Books published by Simon & Schuster

Johnathan Luckett returns with a novel that sizzles and sparks flames, taking readers on a sexy and suspenseful journey through the lives of three best friends as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life, love, and friendship. From the nation's capital to the streets of New York City and the French Quarter of New Orleans, Trey, Vince, and Erika are on a mission to experience all life has to offer, including relationships gone bad to steamy sex—and all the drama in between. Trey, a love-to-hate-him type player with irresistible good looks and a charming personality, is forever running from Layla, a charmingly beautiful woman with a mysterious past. A successful motivational speaker, author, and artist by day and a hopeless romantic by night, Vince is the true embodiment of a Renaissance man. Always searching for his ideal mate, Vince finds beauty in every woman he meets—until it becomes painfully apparent that she is not the one. Confident, beautiful, and successful Erika thinks she has found the one after sifting through the endless line of fake wannabes and bottom dwellers. But when problems arise in the bedroom, she is forced to take a step back and think about what is most important in her relationships. As they support and encourage one another through adversity, heartache, and misfortune, Trey, Vince, and Erica leave a trail of pandemonium everywhere they go. Along the way, their friendship is tested as two mysterious women enter their lives. Suddenly, their world is spinning madly out of control, and when the dust settles, things may never be the same.

Packed with emotional drama, this is the steamy story of the reunion of a manand a woman who share an intimate past--one that leads to a dangerous game ofdeception.

Against the backdrop of Kentucky in the 1970s -- and against all odds -- a black woman and a white man find a love that transcends race, class, and condemnation.J. Marie Darden's magnificent love story Enemy Fields is set in 1971 -- a time of war not just in Vietnam or the streets of Washington, but also in Bourbon County, Kentucky. When the Mandarenes, a wealthy white family, move into the deserted mansion across the field behind her house, Sister takes a job with them. She soon finds herself in the middle of a drama that will change the racial balance of her town by falling in love with Evian, the youngest son in the Mandarene family.In haunting prose and beautiful images, Enemy Fields is a moving story full of insight into human hearts caught in the crossfire of one of the most volatile and violent periods of American history.

New from the author of "Love and Justice" comes the story of a Virginia detective who must track down a ruthless murderer while he pieces together the remains of his own shattered heart.

A genetic apocalypse is ravaging the earth, women are disappearing from the planet, and the only hope to keep civilization from crumbling is a ten-year-old girl.In the future, people lose the ability to have daughters; and as women begin to disappear from a world already gripped by chaos, some people begin to think that a 10-year-old black girl will be the next Messiah. Seven years after the onset of this genetic apocalypse, all women have disappeared from cities like New York. Civilization, itself, seems to have ground to a halt as men, numbed by the holographic pleasures of their technological age, wait for the inevitable death of their species. It is then that a powerful military force, known simply as The Horde, begins a systematic offensive against the world's great cities. As this final battle unfolds, the girl presumed to be God escapes from the fortress where The Horde had been keeping her and thousands of other women. Once free, she forms a series of alliances—first with a cult convinced of her divinity, then with the scientist originally responsible for the genetic apocalypse, and finally with a man without a past, whose evolving conceptualization of reality seems to be the key to saving the human race. Interwoven with a rich mosaic of characters—like the seemingly supernatural Quibb; the industrial magnate, Shaka; the gender-defying cyber witch, Circe; and the revolutionary firebrand, Tio Mendez—God in the Image of Woman tells the epic story of people searching for their humanity in an age where the end of the human race seems terrifyingly close.

One by one, government officials are being picked off and the FBI have no leads—who's killing them and, more importantly, why?An affluent Supreme Court nominee and her husband are murdered by a skillful hand several days before her confirmation hearing. The next day, another high-ranking member of Washington D.C.'s elite circle is murdered. On top of these murders, a serial rapist has terrorized the city, with sixty-seven male victims and counting. FBI Special Agent Phoenix Perry is working the rapist case when she's hand-picked by the President to solve the mystery and to stop the blood thirsty killer. Little does she know that the cases are related, and the assassin seems to know her every move. As the mystery unravels, Perry learns more than she cared to know about the case—and herself.

