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Nancy Friday

    August 27, 1933 – November 5, 2017

    Nancy Colbert Friday was an American author who explored the topics of female sexuality and liberation in her writings.

    Nancy Friday
    The Power of Beauty
    My Mother My Self
    Women on Top
    Carl Weber's Kingpins: The Ultimate Hustle
    Jealousy
    Forbidden Flowers. More Women's Sexual Fantasies
    • 2022

      Being the daughter of a pastor, Erica Collins never got a chance to live a normal life. When she lost her mother at a very young age, she questioned her faith in the Lord. Pastor Collins tried to rescue her faith by tying her everyday life even more closely to the church. Now 21 years old, Erica's only escape from her father and his Bible is when she hooks up with her best friend, Nicole. She finds a little freedom through Nicole's wild stories, with most of them being about her boyfriend, Mekco. Erica is all in, craving the attention and the lifestyle that Nicole has. Mekco is the leader of The Detroit Brick Boyz. Now that his best friend and the former leader of the crew, Pierre AKA P, is out of jail, Mekco is ready to put his boy back on without stepping down as the leader. Before getting knocked, Pierre was used to living the fast lifestyle and making money. After he's released, he is introduced to the beautiful Erica Collins. Once Erica enters his life, he questions if he has been living wrong all along. He soon finds himself falling for a young lady who didn't have any business looking his way. He wants to do right by her, but pursuing his position as the leader of the Brick Boyz and dealing with snakes from the past cause him to push her away. This pastor's daughter has some choices to make. Does she return to the flock, or fully enter the world of these kingpins?

      Carl Weber's Kingpins: The Ultimate Hustle
    • 2018

      A universal ode to babies and their milestones that celebrates all the joys in a baby’s first year. Join three babies, encouraged by their families, as they grow more and more active with each day--crying, smiling, eating, teething, rolling, crawling, walking, and talking--culminating in a birthday celebration for all the kids. With rhythmic, rhyming text and sweet, soft illustrations, this is the perfect repeat read for babies’—and parents’—first year.

      Baby's Firsts
    • 2017

      Love Plus One

      • 182 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Laurie and James are a monogamous couple with an occasional lover in James's best friend, Al. It is a casual, friend-with-benefits situation which suits them all, especially given Al's promiscuous lifestyle. When Al is assaulted, however, Laurie and James are forced to confront the fact that their feelings for Al might be stronger than mere liking. But would free spirit Al ever want more than what they already have?

      Love Plus One
    • 2012

      Lulu

      A Novella

      • 152 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      The story follows Lulu, a captivating heroine whose life mirrors that of her creator, Nancy Friday. As Lulu transitions from a spirited child in Charleston to a college student in the North, she navigates the complexities of first love, familial rivalries, and betrayal. With a literary style reminiscent of classic Southern writers, this debut novel showcases Friday's storytelling prowess, blending personal growth with emotional challenges.

      Lulu
    • 2012

      Before there was 50 Shades of Grey, there was the incomparable Forbidden Flowers—a collection of women’s fantasies so daring and explicit that Nancy Friday redefined female sexuality. Today, women everywhere clamor for the latest erotic bestselling novels—their scenes of daring sexual exploits have fired up our collective imagination. But before we turned to fiction for our turn-ons, Nancy Friday unleashed a sexual revolution with her collections of uninhibited writings—the real fantasies of real women, in books that broke all the rules. . . . FORBIDDEN FLOWERS After My Secret Garden, Nancy Friday’s first boundary-shattering collection, rocked America and freed women to put their most private longings and secret desires into words for all to read, hundreds more were inspired to do just that: From the seeds sown in My Secret Garden grew Forbidden Flowers, an even more explicit and colorful gathering of daring imaginings, uninhibited dreamings, and real-life experimental encounters experienced by women just like you. More fun than fiction, more supremely sexy than you ever imagined, here are the kinds of fantasies that dare you to cross a line and pluck some forbidden flowers of your very own.

      Forbidden Flowers. More Women's Sexual Fantasies
    • 2009

      In "Beyond My Control," Nancy Friday delves into the evolution of sexual fantasy, showcasing the imaginative desires of women and men. She encourages readers to embrace their sexual creativity, exploring the depths of hidden desires in a liberated era of equality. The book captures the essence of uninhibited sexual expression.

      Beyond My Control
    • 1999

      Our Looks/Our Lives

      Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to Be Seen

      • 848 pages
      • 30 hours of reading

      Do You Like What You See In The Mirror?We all want to have it. Beauty. Today more than ever, our physical appearance determines how we judge ourselves and are judged by others. Like it or not, we live in the age of the Empty Package, when how we look takes precedence over such enduring qualities as integrity, kindness, and honesty. Now, in this provacative, entertaining book, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller "My Mother/My Self "reveals the truth about how looks affect our lives, and how life affects our looks.In this thoroughly honest and upbeat book, Nancy Friday probes the power, allure, and mystique of beauty including: fashion, fear of competition, shoes and sex, adolescent pain, envy, the double standard of aging, fairy tales, feminism, love, and more. Part memoir, part history, "Our Looks, Our Lives "will forever change the way we all look in the mirror.

      Our Looks/Our Lives
    • 1997

      Using her own life story as a springboard, Nancy Friday traces the past 25 years of changes in women's attitudes about self-esteem, appearance, and sexuality. Enormously fun to read.--New York Times Book Review.

      The Power of Beauty
    • 1991

      In Women on Top, Nancy Friday returns to the subject that made her famous, examining the erotic fantasy lives of more than one hundred and fifty modern women. Nancy Friday's phenomenal bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers broke new ground, revealing for the first time the complexity of women's secret sexual fantasies. Drawn from Friday's personal interviews and letters, Women on Top contains transcripts of real sexual fantasies that will change your mind-set about women and sex. A revolutionary exploration of female eroticism, Women on Top reveals the powerful and astounding sexual attitudes that are forever changing our intimate lives.

      Women on Top
    • 1987

      This pioneering book by the author of Women on Top plays a major role in our understanding of the powerful influence the mother/daughter bond has on a woman's identity, her relationships with men, and her self-esteem. Through candid self-disclosure and hundreds of interviews, Nancy Friday investigates this feminine legacy and reveals the conflicting feelings of anger, hate, and love that daughters hold for their mothers.

      My Mother My Self