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About This Gift Set Our romance gift set evokes both passion as well as the everyday acts of attentiveness that nourish a relationship, including a beautiful journal in which to express heartfelt words of appreciation, record date nights and/or jot down love notes; two delicious chocolate truffles; a little bottle of magic; plus 35 fun, sexy and practical (who doesn't like getting their car washed?) reusable love coupons. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Romance zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/5/2005
1. Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
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From Amazon.com: There is something about reading suggestive material that awakens the senses--too often ignored in the fray of modern life--and fires the imagination. Perhaps it brings us back to those breathless, palpitating moments from childhood when puberty was a rosy smudge on the horizon and sex was an abstract term. Aphrodite is a long, savory, enthralling ode to sensuality.
In this bawdy memoir-cum-cookbook, Allende has put together an apothecary of aphrodisiacs, from snake's blood and rhinoceros horn to the more commonplace and more palatable oysters, "those seductive tears of the sea, which lend themselves to slipping from mouth to mouth like a prolonged kiss ... can be purchased in bottles, but there they look like malignant tumors; in contrast, moist and turgid in their shells they suggest delicate vulvae--a prime example of food that appeals to the eye." Chapters such as "Alligators and Piranhas"; "Supreme Stimulus for Lechery"; "Bread, God's Grace"; "Forbidden Fruits"; and "The Saucy Way to Foreplay" offer categorical listings on the aphrodisiac qualities of meats, spices, fruits and vegetables, and alcohol. A few chapters into the book, one begins to wonder what foods aren't considered erotic: "the shape of the wheat head is considered phallic, which proves human imagination knows no limits." Wine (no surprise there) is recommended because "it lessens inhibitions, relaxes, and fosters joy, three fundamental requirements for good performance, not only in bed but at the piano as well." However, as in many situations, moderation is key: too much and you may find your guest asleep in the soup.
"If cookbooks make up part of your library," Allende notes, "books on eroticism should, too." And what more delightful combination of the two than Aphrodite, which provocatively underscores the relationship between sustenance and sexuality, and the aphrodisiac qualities of watching a man cook: "[Women] suppose that if he can remember how many minutes frog legs can tolerate in the skillet, how much greater reason he will have to remember how many tickles our G spot demands." Spiced with litanies of lust and longing from Anaďs Nin, Yeats, Pablo Neruda and Lady Onogoro, and enriched with Allende's warm humor and lusty joie de vivre, Aphrodite will tantalize your senses and engender lascivious grins. Recommended in delicious but moderate doses, this book is not for the faint of ... er, heart.
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From Amazon.com: If Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw cooked, and wrote a cookbook, this might be it. It's a sassy collection of recipes and menus for the occasions and stages of relationships (from flings to marriage), with dating advice, sex sidebars and a dash of etiquette-a primer on "caviar for newbies"; a key to the pronunciation of wines and international foods; suggestions for successful key exchange0thrown in for good measure. Malouf, co-host of Hot off the Grill with Bobby Flay and host of the WE network's Full Frontal Fashion, offers stories from her own dating life along with simple-chic recipes such as Funky Mimosas for the morning-after breakfast; Pan-Roasted Chicken with Rosemary-Lemon Butter, Blue Cheese Arugula Salad with Honeyed Walnuts, and Grilled Asparagus with Balsamic Vinaigrette for the first home-cooked meal; and Chicken Ramani, Cucumber Raita, and Minty Cuban Mojitos for keeping things "hot." Readers in any phase of a relationship--and especially readers in no relationship at all--will be entertained and informed by this volume and will enjoy its modern design and fun photographs by Ben Fink.
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From Amazon.com: Oysters Among Us follows the erotic and soulful adventures of a group of friends and family who live in Boulder and San Francisco, as they begin to answer the important questions of this millennium: Can you be too rich or have too much sex? Does it even count if it's only online sex? If you appear naked at the mall, is it always necessary to sing "Amazing Grace"? Are sex quests better than everyday vision quests? Is it better to dance with snakes, or to follow the instructions on a Mary Kay sign when making love? What happens when grandpa starts counting back through his lovers and recreating the Book of Love? Why isn't the Baseball Position described in the Kama Sutra? What do people actually bring to a Better Than Sex party? And in the end, when everyone has partied in the Blue Room until dancing naked in the rain seems an everyday activity, and has had enough sex to last at least through the weekend and has reached toward their dreams, does the "boom" on the final flight represent danger, or the erotic future in Rome?
