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g-winston-james's picture
Apr.30.2009
G. Winston James' stories examine the individual, familial, and societal complexities of desire.  Candidly rendered, they unabashedly consider the formation of personal and sexual identity in a world in which the carnal is highly policed, variously dangerous and all too often denied. Shaming the...
cynthia-w-gentry's picture
Feb.20.2009
This book contains sealed seductions bound in glassine envelopes that let readers peek at the enclosed sexy scenarios. Each sealed seduction includes a photograph that illustrates the seduction while the facing sealed page will describe the fantasy to be acted out with a partner, give sexual...
lutishia-lovely's picture
Jan.09.2009
The Hallelujah Love series begins with Sex In The Sanctuary, and the friendship between two women who just happen to be preacher's wives. Vivian Montgomery seems to have it all: handsome husband, two cute, well-behaved children, thriving ministry and a marriage still smoldering after fifteen years...
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Dec.11.2008
The study of sexual physiology — what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better — has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI...
sarojini-sahoo's picture
Oct.17.2008
Sarojini Sahoo , the eminent south Asian feminist writer ,known for her greater consciousness of women bodies , creates a more honest and appropriate style of openness, fragmentation and non-linearity in her fictions, always projects a feminine sensibility from puberty to menopause. and the...
thomas-fahy's picture
Aug.01.2008
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination examines the artistic use of freakishness between 1900 and 1950, mapping its rather sudden shift from a highly profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. Throughout this period, the public reassessed freak shows, gradually seeing them as...
kathy-stinson's picture
Jul.11.2008
Fourteen stories about the joys and anxieties of sexual anticipation
lillian-b-rubin's picture
Jul.05.2008
Intimate Strangers is a book for every man and woman who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why is seemed so elusive.  The voices we hear in this book seem like our own; the people who live on its pages speak directly to our concerns and experiences.  But the...
natasha-bauman's picture
Jul.03.2008
Desire for rare orchids inspires the dangerous obsessions of a young wife and her repressive husband in Victorian Boston.
gregory-spatz's picture
Jun.18.2008
Wonderful Tricks The ten stories in this collection concern love—between father and son, mother and son, and between lovers. Spatz’s watchful and aware characters yearn for permanence in their relationships: someone to hold on to, someone to come back for. While the children in these stories...