Amy In Amsterdam

Amy and Nick have been happily married for eight years but the erotic spark is missing because of Amy's self-imposed morality. That is until they meet Elise, an exotic Frenchwoman, who introduces them to a lifestyle they had never imagined. Elise, her Dutch husband Stefan and her black lover Phillipe encourage the shy, introverted Amy to embark on a passionate adventure that transforms her from an engagingly naïve married woman into the hotwife that Nick has long fantasized about. In just one weekend Amy samples everything Amsterdam has to offer... while her conflicted husband watches. This is book two in the Hotwife Travel series. The entire series is focused on couples sharing the romance of discovering the hotwife, wife-sharing, wife watching, lifestyle together. If you missed book one of the series just search for Natalie in Nassau.

Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.

This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success (or before it found her) at the age of 63 with the publication of The Kingfisher. Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. Written in clear, limpid prose, Clampitt's letters illuminate the habits of imagination she would later use to such effect in her poetry. She offers, with wit and intelligence, an intimate and personal portrait of life as an independent woman recently arrived in New York City. She recounts her struggle to find a place for herself in the world of literature as well as the excitement of living in Manhattan. In other letters she describes a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment) and her work as a political activist. Clampitt also reveals her passionate interest in and fascination with the world around her. She conveys her delight in a variety of day-to-day experiences and sights, reporting on trips to Europe, the books she has read, and her walks in nature. After struggling as a novelist, Clampitt turned to poetry in her fifties and was eventually published in the New Yorker. In the last decade of her life she appeared like a meteor on the national literary scene, lionized and honored. In letters to Helen Vendler, Mary Jo Salter, and others, she discusses her poetry as well as her surprise at her newfound success and the long overdue satisfaction she obviously felt, along with gratitude, for her recognition.

Author Nick Johnstone unravels the all too short life and career of one of Britain's most brilliant and troubled stars. "Amy Amy Amy" tracks Amy Winehouse's erratic journey to fame from her North London Jewish family home, detailing her meteoric rise to stardom and the two albums that catapulted her to the top. Her well-publicised problems with alcohol and drugs, self-harm and personal relationships kept her in the headlines, always threatening to obscure her extraordinary musical gifts. Amy Amy Amy redresses the imbalance, giving full measure to Winehouse's talent while offering an honest account of her multiple personal crises. This updated edition of Amy Amy Amy takes the story up to July 2011 and Amy's tragic and unexpected death at her home in Camden Town following an aborted European tour and her final appearance on stage with her goddaughter at the Roundhouse in Camden.

When Dutch police tell American Leigh French that a mysterious potion has killed her daughter, Leigh travels to Holland to search for answers. Why did two young women die in the rear garden of a house in Amsterdam? Was it suicide or homicide? This gripping account of journal entries, texts, emails and narrative passages chronicles the journey of a desperate mother struggling to make sense of the ultimate loss. This is the story of one family’s pursuit of the truth after the loss of their daughter. It is a cautionary tale that shows the far reaching impact of family values and the potential conflict with the new values of younger generations—proof that these conflicts are not restricted to teens and college-aged children, but continue into our adult lives.

The vivacious Amy Scott is a promising executive at a London management consultancy firm where she ambitiously pursues her dream to succeed to the top, climbing her way up the corporate ladder. Amy meets Mike, the wealthy hotelier, at an executive workshop. She instantly desires Mike and pursues him. Mike has a reservedly charming nature, is distant, elusive and secretive. His engagement to a wealthy socialite is imminent. With the odds against her, is Amy's pursuit forbidden and overly ambitious? Her morals fraying, Amy needs answers and confides in Katie, her new associate. Does Amy tell all? In her daring pursuit of Mike, what is Amy prepared to do? And how far is Amy prepared to go?