Download or read book The Room Mating Season written by Rona Jaffe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masterful author of The Best of Everything takes us through a season of friendship, discovery, betrayal, and love to tell a story of four friends and the events that shaped their futures. New York in 1963 is a place of infinite possibilities, especially when you’re young and eager for the adventure a big city offers. Leigh, Cady, Vanessa, and Susan meet when they become roommates on the Upper East Side. Nothing can diminish the exhilaration of their newfound freedom and independence—even being crammed together in a single bedroom with a kitchen too small for a table and chairs. A casting assistant at a talent agency, Leigh is the level-headed one. Cady is a prep school teacher, emotional, passionate, and ready for love. Vanessa, a stewardess, craves her independence above all else. Susan is the mercurial, difficult one, and after one confrontation too many, makes a choice that will change the course of all their lives… PRAISE FOR RONA JAFFE “Reading Rona Jaffe is like being presented with a Cartier watch: you know exactly what you’re getting and it’s exactly what you want.”—Cosmopolitan “Vivid and trenchant…Wry and very readable…A minor genius.”—New York Times Book Review “Jaffe has not lost her wit, her keen eye for human frailties and her ear for the small but telling remark.”—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Class Reunion written by Rona Jaffe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after their college graduation, four Radcliffe girls return to their Harvard class reunion with mixed emotions and curiosity. It is the first time they have met since their hopeful student years, when each of them had wonderful dreams of becoming wives, mothers, and successful career women. But much has changed since the fifties, and the former classmates’ lives have been altered by events none of them could have foreseen. Humorous, heartwarming, often poignant and nostalgic, Class Reunion captures the spirit of the fifties brilliantly in contrast to the changing world the four girls have embraced, often with straightforward and pithy commentary on the social conventions of the past.

Download or read book Mazes and Monsters written by Rona Jaffe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part thriller, part love story, Mazes and Monsters is a spellbinding novel about a group of college students in the 1980s who use a fantasy game as refuge from their personal, emotional, and social problems. Based loosely on the “steam tunnel incidents” of the 1970s, the four friends—Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel, and Robbie—eventually take their game too far when they decide to live-action role-play in the caverns near their college campus. What follows is terrifying and unexpected, as each character dives deep into the darkest part of their mind, those forbidden places where our most menacing truths lie.

Download or read book Mating written by Norman Rush and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want. “Luminous…Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” —The New York Times Book Review “The best rendering of erotic politics…since D.H. Lawrence…The voice of Rush’s narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.” —The New York Review of Books The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a compelling waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari—one in which he is virtually the only man. What ensues is an exhilarating quest and an exuberant comedy of manners: “A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously.” —Newsweek

Download or read book Mating Season Erotic Short Stories written by Lexi Sylver and published by Mating Season. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexi's real erotic adventures and darkest fantasies come to life in this provocative collection of erotic short stories. Mating Season lures you into the depths of the obscene as you read Lexi's favorite tales of daring group play, sapphic seduction and kinky BDSM. Join a cast of shameless characters on their pursuits to satisfy their decadent appetites for pleasure. Welcome to Lexi's playground, where it's always Mating Season. This collection is designed to seduce you, from Lexi's lighter stories in the beginning to the more salacious as you progress through the book. Using raw language, Lexi pulls you deeper into her Lexual world with each graphic sex scene. Journey into Lexi's playground, where sexuality is celebrated by curious newbies and erotic adventurers, voyeurs and exhibitionists, masters and slaves - and every kinkster in between. A world where desire is fluid, the dynamics between dominants and submissives are healthy and orgasms are aplenty. Read along as each sexy, insatiable character takes a personal journey to fulfilling their desires and exploring their Lexuality. Turn the pages of Mating Season and transport yourself from the bedroom to a naturist village in France or a sex club in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Are you ready to get Lexual? Stories in Mating Season Trick Shot Competitive pool players Kaila and Max head to the final table of a high-stakes tournament. Their immediate attraction sparks an extra sense of rivalry, but their game leaves much to be desired and both of them wanting more. Heated Debate University senior and honors student Danielle has been lusting after her young and sexy Professor Davis for weeks. She can't say no when Davis offers her a coveted spot on the Debate team. Accidental Voyeur While repairing the wealthy Watsons' AC unit, LA handyman Luca is shocked to see a naked woman masturbating in front of her window... and even more surprised when she invites him inside to join her for a fix of her own. Morgan's First Taste Morgan realizes that she's bisexual because she's infatuated with her sexy roommate, Denise, but she's afraid to make the first move. A big surprise awaits for Morgan when she returns home one afternoon and catches Denise naked in the kitchen with her lover. Obscure Jade's happy in her polyamorous relationship with Nick. She's moved on from Damien - or so she thought. Is their intense, nostalgic reunion a chance for her to get the closure she's always wanted after ten years, or will this reopen old wounds? Submission An ultra-short and vivid erotic "Quickie" that introduces you to the darker stories in Mating Season, Submission explores the inextricable connection between a submissive and their dominant. Obedience Mila witnesses a live flogging demonstration at a sexuality conference and is drawn to Landon, the dominant man holding the flogger. Their instant connection inspires her into the ultimate submission. Release At a naturist resort in Cap d'Agde, kinky slave Zoe and her Master Javier play out an exhibitionistic, sadistic public scene in front of a crowd of voyeurs. A sexy couple approaches them to play. Can Zoe handle the torment and be a good slave, or will she disobey her Master? Succubus Sent by Lucifer to draw power from a strong mortal man's life source, a demon ascends to Earth as a pleasure-seeking succubus. No one's counting on a surprise visit by Lucifer that could forever change the demon's purpose, and that of Heaven, Hell and Earth. The Secret Passage In search of adventure and sexual discovery in Amsterdam, Ivy and her friend-with-benefits Tristan unexpectedly meet with a mysterious woman and go deep underground into a surprising series of salacious events.

