Close to Home
Kelly Rolen is a CPA--she's smart, she's focused, and she's worked hard to build an orderly career and a respectable life in her hometown of Darlington, Illinois. Everything is precisely as it should be. Well, it is until her father suffers a debilitating stroke during the busiest time of her year--tax season. Suddenly, Kelly finds herself overworked, exhausted, behind schedule, and forced to hire an intern to meet her deadlines. Elliot Garza is young and brash, but she's also a talented accounting student who is charismatic, driven, and solely focused on completing her internship so she can escape from the bleak Midwestern town to Washington, DC and her dream job. She knows she has the professional skills necessary to do the job well, but she is less certain about her ability to handle her beautiful, prickly, demanding, and compelling new boss. In this fresh new romance from one of the genre's top young authors, will Kelly's past and Elliot's future add up to something greater than the sum of their escalating attraction, or will the answer to their equation end up hitting too close to home?
Goodbye Barbary Lane
"These final days of his San Francisco friends and lovers, gay and straight, are seriously moving. . . . Maupin deftly illustrates how far America and the pioneering Anna have come, and nearly forty years into the series, his writing remains wildly addictive but is deeper and richer."--PeopleBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels--books 7, 8 and 9 collected in this third omnibus volume--stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.Maupin's bestselling epic series spans the decade before the AIDS crisis through the era of marriage equality, and follows an unforgettable cast of characters whose diverse sexual identities helped set the social stage for the ongoing sexual revolution.Goodbye Barbary Lane--comprised of Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, and The Days of Anna Madrigal--joins two companion omnibus volumes, 28 Barbary Lane and Back to Barbary Lane, and is a must-have for fans of Maupin and the beloved series.
Back to Barbary Lane
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels--the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume--stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium."Tearing through [the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification; it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run."-- Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary Supplement Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium. The nine classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.Back to Barbary Lane comprises the second omnibus of the series--Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989)--continuing the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-too-human cast across the eighties--a decade troubled by plague, deceit, and overweening ambition.Like its companion volumes, 28 Barbary Lane and Goodbye, Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane is distinguished by what The Guardian of London has called "some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read."
28 Barbary Lane
Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume--have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium."These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader starts playing the old childhood game of 'Just one more chapter and I'll turn out the lights, ' only to look up and discover it's after midnight."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980), and Further Tales of the City (1982) afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
Walk-in
Being rich makes coming back from the dead so much easier.Dallas socialite Jennifer Strickland narrowly survives a harrowing car accident and returns to a home she doesn't remember, friends she doesn't recognize, and a husband she doesn't like. Dreams of a mysterious raven-haired beauty send her to a psychiatrist who discovers Jennifer's experience was nearer to death than she imagined. Notorious gay rights activist Dr. Cotton Claymore was beaten and left for dead in an alleyway. Her body didn't survive the trauma, but her spirit did--in the body of Jennifer Strickland. Living as Jennifer, Cotton has to convince the two most important people in her life that she is back and find the person who murdered her--before they do it again.
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At Danceteria and Other Stories
In these immaculately crafted stories inspired by the 1980s, Philip Dean Walker spotlights a cast of celebrities and historical figures in situations unsettling as Day-Glo and poignant as roses while the specter of AIDS looms. "This highly original meditation on the '80s is like nothing else you've read. Dead celebrities are brought back to life in the oddest places: Jackie O in a New York sex club, Princess Di in a London drag bar, Rock Hudson at the White House. Plus Sylvester, Halston and Liza, Keith Haring, Madonna, and, best of all, an anonymous narrator who notices that only good-looking guys in New York are getting the new gay cancer. Odd conjunctions, great wit, and the shadow of AIDS make these stories deceptively light and strangely disturbing." --Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance "In his debut collection At Danceteria and Other Stories, Philip Dean Walker writes with a kind of savage nostalgia, one that knows the past was not prettier or glitzier or more fabulous--only more terrifying. Set in the early 1980s, when the word 'queer' was still an insult and when doctors and nurses invented their own names for the mysterious disease killing beautiful young men, At Danceteria and Other Stories brutally exposes how what we don't know about ourselves can kill us. Walker's writing is vivid, electric and devastating." --Stephanie Grant, author of The Passion of Alice "These stories--so funny and inventive, so merciless, smart, and affecting--are like no others I know, populated with American celebutantes, like Liza Minnelli, Jackie Kennedy, and Little Edie Beale, and punctuated by an abiding American loneliness that has the power to break one's heart. Walker's stories are fully, fully alive." --Richard McCann, author of Mother of Sorrows "At a time when many young gay writers are forgetting their queer lineage, Philip Dean Walker comes along and schools us with his debut short story collection. Here is Halston, Liza, and Warhol at Studio 54; here is a drag queen who rivals Josephine Baker's star appeal; and here is, in Walker's words, the