Download or read book Girls Can Kiss Now written by Jill Gutowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the Internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture, [including] ... the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture"--

Download or read book Revenge Body written by Rachel Wiley and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry Winner 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley’s third collection of poetry, full of the sharp wit and bold honesty we know and love from Rachel. Wiley invites her readers to join her on a journey filled with righteous anger, Black identity, magic, mental health, navigating maternal relationships, and the love and loss that comes from a breakup.

Download or read book If We Kiss written by Rachel Vail and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Collins has never been kissed. She’s never been in love, either. Charlie’s beautiful best friend, Tess, has kissed three boys and has loved each one of them. Then Charlie unexpectedly finds herself falling for Kevin, and she’s in a mess of trouble right away. For one thing, Tess is in love with Kevin. Even worse, his father seems to be dating Charlie’s mom, who suddenly can’t stop smiling. With no one to confide in, Charlie has to figure this one out for herself. But even as she tries to pull away from Kevin, she can’t stop wondering, What would happen if we kiss?

Download or read book Hands Free Mama written by Rachel Macy Stafford and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the power, joy, and love of living a present, authentic, and intentional life despite a world full of distractions. If technology is the new addiction, then multitasking is the new marching order. We check our email while cooking dinner, send a text while bathing the kids, and spend more time looking into electronic screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. With our never-ending to-do lists and jam-packed schedules, it's no wonder we're distracted. But this isn't the way it has to be. Special education teacher, New York Times bestselling author, and mother Rachel Macy Stafford says enough is enough. Tired of losing track of what matters most in life, Rachel began practicing simple strategies that enabled her to momentarily let go of largely meaningless distractions and engage in meaningful soul-to-soul connections. Finding balance doesn't mean giving up all technology forever. And it doesn't mean forgoing our jobs and responsibilities. What it does mean is seizing the little moments that life offers us to engage in real and meaningful interaction. In these pages, Rachel guides you through how to: Acknowledge the cost of your distraction Make purposeful connection with your family Give your kids the gift of your undivided attention Silence your inner critic Let go of the guilt from past mistakes And move forward with compassion and gratefulness So join Rachel and go hands-free. Discover what happens when you choose to open your heart--and your hands--to the possibilities of each God-given moment.

Download or read book Frogs French Kisses written by Sarah Mlynowski and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Whatever After series, the sequel to Bras & Broomsticks and the second book in the hilariously bewitching Magic in Manhattan series! Rachel has finally come to terms with the outrageously unfair fact that her younger sister, Miri, has inherited magical powers from their mom. But now the whole witchcraft thing is spiraling out of control. Mom is a magicaholic, Miri’s on a Save the World kick, and the one teeny tiny love spell that Rachel begged for has gone embarrassingly, horribly wrong. Suddenly, the fate of everything is in Rachel’s hands. Her family. The world. Senior prom. "I loved this book—it's even funnier than Bras & Broomsticks. More hormones, more action, more magic—more Mlynowski. What else could you want?" —E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud "A creative, frolicsome tale . . . Readers will find themselves quickly swept away on the broomstick of Mlynowski's second installment." —New York Post "Just as sweet and funny as its predecessor . . . wonderfully fast-paced and clever." —Booklist "Simply charming." —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Two Steps Forward written by Rachel Cohn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four stepsiblings from two opposite sides of the world are sharing a summer together in one strange city: Los Angeles. NYC fashionista girl Annabel is determined to hate LA, where her dad and his family have relocated. But just when Annabel thinks her summer is beyond ruined, she gets a surprise from Down Under . . . and let's just say he's a good kisser. Lucy misses her home country, Australia, but thinks LA isn't so bad after all. If she could only get her stepsister Annabel on board to loving LA too -- and get that weird Wheaties boy to stop staring at her! Wheaties, boy-genius, doesn't mind where he's spending the summer, so long as lovable Lucy is nearby. He's trying not to worry about how his dad and stepmother's marriage problems will affect his living situation. And he'd really like to know the secret of that Ben dude's swoony appeal to the girls. Ben, the Aussie athlete god, would rather be spending his school break playing footy with his mates back in Melbourne. He'd also really rather not have his dad's loud girlfriend sharing their American vacation. And he'd definitely like to know how he got interested in the pretty Annabel girl all over again. Told from the alternating points of view of Annabel, Lucy, Wheaties, and Ben, Two Steps Forward is funny and genuine -- and shows how love can create all kinds of families.

