Yarn Harlot

Yarn Harlot

Author: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2005-09-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0740789015

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One woman shares hilarious personal stories of her obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun with knitting. An obsessed knitter who can’t seem to put the needles down, author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee reveals the tangled and sometimes maniacal path of her knitting triumphs and disasters in Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter. Sharing both humorous and poignant tales of knitting escapades, such as fleeing from a yarn-thieving squirrel, dismantling a car to find a vital needle, and what it feels like to wrap a newborn baby in the work of your own hands. Yarn Harlot exposes the extreme sport of knitting, and adventure that can be fulfilling, exasperating, and wickedly funny. From the moment Stephanie’s family discovers that she has taken to storing yarn in the piano to her attempts to foist knitted socks on a friend with a wool “allergy,” Yarn Harlot looks at knitting with humor, insight, and sympathy for the obsessed. “Stephanie Pearl-McPhee turns both typical and unique knitting experiences into very funny and articulate prose.” —Meg Swansen, Schoolhouse Press “An intimate view of the passionate knitter’s psyche: a transport of hilarity for knitters and the knitted-for; I laughed until my stitches fell helplessly from my needles!”—Lucy Neatby, author of Cool Socks Warm Feet “A sort of David Sedaris-like take on knitting—laugh-out-loud funny most of the time and poignantly reflective when it’s not cracking you up.” —Library Journal


Unrepentant Whore

Unrepentant Whore

Author: Carol Leigh

Publisher: Last Gasp

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780867195842

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Scarlot Harlot, unrepentant whore, activist and artist, is a brazen, brainy hooker. Since the late seventies, Scarlot Harlot (a.k.a. Carol Leigh) has written, performed and produced work in a variety of genres on women's issues and on her experiences in the sex industry. Book jacket.


Harlot

Harlot

Author: Mary Elizabeth

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Camilla Hearst is a Harlot.God forgives little girls who don't obey, but he forsakes women who surrender their bodies to desires of the flesh.Raised to believe her very existence was a sin, Camilla escaped her father's iron fist and chased the sun to Grand Haven, California, where one thing was for certain: It's a man's world.She was prepared to live in it until the day Camilla met the highest paid escort in the city-exposing an underground world where women rule like queens. Now Camilla finds herself offering her body to the highest bidder.Falling for Grand Haven's golden-boy and mafia attorney, Wilder Ridge, only strengthens her desire to break free from her dark past and control her own destiny. But in a society where everything has a price tag, she discovers her body isn't the only thing for sale.So is her life


The Harlot by the Side of the Road

The Harlot by the Side of the Road

Author: Jonathan Kirsch

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2009-09-23

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 030756763X

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Sex. Violence. Scandal. These are words we rarely associate with the sacred text of the Bible. Yet in this brilliant new book, Jonathan Kirsch shows that the Old Testament is filled with some of the most startling and explicit stories in all of Western literature. These tales of seduction and rape, voyeurism and exhibitionism, intermarriage and illegitimacy, assassination and murder have been suppressed by religious authorities throughout history precisely because they are so shocking. "You mean that's in the Bible?" is the common reaction of the contemporary reader to the stories that Kirsch retells and explores. In The Harlot by the Side of the Road, Kirsch recounts these suppressed and mistranslated tales in the grand storytelling tradition. Here is the tale of Dinah, the young Israelite daughter raped by a princely suitor. The price for her hand in marriage? The circumcision of every man in his kingdom. Here, too, is the story of Lot's daughters, who, when faced with the possibility that they are the last survivors on earth, must copulate with their drunken father to continue their race. And the story of Tamar, the harlot by the side of the road, who must disguise herself as a prostitute and seduce her father-in-law in order to bear the child who has been promised her. Kirsch places each story within the political and social context of its time, and delves into the latest biblical scholarship to explain why each story was originally censored. He also brings to light when and where each story was first written down, and how it found its way into the Bible. And he shows how these stories have something important to say to contemporary readers who might never pick up a Bible. Kirsch reveals that the Bible's real power lies in its unflinching lessons in human nature. And he illuminates the surprising modernity of the Bible's characters: these were, like us, people delicately balanced between their destructive and generous natures. Certain to excite controversy and ignite intellectual debate, The Harlot by the Side of the Road will undoubtedly be one of the year's most talked-about books.


