Acknowledged as one of the most insightful and provocative teachers of our time, bestselling author David Deida continues to revolutionize the way that men and women grow spiritually and sexually. His ten books are published in more than twenty-five languages worldwide and are required reading in university, church, and spiritual center courses. His workshops on a radically practical spirituality have been hailed as among the most original and authentic contributions to the field of self-development currently available. Deida is included in The Watkins Review Spiritual 100 List, designating the most spiritually influential people worldwide. He is a founding member of Integral Institute, and has taught and conducted research at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, University of California-Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, Lexington Institute in Boston, and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. Some of his recent books include Blue Truth, The Enlightened Sex Manual, and the 20th Anniversary Edition of the international bestseller, The Way of the Superior Man.

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“Ida and Bennett have a charming rapport that makes the reader somewhat sorry when they reach their destination. One can only hope future adventures are planned!” — Library Journal (starred review)

“With the latest sparkling installment in her Duke’s Daughters series, following
Lady Be Reckless (2018), the always reliable Frampton delivers another happy literary marriage of red-hot sensuality and deliciously dry wit.” — Booklist (starred review)

“A sparkling romance, bright and beautiful, and oh-so-swoony!” — Fresh Fiction

About the Author

“What a treasure! I want to give this book to everyone I know!” ―Jenny Wade, Ph.D., author of Transcendent Sex

“David Deida’s work is on the forefront of 21st-century conscious sexual love. I recommend this book with confidence.” ―Charles Muir, author of Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving

“In the area of sacred intimacy, David Deida is holding a lightning bolt. He sheds an astonishing light.” ―Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

David Deida

“You’ll blush, your pulse will race.” — The New York Times

“Delicious…women can share in their sisters’ secrets and not feel that they are alone.” — Los Angeles Times

“Provocative.” — Women’s Wear Daily

Nancy Friday is the author of seven books: My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers, Jealousy, Men in Love, My Mother/My Self, Women on Top, and The Power of Beauty. She lives in Key West, Florida, and in Connecticut.

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Praise for Imagine Me Gone:

“Haslett is one of the country’s most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization and a limber, unpretentious style. Perhaps his rarest gift is the apprehension of the invisible connections that tie people together…The chapters seamlessly negotiate the passage of time…[Oldest son] Michael comes to dominate the narrative, and Haslett perfectly captures the qualities that make him both seductive and infuriating. He is a motormouth with a fitful imagination and a wicked sense of humor; his nervous energy and ‘ceaseless brain’ are the battery power on which the whole family runs…Haslett is alert to the reality of others, and the insinuating power of this novel comes from its framing of mental illness as a family affair. Michael’s siblings are both wholly convincing characters, shaped by the abiding question of how much, or how little, they are meant to act as their brother’s keepers…Most affecting of all is Margaret, who is treated with impatience by her children but possesses a capacious understanding…’What do you fear when you fear everything?’ Michael wonders. ‘Time passing and not passing. Death and life….This being the condition itself: the relentless need to escape a moment that never ends.’ That condition, Haslett’s superb novel shows, is an irreducible part of the fabric of Michael’s family, as true and defining as the love that binds them.”
―Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

“Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone, Haslett has reached another level, affording readers a full and luminous depiction of a mind under siege . . . By putting the readers in the same position as [oldest son] Michael’s family members, Haslett has pulled off something of a brilliant trick: We feel precisely what they feel-the frustration, the protectiveness, the hope and fear and, yes, the obligation. If Michael is on the page, if his thoughts or actions are laid bare, there’s a grueling sense of dread. If he’s out of sight, if his thinking and whereabouts are unknown, the dread becomes all but unbearable . . . This is a book refreshingly replete with surprise. It sneaks up on you with dark and winning humor, poignant tenderness, and sentences so astute that they lift the spirit even when they’re awfully, awfully sad . . . But make no mistake, the novel’s most rewarding surprise is its heart. Again and again, the characters subtly assert that despite the expense of empathy and the predictable disappointment of love, our tendency to care for one another is warranted . . . Even when it’s difficult or terrifying or impossible, especially when it’s impossible, the impulse to calm those we hold dear is an absolute privilege.”
―Bret Anthony Johnston, New York Times Book Review

“Imagine Me Gone brilliantly captures the excruciating burden of love and the role it plays in both our survival and our destruction. Haslett suspends a sense of dread over you like an anvil from page one, cutting the rope that holds it in the brutal last act. You’d be a fool to look away.”
―Julia Black, Esquire

“A richly drawn, Franzenesque canvas . . . Haslett’s prose shimmers as he peers unflinchingly at the risks and rewards of fighting for love.”―O, The Oprah Magazine

“A devastating family drama . . . Haslett’s considerable skills as a writer turn domestic conflicts into something more profound . . . In one beautifully rendered scene after another, Haslett shows the family dealing with John’s illness and Michael’s descent while also managing their own conflicts . . . Imagine Me Gone is a handsome work . . . the sort of writing that is guaranteed to turn heads.”―Michael Magras, Miami Herald

