Download or read book Still Lovers written by Elena Dorfman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Still Lovers, Elena Dorfman explores the complex relationships between life-sized, synthetic sex dolls and their owners. For many, the idea of the sex doll conjures images of the kitschy inflatable, but these expensive, highly realistic dolls, which owners customize to the smallest detail, are far from silly, and they' perform more than a sexual role for their owners. What started for Dorfman in 1999 as a playful curiosity - a project about "men having sex with 125 pounds of perfectly formed synthetic female" - rapidly became a serious exploration of the emotional and psychological ties between the owners and their dolls. Her candid wonderment and nonjudgmental approach present a fascinating glimpse into the personalities that owners invest in their dolls and the zest with which they attire them. The dolls become sculptural beauties, sex kittens, companions, and family members. One woman owns several dolls that represent different aspects of her personality and sexuality; another owner, a military officer, dreams of marrying his "Azra." A suburban owner drinks coffee on the couch as "Taffy" lounges nearby in her crotchless negligee. A family goes about their morning routine with "Valentine" at the kitchen table. Dorfman's deft treatment of the subject and neutral color palate keep the images firmly grounded in a documentary tradition that depicts the subjects outside of the visual schema associated with fantasy. The result is that we as viewers - though we know the dolls to be passive and inanimate - begin to believe in the owners' vision of and love for their dolls. Dorfman's images confront the concept of the ideal woman and her place in the home, and they challenge our notions of love while they show the imagination's powerful function in achieving and sustaining it."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Still Not Love An Enemies to Lovers Romance written by Nicole Snow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not him. Not now. Not the hell again.But I need a hero fast...I'm about to go nuclear.Yet I have to smile and pretend I won't slap him into the next century.James Nobel and I have history.The raging hearts, dueling kisses, nights on fire kind.A man like him breaks laws with that suit and that smirk.So how could I ever forget my first?Or pelting an Adonis with crumpled love notes in class?We were young and dumb and lied about forever.Then he disappeared.Maybe I always wanted to know why, but not like this.James, my personal bodyguard.James, my flipping bunkmate in a luxury cabin for newlyweds.James, who still makes me crave one more night of bad decisions.Worse, we're snowed in with my very important father and his enemies.It's a date with chaos. Plus every question I swore I'd never ask again.What if there's more to us than scalding banter and get-bent glares?What if there's still - do I really have to say it - love?From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow - a category five enemies-to-lovers swoon-storm. Watch what happens when irresistible alpha charmer has to fight to win back the woman who got away. Full length romance novel with a Happily Ever After squeal or ten.

Download or read book Latins are Still Lousy Lovers written by Helen Lawrenson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chastity Is for Lovers written by Arleen Spenceley and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Books for Teens and Young Adults (First Place). In 2012, journalist Arleen Spenceley outed herself as a twenty-six-year-old virgin in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed that went viral. In Chastity Is for Lovers, Spenceley expands on that piece, advocating Catholic teaching on sex and marriage with candor and humor, and without judgment. In her debut book, seasoned journalist and self-professed “happy virgin” Arleen Spenceley offers a mature, funny, and relatable vision of Catholic teaching on chastity for young adults. Chastity Is for Lovers provides perspective on a variety of topics—the difference between chastity and abstinence, how virginity is an affirming and valuable life choice, how the word “purity” can be harmful in ministry settings, how to date well, and why sexual self-control is the best form of marriage preparation—and gives single adults the best possible chance to find true love. She carefully avoids using language that shames readers and instead presents a view of chastity that is joyful and positive.

Download or read book Challenged Lovers written by Fadzai Zimunya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the power of love over all else. Both Danai and Fadzai are first-born children and expectations were understandably very high. The central message here is that parents need to impart all they believe their offspring need to get and this needs to be during the formative years. Young adults are subjected to societal influences that may not be in line with what the parents have in mind. Life lessons must be given but respect of the young mind is critical to maintain balance. Most parents find that they are busy with the day-to-day life demands, to the extent that their offspring are left to find their ways. Outside influences end up shaping the young minds. In this true story the challenge came when the two young adults fell in love and decided to marry. Their love was stronger than all efforts to separate them.

Download or read book Hold Still written by Sally Mann and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.

