Boy Toy

Boy Toy
Author: Barry Lyga
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547076347

In his follow-up to "The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl," Lyga delivers a disturbing, ripped-from-the-headlines novel about a seventh-grade boy who has a very adult relationship with his female teacher.

The Boy Toy

The Boy Toy
Author: Nicola Marsh
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059319862X

A woman ready to give up on love meets her match in a man she never expected to fall for in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh. For almost a decade, successful 37-year-old Samira Broderick has used her bustling LA practice as an excuse to avoid a trip home to Australia. She still resents her meddling Indian mother for arranging her marriage to a man who didn't stick around when the going got tough, but now with a new job Down Under, she's finally ready to reconnect with her. And while she's there, a hot international fling might be just what she needs to get out of her recent funk. Aussie stuntman, Rory Radcliffe, has been hiding his stutter for years by avoiding speaking roles. When a job he can't refuse comes up as a reality show host, he knows he'll need some help for the audition: a dialect coach. But he finds himself at a loss for words when he discovers it's the same sexy woman with whom he just had a mind-blowing one-night stand... Samira can think of many reasons why Rory is completely wrong for her: he's ten years her junior, for one, and he's not Indian--something Samira's mother would never approve of. Even if things were to get serious, there's no reason to tell her mother...is there?

The Boy Toy

The Boy Toy
Author: Nicola Marsh
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059319862X

A woman ready to give up on love meets her match in a man she never expected to fall for in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh. For almost a decade, successful 37-year-old Samira Broderick has used her bustling LA practice as an excuse to avoid a trip home to Australia. She still resents her meddling Indian mother for arranging her marriage to a man who didn't stick around when the going got tough, but now with a new job Down Under, she's finally ready to reconnect with her. And while she's there, a hot international fling might be just what she needs to get out of her recent funk. Aussie stuntman, Rory Radcliffe, has been hiding his stutter for years by avoiding speaking roles. When a job he can't refuse comes up as a reality show host, he knows he'll need some help for the audition: a dialect coach. But he finds himself at a loss for words when he discovers it's the same sexy woman with whom he just had a mind-blowing one-night stand... Samira can think of many reasons why Rory is completely wrong for her: he's ten years her junior, for one, and he's not Indian--something Samira's mother would never approve of. Even if things were to get serious, there's no reason to tell her mother...is there?

The Boy Toy

The Boy Toy
Author: Eugenia Riley
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426881355

Relationships are just too much work! That's what Allison Tracy thinks...but she's not about to give up the pleasures in life. So she's determined to find a boy toy--a good-time guy for some sensual fun with no strings attached. And sexy Pete Chisholm is the perfect partner for the adult games she has in mind. But what's she supposed to do when the fun starts to turn serious? Pete is only too happy to play a few sexy games with the gorgeous Allison. In fact, after just a few rounds of setting the sheets on fire, he's prepared to take their sensual fun to a whole new level. So he'll just have to convince her that he's one toy she can keep....

Boy Toy

Boy Toy
Author: Michael Craft
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480433942

DIVDIVJournalist Mark Manning’s Midwestern hometown closes ranks against him when his nephew is suspected of murder /divDIV For Mark Manning, running the local paper in his Wisconsin hometown is a refreshing change from his life as a hard-charging reporter for the Chicago Journal. Together with his partner, architect Neil Waite, he’s settling into scenic, sleepy Dumont, whose inhabitants have welcomed them into their fold./divDIV /divDIVUntil Manning’s nephew becomes the prime suspect in a murder case./divDIV /divDIVTeenagers Thad Quatrain and Jason Thrush alternated the lead role in the community theatre’s production of Teen Play. Now Jason lies dead in his bedroom, the victim of mushroom poisoning. Amid rumors that Thad threatened to kill Jason, the town begins to turn against him. As a sweltering summer draws to an end, a shocking revelation has tempers seething—and threatening to boil over./divDIV /divDIVA novel about sexual identity, desire, and the lies we tell ourselves, Boy Toy explores the secret passions that war within the human heart./divDIV /divDIVBoy Toy is the fifth book in Michael Craft’s Mark Manning series, which begins with Flight Dreams and Eye Contact./div/div

Dating the Younger Man

Dating the Younger Man
Author: Cyndi Targosz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2008-11-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1440515506

Remember back when women traded on their beauty and men traded on their wealth and power? Well, the times, they are a changin’. As women grow more successful and financially independent, they are abandoning their mothers’ “marry rich” mantra in favor of “it’s as easy to fall in love with a handsome man as an ugly one.” In this book, the sensational Cyndi Targosz teaches women of all ages the ins and outs of these lusty, and surprisingly long-lasting, affairs. Sprinkled with real-life stories of successful alliances, readers learn the truth about relationships with the sometimes younger, always sexier, hunky men women increasingly love to call their own.

Toy Medium

Toy Medium
Author: Daniel Tiffany
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2000-03-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780520923072

What begins with an unlikely collection of unrelated phenomena--mechanical dolls, weather, atoms, lyric poetry--blossoms in the course of Toy Medium into a subtle and persuasive meditation on one of Western philosophy's biggest puzzles: the relation of mind and matter. What is the role of the imagination in defining material substance? In a dazzling study of the poetics of materialist philosophy and of the materialism of lyric poetry, Daniel Tiffany traces the historical conjunction of matter and metaphor through a remarkable range of topics: automata in classical antiquity and the eighteenth century; Kepler's treatise on snowflakes; animal magnetism; fireworks and cloud-chamber photographs; the origins of the microscope as a philosophical toy and its bearing on the figure of the virtuoso. At critical junctures in modern Western culture, Tiffany finds uncanny parallels between the metaphorics of science and visions of material substance rooted in popular culture and lyric poetry. Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2000

The Trickster Shift

The Trickster Shift
Author: Allan J. Ryan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1999
Genre: Art criticism
ISBN: 9780295978161

The Trickster Shift not only presents some of the most stunningly original examples of contemporary Native art but also allows the artists to offer their own insights into the creative process and the nature of Native humour.

Toy Stories

Toy Stories
Author: Tanya Jones
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476629110

Toys--those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children's imaginative play--have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that guard sleeping babies to plastic soldiers and cowboys who lay siege to wooden block castles, toys are often the heroes of the stories children inspire authors to tell. In this collection of new essays, scholars from a great range of disciplines examine fictional toys as protectors of the children they love, as heroes of their own stories, and as champions for the greater good in the writings of A.A. Milne, Hans Christian Andersen, William Joyce, John Lasseter and many others.