Download or read book Patricia Wants to Cuddle written by Samantha Allen and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of 2022 NPR * Them * Lit Hub * CrimeReads * Book Riot * Chicago Review of Books "A one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy for people who watch The Bachelor and The X-Files back-to-back." --Kirkus Reviews On this season of The Catch, contestants must compete for love. And their lives. When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and, of course, the salacious drama eager viewers nationwide tune in to devour. Each woman came on The Catch for her own reasons--brand sponsorships, followers, and, yes, even love--and they've all got their eyes steadfastly trained on their respective prizes. Enter Patricia, a temperamental and woefully misunderstood local living alone in the dark, verdant woods, and desperate for connection. Through twists as unexpected as they are wildly entertaining, the self-absorbed cast and jaded crew each make her acquaintance atop the island's tallest and most desolate peak, finding themselves at the center of an action-packed thriller that is far from scripted--and only a few will make the final cut. A whirlwind romp careening toward a last-girl-standing conclusion, and a scathing indictment of contemporary American media culture, Patricia Wants to Cuddle is also a love story: between star-crossed lesbians who rise above their intolerant town, a deeply ambivalent woman and her budding self-actualization, and a group of misfit islanders forging community against all odds.

Download or read book Real Queer America written by Samantha Allen and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn't changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called "flyover country" rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only queer night club in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more. Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, Real Queer America is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times.

Download or read book Pizza Girl written by Jean Kyoung Frazier and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's grieving the death of her father, avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled-covered pizzas for her son's happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.

Download or read book Love in Theory written by Ellen J. Levy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this funny, brainy, thoroughly engaging debut collection, an award-winning writer looks at romance through the lens of scholarly theories to illuminate love in the information age. In ten captivating and tender stories, E. J. Levy takes readers through the surprisingly erotic terrain of the intellect, offering a smart and modern take on the age-old theme of love--whether between a man and woman, a man and a man, a woman and a woman, or a mother and a child--drawing readers into tales of passion, adultery, and heartbreak. A disheartened English professor's life changes when she goes rock climbing and falls for an outdoorsman. A gay oncologist attending his sister's second wedding ponders dark matter in the universe and the ties that bind us. Three psychiatric patients, each convinced that he is Christ, give rise to a love affair in a small Minnesota town. A Brooklyn woman is thrown out of an ashram for choosing earthly love over enlightenment. A lesbian student of film learns theories of dramatic action the hard way--by falling for a married male professor. Incorporating theories from physics to film to philosophy, from Rational Choice to Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, these stories movingly explore the heart and mind--shooting cupid's arrow toward a target that may never be reached.

Download or read book Becoming a Therapy Dog Team written by Katha Miller-Winder, PH D and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of guidance and advice about how to become a Therapy Dog team. It contains the tips and tricks the author has learned in a decade of Therapy Dog work. If you're ready to become a Therapy Dog team but are hesitant to dive into the unknown and just want someone to be there to guide you along the way, this book is for you. If you've always been a little curious what Therapy Dog work was all about and why people do it, this book is for you. If you're a trainer, veterinarian, groomer, or other dog professional who has people asking them about Therapy Dog work but you've had no idea how to help them find answers, this book is for you.

Download or read book Hollywood Lesbians written by Boze Hadleigh and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dit boek is een vervolg op een eerdere gesprekkenreeks met homo's uit de wereld van film en theater. Enkele namen: Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Stanwyck en Marjorie Main. De gesprekken gaan natuurlijk vooral over film en de respectievelijke carrières van de geïnterviewden, maar er is ook plaats en tijd voor uitweidingen zoals bijvoorbeeld over vrouwen en politiek.

Download or read book Edward Patricia written by Frank Davey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward and Patricia are children of the sixteis, who stumble through sex, marriage, generation gap, career, birth control, the counter-culture, domestic violence, the sexual revolution, domestic bliss, and sex hilariously and tragically into our own time."--Back cover.

Download or read book The Fright of 1964 written by Robin Wood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitti Hoyt and her granddaughter, Lola, lived through the Anchorage earthquake on Good Friday. There is a massive cleanup, but a problem arises when they hear strange noises coming into the bedroom at night. When will they ever get a good nights sleep? Senator Joe Lindau and his children, Gaar and Patricia, arent sure they did live through the earthquake. Are they in hell, or have they slid into a glory hole? How will they ever get out of this fix? Its a story of survival, neighbors helping neighbors, and services to the rescue.

