Download or read book The Manipulation Love Lust and Betrayal of a Career Woman written by Jerod Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manipulation, Love, Lust, and Betrayal of a Career Woman, a play of four scenes with epilogue, explores the kinds of challenges a person might encounter in the search for love and fulfillment in today’s confusing, fast-paced, lonely hearts world. The focus is primarily on a collection of characters whose professional and personal lives frequently collide. When Vanessa, a thirty-something psychiatrist, reveals to the audience, in “Manipulation,” that the mind is a “fascinating tool,” Peter, her married patient, conjures up images of infidelity and acts out his erotic feelings toward her in therapy. Vanessa finds him difficult to resist. But their exchange flips from romantic to adversarial as Peter reveals his desire to end his affair because his wife is pregnant. In “Love,” Taylor, a successful lawyer “who has her life in order,” struggles to find one meaningful relationship that will ignite her passionless life. Against the backdrop of haute couture’s dressing rooms and catwalks, “Lust” examines the divergence between deep emotion and superficiality. “Betrayal” finds Jada seeking solace in another man’s arms when her husband becomes distant and her marriage loses the love it once had. The play’s epilogue, “Resolution,” gives each main character a final chance to express themselves as they poignantly reflect on the complexities of their lives. This play looks at the peaks and valleys of contemporary courtship, giving both women and men their say. The play contains modern day morality tales that are intended to entertain and provoke thought.
Download or read book The Manipulation Love Lust and Betrayal of a Career Woman written by Jerod Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manipulation, Love, Lust, and Betrayal of a Career Woman, a play of four scenes with epilogue, explores the kinds of challenges a person might encounter in the search for love and fulfillment in today's confusing, fast-paced, lonely hearts world. The focus is primarily on a collection of characters whose professional and personal lives frequently collide. When Vanessa, a thirty-something psychiatrist, reveals to the audience, in "Manipulation," that the mind is a "fascinating tool," Peter, her married patient, conjures up images of infidelity and acts out his erotic feelings toward her in therapy. Vanessa finds him difficult to resist. But their exchange flips from romantic to adversarial as Peter reveals his desire to end his affair because his wife is pregnant. In "Love," Taylor, a successful lawyer "who has her life in order," struggles to find one meaningful relationship that will ignite her passionless life. Against the backdrop of haute couture's dressing rooms and catwalks, "Lust" examines the divergence between deep emotion and superficiality. "Betrayal" finds Jada seeking solace in another man's arms when her husband becomes distant and her marriage loses the love it once had. The play's epilogue, "Resolution," gives each main character a final chance to express themselves as they poignantly reflect on the complexities of their lives. This play looks at the peaks and valleys of contemporary courtship, giving both women and men their say. The play contains modern day morality tales that are intended to entertain and provoke thought.
Download or read book Fierce Marriage written by Ryan Frederick and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan and Selena Frederick were newlyweds when they landed in Switzerland to pursue Selena's dream of training horses. Neither of them knew at the time that Ryan was living out a death sentence brought on by a worsening genetic heart defect. Soon it became clear he needed major surgery that could either save his life--or result in his death on the operating table. The young couple prepared for the worst. When Ryan survived, they both realized that they still had a future together. But the near loss changed the way they saw all that would lie ahead. They would live and love fiercely, fighting for each other and for a Christ-centered marriage, every step of the way. Fierce Marriage is their story, but more than that, it is a call for married couples to put God first in their relationship, to measure everything they do and say to each other against what Christ did for them, and to see marriage not just as a relationship they should try to keep healthy but also as one worth fighting for in every situation. With the gospel as their foundation, Ryan and Selena offer hope and practical help for common struggles in marriage, including communication problems, sexual frustration, financial stress, family tension, screen-time disconnection, and unrealistic expectations.
Download or read book Life with Picasso written by Françoise Gilot and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists. Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become. Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake and published in 1961, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.
