Download or read book Auctioned Virginity written by Raven Woodward and published by Raven Romance. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romero came into my life when I was thirteen and taught me how to fight. To stand up for myself. He helped me survive. But his promise to protect me and my mother washed down the drain the night she died. I was sixteen. He let me leave, and then he didn't call. Didn't even try to make sure I hadn't died in some seedy hotel. That was just how I wanted it. Until two years later, when my meager earnings at a failing shoe store couldn't cover all my expenses and sleeping in a broken down car wouldn't last. It only took one phone call-hearing his voice again-for all my walls to come crumbling down. The first night back under his roof, I stumble into his private den to ask for money, inadvertently interrupting he and his ridiculously gorgeous, wealthy friends playing poker. That's when his friends start to bid on me. On my virginity. They're all dangerous-I can feel it-but not even I know just how dangerous until it's too late. Even though Romero tries to stop me, I can't help but consider giving my body up for money. Except the way he looks at me makes me think he's the one that wants to take what I'm offering.

Download or read book Auctioned to the Greek Billionaire written by Carmen Falcone and published by Entangled: One Handed Reads. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’d do anything to save my brother. So when I discover Madame Alexa’s Virgin Auction by accident, it feels like the answer to everything. Auction off the one thing that’s still mine to give. It’s just sex. It’s just my virginity. But now I’m backstage, looking like a version of myself I don’t recognize. I’m trussed up and exposed in every possible way. Suddenly, the curtains open and I’m on stage. But when I see his eyes, I decide maybe this isn’t so bad after all... Each book in the Highest Bidder series is STANDALONE: * Auctioned to the Greek Billionaire * Sold to the King * The Billionaire's Betrayal

Download or read book Auctioned To The Biker written by Mia Ford and published by Mia Ford. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s mine, only mine. I will guard her, save her – even if it means, protecting her from members of my own gang. Yes, we bought her innocence at the auction together, But one taste of her, And I realize I’m not ready to share. I know this is against our rules, But who the f*ck cares when rules involve a woman as gorgeous as Jenny.

Download or read book Billionaire Auction written by Brynn Paulin and published by Supernova Indie Publishing Services LLC. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No way is she selling what belongs to me! Yes, her father stole from me. Yes, I want the money back. No, I don't expect her to repay me. I definitely don't expect her to auction away her virginity to pay me. Doesn't she realize that already belongs to me? She's mine. But if this is how I get my woman, fine. I'll win the auction and take the prize. She thinks it's just for the weekend. Wrong. She'll know soon enough, it's forever.

Download or read book At Any Price written by Brenna Aubrey and published by Silver Griffon Associates. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is one of 13 romance novels that should be on every woman's bucket list."--Bustle.com I had the craziest idea when I decided to auction my virginity online. I have reasons for it. Good reasons. My mom’s hospital bills, for one. My medical school tuition, for another. By day, I’m a student and popular gaming blogger, but my dream is to become a doctor. This auction could free me from a crushing pile of debt and give me the cash I need to make my dreams a reality. And honestly, I’m also looking forward to cashing in that troublesome V-card. Win, win. My rules are set in stone: One night, then no further contact with the auction winner. Enter Adam Drake, the brilliant gaming company CEO and multimillionaire. He won my auction. He’s young, driven, and so damn sexy. It’s frightening how attracted I am - though I’d never admit it. And it’s clear I’ll need to protect my heart. But Adam is used to making the rules and before I can catch it, he's found a loophole. Every stipulation I made to protect myself is getting tossed by the wayside. I can’t help but wonder… Is he playing me? Or is he playing for keeps?

Download or read book Virgin Envy written by Jonathan A. Allan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something that is somehow bound to the hymen, whereas male virginity is almost as elusive as the G-spot: we know it's there, it’s just we have a harder time finding it. Of course boys are virgins, queers are virgins, some people reclaim their virginities, and others reject virginity from the get go. So what if we agree to forget the hymen all together? Might we start to see the instability of terms like untouched, pure, or innocent? Might we question the act of sex, the very notion of relational sexuality? After all, for many people it is the sexual acts they don’t do, or don’t want to do, that carry the most abundant emotional clout. Virgin Envy is a collection of essays that look past the vestal virgins and beyond Joan of Arc. From medieval to present-day literature, the output of HBO, Bollywood, and the films of Abdellah Taïa or Derek Jarman to the virginity testing of politically active women in Tahrir Square, the writers here explore the concept of virginity in today’s world to show that ultimately virginity is a site around which our most basic beliefs about sexuality are confronted, and from which we can come to understand some of our most basic anxieties, paranoias, fears, and desires.