Download or read book Intimacies written by Alan Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular and academic discussion of our personal lives. Relationships – and not necessarily marriage – have gravitated to the center of our relational lives. Many of us feel entitled to seek intimacy, an emotionally depthful social bonding, rather than simply security or companionship from our relationships. Unlike in a marriage-centred culture, intimacy is today pursued in varied relationships, from familial to friends and to romances. And intimacies are being forged in multiple venues, from face-to-face to virtual, cyber contexts. A new scholarship has addressed this changing terrain of personal life – there is today a vast literature on cohabitation, parenthood without marriage, sex and love outside marriage, queer families, cyber intimacies and friendships. However, much theorizing and research has focussed either on the interior, subjective or sociocultural aspects of intimacies, not their interaction. This volume aims to break new ground: Intimacies explores the psychological terrain of intimacy in depthful ways without abandoning its sociohistorical context and the centrality of power dynamics. Drawing on a rich archive that includes the social sciences, feminism, queer studies, and psychoanalysis, the contributors examine: changing cultures of intimacy fluid and solid attachments and intimacies from hook ups, to sibling bonds, to erotic love a politics of intimacy that may involve state enforced hierarchies, class, misrecognition, social exclusion and violence embodied experiences of intimacy and dynamics of endings and loss a pluralization of intimacies that challenge established ethical hierarchies This volume aims to define the cutting edge of this emerging field of scholarship and politics. It challenges existing paradigms that assume rigid hierarchical approaches to relational life. Intimacies will be of interest for psychoanalysts and for students or scholars in sexualities, gender studies, family studies, feminism studies, queer studies, social class, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Download or read book The Other End of the Leash written by Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to communicate with your dog—using their language “Good reading for dog lovers and an immensely useful manual for dog owners.”—The Washington Post An Applied Animal Behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years’ experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell reveals a revolutionary new perspective on our relationship with dogs—sharing insights on how “man’s best friend” might interpret our behavior, as well as essential advice on how to interact with our four-legged friends in ways that bring out the best in them. After all, humans and dogs are two entirely different species, each shaped by its individual evolutionary heritage. Quite simply, humans are primates and dogs are canids (as are wolves, coyotes, and foxes). Since we each speak a different native tongue, a lot gets lost in the translation. This marvelous guide demonstrates how even the slightest changes in our voices and in the ways we stand can help dogs understand what we want. Inside you will discover: • How you can get your dog to come when called by acting less like a primate and more like a dog • Why the advice to “get dominance” over your dog can cause problems • Why “rough and tumble primate play” can lead to trouble—and how to play with your dog in ways that are fun and keep him out of mischief • How dogs and humans share personality types—and why most dogs want to live with benevolent leaders rather than “alpha wanna-bes!” Fascinating, insightful, and compelling, The Other End of the Leash is a book that strives to help you connect with your dog in a completely new way—so as to enrich that most rewarding of relationships.

Download or read book Summary of Patricia B McConnell Brenda Scidmore s The Puppy Primer written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-13T22:59:00Z with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Socialization is the process of exposing your puppy to a variety of things he may encounter as an adult dog, from young, bouncy children to someone in a wheelchair. This helps him grow up to be friendly and confident. #2 It is important to expose your puppy to different people and situations, as this will help him learn that people are not always harmful. Young pups should be exposed to positive interactions with people and new environments several times a week. #3 Puppies need to meet and interact with various different types of dogs to learn the rules of polite canine encounters. They should also meet different dogs of all sizes, shapes, and colors, so that they can learn how to play well with others. #4 Positive reinforcement is when you reward your dog when they do something you want them to do. It is important to remember that positive reinforcement is what makes your dog more likely to repeat a behavior.

Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming May 2017 Box Set written by Patricia Forsythe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: HIS TWIN BABY SURPRISE Oklahoma Girls by Patricia Forsythe Real‐estate agent Lisa Thomas's jam‐packed schedule is about to get even busier—she's the new acting mayor and she's pregnant! But will becoming a father finally make globe‐trotting former football star Ben McAdams settle down? WITH NO RESERVATIONS by Laurie Tomlinson Popular food blogger Sloane Bradley's reclusive life is a far cry from the bright one she portrays online, still reeling from her best friend's death by car crash when Sloane was behind the wheel. But when she's assigned to promote a restaurant opening helmed by a restaurateur heir with bad‐boy notoriety, Sloane is forced out of her comfort zone…for better or for worse! AN ALLEGHNEY HOMECOMING Home to Bear Meadows by T. R. McClure Searching for a big story, journalist Wendy Valentine finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets when former army medic Josh Hunter returns to town wanting to right the wrongs from his past. LAST CHANCE COWBOY Kansas Cowboys by Leigh Riker Rancher Grey Wilson thought cattle rustlers were the worst of his problems—until the woman who broke his heart a decade ago came back to town. But it's not Shadow's return that's thrown Grey's life into chaos. It's the nine‐year‐old girl Shadow claims is their daughter.

