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Every fourth page is a full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist. The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of words including punched, pants, and Puerto — that's actually just the first page. After that, there are stories exploring animal-plant romances, psycho librarians, and passive-agressive ventriloquism. No fewer than two dictators appear as protagonists. And after all that, loosely glued to the inside back cover, there¹s a fifty-page booklet containing a harrowing excerpt from Chris Adrian¹s The Children¹s Hospital..
This is a handsome, handsome issue, brimming with fulfilling things.
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Nina Bangs, Cheryl Holt, Kimberly Raye, and Patricia Ryan are all well-known for writing the sexiest, most creative romances around. And in Burning Up, they showcase their talents and ratchet up the heat. From 1867 New York City to Regency England; from modern-day Texas to sometime in the future, these four stories will take readers on an erotic tour through time-and true love.
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Intense! Highly recommended.......2003-08-20
Authors Nina Bangs, Cheryl Holt, Kimberly Raye, AND Patricia Ryan combine their talented pens for a sizzling collection of novellas. These powerful tales of seduction and pleasure will keep the blood simmering with their intimate detail and erotic possibility. As sexual intensity increases, so also do the demands of the heart. In this volume spanning time and distance, these authors will leave the reader BURNING UP.
"The Flame" by Nina Bangs: Serenity So-Fine time travels from the year 2700 to 2003 seeking an erotic work of art called the Flame. As curator for the Galactic Museum of Erotic Art, Serenity has added many erotic works to the collection, but none has called to her so much as this one. In a time when sexual attraction has been reduced to negotiation and necessity, the Flame speaks to her a way almost primal. When she arrives, Serenity learns that sculptor Justin Hill exudes the very primal heat her world has lost. Unfortunately, she arrives a bit early and the Flame has not yet been created; indeed, Serenity will become the focus of inspiration for the sculpture.
"The Wedding Night" by Cheryl Holt: In 1815, Ellen Foster agrees to a platonic marriage with Lord Stephen Banbury, exchanging her wealth for his title. Little does he suspect that she very carefully chooses him to be her husband, or that her virginal exterior conceals a passion driven woman determined to lure her new husband into their wedding bed. Certainly Stephen's reputation for lewd behavior and a fabulous ass promise a bad-girl want-to-be a wild night if he will only abandon his determination to keep his distance.
"Burn, Inc" by Kimberly Raye: Determined to prove her abilities to her family, Gerry Baxter is producer for an erotic movie company called Women on Top. Production is complete on the first nine films of a ten part series for HBO, but their contract hinges on completing the entire series. Unfortunately, the woman who usually serves as the driving creative force for the company has defected to marriage and a honeymoon, leaving Gerry to complete the project. Ragweed and poor inspiration threaten disaster so Gerry calls Logan, believing he is Dr. Love and can inspire a few ideas for the final shoot. Mistaken identity and sensual promise lead to an unexpected encounter filled with eroticism.
"Possessing Julia" by Patricia Ryan: Widow Julia Hughes needs to loose her virginity within the next two weeks, or her secret will be discovered. Everyone assumes that her son was fathered by her first husband. Now she plans to marry a man just to provide him with an heir. Concerned for her son's well-being, Julia finds a unique solution. Her aunt makes a deal with Clay to show Julia the ways of love making, including how to enjoy and how to please a man. But after such a marvelous intense interlude, both Julia and Clay will face great difficulty to return to their previous lives and plans.
A Hot Summer Read!.......2003-08-06
I found this book to be a great hot summer read and was thrilled with the new authors that I read. I am a huge fan of Cheryl Holt and Kimberly Raye so Nina Bangs and Patricia Ryan were wonderful surprises for me.
I felt that the love scenes in all four books were scorchers but not used as filler but were important parts of the stories, and yes they were erotic but not as erotic as other titles in other romance lines. Still these four short novelles were fast reads and well worth picking up.
Just a little smokey.......2003-07-09
I thought Burning Up was pretty tame as far as erotic romances go.For those of you that have found the Kensington books a little too explicit, Burning Up will probably be more to your liking.
I happen to enjoy the Kensington books and Burning Up didn't do much for me except for the excellent story by Patricia Ryan.
I've read and re-read that one three times already. It's absolutely what I would have liked to have read in the other stories- explicit love scenes, angsty emotional characterizations, and the ultimate "awe, that's soooo sweet" moment at the end.
