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Product Description: In a provocative memoir, the bestselling French novelist and iconic editor of French Elle describes her years of self-imposed celibacy—why she did it and how it changed her perspective: “A searching investigation into the power of no…a sophisticated bagatelle of a volume” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)...read more

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9781451696271 | Scribner, August 13, 2013, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Sophie Fontanel, bestselling novelist and iconic editor of French Elle, tells the provocative story of her decision to stop having sex—a choice that profoundly changed her view of herself and her place in the world.

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9781451696288 | Italian edition edition (Scribner, August 5, 2014), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In a provocative memoir, the bestselling French novelist and iconic editor of French Elle describes her years of self-imposed celibacy—why she did it and how it changed her perspective: “A searching investigation into the power of no…a sophisticated bagatelle of a volume” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times).

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By Lauri S. Scherer (editor)

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9780737756876 | Greenhaven Pr, April 20, 2012, cover price $42.00

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Shares strategies for fixing or breaking free from dysfunctional dating cycles, in a thirty-day program for singles and couples that recommends a period of sexual abstinence while explaining how to reset relationship expectations and rejuvenate intimacy.

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9780061136078 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Shares strategies for fixing or breaking free from dysfunctional dating cycles, in a thirty-day program for singles and couples that recommends a period of sexual abstinence while explaining how to reset relationship expectations and rejuvenate intimacy.

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Product Description: With the same saucy, tell-it-like-it-is appeal of He's Just Not That Into You, sex author Kate Taylor explains reasons to keep your clothes on in laugh-out-loud detail: how Oxytocin — the Fatal Attraction hormone — can make women up to ten times more emotionally attached after sex than men; why men never expect to get lucky on the third date, or any date; that relationships are more fun, easier and longer-lasting when you keep your feet on the ground instead of hooking them round his neck...read more

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9781600940620, titled "Not Tonight, Mr. Right: The Best (Don't Get) Laid Plans for Finding and Marrying the Man of Your Dreams" | Da Capo Pr, September 20, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: With the same saucy, tell-it-like-it-is appeal of He's Just Not That Into You, sex author Kate Taylor explains reasons to keep your clothes on in laugh-out-loud detail: how Oxytocin — the Fatal Attraction hormone — can make women up to ten times more emotionally attached after sex than men; why men never expect to get lucky on the third date, or any date; that relationships are more fun, easier and longer-lasting when you keep your feet on the ground instead of hooking them round his neck.

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Product Description: Providing a road map for parents to influence and empower teens to choose abstinence, this guide shows parents how to talk confidently about the benefits of abstaining from premarital sex. Tips are included on how parents, mentors, and educators can begin a continuing discussion on the reality of sex, from explaining the emotional and physical risks of sexual activity to ideas for helping teens to recognize the difference between infatuation and true love...read more

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9780972489065 | Choosing the Best Pub, September 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Providing a road map for parents to influence and empower teens to choose abstinence, this guide shows parents how to talk confidently about the benefits of abstaining from premarital sex.

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Product Description: When you think of a book on chastity, phrases like "page turner," "inspiring testimonial," and "engaging witness" ordinarily don’t come to mind. Then again, Mary-Louise Kurey is not your ordinary chastity speaker and author. This free-spirited virgin is probably not what one imagines in remembering "the talk": a grandmotherly woman preaching how sex outside marriage is dirty...read more

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9781931709033 | Our Sunday Visitor, February 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When you think of a book on chastity, phrases like "page turner," "inspiring testimonial," and "engaging witness" ordinarily don’t come to mind.

By Sandra Bell (editor) and Elisa Janine Sobo (editor)

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9780299171605 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $55.00

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9780299171643 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

Defines the practice of sexual abstinence, describes some of its advantages and difficulties, and provides advice on remaining abstinent under various circumstances. (view table of contents)

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9780736888424 | Lifematters, August 1, 2000, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: Defines the practice of sexual abstinence, describes some of its advantages and difficulties, and provides advice on remaining abstinent under various circumstances.
9780736807135 | Lifematters, August 1, 2000, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Defines the practice of sexual abstinence, describes some of its advantages and difficulties, and provides advice on remaining abstinent under various circumstances.

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Tells when and how to tell children about sex, and covers modesty, individual rights, reproduction, puberty, sexual standards, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, dating, and marriage (view table of contents)

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9781620455647, titled "Big Talk: Talking to Your Child About Sex and Dating" | Turner Pub Co, September 7, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A very accessible, step-by-step guide that provides simple yet meaningful ways to discuss this crucial subject.

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9780471195863 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tells when and how to tell children about sex, and covers modesty, individual rights, reproduction, puberty, sexual standards, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, dating, and marriage
9781620457092, titled "Big Talk: Talking to Your Child About Sex and Dating" | Turner Pub Co, September 7, 1998, cover price $14.95

Discusses the ways society misuses human sexuality and the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy, and makes the case for abstinence

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9780842317306 | Tyndale House Pub, August 1, 1995, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Discusses the ways society misuses human sexuality and the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy, and makes the case for abstinence

Looks at the modern celibacy movement, discusses celibacy in marriage, and considers the public reaction to the sexual revolution and AIDS

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9780070084391 | Revised edition (McGraw-Hill, February 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Looks at the modern celibacy movement, discusses celibacy in marriage, and considers the public reaction to the sexual revolution and AIDS

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