Download or read book Hard Core Romance written by Eva Illouz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James’s lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ingrained itself in our collective consciousness. But why have these particular novels—poorly written and formulaic as they are—become so popular, especially among women over thirty? In this concise, engaging book, Eva Illouz subjects the Fifty Shades cultural phenomenon to the serious scrutiny it has been begging for. After placing the trilogy in the context of best-seller publishing, she delves into its remarkable appeal, seeking to understand the intense reading pleasure it provides and how that resonates with the structure of relationships between men and women today. Fifty Shades, Illouz argues, is a gothic romance adapted to modern times in which sexuality is both a source of division between men and women and a site to orchestrate their reconciliation. As for the novels’ notorious depictions of bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism, Illouz shows that these are as much a cultural fantasy as a sexual one, serving as a guide to a happier romantic life. The Fifty Shades trilogy merges romantic fantasy with self-help guide—two of the most popular genres for female readers. Offering a provocative explanation for the success and popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey novels, Hard-Core Romance is an insightful look at modern relationships and contemporary women’s literature.
Download or read book Hard Core written by Tess Oliver and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sometimes one good dose of trouble could turn your life around, put you on the right path. But I'd taken the opposite side of the forked road and headed off looking for even more trouble, like a junkie constantly searching for the next high. Never would I have guessed that turn would lead me to her. I couldn't stop thinking about her. She was an angel, a hard core, bone-fide angel and in her short life, she'd already had a taste of hell"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Hardcore written by Dakota Gray and published by Confessions of a Romance Author. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decent man would have let her go after our one-night stand, but I’m not decent. Three years ago, Kennedy Mclane saw the real me after we had sex. She saw the ruthless attorney who gets clients—yes, even the guilty ones—off on technicalities. She glimpsed my heart of stone and ran in the other direction, because I’m everything she shouldn’t want. For three long years, I’ve waited for my good girl to turn bad. ’Cause when she does, it won’t matter if she’s ready for me, or if she can take it. Hard. We have unfinished business, and I’ve been more than fair. She'll probably hate me by the end of all this. But I don't care anymore. I’m going to get her out of my system, one way or another.
Download or read book Chuck s Fantasy written by Just Plain Bob and published by . This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is that why you showered last night? Chuck and Lorrie were high school sweethearts who ended up together and got married. For ten years, they have kept their marriage healthy and taken turns in making each other happy. One night, Chuck comes home late. Lorrie is waiting and eager to make love to him. She notices something strange - Chuck goes straight to the shower right after he gets inside the house. She finds it suspicious and figures out a way for Chuck to spill the beans. Chuck's confession takes their marriage and sex life to a whole new level - one that is rip-roaring, at the same time, a walk on thin ice for their marriage. **Hot Romance Erotica SAMPLE 1: At the party, I made sure that I punched all of Chuck's buttons. I was wearing one of the outfits that he had given me and CFMs with five-inch heels. I danced with anyone who asked and I allowed hands to go where ever they wanted. My ass was squeezed, my pussy was rubbed through my skirt and I just knew I was going to have bruises on my breasts when I got home. I let myself get maneuvered into dark corners, let myself be kissed and even gave some tongue to a couple of guys. I did all of that with one eye on Chuck to see how he was taking it. He wasn't smiling, but I didn't see anger either so I took it to the next level. When my next dance partner, a tall, handsome black man named Mark, suggested we step outside for some air, I said okay and three minutes later we were swapping tongues. He worked his hand down the inside of my skirt and panties and I rubbed the bulge in his pants with my hand. When his hand reached my pussy I unzipped him and reached inside, grasped his erection and pulled it out to where I could stroke it. I looked down at it and saw that it wasn't all that big, just a bit fatter than Chuck's, but no longer. "Let's go to my car," Mark whispered.
Download or read book Core written by Kassten Alonso and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS INTENSE AND COMPACT NOVEL crackles with obsession, betrayal, and madness, and was an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. As the narrator becomes fixated on his best friend’s girlfriend, his precarious hold on sanity rapidly deteriorates into delusion and violence. This story can be read as the classic myth of Hades and Persephone (Core) rewritten for a twenty-first century audience as well as a dark, foreboding tale of unrequited love and loneliness. Alonso skillfully uses language to imitate memory and psychosis, putting the reader squarely inside the narrator’s head. In addition, deliberate misuse of standard punctuation blurs the distinction between the narrator’s internal and external worlds. A sense of alienation and Faulknerian grotesquerie permeate this landscape where desire is borne in the bloom of a daffodil and sanity lies toppled like an applecart in the mud.
