I'm Not Selling My Virginity! Ch.3

I'm Not Selling My Virginity! Ch.3
Author: TUNASHI KUO
Publisher: Digital Entertainment株式会社
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2024-01-31
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Except for sex, Ritsu will do anything for money. One night, his customer insists on having intercourse. As Ritsu runs away from him, he encounters Koh. The stranger’s smoking hot but has a somewhat forbidding look. Koh decides to rent Ritsu and takes him to a hotel room where he commands him to take off his clothes one by one. Sensing Koh’s heated eyes on him, Ritsu gets horny... which clearly shows from under his pants. Ritsu keeps saying to himself that it’s fine because it’s not real sex and continues. He only realizes his mistake as he feels Koh’s cock pressed against his lower parts. Will Koh make Ritsu break the no-sex rule!? What kind of relationship will develop between the rich but awkward Koh and Ritsu who’d do anything as long as he’s paid enough!?

Credence

Credence
Author: Penelope Douglas
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593641973

Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue in this steamy dark romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with bonus material. Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. And when her parents suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But she's always been alone, hasn't she? Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan. Sent to live in the mountains of Colorado with Jake and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, Tiernan quickly learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the men take Tiernan under their wing, she slowly finds her place among them. Because lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. One of them has her. The other one wants her. But he's going to keep her.

Killing Ill Syndrome

Killing Ill Syndrome
Author: Frank Wepukhulu
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2016-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524525529

Bereaved family members gather together to reconcile in mourning and bid farewell to their friend, daughter-in-law, and mother. They put aside personal issues, ideological differences, and hate to pay their last respects. She created significant qualities to all and sundry, and today, majority of all in attendance wanted to remember her loud words to make sure that when the history of this land is rewritten, her place would be remembered as a jovial, young, articulate lady who reigned during her time.

The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within
Author: Neil Port
Publisher: Neil Port
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Sword and Sorcery Epic Fantasy set in ancient Azerbaijan. 18+ It should be over: the Illvættir War and the threat posed by the Hunnic hordes. The Elves should be safe. And yet Gansükh rules Āzar Pāyegān, a Hunnic Shahdom right next to the elves. While ever he can summon his daimôn lord, he cannot be killed and he cannot be displaced. He also controls Darband, which is the major gateway into the lands south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. When the Hun return, and they will, he will let them in. A very special assassin is sent to kill him. She must get closer to him than anyone else. She must become his lover. She must become his ‘enemy within the gates’. She is very dangerous herself and she will face intrigue, powerful enemies, great danger and desperate battles. What she least expects is to fall in love with the man she has been sent to kill. The desperate defence of the elves and their allies continues with ‘The Enemy Within’.

The Christianity Reader

The Christianity Reader
Author: Mary Gerhart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 882
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226289591

Christianity is the world’s most populous religion, with some two billion adherents. As a world religion, Christianity has flourished because it is capable of taking on new forms in new contexts. To understand both the religion’s history and its present state, Mary Gerhart and Fabian Udoh gather original texts—from early Christian writings to contemporary documents on church-related issues—in The Christianity Reader. The most comprehensive anthology of Christian texts ever in English, this is a landmark sourcebook for the study of Christianity’s historical diversity. With newly edited, annotated, and translated primary texts, along with supplemental analytical essays, the volume allows Christianity, at long last, to speak in its many voices. Focusing on Christianity as a religion, Gerhart and Udoh select texts that illuminate issues such as theology, mysticism, and ritual, while also articulating the stories of previously marginalized groups, as well as those in new and growing epicenters of the religion. With nearly three hundred selections, the texts encompass the entire history of Christian writings excluding the New Testament, from Justin Martyr and Tertullian to Fabien Eboussi Boulaga and Teresa of Calcutta. Eight thematic sections cover biblical traditions and interpretations; early influences; nascent forms; patterns of worship; structures of community; philosophy, theology, and mysticism; twentieth-century issues and challenges; and the contemporary relationship between Christianity and other world religions. The Reader’s contents are arranged chronologically and are supported with introductions and source notes that explain the rationale for their inclusion and their context. Providing a far richer selection than ever before available in a single volume, The Christianity Reader will be welcomed as both a classroom resource and a work of reference for decades to come.

