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Three adult sisters are faced with their mother’s provocative last request in this clear-eyed and moving novel exploring choice, change, and power in the bodies and lives of four different women. Sloane, a former actress now working as a therapist, is determined to find a meaningful way...

I can read a man before he even opens his mouth. I know which ones are starving to be understood, which ones hide their scars in designer suits, and which ones will hand me exactly what I need just for the privilege of feeling seen. I've been running this game long enough to turn conversations into currency and eye contact into opportunities. Every move I make is calculated. When I dance, my movements speak to their thoughts before I ever open my mouth. I tell their secrets with the arch of my back, answer their questions with the roll of my hips while I strip them bare mentally.

Largely set in the South, the 11 stories of Body Language guide us into the hidden worlds of the culture wars. The people in these stories belong to the fringes of society, struggling for an identity and a place to belong.

An unexpected windfall has given burned-out Chicago journalist Mark Manning the chance to reconnect with his boyhood roots. With the blessing of his lover, Neil, he leaves the Windy City to return to Dumont, Wisconsin, to take over the town paper. His long-awaited family reunion is cut short when his cousin Suzanne is bludgeoned to death just before Christmas dinner. Before she dies, she whispers something to Manning: The name of her son. Was she expressing a mother’s dying wish for the future welfare of her child? Or revealing the identity of her murderer?

When a long-lost love comes knocking, a loyally wedded rancher is tempted by old passions. A bartender wrestling with sobriety is pushed to the edge by a familiar barfly. After her husband's death, a famous composer struggles to write a single note. From international flights to hidden grottoes and a nude beach, 12 wayward souls seek to satisfy their deepest hungers and escape their fears. Body Language explores our often-misguided quest for happiness and connection.

Maddie Wells’s life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. The Language of Bodies probes the seduction of vengeance using vivid, sensual imagery to explore how love transcends the particulars of body parts and how revenge blurs the line between victim and perpetrator, hero and villain.

If there's one thing that Damian Vince can do well, it's read women. With his trademark wink and sexy drawl, he's the most wanted cowboy on the Boot Knockers Ranch, a spa where sexually challenged women come to get charmed out of their uptight panties. He's also the ranch's bad boy - he hates to admit he's had his mug shot taken more than once. But now he's on the right path, ranching and fulfilling women's desires.

Dans un petit atelier parisien, Antoine surprend son amie artiste-peintre, Caroline, en plein ébat avec l'un de ses modèles, et les observe secrètement en se caressant. Moins bien caché qu'il le pensait, Antoine est le premier surprit lorsque Caroline lui avoue qu'elle a apprécié sentir son regard sur elle. Il lui confie alors les fantasmes qu'il entretient pour un autre modèle : la séduisante Eva aux seins galbés et à la peau de velours. Dès lors, Caroline orchestre des jeux sensuels pour le guider dans la découverte de nouvelles jouissances.

In einem kleinen Pariser Atelier erwischt Antoine seine Malerfreundin Caroline bei einem Techtelmechtel mit einem männlichen Aktmodell und beobachtet heimlich, wie sie sich gegenseitig verwöhnen. Als er auffliegt, ist Antoine überrascht, dass Caroline zugibt, seine Blicke auf ihrem Körper zu genießen. Er vertraut ihr eine Fantasie an, die er für ein anderes Modell hegt: die verführerische Eva mit ihren wohlgeformten Brüsten und ihrer samtenen Haut.