Author: David Montrose
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781492160755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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A gentleman Sugar Daddy takes the reader behind the scenes of high-risk sex, money, intrigue, and adventure. Here we discover what motivates a successful man to risk everything in order to satisfy his desires. Gritty, honest, funny and moving, it leaves no aspect of the Sugar Life unexamined including the pain of giving it up.
Author: Helen Croydon
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1845968565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist and uninspired by dating naive and needy guys her own age, Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She expects it to be just a few fun dates in some fancy bars but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips, fine dining, first-class travel and fascinating, powerful men. Helen's soul-searching dating adventures take her to New York, Malaysia, highbrow sex parties, top ski resorts and London's finest hotels. When one of her dates alludes to a monthly allowance, she is shocked, but how long will her resistance to the idea last? Sugar Daddy Diaries is a confessional true story that questions modern ideals about relationships, examines the attraction of power and asks if money can ever be the currency of love.
Author: Roy D. D. Perkins
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164350469X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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The book has only two main characters: Belinda Zimmerman, the only one named, and a personified diary. Belinda records everything, including her innermost thoughts, in her diary. It has a life of its own. This is the story of a self-taught con woman, Belinda Zimmerman, who becomes quite proficient at conning, lying, stealing, and cheating people, organizations, institutions, and the government. During her endeavor, she amasses a fortune that she keeps inside the walls of her home. Although it started out to be a necessary endeavor in her mind, she soon discovers that she doesn't really need all that she is accumulating. After a while, her conning is only a thrill, an exhilaration of possibly getting caught. Even though she is no longer poverty stricken, she continues to act like the poor destitute divorcée in much need. As life deals some personal tragedies, she begins to change. Belinda begins to take care of others and to part with a little of her illegal material gains. She is giving of her time and of her money to worthwhile individuals and charities. Belinda finally falls in love with her fourth husband-to-be. His actions reveal to her how a person should live. He is generous, kind, and considerate to Belinda. After marrying him, Belinda's conscience begins to gnaw at her. She has a whole host of sins that she wants to reveal to him but is afraid to do so. She feels that many of them are unforgivable. On her deathbed, she finally confesses all of them to him. Here, he drops a bombshell that she never expected. However, Belinda does not repent to her Creator as she does not believe in a hereafter. She repeatedly refuses to talk to any clergy. She is adamant that there is nothing after this earthly life. Finally, she passes away into eternity where she discovers another surprise.
Author: Jennifer Homans
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994310
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 817
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels New York Times Editors’ Choice • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oprah Daily Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B.
Author: Donat Gallagher
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401211825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Evelyn Waugh at war is an irresistibly fascinating subject, as are his war novels and diaries. Drawn to units offering the greatest danger, but often frustrated in his search for action, Waugh served in multiple regiments, saw battle on Crete and worked behind the lines in occupied Croatia. In the Picture traces Waugh’s experiences, both vivid and mundane, with a completeness never before attempted and shows how they come alive in Sword of Honour. It also illuminates the brief hints within the narrative of key events of the war, while highlighting its strategic direction. Waugh’s individualistic relationships with superiors, subordinates and public opinion led to blame and controversy. Working mainly from archival sources, In the Picture examines Waugh’s fitness to be an officer, his conduct on Crete, his being sacked from the Special Service Brigade, and his service in Croatia. New, very surprising discoveries dispel entrenched myths.
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Author: Kia Valcent
Publisher: DarkRoyalty Books
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Kaien Asner was an aspiring graphic designer who had planned to marry his high school sweetheart of two years as soon as he was done with college. Everything changed when he found out he was going to be a father at 18. With the help of his parents, he stayed with his girlfriend Loralai and married her, making sure she had the future she would have had, had she not gotten pregnant with their son. As repayment for his sacrifice and caring for their son while she enjoyed her college life, she divorced Kaien, leaving him with absolutely nothing to his name and running off with her boss. With the help of his parents and his best friend, he was able to get back on his feet. To deal with the loneliness, and having the money but not the looks, he signed up to be a Sugar Daddy, hoping that the young girl he matched with would love and accept him. Alvah Richards had a rough teenage life and lost all interest in guys her age after a traumatic event. As soon as she turned 18, she signed up to be a Sugar Baby in search of a Sugar Daddy who was looking for more than just a young girl on his side and sex with. What will happen with their contract relationship, when he finds out that he's closer to her than she thought?
Author: Robert Sheppard
Publisher: Stride Publications
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Poetry. ...a glorious and energetic flow of cut-up shifting perspectives. Thoroughly different, thoroughly enjoyable--Bypass. EMPTY DIARIES is an important part of Sheppard's long project TWENTIETH CENTURY BLUES. It provides an alternative history of the century, largely through the device of a succession of female narrators, each of whom knows she is narrated by a man. Robert Sheppard's essays and articles have appeared in the TLS, New Statesman and other journals. He is currently Senior Lecturer in English and Writing Studies at Edge Hill University College in Lancashire, England.
Author: Theodore A. Burczak
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351798073
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 803
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Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume’s 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School—the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and recast, the anti-economistic Marxism first formulated in the mid-1970s by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and their economics Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The title captures the defining ideas of the Amherst School: an open-system framework that presupposes the complexity and contingency of social-historical events and the parallel "overdetermination" of the relationship between subjects and objects of inquiry, along with a novel conception of class as a process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor. In a collection of 30 original essays, chapters confront readers with the core concepts of overdetermination and class in the context of economic theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, economic geography, economic anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory/studies. Though Resnick and Wolff’s writings serve as a focal point for this collection, their works are ultimately decentered—contested, historicized, reformulated. The topics explored will be of interest to proponents and critics of the post-structuralist/postmodern turn in Marxian theory and to students of economics as social theory across the disciplines (economics, geography, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, among others).
Author: John Clute
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765303783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Winter 2002
