Author: Jacob M. Drake
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499758399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Police detective Rick Williams has a happy life as a married father and grandfather. Then one day, his wife is killed in a car accident, and his life is turned inside-out. He makes the drastic decision to retire from the force, sell his home, and travel from one nudist camp to another across the US, enjoying the openess and freedom the clothes-free lifestyle alone can afford.
Chronicles of a Bare Naked Nudist
Author: Jacob M. Drake
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499758399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Police detective Rick Williams has a happy life as a married father and grandfather. Then one day, his wife is killed in a car accident, and his life is turned inside-out. He makes the drastic decision to retire from the force, sell his home, and travel from one nudist camp to another across the US, enjoying the openess and freedom the clothes-free lifestyle alone can afford.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499758399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Police detective Rick Williams has a happy life as a married father and grandfather. Then one day, his wife is killed in a car accident, and his life is turned inside-out. He makes the drastic decision to retire from the force, sell his home, and travel from one nudist camp to another across the US, enjoying the openess and freedom the clothes-free lifestyle alone can afford.
The Harmon Chronicles
Author: Harmon Leon
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550225278
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Leon is kind of like Tom Green, except that Leon is smart, and funny, and should have his own TV show. -- Malice Inc. This hilarious collection of anecdotal essays explores the absurdities of modern American life. Harmon Leon is a cutting-edge prankster who infiltrates one lifestyle after the next, takes each to the absolute extreme, and reports back with his findings. From attending the regional semifinals of "America's Most Beautiful Baby Contest" to getting a job at a fast-food restaurant with the sole goal of getting himself fired in three hours or less, Leon exposes the day-to-day ridiculousness of the American Way. This book drags the highs and lows of contemporary American existence into the light for public scrutiny.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550225278
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Leon is kind of like Tom Green, except that Leon is smart, and funny, and should have his own TV show. -- Malice Inc. This hilarious collection of anecdotal essays explores the absurdities of modern American life. Harmon Leon is a cutting-edge prankster who infiltrates one lifestyle after the next, takes each to the absolute extreme, and reports back with his findings. From attending the regional semifinals of "America's Most Beautiful Baby Contest" to getting a job at a fast-food restaurant with the sole goal of getting himself fired in three hours or less, Leon exposes the day-to-day ridiculousness of the American Way. This book drags the highs and lows of contemporary American existence into the light for public scrutiny.
Chronicles of a Bare Naked Nudist, Rebirth
Author: Jacob M. Drake
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515082408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Bernadette Wilkins had been a wild child interested in bad boys, but eventually she saw how her desire for this life was not only destroying her, but her current boyfriend was so frightening, so cruel and heartless, that she wished they'd never met. One night all hell breaks loose around this drug dealing pimp and Bernadette sees an opportunity to not only leave this life behind, but gives her the chance to start a new life as someone else. After remodeling herself in a good girl image as Penelope Copperfield she sees the chance to start over once again, this time working at the office of a newly constructed nudist community. Not only does she find her life wonderfully different, but she meets the first truly good man she feels she can fall in love with and be happy with for the rest of her life. But what if her old life comes back to haunt her and threatens to destroy all that she now has? Should she reveal her past to her new love or keep it her own dark secret? Book 2 of the Chronicles of a Bare Naked Nudist series.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515082408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Bernadette Wilkins had been a wild child interested in bad boys, but eventually she saw how her desire for this life was not only destroying her, but her current boyfriend was so frightening, so cruel and heartless, that she wished they'd never met. One night all hell breaks loose around this drug dealing pimp and Bernadette sees an opportunity to not only leave this life behind, but gives her the chance to start a new life as someone else. After remodeling herself in a good girl image as Penelope Copperfield she sees the chance to start over once again, this time working at the office of a newly constructed nudist community. Not only does she find her life wonderfully different, but she meets the first truly good man she feels she can fall in love with and be happy with for the rest of her life. But what if her old life comes back to haunt her and threatens to destroy all that she now has? Should she reveal her past to her new love or keep it her own dark secret? Book 2 of the Chronicles of a Bare Naked Nudist series.
A Brief History of Nakedness
Author: Philip Carr-Gomm
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861897294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucrative businesses have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness, for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often contradictory ideas—it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between nature and society. In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media, A Brief History of Nakedness reveals the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us. Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and the media employ images of bare skin—or even simply the word “naked”—to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes complicated and complex emotional responses. From the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of our relationships with our naked bodies.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861897294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucrative businesses have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness, for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often contradictory ideas—it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between nature and society. In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media, A Brief History of Nakedness reveals the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us. Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and the media employ images of bare skin—or even simply the word “naked”—to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes complicated and complex emotional responses. From the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of our relationships with our naked bodies.
The Last Nude
Author: Ellis Avery
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101554185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished-and coveted-works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide. Inspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of historical imagination. Ellis Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, this is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101554185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished-and coveted-works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide. Inspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of historical imagination. Ellis Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, this is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.