Download or read book The State of Affairs written by Esther Perel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fresh look at infidelity, broadening the focus from the havoc it wreaks within a committed relationship to consider also why people do it, what it means to them, and why breaking up is the expected response to duplicity — but not necessarily the wisest one.” — LA Review of Books From iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity comes a provocative and controversial look at infidelity with practical, honest, and empathetic advice for how to move beyond it. An affair: it can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet, this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. What are we to make of this time-honored taboo—universally forbidden yet universally practiced? Why do people cheat—even those in happy marriages? Why does an affair hurt so much? When we say infidelity, what exactly do we mean? Do our romantic expectations of marriage set us up for betrayal? Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Can an affair ever help a marriage? Perel weaves real-life case stories with incisive psychological and cultural analysis in this fast-paced and compelling book. For the past ten years, Perel has traveled the globe and worked with hundreds of couples who have grappled with infidelity. Betrayal hurts, she writes, but it can be healed. An affair can even be the doorway to a new marriage—with the same person. With the right approach, couples can grow and learn from these tumultuous experiences, together or apart. Affairs, she argues, have a lot to teach us about modern relationships—what we expect, what we think we want, and what we feel entitled to. They offer a unique window into our personal and cultural attitudes about love, lust, and commitment. Through examining illicit love from multiple angles, Perel invites readers into an honest, enlightened, and entertaining exploration of modern marriage in its many variations. Fiercely intelligent, The State of Affairs provides a daring framework for understanding the intricacies of love and desire. As Perel observes, “Love is messy; infidelity more so. But it is also a window, like no other, into the crevices of the human heart.”
Download or read book The love Sailing Boat written by Kwabena Osei and published by K. Osei Doctrines and Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let us talk about love. Love is the universal language. Love is freedom of expression. The unconditional acceptance of a neighbour for mutual understanding and respect is through the power of love. Love is the ultimate power and the source of the universal energy. Love is life. Love beautifies life. The living hell into which humanity has been condemned can be transformed into an absolute paradise through the power of love. This lovely book; “The love Sailing Boat” is meant to highlight mankind’s short coming regardless of the causes and the effects of the deceptions in life, marriage, love and sex relationships. It creates awareness. It guides us to avoid repetition of our mistakes in life, marriage, love and sex relationships. Making choices in the state of unawareness always lead us to regrettable moments in the end. We design our own path of suffering through wrong choices which are mainly engineered and driven by the Ego and the Mind. Our miseries and agonies are the attribute of engaging in marriage, love and sex relationships with the mind. The mind promises much but delivers nothing. Our success or failure depends on those with whom we confine in life, marriage, love and sex relationships. Let this lovely book, “The Love Sailing Boat” be your guide and amour. Let unconditional love reigns supreme in your marriage, love and sex relationships and you will always find pleasure in love. The power of Divine Love will guide you to discover the Sacred Island of Love for Romances, whereby, only unconditional lovers are welcomed. Love conquers all. Peace and Love.
Download or read book Professional Wrestling written by Mazer, Sharon and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional wrestling is often seen as a suspect sport and marginal entertainment. It is also one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. That its display of violence is at once simulated and actual is part of the appeal for the fans who debate performance choices with as much energy as they argue about their favorite wrestlers. Its ongoing scenarios and presentations of manly and not-so-manly characters--from the flamboyantly feminine to the hypermasculine--simultaneously celebrate and critique, parody and affirm the American dream and the masculine ideal. This book looks at the world of professional wrestling both from the fan's-eye-view high in the stands and from the ringside in the wrestlers' gym. It begins with a look at the way in which performances are constructed and sold to spectators, both on a local level and in the "big leagues" of the WWF and the WCW. A close-up view of a group of wrestlers as they work out, get their faces pushed to the mat as part of their initiation into the fraternity of the ring, and the dream of stardom follows. The second half of the book explores professional wrestling's carnivalesque presentation of masculinities ranging from the cute to the brute, as well as the way in which the performances of women wrestlers almost inevitably enter into the realm of pornographic. Finally, it explores the question of the "real" and the "fake" as the fans themselves confront it. The game of wrestling may indeed be fixed, but no more so than the game of life. The real power may rest with the invisible money men, but at least in the arena, fans know the rules by which this particular game is played and are free to insist that the action meet their expectations.