Download or read book X Rated Hardcore Erotica 2 written by Darren G. Burton and published by Darren G. Burton. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X-Rated Hardcore Erotica 2 is the succulent second installment in this raunchy series. A collection of erotic short stories involving a spicy array of sizzling encounters, this book includes couples, groups, swinging, threesomes and partner swapping. Indulge your deepest fantasies and arouse your desires by reading these adult tales.
Download or read book Asking for It written by Lilah Pace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is who I am. This is what I want. Now I need a man dangerous enough to give it to me.” Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid of her own desires—ashamed to admit that she fantasizes about being taken by force, by a man who will claim her completely and without mercy. When the magnetic, mysterious Jonah Marks learns her secret, he makes an offer that stuns her: they will remain near-strangers to each other, and meet in secret so that he can fulfill her fantasy. Their arrangement is twisted. The sex is incredible. And—despite their attempts to stay apart—soon their emotions are bound together as tightly as the rope around Vivienne’s wrists. But the secrets in their pasts threaten to turn their affair even darker... Reader Advisory: Asking for It deals explicitly with fantasies of non-consensual sex. Readers sensitive to portrayals of non-consensual sex should be advised.
Download or read book Relationship Bootcamp Hard Core Training for Life Love the Pursuit of Intimacy written by Roy a. Biancalana and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from a deeply mindful and conscious perspective, Relationship Bootcamp will get you in "shape" so that you can experience a healthy, sustainable, intimate relationship. This book is about strengthening seven major "muscle groups": your relationship to reality, to your mind, to your feelings, to your past, to your inner truth, to your energy and to love itself. When these "muscles" are strong, you are ready for a real and lasting relationship, but if they are not, you will experience drama, disconnection and disappointing relationships. This book will get you in "shape" so that you can attract lasting love.
Download or read book Hardcore Twenty Four written by Janet Evanovich and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headless bodies have started appearing across town in Trenton, New Jersey... Mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey in Hardcore Twenty-Four, the thrilling twenty-fourth adventure in the laugh-out-loud Stephanie Plum series by No. 1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich. The perfect read for fans of Harlan Coben and Sue Grafton. Raves for Janet Evanovich's bestselling novels: 'Razor sharp' (Sunday Express); 'Non-stop laughs with plenty of high jinks' (USA Today); 'Pithy, witty and fast-paced' (The Sunday Times). At first, it's just corpses from a funeral home and the morgue that have had the heads removed. Then a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church. Stephanie Plum knows that she's the only one with a prayer of catching this killer. If that's not enough, Diesel's back in town. The six-foot-tall, blond-haired hunk accepts no limits - that includes locked doors, closed windows and underwear. Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, isn't pleased at his arrival, nor is Ranger, the high-powered security consultant with his own plans for Stephanie. Jersey's favourite bounty hunter is stuck in the middle with more questions than answers. Who is behind the startling epidemic of mutilated corpses? And is the enigmatic Diesel's sudden appearance a coincidence or the cause of recent deadly events? What readers are saying about the Stephanie Plum series: 'Janet Evanovich is a master creator of personalities, and the characters of Stephanie Plum, Lula and the irrepressible Grandma Mazur are works of art' 'Thrilling with a wicked sense of humour pervading the book' 'There is something for everyone - adventure, action, romance, comedy and sex'
Download or read book Hard Core written by Madison Faye and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's sweet, pure, and untouched, and she's about to lose her innocence on camera. To me. Trust me, I'm no p*rn star, even if I do have the equipment of one. But when the Moretti crime family comes calling to collect on a debt I owe, they want it in trade. You see, there's big money in dirty movies, and the more real, the better. Me? I'm already filthy, damaged goods from my time in Afghanistan. But then I meet Rose, my "co-star", and my whole world shatters. She owes the Moretti's too, but she's too good for all of this. Too sweet, too beautiful - too innocent. And I'll be d*mned if I let them steal that away from her. It's wrong that she's here, but it's also wrong that she wants me to "teach her" things. It's worse that I want to. But one taste of her lips, and I'm hooked. One touch of her soft skin, and I know Rose is going to be mine. Not the camera's. Mine. The virgin with the debt, the ex-marine with the d*ck, and a p*rno for the mob. Welcome to Vegas, baby.*Please note that while a connected storyline, each of the Dirty Bad Things books are completely standalone stories centered around one couple, with no cliffhangers or spoilers.Dirty, filthy, and oh-so-sweet, with an utterly obsessed alpha hero, explosive insta-love, and enough kindle-melting steam to make you sweat. Get ready to get wrong in the right kind of way. HEA with NO CHEATING!
