The Virgin's Choice
Author : Jennie Lucas
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 4596648581
Author : Jennie Lucas
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 4596648581
Author : Pamela Erens
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935639625
It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster. The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.
Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307401936
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
Author : Kelly Oram
Publisher : Bluefields
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0985627727
Kyle Hamilton is the quintessential bad boy, but Val Jensen is not your typical good girl. When Val gets dumped for her decision to stay a virgin until marriage, the nasty breakup goes viral on YouTube, making her the latest internet sensation. After days of ridicule from her peers, Val starts a school-wide campaign to rally support for her cause. She meant to make a statement, but she never dreamed the entire nation would get caught up in the controversy. As if becoming nationally recognized as "Virgin Val" isn't enough, Val's already hectic life starts to spin wildly out of control when bad boy Kyle Hamilton, lead singer for the hit rock band Tralse, decides to take her abstinence as a personal challenge. How can a girl stay true to herself when this year's Sexiest Man Alive is doing everything in his power to win her over?
Author : Lucy Lennox
Publisher : Lucy Lennox LLC
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Wanted: One night together, no strings attached. Hold me, make love to me, treat me like I’m the most important person in the world. No talking. No names. And don’t be surprised if I’m gone in the morning. After crushing on my best friend for years, I realize he’ll never want someone inexperienced like me. So I decide to get it over with, play the V-card once and for all with an anonymous hook-up. The terms are simple: no talking, no names. It isn’t as easy as it seems. Now I can’t get the handsome stranger who greeted me with soft kisses and gentle touches out of my mind. Those hands, those lips... But it was just a one-time thing, and I need to forget about him once and for all. At least I know I won’t ever see him again—until I board a flight and catch sight of a familiar profile in the cockpit just as the door closes.
Author : Sarah Salih
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0859916227
Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.
Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Young women
ISBN :
Author : Mike Walker
Publisher : Phoenix Books, Inc.
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1597775843
Offers an expose of reality television programs, and discusses the reasons why the genre has been successful.
Author : Laura Saetveit Miles
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843845342
An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.
Author : April Ayers Lawson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0865478708
A confident and mesmerizing fiction debut, from the winner of the Plimpton Prize Set in the South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In "The Negative Effects of Homeschooling," Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to the funeral of her best friend, Charlene, a woman who was once a man. In "The Way You Must Play Always," Gretchen, who looks young even for thirteen, heads into her weekly piano lesson in nervous anticipation of her next illicit meeting with her teacher's brother, Wesley. Thin and sickly, wasting from a brain tumor, Wesley spends his days watching pornography and smoking pot, and yet Gretchen can only interpret his advances as the first budding of love. And in the title story, Jake grapples with the growing chasm between him and his wife, Sheila, who was still a virgin when they wed. At a cocktail party thrown by a wealthy donor to his hospital, he ponders the intertwining imperatives of marriage--sex and love, violation and trust, spirituality and desire--even as he finds himself succumbing to the temptations of his host. Self-assured and sensual, Virgin and Other Stories is the first work of a young writer of unusual mastery.