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"Summary: A novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more ... Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?""

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ABSTRACTSeventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay for passage out of the country. Now he finds himself running a grocery store In a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where his daytime customers are schoolchildren and his nighttime customers are prostitutes and alcoholics. His only companions are two fellow African immigrants, a Congolese waiter and a Kenyan engineer, who share his feelings of frustration with and bitter nostalgia for their home continent. Years ago, half a world away and still In the embrace of family, he never would have imagined himself living a life of such isolation."."But after a long period of blight, Sepha's neighborhood begins to change. Hope comes In the form of new neighbors - Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter - who restore the grand, dilapidated house next door. They become his friends and remind him for the first time In years of what having a family Is like. But their arrival signals something more profound for the neighborhood's long time residents, and when its newfound calm is disturbed by a series of racial Incidents, Sepha may lose everything all over again."

"Lima tahun berlalu tanpa bertukar kabar, Huang Lei dan Selena Fortier bertemu kembali di dapur pastry The Capital Beijing. Dua sahabat yang dulu sangat dekat dan selalu bersama menyusuri hutong yang membingkai Kota Terlarang, kini menjadi canggung, asing, dan berjarak. Hanya waktu yang akhirnya berhasil mengurai satu demi satu benang kusut di antara mereka. Lei yang sejak lama masih menyimpan hati pada Selena mulai mendamba kembali manis yang tak sempat dikecap. Namun, sebelum bisa sepenuhnya memiliki Selena, Lei harus menghadapi lawan yang hadir di masa kini, “hantu” dari rumah tangga Selena, dan dirinya sendiri yang terlalu sering terlambat melangkah. Kisah cinta yang disangka sederhana pun menjadi rumit karena terjebak dalam labirin hati yang berliku."