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"A film-ready rom-com about finding love when you least expect it."—Elle
"My favorite romantic book of recent memory." —Emma Straub
"The delightful, sexy, queer rom-com of the summer . . . [with] all the makings of a Nora Ephron classic." —Vogue
*One of NPR's Best Books of 2018*
*One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018*
From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy...
"My favorite romantic book of recent memory." —Emma Straub
"The delightful, sexy, queer rom-com of the summer . . . [with] all the makings of a Nora Ephron classic." —Vogue
*One of NPR's Best Books of 2018*
*One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018*
From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Invited by notorious playboy C. Linus Maxwell to a Paris hotel, Manhattan legal associate Penny Harrigan discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of sex toys for women that will render men obsolete and make Maxwell the most powerfulperson in the world.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that women inhabit and the parts that they must play. A sense of otherworldly menace is at work in the fiction of Nicole Flattery, but the threats are all too familiar. SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee....
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone with Netflix and Oreos--until the Dress turns her loose. Suddenly she's surrendering to dark desires, and New York City has become her erotic playground. But what began as a fantasy will go too far--and her next conquest could be her last.
5) Jerks
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Publisher
Mason Jar Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"With JERKS, Sara Lippmann rides the proverbial clutch between wanting and having. Ambivalent mothers, aging suburbanites, restless teens, survivalist parents, and disaffected wives--desire is a live wire, however frayed, a reminder that life, for all its sputtering stall outs, is still worth living. The messy characters in these eighteen stories may hack up their bed sheets with group sex, anonymous sex, sexual history, infidelity, and a literal...
7) Full circle
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Tells the stories of five women from different situations, including Hollywood star Denise and Memphis teacher Carmen, and how they deal with love, careers, and friendship.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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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.
9) Zorras
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Series
Mujeres libres volume I
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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Nunca has leído una novela erótica como esta. Una novela en la que tres mujeres -Alicia, Diana y Emily: quédate con sus nombres porque no vas a poder olvidarlas- deciden formar un club para cumplir todas sus fantasías sexuales, más allá de cualquier límite preestablecido. Somos zorras, malas, libres. Somos la tentación. Somos las dueñas de nuestro cuerpo y nuestras alas. La que nos tocamos dónde y cuándo queremos. Somos las que gritamos...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
©2008
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English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Zane presents a tantalizing short story collection, Zane's Sex Chronicles, which is now the basis of the Cinemax series Zane's Sex Chronicles -- the first urban erotic series on television. The series calls for a sexual revolution and brings forth our favorite characters -- Patience James aka Zane, Maricruz, Lyric, Eboni, and Ana Marie -- as a force to be reckoned with as they balance common day-to-day issues, a slew...
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Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in...
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Philadelphia story volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A dramatic tale of three young friends who must rely on their connection to each other to weather tragic storms. Tabitha lost her freedom in high school when she hooked up with a boy who would impregnate her and make her his punching bag. Lisa is deemed "the strong one" by her friends, but her own past of sexual abuse and pregnancy at the hands of her stepfather keeps her one second away from falling apart as the drama builds. Their younger friend,...
14) Cien noches
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Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 657
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
A moral fable with detective and scientific traces that investigates love and infidelity. An erotic and black novel that explores the forms that lies take. About half of human beings confess to being sexually unfaithful to their partner. But does the other half tell the truth or lie? There is only one way to prove it: to investigate his life through detectives or electronic means of espionage. This is the anthropological experiment that this novel...
16) The chateau
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Series
Publisher
8th Circle Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In his three years working as a jack-of-all-wicked-trades for an unnamed underground network, Kingsley Boissonneault has done it all-- spied, lied, and killed under orders. But his latest assignment is quite out of the ordinary. His commanding officer's nephew has disappeared inside a sex cult, and Kingsley has been tasked with bringing him home to safety. They call themselves the Daughters of Roissy, and their holy book is 'The story of O,' the...
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Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual bender at her local bar. There is a new bartender working this time, one she hasn't seen before, but who can properly make a drink. He looks familiar, and as she is consumed by shame from her behavior the previous week-- hooking up with her parents' colleague and her roommate's brother-- she also becomes convinced that her Brooklyn bartender is actually...
19) Seed on the wind
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Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide. That's how this extraordinary novel opens - and by the time it ends, you'll have pieced together a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters...
20) Adèle
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's...
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