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ISBN 9780142001196 (0-14-200119-8, 0142001198)

by Robert Greene

ISBN 0142001198 (0-14-200119-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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From the creators of the New York Times-bestselling The 48 Laws of Power, comes a mesmerizing handbook on seduction: the most subtle and effective form of power

Which sort of seducer could you be: Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead, and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer.

In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four maneuvers and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over his target. Understand how to Choose the Right Victim, Appear to Be an Object of Desire, and Confuse Desire and Reality. As in his other bestsellers, The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and most recently in Mastery, in The Art of Seduction, an international bestseller, Robert Greene deftly mines history and literature to create an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.

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Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women

by Joseph Lopiccolo, Julia Heiman

ISBN 0130727113 (0-13-072711-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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ISBN 9780060573096 (0-06-057309-0, 0060573090)

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath, Frances McCullough

ISBN 0060573090 (0-06-057309-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]

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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order

by Debbie Stoller, Marcelle Karp

ISBN 0140277749 (0-14-027774-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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ISBN 9780060961329 (0-06-096132-5, 0060961325)

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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies

by Vito Russo

ISBN 0060961325 (0-06-096132-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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When Vito Russo published the first edition of The Celluloid Closet in 1981, there was little question that it was a groundbreaking book. Today it is still one of the most informative and provocative books written about gay people and popular culture. By examining the images of homosexuality and gender variance in Hollywood films from the 1920s to the present, Russo traced a history not only of how gay men and lesbians had been erased or demonized in movies but in all of American culture as well. Chronicling the depictions of gay people such as the "sissy" roles of Edward Everett Horton and Franklin Pangborn in 1930s comedies or predatory lesbians in 1950s dramas (see Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn and Barbara Stanwyck in Walk on the Wild Side), Russo details how homophobic stereotypes have both reflected and perpetrated the oppression of gay people. In the revised edition, published a year before his death in 1990, Russo added information on the new wave of independent and gay-produced films--The Times of Harvey Milk, Desert Hearts, Buddies--that emerged during the 1980s. --Michael Bronski [via]

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ISBN 9780156260251 (0-15-626025-5, 0156260255)

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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934

by Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

ISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.

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Down and Dirty Sex Secrets: The New and Naughty Guide to Being Great in Bed

by Tristan Taormino

ISBN 0060988924 (0-06-098892-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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ISBN 9780140443608 (0-14-044360-6, 0140443606)

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The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies

by Peter Green, Ovid

ISBN 0140443606 (0-14-044360-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the "Amores", Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the "Cures for Love", with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and "On Facial Treatment for Ladies", an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics. [via]

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ISBN 9780060141424 (0-06-014142-5, 0060141425)

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Family Sex and Marriage: England 1500-1800

by Laurence Stone

ISBN 0060141425 (0-06-014142-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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Family, Sex and Marriage in England, Fifteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred Abr. Ed. Illus.

by Lawrence Stone

ISBN 0060907355 (0-06-090735-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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ISBN 9780061319792 (0-06-131979-1, 0061319791)

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Family, Sex, and Marriage

by Lawrence Stone

ISBN 0061319791 (0-06-131979-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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ISBN 9780060670788 (0-06-067078-9, 0060670789)

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Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?: A Positive Christian Response

by Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

ISBN 0060670789 (0-06-067078-9)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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A classic work of gay spirituality--newly revised to reflect today's issues, including gays in the military, the AIDS crisis, and genetic research on homosexuality. [via]

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ISBN 9780140435382 (0-14-043538-7, 0140435387)

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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy, Dennis Taylor

ISBN 0140435387 (0-14-043538-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Hardy's last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but his ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead, and their refusal to marry when free to do so confirms their rejection of and by the world around them. The shocking fate that overtakes them is an indictment of a rigid and uncaring society. This is the first truly critical edition, taking account of the changes that Hardy made over twenty-five years. Hardy's last, and most controversial novel, this revised edition has the first truly critical text, a new chronology and bibliography, and substantially revised notes. [via]

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ISBN 9780192821942 (0-19-282194-6, 0192821946)

