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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
Language
English
Description
"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...
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
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.
7) Amer
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's pastiche tour-de-force plays out a delirious, enigmatic, almost wordless death-dance of fear and desire. Its three movements, each in a different style, correspond to the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of its female protagonist. Drawing its stylized, hyperbolic gestures from the playbooks of Bava, Leone, Argento, and De Palma, it takes them into a realm of near-abstraction.
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,...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Joan and Kip Sewell knew before they got married that he liked having sex more often than she did. But it wasn't until they had wed that the extreme nature of the disparity became clear: he wanted it nearly daily; she wanted it nearly never. Even when the sex was good, Joan could take her orgasms or leave them; sex for Kip, on the other hand, was as physically ecstatic as it was emotionally important. Obviously, to save their otherwise healthy marriage,...
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
Urano
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Si alguna vez te has preguntado por qué te gusta la música triste...Si encuentras consuelo o inspiración en un día lluvioso...Si reaccionas intensamente a la música, el arte, la naturaleza y la belleza...Entonces, probablemente, te identifiques con el sentimiento agridulce. En esta inspiradora obra maestra, la escritora Susan Cain muestra el poder del sentimiento agridulce: una tendencia hacia la tristeza y el anhelo, una aguda conciencia del...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the cultural impact of Tennessee Williams' most enduring character--Blanche Dubois from "A Streetcar Named Desire"--explores how she helped define themes of womanhood, sexuality, mental illness, and the idealized South
13) Dreamland
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young girl must decide between taking care of her father and friend, both of whom are sick and need her the most, and doing what will truly make her happy.
15) Satanás
Publisher
Distribuido por DistriMax
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
Español
Description
"Three parallel stories that occur in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre, involving a femme-fatal that cons on rich men, a priest who's in love with his housekeeper and a tired-of-life veteran of war who has become a teacher and desires one of his female students. Three characters looking for love, redemption and second chances in a world reigned by their own fears, temptations, passions and pains, which will end up in a trigger effect of tragic...
16) El guachiman
Publisher
Distributed by Madera Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The story of Alex, a humble police watchman who decides to take control of his luck. After his girlfriends breaks up with him, he decides to steal $ 80,000 and lead a life full of adventures , fulfilling all of his desires.
17) 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.
19) Sex, lies, and pharmaceuticals: how drug companies plan to profit from female sexual dysfunction
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Reveals how womens' sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disorder and investigates the creation of female sexual dysfunction or FSD, and the marketing machine that promises to "cure" it.
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