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A Happy/Sad Book – Beautiful, Sordid, and Ultimately Hilarious Author: Carl Hiaasen Jumbled between the sleaze of lust-filled nightlife, the complexity of crooked law, the humanity of family, and the all out-bizarre, darkly sardonic tongue-and-cheek world of Floridian Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease is one his most ambitious and chaotically consuming novels yet. Forced from her job at the FBI by a drug-dealing, wheelchair steeling, psychotic ex-husband, Erin Grant has taken up work at The Eager Beaver a shady strip-joint that helps her pay the excessive lawyer bills for the seemingly never ending custody battle for her daughter. Determined to do what it takes (and [...]

An Essential Beginner's Guide to All Things Yoga Author(s): Larry Paynem Georg Feuerstein, Sherri Baptiste, Doug Swenson, Stephan Bodian, LaReine Chabut, and Therese Iknoian Last year, after many days of munching away on snacks at work, I began to think about health in a more immediate manner. Experiences of those around me, some fairly grizzly, lead me to note that if I didn’t take care of my own health, it would certainly “take care” of me – in the Godfather sense that is. My issue, however, is that I hate most forms of exercising having at various times tried bowflexing [...]

Scheherazade with Magic and Bondage Author: Greer Macallister Ada Bates was born to a transient life with a fickle, love struck mother and her lover presiding over the girl’s limited education and stringent life. Ada’s father – the abandoned husband – remains a mystery and even an uncertainty, Ada’s one blue and brown fairy-eye making everyone secretly wonder. While her mother’s chance at happiness, fruitlessly thrown away in the dreams of an affair are long gone, Ada’s talent for dance, specifically ballet, offers a better hope for the future. When one of the powerful Biltmore’s request Ada to perform at [...]