Download or read book His Many Desires written by Ali Parker and published by Star Key Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don’t fit into the world around me. My brother and father are far more the billionaire type. Art is what wakes me up. Expressing my soul through a paintbrush. That and the beautiful woman that stole my heart years ago. But she belongs to their world. An executive for the accounting firm my family runs. And we live clear across the country from one another, but that doesn’t stop the way I feel. Every time I see her, I want to change everything about myself until she takes notice. Funnily enough, she doesn’t want me to change a damn thing. She says that now, but when she finds out all that I desire of her, with her, she might not be so compliant. Or maybe that’s what she’s been waiting on this whole time.
Download or read book Undisclosed Desires written by Carly Marie and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caleb Masterson is, by all accounts, a successful adult. He graduated college, found a job he loves, and has a place to call home. Unfortunately, he knows what he desires in a relationship is considered too "high-maintenance" for most men and he has decided to not even bother looking. He's happy with his decision until a sexy man with salt-and-pepper hair limps into his physical therapy office and turns his world upside down.Careful attention to detail and a need to be in control have helped Travis Barton become the owner of a successful construction company. But that same desire for control is what has pushed his past boyfriends away... Travis knows what he's looking for in a relationship isn't easy to find, and the last place he expects to find the man with the potential to be everything he's ever hoped for is in his physical therapist's office. But when Travis overhears an intriguing conversation between his cute physical therapist and a co-worker, he's suddenly not so anxious to be back at work.Is it possible for two men, both content in their lives, to find what they've both needed in a partner in the most unexpected of places? Or will their desires be too much for the other to handle?This 83k word Daddy/boy novel contains adult topics, including age play and ABDL themes.
Download or read book The Four Desires written by Rod Stryker and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares inspirational anecdotes to encourage readers to pursue happiness, outlining step-by-step meditations and practical exercises for identifying innermost desires and achieving fulfillment.
Download or read book The Master of All Desires written by Judith Merkle Riley and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A delightful blend of history, romance, and the supernatural, served with a generous helping of wit and humor."—Booklist Nostradamus, a ruthless queen, and a young poet find themselves in the fight of their lives... Lady Sibille never goes looking for trouble, but trouble always seems to find her. When she inadvertently becomes the master of an ancient cursed head of Menander the Magus—the Master of All Desires—she suddenly has the power to grant any wish, at a steep price. Queen Catherine de Medici is trying to obtain the power of the Master in order to get rid of her husband's mistress. But she does not understand that the Master is malic itself, twisting the wishes that he grants to bring destruction. But only Nostradamus knows that evil befalls all who wish upon this accursed object. Can he stop these determined women before they unwittingly destroy the entire kingdom of France? Praise for The Master of All Desires: "Mixing history and fantasy with élan, Judith Merkle Riley offers a tightly woven, suspenseful, and fiendishly funny novel...Lush period detail and sprightly dialogue laced with humor and courtly pomp anchor Riley's romantic adventure with stylized whimsy and historical plausibility."—Publishers Weekly "Another darling mix of history, romance and the occult from Riley, a writer who excels at getting the background right and creating strong, intelligent heroines."—Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Dark Desires After Dusk written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing will stop Cadeon of the Rage Demons from finding the means to atone for the one wrong that haunts him. But once he captures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, he finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends and then forget haunts him as much as his past. Raised as a human, Holly Ashwin never knew that some legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon, who inexplicably guards her like a treasure. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, with him as her protector, she begins to crave the Cade's wicked touch. Yet just when he earns Holly's trust, will Cade be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs - and claim his heart?
Download or read book Forbidden Desires The Series written by Kendall Ryan and published by Kendall Ryan. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times Bestselling Author Kendall Ryan... Forbidden Desires: The Complete Series, containing every title in the sexy and intense bestselling series. This box set includes four bestselling novels: DIRTY LITTLE SECRET, DIRTY LITTLE PROMISE, TORRID LITTLE AFFAIR and TEMPTING LITTLE TEASE. Get it now at the special price of 4.99! (Regular price will be $9.99) Come meet the sexy and seductive Kingsley brothers! "Hands down one of the best books of the year." - Jessica, Booked J Blog "Could.Not.Put.Down. It must be read!" - The Book Bistro "Kendall Ryan's BEST BOOK YET!!! -Bookalicious Babes Blog
Download or read book The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Download or read book The Four Desires written by Rod Stryker and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Desire is here to stay. The challenge we all face, and which I intend to guide you through, is to learn how to take into account the full measure of who you are and use the positive force of all four of your soul’s desires to lead you to your best life.” —Rod Stryker According to ancient Yogic tradition, your soul has four distinct desires: • The desire for purpose, the drive to become who you are meant to be • The desire for the means (money, security, health) to prosper in this world • The desire for pleasures like intimacy, beauty, and love • The desire for spiritual fulfillment and lasting freedom Learning to honor these four desires is the key to happiness, and to a complete and balanced life. But how can you discern what will truly satisfy your desires? How can you increase your capacity to achieve them? What if your desires seem to conflict with one another? Is it really possible to live a spiritual life while also wanting material pleasures and success? For more than three decades, master teacher Rod Stryker has taught yoga in the context of its deepest philosophy. His course, called The Yoga of Fulfillment™, has helped thousands recognize their soul’s call to greatness and to achieve their dreams. Now, in this wise and richly practical book, he has distilled those broad teachings into a roadmap for becoming the person you were meant to be. It is filled with revealing true stories, provocative exercises, and practices for unlocking your inner guidance. And even if you’ve never done a yoga pose, you can follow this step-by-step process to: • discover your soul’s unique purpose—the one you came into this world to fulfill. • recognize the goal(s) you need to focus on at any given time and enliven your capacity to reach them. • overcome self-defeating ideas and behavior. • recruit your deepest energies and strengthen your resolve to meet any challenge. • learn to live with joy at every stage of your growth. The Four Desires is nothing less than a complete path toward living your best life possible—a life that is rich in meaning and in means, a life that attracts and emanates happiness, a life that is your unique gift to yourself and the world.