Download or read book A Virgin For The Billionaire written by Alice Moore and published by Chronos Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would You Dare To Lose Your V-card To A Handsome Billionaire?.... When Lilly received an e-mail which confirmed that her application had been accepted she was excited and anxious as what was going to happen from there and she should be. This was no ordinary website. This website specialty lied in the selling and buying of young girls virginity online. Lilly did not know it yet but she was in for the emotional roller coaster of her life! Richard: Beautiful. Innocent. Talented... but she was half my age. I spent my life building up my empire, but I needed someone to share it with. Someone smart and understanding; someone that could look past my money. Lilly was genuine, taking no effort at all to help me realize what I was lacking. She was compassionate and didn’t let negativity swallow her up when she had every right to. But, most of all, she made music with her soul that resonated with mine, and even at first glance, I knew I needed her. Lilly: All it took was a chance meeting for my life to get derailed from the straight and narrow. He dominated every decision I made, standing at the forefront of my life with open arms and a tender smile. He was waiting for me- waiting for us to grow in those places we both neglected. I didn’t really believe in miracles but meeting with Richard was a fateful encounter at the right time, in the right place. Yes, he was the one, and I wasn’t going to let him slip through my fingers! A Virgin For The Billionaire is a 44K words Billionaire Virgin Auction Secret Baby Romance. It's a Happy Ever After standalone with NO Cheating and No Cliffhanger!

Download or read book Geisha written by Mineko Iwasaki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and the traditions surrounding the geisha culture.

Download or read book Filthy Beautiful Lies Filthy Beautiful Series Book 1 written by Kendall Ryan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the powerfully erotic Filthy Beautiful series 18+

Download or read book Chasing Hope written by Nicholas D. Kristof and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his event-filled path from a small-town farm in Oregon to every corner of the world. Reporting from Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, while traveling far afield to India, Africa, and Europe, Kristof witnessed and wrote about century-defining events: the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, and the wave of addiction and despair that swept through his hometown and a broad swath of working-class America. Fully aware that coverage of atrocities generates considerably fewer page views than the coverage of politics, he nevertheless continued to weaponize his pen against regimes and groups violating basic human rights, raising the cost of oppression and torture. Some of the risks he took while doing so make for hair-raising reading. Kristof writes about some of the great members of his profession and introduces us to extraordinary people he has met, such as the dissident whom he helped escape from China and a Catholic nun who browbeat a warlord into releasing schoolgirls he had kidnapped. These are the people, the heroes, who have allowed Kristof to remain optimistic. Side by side with the worst of humanity, you always see the best. This is a candid memoir of vulnerability and courage, humility and purpose, mistakes and learning—a singular tale of the trials, tribulations, and hope to be found in a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth.

Download or read book Consent Culture and Teen Films written by Michele Meek and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant, with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. While contemporary movies now routinely prioritize consent, ensure date rape is no longer a joke, and celebrate girls' desires, sexual consent remains a problematic and often elusive ideal in teen films. In Consent Culture and Teen Films, Michele Meek traces the history of adolescent sexuality in US cinema and examines how several films from the 2000s, including Blockers, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Kissing Booth, and Alex Strangelove, take consent into account. Yet, at the same time, Meek reveals that teen films expose how affirmative consent ("yes means yes") fails to protect youth from unwanted and unpleasant sexual encounters. By highlighting ambiguous sexual interactions in teen films--such as girls' failure to obtain consent from boys, queer teens subjected to conversion therapy camps, and youth manipulated into sexual relationships with adults--Meek unravels some of consent's intricacies rather than relying on oversimplification. By exposing affirmative consent in teen films as gendered, heteronormative, and cis-centered, Consent Culture and Teen Films suggests we must continue building a more inclusive consent framework that normalizes youth sexual desire and agency with all its complexities and ambivalences.

Download or read book Selling My Virginity written by Jan Zakobielski and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you can read about the rise of a 19-year-old to the head of the world's most famous escort agency and the stories of seven young women who have decided to sell their virginity through his agency. Mandy is 36. She's still a virgin. Now she decided to change this.Samira grew up in Saudi Arabia. She wears a burka in her country. Now she explains the reasons why she wants to sell her body.Gia is from Kazakhstan. Her mother has cancer and the family lacks to pay the money for the operation. Amar was kidnapped as a child in India and kept as a slave for years. She reports about her childhood and her cooperation with the agency. Giselle from the USA has already sold her virginity and is now talking about how she lives the American Dream.The stories of these and other girls can be found in this book!Accompanied by numerous statistics and insider knowledge from the world of love for sale.

Download or read book Shakespeare and Domestic Life written by Sandra Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary explores the language of domestic life found in Shakespeare's work and seeks to demonstrate the meanings he attaches to it through his uses of it in particular contexts. "Domestic life" covers a range of topics: the language of the household, clothing, food, family relationships and duties; household practices, the architecture of the home, and all that conditions and governs the life of the home. The dictionary draws on recent cultural materialist research to provide in-depth definitions of the domestic language and life in Shakespeare's works, creating a richly rewarding and informative reference tool for upper level students and scholars.

