Passionate Kisses

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Sara Stockton, Taylor Jenkins, and James Edwards have been best friends since pre-school. Their strong bond earned them the nickname of the Three Musketeers.

When Taylor turned fourteen and announced she was gay, James and Sara stood by her. When James and Sara began dating, Taylor hid her love for Sara and moved on with her life.

Now, fourteen years later, Sara and James are about to be married and Taylor is trying to deal with the upcoming wedding by rushing into a new relationship.

As Sara and James begin to face the truth about their relationship, Sara begins to realize who her love interest really is.

Will Sara and Taylor hide their feelings for each other to protect their friendship or will they realize they can't run from love?

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Loved this book!.......2006-08-10

This was my 1st Megan Carter book but based on this story, I'd definitely read something else by her. Very sweet romantic story that I have read twice in the 3 days I've had it! Well-written and likable characters, the book also has a good sub-plot concerning an older lesbian couple and their Texas ranch. The best part though was watching Sara realize who her true love really is (some yummy sex scenes!!). Wish the story had never ended!

High School Buddies.......2006-07-28

Sara, James, and Taylor sitting in a tree. Who's kissing who?

Sara and James are getting married and Taylor's been their friends since they were young. Sara and James were still her friends when she came out at 14.

The wedding plans are not going well. When Taylor shows up sparks start flying and reality sinks in for all parties.

Get all dressed up and join the wedding party for an interesting time. You'll enjoy this one.

Great Comeback..........2006-05-04

I loved Carter's first book, but didn't care too much for her second book. This one is a great comeback for a talented author.

Carter plays on the old adage "birds of a feather flock together" as she follows the lives of three close childhood friends into adulthood. The three friends are: Taylor, a woman who announced to the world she was gay at the tender age of 14. James, an aspiring politician who is engaged to Sara. Sara, who feels no passion for James.

James and Sara call the wedding off afther they both discover new aspects of themselves throughout the telling of this masterful tale. Taylor is finally able to live her childhood dream. The only "unreal" part of this story is how James' and Sara's families react to the news. It's almost as though their families are comatose or heavily sedated, not "normal" (whatever that is).

I'm now looking forward to Carter's next book. She's one writer you shouldn't miss.

Megan Carter's Passionate Kisses .......2006-03-30

Megan Carter's latest is another great read by a polished writer. She brings her three main characters to life, making them seem like people we have known. The growing love, the confusion of awakening desires, and the final passionate kisses keep us reading. I was still reading at 3 a.m., and not regretting it one bit.

The Book of Kisses: A Definitive Collection of the Most Passionate, Romantic, Outlandish, & Wonderful Quotations on the Intimate Art of Kissing

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great book!!!
How did he get these awesome quotes!?

The Book of Kisses: A Definitive Collection of the Most Passionate, Romantic, Outlandish, & Wonderful Quotations on the Intimate Art of Kissing

Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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ASIN: 0312087101

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From Lord Byron's "first kiss of love" to Kevin Costner's "long slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last for three days, " The Book of Kisses contains the most charming, witty and memorable quips to cross the lips of such famous and infamous kissers as Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Boris Yeltsin, Walter Cronkite, and hundreds of others.The quotes cover first kisses (Errol Flynn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning) funny kisses (Jay Leno, Minnie Pearl), sensual kisses, romantic kisses, literary kisses, celebrity and movie-star kisses (Burt Reynolds, Kim Basinger), kissing definitions (Ingrid Bergman, Mickey Spillane), kissing proverbs, kissing advice and techniques (William Shakespeare, Louis Armstrong, Ronald Reagan), and kissing quotes from around the world. Who could forget legendary celluloid smooches like Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis's kiss in Some Like It Hot or Woody Allen and Diane Keaton's first kiss in Annie Hall? Or the first time F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby kisses his beloved Daisy: "at his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower"?From Earnest Hemmingway to Spike Lee, from Napoleon and Josephine to Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, The Book of Kisses provides plenty of pucker power and passionate inspiration for anyone searching for words to describe that elusive, soul-touching thrill of the perfect kiss.

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great book!!!.......1999-05-12

This book was great!!