Download or read book The Best of Everything written by Rona Jaffe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixty years later, Jaffe’s classic still strikes a chord, this time eerily prescient regarding so many of the circumstances surrounding sexual harassment that paved the way toward the #MeToo movement." -Buzzfeed When Rona Jaffe’s superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Almost sixty years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly—and sometimes hilariously—true to the personal and professional struggles women face in the city. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office; naïve country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Jaffe follows their adventures with intelligence, sympathy, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.

Download or read book An American Love Story written by Rona Jaffe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book After the Reunion written by Rona Jaffe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular sequel to Class Reunion, Rona Jaffe’s After the Reunion continues the heartwarming story of Daphne, Emily, Chris, and Annabel five years after their class reunion. The affluent quartet, now in their mid-forties, is each coping with romantic and domestic problems at home while trying to outgrow the social and moral codes that controlled them during their Harvard years. After the Reunion is a return to some of Rona Jaffe’s most beloved characters, and readers will undoubtedly embrace their own reunion with these characters on the page.

Download or read book Human Breeding The Elephant in the Room written by Lyn Victor Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe psychologists and psychiatrists are barking up the wrong tree. We do not suffer from psychological problems or mental problems directly, but we do suffer from emotional problems. It is now accepted that we are born with most, if not all, our emotions fixed. Therefore our emotional state must be hereditary, some good and some not so good. But we must not blame our parents because they have been burdened also. The way we are reared will affect the strength of these emotions. I believe that people with psychological problems could recover much quicker if this theory is explained to them.

Download or read book As Seen on TV written by Meredith Schorr and published by Forever. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom‑com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life—and love—are nothing like the TV movies. Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that she’ll find love in a small town—the kind with harvest festivals, delightful but quirky characters, and scores of delectable single dudes. So when a big-city real estate magnate targets tiny Pleasant Hollow for development, Adi knows she’s found the perfect story—one that will earn her a position at a coveted online magazine, so she can finally start adulting for real . . . and maybe even find her dream man in the process. Only Pleasant Hollow isn’t exactly “pleasant.” There’s no charming bakery, no quaint seasonal festivals, and the residents are more ambivalent than welcoming. The only upside is Finn Adams, who’s more mouthwatering than the homemade cherry pie Adi can’t seem to find—even if he does work for the company she’d hoped to bring down. Suddenly Adi has to wonder if maybe TV got it all wrong after all. But will following her heart mean losing her chance to break into the big time?

Download or read book Family Secrets written by Rona Jaffe and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1974 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of a wealthy family and the domineering man who controls it

Download or read book Mr Right Is Dead written by Rona Jaffe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often regarded as her finest and most literary work, Mr. Right Is Dead is Rona Jaffe’s collection of short stories from 1965. Containing five stories and one novella, each story has the savvy and sharp tone that characterize the best of Rona Jaffe’s writing. The title novella centers on a call girl with “a heart of gold,” who acquires lovers and money with her innocent charm, and closes with “Rima The Bird Girl,” about a woman who assumes a new identity each time she has an affair. Each story carries its own unique and engaging voice; altogether they are about women looking for self-fulfillment and salvation through lovers, money, and fleeting worldly pleasures. Mr. Right Is Dead is about those searching desperately for “the best of everything” and learning a great deal about love, and its falsities, along the way.

Download or read book Mate Set written by Laurann Dohner and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's werewolf mating season. All the males are in heat, and the driving sexual lust of their beasts is almost uncontrollable. When Mika finds herself trapped in an alley, surrounded by four horny werewolves, she knows she's in deep trouble. Until a tall, handsome werewolf rescues her'then demands payment. Hot, sweaty, intimate payment.Grady is a half-breed whose human mother abandoned him to his werewolf father, so he knows human women just aren't safe to fall in love with. The wolf within him wants Mika as his mate, but Grady will not give in. Never. Ever. He's willing to fight his emotions and his beast, no matter how much sexy Mika tempts him.But neither of them expected her Uncle Omar to assign Grady to protect her from other males?24/7, in her home, sleeping just down the hall. Mika decides to make the best of her vacation and keep the hot wolf in her bed. Grady can't resist the scorching sex, but he is determined to resist the bond.