“Searing . . . Devastating and gorgeously written . . . Pure genius . . . Haslett hits the nail on the head when it comes to describing just how anguishing and time-consuming psychiatric disorders can be, not only for the afflicted but also for the flailing loved ones trying their damnedest-and failing-to find a suitable fix . . . Haslett writes with his eyes wide open about the pitfalls of piled-on medication, the panicked late-night phone calls, the cycles of fear, frustration, and guarded hope. And herein lies the kicker: Because these chapters are told from the alternating perspective of each of the five family members, we believe every word in them and bear witness to just how complex and multi-angled the issue of mental illness can be . . . By signing on with Haslett and his characters we are given the chance to look beyond our minutiae and daily distractions in order to notice the passage of time as experienced by others. We are reminded of what it is like to be truly, if fleetingly, alive.”―Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle

“Powerful . . . Imagine Me Gone is a study of destructive family dynamics akin to Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children or Paul Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast. Family here is a trap as filled with love and concern as it is with exasperation and dread. Moving with penetrating wit between the points of view of a father, mother, daughter, and two sons, the novel traces how the vein of mental illness running through this family affects every member . . . Haslett, as he turns the narrative over to first one and then the other, is uncanny in nailing how their differences in personality and temperament guide their respective actions . . . His sharp take on how minor family foibles become conflated with major family dysfunction introduces some unexpected comedy into the proceedings . . . Haslett expertly evokes family behavioral patterns that simply repeat themselves, taxing everyone’s patience, before precipitating into panic-inducing crises . . . With its fugue of voices, each contributing a vital slant to the action, Imagine Me Gone offers rigorous formal pleasures. Yet while flirting with narrative artifice, Haslett stays keenly aware that in this family there is no explanation ‘sufficient to account for the events . . . Lives weren’t works of art.’ In acknowledging that, Imagine Me Gone respects the mystery of how things happen the way they happen, while brilliantly conjuring the tide-like pull with which dreaded possibilities become harsh inevitability.”―Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe

“Drawing vivid scenes and compelling characters from a tragic realism, Haslett intimately connects the reader to his characters’ inner lives . . . A rare, complex story [with] exceptional storytelling and poignant insights [and] uplifting moments of humor, kindness, and love.”
―Don Oldenburg, USA Today

“An extraordinary blend of precision, beauty, and tenderness . . . Haslett’s prose rises to the challenge, lushly capturing the dense fog of depression that blankets John [the father] and occasionally lifts just enough to reveal the ‘beast’ moving in on him. But Haslett really shows his chops channeling [oldest son] Michael’s amped-up voice . . . I got caught up in the beauty of Haslett’s sentences and the lives of these oh-so-human people bound by shared duress and cycles of hope. Haslett’s signature achievement in Imagine Me Gone is to temper the harrowing with the humorous while keeping a steady bead on the pathos. You want sympathetic characters? You want a narrative that showcases love as a many-splendored thing capacious enough to encompass stalwart, long-suffering spouses, loyal siblings, suffocatingly obsessive crushes, and casual, noncommittal relationships (both gay and straight) that morph as if by magic into soul-sustenance? You want writing that thrums with anguish and compassion? It’s all here.”―Heller McAlpin, NPR

“Smart and polyphonic…Haslett is that rare writer whose art can console without ceasing to be art.”
―Boris Kachka, New York

Adam Haslett is the author of the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, which was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, and the novel Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.

His books have been translated into eighteen languages, and he has received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, the PEN/Malamud Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. He lives in New York City.

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“Superb.… Sets a standard for which all popular sex writers should aim. Not just for lesbians―heterosexual women could learn a great deal about themselves, as could the men who aspire to please them.” ―Library Journal

“Infectious and empowering and extremely well researched. I highly recommend this book to every woman: bi, lesbian, almost queer, totally straight, or boy-girl. Getting off is good, and this book will help you get off better.” ―Bust

“A classic.” ―The Advocate

“The encyclopedia of lesbian sex that every good girl needs in her library.” ―On Our Backs

“The most complete, all-questions-answered, savvy guide to lesbian sex. Keep it next to the bed.” ―Good Vibrations

“Urban and diverse in topic, this new guide is a cool drink of water in a drought of good sex info for dykes. This book gives tips, toys and tidings you’ll wonder how you lived without.” ―Babeland

“Desire, fantasy, every twist and turn of the erotic imagination―it’s all here.” ―Planet Out

“Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions.” ―Girlfriends

“Felice Newman has her latex-covered finger on the clit of Lesbian Nation.” ―San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Kinky people may consider themselves past needing sex manuals, but anyone involved in a sexual relationship with a woman, be they male or female, would be well advised to study this book carefully.” ―Skin Two

“Up-to-date, inclusive, and hot.” ―Sexuality.org

“The most thorough and up-to-date lesbian sex guide around. Don’t buy Newman’s book expecting a clone of the genteel Joy of Lesbian Sex. The author describes everything in delicious and explicit detail…” ―LesbiaNation

“The lesbian sex information you’ve always wanted but could never find. The Whole Lesbian Sex Book is intelligent, sexy, humorous and emotionally savvy.” ―Staci Haines, author of Healing Sex

About the Author

Felice Newman is a somatic coach who works with couples and individuals. She is an author and a founding publisher of Cleis Press.