Download or read book A Billion Desires written by Jessa York and published by Jessa York. This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick A man like me has certain tastes. And needs. I’ll pay top dollar for whatever I’m craving. No price is too high if it means I get what I want. What I desire. Until one day when a certain blonde walks in and turns my life upside down. All I need is one month to get her out of my system forever. At least that’s what I hope. Cherry Lying on my back for rich guys is not my idea of a dream job. Ever since my world imploded, I’ve had to do what I’ve had to do. I’m not proud of it. But I’m a survivor. I’ll do whatever it takes. Until I lay eyes on my billionaire client, Nick. The things he does to me—and the way he makes me feel, blows my mind and shakes my reality. When he asks for one month of exclusivity—I can’t say no. My head tells me I can keep it professional. My heart isn’t so sure. After all, it’s just another job. Right?
Download or read book A Coincidence of Desires written by Tom Boellstorff and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention work. Drawing on these experiences, he provides several in-depth case studies, primarily concerning the lives of Indonesian men who term themselves gay (an Indonesian-language word that overlaps with, but does not correspond exactly to, the English word “gay”). These case studies put interdisciplinary research approaches into practice. They are preceded and followed by theoretical meditations on the most productive forms that collaborations between queer studies and anthropology might take. Boellstorff uses theories of time to ask how a model of “coincidence” might open up new possibilities for cooperation between the two disciplines. He also juxtaposes his own work with other scholars’ studies of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore to compare queer sexualities across Southeast Asia. In doing so, he asks how comparison might be understood as a queer project and how queerness might be understood as comparative. The case studies contained in A Coincidence of Desires speak to questions about the relation of sexualities to nationalism, religion, and globalization. They include an examination of zines published by gay Indonesians; an analysis of bahasa gay—a slang spoken by gay Indonesians that is increasingly appropriated in Indonesian popular culture; and an exploration of the place of warias (roughly, “male-to-female transvestites”) within Indonesian society. Boellstorff also considers the tension between Islam and sexuality in gay Indonesians’ lives and a series of incidents in which groups of men, identified with Islamic fundamentalism, violently attacked gatherings of gay men. Collectively, these studies insist on the primacy of empirical investigation to any queer studies project that wishes to speak to the specificities of lived experience.
Download or read book Veiled Desires written by Maureen Sabine and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naive? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires--a unique full-length, in-depth study of nuns in film--Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. She provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns on screen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.
Download or read book Daring Desires Complete Collection Books 1 5 Daring the Neighbor Daring his Passion Daring Rescue Daring her Captor and Daring the Judge written by Ann Omasta and published by More Happily Ever Afters. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for a dashing new book boyfriend? Indulge in five of them with Daring Desires. Daring the Neighbor: After daydreaming about him from afar, Sabrina is finally ready to act on her fantasies with her super-sexy neighbor, Ethan. Will one sizzling night be enough, or will it ignite the burning flames of desire she has kept deeply buried for so long? Daring his Passion: Reed saw Cassie first. He wanted her first. He ached for her first. But his best friend claimed her first. When Reed finally gets the chance for a night of scorching passion in the arms of the woman he loves, will it quench his thirst or leave him yearning for more? Daring Rescue: Cade owes Becca. She needs him. He’ll save her… no matter what. What happens when the rescuer needs to be rescued? Will Cade and Becca be able to save each other in this suspenseful tale of robbery versus romance? Daring her Captor: Wyatt is the last man Belle should want.Will they be able to resist the lure of a sexy enemies-to-lovers romance? Even if they give in to their cravings, will they ever be able to move beyond their roles as captor and prisoner? Daring the Judge: One night of sizzling passion in each other’s arms threatens to ruin both of their lives. Sienna and Jake can’t get what they want without destroying each other. Who will come out on top? Ethan, Reed, Cade, Wyatt, and Jake are sexy heroes who are talented at smudging their ladies’ lipstick, not their mascara. Meet them NOW in The Daring Desires Complete Collection.
