Victorian Passions Volume 14 curates a provocative anthology of rare Victorian erotica, uniting three anonymous gems: The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes, Julie, and Maude Cameron and Her Guardian. This collection delves into the shadowed realms of 19th-century desire, where youthful innocence collides with unbridled lust amid rigid social facades. Through masterful prose, it unveils the era's clandestine sensual adventures, from garden seductions to convent excesses, captur...

In the wake of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a young noblewoman in the Russian Empire makes the bold decision to stay behind, while her family scatters across the globe. Her brother flees with the White Russian emigration to New York, while her mother and sister escape to Poland. Strangely, her brother leads his American family to believe that his sister, along with her husband and daughter, vanished during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and are presumed dead. But this is far f...

Stanislas Yassukovich returns with another riveting collection of short stories, a worthy successor to his acclaimed Short Stories and A Cape Town Decameron. Each tale, woven from his vast experiences, spans an array of subjects, characters, and locales. Drawing inspiration from his illustrious career as an international investment banker, Yassukovich gives readers a privileged peek into the intersections of finance, adventure, and the human spirit. Every story offers a unique flavour, cap...

Reasonable and Holy addresses the conflict over homosexuality within the Anglican tradition, demonstrating that the church is able to provide for and support faithful and loving relationships between persons of the same sex, not as a departure from that tradition, but as a reasonable extension of it.It offers a carefully argued, but accessible means of engagement with Scripture, the Jewish and Christian traditions, and the use of reason in dealing with the experience and l...

Resource for clergy to give/use with couples seeking to be wed in an Episcopal ChurchMany couples come to an Episcopal Church seeking a place to hold their wedding ceremony because they love the setting in our beautiful churches. Others seek to be married in the Episcopal Church because their parents are members and/or it was the church of their childhood but have lapsed in attendance. While marriage is a tradition for many rooted in the religious tradition, the ch...

Like the scribe and master of the household cited by Jesus in Matthew 13, Re-membering God “brings out of treasure what is new and what is old,” and empowers us to go and do likewise. As both critique and encouragement for the church in the early part of the twenty-first century, it seeks to reclaim the foundational riches of the church’s liturgy and spirituality in the face of cultural change. These resources, some lost or neglected and others under-utilized, can help rebuild the...

The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some ofthe finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.About this book:First published in London around 1887,The Autobiography of a Flea is a classic work of Victorianerotic fiction. Written from the vantagepoint of a flea whom chance has promiscuously ordained to live in the mostintimate parts of a beautiful young maiden – Bella – thisingenious tale wittily records ...

Explores how we can use our bodies sexually and holistically in contemporary culture.What About Sex? provides a moral compass to navigate the changing landscape of sex and sexuality. Dealing with the Bible, evolving traditions and customs, and the findings of science and psychology, Haller endeavors to inform and guide rather than lay down the law. This book is not about what goes where or who does what to whom, but about what it means to be an embodied pe...

The latest work by the well-known Italian astrologer and fortune-teller Antares Stanislas.It is a biblical work because it is a twenty-two-volume series containing the interpretation of almost five thousand Tarot spreads over more than two thousand pages.Each volume is dedicated to a single Major Arcana, and its combinations with all the other Major Arcana.This series completes a whole series of publications by Antares Stanislas on the Tarot, from its meaning withou...

Humanity's greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers. But how, exactly, do our brains learn?In How We Learn, leading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene delves into the psychological, neuronal, synaptic and molecular mechanisms of learning. Drawing on case studies of children who learned despite huge difficulty and trauma, he explains why yo...

The latest work by the well-known Italian astrologer and fortune-teller Antares Stanislas.It is a biblical work because it is a twenty-two-volume series containing the interpretation of almost five thousand Tarot spreads over more than two thousand pages.Each volume is dedicated to a single Major Arcana, and its combinations with all the other Major Arcana.This series completes a whole series of publications by Antares Stanislas on the Tarot, from its meaning without l...

". . . writes beautifully yet sparingly, never letting his deep knowledge of the detail get in the way of the story. It's a compelling read." -Ivan Fallon, bestselling author of BillionaireThe novella Summertime is set in the "old money" crowd of Long Island and describes an affair between a GP and his patient, causing his professional guilt, compounded by the guilt of his paramour, due to her relationship with her father.A brass rubbing h...