If Only He Knew: What No Woman Can Resist

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A how-to book for men that seeks to clarify distinctions between the sexes with a view toward building a stronger marital relationship with this understanding.

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A Great Book.......2007-08-26

I gave this to my husband and he loved it. It is a great book.

Must read!.......2007-07-23

I can't recommend this highly enough. TEN STARS! Men who are or will be husbands, I strongly suggest you place reading this on your to-do list only after reading the Bible itself. Of course you will have to actually put the ideas into practice - small steps are always better than no steps!

Gary Smalley has Godly Insight into Having a Loving Marriage........2007-06-13

If you read this book with an open mind, with the mindset that you could do better as a husband, this book will rock your world.

When I read this book I was under the impression that he had intimate knowledge of what was wrong with my marriage! This was over 10 years ago and I have to say I still refer to this book from time to time. The insight Smalley offers into the male and female psyches is uncanny. He knows exactly why women are the way they are and how men, through their woefull lack of understand of gender differnces, exacerbate the problem.

I have recommended this book to so many people I ought to get a commission. But I believe and have experienced the fruit of applying the understanding of this book in my own life and marriage.

Whether you have been married 4 months or 40 years, this book, and the companion volume "For Better or Best" will show you how to have a Godly marriage based on trust, committment, and love.

Gary Smalley will help you!.......2007-05-16

Gary Smalley has written an insightful book that is helping men understand their wives. The ideas in this book will compliment the ideas found in The Man of Her Dreams The Woman of His! - another book that is available here on Amazon.com

If you need a miracle of change in your marriage, order both of these books!

Joel and Kathy Davisson

Helped save my marriage.......2007-03-29

While the suggestions in this book weren't very applicable to my situation the underlying principles were. It opened my eyes to what I was doing to drive my wife away and helped me grow emotionally. Got me to where I needed to be to save my marriage.

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Too Many Secrets and Immature Behaviour
I didn't enjoy it...
WOW.....WHAT A GREAT BOOK!!
A great read!
Very Exciting

No Other Woman
Shannon Drake
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0380781360

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Too Many Secrets and Immature Behaviour.......2004-03-18

This book is full of secrets about babies and pregnancies and affairs and religious groups, etc... It was too much for me. This book is trademark Shannon Drake - with cliches designed to build tension, forced seductions, shrewish heroines, etc... If you like those types of activities, then read the book. However, if you like a poignant journey to love between mature adults, pass this book up.

I didn't enjoy it..........2004-03-17

The trilogy continues with the saga of Shawna and David. Secrets abound in this book - who is pregnant?, who was pregnant?, who slept with whom?. Too many secrets and a poorly developed plot ruined this book. The secrets never seemed worth keeping, causing the whole premise of the book to crumble. I also hate this author's trademark forced seductions. Can't her heroines ever maturely realize that they would like to sleep with the hero. The occassional forced seduction can be quite sexy (see The Well Pleasured Lady), but this author uses the template again and again in all her novels. I did not enjoy this book and do not recommend it.

WOW.....WHAT A GREAT BOOK!!.......2001-09-21

WOW, this was a great book. I could not put it down. This is a wonderful series, a must read! These were the first set of books I have read by her and I will for sure keep on reading them. Not only were they romance books, but lost of mystery that was completely captivating!

A great read!.......2000-07-07

I enjoyed reading this book. It kept me entertained throughout the novel. It was very suspenseful and mysterious. I was very excited to find out how the mystery unfolds and the relationship between Douglas and Shawna kept me riveted.

Very Exciting.......1999-02-04

This book keeps you entertained until the very end. Shawna and David are fun and exciting characters. A little bit of mystery that keeps you guessing...can't wait to read another Shannon Drake.

The Other Woman : A Dundee, Idaho book (Harlequin Superromance No. 1344) (Harlequin Superromance)

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Life after heartache
The Other Woman-Joyfully Recommended Read
Part of a juicy trilogy
interesting contemporary romance

The Other Woman : A Dundee, Idaho book (Harlequin Superromance No. 1344) (Harlequin Superromance)
Brenda Novak
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ASIN: 0373713444

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Life after heartache.......2007-01-11

Elizabeth O'Connal has been threw more than her share of heartache in her life. After her mother died her father remarried a woman who treated Elizabeth horribly for years. Then when she finds some stability with her husband and two young children she finds out that he had a second family living in another state.

