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Pink Tanks & Velvet Hangovers Pink Tanks and Velvet Hangovers: An American in Prague, by Douglas Lytle, is a travel book that takes place in the months following the fall of the repressive Socialist government in Czechoslovakia. From the vantage point of an American journalist who went to Prague with his Czech girlfriend, Lytle documents the first shaky steps to democracy and capitalism, including the 1992 division of the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He writes of the awkwardness and slights of a country in transition, the sights, smells, and incredible beauty he witnesses, and of a people and a government on the cusp of massive change.

Erotic New York: The Best Sex in The City Erotic New York: The Best Sex in the City includes nearly 200 entertaining, sexually frank, no holds (or holes) barred reviews of the most erotic places to visit in the city that never sleeps.

Compiled by a team of 69 sexperts, this revised and expanded second edition is your ticket to unbridled sexual adventure.

Inside, you'll find delectable, in-depth descriptions of the Big Apple's: naughtiest adult toy stores, hottest erotic parties, most titillating topless bars, sexiest pickup joints and nightclubs, juiciest lesbian night spots, bawdiest gay baths, most outrageous boutiques for lingerie and fetishwear, wildest S&M clubs and dungeons, best XXX video and book stores, and much, much more!!

The Hangover Survival Guide ~ Key West + Pounding Headache? + Upset Stomach? +Feel like gouging your head out with a vegetable peeler? NEVER SUFFER A HANGOVER AGAIN? Millions of boozehounds across America suffer these hangover symptoms every morning, causing poor performance, needless suffering and countless lame excuses for refusing to get out of bed. You don't have to suffer. Key West tops the of America's drinking towns with our first hangover dating back to the 18th Century. That's more than 300 years of hangover cures conconcted, tested and perfected by such Key West greats as Tennessee Williams, President Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Buffett and even Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. The Key West Hangover Survival Guide is the first-ever collection of Southernmost hangover Knoledge. From tried and true cures to bizarre concoctions that could only come from Key West, this book has it all... + Hangover cures from Key West bartenders + History of the hangover + Celebrity hangover quotes + Local advice from first drink to last call + Key West hangover quiz + The truth about Oreos + and much much more.

HAIR OF THE DOG: Hangover Remedies from San Francisco Bars San Francisco bartenders offer helpful, amusing remedies for nagging hangovers. A map of bar locations and whimsical illustrations of cocktail slurping dogs add to this book's intoxication and allure.

In this innovative approach to modernist British and American women’s literature, essayists focus on Hayford Hall, a remote country estate in Devonshire, England, rented by Peggy Guggenheim and inhabited by a coterie of literary friends in the summers of 1932 and 1933. As a critical treatment of the living and writing that unfolded at the estate, Hayford Hall: Hangovers, Erotics, and Modernist Aesthetics asserts that female modernists who gathered there integrated public art with their private lives, thus making their personal writing works of experimental aesthetics.

Central to the literary discussions, the drinking, and the erotic play that filled the evenings at Hayford Hall were John Holms, Guggenheim’s British lover; Djuna Barnes, who wrote her masterpiece Nightwood at the estate; Antonia White, British author best known for her convent novel Frost in May; and Emily Coleman, whose novel The Shutter of Snow was based on her own experiences of madness and institutionalization.

Drawing on archival materials to bring crucial sources to a wider audience, the essays, contributed by scholars from Britain, Germany, Canada, and the United States, each add a different perspective on the writers and suggest that a specifically female kind of lived modernism started to emerge at Hayford Hall. They argue that the writers challenged the sexual, textual, and spiritual mores of the day, both in life and on the page.

Down in Bristol Bay: High Tides, Hangovers, and Harrowing Experiences on Alaska's Last Frontier "The frontier," writes Bob Durr, "has always been a peculiarly American obsession. In the early days it meant the possibility of a new start: if you were down on your luck ... you could head west into the unknown. But it was more than that, too...." The very existence of a frontier meant that there was a way out, an escape from the confines and corruption of civilized life.

In 1963 at age 43, Durr decided to face his own obsession: a lifelong yearning for an existence "reduced to elementals" and a profound distaste for the comfortable life. He began an adventure that ultimately led him to abandon his tenured professorship at Syracuse University and move his family to southcentral Alaska, America's last frontier. Down in Bristol Bay chronicles Durr's transformation from academic to frontiersman. Between 1964 and 1968, Durr left his family each spring and headed for Bristol Bay, Alaska, to establish himself as a commercial salmon fisherman--the best way "to earn a living consistent with my overriding wish to live in the woods"--no minor feat for a man with no training or experience in his new trade. But he soon found out that his survival in Bristol Bay was equally a matter of being accepted into the hard-drinking, sometimes dangerous, always outrageous clan of Lower-48 transplants and Alaska natives known around the Bay as D Inn Crowd.

Durr has written an unapologetic, rollicking, late-life coming-of-age story full of boozy revelations, adventure, and narrowly-averted disasters (how to catch many fish and not sink the boat while knocking back staggering quantities of Jim Beam). Thankfully, his story isn't the usual fortysomething fling with the rough life. After all these years, Durr still lives in Alaska, in a log cabin he built by himself. --Svenja SoldovieriDr. Robert Allen Durr, literary scholar and award-winning author, one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world, former confidant to legendary writer H. L. Mencken, was the youngest person to be named full professor at Syracuse University. Then he gave it all up and went searching for paradise. He found it in Alaska.

Dissatisfied with academia, the world of words and nervous egos, and convinced that truth, beauty, and goodness could still be found in the wild, Bob Durr set about taking the first step to get there--moving himself and his family to the last frontier, a remote region of Alaska. In 1964 he bought a boat and journeyed to Bristol Bay in hopes of becoming a commercial salmon fisherman and earning a living.

He became the friend and partner of a wild man named Gene Pope, in whom he saw "alive and in person, the real thing: the authentic frontiersman." The wilderness had now assumed a human shape. And with Pope, Durr entered a world of adventure and a new dimension of mind in his effort to "prove up" as a fisherman and an Alaskan.

Down in Bristol Bay catapults the reader into this last frontier and onto a sea of storms and dangers, madcap bars and drinking parties, amid the camaraderie of some rugged Alaskans, mostly native fishermen, known as D Inn Crowd. It chronicles a hard life, but not without songs and ballads, misadventures and follies, occasionally of burlesque proportions, on land as well as at sea.

Combining elements of Jon Krakaur's Into the Wild, Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, and even Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bob Durr's Down in Bristol Bay is a powerful and raucous memoir of a man who abandoned the safe world of academia for the Alaskan wilderness to find his own kind of primal sanity.

Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women In Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life, the first book on recovery specifically for women, Jean Kirkpatrick tells how she achieved sobriety. She explains the special problems of the woman alcoholic, and challenges some of the premises of Alcoholics Anonymous, an organization founded by and for men that she believes fails to address the specific needs of women. Instead of harping on past problems and behavior, the Women For Sobriety program focuses on the future, showing women how to build up their emotional strength, self-esteem, and positive approach to life essential to recovery.

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