Download or read book I Wish You Loved Me written by Jai Ellis and published by Elite Ink Publishing. This book was released on with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the heart of the one that you love the most belongs to someone else? What are you to do when your mind is screaming for you to walk away, yet your heart is breaking at the mere thought of living without the love of your life? Those are just a couple of the questions that Rachel, Kayla, and Domiano will need to answer in this tale of forbidden love and lust. Rachel has had her fair share of rocky relationships but feels that she’s finally found ‘the one’. To outsiders he’s the one that lied and cheated on her and the one that she should let go, but Rachel knows that although he is flawed, Domiano is the only man for her. The fact that he’s her ex and is in a new relationship with someone else will do nothing to deter Rachel from getting her man back. Kayla is in love with a man that possesses all of the qualities that she could ever ask for. He’s loving, affectionate, great in bed and supports her as best he can financially, but there is one problem; He’s engaged to another woman whom he plans to spend the rest of his life with. As much as she knows that he’ll never be hers, Kayla can’t seem to leave him alone for good. Domiano is already caught between two women, yet he still finds time to carry a flame for his best friend’s fiancée. Although he knows that she’ll never be his, he can’t hide the love that he feels for her. He’s kept his not-so-secret feelings for her at bay for multiple years, but when the opportunity presents itself will he finally make the move to make her his woman? Has she been feeling the same way about him all along or has he just been imagining that she loves him just as much as he loves her? Then there’s Chanté and Greg. While they’re deeply in love with each other, they’re both harboring secrets that are deep enough to shatter even the strongest of bonds. They’ve had their ups and downs over the years but things are finally falling into place. Chanté is ready to spend the rest of her life with Greg and is confident that he is ready to do the same with her. Greg knows that he hasn’t always been the kind of man that Chanté deserves, but he’s finally ready to turn his life of lying and cheating around. While he is doing just about everything that he can to be the best man that he can, he can’t seem to let go of another woman that has a serious hold on a piece of his heart. In this tale of love, lust, lies and deception, the one thing that everyone seems to be seeking is the hardest thing for them to find.

Download or read book Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses written by Jenny Hale and published by Forever. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A HALLMARK MOVIE: fall in love with this sweet, heartfelt romance about the magic of Christmas and falling in love under the mistletoe, perfect for readers of Debbie Macomber, RaeAnne Thayne, and Maisey Yates! Single mother Abbey Fuller loves her family more than anything, and she doesn't regret for a moment having had to put her dreams of being an interior designer on hold. But with her son, Max, growing up, she jumps at the chance when a friend recommends her for a small design job. How hard can it be? Nick Sinclair needs his house decorated in time for his family's festive visit-and money is no object. What he doesn't need is to be distracted from his multimillion-dollar business-even if it is Christmas. When Abbey pulls up to the huge Sinclair mansion, she has a feeling she might be out of her depth. And when she meets the gorgeous, brooding Nicholas Sinclair, she knows that she's in real trouble . . . With the snow falling all around them, can Abbey make her dreams of being a designer come true? And can she help Nick to finally enjoy the magic of Christmas?

Download or read book Wish Her Safe At Home written by Stephen Benatar and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam’s oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.

Download or read book Voices That Wish to Be Heard written by Jack Randall and published by Jack Randall. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteen stories found in this collection, readers will have the opportunity to explore a host of issues. Their journey will fall under the guidance of a writer who has clearly given much energy to thoughts on powerful issues such as overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, the role of religion in society, and the nature of God. But Jack Randall walks this path without missing the flowers along the way. Wading into the mire of profundity has not eliminated his power to touch the reader with heartfelt stories of loss, redemption, and triumph. In the end, the reader will take away from these stories an insight into larger issues facing our world today, insight brought from a slightly tilted point of viewtilted not to obscurity, but rather to such that a new view becomes available, and one which the reader will not fail to enjoy.

