Download or read book Dork Whore written by Iris Bahr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh out of the Israeli Army, twenty-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: she is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity. Dork Whore is a fresh and funny memoir about a young woman whose quirky personality and embarrassing neuroses always seem to get in the way of her getting what she wants. As Iris lands in hotel rooms in Bangkok, rides scooters out of opium-fogged compounds hidden in the jungle, and antagonizes an impromptu tour group in Vietnam, she begins to realize that the greatest obstacle she'll have to overcome isn't losing her virginity, but coming to terms with the reasons for her need to be accepted. Poignant, hilarious, and always original, Dork Whore is a remarkable mix of bawdy humor and heartbreaking moments, witty intelligence and touching personal discoveries. Iris Bahr has given us an unforgettable coming-of-age tale about how a young woman finally learns how to trust others--and her own judgment.
Download or read book Machu My Picchu written by Iris Bahr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Sedaris meets Woody Allen in an uproarious memoir of self discovery. In her critically acclaimed memoir Dork Whore, Iris Bahr finally lost her virginity in the summer between high school and Brown University. In this book, she’s ready for love a year later—but not much wiser. Through all of her uproarious capers, she tries to reconcile her craving for mindblowing sex with her desire for a meaningful relationship—all in an attempt to become an adult. Sort of.
Download or read book DAI enough written by Iris Bahr and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a Tel Aviv café in the moments before a suicide bomber enters, Iris Bahr’s 2008 Lucille Lortel Award–winning DAI (enough) courageously speaks to tragic current events. Bahr plays eleven different characters who span the ideological and class spectrum of Israeli society, including a Zionist kibbutznik, an evangelical from America funding an Armageddon fantasy, a West Bank settler, a snooty expat living in Long Island, and a Palestinian professor trying to keep her son from taking the path of extremism. Thanks to the emotional depth and honesty with which Bahr endows these characters and their individual stories, a complex portrait of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict emerges. Alternately very funny and tragic, DAI (enough) is a brave attempt to humanize the headlines.
Download or read book The Jewish Daughter Diaries written by Rachel Ament and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moms who impersonate their daughters on JDate. Moms who try to set their daughters up with celebrities. Moms who can't stop taking selfies with their dogs. Moms who make their daughters' beds while their daughters are still sleeping in the other half. This collection of 28 essays is a heartfelt, hilarious tribute to mom and daughterhood, exploring the often complex, colorful and (at times) claustrophobic relationship. The Jewish Daughter Diaries features stories from some of the most compelling Jewish female voices today, who sound off on what it is like to be loved and adored by a modern-day Jewish mom. Mayim Bialik: "My mother met my bewilderment with a sympathetic glance and a modest recounting of my assets as she saw them.... if Barbra Streisand could be so famous and amazing and wonderful with her nose, why should mine be any problem?" lliza Shlesinger: "I knew my mom was special because once I asked her, "If a witch turned me into a bug, what would you do? Without missing a beat, she said, "I'd put you in my pocket to keep you with me always." Also featuring: Lauren Greenberg, Sari Botton, Abby Sher, Kerry Cohen, Meredith Hoffa, Anna Breslaw, Chaya Kurtz, Iris Bahr, Jena Friedman, Rachel Shukert, Leonara Ariella Nonni Epstein, Jenny Jaffe, Lauren Yapalater, Rebecca Drysdale, Emmy Blotnik, Arianna Stern, Almie Rose, Nadine Friedman, Deb Margolin, Gaby Dunn, Wendy Liebman, Mireille Silcoff, Dylan Joffe, and Mara Altman. The stories in this collection will make you laugh, cry, panic—and finally, pick up the phone. For anyone who has ever been overloved, overprotected or overmothered, this collection will feel like home.
Download or read book Mysterious Ways written by Wendy Wunder and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed author Wendy Wunder comes a sharp and hilarious coming-of-age novel for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon about an omniscient teenage girl who must grapple with whether there’s such a thing as knowing too much... Seventeen-year-old Maya knows everything. When she looks at someone, she instantly knows their history, their private thoughts, their secret desires, their most tragic failures. Combine these private miseries with the general state of the world, and it's easy to see why Maya's power starts to get her down... Which is why she was sent to the Whispering Pines Psychiatric Facility, and also why starting at a new school is going to be such a challenge. Now, faced with Tyler, a cute guy she actually wants to know everything about, Maya realizes that maybe her power isn't so horrible after all. Maybe she can use it for good. Maybe she can even get the guy. Or maybe there really is such a thing as knowing too much.