How did he get these awesome quotes!?.......1995-11-16

How did he find out what Mike Meyers of Wayne's World said about kissing Madonna? Or what Kevin Costner said about kissing in the movies? These quotes are worth the price of the book

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Passionate Kisses (Crystal Creek #14) (Crystal Creek)
Penny Richards
Manufacturer: Harlequin
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ASIN: 0373825269

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From the back...
In the beginning, Cynthia McKinney was attracted to J.T. because he'd loved his first wife so deeply. The man obviously took love and marriage seriously. Now, with a new baby to care for and the responsibilities of running J.T.'s household, Cynthia's feeling overwhelmed. She's in no mood for comparisons with the Perfect Pauline.

But then, Cynthia learns a thing or two about her uncompromising husband and his fairy-tale first love. The truth is startling, but liberating. For starters, J.T.'s second marriage was no shotgun affair...

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THE PASSIONATE KISS OF ILLUSION presents the philosophies and experiences of an original visionary, Scott Shaw, Ph.D. Veering between the ascetic and the sensual, this book takes the reader on a mystical journey from the author's home in Hollywood, California to the exotic realms of Asia, as he travels the world experiencing new transient thrills. His claims that nothing is permanent and life holds no absolute meaning bears itself out in the adventures presented in this text. Shaw writes in the emotionally and sexually explicit languageof a modern day, street-wise mystic. The stories he tells in this book will educate, excite, titillate, and hold your rapt attention.

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to me it was a very passionate kiss of reality.......2003-09-24

definitely 100% ladies man.
the gals were 100% unworthy. i guess i'd be part of the unworthy gals waiting. beautifully written. and it teaches us all a very valuable lesson on how to take care of life's little "penutbutter predicaments."

PASSIONATE KISSES (WILD HEARTS ): PASSIONATE KISSES (Wild Hearts)

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PASSIONATE KISSES (WILD HEARTS ): PASSIONATE KISSES (Wild Hearts)
Cherie Bennett
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The Book of Kisses: A Definitive Collection of the Most Passionate, Romantic, Outlandish, & Wonderful Quotations on the Intimate Art of Kissing
William Cane
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El Beso Mas Apasionado (The Most Passionate Kiss)

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El Beso Mas Apasionado (The Most Passionate Kiss)
Bronwyn Jameson
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Passionate Kiss
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The no–holds–barred first novel from Sonny Barger, author of the New York Times bestseller Hell's Angel. The mass market edition will be an ideal format for Sonny's legions of fans.

⏡tch⟋inkade thought that things were winding down. The former President of the Infidelz, the most powerful motorcycle club in Northern California, Patch has drifted east, hoping to start a new life in Arizona. He wants to forget his old life, a life where being the President of the Infidelz cost him his family. Now, he is responsible for no one but himself.

But everything changes one night in Nevada, as bad blood between members of the Infidelz and a rival club, the 2Wheelers, errupts into a firefight, littering a casino with the corpses of both club members and ordinary citizens. The newspapers call it ⁩ke Wars,⟡nd Patch knows he's needed, either to help make a peace––or win a war.

Responding to the call to duty, Patch straps on his knives and wipes the dust off his Harley, ready to cruise down the highway for what could be his final ride.

Customer Reviews:

Dead in 5 Heartbeats.......2007-08-27

Excellent book that made me want to read more. I also purchased the second book by this author, it was outstanding as well. Mr. Barger does a great job and the main character is the kind of person we all want to be. I hope he continues to write more of these books. I would highly recommend this title as well as the second book.

Patch Kinkade and James Bond.......2007-08-01

First let me say that I enjoyed this book and recommend it highly.

That said, this story should be viewed as a work of pure fiction. The main character has more in common with James Bond than he does with any real living person. Therefore if any citizen is looking for a window into the MC world, this book isn't for you. However if you are looking for a good fast paced read, this book is for you.

Tell it like it is..............2007-02-02

Most people know Sonny Barger as the former leader of the infamous Oakland Chapter of the Hells Angels. I think this book brings the insight and experience that Sonny has of the world of the 1%'rs. A world that very few really understand and fewer yet have the guts to live, and die, in.

The action and story was good with a bare minimum of BS. The main
character was believable. I enjoyed reading this book and look forward
to more of Sonny's novels.