Things are better now for Elizabeth. She is ready to open up a chocolate shop-she is friends with her ex-husbands other wife (who is now her brothers wife.) Then life throws her a loop when she agrees to go out on a blind date with Carter Hudson who has also been dealt some hardships in his life.

Their blind date does not go off as well as many people would have liked which was why a friend suggested that Carter help Elizabeth get the chocolate shop up and running.

While trying to get the chocolate shop up and running Elizabeth has to deal with several things that she never expected, sparks that fly between her and Carter, her father coming to down with news that rocks her world, and someone that is trying to make sure that her chocolate shop is not as successful as it could be.

What happens between Elizabeth and Carter? What news does her father bring? Who trying to wreck her chocolate shop and why? Read The Other Woman.

The Other Woman-Joyfully Recommended Read.......2006-08-21

The last year has been pure hell for Elizabeth O'Connell. First she discovers that her husband has been living a double life, with a wife and family in Idaho. To make matters worse she discovers that she is actually his second wife and that their entire life in California has been built on a lie. Just when she thought that she couldn't take anymore, she is totally devastated when her husband cuts all ties with her and rushes home to Dundee determined to try and get his first wife to forgive him. Unable to believe that he could totally abandon her and their children she follows him to Dundee. With the marriage of Elizabeth's brother Isaac to her husband's first wife Reenie (Big Girls Don't Cry Harlequin Super Romance #1296) the next year finds Elizabeth and Reenie forming a family with their children. Now Reenie has tried a little matchmaking, arranging a date between Elizabeth and Carter Hudson. At first Carter and Elizabeth don't like each other, but the more time they spend with each other the more they come to care. However, Carter tragically lost the woman he loved and Elizabeth is determined that she will never be second best again.

The Other Woman touches upon every woman's feelings of rejection. Both Carter and Elizabeth must deal with their pasts before they find a future together. Although The Other Woman can stand alone, I recommend that readers first pick up Reenie's story, Big Girl's Don't Cry (Harlequin Super Romance #1296), as it is not only a great read but also will adds the background to this story. Brenda Novak has written a romance with truly complex relationships that keep the reader turning the pages and keeps them engrossed in the story until the last page.

Melissa
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Part of a juicy trilogy.......2006-05-20

THE OTHER WOMAN by Brenda Novak
May 19, 2006

Rating **** (4 stars)

Here is another book in the "A Dundee, Idaho Book" series. It furthers the story of two women who were unknowingly married to the same man at the same time. In THE OTHER WOMAN, Liz O'Connell is picking up the pieces of her shattered life. She had followed Keith from Los Angeles back to Dundee in order for her children to live closer to their father, but she's now a single woman. Keith had returned to Dundee to pursue his first wife, Reenie, which was a slap in the face for Liz.

The novel opens with Liz on a blind date with Carter Hudson, who is currently working for Reenie's father Senator Garth Holbrook. Unfortunately, the blind date isn't going very well, and the more they talk, the more Liz dislikes Carter. She walks out of the restaurant in a huff, despite the fact that she didn't want to hurt Reenie and the Holbrook's feelings, but there is only so much Liz will take from a man as rude and abrasive as Carter Hudson.

Keith is trying to convince Liz that he still loves her, now that Reenie is married to Isaac, Liz's brother, but Liz knows better. While she keeps their relationship civil for the sake of the children, she will not fall for Keith again. However, Keith, who was determined to woo Reenie back, is now hoping to get back Liz.

In the mean time Liz is opening up a chocolate shop, based on the novel by Joanne Harris, and with Carter's help (he's doing a favor for the Senator), the shop opens up with a bang. However, there is someone trying to sabotage her business, with her shop being vandalized more than once. Liz and Carter by now have an understanding between them: while they rub each other the wrong way, they have a hot chemistry that will not quit, and the two have agreed on a no commitments relationship. The reader will figure out that this relationship is more than just temporary for the both of them, despite their notions that this will only be a fling. Carter comes to Liz's rescue more than once, and with his background he has the tools to find out who the vandals are. What he finds out is not pretty.

To complicate matters more, Liz has a hot boyfriend back in Los Angeles, her tennis coach Dave, a much younger man but someone who had helped her get through many lonely nights. He is still pursuing her despite the distance, but he refuses to move to Dundee, and she will not take her children away from Keith. Between Dave and Carter, she is not sure who is the better man.