An imaginative romp through real life and
dreams, with some of the hottest writing around that can make you laugh at the
same time it grabs for your libido, Susannah Indigo's
Oysters Among Us
is pure erotic entertainment, gracefully layered with profound truth and
exploration.
1. The Ultimate Collection [Universal 2000]
Original Release Date: 2000
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From Amazon.com: If the one-disc All-Time Greatest Hits leaves you panting for more, but the three-disc box set Just for You proves that one can, in fact, get enough of Barry White's love, well, then the two-disc Ultimate Collection is the anthology for you. An entire slow-jams industry has been erected in White's wake, but no one has done it better. Call it "funkzac"--an inimitable fusion of lush strings and suave brass dancing on a bed of funk and disco rhythms, with the manly maestro mixed prominently atop his seduction soundscapes. Ultimate Collection serves up enough cherry Barry to produce another baby boom.
2. Love Scenes
Original Release Date: 1997
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From Amazon.com: Like a mink draped over mahogany, Diana Krall's luxuriously supple alto adorns the vintage songs of romance and longing found on Love Scenes with a palpable aura of glamour and late-night cool. Her ostensibly effortless command of phrasing and intonation, whether the mood is seduction or a sweet sassiness, further fortifies the opinion that the Canadian vocalist-pianist possesses one of the great female jazz voices to surface in the late 1990s. Augmented by spare but skillful instrumentation from bassist Christian McBride and guitarist Russell Malone, Krall sustains a largely quiet (though hardly sleepy) ambience throughout the CD's 12 selections, from Irving Berlin's "How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky)," which she also uses as a showcase for her touch at the keyboard, to Gershwin's "They Can't Take That Away from Me." Her swing is artfully subdued ("All or Nothing at All"), and her wry, expressive approach to "Peel Me a Grape" is pure charm. Yet Krall shines most luminously on languid gems such as "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" and "Garden in the Rain." Anyone in search of an album ideal for watching city lights at 2 a.m. should keep Love Scenes in mind.
3. It's Time
Original Release Date: 2005
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From Amazon.com: Michael Bublé's
assured
debut and the tireless year of globe-trotting
touring he spent promoting it elevated the 20-something Vancouver native into
the first rank of pop crooner revivalists. His sophomore studio follow-up
largely turns on the same formula that helped make his considerable vocal
prowess so attractive to mainstream audiences, mixing the nigh flawless, if
expected Sinatra-channeling ("I've Got You Under My Skin") with more playful
and inviting renditions of pop standards like the Gershwin's "A Foggy Day in
London Town," "Feeling Good," "Try A Little Tenderness" and Cole Porter's
"I've Got You Under My Skin." But it's the eclectic mix of more contemporary
material the singer seasons them with--apt tribute to Bublé hero Bobby
Darin--that keeps him walking the narrow tightrope between artistic intrigue
(a blues-tinged vamp of Holland-Dozier-Holland's "How Sweet It Is," Leon
Russell's lovely "Song For You," with a guest turn by Chris Botti) and the
kitsch-laden abyss ("Quando, Quando, Quando"'s Euro-centric duet with Nelly
Furtado, a ring-a-ding-fling with the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" that echoes
fellow Canadian crooner/rival Matt Dusk's more successful flirtation with
Lennon-McCartney).
(1995) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
What sounds like the high-concept
romantic comedy pitch from hell--widower president falls for smart lobbyist
while the world watches--is actually intelligent, charming, touching, and
quite funny. Granted, it's wish fulfillment all the way (when was the last
time you saw a president who was truly presidential?), but in the capable
hands of writer Aaron Sorkin (The
West Wing) and director Rob Reiner,
(1993) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this
contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes
Babette's Feast and
Big Night. Director Alfonso Arau (A
Walk in the Clouds), adapting a novel by his former wife, Laura
Esquivel, tells the story of a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) who learns to
suppress her passions under the eye of a stern mother, but channels them into
her cooking. The result is a steady stream of cuisine so delicious as to be an
almost erotic experience for those lucky enough to have a bite. The film's
quotient of magic realism feels a little stock, but the story line is good and
Arau's affinity for the sensuality of food (and of nature) is sublime. You
might want to rush off to a good Mexican restaurant afterward, but that's a
good thing.
3.
Shall We Dance? (Full Screen Edition)
(2004) ~ DVD
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Something got lost in translation
from 1996's critically acclaimed
Japanese comedy, but the American remake of
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