Download or read book The Book of Leon written by Leon Black and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone’s favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) drops his wisdom and good-bad advice for the masses. Learn the secrets Larry David has gleaned from the Falstaff of television. Live your best Leon. Bring the Ruckus. Aristotle. Gandhi. Lao Tzu. Dr. Ruth. Amateurs. For centuries bespeckled dorks have pored over the scrolls of the ancients, read tea leaves, and looked to the stars for philosophy, wisdom, and advice. While some people have probably offered good advice, and others offer bad advice, Leon is here to offer his brand of good-bad advice. These are the musings of a master genius spitting out the secrets of the universe—to help you become just like him. Be forewarned: in opening this tome and Leon’s mind, you need to be prepared for straight talk. The kind of unfiltered blunt straight talk that pounds on your door, invites itself in, makes itself at home, helps itself to your food, security pass code, your expensive organic beet juice, and finally makes itself comfortable on that twin bed in your guest room. All the while you think you’re helping it—but really it’s helping you help yourself! Because that’s how this book doozit. Leon Black, he ain’t wrong...he just ain’t right.
Download or read book The Devil the Lovers Me written by Kimberlee Auerbach and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes her survival of an abusive relationship, her mother's mid-life sexual proclivities, and the interference of friends and her father during a promising new romance, challenges that prompted her visit to an atypical tarot card reader.
Download or read book M M written by Thomas Quealy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-09-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Maudine Myrstoolkrwicz, a young woman living in a poor neighborhood, who has so many personal problems - she's not pretty, not smart, a virgin, too tall, too honest, scared, unlucky, nervous, shy, naive, lonely, unskilled, sad-that she develops an alter ego, Myrna, to deal with the harsh world around her. The setting is a run-down tenement building and the major characters are her colorful, very eccentric, co-tenants. An uplifting, though unusual, coming-of-age story set in the modern day.
Download or read book Santa vs Satan written by Jake Kalish and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Who would win between . . .” has through the ages been one of man’s most fundamental questions. Sadly, adult responsibilities like “earning a living” and “having a girlfriend” have conspired to make it impossible for men to devote to this issue the scholarship it so deeply deserves. But now one hero has tapped into our need to know who’s the best, the strongest, the caveman with the biggest club. From Jake Kalish, five-star general of the Imaginary Battlefield, emerges Santa vs. Satan, a tome that offers far more than idle speculation, culling expert analysis from martial arts masters, scientists, social theorists, and pop-culture philosophers, providing in-depth detail of the strengths and vulnerabilities of the combatants, and making bold predictions. Warriors are profiled and winners are declared in this seminal list of throwdowns that never were but should have been. Han Solo vs. Indiana Jones Adam vs. Charles Darwin The Virgin vs. The Whore Drunk vs. Stoner Conspiracy Theorists vs. Conspirators Muhammad Ali vs. Bruce Lee The Stork vs. The Grim Reaper Metrosexual vs. Eunuch Michael Corleone vs. Tony Montana Small Man with Breasts vs. Large Balding Woman Artist vs. Critic The Constipated vs. The Incontinent Gandalf vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi Married Gay Couple vs. Divorced Straight Couple
Download or read book The Emotional Prostitute written by Purple Nisha and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emotional Prostitute is the story of Patricia. She is a middle age woman who has undergone one failure after another in her personal relationships. Her emotional quest always ends up in frustration, anger and bitterness. Finally, she accepted that her destiny is to live her life alone. She was settled with that, until before she came to Dubai and met Fareed. In her attempt to change the course of destiny, she gambled in another relationship with the man hoping to win the game. But Fareed offered nothing but lies and she was cheated one last time. Instead of accepting her defeat, Patricia cried out for a payback. Wael came to her rescue, helped her recover from the grief and planned the revenge she craves for. Death completely satisfied her thirst for vengeance but compassion drained out of her heart. Wael fell in love with her and begged for a chance to prove that love. He tried his best to open up Patricia's heart. But when love became a passionate lie and sex has been a lustful expression of deceit, nothing survives in the playground of the liars and cheats. Patricias insurmountable fear prevailed and she was forever scared to take another chance. For a woman of self acquired power and determination, being cheated is a bitter pill to take. Patricia managed to come through the ordeal. You will pity and cry for her pains. You will envy her strength and will be awed by her courage. In the end, you will hate her pride and stubbornness. "The Emotional Prostitute" is a story of love, hate, passion, sex, defeat and triumph. It is Patricia's story, but it is anybody's story. It could be your story...or mine. Find out where you are!