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The Love Poems

by Ovid, A.D. Melville

ISBN 0192821946 (0-19-282194-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical conclusion: definitive disestablishment of the poet-lover's role as presented by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. In its place he went on to offer in the Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) an equally brilliant presentation of an alternative and more realistic conception of love as a game at which both sexes can play without getting hurt - providing they stick to Ovid's rules. Under the surface of Ovid's wit there runs an undercurrent of serious meaning: the theme of the poet's complete control of his medium and his art and a proud consciousness of his achievements. His claim to be `the Virgil of elegy' is arrestingly justified in these extraordinarily accomplished poems. Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small revisions he has made will enhance the reader's admiration for Moore's achievement. This book is intended for general; students from 6th Form upwards following courses on Latin literature, classical literature, European literature, and comparative literature. [via]

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ISBN 9780140173260 (0-14-017326-9, 0140173269)

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Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in 19Th-Century London

by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq

ISBN 0140173269 (0-14-017326-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Using firsthand documents uncovered in the archives of a London foundling hospital, Barret-Ducrocq offers a marvelously acute census of Victorian sexual and moral attitudes. [via]

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ISBN 9780060956950 (0-06-095695-X, 006095695X)

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

ISBN 006095695X (0-06-095695-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Translated, with an Introduction, by Francis Steegmuller [via]

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Mars and Venus in the Bedroom: A Guide to Lasting Romance and Passion

by John Gray

ISBN 0060927933 (0-06-092793-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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With his #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," John Gray, Ph.D. helped millions of couples develop loving, nurturing relationships. Now Gray examines the place in a relationship where communication is most needed and most often lacking: the bedroom. Read it with your partner and launch your love life into orbit! [via]

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ISBN 9780192828637 (0-19-282863-0, 0192828630)

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The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

by Marquis De Sade, Translator, David Coward

ISBN 0192828630 (0-19-282863-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, reveals the full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents. This book is intended for students of eighteenth-century French literature; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; European cultural studies. Translated and edited by: Coward, David (University of Leeds); [via]

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ISBN 9780060929381 (0-06-092938-3, 0060929383)

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More Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

ISBN 0060929383 (0-06-092938-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures for afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppleganger in a desert whore-house, and Michael Tolliver bumps into a certain gynecologist in a seedy Mexican Bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all'without ever leaving home. A new, full color 16-page insert makes this seamless work complete.

"Maupin has always been a humane storyteller, and an accessible one. His life-is-good-but-sloppy soap operas are marked by solid craft, superb dialogue, and what used to be called heart."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Maupin writes with warmth, acuity and tremendous wit about ordinary people learning to live with themselves and one another. Read him."
--Harpers & Queen
"Sparkling entertainments...lit by a glowing humanity that brings each character to vivid, poignant life."
--Publishers Weekly

Don't miss the much anticipated continuation of the classic miniseries "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" premiering June 1998 and airing all summer on SHOWTIME. Check your local listings for times.

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ISBN 9780099470458 (0-09-947045-4, 0099470454)

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Mrs Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

ISBN 0099470454 (0-09-947045-4)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd

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As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.

As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.

Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]

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ISBN 9780151010448 (0-15-101044-7, 0151010447)

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Mrs. Dalloway Reader

by Francine Prose

ISBN 0151010447 (0-15-101044-7)
Hardcover, Harvest Books

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This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party, and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. This complete volume illuminates the creation of a beloved book and the genius of its author.

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The Multi-Orgasmic Couple: Sexual Secrets Every Couple Should Know

by Maneewan Chia, Rachel Abrams, Douglas Abrams, Mantak Chia

ISBN 0062516140 (0-06-251614-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The Multi-Orgasmic Couple: Sexual Secrets Every Couple Should Know

by Mantak Chia, Maneewan Chia, Douglas Abrams, Rachel Carlton Abrams

ISBN 0062516132 (0-06-251613-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know

by Mantak Chia, Douglas Abrams Arava

ISBN 0062513362 (0-06-251336-2)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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At last, simple physical and psychological techniques that allow men to fulfill their dreams and women's fantasies.

Learn to Separate Orgasm and Ejaculation! Enjoy Increased Vitality and Longevity! Become Multi-Orgasmic Now!

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The Passion of New Eve

by Carter

ISBN 0151712859 (0-15-171285-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt

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ISBN 9780141439570 (0-14-143957-2, 0141439572)

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall

ISBN 0141439572 (0-14-143957-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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Picture of Dorian Gray

by College Entrance Examination Board

ISBN 0140006168 (0-14-000616-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 0140006168 (0-14-000616-8)
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Pucker Up : A Hands-on Guide to Ecstatic Sex

by Tristan Taormino

ISBN 0060394153 (0-06-039415-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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ISBN 9780140083897 (0-14-008389-8, 0140083898)

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Queer

by William S. Burroughs

ISBN 0140083898 (0-14-008389-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.

