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| Author | : Pamela Erens |
| Publisher | : Tin House Books |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2013-08-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1935639625 |
It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster. The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.
| Author | : Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2011-09-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307401936 |
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
| Author | : Barbara Quick |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 2007-07-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061285269 |
In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi—known as the Red Priest of Venice—is maestro and composer. Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place.
| Author | : Arthur Davison |
| Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 79 |
| Release | : 2024-06-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The Virgins contains two short stories about the complications of life and how love will always turn the tables. Steve, Katie, Greg, and Julie go through all of life’s ups and downs and find the strength to fight for their happiness through the power of love. In Love Me Now, Steve runs into Katie, his high school crush and ex-girlfriend, ten years later. Katie, down on her luck, accepts Steve’s offer to move in with him. It’s not too long before friendship gives way to something stronger... Greg, in Never Again, meets Julie, the woman he found after she had been assaulted, in the bar she works in. Struck by her beauty and strength after such an event, he offers to help her find the culprits, and a little reluctantly, she accepts. In time, she grows more comfortable around Greg and is grateful for his genuine kindness. About the Author I'm 95 years old, confined to a wheelchair and residing in an assisted living facility. My main interests are reading romance novels online, writing, and playing duplicate bridge on line, with my long time partner who lives in Las Vegas. I'm a Life Master at bridge. I have 3 children (1 deceased) 7 grandchildren, and 5 Greatgrandchildren. I'm a widower, my wife died of Alzheimer's. I'm a retired Chemical Engineer. After reading romance stories for years, I decided, heck, I could write a love story, so this is my feeble attempt.
| Author | : JILLIAN BECKER |
| Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2014-06-16 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 178301461X |
Annie Firman is growing up in Johannesburg in apartheid South Africa, in an affluent white suburb and a local girls' boarding-school. She and her friend Barb long to be initiated into the mysteries of adult life, above all to taste the forbidden fruit of sexual love. Annie falls heavily for a pretentious young man, a photographer who draws her on but finally lets her down. Bitterly disappointed, she consoles herself by making love - against the law - to a "e;colored"e; boy of her own age whom she can order to do her will. The writing is witty, comic, and lightly satirical, but for all the simplicity of the story it is a profoundly moral and challenging novel. Published first in England, it was banned in South Africa for ten years, then republished in that country when the process of "e;liberalization"e; began.
| Author | : Atanga, George Che |
| Publisher | : Langaa RPCIG |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2015-02-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9956792438 |
Evelyn Ndangeh, a pretty Cameroonian teenager brought up in a strict Christian home, vows to preserve her maidenhood until she gets married to a man she truly loves. While in Our Lady of Lourdes College Mankon, she is approached by Lesley Njapa a student of Cameroon Protestant College Bali, after a student of CCAST Bambili. Evelyn turns him down only to find later that she can't stay alone without a man who must be none other than Lesley. Evelyn begins frantic moves to entice Lesley but on meeting him it seems too late though she gets close to his heart. Tragedy strikes when Lesley is involved in a motor accident. Evelyn arrives Bamenda general hospital wailing and settles beside Lesley to console and comfort him in his agony. Anxiety builds up to a crescendo and a medical team is mobilised to save Lesley's life.
| Author | : Esq. F. L. |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1744 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Gabriele D'Annunzio |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 1899 |
| Genre | : Italian fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jeanne Harman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : British Virgin Islands |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Matthew J. Royal |
| Publisher | : Buffalo, N.Y. : Wenborne-Sumner |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1899 |
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