Download or read book See Through Marriage written by Ryan Frederick and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage is all about sharing: sharing space, sharing joys and sorrows, sharing hopes and dreams. Yet we often hold back a part of ourselves because we fear that being wholly transparent--about our past, our desires, our failures, our faults--will bring judgment, rejection, or even just unwanted friction to our relationship. We are afraid to be fully known. As a result, we never experience being fully loved. Fierce Marriage authors Ryan and Selena Frederick think your marriage deserves better. In this new, paradigm-shifting book, they show you how to develop a see-through marriage, one that is marked by full transparency and confident vulnerability. Through personal stories, testimonies from other couples, and biblical truth, they make the case that living authentically in front of each other is the only way to experience love the way we were designed to. If you desire an honest, no-holding-back marriage where you are fully known, fully accepted, and fully loved, you need this book.
Download or read book Verity written by Colleen Hoover and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Download or read book The Other Woman written by Hank Phillippi Ryan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Ryland was a rising star in television news . . . until she refused to reveal a source and lost everything. Now a disgraced newspaper reporter, she finds herself tracking down a candidate's secret mistress just days before a pivotal Senate election.
Download or read book Harlequin Presents July 2018 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: CROWNED FOR THE SHEIKH’S BABY One Night With Consequences By Sharon Kendrick Sensible Hannah never expected to attend a glamorous party with Sheikh Kulal. A searing kiss leads to an incredible night—and shocking consequences! Now Kulal will claim his heir by making Hannah his desert queen! INHERITED FOR THE ROYAL BED By Annie West After liberating inherited concubine Lina, powerful ruler Sayid is shocked by her transformation from naive to irresistible! Sayid’s never wanted anyone more but can only offer a brief affair. Will Lina accept a week in his bed? TYCOON’S FORBIDDEN CINDERELLA By Melanie Milburne Lucien refuses to indulge in love, but delectable Audrey tests his control! Her shy innocence holds an enticing appeal. When scandal forces them together, Lucien proposes a temporary solution to their cravings—delicious surrender! A MISTRESS, A SCANDAL, A RING Ruthless Billionaire Brothers By Angela Bissell For Xavier, seducing stunning Jordan is a calculated risk. He’s convinced their fire will soon burn out. But when their affair’s exposed, there’s just one option—bind Jordan to him permanently! Be sure to collect Harlequin® Presents’ July 2018 Box Set 2 of 2! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.
Download or read book Movies 365 A Good Movie for Every Day of the Year written by Greg Sterlace and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are an Off Beat Cinema fan or you are simply off beat, 365 Movies: A Good Movie for Every Day of the Year will become your bible for those moments when you just want someone else to pick out a movie for your viewing entertainment. Greg Sterlace gives you a droll glimpse at movies you may have never considered or classics that deserve a second look. Sure, you may have seen Midnight Cowboy when you snuck into the theater when you were 15, but did you really catch all the nuances of depravity at that tender age? Give it another look now that you are sullied by life.
Download or read book All About Love written by bell hooks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
Download or read book The 48 Laws of Power written by Robert Greene and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making All Things New written by David Powlison and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality was a part of God's good creation from the beginning. But with sin came a world filled with sexual brokenness. Thankfully, God is always in the business of restoration. This book offers hope for both the sexually immoral and the sexually victimized, pointing us all to the grace of Jesus Christ, who mercifully intervenes each moment in our lifelong journey toward renewal. Author David Powlison casts a vision for the key to deep transformation, better than anything the world has to offer—not just fresh resolve, not just flimsy forgiveness, not just simple formulas, but true, lasting mercy from God, who is making all things new.
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
