Emmanuelle II
10 best books like Emmanuelle II (Emmanuelle Arsan): Hunting and Gathering, Sex Object: A Memoir, The Piano Teacher, Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood, The Crimes of Love, My Ambulance Education: Life and Death on the Streets of the City, The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment, The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, Strangers in Paradise, Volume 11: Brave New World, Howard Stern Comes Again
Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Downstairs in a beautiful, ornate apartment, lives Philibert Marquet de la Durbellière, a shy, erudite, upper-class man with an unlikely flatmate in the shape of the foul-mouthed but...
Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.
Sex Object explores the painful,...
| Author | Elfriede Jelinek |
| ISBN | 0802118062 |
The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory,...
Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
| Author | Claire Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0062338846 |
In this and intimate memoir, an acclaimed journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and ’90s—a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers.
When Claire Hoffman is five-years-old,...
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved...
My Ambulance Education: Life and Death on the Streets of the City
| Author | Joseph F. Clark |
| ISBN | 1554074479 |
The brutally honest story of an emergency medical technician.
At 18, Joseph Clark started working as an ambulance attendant to pay his way through college. For the next seven years he worked New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods as an emergency medical technician (EMT), dealing with...
The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment
| Author | Jack Morin |
| ISBN | 0060984287 |
Challenging accepted theories about what makes for terrific sex, The Erotic Mind is a breakthrough exploration of the least understood dimensions of human sexuality—the psychology of desire, arousal, and fulfillment. Nationally known sex therapist Dr. Jack Morin offers a bold new perspective...
The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
| Author | Graham Hancock |
| ISBN | 0671865412 |
The loss of the Ark of the Covenant is an historical mystery. To believers, the Ark was the vessel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies & lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously...
| Author | Terry Moore |
| ISBN | 1892597160 |
This new trade paperback is the eleventh in the series! Katchoo is in Hawaii missing Francine, Francine is in Tennessee missing Katchoo. In two storylines that weave together, both girls make radical changes in their lives that bring them back together at last--but at what cost? A riveting storyline...
Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president.
Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities—discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality,...
| Author | Marina Anderson |
| ISBN | 0751550515 |
If you've devoured Fifty Shades, you're now ready to explore the Haven of Obedience
Twenty-something Londoner Natalie Bowen is envied by many, but her personal life is a disaster. Men can't cope with her career success and Natalie thinks she'll never find real happiness. When she hears...
The Physics of Sunset: A Novel
| Author | Jane Vandenburgh |
| ISBN | 0679424830 |
I loved this book. I have been complaining recently about how the books I am reading are good, but don't have a truly moving beauty of language that I have been craving. This one does. This is a wonderful book. It's definitely my sort of thing, it's a bit nerdy, and has a Jewish bent to it. There are lots of references...
Popular: Boys, Booze, and Jesus
| Author | Tindell Baldwin |
| ISBN | 1414375247 |
Tindell Baldwin’s words best describe her passion and this book:
“My heart is for teenage girls because my story is much like so many of theirs. I was just a girl who made a lot of mistakes. I was a girl who had sex before marriage and then had a broken heart. I was a girl who did drugs and drank...
The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon
| Author | Jenny Nordbak |
| ISBN | 1250091136 |
Jenny Nordbak takes us to a place that few have seen, but millions have fantasized about, revealing how she transformed herself from a beautiful USC grad into an elite professional dominatrix.
On an unorthodox quest to understand her hidden fantasies, Jenny led a double life for two years....
Strangers in Paradise, Volume 10: Tropic Of Desire
| Author | Terry Moore |
| ISBN | 1892597152 |
Hmmmm . . . this is interesting. I am not quite sure how I feel about this volume but it is definitely not bad. However, in this case, I almost feel like saying I cannot make a solid judgement on it until I see where the story goes in the next volume.
Cliffhanger is not the right word for what...
Strangers in Paradise, Volume 12: Heart In Hand
| Author | Terry Moore |
| ISBN | 1892597209 |
This volume of Strangers in Paradise contains issue 50 - a great cover summarizing the first 50 issues. A pretty neat cover!
Heart in Hand was a very intense volume. After the cliffhangers and unknowns of the last volume, this one delved deeper into the psyche of our heroines and their...
Strangers in Paradise, Volume 14: David's Story
At fifteen he was a member of L.A.'s most powerful street gang, facing murder charges and fighting for his life, both on the streets and in his own household. But on the darkest day of his life, Yousaka Takahashi makes a vow to a dead boy and turns his life around to become David Qin. Just when David's life...
Strangers in Paradise, Volume 13: Flower To Flame
| Author | Terry Moore |
| ISBN | 1892597241 |
The latest edition in a line collecting the complete series Best friends Francine and Katchoo have gone their separate ways after many years together. Now they try to rebuild their lives and put the pieces back together, with Francine making wedding plans and Katchoo returning to painting. But, the...