Rape Culture, Purity Culture, and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles

Rape Culture, Purity Culture, and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles
Author: Caroline Blyth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000353842

In this fascinating book, Caroline Blyth takes a close look at Bibles marketed to teen girls and asks how these might perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes that lie at the heart of rape culture. The author considers the devotionals, commentaries, and advice sections placed throughout these Bibles, which offer teen girl readers life advice on topics such as friendships, body image, and how to navigate romantic relationships. Within these discussions, there is a strong emphasis on modesty, purity, and sexual passivity as markers of young women’s ‘godliness’. Yet, as the author argues, these gendered ideals are prescribed to readers using rape-supportive discourses and the tactics of coercive control. Moreover, the placement of these various editorial inserts within the pages of sacred scripture gives them considerable power to reinforce deeply harmful ideologies about gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. Given the seeming popularity of these Bibles among Christian teen girls, the need to dismantle their damaging rhetoric is especially urgent. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the Bible, religion, gender, and theology, as well as the general reader.

Applied Emblems in the Cathedral of Lugo

Applied Emblems in the Cathedral of Lugo
Author: Carme López Calderón
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004447687

An interpretation of the emblematic programme found in the Chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Ojos Grandes (Galicia, Spain), consisting of 58 emblems painted c.1735.

The Jewish Body

The Jewish Body
Author: Robert Jutte
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0812252659

An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte asks, should a historian bother with the Jewish body in particular? And is the "Jewish body" as much a concept constructed over the course of centuries by Jews and non-Jews alike as it is a physical reality? To comprehend the notion and existence of a Jewish body, he contends, one needs to look both at the images and traits that have been ascribed to Jews by themselves and others, and to the specific bodily practices that have played an important role in creating the identity of a religious and cultural community. Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, often for anti-Jewish purposes. He examines the techniques for caring for the body that Jews acquire in childhood from parents and authority figures and how these have changed over the course of a more than 2000-year history, most of it spent in exile. From consideration of traditional body stereotypes, such as the so-called Jewish nose, to matters of gender and sexuality, sickness and health, and the inevitable end of the body in death, The Jewish Body explores the historical foundations of the human physis in all its aspects.

Without Merit

Without Merit
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501170635

From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix. Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves. Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
Author: Vishen Lakhiani
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-12-31
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0593135822

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if everything we think we know about how the world works—our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work, happiness, and love—are based on Brules (bullsh*t rules) that get passed from generation to generation and are long past their expiration date? This book teaches you to think like some of the greatest non-conformist minds of our era, to question, challenge, hack, and create new rules for YOUR life so you can define success on your own terms. The Code of the Extraordinary Mind is a blueprint of laws to break us free from the shackles of an ordinary life. It makes a case that everything we know about the world is shaped by conditioning and habit. And thus, most people live their lives based on limiting rules and outdated beliefs about pretty much everything—love, work, money, parenting, sex, health, and more—which they inherit and pass on from generation to generation. But what if you could remove these outdated ideas and start anew? What would your life look like if you could forget the rules of the past, and redefine what happiness, purpose, and success mean for you? Not Just a Book, but a Movement Blending computational thinking, integral theory, modern spirituality, evolutionary biology, and humor, personal growth entrepreneur Vishen Lakhiani provides a revolutionary 10-point framework for understanding and enhancing the human self. You will learn about bending reality. You will learn how to apply unique models like consciousness engineering to help you learn and grow at speeds like never before.You will learn to make a dent in the universe and discover your quest. This framework is based on Lakhiani’s personal experiences, the 5 million people he’s reached through Mindvalley, and 200 hours of interviews and questions posed to incredible minds, including Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis, Ken Wilber, Dean Kamen, Arianna Huffington, Michael Beckwith, and other legendary leaders. In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories, irreverence, and a brilliant teaching style, Lakhiani reveals the 10 powerful laws that form a step-by-step process that you can apply to life to shed years of struggle and elevate yourself to exceptional new heights. The 10 Laws to an Extraordinary Life This book challenges conventional ideas of relationships, goal-setting, mindfulness, happiness, and meaning. In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories, and humorous irreverence, and not to mention, humor and napkin diagrams, this framework combines computational thinking with personal growth to provide a powerful framework for re-coding yourself—and replacing old, limiting models that hold you back with new, empowering beliefs and behaviors that set you on the path toward an extraordinary life. A life of more happiness and achievement than you might have dared to dream possible. Once you discover the code, you will question your limits and realize that there are none. Step into a new understanding of the world around you and your place in it, and find yourself operating at a new, extraordinary level in every way...happiness, purpose, fulfilment, and love. This Book Is a Living, Breathing Manifesto That Goes Beyond a Traditional Publication For those who want more, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind connects to a full on immersive experience including ways for you to dive into particular chapters to unlock additional videos or training and connect with each other and the author to learn via peer-to-peer learning networks.