18 books like My Secret Garden

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl · 1964 · ★ 4.2 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later. In… Shares: Fantasy

The BFG Roald Dahl · 1980 · ★ 4.2 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book is a great book for all ages. It is a fantasy/adventure book.The BFG stands for 'Big Friendly Giant'. He isn't like other giants, instead of going out to different countries to eat children he catches dreams. When he find's a little orphan girl watching him, he kidnaps her because he doesn't want anyone to find out that he was there, but when they arrive at giant's land they become… Shares: Fantasy

Matilda Roald Dahl · 1988 · ★ 4.3 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. Shares: Community pick

The covenant Beverly Lewis · 2002 · ★ 4.2 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Secrets threaten the serenity of their cloistered world. Following such bestsellers as The Shunning and The Postcard, Beverly Lewis's explosive new novel, The Covenant, unveils the layers of deeply rooted Amish tradition as seen through the eyes of Leah and Sadie Ebersol, two courting-age sisters. At the close of World War II, the heart and soul of Gobbler's Knob offers everything young Leah… Shares: Sexualité, Femmes, Sexual Behavior, Women

The Vagina Monologues V (formerly Eve Ensler) · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred women. I talked to old women, young women, married women, single women, lesbians, college professors, actors, corporate… Shares: Sexualité, Femmes, Sexual Behavior, Women

A Spy in the House of Love Anaïs Nin · 1954 · ★ 3.7 · 133p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a… Shares: Erotica, Sexual Behavior, Women, Psychology

The chill Ross Macdonald · 1963 · ★ 3.6 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate L'auteure évoque quelques caractéristiques de la femme, selon une approche qui relève davantage de la psychologie. Principaux points: le désir féminin, les rôles dans l'amour, les priorités de l'amour, connaître les principaux traits de sa personnalité, l'amour et la beauté, ce que femme veut: l'amour; la résistance féminine. Shares: Femmes, Sexual Behavior, Women, Psychology

Psychopathia sexualis Richard von Krafft-Ebing · 1886 · ★ 3.9 · 617p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Deviant sex behavior with special emphasis on the medico/legal aspects. A study for physicians and lawyers. 16th and 17th completely revised edition. Shares: Sexual Behavior, Sex, Psychology

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie Sigmund Freud · 1905 · ★ 3.6 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus complex was part of Freudian theory from the very beginning. However, in this first edition of Three Essays on Sexuality, first published in 1905 and never before translated into English, we find no reference whatsoever to the Oedipus complex. Is there a Freudian psychoanalysis that is not… Shares: Sexual Behavior, Sex, Psychology

Our bodies, ourselves Boston Women's Health Book Collective · 1971 · ★ 4.4 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Discusses the many roles of women and the choices open to them. Includes detailed treatment of feminine hygiene. Shares: Femmes, Popular works, Women, Psychology

Sexuality (Key Ideas) Jeffrey Weeks · 1986 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Sexuality is the fifth revised and updated edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality. This new edition brings the arguments and evidence fully up to date and explores their implication for many topical controversies, around LGBTQ+ rights, the trans experience and gender fluidity, same-sex marriage, sexual autonomy and consent, and the meanings of sexual choice.Since it was… Shares: Sexual Behavior, Sex, Psychology

Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit Iwan Bloch · 1907 · 809p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Frühes Werk der Sexualwissenschaft, noch vor Magnus Hirschfeld. 1907 erschien Iwan Blochs »Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit«, mit mehreren Nachauflagen in rascher Folge. In dem Buch behandelt Bloch auf 840 Seiten alle Aspekte der Sexualität aus damaliger Sicht. Unter dem Begriff »psychische Hermaphroditen« beschreibt Bloch auch 2 Fälle von trans Personen (die man damals eben noch nicht einordnen… Shares: Sexual Behavior, Sex, Women, Psychology

Geschlecht und Charakter Otto Weininger · 1903 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Bei Jahrhunderten der Literatur ist es unvermeidlich, dass einige durch das Raster fallen. Wir jagen gemeinfreie Werke und restaurieren sie, damit sie der Welt nicht verloren gehen. Wer sind wir? Wir sind Cairn Press. Unser Hintergrund liegt in Design, Verlagswesen, Typografie und Technologie. Diese Fähigkeiten treiben unsere Mission voran, öffentlich zugängliche eBooks von höchster Qualität zu… Shares: Sexual Behavior, Sex, Women, Psychology

Understanding human sexuality Janet Shibley Hyde · 1979 · 710p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Since its conception, Understanding Human Sexuality has achieved distinction and success by following the science of human sexuality. The first of the modern sexuality textbooks, Understanding Human Sexuality introduced this topic to students through the science that has uncovered what we know about the field. Groundbreaking when it first appeared, this research-based tradition continues to… Shares: Sexual Behavior, Sex, Psychology

Women Who Run with the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 1982 · ★ 4.1 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own… Shares: Femmes, Women, Psychology

My Mother/My self Nancy Friday · 1977 · ★ 3.7 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Moderate My Mother/My Self examines the first, most lasting--and most crucial--time of every woman's life, and shows how, in all the passages of a woman's life--with men, with other women, on the job, and with her own daughters--every woman can begin to change the childhood patterns of the mother/daughter bond, and become the vital, independent, fully sexual woman she wants to be. Shares: Sex, Women, Psychology

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Anne Rice · 1983 · ★ 3.5 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. In the first book of the trilogy, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken… Shares: Erotica, Sexual Behavior

Living With It Bev Aisbett · 1995 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The classic guide for panic attack sufferers - now fully revised and updated. Panic attacks - approximately 5% of the population will experience them at some time or another. The dread of having an attack - they seemingly come out of nowhere - transforms the ordinary world of everyday life into a nightmare of anxiety and suffering. Bestselling author Bev Aisbett, a survivor of Panic Syndrome… Shares: Popular works, Psychology

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