The Cult of the Black Virgin
Author : Ean Begg
Publisher : Chiron Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1630514411
The Virgin and the Beast
Author : Stasia Black
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781950097203
Book Description
They say good things come to those who wait. Bullsh*%! My whole life has been about waiting. Playing it safe. Be the good girl, don't color outside the lines. Put in the hard work trying to prove myself to Dad, then to my college professors, then to my boss at New World Media. Just waiting for the day when it will all pay off. And right when it was all starting to--I finally had the house, the job, I was even thinking about getting a cat--boom!--my life explodes and suddenly now I'm here and-- "All done," the doctor interrupts my thoughts, pulling off her gloves with a loud snap. Even from the bed where I'm lying, my legs spread like the Thanksgiving turkey, I can hear the impatient growl of the man standing in the doorway. If you can even call him a man. More like a beast out of a friggin' fairytale. "Well?" Her pronouncement echoes throughout the room while the speculum is still inside me. "She's a virgin."
The Weary Blues
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486850560
Book Description
Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.
Raffaele: Taming His Tempestuous Virgin
Author : Sandra Marton
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426842708
Book Description
First in the series featuring the darkly handsome, proud, and arrogant Orsini brothers—the perfect Sicilian husbands—from the USA Today–bestselling author. Raffaele Orsini doesn’t want a wife . . . But when he meets his arranged bride, Raffaele feels honor bound to marry her. She’s not what he was expecting . . . but her dowdy clothes can’t hide her lusciously feminine figure or her wildcat temperament! Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband! She’s tried everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood. With his dark, brooding looks and tempting masculinity, she’ll be purring like a kitten!
Virgin
Author : Analicia Sotelo
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1571319778
Book Description
Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo’s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity—of naiveté, of careless abandon—before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how “far & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go.” A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. “A Mexican American fascinator.” At every step, Sotelo’s poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detail—grilled meat, golden habañeros, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self. Blistering and gorgeous, Virgin is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.
The Virgin Next Door
Author : Stasia Black
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781950097197
Book Description
A playboy, a tomboy, and an ex-con. They couldn't be more different. The only place all those differences disappear? The bedroom. "Let's go in," Liam said, taking the hotel keycard Calla had been clutching. She looked confused until Liam eyed Mack and said, "All of us." Calla's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open slightly. But when the door unlocked, she stepped inside and held it open wide. In invitation. F*ck him. Mack felt it in his chest and his balls--the wanting. She doesn't know what she's inviting in. Liam stepped right over the threshold, but still, Mack hesitated. She deserves a million times better than either of you horny f*cks. Mack was about to turn around and leave. He really was. But then Calla reached over and took his hand. With her other, she reached out to Liam. When she started tugging them inside, Mack let himself be pulled forward. He didn't know if he was heading into heaven or hell. But as the door closed behind him, Mack knew there was no other place he'd rather be.
Outlander
Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Dell
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0440335167
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News
Black Virgin Mountain
Author : Larry Heinemann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385515782
Book Description
In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war year. Black Virgin Mountain confirms Heinemann’s legendary plain-spoken reputation as one of the essential chroniclers of our war in Vietnam
You Can Be a Virgin Again
Author : J. P. Sloane
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2006-01-04
Category :
ISBN : 1600342477
Book Description
As a labor of love to fight the lies of Satan and the world, a father and daughter teamed up to write this unique and encouraging book to prove that a person can recapture their innocence and virginity through God if they truly have a desire to. (Practical Life)
Women Who Wrote
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0785236279
Book Description
Meet the women who wrote. They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote trapped in a room of their father’s house, and some went in search of a room of their own. They had lovers and families. They were sometimes lonely. Many wrote anonymously or under a pseudonym for a world not yet ready for their genius and talent. We know many of their names—Austen and Alcott, Brontë and Browning, Wheatley and Woolf—though some may be less familiar. They are here, waiting to introduce themselves. They marched through the world one by one or in small sisterhoods, speaking to each other and to us over distances of place and time. Pushing back against the boundaries meant to keep us in our place, they carved enough space for themselves to write. They made space for us to follow. Here they are gathered together, an army of women who wrote and an arsenal of words to inspire us. They walk with us as we forge our own paths forward. These women wrote to change the world. The perfect keepsake gift for the reader in your life Anthology of stories and poems Book length: approximately 90,000 words