I found Nina Bang's story didn't really have enough flow to keep me engaged or interested though the premise is unique, and I always give Nina Bang points for originality and humor though her writing style does not appeal to me. The other two stories were rather uninspiring.
hot sexcapade novellas.......2003-07-07
"The Flame" by Nina Bangs. In 2700, Serenity, curator of the Galactic Museum of Erotic Art, believes one item would complete the collection, but needs to go to 2005 to buy The Flame from the sculptor Justin. He has not found the model to bring to life his mind's picture until the so-fine appearance of Serenity.
"The Wedding Night" by Cheryl Holt. In 1815 London, impoverish Lord Stephen weds wealthy American Ellen, who must persuade her spouse that she married him for the way he enflames her blood and not his title.
"Burn, Inc." by Kimberly Raye. When her partner eloped just before the tenth video is filmed, women's fantasy filmmaker Gerry finds her movie failing to heat the crew. Gerry asks Dr. Love to help her. Logan arrives to see the place where the porn moviemaker, who eloped with his brother, works. Gerry thinks this is Love and finds the inspiration to complete the series.
"Possessing Julia" by Patricia Ryan. In 1867 NYC, though she is a widow with a son, Julia remains a virgin worrying how her fiancé will react to that bit of news. She heeds the advice of Aunt Eunice to find a man to teach her how to make love. When her deceased spouse's cousin Clay arrives for the first time in six years, Julie sees it as a sign, especially when he agrees to tutor her.
Though the four tales cross different sub-genres, each one will arouse the reader (timed for when my spouse was off) with fun story lines and great lead couples. Fans of erotic romantic anthologies will appreciate these sexcapade novellas.
Harriet Klausner
If you're passionate and adventurous, this book is for you!.......2003-07-03
Burning Up!
Over the years I have read many steamy romances that have made my pulse race and my body glisten (sweat just doesn't sound as poetic). I've also had the opportunity to read women's erotica with the mistaken assumption that it would leave you as breathless as a well-written romance novel. Erotica, in general, gives readers the "shock and awe" of a sexual, often carnal exploit but show no true emotion between characters. Romantic erotica, on the other hand, gives romance readers the perfect combination of both, offering unbelievable sensuality along with a deep love and respect between the characters.
In this new and powerfully titillating Novella collection, award winning authors Nina Bangs, Cheryl Holt, Kimberly Raye and my favorite, Patricia Ryan, treat readers to an erotic escape like no other. The stories are fresh, well written and exquisitely sensual filled with a deep abiding romance that will leave your senses reeling but thoroughly satisfied. Read it if you dare and discover a side of romance that will blow your mind!
Ballston Book House Review
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Four stories in one.......2007-09-27
"Burning Up" is a collection of four stories by four different authors. The first story, "The Flame" by Nina Bangs was my least favorite of the four. The lead character, Serenity So-Fine, has traveled back in time from the year 2700 to the year 2005 or so she thinks. She comes from a time when emotions are contained within. She is the curator of the Galactic Museum of Erotic Art and lives for her art and her job. She has come to find and buy a piece of art called The Flame by a man named Justin Hill. Not much is known about him except he is 78 years old. Somehow she ends up in the year 2003 instead before the piece has even been done and Justin is not 78 but in his early 30s. Justin not only hasn't done the piece but hasn't planned on ever letting it exit his mind. Serenity's job is to get him "in the mood" to create this masterpiece in three days before she has to return to her time, but how can she when she has never experienced any of the emotions that the piece has inspired? The rest of the story came off more like a porn movie to me. The house has various rooms decorated to excite but only Justin's bedroom and attic where he practices for his job as a wrestler does the trick. The second story, "The Wedding Night," by Cheryl Holt was the reason I bought the book to begin with. I love all of her books including this one. Stephen St. John, Viscount Banbury, eventually to be Earl of Stafford had just married a complete stranger, Ellen Foster, only for the money she would bring to the marriage. He had been cut off by his father because of his wicked lifestyle of gambling and women. She was an American whose father had made a fortune in America but wanted his daughter to be titled. The agreement was a marriage in name only. To the public they would be the perfect couple but at home they would have two different rooms and two different lives and certainly no children. Ellen had other ideas. The story leaves you wanting more. The third story, "Burn, Inc.," by Kimberly Raye is about a woman, Gerry Baxter, and her partnership in a company that produces women's erotic videos. Her partner, Roxeanne, has just gotten married in Las Vegas to Stan, a complete stranger, and left on her honeymoon leaving Gerry to finish the final film by herself or lose everything including her house. She isn't the creative one in the partnership so everything starts to fall apart. She decides to call a friend of Roxeanne's for help, Dr. Love, L.A.'s most renowned relationship therapist, but when his voice mail answers she leaves an urgent message to meet her that afternoon in the film studio. She waits until the man she thinks is Dr. Love shows up but instead it's Stan's brother, Logan, coming to look for answers to why his brother had married so quickly. Because of the misunderstaning Logan begins right there in the film studio to show Gerry how to make her last video the best of them all. Both consider the time spent as business and just a one time thing, but it turns into much more. The final story, "Possessing Julia," by Patricia Ryan turned out to be my favorite of all four stories. Julia Hughes is a widow whose husband died without them ever having a wedding night together but very few people are aware of that. She has a son that she claims is hers but actually she adopted from an unmarried friend in order to keep the friend's name and reputation pure. Now she, her son, and her aunt are in dire need of money, and she must marry a wealthy businessman, Emmett Van Lew, that she barely knows. He has chosen to marry her only because he hasn't been able to have children and wants a wife who has proven to be fertile. Since Julia has a son, he believes this to be the proof he needs. Unfortunately Julia is still a virgin. When a stranger from her past reappears, Julia's aunt schemes to correct this problem. The rest of the story is about Julia learning about all the ways a man and woman become close and as a result finds herself falling in love. This story really draws you in and makes it difficult to put the book down until the final page is finished.
