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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Curious Intimacies by Anne Douglas Curious Intimacies by Anne Douglas Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Curious Intimacies by Anne Douglas Curious Intimacies by Anne Douglas. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:27:04 +0000. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:13:37 +0000. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:31:57 +0000. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:43:36 +0000. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:53:12 +0000. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:04:43 +0000. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:37:35 +0000. Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:20:40 +0000. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:17:39 +0000. And she says with great zeal: I WILL be productive this year! Feel free to publicly flay me if by March there isn’t a new SOLD post on this blog. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:48:07 +0000. http://annedouglas.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/interview-tidbits/ Come over to Lynn Crain’s blog to find out more about me, and about His Intimate Submission. The first review for HIS from BookBinge: “Douglas is very effective at building the foundation of mutual respect and desire between Lucy and Jason. It’s clear in how carefully Lucy researches the lifestyle that she really cares about Jason and wants the experience to be fulfilling for him.” “…the story features very hot sexual encounters between a couple who are both likeable and clearly seem to care deeply for each other” And from @girrlitsbooks on twitter : ‘Loved it! Want another story with them! ‘ & ‘loved the characters and the learning IYKWIM’ & ‘It worked for this reader’ And Bookbinge on Curious Intimacies: ‘Anne Douglas has a strong imagination, and while this novella is only 44 pages, it’s well written. Douglas does a nice job of giving the reader enough information about Shane’s friendship with Jason, as well as laying the foundation of Lucy and Jason’s relationship, so that the encounter is plausible.’ Kirk Douglas leaves most of his $80 million fortune to charity. Anne Douglas, widow of late actor Kirk Douglas, dead at 102. Michael Douglas pays tribute to father Kirk on anniversary of his death. Kirk Douglas' widow celebrates 101st birthday with car procession. Catherine Zeta-Jones introduces new puppy following Kirk Douglas' death. Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas was always a pretty charitable guy — and that didn’t end with his death earlier this month. The silver-screen icon, who died Feb. 5 at the age of 103, left the bulk of his $80 million estate to the Douglas Foundation, the charity he co- founded nearly six decades ago, it was revealed Sunday. The nonprofit benefits the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, The Kirk and Anne Douglas Childhood Center and a St. Lawrence University scholarship for underprivileged students. The Douglas Foundation, created in 1964 by Douglas and his wife Anne Beydens Douglas, also doles out dollars to Westwood’s Sinai Temple and Culver City’s Kirk Douglas Theater, a restored venue. Anne Douglas, who was married to the acting legend for 65 years, still serves as the nonprofit’s managing trustee. “The Douglas Foundation’s principal goal is to help those who cannot otherwise help themselves,” the group’s website says. “Its primary focus is improving education and health, fostering the well-being, and most importantly developing new opportunities for the child who hold our future in their hands.” Douglas is known for classic films like “Spartacus,” “Lust for Life” and “Ace in the Hole” — and as the father of famed actor Michael Douglas. In addition to Anne, he is survived by Joel Douglas, the couple’s son, and Peter and Michael, his sons from his first marriage. Joel is a film producer and Peter is a television producer. A fourth son, Eric, died of an accidental overdose in Manhattan in 2004. Michael doesn’t stand to inherit any dough — not that he would need it. The “Wall Street” star is worth about $300 million in his own right. see also. The long and illustrious life of Kirk Douglas. Michael — along with his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones — praised his father’s loving and charitable ways when he announced his death this month. “Kirk’s life was well-lived, and he leaves a legacy in film that will endure for generations to come and a history as a renowned philanthropist who worked to aid the public and bring peace to the planet,” Michael Douglas said in a statement at the time. “But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter, he was simply Dad,” the younger Douglas said. “To Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great-grandchild their living grandfather, and to his wife, Anne, a wonderful husband.” He called his late father “a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.” Kirk Douglas was born in Amsterdam to Jewish immigrant parents from present-day Belarus. His acting career in the US spanned seven decades. 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