Lacking in self-confidence and enduring the mistreatment of an insensitive employer, overweight twenty-eight-year-old secretary Jordan finds passion and fulfillment in the arms of her boss's partner, only to discover that he is already married, a situation that culminates in her being falsely accuse

Caught in the downward spiral of poverty and violence, Chico Grayson, a gifted teenage poet growing up in the brutal streets of Richmond, Virginia, where his only escape is through a ever more brutal series of crimes. Original.

Taj and Cheyenne. Twenty years ago, they were young and innocent and on the brink of passion. Then something terrible happened. Now a chance encounter will take them back to the night that changed their lives forever...It is eight P.M., a few weeks before Chritsmas. New York is vibrantly alive with holiday cheer. With snow blanketing the ground, last-minute shoppers rush in and out of brightly lit stores, while carolers brave the cold to bring music to the streets. Stopping at an old stone church with his girlfriend, Nicole, Taj joins in song with the other worshippers...and hears a soulful, hauntingly familiar voice. Moments later, Cheyenne, seated in the front pew, is stunned when a stranger leans in and softly murmurs a name she thought she'd never hear again: "Jazz..." Suddenly, she is hurled back through the years, to the brutal event that shattered their innocence and ideals, and the pact she and Taj made in its horrific afemath. But two decades have brought changes. Cheyenne is married now. Yet from the moment she and Taj meet again -- awakening long-buried memories and rekindling desire -- they realize that they hold the power to liberate themselves from the dark echoes of the past. For they have been given a precious gift -- one that will determine the rest of their lives. The choice is up to them.Introducing a pair of unforgettable characters, whose bond transcends time and distance, Jasminium tells a mesmerizing story of the very human need for connection, and of the power of love to transform lives.

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* "An engaging tale of five organs, the stomach, liver, spleen, heart (his favourite) and uterus and the history of those who tried to understand them." Laurie Tarkan, The New York Times

Using experiences from other women and her own expertise, the author discusses how to overcome the emotional trauma and deal with breast cancer from diagnosis to recovery.

From Simon & Schuster, Buying a Business (For Very Little Cash) is a definitive guide from Joseph R. Mancuso and Douglas D. Germann, Sr.Buying a Business (For Very Little Cash) will help readers to select a business, use a broker, find a deal, follow leads, make a contract, and more!

The much-anticipated sequel to Shattered Souls, From My Soul to Yours is a steamy, page-turner full of friendship, drama and dirty secrets.

With a brilliantly plotted crime novel set in small-town Massachusetts, the prize-winning author of Prince of Thievesearns a place alongside the likes of Dennis Lehane and Jeffery Deaver as a master of gritty suspense.

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Seeking acceptance in her socially driven new hometown, Emma Harris struggles with the foibles of the privileged life as she ends a new best friendship, learns unwritten dress codes, vies for the attentions of a garage boy band, and survives the politics of divorce. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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A trio of sizzling and sensuous novellas chronicles the romantic exploits of three "alpha" male heroes and their female counterparts

'In WHO NEEDS GOD, Kushner glides thoughtfully and literately from Elie Wiesel to William James to African mythology to make his case for God's role in our lives.' NEWSWEEK

From the bestselling author of THE AFTERLIFE, an awe inspiring, mind-bending ride through the cutting edge experiments that are making time travel a reality.

Repackaged in paperback just in time for the 2008 primaries, the hilarious faux presidential memoir of George W. Bush, from the creators of the Weekly Radio Address, the satirical presidential podcast featured on TheOnion.com-for readers of America, Bushisms, and The Onion.

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Lewis Coser presents an examination of the concept of social conflict and its use in empirical sociological research in this "lucid, comprehensive essay in social theory" (American Journal of Sociology).The positive values of conflict for all societies come to light in this study that reveals how conflicts fulfill social functions such as the maintenance of group boundaries and the prevention of the withdrawal of members of a group. Lewis Coser is critical of the view that conflict is dysfunctional and works to demonstrate its inadequacies. In a series of basic propositions distilled primarily from the theories of Georg Simmel, Coser clarifies the function of social conflict. Beyond this, Functions of Social Conflicts extends these propositions and relates them to psychoanalysis and empirical research theories.

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S SPIN is the first book from the editors of the popular website Spinsanity.org, which exposes the tactics of media manipulation that George W. Bush and his administration have employed to sell their agenda to the Western world.

This fascinating book reveals a hidden health crises that is afflicting millions of men from teens to middle age, male body obsession.

In this unique historical record, Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on behind the scenes at the highest levels in a diplomatic crisis.