Download or read book Lesbian First Time The Ultimate Collection Of Explicit Short Lesbian Stories written by Sarah Pain and published by Sarah Pain. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Get 10 of Sarah Pain's best-selling stories in one exclusive bundle. This anthology has stories that have never been published in any other collection! Stories in this Collection are Very Hot and Seductive beyond what you would expect from typical lesbian romance short stories collection. This amazing Lesbian Short Stories contains TONS of romantic, steamy and highly passionate sexual encounters that you would definitely LOVE to read again and again for experiencing abundance of PLEASURE like never before. This book includes ten lesbian stories: - BECOMING A LESBIAN - GOOD FRIENDS - LET BE ADULTS - MASSAGE EXPERIENCE - MORE FUN LOSING - MY SEDUCTION EXPERIENCE - NEW WORLD - SEDUCTION OF MY COWORKER - TO LOVE LESBIAN LADIES - VIRGIN WHITE WIND ◆ GENRE: Lesbian / LGBT ⚠ WARNING: This Book contains mature language and content intended for 18+ readers only! ♥ Take advantage of the new releases in this bundle and enjoy big savings today! All stories are available for purchase individually and some are in Kindle Unlimited for free.
Download or read book The Romance of American Communism written by Vivian Gornick and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.
Download or read book Perfect Pleasure Complete Series written by Lucia Jordan and published by Wild Hearts Romance. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her fiancé leaves her, Lorilee’s life is left in shambles—no job, no home, no wedding. But with the honeymoon already paid for, she decides to use that time away to put the pieces of her life back together. Will a couple weeks in a tropical paradise prove to be just what she needs, or will it take the arms of an erotically cunning gentleman to get her life back on track?
Download or read book The Road to Romance and Ruin written by Jon Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption, the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion, and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre, this book sees all teen films as focused on a single social concern: the breakdown of traditional forms of authority – school, church, family. Working with the theories of such diverse scholars as Kenneth Keniston, Bruno Bettelheim, Erik Erikson, Theodor Adorno, Simon Frith, and Dick Hebdige, the author draws an innovative and flexible model of a cultural history of youth. Originally published in 1992.
Download or read book Quarantined written by Drethi Anis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This book is part of a SERIES and NOT a standalone.A gripping, friends-to-lovers-to-enemies, dark romance.New York City-not for the faint-hearted or the sweetest of souls. The last thing I expected was to be back in this city, after all these years. And I definitely did not expect to be back in this house, where it all started. I have spent years avoiding this place, and the cold hard reality of what happened here. But I have no choice. We are all quarantined together in this house. It took the end of the world, for me to come back here and face him.Milo Sinclair.Once my legal guardian and savior in life. The person who saved me from drowning in loneliness. Who gave me everything I ever wanted. But then he took everything away from me. Plus interest. He broke me. He will not break me again.This is a dark forbidden romance. It contains discussions about the pandemic, mental health issues, mature new adults. It also contains dubious situations that some readers might find offensive.Dark romance is subjective. Some readers have found this book to be a light read while others were sensitive to the material. Milo isn't a normal romance hero, and some might not consider him a hero at ALL. So, please don't read this if any of the above bothers you.Quarantined is book one of The Quarantine Series.
Download or read book The Business Romantic written by Tim Leberecht and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this smart, playful, and provocative book, one of today’s most original business thinkers argues that we underestimate the importance of romance in our lives and that we can find it in and through business—by designing products, services, and experiences that connect us with something greater than ourselves. Against the backdrop of eroding trust in capitalism, pervasive technology, big data, and the desire to quantify all of our behaviors, The Business Romantic makes a compelling case that we must meld the pursuit of success and achievement with romance if we want to create an economy that serves our entire selves. A rising star in data analytics who is in love with the intrinsic beauty of spreadsheets; the mastermind behind a brand built on absence; an Argentinian couple who revolutionize shoelaces; the founder of a foodie-oriented start-up that creates intimate conversation spaces; a performance artist who offers fake corporate seminars for real professionals—these are some of the innovators readers will meet in this witty, deeply personal, and rousing ramble through the world of Business Romanticism. The Business Romantic not only provides surprising insights into the emotional and social aspects of business but also presents “Rules of Enchantment” that will help both individuals and organizations construct more meaningful experiences for themselves and others. The Business Romantic offers a radically different view of the good life and outlines how to better meet one’s own desires as well as those of customers, employees, and society. It encourages readers to expect more from companies, to give more of themselves, and to fall back in love with their work and their lives.
Download or read book Collared written by Paula Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a journey to fulfill the desires spewing inside her, Abigail Bennett finds herself at an anonymous club that looks more like Greek Heaven than a shabby BDSM establishment. It is the perfect place to meet the Greek God that is Preston Trice. He's ruthless, robust, arrogant, and believes he can walk on water. Most of all he's willing to fulfill all of Abigail's fantasies as long as she gives him total control. Drawn to a life she only read about in books and fantasied about in her dreams, Abigail is taken on a sexual awakening that enlightens her entire being.