Liz and Isaac's father, Gordon, has been living with a secret since his wife and their mother Chloe passed away when Liz was only fourteen. It is a secret that is tearing him up inside, but it is also something that created a rift between him and his children. Gordon has a need to let this secret out, and when it does, it creates an even larger rift. Gordon shows up in Dundee unexpectedly, and does not receive a warm welcome from his two adult children.

This book is a spicy complex soap opera of a novel that kept my interest peaked until the very end. Trying to remember all the various characters and how they fit into the story line was a chore at first, but after a few chapters, however, the characters fell into place and there was no problem keeping up with the plot. The relationship between Carter and Liz was hot and steamy, and the author did a good job demonstrating that! She handled the sex scenes perfectly, leaving enough to the reader's imagination. The children played only a minor role in the story, creating a different feel from some of the other superromances I've read recently. It was definitely not a "family-themed" romance, but was a romance with adult issues running throughout the story.

There is definitely room for more sequels in the DUNDEE, IDAHO series by Brenda Novak. With such a complex set of relationships, the next novel will be sure to be a winner. I enthusiastically recommend THE OTHER WOMAN. - courtesy of Loveromances.

interesting contemporary romance .......2006-05-14

Elizabeth O'Connell is stunned to learn she is THE OTHER WOMAN as her spouse Keith had another wife Reenie before her that he returned to, abandoning her and their children. Though now divorced for the sake of the children who she believes need a father even a cheating one, she relocates moving to his hometown of Dundee. There she opens up The Chocolaterie Store and raising their two children Mica and Christopher as a single mother.

Friends set up Liz on a blind date with senatorial aide Carter Hudson. She dislikes his ease of talking about her personal mess and his condemnation of her letting Keith get away with his crap. However, Carter does not allow the fact that she has two kids deter him from seeing Liz. She soon sees how kind he is to her children and how much he tries to help her at her shop. Though she vowed never again Liz falls in love with Carter, who reciprocates her feelings, but she wonders if she can trust love after the Keith fiasco.

THE OTHER WOMAN is an interesting contemporary romance starring a likable woman who though upset with her former spouse remains on good terms with him especially for the sake of their children as the character driven story line is kept focused on Liz. Carter is an intriguing protagonist who sounds obnoxious on their first blind date, but proves first opinions can be false as he turns out to be a nice nurturing person. Brenda Novak writes a warm second chance at love starring a deserving female and the man who wants her forever.

Harriet Klausner

Propertius, Elegies (Loeb Classical Library No. 18)

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Excellent poetry, excellent commentary.
Golden Poetry from the Golden Age
the best current edition of propertius in english

Propertius, Elegies (Loeb Classical Library No. 18)
Propertius
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The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mythological themes and the legends of early Rome. In this new edition of Propertius, G. P. Goold solves some longstanding questions of interpretation and gives us a faithful and stylish prose translation. His explanatory notes and glossary/index offer steady guidance and a wealth of information.

Born in Assisi about 50 BCE, Sextus Propertius moved as a young man to Rome, where he came into contact with a coterie of poets, including Virgil, Tibullus, Horace, and Ovid. Publication of his first book brought immediate recognition and the unwavering support of Maecenas, the influential patron of the Augustan poets. He died perhaps in his mid-thirties, leaving us four books of elegies that have attracted admirers throughout the ages.

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Excellent poetry, excellent commentary........2006-03-22

This book contains the first book of poetry by Propertius with commentary in the back to help the reader with difficult grammar, ambiguous meaning, or other problems common within latin poetry.
Poetry: Propertius was an Augustan age poet, an elegist following somewhat in the footsteps of Catullus. He was a romantic, and most of his poetry either praises or complains about his girlfriend, Cynthia. Since he is a little less dirty than Catullus, he is slightly more suitable for serious study in the classroom, and I enjoyed his poetry very much. Latin students who enjoy Catullus or Horace would enjoy Propertius.
Commentary: Excellent. Propertius uses references to mythology that can be very obscure, but the notes delight in giving the background to the reader. I found the notes extremely helpful in my translation work and appreciated the depth of explanation for the ambiguous passages.
If you want to read Roman poetry, Propertius in particular, I highly reccommend this book.

