Documents the efforts of drug companies to find a cure for the phenomenon known as female sexual dysfunction.

Lulu, a fifteen year-old girl, succumbs to the attraction of a friend of her older brother. After this first experience, she feeds for years the ghost of the man who will later burst into her life and eventually accepts the challenge of prolonging their peculiar sexual relationship, the loving play of childhood. He creates a private universe for her, a world where time has no meaning, but the risk of living outside reality explodes when Lulu, now...

A modern tale of striving ambition, envy, desire and murder, and a mesmerizing take on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy, this time set among California's beautiful people.

"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...

Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers. The entire kingdom's future rests on...