In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.

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ISBN 9780140112283 (0-14-011228-6, 0140112286)

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The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis

ISBN 0140112286 (0-14-011228-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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The author of Less Than Zero delivers a startling novel about three students entangled in a loveless sexual triangle. Wealthy upperclass students, they indulge in a routine of happy hours, parties, late night drinking bouts, drug abuse, and casual sex fueled by a desperate desire for love. [via]

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ISBN 9780142437261 (0-14-243726-3, 0142437263)

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. Connolly

ISBN 0142437263 (0-14-243726-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement. [via]

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ISBN 9780140430523 (0-14-043052-0, 0140430520)

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The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas E. Connolly

ISBN 0140430520 (0-14-043052-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women

by Deborah Blum

ISBN 0140263489 (0-14-026348-9)
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Sex With the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

by Eleanor Herman

ISBN 0061120758 (0-06-112075-8)
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In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers.

She was the queen, living in an opulent palace, wearing lavish gowns and dazzling jewels. She was envied, admired, and revered. She was also miserable, having been forced to marry a foreign prince sight unseen, a royal ogre who was sadistic, foaming at the mouth, physically repulsive, mentally incompetent, or sexually impotentand in some cases all of the above.

How did queens find happiness? In courts bristling with testosteroneswashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinalsmany royal women had love affairs.

Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered, and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.
Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.
Empress Alexandra of Russia found emotional solace in the mad monk Rasputin. Her behavior was the spark that set off the firestorm of the Russian revolution.
Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death.

When a queen became sick to death of her husband and took a lover, anything could happenfrom disgrace and death to political victory. Some kings imprisoned erring wives for life; other monarchs obligingly named the queen's lover prime minister.

The crucial factor deciding the fate of an unfaithful queen was the love affair's implications in terms of power, money, and factional rivalry. At European courts, it was the politicsnot the sexthat caused a royal woman's tragedyor her ultimate triumph.

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Sex With the Queen: Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

by Eleanor Herman

ISBN 0060846747 (0-06-084674-7)
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In royal courts bristling with testosteroneswashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinalshow did repressed regal ladies find happiness?

Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.
Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.
Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death.

In this impeccably researched, scandalously readable follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what has historically gone on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir.

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Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin De Siecle

by Elaine Showalter

ISBN 0140115870 (0-14-011587-0)
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The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse

by Wendy Maltz

ISBN 0060959649 (0-06-095964-9)
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Considered a classic in its field, this comprehensive guide will help survivors of sexual abuse improve their relationships and discover the joys of sexual intimacy. Wendy Maltz takes survivors step-by-step through the recovery process using groundbreaking exercises and techniques. Based on the author's clinical work, interviews, and workshops, this guide is filled with first-person accounts of women and men at every stage of sexual healing.

This compassionate resource helps survivors to:

Identify the sexual effects of sexual abuse
Eliminate negative sexual behavior and resolve specific problems
Gain control over upsetting automatic reactions to touch and sex
Develop a healthy sexual self-concept

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Six of One

by Rita Mae Brown

ISBN 0060105240 (0-06-010524-0)
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Strange Sisters : The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969

by Jaye Zimet, Ann Bannon

ISBN 0140284028 (0-14-028402-8)
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The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir

by Toni Bentley

ISBN 0060732474 (0-06-073247-4)
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Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

ISBN 0060964049 (0-06-096404-9)
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Since 1976, Maupin's Tales of the City has etched itself upon the hearts and minds of its readers, both straight and gay. From a groundbreaking newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle to a bestselling novel to a critically acclaimed PBS series, Tales (all six of them) contains the universe--if not in a grain of sand, then in one apartment house. [via]

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston, Gates, Henry Louis (AFT), Edwidge Danticat

ISBN 0060838671 (0-06-083867-1)
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At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.

Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:

It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.

One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."

Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]

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Three in Love: Menages a Trois from Ancient to Modern Times

by Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, Letha Hadady

ISBN 0062512951 (0-06-251295-1)
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The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

ISBN 015602943X (0-15-602943-X)
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A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come. [via]

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Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

ISBN 0140283374 (0-14-028337-4)
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Two of D. H. Lawrence's most renowned novels-now with new packages and new introductions

Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of the Brangwens. Focusing on Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun's relationships-the former with a school inspector and the latter with an industrialist and then a sculptor-Women in Love is a powerful, sexually explicit depiction of the destructiveness of human relations.

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