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Download or read book Modern Whore written by Andrea Werhun and published by Strange Light. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea's sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all its slippery, sexy, silly and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea Werhun's sex work career gave her money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart, and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns, she writes it all down, and then, as per a signed document she handed to her Catholic mother in her early twenties, she quits. To become a stripper. Andrea and Nicole revisit the idea of the modern whore, with the enhanced perspective of Andrea's experience at the strip club. This new, engorged edition of the sold-out memoir-cum-art book expands on the original concept--a series of vignettes exploring the many identities sex workers adopt in the service of their clients and in the eyes of the public--in both a literal and literary way. But Andrea doesn't shy away from the serious side of sex work, either, exploring the risks sex workers take, and the rights our culture is constantly taking away from them. This series of stories and portraits investigate the many ways we imagine—and mistake—the modern whore. It's Playboy if the Playmates were in charge.
Download or read book Canyon of Sorrow written by Jim Hatfield and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the banks of the Rio Grande River in the old New Mexico Territory, Simon ran his infamous resort-brothel which brought him his tainted fortune and perceived power over the people of Taos. It was virtually impossible to stand up to this sadistic tyrant and his ruthless band of thugs. Even the church, who exercised a strong degree of power and influence in those developing years of western expansion, could not influence his depraved course. He was an ambitious man with the amoral attitude of the local rattle snakes that were indigenous to the region. Each of the numerous visitors passing through, who enjoyed the relaxation and pleasure of his sinful stop of gratification, had a story to tell, but Canyon of Sorrow concentrates on the dark and tragic way that one man touched so many, and his devious actions through might and control resulted in a horrific conclusion that is talked about to this day.
Download or read book Moon Knight written by Brian Michael Bendis and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everyone is thrilled that Marc Spector is using his alter ego Moon Knight as fodder for a television show ... especially Marc's ex Marlene! Then, Moon Knight throws down with the Kingpin of Los Angeles! And the Battle for LA's soul claims a life -- one that will be felt throughout the Marvel Universe, all the way to Avengers Tower!
Download or read book All That Glitters written by Jerry Kennealy and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Polo’s latest case finds him on familiar San Francisco turf where a Russian antiques dealer has hired him to locate Anna, the stunning holder of a valuable Mongol paitza—a dog tag of sorts—originally worn by Ogodie Khan. Using no more than a defunct phone number and a grainy photograph of Anna, Polo soon catches up with the paitza's guardian. But before he can bring Anna and the treasure to his client, a rival investigator who is also hunting for the paitza winds up on a U.S. Army Fort with a slit throat. To catch the murderer and retrieve the Mongol badge, Nick must out-maneuver a United States Park Police officer, tanning salon prostitutes, military intelligence agents, and a shady German Consulate attache.
Download or read book Rebellious Women written by Farruh Yusupov and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel Rebellious Women is based on the true stories of prostitutes. The book is structured not just as a documentary, but as fictional and philosophical to interest more segments of readers. Rebellious Women tells of young girls unhappy with their fate, fighting against their fears, the strong man, and the system of the sexual industry. The main characters are Indian sisters Kate and Gauri, who live in New York City with an English girlfriend from India. After facing off with Anand, the girls' lives dramatically change, when he forces the sisters to become sexual slaves and prostitutes. Despite facing life with fake love, unsuccessful escapes, and other misfortunes, the girls don't give up fighting for their lives.