Golden Poetry from the Golden Age.......2004-08-27

The elegies of Propertius were written during the peaceful and progressive age of Augustus. This Golden Age was the hallmark of Latin literature; it was an age where poets enjoyed idyllic leisure and generous funding for their works. Propertius belonged to the elite class of poets who wrote at the behest, and under the patronage of, the magnanimous Maecenus. Propertius thrived in this company of poets which comprised of masters like Horace and Virgil. Others too of his time were Tibullus, Catallus, and Ovid. For this reason, he is not as well known today as he should; he will always linger in their shadows, but majestically and with the piercing light of respect. The Elegies of Propertius are divided into four books according to their subject matter. Throughout the work, Propertius is primarily occupied with love poetry--with his more than likely fictitious mistress, Cynthia. At times he moves to different themes but his muse invariably takes him back to the "service of Venus." It would be detrimental for anyone who enjoys Latin poetry to pass this gem-of-a-volume up. Even for the lover of contemporary poetry, the Elegies contain strikingly modern elements agreeable to modern tastes; and this updated edition is rid of the linguistic archaisms found in the earlier Loeb editions. This is a must have for all poetry lovers.

the best current edition of propertius in english.......2000-10-14

This edition is the best, although I have it on good source that Oxford will be publishing a Propertius even better than this sometime in the next year. Propertius' poetry has the most modern feel of any Latin poet; read him and understand why Pound et al. loved him so.

Short Works (Large Print Edition): A Woman of No Importance, Charmides and Other Poems AND Shorter Prose Pieces

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Short Works (Large Print Edition): A Woman of No Importance, Charmides and Other Poems AND Shorter Prose Pieces
Oscar Wilde
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Release Date: 2006-07-17

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Short excerpt: I was in hopes he would have married lady Kelso. But I believe he said her family was too large. Or was it her feet?

A Woman of No Importance (Penguin Popular Classics)

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It's not easy to be a son
A Woman of no Importance
Is it genius?

A Woman of No Importance (Penguin Popular Classics)
Oscar Wilde
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Sparkling repartee and wicked witticisms pervade this play concerning a son born out of wedlock and an American girl's introduction into British society. One 90-minute cassette and one 60.

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LADY HUNSTANTON. Politics are in a sad way everywhere, I am told. They certainly are in England. Dear Mr. Cardew is ruining the country. I wonder Mrs. Cardew allows him. I am sure, Lord Illingworth, you don't think that uneducated people should be allowed to have votes?

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It's not easy to be a son.......2003-05-23

When a woman has made a mistake she is the only one, with her son, to carry the burden. She is tainted forever and can only hide in some anonimity. But the play goes a lot further. The son becomes the target of the father who, unmarried, wants to find love in his son, and give his son the love he has never given to any one. But it is not that simple. The son has to choose between his father who provides him with an important ambitious position, and his mother who has been tainted forever by this man he does not know as his father yet, but not for long. But love will come in the way and will reveal the father as being forever unable to respect women. This man will try to soil the young woman the son is in love with. This will lead to a happy ending for the son and for the mother but a very unhappy ending for the father who will be deprived of his son. Is the punishment proportioned to the crime, because the father is exposed as a criminal, and in a way he is. Philandering is unacceptable in those days. The most intriguing aspect of the play is that this happy ending is brought by a young woman who is both American and a puritan. In a way Oscar Wilde, and we know the drama of his life, is advocating a real puritanism that is based on purity both on the surface and in depth. So he criticizes the hypocrisy of English victorian society because it advocates purity but practices (at least men can, but women cannot) any kind of unethical attitude or behavior. How can Oscar Wilde advocate such a position when he is what he is, hiding something that amounts to a crime in his society? We are also surprised by this salvation coming from an American woman. How can America be better than England? There is no easy answer. Maybe just the fact that in America ethics come first and do not accept any compromise or segregation against women. But is this true at the end of the nineteenth century? This play is very emotional but yet very unreal, surreal.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan

A Woman of no Importance.......2000-12-06

I've just started re-reading this play and I think it is one of the most beautiful works Wilde ever wrote. Mrs. Arbuthnot's speech at the end of Act Four, beginning "men don't know what mothers are" is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever read in Wilde. It's a very ironic speech, considering it was written by a man, but it shows what a wonderful insight into women Wilde had. The play is essentially about morality and the conflict between a person's own, private sense of morality and the moral values imposed on us by society. Ultimately, Mrs. Arbuthnot is the character who most deserves our respect, precisely because she refuses to buy into the moral values of those around her. Reading it, I can just imagine how it would be performed, I even find myself acting the play out in my head, such is the power and force of Wilde's dialogue. This is a truly beautiful work which I highly recommend

Is it genius?.......2000-05-10

When I read A Woman of No Importance, I realized that I have read it before. Though, not by the same author. It is drastically similar to the French Play Le Fils Naturel, by Alexandre Dumas, jr. Though, it was a really nice play, it dragged in many places.

