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Cleis Press publishes provocative, intelligent books in the areas of sexuality, LGBT studies, erotica, fiction, and human rights. Viva Editions are books that inform, enlighten, and entertain. While Viva Editions is a line of books that are as fun as they are informational, the intention behind Viva is very serious—these are books that are truly helpful and intended to enhance people's lives.

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Give a Listen to These Erotica Bestsellers!

Bestselling Erotic Audio Books from Cleis PressEverybody is talking about reading erotica and erotic romance, and now you can listen to some of the top books in the genre. Cleis Press has some of the best selling erotic audio books around thanks to authors and editors Rachel Kramer Bussel, Alison Tyler, Violet Blue, and Kristina Wright. Give their audio books a listen and see what all the excitement is about: Orgasmic , edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel He's on Top 

Legendary. Literary. Listening. Beebo Brinker

Ann Bannon, the Queen of Lesbian PulpDesignated the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp" for authoring several landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon's stories broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embraced their sexuality. An HBO series is in development based on The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. Ann Bannon has received numerous awards: she was named one of Equality Forum’s LGBT Icons 2012; she received the

Wordcatcher, Phil Cousineau's PBS Show "Global Spirit" debuts June 29!

Global Spirit, hosted by author Phil Cousineau will air nationally on PBSGlobal Spirit is a unique “internal travel” series that investigates the most urgent existential and spiritual issues of the 21st century. Global Spirit brings to light the exciting intersection of ancient wisdom traditions and modern science, to help viewers define who we are as human beings and to explore how this affects our relationships to our families, to our communities and to the world at large. Starting in July, the show will air nationally on PBS. Check your local PBS listings. The show is hosted by

Listen with Your Ears to Viva Editions Audio Bestsellers

It’s never too late to change your life!People have busy lives. Sometimes you can only find time to read while you are commuting to work or taking the kids to soccer practice. Now Viva Editions offers you another way to improve your life with the addition of four of our bestsellers to our list of audio books. Apocaylpse Not: Everything You Know about 2012, Nostradomus and the Rapture is Wrong by John Michael Greer, and narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn, is a survey of three millennia of apocalyptic prophecies and the failed dreams and nightmares that have clustered around them.  It

If you’re tired of being tired, just give this a listen!

The Fatigue Prescription is now an Audio Book!Now available in audio book , Linda Hawes Clever’s The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health and Life, narrated by Traci Odom. Are you living your to-do list rather than living your life? Many of us run from task to task and are burning the nearly non-existent candle at both ends. We are sleep-deprived, overworked, overwhelmed, and undernourished in body and soul. We slam energy drinks, gnaw energy bars, and constantly drink caffeine to keep

America’s Having a Moment…And it’s a Kinky One

Anyone who watched this season’s premier of HBO’s “Mad Men” will have witnessed the S/M power play between Don Draper and his lovely new bride. Keira Knightly’s on-screen spanking in Kronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method” sparked a cavalcade of press. And in the past few weeks it’s been impossible to avoid the story of E L James, the British working mother whose BDSM novel launched her into Hollywood super-stardom, with the #1 selling book in the world and a $5 million movie deal. Bondage books have been around forever. In 1965 when the first American edition of  The Story of O was published,

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