The Ayla St. John Chronicles Complete Series Box Set
Author: C.J. Pinard
Publisher: Pin House Press, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1960
Book Description
What happens when a natural-born werewolf gets bitten by a vampire? The psychic link it caused turns Ayla St. John into a determined vampire hunter. Will she mercilessly kill every vampire she meets, or will Kellan, a striking and irresistible vampire himself, win her over with his charm? Follow Ayla's journey from werewolf to vampire hunter in this six-book paranormal romance series. The Lunar Effect The Lunar Curse The Lunar Secret The Lunar Magic The Lunar Promise The Lunar Light
Publisher: Pin House Press, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1960
Book Description
What happens when a natural-born werewolf gets bitten by a vampire? The psychic link it caused turns Ayla St. John into a determined vampire hunter. Will she mercilessly kill every vampire she meets, or will Kellan, a striking and irresistible vampire himself, win her over with his charm? Follow Ayla's journey from werewolf to vampire hunter in this six-book paranormal romance series. The Lunar Effect The Lunar Curse The Lunar Secret The Lunar Magic The Lunar Promise The Lunar Light
Co-Ed Naked Philosophy
Author: Will Forest
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781466312753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An upbeat, quirky novel about taking off clothes to take on social conventions! Co-ed Naked Philosophy is the story of Christopher Ross, an edgy young philosophy professor at Gulf Coast University. Students adore him for his controversial course topics. His department needs him to keep bolstering enrollment. But after an arrest for trespassing at an unofficial nude beach, he faces losing his job. Between brash and desperate, Professor Ross enlists the help of his students and colleagues to set off a revolution in body attitudes that forges unexpected alliances among the campus, the media, and the community.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781466312753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An upbeat, quirky novel about taking off clothes to take on social conventions! Co-ed Naked Philosophy is the story of Christopher Ross, an edgy young philosophy professor at Gulf Coast University. Students adore him for his controversial course topics. His department needs him to keep bolstering enrollment. But after an arrest for trespassing at an unofficial nude beach, he faces losing his job. Between brash and desperate, Professor Ross enlists the help of his students and colleagues to set off a revolution in body attitudes that forges unexpected alliances among the campus, the media, and the community.
Blue Nude
Author: Elizabeth Rosner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439181314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Once a prominent painter, Danzig now shares his wisdom and technique with students at San Francisco’s Art Institute—yet his own canvases remain empty. When he meets Israeli-born Merav, the beautiful new model for his class, he senses she may reignite his artistic passion. Merav moved to California to escape the danger and violence of the Middle East, yet she cannot outrun her fears about the past. As the characters challenge one another, Rosner lyrically uncovers their disparate upbringings, their creative awakenings, and their similarly painful, often catastrophic, love lives to propel them toward reconciliation, redemption, and ultimately revival.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439181314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Once a prominent painter, Danzig now shares his wisdom and technique with students at San Francisco’s Art Institute—yet his own canvases remain empty. When he meets Israeli-born Merav, the beautiful new model for his class, he senses she may reignite his artistic passion. Merav moved to California to escape the danger and violence of the Middle East, yet she cannot outrun her fears about the past. As the characters challenge one another, Rosner lyrically uncovers their disparate upbringings, their creative awakenings, and their similarly painful, often catastrophic, love lives to propel them toward reconciliation, redemption, and ultimately revival.
American Nudist
Author: Tony Young
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615516271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
More than a how-to book. More than a nude beach update. "American Nudist" is the story of a Hawaii- born nudist's unique life, his personal and political struggles and the creative work that resulted. "American Nudist" collects journalist/filmmaker Tony Young's articles on the naturist lifestyle, chronicles his experiences organizing the Hawaii Skinnydippers in the 1990s, along with his controversial poetry and short stories.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615516271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
More than a how-to book. More than a nude beach update. "American Nudist" is the story of a Hawaii- born nudist's unique life, his personal and political struggles and the creative work that resulted. "American Nudist" collects journalist/filmmaker Tony Young's articles on the naturist lifestyle, chronicles his experiences organizing the Hawaii Skinnydippers in the 1990s, along with his controversial poetry and short stories.
Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body
Author: Brett Lunceford
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498570704
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Although nudity is something that everyone has experience with, public nudity is still largely considered taboo. Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents a range of case studies: the legal aspects of sexualized public nudity as it relates to communication theory and the First Amendment; the controversies surrounding the work of photographer Jock Sturges; the public performance art of Milo Moiré; the topless protests of FEMEN; the social media activism of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy; the ritualized flashing during Mardi Gras in New Orleans; and the sexual displays of Folsom Street Fair, the largest leather pride festival. Taken together, these cases teach much about identity, self-determination, and sexuality, and illustrate the complicated rhetorical nature of the human body in the public sphere.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498570704
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Although nudity is something that everyone has experience with, public nudity is still largely considered taboo. Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents a range of case studies: the legal aspects of sexualized public nudity as it relates to communication theory and the First Amendment; the controversies surrounding the work of photographer Jock Sturges; the public performance art of Milo Moiré; the topless protests of FEMEN; the social media activism of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy; the ritualized flashing during Mardi Gras in New Orleans; and the sexual displays of Folsom Street Fair, the largest leather pride festival. Taken together, these cases teach much about identity, self-determination, and sexuality, and illustrate the complicated rhetorical nature of the human body in the public sphere.