Touch Me! I'm for Real

Touch Me! I'm for Real
Author: Jean Barrett Groves
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1644629380

Like most kids, teachers asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. That question was hard to answer as a black girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s. When I tried to look back beyond my grandmother to understand my family's past, there was an ugly stain on our history left by slavery and then just a dark blur. It was said we came from Africa. Where exactly? I didn't know. There was no connection. When I looked around me, I saw crime, violence, and drugs spreading malignity through the black

Touch Me, I'm Sick

Touch Me, I'm Sick
Author: Tom Reynolds
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1556527535

Love once inspired sonnets, plays, novels, and countless romantic songs. But romance can become obsession, and nowadays, love songs are creepier than ever. Even the Police's stalker anthem "Every Breath You Take" is a popular choice at weddings and funerals. In Touch Me, I'm Sick, Tom Reynolds offers hilarious riffs on 52 love songs that have gone off the rails into the realm of the tawdry, the overwhelming, the obsessive, the self-absorbed, and the completely weird. Including songs by artists as diverse as Melissa Etheridge, Michael Jackson, Paul Anka, Sinéad O'Connor, and Slipknot, he also pillories a handful of the 1,700 different songs called "Butterfly." Praise for Tom Reynolds' I Hate Myself and Want to Die: "A tremendous idea . . . Reynolds ameliorates the pain of having put his ear up close to some of the most inconsiderate despair anthems of our time by having enormous fun deconstructing them." --The Sunday Times "Full of premium trivia and pinpoint pomposity-pricking, Reynolds has made comedy gold from the full base metal of misery." --NME "An entertaining and well-researched set of cautionary tales music fans will enjoy. Consider the list a batch of enthralling liner notes for a box set that comes with razor blades." --Playboy "Bridget Jones would love it." --The Scotsman

Touch Me, I'm Sick

Touch Me, I'm Sick
Author:
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781576871911

Featuring 92 photographs on grunge legends including Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, and others, "Touch Me I'm Sick," Peterson's third monograph, documents the raw power of live performances by the soon-to-be-famous artists and their dedicated fans.

The Freezer Door

The Freezer Door
Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1635901308

A meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity. When you turn the music off, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness, that means turn the music back on, right? When you still feel the sadness, even with the music, that means there's something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn't sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.--The Freezer Door The Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. Ferocious and tender, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity.

Boogey Raider

Boogey Raider
Author: Ann Jon
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1480831026

Rossi Ross is the first ten-year-old to read his favorite book, Brigand Bleu, ten times--and in doing so, hes freed the hero of the book for his one and only chance at a real-life adventure. Bleu drags the boy off on a wild attempt at thievery in the dreams of King Louis IX, some 760 years ago. But due to Bleus unexpected incapacitation, Rossi discovers he is the only one with the ability to save Frances past and present by locating and returning a missing emerald to the king. Meanwhile, he must also find the hidden clause buried deep within Brigand Bleus original book. If he does not, both he and the fictional blue thief will be trapped in limbo forever, unable to return to their rightful places. In this novel for middle readers, a ten-year-old boy accidently releases the main character of his favorite book for an adventure in the real world that puts them both in danger.

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Trust Me, I'm Lying
Author: Mary Elizabeth Summer
Publisher: Monoceros Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2023-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

NEVER JUDGE A CROOK BY HER COVER. Julep Dupree tells lies. A lot of them. She’s a con artist, a master of disguise, and a sophomore at Chicago’s swanky St. Agatha High, where her father, an old-school grifter with a weakness for the ponies, sends her so she can learn to mingle with the upper crust. For extra spending money, Julep runs petty scams for her classmates while dodging the dean of students and maintaining an A+ (okay, A-) average. She's a fixer, and she's good at it. But it's not what she wants. And soon, she'll hang up her grifter skills for good. But when she comes home one day to a ransacked apartment and her father missing, Julep’s carefully laid plans for going straight start to unravel. Even with help from St. Agatha’s resident Prince Charming, Tyler Richland, and her loyal hacker, Sam, Julep struggles to trace her dad’s trail of clues through a maze of creepy stalkers, hit attempts, family secrets, and worse, the threat of foster care. With her literal life at stake, Julep will need to use every grift in the book to find and save her dad before his mark finds--and eliminates--her. Fans of Ally Carter's Heist Society novels will love this teen mystery/thriller with sarcastic wit, a hint of romance, and Ocean’s Eleven–inspired action. Will Julep outsmart her enemies and find her father? Or is she too late? Buy the book now to join Julep's crack team and discover each new twist along the way.