If you buy a book...........2005-09-14

If you buy a book written by an infamous outlaw motorcycle gang member, you can expect it to be gruesome and violent!!! People make no sense to me. They buy a book written by a violent person, obviously it is going to be about violence and their life in the gang. You can read that on the back of the book, typically. If that doesn't strike your fancy, DON'T BUY IT!!!! It's that simple. I have yet to read this book, but I am going to and I expect it to be graphic!!!!!

Pointless.......2005-02-23

I was excited to see a new book from everyone's favorite biker, so I had to have it. The fun stopped there. This book is pointless, except to fill the pockets of Barger.

It's a poorly camoflauged retelling of his autobiography for the first half of the book. The last half is just dumb. It involves every half-baked idea presented in the biker movies from the 1960s and 1970s and ties them into this dumb book. I almost expected to have a bit a biker werewolves by the end.

Advice: save the cost of this book and apply it towards the purchase of a motorcycle of your own. But, avoid this one.

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A topical and controversial contribution to public, professional and academic discussion of issues of health and health care. The author concludes that we need to establish a clear boundary between the worlds of medicine and politics, so that doctors can concentrate on treating the sick - and leave the well alone.

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Healthcare as coercive social policy.......2000-12-05

In the preface to this remarkable book Dr. Fitzpatrick describes breaking into the house of an elderly couple during a bitterly cold February. The couple had succumbed to a combination of infection and hypothermia. While waiting for the ambulance, Fitzpatrick, a primary care physician working in a blue collar Borough of London, England, found an untouched leaflet describing the dangers of anonymous sex and the virtues of condoms. This leaflet had been distributed to 23 million homes in the UK, around half of which contained either an elderly couple or an old person living alone. At this moment Fitzpatrick reflected upon the absurdity of the "everyone is at risk" campaign and the motives of a government that did little to prevent the elderly from freezing to death and yet enthusiastically supported "healthy living".

The conclusion that Fitzpatrick reaches will surprise and enrage both those who agree and disagree with his view. The author is nothing if not blunt stating, "the governments health policy is really a programme of social control packaged as health promotion." In an era when social institutions are increasingly discredited (think Congress, the Senate or any other political institution), irrelevant (e.g., unions) or ignored (e.g., religious proscriptions against premarital sex) the government has seized upon personal health as a means of reconnecting with society and regulating and supervising people's lives.

At first glance Fitzpatrick's contention might be viewed as absurd and eccentric but think about it, how many aspects of your life are affected by concerns about health? Do you feel guilty driving to work when you might walk? Do you eat salad when you would prefer a steak? Do you miss out on a Friday night excursion so as to not have a drink or to avoid a smoky atmosphere? Medical jurisdiction over lifestyle extends into the home, the workplace, our schools and neighborhoods. This might not appear coercive but combined with endless screening programs of increasingly intrusive nature and daily announcements regarding another necessary alteration to keep us healthy and the insidious regulation of life becomes more apparent.

This might all be forgivable if it were the case that these changes in lifestyle were of benefit but Fitzpatrick explains they are not. With the exception of smoking there is very little evidence that the proposed adoption of a "healthy lifestyle" will have any noticeable benefit to the individual. For example, changes in diet to reduce cholesterol will increase the life expectancy of an average 65-year-old man by between 2.5 and 5.0 months. If you are younger than this, the benefits are so small as to be incalculable. Essentially your odds of having a heart attack under the age of 65 are very small; if you start a diet of muesli and skimmed milk while avoiding all fatty food your risk will be reduced to very, very small. When stated like this many might choose to live happily, if a little more riskily, eating bacon and drinking whole milk rather than existing "safely" on a boring diet.

Fitzpatrick's bottom line is that people need less moralizing when they are well and more health care when they are ill. Doctors should retreat from the moral sphere and return to helping people live their lives, as long and as healthily as possible, with their vices that make life happy and livable.

Amajor contribution to our ideas of health and disease.......2000-10-23

It has become almost a commonplace to note that though we live longer and healthier lives, we are also more concerned about our health than ever before. Whilst many commentators have written on different aspects of this paradox , there has until now been no satisfactory survey of the whole. Fitzpatrick gives us, from his perspective as a GP, the most penetrating analysis yet published of the rise of the New Public Health, and of its dangers for patients, doctors and the relationship between them.