Download or read book Storybook Pub Christmas Wishes written by Naomi Springthorp and published by Love & Devotion Author Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join your favorite romance authors and our mischievous Storybook Pub Proprietor, Kole O’Shea, for Christmas Wishes. 17 holiday romances created with the help of a little Christmas magic. Will your wish be granted? You don’t want to miss this collection of stories from talented Indie, International, USA Today, and Amazon Bestselling Authors. Featuring: Mistle Oh-No by Denise Wells Once Upon A Christmas Kiss by P.T. Macias Wishes for Santa by Naomi Springthorp Christmas Angel by Ember-Raine Winters One Small Spanish Wish by Alexi Ferreira In Time for Christmas by Rachel Radner Second Chances by Jenn D. Young Winter Miracle by Claire Davon Carole Of The Bells by Mary Dean & Stephanie Nichole The Inevitable Kiss by E.K. Woodcock Short Circuit by Aviva Vaughn Caught Under the Mistletoe by Tonya Clark A Match For Christmas by C. J. Corbin Jingle His Bells by Rayne Elizabeth When the Stars Align by Melody Dawn Christmas in California by Teri Kay A Decadent Christmas by Kenzie Rose

Download or read book The Song of Songs written by Yair Zakovitch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hebrew Bible is religious literature, the fundamental interest of which lies in the relations between humankind, especially the people of Israel, and God. The Song of Songs, on the other hand, is interested in the relations between men and women. In this volume Yair Zakovitch examines the presence of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible, and questions how this enigmatic collection of poetic writings came to be within the Bible. Zakovitch poses and addresses a range of enticing questions in the eight chapters of this volume, including: what does this erotic poetry have to do with Israel's formative texts? What do the poems tell us about gender relations in those years, and about early Israel's attitudes towards beauty, love, women, and sex? Do we finally get to hear women's voices in the Song, where the rest of the Bible gives a male perspective? How, despite our astonishment, is the Song of Songs nonetheless intrinsically biblical? What does it have in common with the Bible's other books? Was the allegorical interpretation of the Song just an excuse in order to include the book in Scripture?

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Download or read book Big Island Small written by Maureen St. Clair and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sola is confused the first time she sees Judith, a fair skinned woman with dreadlocks dancing to reggae music. Meeting her gaze, Judith thinks Sola is judging her for appropriating Black culture. A few days later, up against an interlocking fence, Judith kisses Sola. Onlookers hurl stones and racial and gay slurs. Thus begins the complicated friendship between Judith and Sola who live in between the land they were born, the Caribbean, and the land where they presently live, North America. Winner of the 2016 Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature and the 2015 Atlantic Writer’s Competition, Big Island, Small is a story of intimacy and friendship between two Caribbean/Canadian women with similar, yet vastly different, backgrounds who must dismantle their assumptions and biases around race, class, gender and sexuality in order to make amends with violent pasts, release shame, find joy and reconnect with themselves and each other.

Download or read book Gift of the Heart written by Miranda Jarrett and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RACHEL SPARHAWK LINDSEY CAME FROM A LONG LINE OF SURVIVORS She would not fail her heritage. But the snows were deep and the nights lonely—until Jamie Ryder arrived, bringing strength and joy into the hidden places of her heart…. The warmth of hearth and home had long been denied Jamie Ryder. Now Rachel Lindsey offered him refuge from the storms without—and the war within. But he knew this dream of love and family could not withstand the nightmare of his past….

Download or read book Early Modern Catholicism written by Robert S. Miola and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Rather than perpetuate the usual stereotypes and misinformation, it provides a fresh look at Catholic writing long suppressed, marginalized, and ignored. The anthology gives back voices to those silenced by prejudice, exile, persecution, or martyrdom while attention to actual texts challenges conventional beliefs about the period. The anthology is divided into eight sections entitled Controversies, Lives and Deaths, Poetry, Instructions and Devotions, Drama, Histories, Fiction, and Documents, and includes sixteen black and white illustrations from a variety of Early Modern sources. Amongst the selections are texts which illuminate the role of women in recusant community and in the Church; the rich traditions of prayer and mysticism; the theology and politics of martyrdom; the emergence of the Catholic Baroque in literature and art; and the polemical battles fought within the Church and against its enemies. Early Modern Catholicism also provides a context that redefines the established canons of Early Modern England, including such figures as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.