With wicked words from history's most impassioned lovers, this illustrated journal provides a haven for your most intimate desires, cloistered safely under lock and key. The Desire Journal makes a sizzling, suggestive gift for a lover or friend.

Desire Journal

Chronicle Books Staff

Romance

Chronicle Books+

Includes abstract works, collages, photographs, sculpture, and mixed media pieces from breast cancer survivors

Art. Rage. Us.: Art and Writing by Women with Breast Cancer

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Heading south? Is it the pleasure? The power? The giving? The taking? Finally you can plumb the depths of oral maneuvers in good company. This conveniently portable, stimulating volume fits easily in glove box, brief case, or evening clutch and is the perfect companion to or substitute for those private, climactic moments. Fiction, essay, poetry; here is an adventuresome literary collection to take you to provocative new heights. Sexy to shocking, dark musings to hilarious tales, Going Down is guaranteed to satisfy. Today, it's practically required reading in both the public and private sectors. Scores of notorious sexperts, including John Updike, Ana•s Nin, and Oscar Wilde, have given readers their views on oral encounters, as have Frank Zappa, Erica Jong, Harold Brodkey, Cynthia Heimel, and a host of other fresh and frank contemporary voices. Now we get the best writing, the hot low-down, all in one place. And why not? It's the topic on everyone's lips.

Going Down: Great Writing on Oral Sex

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Reference

Stimulate you mind with mind bender from Mensa, the puzzleexperts. Challenge you intellect with grid puzzles, word problems, anagrams, magic squares, and more. Ranging from easy to supertough, these number teasers are sure to build your mental muscle.

Mensa: Mighty Mind Benders: 75 Number Puzzles

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Stimulate you mind with mind bender from Mensa, the puzzle experts. Challenge you intellect with grid puzzles, word problems, anagrams, magic squares, and more. Ranging from easy to supertough, these word teasers are sure to build your mental muscle.

Mensa: Mighty Mind Benders: 75 Word Puzzles

Modeled after an exquisite travel journal from the turn of the century, Destinations has the look and feel of a beautifully crafted vintage diary. This portable and supple leather-bound journal features antique color illustrations as well as indispensable travel facts and modern-day information. Along with plenty of pages for recording adventures abroad, there is a roomy pocket for mementos, making this a beautifully distinctive keepsake book for travelers.

Destinations: A Travel Journal

Travel

The Pattern Book, a follow-up to Chronicle Books' best-selling home-style guide The Color Book, is an innovative and practical tool that takes the worry and frustration out of choosing and combining patterns. With their richness, vibrancy, and texture, patterns can radically change the atmosphere of any room. But picking the right patterns to use can be an intimidating process. Now, with The Pattern Book, choosing pattern combinations is as easy as flipping a page. A three-way, split-page section makes it easy to see what a woven taffeta couch will look like with floral throw pillows, or how well a silk damask-covered chaise will go against a striped wall. The perfect design guide for people of all tastes, The Pattern Book offers a broad range of contemporary and traditional wallpaper and fabric patterns. Each fabric swatch includes full purchasing details and suggestions on where and how to use it. This comprehensive book provides a guide to using patterns, plus examples of classic pattern combinations, professional tips for combining patterns, and a glossary of the various pattern types seen in the book. With its resourceful text and innovative mix-and-match design, The Pattern Book is a simple and fun way to experiment with patterns before taking the plunge.

The Pattern Book: 64,000 Pattern Combinations for Your Home

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Continuing the success of our first two mensa decks, Chronicle Books is pleased to introduce four new decks--two for adults and two for kids. Now masterminds of all ages can stimulate their mental prowess with these portable boxes of mind benders, created by Mensa's puzzle experts.

Mensa Logic Puzzles

Mensa Riddles & Conundrums