, by the Grand Commander, and is now published by its direction. It contains the Lectures of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in that jurisdiction, and is specially intended to be read and studied by the Brethren of that obedience, in connection with the Rituals of the Degrees. It is hoped and expected that each will furnish himself with a copy, and make himself familiar with it; for which purpose, as the cost of the work consists entirely in the printing and binding, it will be furnished at a price as moderate as possible. No individual will receive pecuniary profit from it, except the agents for its sale. It has been copyrighted, to prevent its republication elsewhere, and the copyright, like those of all the other works prepared for the Supreme Council, has been assigned to Trustees for that Body. Whatever profits may accrue from it will be devoted to purposes of charity. The Brethren of the Rite in the United States and Canada will be afforded the opportunity to purchase it, nor is it forbidden that other Masons shall; but they will not be solicited to do so. In preparing this work, the Grand Commander has been about equally and Compiler; since he has extracted quite half its contents from the works of the best writers and most philosophic or eloquent thinkers. Perhaps it would have been better and more acceptable if he had extracted more and written less. Still, perhaps half of it is his own; and, in incorporating here the thoughts and words of others, he has continually changed and added to the language, often intermingling, in the same sentences, his own words with theirs. It not being intended for the world at large, he has felt at liberty to make, from all accessible sources, a Compendium of the Morals and Dogma of the Rite, to re-mould sentences, change and add to words and phrases, combine them with his own, and use them as if they were his own, to be dealt with at his pleasure and so availed of as to make the whole most valuable for the purposes intended. He claims, therefore, little of the merit of authorship, and has not cared to distinguish his own from that which he has taken from other sources, being quite willing that every portion of the book, in turn, may be regarded as borrowed from some old and better writer. The teachings of these Readings are not sacramental, so far as they go beyond the realm of Morality into those of other domains of Thought and Truth. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite uses the word "Dogma" in its true sense, of doctrine, or teaching; and is not dogmatic in the odious sense of that term. Every one is entirely free to reject and dissent from whatsoever herein may seem to him to be untrue or unsound. It is only required of him that he shall weigh what is taught, and give it fair hearing and unprejudiced judgment. Of course, the ancient theosophic and philosophic speculations are not embodied as part of the doctrines of the Rite; but because it is of interest and profit to know what the Ancient Intellect thought upon these subjects, and because nothing so conclusively proves the radical difference between our human and the animal nature, as the capacity of the human mind to entertain such speculations in regard to itself and the Deity.

A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.

"I've been unsure about many things in my life except for one thing, that I have always loved him. Every single minute of every single day that I have been on this earth, my heart has belonged to him. It has never been a question, never a doubt. The love had taken on many different forms over the years, but it had always been a constant. Everyone has their definition of love. There have been countless songs sung about it. A gazillion books, articles, and poems written about it. There are experts on love who will tell you how to get it, keep it, and get over it. We're led to believe love is complicated. It's not the love that's complicated. It's all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you're smart, you'll realize this before it's too late and simplify." ----------------------------------------------------- Amanda Kelly spent her entire life trying to control every aspect of it, while striving for perfection. Her obsession with being perfect, along with her feelings of worthlessness, consumed her. The one thing she thought was perfect in her life was the bond she shared with her best friend, Noah. Everything was going according to her life plan until she woke up one day and realized she had fallen in love with him. The one thing she couldn't control was the affect he had on her. Noah had the power to give her one hundred lifetimes of happiness, which also gave him the power to completely devastate her. He was the one thing in her life that was perfect, but she couldn't allow herself to have him. Her life begins to unravel. Events take over and force her to let go of her dreams and desires. She needs to realize that a person cannot control the events in their life, only their reaction to them...but will it be too late for her to save her relationship with her best friend? Present Perfect is a story of how past events have present consequences and how perfect your present could be if you stopped fighting and just allowed it to happen. --------------------------------------------------

Quentin Clearwater is brilliant but miserable. Obsessed with the fantasy novels he read as a child, he finds the real world just doesn't compare. Then one day it happens: he stumbles unexpectedly into a hidden world and is invited to join a very exclusive college, where he will learn the secrets of magic. But something is still missing. And now Quentin will do anything to find what he's always been looking for. Praise for The Magicians Trilogy 'The best fantasy trilogy of the decade.' Charles Stross 'The most entertaining and compelling fantasy I've read in a long time.' The Times 'Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along... Literary perfection.' Erin Morgenstern 'May just be the most subversive, gripping, and enchanting fantasy novel I've read this century.' Cory Doctorow 'Dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this.' George R. R. Martin 'Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.' Joe Hill 'A darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself.' The New Yorker 'The Magicians ought to be required reading... a terrific, at times almost painfully perceptive novel of the fantastic.' Kelly Link 'Brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath.' Naomi Novik

The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY “The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this.” —George R.R. Martin “Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.” —Joe Hill “A very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre.” —John Green “The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I’ve read this century.” —Cory Doctorow “This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them . . . an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.” —The New Yorker “The best urban fantasy in years.” —A.V. Club Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . . The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination.

Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms—all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw—David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.

Alex Award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo is a Tor.com original historcal fantasy set in an alternate early twentieth century infused with the otherworldly. Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads her through the city’s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and a plot that could unravel time itself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The practices of beauty -- A market for beauty -- Advertising beauty -- Maligning beauty -- Domesticating beauty -- Selling natural artifice -- Selling the orient -- Selling masculinity.