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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love -- with a place, or a painting, or a person -- and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss -- from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light...
4) Intimacies
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Explore your relationships and sexuality, with yourself and with others, with this new book by Dr. Faith, author of bestselling Unfuck Your Brain. Written particularly for people who are in intimate relationships, but also incredibly useful if you're single or dating and trying to unpack your past or plan for your future. With science and humor, Dr. Faith demystifies topics such as kink, consent, shame, and trauma recovery. Contains many exercises...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Combining Chakour's story of her own healing journey with practical plant-based knowledge, Awakening Artemis is rooted in the belief that healing happens through reclaiming an intuitive connection to ourselves, to the natural world, and to our own "inner wild." Having experienced a series of physical traumas growing up--including chronic asthma, a car accident that fractured her back and neck, and sexual trauma--Chakour pursued various approaches...
Author
Publisher
Andy Cohen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In The Queen V, the beloved OB-GYN, celebrity doctor, and star of Bravo's Married to Medicine reveals the twelve principles behind a happy and healthy vagina...and other lady parts. After twenty years of private obstetrics and gynecological practice, there's nothing Dr. Jackie Walters hasn't seen. And now, in her new book, the widely-adored OB-GYN invites you to put your feet in the stirrups and investigate. Whether she's covering libido, contraceptives,...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Naomi Grant has built a life around going against the grain. When the sex-positive start-up she cofounded becomes an international sensation, her responsibilities shift from the bedroom to the boardroom. Ready to conquer new worlds, Naomi wants to extend her educational platform to live lecturing, but despite her long list of qualifications, higher ed won't hire her. Ethan Cohen has recently received two honors: LA Mag named him one of the city's...
11) Intimacy Idiot
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning playwright "who splits the difference between David Rakoff and Larry David" (New York magazine)—a "compulsively readable debut" (Time Out New York) of big-hearted, laugh-until-you-can't-breathe essays, stories, and riffs on finding love and intimacy in New York City.
Since moving to New York a decade ago, award-winning writer and performer Isaac Oliver has pined for countless strangers on the subway,...
Since moving to New York a decade ago, award-winning writer and performer Isaac Oliver has pined for countless strangers on the subway,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A PSY/CHANGELING NOVELLA from the author of Shards of Hope, Shield of Winter, and Heart of Obsidian...
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s phenomenal Psy/Changeling series continues with this sensual exploration of the searing joys and unexpected challenges of mating...
SnowDancer healer Lara knows primal ecstasy. She wakes to it every morning, skin-to-skin with the hard male body of the quiet, powerful...
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s phenomenal Psy/Changeling series continues with this sensual exploration of the searing joys and unexpected challenges of mating...
SnowDancer healer Lara knows primal ecstasy. She wakes to it every morning, skin-to-skin with the hard male body of the quiet, powerful...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 272
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1969, c1948
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh mother, but to untangle knots the British Empire created...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Presents advice from a Christian perspective on maintaining a healthy sex relationship within marriage, discussing some of the obstacles to sexuality and what can be done to achieve a balance between everyday demands and marital sex.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Part practical guide, part client stories, part personal narrative, Zoë Kors draws on her experience as a sex and intimacy coach, thought leader, and relationship writer in sharing her powerful and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our intimate relationships over time. Kors guides the reader on a five-part journey through nine areas of opportunity for deepening intimacy with themselves, their partner, and their world, inviting...
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