Mated by a Shifter

Mated by a Shifter
Author: Emma Taylor
Publisher: RED LIPS PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

4 Paranormal Romance Stories In One Box Set! Unbearable SEAL - Military Navy SEAL Bear Shifter Romance When Crag Boulder is sent to Vancouver Island on a special mission the Navy SEAL has no idea that the trip will change his life forever, as well as extending it by several hundred years. In a bar in the northern town of Port Hardy Crag meets Honoria, a girl he was once at school with, who never gave him the time of day. Now she’s in the Navy too, and all of a sudden she wants him and can’t get enough of him. In his room she bites his neck. What seems unusual, perhaps playful foreplay, turns out to be something else completely and Crag finds that he has been shapeshifted into a Werebear, with abilities he could only have dreamed of. But that’s not all he has to contend with. From mating with Honoria, to saving the President of the United States from assassination, Crag is in for the wildest ride of his life. And if he survives it, what else will lie in store for the newest bear in SEAL team 13? Desired by the Vampire - Paranormal Vampire Romance Becky Matthews has been imprisoned in the cell of her own body for her entire life. She’d given up on men, family and children. Now, a hundred pounds lighter, with a new boyfriend, she’s ready to grab all of life she can get. Except that her boyfriend, Andrei Vidnesceau, won’t touch her or tell her of his feelings. He won’t until two men attack him in her apartment, and he turns them both to dust. She needs an explanation. He tells Becky he’s a vampire and proves it. She accepts him and his situation, and he shows his love for her. The rival coven turns her sister into a dreadfully evil vampire. Can she rescue her sister? Can she and Andrei work together to defeat the rival coven of vampires? Will she have the courage to join him for all eternity as his vampire wife? Double Bears - Bear Shifter Menage MFM Romance Cynthia loves books and the adventurous lives of the people in them, but she herself lives the normal life of a librarian. Rarely does she ever go out. Most of her days consists of reading and working at the library. That is until she is nearly killed by a man on the run. In fear of her life, she tries to run away and runs smack into the men who are chasing the man who have taken her hostage. Shaun and Gerald are known in the shapeshifter circle as the Brothers Swagger for they are the best bounty hunters there are. They save Cynthia from her would be kidnapper and return her safely to her home. For the Brothers Swagger, the job is done, but for Cynthia something has changed. She can’t get the two men out of her head. Even at work all she can think about is having both of them in her bedroom at once. A thought so foreign that she wonders if it is her own. When they ask her to dinner, a part of her just wants to say no and be done with them, but a much bigger part of her wants to go, so she accepts the invitation. After dinner, they take her home and the whole way Cynthia can’t stop thinking about them. When they pull up in front of her house, she decides to invite them inside. Will they take her up on her offer? In the Arms of Her Dragon Princes - Dragon Shifter Threesome / Menage Romance Danger led her right into their arms… Evelyn Peters is content with her uneventful life. Work and remaining a loner is what she prefers. When she stumbles upon dangerous activities being carried out in her workplace, she has to leave her life behind. On the run with no one to turn to, Evelyn is rescued by a man who stirs long-suppressed sexual desires inside of her. To her surprise, there are two of them. As much as she begins to fall for the two men, she has to disappear to protect them. Michael and Victor Stone, Princes of their people, have been searching for Evelyn for centuries and they’ve finally found her. There’s one problem: she’s running from something, and she is intent on leaving. They will have to fight to hold on to the one woman they love. But, what if their one chance at happiness slips through their fingers forever?

True Life

True Life
Author: Leah Michelle Parker
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2011-12-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 146707098X

Love, hate, jealousy, and family relationships - True Life has it all. This book is a fictional story about the struggles of a modern American family. It begins with a single mother trying to raise two boys, Joseph and Jeremy, with no help. As the story progresses, the boys mature and begin experiencing different aspects of life. During their journey their mother meets an interesting man whom she marries. But the life that this new family has isn't all that its cracked up to be.

Talar

Talar
Author: Frank Sherry
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491724307

Simon Spicer is a lonely, melancholy professor in Maine. A widower, he was once a talented poet, but writes no more. At the age of thirty-five, he simply exists, aged beyond his years by disappointment. Spice is unaware of the physical and mental properties that set him apart from his fellows and fit him for a bizarre mission but he will soon find out. In the world of the Keepers, one of their own has gone rogue. Calling himself ShadowCaster, he has taken over the planet Talar and bred an environment of evil and death. The Keepers need a hero, but they are incapable of destroying ShadowCaster on their own. They require an outsider with the proper skills, and Spice is their man although before he can take on the task, he must first die. Once he does, his true powers awaken: powers of mind control and non-oral communication. With nothing to lose, Spice accepts his fated mission: to find ShadowCaster and stop him. Once a lonely, hopeless man, Spice is now the hope of the universe, ordered to redeem a fallen world and perhaps also himself.

Touch Me

Touch Me
Author: Kendall Talbot
Publisher: Kendall Talbot books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2024-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

My crazy friend dared me to do something outrageous. . . have a steamy encounter at least once a week for one year. It sounded easy enough and started off well. . . A smoking hot date with a sexy cowboy. A tangled romp with a gorgeous drummer who had all the right moves. A steamy shower with a hunky handyman. A stunning groomsman, and a naughty artist. . . But things spiral out of control when some of the men come back for more. Now I have one teeny, little, MAMMOTH problem. They don’t know the real me. They don’t even know my real name. Or that I’m really an introverted country girl trying to find my way in the big city. They only know the woman I pretend to be and the sexy disguises I wear. Now my naughty double life is in a steamy hot mess! Follow Jane’s quest for love, one smoking-hot dare at a time, featuring many swoonworthy hunks and a quirky heroine who gave up on men when her ex-fiancé crushed her heart. TOUCH ME is BOOK ONE in the Stilettos and Secrets series - full of forbidden steamy moments, hilarious banter and a heroine who is learning how to love herself again.