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Happy Birthday Luke! Your Family May Have Forgetten But I didn't!.......2007-07-19
Not a very exciting book Jacen and Jaina are off trying to find a birthday present for Leia by heading towards the ah..remains of Alderaan.
At first I was thrilled this was the first time I've read a Star Wars book that's celebrating Leia's birthday but what about Luke? Their uncle, their master and Leia's twin brother. Its his birthday too. How could Jaina and Jacen forget? The twin part makes it easy to remember. Doesn't he deserve a birthday present too? A party? Something that acknowledged it was his birthday too? That just distracted me from the entire story and the reason for the one star I mean that's kind of a big detail for the authors to forget. Its not like they were going to have one party for Leia and one for Luke or anything.
A little too much of a cliff hanger........2006-03-29
This was an ok read overall. It was, as the others in this series, a quick read. With this being a set up for five book story arc it was a little uneventful. The knights did get to tangle with a notorious bounty hunter, Boba Fett. He's on the cover so that was pretty apparent. The characters and plots are begining to get a bit repetitive, I hope when I'm able to find a copy of the following books they will improve.
Young Jedi, An Old Dissapointment.......2005-08-13
Poorly written, a quick read..Overall the book seemed a bit rushed for my liking developing only a bit of the character relations. Also what about lukes birthday? Seems kinda odd not to celebrate the masters birthday. The book near the ending picked up abit, but it seemed the young jedi were always saved, or the luckiest people in the star wards universe, seemed like an amatuer right the battle script, so excited and not knowing where to end it.
Order From Pursel Booksellers!!.......2004-09-24
I just got this book used from the company above and its perfect. I got it just the way i like books, Mint-condition, and here in a day. Thank you Pursel
An excellent start to the second cycle of Young Jedi Knights.......2001-01-03
I'll admit, this is probably one of the more boring books in the series, but it was still well-written and had good, true-to-life characters. Part of what makes this such a good series is that the same plots are not recycled over and over again, and each book has it's own particular dilemma to solve that all adds up to the intertwining plot of the whole series. In this particular story, Jacen and Jaina go to the Alderaan system to get a small piece of the planet to give to their mother, Leia for her birthday. As you can probably guess, things do not go as planned and they have several adventures along the way which I won't elaborate on for those of you who havn't read it yet. One of the good points of this book, and this whole series actually, is that the kids in them are so nice. They are always polite and respectful and are never cruel and nasty to anyone. And yet, the authors accomplished this so flawlessly that it doesn't make them seem like goody-two-shoes either, since they can be bad sometimes too, it's just pleasant to read that kind of a book sometimes. One of the major flaws in this book, which several people have already mentioned, is that the everyone forgets that it isn't just Leia's birthday, it's Luke's too. I mean, the whole point of the story was that the twins get a present for their mother, and then, even in the ending birthday scene, everyone completely forgets about Luke, including Luke himself it would seem! If what they celebrate is their adoption dates then they at least should have said something about that instead of just ignoring him. I think that would kind of hurt his feelings. Well, at least he got to come to the party. Like I said, this is an excellent book in the series, if you ignore the flaws I just mentioned.
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SHARDS OF ALDERAAN (STAR WARS YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS, NO 7)
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Poli-sci major?.......2006-05-25
The principles in this book are as pertinent today as it was 75 years ago. "The individual or the group which organizes society, however social its intentions or pretension, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself."
The author warns against religious patriotism because the natural impulse of christians is to love their fellow man, but the patriot nationalist leads them to selfishness and love of country more than people.