Download or read book From Dinosaur to Dynamite written by Patricia Murray-Chute and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has useful advice for healthy eating, cooking recipes, exercise and lovemaking.""I want mature people to realise they can still enjoy a wonderful sex life,"" states Patricia Murray-Chute, author of the new book From Dinosaur to Dynamite: The Secret of Joyful Sex. Her book is a mixture of autobiographical and professional experience as a nurse, midwife, life coach and wife. It applies to all ages, but was originally intended for older readers, and provides encouragement for those with concerns about sex after the age of forty.

Download or read book Professional Nursing E Book written by Beth Black and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Fundamentals** Discover what it means to be a professional nurse — the history, values and standards, and commitment to lifelong learning. Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges, 10th Edition equips you with current professional nursing practices to positively impact your career. This easy-to-read text provides insight into the current state of the profession and thoroughly examines standards and scope of practice, with new information on interprofessional education and practice, nursing roles, Covid-19, the surge of ambulatory and community care, bullying, gender issues, clinical judgment, and more. - Cognitive rehearsal prepares you for the unlikely threat of lateral violence. - Social justice in nursing helps you learn to advocate for patients who need your help. - Interview narratives explore the issues like culture and faith from the perspectives of leaders in those fields. - Historical Notes highlight little-known stories of heroisms in the nursing profession. - Tips on documentation include both electronic and paper records. - Concepts and Challenges and Ideas for Further Exploration at the end of the chapters help with review and test prep. - Discussions on the implications of social media on nursing, including ethics and boundaries. - Considering Culture boxes highlight the impact of culture on a nurse's role and responsibilities and the patient's healthcare experience. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes identify leading findings in nursing topics and trends. - Case Study boxes feature scenarios involving relevant issues in patient care. - Nurses Doing Research boxes highlight problems identified in patient care and the ongoing efforts to find patient interventions. - Professional Profiles boxes provide prospective from nurses in the field. - Thinking Critically boxes encourage higher-level consideration of potential factors affecting nurses. - Learning outcomes are presented at the beginning of each chapter. - Key terms are bolded where defined in the text. - NEW! Updated content includes the latest information on interprofessional education and practice, nursing roles, COVID-19, the surge in ambulatory and community care, bullying, gender issues, the faculty shortage, and challenges faced by new graduates. - NEW! Expanded coverage of clinical judgment helps you develop the critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills required for the Next Generation NCLEX® and in nursing practice.

Download or read book Sweetgrass Book III written by Patricia Ann Kuess and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is May, 1863. The Battle of Fredericksburg is over; it was a disaster for the Union Army. Johnathan Traver, a Union Army Sergeant, is badly concussed, Esher Coley, his Warrior Companion and the man he loves, is grievously wounded, and their fellow soldier, Luther, who knows the healing ways of plants, has been shot in the face. Their situation is desperate. They must get to Kentucky where Luther's vast supply of medicinals offer their best chance to heal and be whole again. But how? The Union Army is evacuating and there are no extra wagons or horses. Johnathan makes getting to Kentucky his mission, and after many adventures on the road, he succeeds; they arrive at Luther's home to his grateful family, who all pitch in to restore their health. Johnathan and Esher's dream is to homestead on the Prairie in the Dakota Territory. Johnathan imagines the two of them traveling together, finding their land, and farming it. But that is not Esher's dream. Yes, he wants to farm with Johnathan, but he also wants children, a wife, and to travel by wagon train. When they leave Luther's for the Prairie, Johnathan is convinced there is no need for a wagon train, no need for a wife, and as for children, there have to be some orphans there that they will adopt. He has months to change Esher's mind as they journey north and west. They experience more adventures on the road, but Johnathan is unable to budge Esher from his conviction that it is too dangerous to travel alone. They join a wagon train. They begin the journey of their lives. It soon becomes evident that they are both right and wrong as a new test for their love arises from the dust of the wagon trail. Like all dreams, achieving them require hard work and enduring many bewildering dips and turns. Johnathan and Esher's dream is like any other: full of passion, confusion, and sometimes tears, but ultimately, their dream is a journey of love.

Download or read book The Diaries of Nella Last written by Patricia Malcolmson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete collection of the diaries of Nella Last 'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value...' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood. The Diaries of Nella Last, brings together into a single volume the best of Nella's prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials and horrors of wartime Britain and the nation's transition into peacetime and beyond, Nella's touching and often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s and 1950s. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind and a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4, Nella Last 'will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists.'

Download or read book Nella Last s Peace written by Patricia Malcolmson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes of what ordinary people felt during those years of privation, hope and the re-building of Britain, providing a moving and inspiring account of the years that shaped the society we live in today. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people at this time, and thoughts on the aftermath of war and whether 'peace' really meant peace, for everyone.