boy who lived next to the boys next door, dead during the early plague years, but resurrected through Walker's alluring prose, prose that renders the past our present. These stories are clever and do not apologize for their cleverness, like Rock Hudson, who explains here, 'Handsome men know they're handsome. There was no reason to be coy or overly modest about it--that kind of thing just reeked of phoniness to him.' Phony, these stories are not. From the Castro to Grey Gardens, I travelled gleefully alongside Walker in At Danceteria and Other Stories, and am only disappointed the journey had to end." --D. Gilson, author of I Will Say This Exactly One Time: Essays "Reading Philip Dean Walker is like being swept into the defiantly glittering rooms of tragedy-darkened souls. Walker's At Danceteria and Other Stories testifies to the tart-tongued power of language to resurrect and witness, in tales that are screamingly funny and hauntingly sad. His men and women radiate an alluring self-awareness and fallibility that touches our deepest places." --Elise Levine, author of Driving Men Mad
Bury Me When I'm Dead
Charlene "Charlie" Mack is a PI in Detroit. Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlie has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition. Her team of investigators are highly skilled and trustworthy, but she secretly struggles with her sexual orientation and a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. When Charlie and her crack team head to Birmingham, Alabama following the trail of a missing person, what should be a routine case turns into a complex chase for answers. Shady locals and a southern patriarch with dark secrets dating back forty years obscure their path. It seems like everyone has something to hide, including Charlie. When the case turns deadly with a double murder, and Charlie is attacked on a quiet neighborhood street, everything suddenly becomes personal. Who can Charlie trust, and will she ever solve the riddles of the Magic City?A Detroit native, Cheryl A. Head now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where she navigated a successful career as a writer, television producer, filmmaker, broadcast executive, and media funder. Her debut novel, Long Way Home: A World War II Novel, was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist in both the African American Literature and Historical Fiction categories. When not writing fiction, she's a passionate blogger and user of Twitter, and she regularly consults on a wide range of diversity issues.
He/She Smells a Hoo-Hoo
While lounging in her pool, He/She the Elegant suddenly finds herself assaulted by a vicious smell, wafting over the walls of her bungalow chateau. Unable to bear the rancid reek contaminating her afternoon, she bundles up her two snide pekepoos and ventures out into the city on a mission to find the source of the smell. What follows is an epic quest - in a bustier, heels and a bombshell bouffant - where our girl bravely faces the deadly sins of Wrath, Lust, Gluttony and worst of all, Broken Nails.
Gay Zone
The Gay Zone is three short stories about three people in the future. The first story is Death Maze. It's about a young man that was locked up because his parents passed away and he has no where to go. So he and others have to take part in the Death Maze. There are hundreds of ways he and others could be killed in the Death Maze, but if your able to make it out alive then you get to live. The next story is I Will Always Love You. A story about a couple that gives birth to a baby, but there is something wrong with the baby. Something that will end up killing the baby within minutes or hours. So they have to give their baby up. This story deals with the heartache of what they have to go throw until the last moments. The last story is The Gift. Deals with a young adult that travels to get a gift that will change her life. The gift starts a journey for the young woman to find the truth about her world and the past. Also maybe will change the world.
Amour sauvage
Depuis trois ans, Johan a choisi une vie d'autarcie, en harmonie avec la nature, loin du tumulte des villes. ? des kilom癡tres de l?, Aaron, fils d'un puissant magnat, vit reclus dans le luxe d'un appartement au sommet d'une tour, prot矇g矇 du monde ext矇rieur par sa sant矇 fragile. Tout semble les opposer, et pourtant, le destin a d矇cid矇 de croiser leurs chemins. Que se passera-t-il lorsque ces deux univers se rencontreront ?
Women Lovers, or the Third Woman
This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle 矇poque Paris. In this barely disguised roman ? clef, the legendary American heiress, writer, and arts patron Natalie Clifford Barney, the dashing Italian baroness Mimi Franchetti, and the beautiful French courtesan Liane de Pougy share erotic liaisons that break all taboos and end in devastation as one unexpectedly becomes the "third woman." Never before published in English, and only recently published in French, this modernist, experimental work has been brought to light by Chelsea Ray's research and translation.
Some Go Hungry
"Redmond . . . successfully captures the spirit and ethos of the place while telling an emotionally resonant, page-turning story." --Booklist"A gay murder mystery that takes readers from Miami Beach, Florida to Fort Sackville, Indiana, as Grey Daniels 'struggles to live his authentic, openly gay life' amidst the fundamentalist Christians in his hometown." --Bay Area Reporter Some Go Hungry is a fictional account drawn from the author's own experiences working in his family's provincial Indiana restaurant--and wrestling with his sexual orientation--in a town that was rocked by the scandalous murder of his gay high school classmate in the 1980s.Now a young man who has embraced his sexuality, Grey Daniels returns from Miami Beach, Florida, to Fort Sackville, Indiana, to run Daniels' Family Buffet for his ailing father. Understanding that knowledge of his sexuality may reap disastrous results on his family's half-century-old restaurant legacy--a popular Sunday dinner spot for the after-church crowd--Grey struggles to live his authentic, openly gay life. He is put to the test when his former high school lover--and fellow classmate of the murdered student--returns to town as the youth pastor and choir director of the local fundamentalist Christian church. Some Go Hungry is the story of a man forced to choose between the happiness of others and his own joy, all the while realizing that compromising oneself--sacrificing your soul for the sake of others--is not living, but death.
