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An autobiographical novel, first published in France in 1934, detailing the author's life among Paris bohemians during the late 1920s and early 1930s. During this period, he intermittently suffers from hunger, homelessness, squalor, loneliness and despair over his recent separation from his wife.
3) Four blondes
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Janey Wilcox volume 1
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From the author of Sex and the City, this collection of novellas tells the stories of four women facing up to the limitations of their rapidly approaching middle age in an era that worships youth. From the former it-girl heroine of "Nice N' Easy," who each summer looks for a rich man who'll provide her with a house in the Hamptons, to the narrator of "Single Process," who goes to London on a hunt for love and a good magazine story, Candace Bushnell...
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[2017]
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A gripping exploration of the relationship between sex and our society, with a foreword by bestselling author A. J. Jacobs Why do political leaders become entangled in so many sex scandals? How did the U.S. military inadvertently help make San Francisco a mecca of gay culture? And what was the original purpose of vibrators? Find out the answers to all these questions and more as journalist Ross Benes delves into the complicated relationship between...
10) Spirit level
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2016.
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"Harriet (known as Harry) is a donor-conceived child who has never wanted to reach out to her half-siblings or donor--until now. Feeling adrift after a breakup with her long-time boyfriend, Harry tracks down her half-siblings, two of whom are in Seattle, where Harriet lives. The first girl she meets is fifteen-year-old Lucy, an effervescent half-Japanese dancer. Then she meets Meredith, a troubled girl who is always accompanied by her best friend,...
12) Sex in history
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1980
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A straight record of historical fact about the role of sex through time.
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[2013]
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Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control; it has been a way to understand ourselves and others; and it has been at the center of fierce political storms, including some of the most crucial changes in civil rights in the last decade. Edited by Thomas A. Foster, Documenting Intimate Matters features seventy-two documents...
17) Caffeine
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c2007
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There's always something strange brewing at the Black Cat Cafe. The relationships of the quirky staff and several couples are turned upside down by the sudden revelations of supremely embarrassing secrets relating to their sexual behavior.
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1997.
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Twenty stories on people's erotic experiences. In Johanna Baird's B Is for Bechamel, a chef gets his kicks from having a woman lick food off his body, while in Richard Collin's Freud, Cavafy and the Comforts of Civilization, a couple gets its kicks from copulating in museums.
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[1959]
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Controversial upon publication in 1946, Memoirs of Hecate County remained banned for more than a decade before being reissued.
A favorite among his own books, Edmund Wilson's erotic and devestating portrait of the upper middle class still holds up today as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America.
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2011, c2010
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"A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you know about sex, marriage, family, and society"--Provided by publisher.
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá debunk almost everything we "know" about sex, pulling together various evidence from anthropology, primatology, archaeology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, to show how monogomy is far from human nature. "The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward...
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