Every page has something of value. Anyone with even a passing interest in political science, or sociology for that matter would view him important.
"Social intelligence may prompt disillusionment without the immediate lesson of complete disinheritance. But the degree of anti-nationalism among workers will always depend somewhat upon the measure of social injustice from which they suffer.
Toolbox for American Civil Rights .......2006-03-15
Niebuhr's answer to the question, "What then should we do?" influenced MLK's thinking and found its way into the action plan of the American civil rights movement. This work is well thought out and, decades later, remains truly readable to those of us who are not trained in psychology, theology or sociology. If you feel powerlessly subjected to the tyranny of the majority and want to do something about it -- read this book.
Some Sun Through Clouds of Self-Interest.......2006-02-10
At first glance, Reinhold Niebuhr's (1892-1971) book "Moral Man and Immoral Society" (New York:Scribners, 1932, 1960), still relevant today, could seem to breed a cynical future "from the perspective of those who will stand in the credo of the nineteenth century," ". . . enmeshed in the illusion and sentimentalities of the Age of Reason." (xxiv) Niebuhr was a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and previously pastor during the Great Depression of a small congregation in or near Dearborn, Michigan, many of whose parishioners worked for Ford Motor Company's factories. Niebuhr, having lived through the frustrations and hypocrisy of the Victorian era and economic depression and two World Wars, assessed people in group types of church denominations, nations, privileged classes, the middle class, blue-collar working classes, and mobs. He lamented the necessary time restraints that representative democracy requires and that permit self-interest to misuse information and lapse into greed.
The theme of Niebuhr's text is that sometimes more or less those persons who look and act morally, quickly revert to immoral behavior in the face of the crowd. This is a special, powerful, deceptive influence of emotional "contagion." He expands upon Lord John Acton's (1834-1902) famous sentence, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Letter to Bishop Creighton, April 5, 1887; Niebuhr, 6) "The Liberal Movement both religious and secular seemed to be unconscious of the basic difference between the morality of individuals and the morality of collectives, whether races, classes or nations." (ix, xi, xxv, 257f., 262, 1960 edition) He elaborates on the crowd's collective original sin powerful to influence others.
Religious insights, Niebuhr wrote, powerfully make people "conscious of their preoccupation with self." (54) "The disrepute in which modern religion is held by large numbers of ethically sensitive individuals, springs much more from its difficulties in dealing with those complexities [--ethics and politics (257) and economics (5, 15, 142)--] than from its tardiness in adjusting itself to the spirit of modern culture." (63, 75f.)
And about psychology, "There is nothing, that modern psychologists have discovered about the persistence of ego-centricity in [hu]man[ity], which has not been anticipated in the insights of the great mystics of the classical periods of religion." (54)
Niebuhr's ten chapters then continue to illustrate and explore his theme as basic to human nature, in a rich multiplicity of historical events: religion, politics, socialism, justice, wars, hypocrisy, and so on. Niebuhr cautions about blind belief in governments: "The creeds and institutions of democracy have never been fully divorced from the special interests of the commercial classes who conceived and developed them." (14) "Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. We have noted that self-deception and hypocrisy is an unvarying element in the moral life of all human beings. It is the tribute which morality pays to immorality . . . ." (95, 117, 141, 177f.) Sinclair Lewis's (1885-1951) novel "Babbitt" (New York:Harcourt, Brace Co., 1922) reflects the history in Niebuhr's theme. So also does the historico-religious work of J. B. Noss's (and his brother David in later editions) "Man's Religions" (New York:Macmillan, 1964). Collective emotions, especially anger masked as justice, are exploited to their maximum.
Though Niebuhr wrestled with the basic polarization of authoritarianism versus true democracy and with human nature's compulsion of action-reaction, he does not reflect further upon and explore the phenomena that the majority consists of collections of minorities which control their leadership and polarization. (4, 5) Nevertheless, his perception of the historical human predicament is alarmingly accurate.
Niebuhr sees no comprehensive solution to this dilemma--the individual motivated by love and society by justice--though he hopes for groups of individuals that may bring about more of it. "Love must strive for something purer than justice if it would attain justice." (xxiv, 226, 264-266, 273f., 277)
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A classic!.......2003-08-12
This book was written in the 1930's, but the ideas in it are absolutely fresh. This is a well-thought-out Christian response to the fact of evil in the world. It says the Christian must be "in the world" and use power to confront evil, but at the same time be held personally accountable to the highest ethical standard. This is for anyone who wants to work for social justice while avoiding anarchy, relativism, and divisive identity politics. Those who still want to stand for something in a postmodern age should start here.
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
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