Download or read book Still Not Yours written by Nicole Snow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretend engaged. Total opposites. So wrong it hurts.Now let's pretend he isn't driving me insane...I'm on my last nerve.And I'm supposed to marry him to save my skin.Riker Woods might be God's hottest contradiction.Perfectly damaged. Stubborn soul. Moth to flame gaze.Single dad. Fierce protector. Kind...when he thinks no one's looking.Then along came little old me.The pesky fianc

Download or read book Lovers written by Judith Krantz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers is pure Krantz, an intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and found among women and men who lure each other with potent combinations of money, talent, ambition, and passion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini, the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature who grew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two. Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new Los Angeles advertising agency, with her creative "teammate," David Melville, a brilliant young art director who joins her in seeking new accounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke, humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficult beauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famed Millicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband Angus Caldwell, owns one of New York's largest advertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian and an enormously successful mall builder, attempts to capture Gigi's quicksilver affections, although his fierce contenders for the same prize include both David Melville and the dominating film director, Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop Ikehorn Orsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroine of Scruples, and her new husband, the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy with their own fascinating lives, as are Gigi's father, canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her best friend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom can be forgotten from Scruples and Scruples Two. Lovers completes all the stories set in motion in the first two novels, yet it stands entirely on its own as a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983 and 1984.

Download or read book Enemies to Lovers written by Diana Fraser and published by Bay Books. This book was released on 1900 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t you love it when you stumble across your favorite theme in a book—such as secret baby, second chance, enemies to lovers, or women in danger? As an author of over thirty books I thought it would be fun to select books from my catalog and combine them together by theme. So I did, and my Desert Duets was born! So pour yourself a cup or glass of your favorite drink, some chocolates (of course), get comfy, and spoil yourself with a double helping of your favorite type of romance! —Enemies to Lovers— No reason to love, every reason to hate, a love beyond reason… **Surrender to the Sheikh** Playboy sheikh, Xander, and fiery sheikha, Elaheh, dislike each on sight but are forced together when Elaheh's safety is threatened. Will it bring them closer, or set them, and their countries, on a collision course? **The Sheikh's Lost Lover** When commitment-phobe Lucy finds herself falling for the King of Sitra, she wants to run. But she can't. He's her only clue to her missing sister. Razeen is determined to do his duty as King, even if it means an arranged marriage. But he has two weeks before he has to choose a wife. Two weeks in which to have an affair with Lucy. What could go wrong? *** The Desert Duets series includes: Secret Baby Second Chance Enemies to Lovers Women in Danger

Download or read book Still the One written by Carrie Elks and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody expects to meet the love of their life on their first day at school, but from the moment Tanner Hartson set his eyes on Savannah Butler, she stole his breath away. She was beautiful, wild and free. And though her life was hard, she made everything feel easy. As they grew up, they were best friends. Then sweethearts. And finally lovers. Until he broke her heart in the worst way. They haven't spoken for the last ten years. But now she's back in their small home town and they can't fight the intense attraction that pulls them together. He wants her back. And this time he won't take no for an answer. Doesn't true love deserve a second chance?

Download or read book Still Not Over You written by Nicole Snow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm SO over that gorgeous, scary, heartbreaking man who hates my guts. I'm just counting on him to save my life. Never, ever fall for your brother's hot older friend. I flunked the test the instant I laid eyes on Landon Strauss. Tall. Ripped. Commanding. Irresistibly alpha. He gave a damn like no one else did. His soul-searing eyes saw me, not just a nerd girl next door. I had my idol, my destiny, and names for our future kids picked. Then I read Landon's little black book. One nosy peek exposed the shock of a lifetime. His confession. His pain. His plan. The sweet boy I loved was gone. Hero-turned-villain-turned-bad-memory overnight. Five years later, an insane slip of fate puts us under the same roof. Sweet closure, I think. I almost forget he hates me. I almost think we'll talk like normal adults. I don't expect the shirtless behemoth who comes barreling through my door. Landon's grown up. All snarls, testosterone, and lethal chemistry. We're in trouble, he says. Oh, Landon. Oh, baby, don't I know it? From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow - a tale of two hearts torn, stomped, and dragged through the mud. An uber-alpha protector bent on reclaiming his nerd next door. Full length romance novel with a Happily Ever After worth a "hell yeah."

Download or read book The Lovers written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author John Connolly writes an “unfailingly compelling” (New Orleans Times-Picayune) and lyrical tale that forces Private Investigator Charlie Parker to examine his haunting past and all that he has ever believed true about his beloved parents—and himself. Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents, and about himself. But there are other forces at work: a troubled young woman who is running from an unseen threat, one that has already taken the life of her boyfriend; and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace, who is conducting an investigation of his own. And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman who seem driven to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence. Haunting, lyrical, and impossible to put down, The Lovers is John Connolly at his best.

Download or read book Poems and Songs written by James Currie and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Faggots written by Larry Kramer and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.

Download or read book Out West written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains monthly column of the Sequoya League.

Download or read book Poems written by Winthrop Mackworth Praed and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Still Life with Oysters and Lemon written by Mark Doty and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.