Download or read book Auctions written by Timothy P. Hubbard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay. Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling advertising on the Internet to course assignment at MIT's Sloan School. And yet beyond the small number of economists who specialize in the subject, few people understand how auctions really work. This concise, accessible, and engaging book explains both the theory and the practice of auctions. It describes the main auction formats and pricing rules, develops a simple model to explain bidder behavior, and provides a range of real-world examples. The authors explain what constitutes an auction and how auctions can be modeled as games of asymmetric information—that is, games in which some players know something that other players do not. They characterize behavior in these strategic situations and maintain a focus on the real world by illustrating their discussions with examples that include not just auctions held by eBay and Sotheby's, but those used by Google, the U.S. Treasury, TaskRabbit, and charities. Readers will begin to understand how economists model auctions and how the rules of the auction shape bidder incentives. They will appreciate the role auctions play in our modern economy and understand why these selling mechanisms are so resilient.

Download or read book Sold at the Auction written by Cassandra Dee and published by Cassandra Dee Romance. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My virginity was supposed to be priceless. I didn’t think it was possible. Troy Black was a billionaire who didn’t need to buy girls. But at the virgin auction, he bought me and suddenly I belonged to the alpha male. He made it sweet for me though. I wore his clothes. Ate the best food. And slept in a big, fluffy bed. But everything came with a price … because the billionaire wanted something precious that only I could give! Hey Readers — This is a sexy, over-the-top romance that will make your cheeks burn and your panties melt. It’s the first book in my Billionaires Club series, and you’ll love descending into a world of sheer debauchery with dozens of handsome, wealthy men. Of course, there’s a guaranteed HEA with no cheating and no cliffhangers. Be sure to buckle your seatbelt because it’s gonna be a wild ride! xoxo, Cassie

Download or read book Roger Ebert s Movie Yearbook 2007 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most-trusted film critic in America." --USA Today Roger Ebert actually likes movies. It's a refreshing trait in a critic, and not as prevalent as you'd expect." --Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle America's favorite movie critic assesses the year's films from Brokeback Mountain to Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 is perfect for film aficionados the world over. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 includes every review by Ebert written in the 30 months from January 2004 through June 2006-about 650 in all. Also included in the Yearbook, which is about 65 percent new every year, are: * Interviews with newsmakers such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence Howard, Stephen Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Heath Ledger, Nicolas Cage, and more. * All the new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns. * Daily film festival coverage from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride. *Essays on film issues and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year.

Download or read book The Jeweled Ladies written by Maggie Chase and published by Sarah M. Anderson. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 1159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Jeweled Ladies! Brimstone, Texas, is home of the world-famous Jeweled Ladies. The finest brothel this side of the Mississippi, the Jeweled Ladies is hosted by Mistress. She will be delighted to match you up with a Jewel. No matter what your tastes run to, she has a highly skilled Jewel for you. His Topaz: Can Matthew Hawkins, a lonely rancher and a Civil War vet, find happiness--and a family--with Topaz Gold? Or will her past keep them apart? Their Emerald: Raymond Dupree, the mayor of Brimstone is gay--and in love with Hank O'Shea, his bi assistant. But he also cares deeply for Emerald Green, the finest dove in the Jeweled Ladies. When rivals threaten Emmy, Raymond and Hank decide to share everything to keep her safe. Her Ebony: Minerva Krenshaw is the prickly schoolmarm, determined to protect her reputation at all costs. But when she falls head over heels in love with Ebony White, the beautiful Jewel threatens everything. Can Minerva support Ebony's plans to open her own shop--and love another woman with all her heart? His Sapphire: Judge Gerard Hobson is losing control over his life. But when he meets Sapphire Bleu, she offers to teach him how to dominate her. Can Gerard embrace his dark side safely with Sapphire, or will his desires destroy them both? His Crown Jewel: The Mistress of the Jeweled Ladies has accumulated wealth and power as the madam of the infamous brothel. She has everything she could ever want--except her childhood love, Free Cyrus Franklin. But when these two reconnect after years apart, will they be able to overcome the past? His Diamond: Miss Cynthia Hobbs needs just one night to ruin herself--and earn enough money to protect her sister. But when bankrobber Cam Douglas buys her at auction, she gets more than she bargained for. Will the law catch them before they can ride off into the sunset? Bonus Short: Miss Sapphire’s Wedding Night: Judge Gerard Hobson has married the former Jewel Miss Sapphire—now the perfectly respectable Mrs. Sadie Hobson. How to celebrate this joyous event? Why, with a wedding night neither of them will forget. "Interested in some sexy stories set in the American West? His Topaz, Their Emerald and Her Ebony will fit the bill. I look forward to seeing what Maggie Chase writes next." - Jennifer Porter, Romance Novel News "Dear @TheMaggieChase His Sapphire is amazing read." - @JenniferRNN (Jennifer Porter, Romance Novel News) "One of the most amazing erotica series I have ever read." - Erin Penn, Goodreads "This is an interesting story, not just for the romance, which is sizzling, but also for the details about the inner workings of an old west brothel. I recommend this for anyone who likes spicy romance about the strong ladies of the west and the men who love them." -- Mary Dieterich, Goodreads