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“In The Player’s Ball…the internet gets the creepy, disturbing origin story that it deserves.”
—New York Times Book Review“Kushner delivers another digestible look at transformations spurred by unpredictable technologies, turning the dry topic of domain-name battles into a lively representation of the era’s hype, confusion, and outsized personalities… An easily consumed, worthwhile addition to the literature reconstructing how the online world has become both profitable and pervasive.”
—Kirkus Reviews“Award-winning journalist Kushner revisits this tumultuous period by recounting a quirky episode of website tug-of-war between two of the digital world’s most colorful pioneers.”
—Booklist

“A real-life Wade Watts, David Kushner found the Golden Easter Egg of internet history—the spy vs spy story of the struggle over Sex.com at the very dawn of the World Wide Web—and he tells the tale masterfully.”
—Adam Fisher, author of Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley

“David Kushner has written any number of remarkable books and articles about how the American tech industry has invaded our lives and dreams. With The Players Ball, he’s found his raunchiest, funniest, most fascinating story yet. You’ll tell yourself—frequently—while reading this book, ‘That can’t possibly be true,’ but it is. Then again, truth is stranger than fiction only when it’s this well told.”
—Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

“As usual, Kushner delivers a funny and thorough history of some corner of our technological era. He also paints a compelling portrait of two men whose genius and obsession drives them to an almost operatic confrontation played out over decades. Fast and funny, but also tragic and bizarre, Kushner delivers what might be his most unusual and thought provoking work about two men both way ahead of, and emblematic of, their time.”
—Zak Penn, coscreenwriter of Ready Player One

“The epic battle of the internet visionary behind sex.com and the man who stole it right out from under him, making millions in the process. David Kushner brilliantly tells a fascinating and often hilarious true story about the early days of the web.”
—Terence Winter, creator and executive producer of Boardwalk Empire and screenwriter of The Wolf of Wall Street

“A brilliant tale.”
—Financial Times

“A fascinating tale, and Kushner tells it with brio and detail. It’s also an eye-opening account of how much of internet commerce grew, for good or ill, out of the sex industry’s willingness to do anything, and they mean anything, for a buck.”
—Tampa Bay Times

A contributing editor of Rolling Stone, David Kushner also writes for publications including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ, and Esquire. Kushner served as the digital culture commentator for National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, and has taught journalism at Princeton University and New York University. He has been featured in The Best Business Writing, The Best American Crime Reporting, and The Best Travel Writing, and his ebook The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice. His books include The Players Ball; Alligator Candy: A Memoir (an NPR Best Book of the Year); Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto; Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb; Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas; and Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.

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“This is the best book I have ever read about sexual desire and why some couples just stop having sex, and what they can do about it. Come As You Are is an absolutely necessary guide for all couples who want to understand the ups and downs in their own sex life. It is a must read!”
—John Gottman, Ph.D., author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work“Emily Nagoski has written one of the most important books about sex any woman (or anybody else) could ever pick up, full of insights that are both fascinating and deeply useful. Synthesizing new research and theory about sexuality with old-school sex-positive information of the sort you didn’t learn in sex ed (unless, perhaps, you are a Unitarian, or Scandinavian, or lucky enough to be in Dr. Nagoski’s class), I guarantee Come As You Are will open minds and change lives.”
— Carol Queen, Ph.D., Founding director, Center for Sex & Culture“Emily Nagoski is worth her weight in TED Talks, and Come as You Are is a master-class in the science of sex.”
— Ian Kerner, sex therapist and bestselling author of She Comes First

“It’s the science of sex, decoded and demystified. Want to be educated on the latest findings about female genitalia? Of course you do. Empowering and sex-positive at best, this informative read makes for an enticing bedfellow.”
—Refinery29

“Lots of books — and articles and experts — claim to have the keys to transform your sex life. This one actually has it. It isn’t as fast as taking a pill, but it will last a whole lot longer. You will find no hot new bedroom moves — it’s that deeper-level soul stuff. You know, the stuff that actually works.”
—Salon.com

“Wonderful new language to help us articulate to women (and their lovers) what is going on.”
—Huffington Post

“Like a punch to the gut. When I read the passage that made me realize—after all these years—that I was not actually broken, I began to cry. . . . I wished [Nagoski] was someone who was actively in my life, someone I could reach out to for grounding every time I momentarily forgot the lessons in her book.”
—Book Riot

“Nagoski’s book deserves plaudits for the rare achievement of merging pop science and the sexual self-help genre in prose that’s not insufferably twee. . . . [Come As You Are] offers up hard facts on the science of arousal and desire in a friendly and accessible way.”
—The Guardian (UK)

Emily Nagoski is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, and the coauthor of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. She has an MS in counseling and a PhD in health behavior, both from Indiana University.

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