title: Sex, Love, and Spirit: A Memoir
author:  Alexia LaFortune 
description: "There are no maps or guidebooks," Alexia LaFortune writes as she begins the "tales of womanhood" that drive this memoir's journey into the feminine. Yet she maps the landmarks of her inner geography like a seasoned navigator. The trek is personal, spiritual, universal, and utterly human. At once self-assured and self-conscious, LaFortune traverses the highlands, flatlands, and wetlands of love, heartache, insecurity, and faith, ultimately proving there is no better life-guide than the wisdom of experience. More than a map, this book is a beautiful selfless offering from mother to daughter. Baring heart and soul, exposing her innermost secrets, LaFortune imparts the greatest gift of all-the gift of knowing that every mother's and daughter's journey is a shared one. - Carmella Padilla, author of The Work of Art: Folk Artists in the 21st Century and El Rancho de las Golondrinas: Living History in New Mexico's La Cienega Valley. How Susan Doherty became Alexia LaFortune is a beautifully written memoir that will make you grateful to be a woman and more open to the possibilities that magic exists our everyday lives. Written as a love letter to her daughter, it's the kind of book you wish you'd had been given along with your Girl Scout manual and Emily Post. --Patricia Morrisroe, author of 9 1/2 Narrow: My Life in Shoes READ THIS BOOK, to remember your own youthful romances. Read this book to watch a woman carve her chosen path, and to witness the gift of story-in all its elegant and naked beauty-laid at her daughters feet. Women, read this book and see yourself. -Lisa Dale Norton, author: Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills (Picador/St. Martin's Press) Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing a Memoir (Griffin/St. Martin's Press) "I couldn't put this book down. It dug in deep, and wouldn't let go. It's a stunning read. A love letter from mother to a daughter, and truthfully, it's for all daughters, all our daughters. It's filled with messy, gorgeous, heartbreaking and heart-cracking truth. The thing about great writing, bold writing is this: it stays with you. Hounds you. Haunts you. Awakens you. Lingers with you. Alexia LaFortune is a great writer. This is a great book. I couldn't put it down, and I didn't want this book to end." --Amy Ferris, author, Marrying George Clooney, Confessions from a Midlife Crisis "What if you weren't a movie star, but you had a pretty rollicking life? And what if you were willing, for the sake of your soul and that of your daughter's, to spill the raw truth of your life, part secret and part sacred? This memoir of Alexia LaFortune's is that book. Sex, Love, and Spirit brings a life forged in the wild Sixties and Seventies to Baby Boomers of all ages. It's a good read, a reunion with self, and doesn't let us down. --Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate Emerita "This is a necessary book, an important book, and except for the fact that it is memoir it is reminiscent of the "new feminist literature" that was fictionalized by the likes of Marilyn French, Marge Piercy and Rita Mae Brown back in the day. This one is for all the boomer-girls who loved the bad boys and the wounded birds and especially for the ones who have daughters to warn. If you lived-really lived-through the last half of this century, you will relate to this memoir with the deepest nostalgia. If you were in a convent or under a rock somewhere, you will see what you missed out on." --Corie Skolnick, author, ORFAN and America's Most Eligible
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  The Earl’s Desire
  (The Rogue Series: Book One)
  Alexia Praks
   
  SMASHWORDS EDITION
   
  *****
   
  Smashwords Edition License Notes
   
  PRACHAN PRESS
  The Earl’s Desire
  (The Rogue Series: Book 1)
  Alexia Praks
  Copyright © 2014 by Alexia Praks
  All Rights Reserved
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