First Digital Edition Classic Lesbian Fiction Pulp Grier Rating:  A* Rod, a would-be actor, only married Jean for the contact it gave him to her sister, a famous television star. Jean, who works as a secretary and supports the two of them, is tired of his lying and philandering ways. One day Lee, a woman from Rod’s hometown, contacts him about actin...

First Digital Edition Grier Rating: A++ She Couldn't Keep Her Hands Off Her Brother's Wife! What torture to be in the same room with Kathy… not being able to say what she really felt about her, not being able to fondle her warm, nude body as she posed on the podium.  Yes, Elaine Ransome had been successful her whole life competing against men; she'd climbed to the top of the ladder over their ...

- First Digital Edition - Grier Rating: A++ Phyllis is a successful doctor who is passionately dedicated to her work.  She has worked hard to achieve professional recognition in her field and doesn’t regret one moment it.  Being a successful doctor doesn’t leave Phyl much time for a social life, though… and sometimes the loneliness is more than she can bear. Sure, she meets women… women like herself… and she enjoys the pleasures only they can...

What happens when a couple of really hip, really good-looking young college girls are let loose in the big city of a couple of weeks? Where do they go to find their men? Where do they go with their men? Joan Ellis gives us a story about young girls, young girls you might recognize as not very different from the young girls down the block, or in the house next door.

Two classic lesbian pulp novels in one book! Featuring two sizzling titles by former Midwood author Joan Ellis, this DVP Pulp Double presents "Gay Girl" (Grier Rating A**) and "Forbidden Sex" (Grier Rating A*). Both books have been digitized from the rare originals. In "Gay Girl," Phyllis is a successful doctor who is passionately dedicated to her work. She has worked hard to achieve professional recognition in her field and do...

What happens when a couple of really hip, really good-looking young college girls are let loose in the big city of a couple of weeks? Where do they go to find their men? Where do they go with their men? Joan Ellis gives us a story about young girls, young girls you might recognize as not very different from the young girls down the block, or in the house next door.

Irish immigrant Rose Carney has a difficult life in Chicago. She’s working to help pay for her mother’s and sisters’ passages, dealing with her father’s drinking problem, and worrying about her brothers’ involvement in questionable activities. Rose becomes committed to a campaign to clean up Chicago and fight for world peace, but she knows her family responsibilities come first. With everything that’s happening in her life, can Rose hold on to her American dream?

Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented approaches.Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy - a form of therapy that involves listening to the innate wisdom of the body - is a dynamic and growing field that has evolved greatly since Eugene Gendlin first published the text Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy in 1996. This book explores recent inn...

The family of Rebekah Levinsky emigrates from Russia and settles in New York City, hoping their dreams will come true. But instead of finding streets paved with gold, they find they must work seven days a week in a sweatshop simply to survive. Will Rebekah conquer the odds and find happiness?

Swedish immigrant Kristin Swensen lives on a farm in Minnesota. She hoped for a new life in America, but she realizes that her parents are clinging as closely as possible to the life they knew in Sweden. Kristin can’t accept coming all this way only to re-create what she left behind. She longs to speak English and help the cause of women’s rights. Her parents, however, want her to settle down and get married. Must Kristin give up her dream of independence and accept her parents’ Old World ...

How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American SouthW. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals—parades, ...

Moving and inspiring stories of the immigrant experience are offered up in this eOmni edition comprised of three novels from Joan Lowery Nixon’s historical fiction series, Ellis Island. Each story features a unique teenage girl’s perspective—one from Russia, one from Ireland, and one from Sweden.In Land of Hope, Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky settles with her family on the Lower East Side of New York and soon realizes that the roads are not paved with gold. In Land...