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2025
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The digital age has transformed intimacy, creating the complex and often misunderstood world of digital sex work (DSW). For too long, the conversation has been dominated by judgment and sensationalism, leaving partners isolated and unsupported.This essential, non-judgmental guide bridges the gap. It is a practical, compassionate, and sex-positive resource designed to demystify DSW-from cam modeling to content creation-and its profound impact on personal relationships.
Sing Sing Sing
Poems
1990
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Sing, Sing, Sing is unlike any recent first collection by an American poet. It goes against the grain of contemporary fashion by replacing prosaic narrative with a lyricism both symbolic and mysterious. This poet can appreciate experience as "the open/End of a bag fill/With ordinary things," yet also he has an ear for "a watch that goes on ticking/Underground," the shadow of history that lies across the present. Murphy manifests a sense of responsibility for protecting the spirit ...
2014
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Irwin LaLune is a skunk detective who likes the smell of a good mystery. But he gets more than he bargained for when a squirrel tips him off to the antics of the panda Ling Ming—the local zoo’s star attraction. Someone is driving the panda crazy, but no one’s saying who—not even the panda himself. Can Irwin solve the mystery before things get really out of hand? Irwin’s mission will take him from the anaconda cage to the lion’s den—and that’s before it gets really dangerous! The Case of th...
Approaching Democracy
American Government in Times of Challenge
2023
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Democracy cannot be taken for granted, whether at home or internationally, and eternal vigilance (along with civic intelligence) is required to protect it. Approaching Democracy provides students with a framework to analyze the structure, process, and action of US government, institutions, and social movements. It also invites comparison with other countries. This globalizing perspective gives students an understanding of issues of governance and challenges to democracy here and e...
2019
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Originally published in 1982 by Oxford University Press and featured in a front-page story in the Sunday New York Times, this book describes the relationship between Justice Louis D. Brandeis and then-Harvard law professor Felix Frankfurter. While on the Court, Brandeis provided Frankfurter with funds to promote a variety of political reforms. The book sparked a debate about the ethics of extrajudicial activities by Supreme Court justices.“This book sets out an historical ...
Scalia
A Court of One
2014
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“[Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the most controversial Supreme Court justice of our time.Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures to serve on the...
Coping Better With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for CFS/ME
2018
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This book provides a helpful structure and framework for understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) and its effects as well as practical exercises to help address some of the symptoms that patients may experience.
Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
Between Sea and Sky
2015
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This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many critics as Japan’s most original and important literary writer. Ishimure has written over 50 volumes in a wide range of genres, including novels, Noh drama, poetry, children’s stories, essays, and...
I Love You More
A Novel
Unabridged
10 hours 3 min
2014
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One man, three wives, the perfect murder. A scintillating novel of betrayal and conspiracy.Picasso Lane is twelve years old when her father, Oliver, is murdered at their summer beach house. Her mother, Diana, is the primary suspect—until the police discover his second wife, and then his third. The women say they have never met—but Picasso knows otherwise. Picasso remembers the morning beautiful Jewels showed up at their house, carrying the same purse as her mother,...
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- Kirsten Potter
Unabridged
8 hours 54 min
2013
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From award-winning novelist Wendy Webb comes a spine-tingling, modern-day haunted house story set on Lake Superior.Grace Alban has spent twenty years away from her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior—for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter home, she finds more than just her own personal demons haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House.Long-buried family secre...
The Arsonist
A novel
- Narrated by
- Sue Miller
Unabridged
11 hours 37 min
2014
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From the best-selling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator’s Wife, a superb new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New England town.Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley has come home—home to the small New Hampshire village of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her...