The Harlot Countess

The Harlot Countess

Author: Joanna Shupe

Publisher: Zebra Books

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1420135554

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Vicious rumors and rapier wit make for a heated rivalry—until the sparks start flying in this Regency romance by the award-winning author. Maggie, Lady Hawkins, had a debut she'd rather forget—along with her first marriage. Today, she’s a fierce political cartoonist writing under the male pseudonym Lemarc, and her favorite object of ridicule is Simon Barrett, Earl of Winchester. He's a rising star in Parliament—and a former confidant of Maggie's who decided to believe a salacious rumor that vexes her to this day. Still crushed by Simon's betrayal, Maggie has no intention of letting the ton crush her as well. In fact, Lemarc's cartoons have made Simon a laughingstock. But now it appears that Maggie was wrong about what happened years ago, and that Simon has been secretly yearning for her since . . . forever. Could it be that the heart is mightier than the pen and the sword?


Harlot's Ghost

Harlot's Ghost

Author: Norman Mailer

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2007-01-23

Total Pages: 1170

ISBN-13: 1588365891

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With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society—and his own past—takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the “momentous catastrophe” of the Kennedy assassination. All the while, Hubbard is haunted by women who were loved by both his godfather and President Kennedy. Featuring a tapestry of unforgettable characters both real and imagined, Harlot’s Ghost is a panoramic achievement in the tradition of Tolstoy, Melville, and Balzac, a triumph of Mailer’s literary prowess. Praise for Harlot’s Ghost “[Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history.”—Anthony Burgess, The Washington Post Book World “Elegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of Harlot’s Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer’s imagination.”—Robert Wilson, USA Today “Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant.”—Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday “A towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history.”—The New York Times Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post


Harlot’s Moon

Harlot’s Moon

Author: Meryl Taylor

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 934

ISBN-13: 1984523988

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This is the most recent in Meryl Taylor’s long series of literary offerings since 1987 when she first published Earthbound as a tribute to Elizabeth Steinberg, a murdered child from New York City. Proceeds went to the World Hunger Coalition. Since then, SCRAPS, 1988, with New Horizons, in Chula Vista, donated funds to Humane Society; Brown Mare, with Avant Garde, in Missouri, gifted WWF; Big Trouble on Hog’s Back helped Wounded Warriors; and her other works with Xibris aided animal charities across the world. She was widely published in magazines under pen names in the late ’70s and won contests with her teachers’ help. Writing has been her passion and solace. Now with her love, Charles, at her side, she reaches out to those who hurt, need to heal, survive, move on, and grow past life that no longer work. Living in Dayton, Ohio, she writes for adults and children who need to laugh at lives that may not always seem funny. With a freshly minted PhD, she soars into the stratosphere to entertain and enlighten. A mother and grandmother, she sees life as a challenge, a tunnel where that light is no roaring train but an opportunity. To aspiring authors, write on, publish, or perish!


The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)

The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)

Author: Theophilus Cibber

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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"The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)" by Theophilus Cibber. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.


The Harlot's Vail Removed: and Her Lying Refuge Swept Away by the Power of Truth ... Being an Answer to a Book [by R. Purnell and Others] ... Intit'led The Christ of Christ in Bristol Recovering Her Vail ... Also a Short Rebuke of Ralph Farmer for Lying ... in the Case of Constant Jessops Removing from the Parish of Nicholas in the City of Bristol ... To which are Added a Few Words Manifesting the ... Degenerated Condition of Richard Fowler, who ... is Stiled ... Vicar of the Parish Church of Westerleigh in the County of Glocester, Etc

The Harlot's Vail Removed: and Her Lying Refuge Swept Away by the Power of Truth ... Being an Answer to a Book [by R. Purnell and Others] ... Intit'led The Christ of Christ in Bristol Recovering Her Vail ... Also a Short Rebuke of Ralph Farmer for Lying ... in the Case of Constant Jessops Removing from the Parish of Nicholas in the City of Bristol ... To which are Added a Few Words Manifesting the ... Degenerated Condition of Richard Fowler, who ... is Stiled ... Vicar of the Parish Church of Westerleigh in the County of Glocester, Etc

Author: Denis HOLLISTER

Publisher:

Published: 1658

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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