Fitzpatrick presents a history of the way that health has become a major personal and political topic, by looking at the different health scares of the last few years, the screening tests and 'healthy living' recommendations that have been introduced and accepted in spite of dissenting academic criticism We are all familiar with instructions to eat healthily (just why is it five or six portions of fruit or vegetables per day anyway?), drink a certain number of units of alcohol a week, take exercise, and subject ourselves to screening tests of dubious efficacy . However, it is only when we are confronted by the whole panoply of measures that we realise how far things have gone and how rapid the pace of change has been. The result is that we now tolerate, if not actively seek out, a level of interference in our personal lives which would have been unthinkable even ten years ago.

How to explain the astonishing success of the new public health amongst doctors and the public? A cynic would say that there is a straightforward financial motive for many doctors' enthusiasm for these measures, and though there is some truth in this, it is not the most important part of the story. Fitzpatrick provides an excellent account of the gradual process by which the medical profession has lost confidence in itself, as the old arrogance has been replaced by acute self doubt. The crisis of modern medicine is graphically illustrated by the volte face of the BMA in its attitude to alternative medicine: from a defiant defence of the 'demonstrable and reproducible benefits' of orthodox medicine in 1986 to a posture of 'abject relativism' in response to 'complementary ' approaches only seven years later .

Fitzpatrick also considers why health has become such a public concern over the last decade or so. This section is short and thus appears

somewhat schematic but does provide the basis for further work. Many commentators have noted that the ending of the Cold War has thrown up massive problems for the old ideologues of the West, as the initial triumphalism rapidly evaporated to be replaced by a general feeling of stagnation. Fitzpatrick notes that '[c]hanges in society now appear no longer to be the result of conscious or planned human activity , indeed things appear to be out of control'. At first sight this may seem exaggerated, but then think of the almost mediaeval suspicion with which GM food has been greeted. In these circumstances, any hope of achieving progress in society is just not on the agenda , and the retreat to narrow concerns about health is understandable. It is also understandable that the government should take advantage of concerns about health to strengthen its grip over an increasingly fragmented society The result , as Fitzpatrick puts it, is that 'when health becomes the goal of human endeavour it acquires an oppressive influence over the life of the individual'.

In the short term, the trends identified in The Tyranny of Health are likely to get worse . Only last week a distinguished cancer specialist was advocating that men over 50 (a category in which I have recently acquired a vested interest) should abstain from sexual intercourse and thus cut their risk of cancer of the prostate . Indeed the prostate looks set to become the organ of the decade, although I fear that until we have acquired our own distinctive ribbon we cannot compete with the other cancers.

How then to reverse the tyranny of health ? Fitzpatrick recognises that this book is very much a preliminary work , but it does lay the basis for future work which should be aimed at defining the links between, on the one hand, the tyranny of health and the crisis of medicine, and on the other, the stasis of the new world order. The medicalisation of life and the politicisation of medicine should both be resisted, for as he puts it '[i]n the absence of a forceful movement from below, medical intervention becomes a vehicle of government policy, not politics writ large, but politics on a small scale, petty, intrusive and moralising'. Fitzpatrick is certainly not against the idea of doctors being involved in the politics of health , but he emphasises the importance of maintaining clear boundaries. Doctors should reassert their autonomy from the state and '[d]octors who aspire to a wider political role, would be best advised to pursue this, not in their surgery, but in the public sphere. At a time when health has become such a political issue, he insists that 'the first responsibility of a doctor as a doctor is to provide medical treatment for individual patients'.

On first inspection, this book appears similar to Petr Skrabanek's The Death of Humane Medicine (1994). But Skrabanek's' critique, though often perceptive, was that of a cynical, detached libertarian,. Mocking his gullible medical colleagues and expressing a certain contempt for the general public, his approach was ultimately sterile. In contrast, Fitzpatrick's is a much more serious work. It is a major contribution to our ideas of health and disease at the begining of the 21st century, which deserves to be considered alongside contributions by writers such as Susan Sontag and John Berger .

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