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26) Choke: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer's disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This series for young children provides easy-to-understand facts and answers. Launching the series is Who Has What?, a simple story following Nellie and Gus on a family outing to the beach. Humorous illustrations, conversations between the siblings, and a clear text all reassure young kids that whether they have a girl's body or a boy's, their bodies are perfectly normal, healthy, and wonderful.
Author
Language
English
Description
In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to sexual behavior for the twenty-first century argues that modern sexuality must strike a balance between love and desire, and between adventure and commitment, and discusses such topics as rejection, pornography, and adultery.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the investigative-historian author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, Vronsky fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime, exploring sexual serial killers throughout human history, discussing how they evolved and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xlii, 451 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of young Gus and Nellie, who watch their mother's pregnancy and anticipate the arrival of a new sibling while learning engaging facts about how unborn babies develop.
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