One Choice - derides your friends! One Choice - turns out to be a huge mistake! One Choice - and it's thirty bucks down the drain! One Choice - can defame you! A parody of one example of the most insane flotsam of trilogies to surface after The Hunger Games. It's one of the few books that actually comes with a health warning: Quitting reading this novel now greatly reduces serious risks to your mental health. Remember: abstinence is the only guaranteed way to avoid pregnant pauses. Comes with a wealth of extras: Awful Q&A. Disgusted Guide. Dire Virgins Playlist! Faction Multi-Festering! Diss Questions. Bad Writing Tips (how to write your own pathetic YA trilogy). From the insane author of: Asshat's Fables Baker Street Bar Trek Dune With the Wind It's a Wonderful Lie! Macdeath Merde on the Prurient Express Misadventures Mindgame Raw Stars Thoracic Pearl Fallen Condom Urinals

Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something that is somehow bound to the hymen, whereas male virginity is almost as elusive as the G-spot: we know it's there, it’s just we have a harder time finding it. Of course boys are virgins, queers are virgins, some people reclaim their virginities, and others reject virginity from the get go. So what if we agree to forget the hymen all together? Might we start to see the instability of terms like untouched, pure, or innocent? Might we question the act of sex, the very notion of relational sexuality? After all, for many people it is the sexual acts they don’t do, or don’t want to do, that carry the most abundant emotional clout. Virgin Envy is a collection of essays that look past the vestal virgins and beyond Joan of Arc. From medieval to present-day literature, the output of HBO, Bollywood, and the films of Abdellah Taïa or Derek Jarman to the virginity testing of politically active women in Tahrir Square, the writers here explore the concept of virginity in today’s world to show that ultimately virginity is a site around which our most basic beliefs about sexuality are confronted, and from which we can come to understand some of our most basic anxieties, paranoias, fears, and desires.

Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth-century's most influential novels.

Awakened by his kiss… Ordinary Briar Harcourt is horrified to discover her life is a lie—she is in fact a long-lost princess, sent into hiding to escape a forced marriage to a brutal king. But now his son, Prince Felipe, has found Briar and is determined to claim her as his bride! Marriage to Briar will give Felipe the power he was born for: her compliance is nonnegotiable. But his searing, uncontrollable desire for her is unexpected…and he’ll use all his formidable charisma to seduce her into surrender!

The Mariology of the 20th century got a decisive stimulus by the movement for the dogmatic definition of Mary’s social function as “Mediatrix of all Graces.” Gloria Falcão Dodd gives a synthetic, historical overview of the development from 1896 until the proclamation of the Marian chapter of “Lumen gentium” in 1964. She also analyzes the theological arguments for and against the dogmatic definition. Her very useful work is indispensable for anyone who wants to receive the most recent basic information about the most disputed topic of modern Mariology. - Rev. Dr. Manfred Hauke

Amina made a rash decision in the heat of a passionate moment with billionaire rake Kieran Holland. Now she may be a million dollars richer, but she’s also decidedly pregnant with his baby. Kieran never made a decision he regretted. He took what he wanted and what he’d wanted four months ago was the virgin barista who’d needed money in the worst way. He’d overheard her desperate idea to auction off her virginity when he sat beside her and her friend while she was on break at the coffee shop. He’d decided she was too sweet and naïve to be someone’s sweaty thousand-dollar dream. No, he’d pay her for her company at his sister’s wedding and demand nothing more. But she’d offered. And now she’s carrying his heir and a small piece of his heart. Dare he abandon his confirmed bachelorhood for a ready-made family with his barista baby mama?

In the heart of Mayfair lies the Clifford Charity School for Wayward Girls, where a secret society of extraordinary young women conspire to bring England’s wickedest aristocrats to justice . . . In London’s brothels and bawdy houses, sin and scandal run rampant. Yet as Emma Downing knows, far worse perils often lurk within the lavish homes of high society. Emma has been tasked with uncovering secrets at the Lymington family’s country estate—the scene of a rash of mysterious disappearances. Samuel Fitzroy, Marquess of Lymington, is no easy mark, and Emma fears he may see through both her disguise and her feigned indifference to his seductive charm . . . Recently returned to England after a long absence, Samuel finds his family in chaos amid disquieting rumors floating about town. His young cousin has become a worthless rake, several housemaids have gone missing, and then there is Emma, who is clearly not the naïve debutante she pretends to be. Yet irresistibly attracted despite his mistrust, he joins her in a daring game of cat and mouse. For Emma will unearth the truth even if it brings ruin to Samuel’s family—but the threat is as inescapable as their mutual desire . . . Praise for Anna Bradley and The Virgin Who Ruined Lord Gray “A sparkling Georgian romance . . . Bradley expertly balances excitement, humor, and heat to create a rollicking romance headlined by a pair of irresistible protagonists. Readers will be eager to see what comes next.” —Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)