Download or read book Mating Season written by Kate Gale and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Kate Gale's fifth book of poetry. Known for her gutsy, sensual, dark and glittery poems, this is work about the world as it is: hard, cold, asking you for your money and then shooting you anyway. One of a new breed of very successful, edgy poets, Gale is unwilling to soft-soap the way the world works. These poems are tingling, raw and clouded with sadness.Kate Gale has a doctorate in English literature from Claremont and is managing editor of Red Hen Press. In addition to poetry, she has published one children's book, a novel and is the editor of four anthologies. She lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.

Download or read book Mating Season Collection 1 written by Drusilla Swan and published by Drusilla Swan. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 steamy MFM pairings featuring dominant werewolf billionaires and their innocent fated mates. Nothing will stop these powerful shifter CEOs from claiming the woman who belongs to them. All of the Mating Series books are standalone stories with a HEA. Each book can be read independently in any order. **BOOK 1: Owned by the Billionaires** Fiona Bell will do anything to become a successful painter, even if it means working as a maid and practically being homeless. The last thing she needs is a distraction in the form of love. That is until she finds herself trapped between two overbearing billionaires. Alpha werewolves Huxley Cain and Derek Fox never expected to find a mate. That is until they meet her. From the moment they catch her sweet scent, they know she is the one to give them an heir. They will stop at nothing to claim her. She is theirs to protect. Theirs to share in pleasure. Theirs to claim together. They will never let her go. **BOOK 2: Captured by the Billionaires** Josephine's life is going to change forever with her move to the big city, but not in the way she thinks. On the run after escaping prison, Samuel and Liam couldn't have asked for a better getaway driver than a sweet little lamb like Josephine. One look at her and they knew she was theirs. They will destroy those who have hurt her. They will protect her with their lives. She is their captive, to do with as they please. She will become theirs in every way. Once they've had her, they will keep her...forever. **BOOK 3: Mated to the Billionaires** Raised in a cult and cut off from the outside world for her entire life, April dreams of getting out. That is, until her escape crash lands at her feet in the form of two giant werewolves. The price of freedom: her complete submission to their mating claim. After a lifetime of hacking, fraud, and forgeries, Evan and Lawrence live on the outskirts of society and the law. Nothing could have prepared them for the woman they capture from a farm in the middle of nowhere. With no past and no identity, it would be so easy for them to keep her forever. She is the perfect mate for them to breed and claim as their own. They can train her to crave their brutal and insatiable touch, but will they ever capture her heart?

Download or read book The Mating Season written by Alex Brunkhorst and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, extraordinarily imaginative novel, The Mating Season tells the story of the romance between two geniuses who have created their own fantastical worlds to cope with the pain of isolation. Zorka Carpenter lives a life completely devoted to animals. In a glass house on a hill she spends her days absorbed in her menagerie. Enigmatic architect Richard Dorsey has spent his life trying to escape the fame he garnered in his youth. Living in a world of his own construction, he finds solace only in the past. When these two worlds collide in a magical tryst both Zorka and Richard are challenged to escape their isolated worlds and find connection in the hearts of one another. Astonishingly inventive, Alexandria Brunkhorst's The Mating Season is a dazzling work of the imagination, and a piercing look at the human heart.

Download or read book Mating Season written by Jon Loomis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Loomis’s sharp and witty debut, High Season, starring Detective Frank Coffin, a onetime Baltimore homicide detective who came back to his hometown after one too many grisly crime scenes started to take their toll, was one of The Washington Post’s best mysteries of the year and an editor’s choice title for The New York Times Book Review. Coffin had hoped that the move to Provincetown, Massachusetts, would put an end to his panic attacks, but so far, the quirky Cape Cod tourist town has been every bit as brutal as the big city. Now in Loomis’s winning follow-up, Coffin has to get a grip in order to investigate the murder of one of the town’s most “popular” women. Beautiful and the heir to a tremendous fortune, Kenji Sole had an active love life---a very active love life. When she’s found stabbed to death on the floor of her bedroom dressed only in a negligee, it’s clear someone very close to her is probably responsible. Since she didn’t care about her many lovers’ marital status, Frank and his partner Officer Lola Winters have their work cut out for them interviewing all of her lovers---not to mention their jealous wives---to find out who killed the much-sought-after Ms. Sole. With Mating Season, another wry and wickedly suspenseful mystery, Loomis continues to be one of crime fiction’s most promising stars.