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The novel's protagonist, a down-on-his luck young man, sets out to destroy a successful older writer's career by devising and unleashing a diabolical scheme to ruin his reputation. The scheme turns on switching DNA samples so that the teenager's claim to be the writer's daughter is believed. What ensues is a descent into psychological nightmare for the writer, who actually believes he has made love to his daughter. As readers, we know that she is...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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"A passionate portrait of love's contradictory power, in five illuminating stories André Aciman, who has been called "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine), has written a novel that chronicles the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his life as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker; or on a snowbound...
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What if you weren't sexually attracted to anyone?
A growing number of people are identifying as asexual. They aren't sexually attracted to anyone, and they consider it a sexual orientation-like gay, straight, or bisexual.
Asexuality is the invisible orientation. Most people believe that "everyone" wants sex, that "everyone" understands what it means to be attracted to other people, and that "everyone" wants to date and mate. But that's where asexual...
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Beacon Press
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English
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"Ace" delves into the lives of those who identify using the little-known sexual orientation of asexuality and shows what all of us can learn-about desire, identity, culture, and relationships-when we use an asexual lens to see the world"--Publisher.
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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Arguing against popular misconceptions that blame women for unfulfilling sexual relationships, a practical guide identifies the biological and psychological factors that compromise a man's sex drive while suggesting strategies for promoting healthier levels of intimacy.
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English
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"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....
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Arsenal Pulp Press
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English
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In this stunning debut story collection set largely in Nigeria, questions abound: What happens when we fall short of society's-- and our own-- expectations? When our personal desires conflict with the duties we are bound with? The characters in Perfect Little Angels confront these dilemmas and more in these brilliantly imagined tales. In a boarding school, tensions brew between students and vengeful staff. An addict seeks a fresh start in pottery...
13) Leopard's hunt
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Leopard people volume 15
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Berkley Romance
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English
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"Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell. A harsh life has shaped him into a vicious fighter with a calm exterior, but Gorya knows it's only a matter of time until he loses all control...Maya Averina has spent years hunting the criminals who destroyed her life...She keeps to herself, stays under the radar...But with her body burning up...an...
14) Sulphurtongue
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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"The poems in sulphurtongue dwell in the entanglement of trauma and desire with more-than-human ecosystems. An unruly, femme, Latinx body confronts the boundaries of what qualifies as un/natural. Oracles appear in public transit. Revenants and polyamorists alike pass on unusual inheritances. Meanwhile, social identities of queerness, gender, race, and illness all emerge as inherently biological, ecological, and irreducibly fluid relations. Ending...
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Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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English
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The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude 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...
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