Download or read book Demonic Desires written by Ishay Rosen-Zvi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the yetzer represents a general tendency toward evil. Rather than the lower bodily part of a human, the rabbinic yetzer is a wicked, sophisticated inciter, attempting to snare humans to sin. The rabbinic yetzer should therefore not be read in the tradition of the Hellenistic quest for control over the lower parts of the psyche, writes Rosen-Zvi, but rather in the tradition of ancient Jewish and Christian demonology. Rosen-Zvi conducts a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the some one hundred and fifty appearances of the evil yetzer in classical rabbinic literature to explore the biblical and postbiblical search for the sources of human sinfulness. By examining the yetzer within a specific demonological tradition, Demonic Desires places the yetzer discourse in the larger context of a move toward psychologization in late antiquity, in which evil—and even demons—became internalized within the human psyche. The book discusses various manifestations of this move in patristic and monastic material, from Clement and Origin to Antony, Athanasius, and Evagrius. It concludes with a consideration of the broader implications of the yetzer discourse in rabbinic anthropology.
Download or read book Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama written by Brian Sheerin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting as if it were there. Author Brian Sheerin contends that the motivating force behind both literary and economic inquiry at this time was the same basic quandary about the human imagination--specifically, how investments of belief can produce tangible consequences. Just as speculators were realizing the potency of collective imagination on economic circulation, readers and dramatists were becoming newly introspective about whether or not the 'lies' of literature could actually be morally 'profitable.' Could one actually benefit by taking certain fictions 'seriously'? Each of the five chapters examines a different dimension of this question by highlighting a particular dramatization of economic trust on the Renaissance stage, in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Heywood, Dekker, and Jonson. The book fills a gap in current scholarship by keeping economic and dramatic interests rigorously grounded in early modern literary criticism, but also by emphasizing the productive nature of debt in a way that resonates with recent economic sociology.
Download or read book The Last Law of Attraction Book You ll Ever Need To Read written by Andrew Kap and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why The Law of Attraction Hasn't Given You the Life of Your Dreams Yet ...And What To FINALLY Do About it Once and For All To Easily Manifest Your Desires Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible. There's a reason you keep buying all the books. There's a reason you keep trying all the programs. And after all you've learned and all you've done, there's a reason you still haven't put the pieces together and used the Law of Attraction to manifest the life you've always wanted. And it's not because it doesn't work. Let's be clear. The Law of Attraction WORKS. It's been working this whole time, with absolute precision, right underneath your nose. So why hasn't it been working for YOU? What are you missing? The answers to these questions will not only explain everything in a way you never would have expected, but they're going to demonstrate with crystal clarity everything you've been missing until now. You're about to learn firsthand why every other Law of Attraction book never actually worked for you (it's not what you think -- they actually gave you 100% accurate info). You're going to understand how to make the Law of Attraction "do" what you always wanted (it's easier than you realize -- it only takes ONE small adjustment). And you're going to stop wasting years of your life wishing for a better way ...and finally attract and manifest the money, relationships, health, and success you've always dreamed of. Everything you want has been waiting for you. And it wants you just as much. The time to claim it all has finally arrived. This is The Last Law of Attraction Book You'll Ever Need To Read. Includes nearly 60 pages of top-tier powerhouse techniques for finally getting out of your own way and manifesting your life's desires. Original concepts for understanding the Law of Attraction that aren't available anywhere else (you'll relate to it in a way you never would have thought of). A clear game plan for using manifestation methods with a level of enthusiasm and consistency that guarantees results. A new way of tapping into the Universe to easily attract happiness and success.
Download or read book Desires written by R. Rose and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if your entire race were created by the ancient Celtic God, Dagda, to please his beloved daughter, Brighid, who gifted your maternal bloodline with a spark of her soul? Now youre given the task of living in the mortal realm to bring the gift of the Arts to the mortals she loves; while being relentlessly hunted by the Goddess of the Killing Rage to satisfy a deadly desire for Otherworldly vengeance. Just before Elans seventeenth birthday, the Goddess of Lust & Rage, along with the Immortal she created, destroyed her sheltered life. Now, an object of possession by mortals and immortals alike; Elan must learn to control her legacy and, with the two warriors that love her, save the Goddess Brighid by protecting the small flame of Immortal soul that lives within her. Liam and James have been friendsbrotherssince they were children. Now the Otherworld has been released into the Mortal Realm leaving a bloody path of terror in its desire for vengeance. Its coming for Elan, a woman they both love and would die to protect. Will the Otherworld destroy their bondor will their love for Elan give them the strength to fight whats coming? Forced into the service of the Goddess Morrigan and made immortal, Greagoir must be the vessel for the Goddess uncontrollable lust and killing rage. Elan is the key. After all these centuries, all that stands in his way are two mortal warriors gifted by a goddess and a young womans desire to survive.
Download or read book The Art of Aubrey Beardsley written by Aubrey Beardsley and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
