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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a drama teacher's decision to direct "Lysistrata" for the high school play, the women in the town begin to sexually reject their husbands and boyfriends in ways that force both men and women to reevaluate their views on relationships and sexuality.
2) Want not
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On Thanksgiving Day a freegan couple living off the grid in Manhattan, a once prominent linguist struggling with midlife, and a New Jersey debt-collection magnate with a second chance at getting things right randomly and briefly collide as the weight of their desires ultimately undoes each of them, leaving them to pick up the pieces from what's left behind.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Enlisted by Aphrodite to deliver a cruel curse to Psyche, princess of Mycenae, Eros, god of desire, accidentally pricks himself with the arrow intended for Psyche and is doomed to yearn for a woman who will be torn from him the moment their eyes meet.
Author
Series
Publisher
Terciopelo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Alba y Elke, a quien ya conoceréis de Los lazos del deseo (la entrega anterior de la serie) guiarán a Zuper, el aprendiz de Karol, en una aventura de estímulos sexuales que develarán otros deseos aún desconocidos para los tres y que los trasladarán a un mundo de placer inconmensurable al alcance de muy pocos. Mientras tanto, Karol seguirá dando rienda a su obsesión. Y se dará de bruces con Laura, la ladrona que le desanima en Los lazos del...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision....
Author
Publisher
TooFar Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Rin, Tongue, and Dorner takes place in an apocalyptic future, where humanity survives in temperature regulated geodomes. The protagonist, Dorner, has committed himself to his career as a Planner, keeping the temperature of his colony constant through a system of furnaces as well as a strict code of human conduct. Extremes of human activity -- violence, extreme athleticism, and excessive sexual activity -- can threaten the thermal balance. His vow...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios,...
8) Contradeseo
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Después de terminar con su pareja y tirar a la basura las posibilidades de un buen estatus migratorio, Silvia recurre a los únicos amigos que le quedan. Así aterriza con el corazón roto en el sofá cama de Javier y Teresa, y a cambio del hospedaje pacta con la pareja hacer el aseo del pequeño apartamento en el que viven. Este acuerdo los confrontará con aquello que creen desear. Entre las cajas de los regalos de bodas sin desempacar y los días...
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