Elmore Leonard, The Colonel's Lady and No Man's Gun : Unabridged Stories from The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories

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Elmore Leonard, The Colonel's Lady and No Man's Gun : Unabridged Stories from The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories
Elmore Leonard
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A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (Oxford World's Classics)
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London "City Comedies" by a Renaissance Master
A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (Oxford World's Classics)
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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama. Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume brings together the greatest among them: A Mad World, My Masters, Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's. The first three plays, written between 1604 and 1606, are witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen. Sex and money are the characters' obsessions; their caustic exposure Middleton's. In the later play, No Wit (1612), satire shades into romance, prose into verse. Together the four plays reveal the range and exuberance of Middleton's writing for the comic stage. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

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London "City Comedies" by a Renaissance Master.......2005-09-05

This is a collection of Middleton's "city comedies" that take as their subject matter life in Renaissance London. They were written in the early 17th century. Middleton wrote some great tragedies, and he deserves his reputation as a major playwright of the time, perhaps unjustly overshadowed by Shakespeare's looming presence. The comparison, however, is unavoidable. The plays in this collection are not among Middleton's best works, which are undoubtedly the tragedies. The "city comedies" here are the Renaissance equivalent of a modern soap opera or situation comedy, and just as ephemeral. They are, however, of substantial interest to social and cultural historians, as well as scholars of Renaissance drama. They are all about cuckold husbands, greedy tradesmen, adulterous wives, foolish aristocrats, and grasping prostitutes. The character names say it all: Follywit, Harebrain, Brothel, Dustbox, Falselight, Pecunious Lucre, Moneylove, and Goldenfleece, to give just a sampling. The plots are generally convoluted and contrived. The language is often hard to decipher, not because of its rich complexity, as with Shakespeare, but because of the obscure vocabulary, syntax, and sloppy 17th century editing. Compounding the difficulty of the text is that the explanatory notes are all in the back of the book. Now, modern Shakespeare editions always use footnotes, not endnotes, for obvious reasons, so what makes the Oxford editors think they can use endnotes? It's very distracting and awkward to have to turn to the back of the book 5 or 10 times for each page of reading. Yes, every page has 5 to 10 endnotes! There is also a glossary in back, so if you have a question, and there is no endnote, you have to look up the word in the glossary. All this explanatory material should be put on the same page as the playtext. This is a major editing blunder, and there is no excuse for it. Compare the Norton edition of RENAISSANCE DRAMA, where they use footnotes. On the positive side, the Oxford English Drama series does make these plays more widely available. Although I can't imagine that anyone will read them apart from historians, literary scholars, and their students.

Fast Speaking Woman and Other Chants (Pocket Poets Series, No. 33)

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Present Day Icon, chant and philosophy has impact
Fast Speaking Woman

Fast Speaking Woman and Other Chants (Pocket Poets Series, No. 33)
Anne Waldman
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This expanded edition of Anne Waldman's poems and essays adds 20 poems and three essays to the original. Published in City Lights' Pocket Poets series, the collection is the perfect size to carry in a pocket or purse. The poems, however, are powerhouses meant to be read aloud. Waldman reigns as queen of the performance poem; in this book she focuses on the chant and the ritual rant. She's "here to sing the power," and, believe me, you can feel it.

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Present Day Icon, chant and philosophy has impact.......2002-05-07

Anne Waldman is a literary figure that feeds off of her own inborn energy. Energy is what you think of when you think of chants. Having been raised in a tradition of chants, i find her Fast Speaking Woman Chant extremely moving. She seeks to represent all but also exhault all individuality. The book is a nice compact perfect bound book. Easily transported in your medical coat, or business pocket.

Fast Speaking Woman.......2000-05-31

"Fast Speaking Woman" is one of the best poems I've ever read, and it captures everything that the Beats attempted (and attempt) to capture in their stream of conciousness writing. She's defining herself, but she is also defining every other woman, because we can all do what she did. She is uplifting, and fabulous! The rest of the chants are awe inspiring, especially when chanted aloud so that you can get the full expereince. If you like Allen Ginsberg, et. all, you will love Waldman. She is a true Beat woman, who does not need to define herself through the men that she associates with.

The Other Woman (Harlequin Temptation, No 451)

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The Other Woman (Harlequin Temptation, No 451)
Candace Schuler
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