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Protector of the small volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Keladry of Mindelan continues her training to become a squire with the aid of a new maid, the support of her friends, interference from some other pages, and some serious, even dangerous opposition.
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A sex education and sexual health guide book, for both boys and girls, in one easy-to-use flip volume designed to help teens make healthy, positive choices based on the right information. Explores the complex issues teenagers face around sexual exploration, sexual desire, and making the right decisions about sex. Talks honestly and respectfully about the hard questions and gives teens some answers they might need.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Each of us enters the workplace not only as a human being, but as a woman or a man. Each workday is a meeting of gender-different styles, modes of operating, and leadership skills. The corporation that utilizes the differences between men and women is the corporation that discovers significant competitive advantage. The corporation that helps both genders understand each other has committed to maximum success. This book weaves together Michael Gurian's...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Lambda Literary Award, Finalist / "A Best Book of 2020" —Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, CBC, Globe and Mail, Largehearted Boy.
"Stunning... Happiness, this beautiful book says, is the ultimate act of resistance." —Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with
86) That's what she said: what men need to know (and women need to tell them) about working together
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Outlines anecdotal solutions for harmonious working relationships between the sexes, citing the unique contributions of professional women and how their male counterparts can implement a healthier business culture that bridges gender gaps.
Author
Language
English
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Biblical womanhood -- the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers -- pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments.This...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the moment there was an “online,” there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was “Lena,” taken from Playboy’s November 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi-user domains quickly came to serve their members' sexual musings. Facebook started as a way to rate “hot or not” Harvard co-eds. In fact, virtually every significant development that defines the Internet...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Draws on the latest findings beyond cultural perceptions to reveal how the brain processes love and interpersonal relationships, addressing such questions as the practicality of monogamy, and whether or not the "seven-year itch" actually exists.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Language
English
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Description
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose...
95) Bangkok haunts
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Clie
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Christians are increasingly seen as old-fashioned, restrictive and prejudiced when it comes to sex before marriage, cohabitation, homosexuality, gender identity or transgender rights. In fact, for many people, this topic is one of the biggest barriers to considering Christianity." -- Publisher's website.
"Los cristianos son cada vez m̀s vistos como anticuados, restrictivos y prejuiciosos cuando se trata de sexo antes del matrimonio, la cohabitaci̤n,...
97) Switch bitch
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011, ©1974
Language
English
Description
"Four tales of seduction and suspense told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. Topping and tailing this collection are 'The Visitor' and 'Bitch', stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are the 'Great Switcheroo' and 'The Last Act', two stories exploring a darker side of desire and...
98) Savage news
Author
Language
English
Description
Finally realizing her dream of covering the White House for her network, cable news journalist Natalie Savage navigates ratings wars, sexual harassment, and impossible standards throughout a precarious diplomatic and political incident.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting history that tells the story of sex toys from ancient phalluses to 21st century vibrating rabbits. [Lieberman] focuses on the period from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evolved from symbols of female emancipation to tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS to consumerist marital aids and finally to mainstays of today's pop culture. Lieberman's history is populated by vivid and fascinating characters, including Ted Marche, an entrepreneurial...
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