Beijing Comrades
The sensational underground novel of homosexuality in late-1980s China that's been declared "one of the most significant Chinese novels of our time" (The New York Times). When Handong, the ruthless, wealthy son of Communist party officials, is introduced to Lan Yu, a na簿ve, working-class architecture student, the attraction between the two young men is instant and all-consuming. Despite their very different lives, they spend their nights together, establishing a deep connection. But when their loyalties are tested, Handong is left questioning his secrets, his choices, and his very identity . . . Beijing Comrades is the story of a tumultuous love affair set against the sociopolitical unrest of late-eighties China. Due to its depiction of gay sexuality and its critique of the totalitarian government, it was originally published anonymously on an illegal gay-themed website within mainland China. This riveting and heartbreaking novel quickly developed a cult following, and remains "a meaningful excavation of homophobia and daily life in a rapidly changing China," and "a traditional story of forbidden love in all the most classic, wonderful, and devastating ways" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Lux
Life is full of twists, turns and changes. The choices we make can dramatically alter the path we walk, and the people who walk it with us. This series follows seven women, all lesbians as well as friends, as their lives climb, spiral, and swerve. Sometimes even falling apart around them. At the end, will they all remain friends or will their choices take them down such different roads they lose each other? Lux has been on a downward spiral in her personal life for several years, not that she's recognized her behavior as such. Her developing feelings for a member of her circle of friends has the ability to send her into a panic, rushing into the arms of whoever happens to be available. Can she accept the rapidly deepening emotions before they tear her apart? Does she have what it takes to commit? Will her behavior as she comes to terms with it all cause a fracture in the friendships she's always known? Find out in this installment of All About The Girls - Volume #1 - Lux.
Sojourn
The first time humanity faced the scourge of Harvestmen, they were forced to take heinous methods to stop their spread across civilized space. Now the Harvestmen are back, and the crew of one vessel has to decide what they're willing to sacrifice in order to exterminate the menace once and for all. "Blood and bone and muscle and stone The Harvestman eats you when you're alone Skin and teeth and hair and eyeball The Harvestman eats you, eats you all." The crew of the Peaceful Sea vessel Paralus have just completed a mission to retrieve an alien cleric from a world on the verge of cataclysm. The mission goes off without a hitch and the ship is heading home when they come across a derelict sister ship adrift in the middle of nowhere. A team is dispatched to see what happened to the missing crew, but instead find themselves face to face with a new swarm of their merciless foe. The crew quickly comes to realize they are the only thing standing between the nightmare of the Harvestmen destroying the rest of the galaxy, no matter what the cost.
The Remnant Fleet
At the edge of the Sol system, just beyond the Kuiper Belt, Humanity's first foray into the Great Beyond is a space station called The Quay. Originally planned as a springboard for future missions, the station has now become home to a variety of alien races. A devastating war against a common, mysterious enemy left the space around the Quay littered with destroyed ships, but it brought the disparate races together in a way many thought impossible. Currently enjoying an extended period of peacetime, the crew of the Quay is put on high alert after a smugglers' ship is attacked. A new and powerful enemy is searching for an incredibly valuable piece of space trash which could be used to construct something far more dangerous than a simple weapon: genetic material from the dawn of time, the key component to a device which can target and destroy specific races while leaving others untouched. With very little information, and fearful that they may be on the cusp of a new war deadlier than any they've ever fought, the Quay's executive officer Bauwerji Crow sets out to find and stop the attackers. Facing impossible odds and an enemy she knows nothing about, Bauwerji and the crew of her station are all that stand between the universe and genocide on a planetary scale.
The Adearian Chronicles - Book One - The Oath
Ex-mercenary, Lanis Welsh, is finally at a place in her life where she is content with what and who she is; High Priestess Anya's Protector and Lover. After an unexpected request, she has no choice but to leave Anya's protection in the hands of someone else and travel back to the one place that holds nothing but bad memories. When she is manipulated into signing an oath she has no desire to fulfill, she questions the very truths she has built her life on. As strangers become friends and enemies become allies, Lanis must face the demons from her past. It doesn't take her long to realize there is more going on than anyone could have ever foreseen and nothing and no one can be trusted.
The Scottish Bitch
In this modern update of "Macbeth," competitive drag queen Latrine Dion plots to win the National Grand Dame Competition. Scottish immigrants, Latrine and her husband Peyton are as new to the United States as they are to competitive drag queenery. The intimidating lineup of Queens includes Cunny Corleone, Ina Godda the Diva, Chutney Spears, Blanche BuDois, and Salma Nella--all loaded with talent and experience that could rob Latrine of her title. Latrine needs the title of Grand Dame to establish herself in the U.S. Drag World. Peyton wants the prize money to jump start their American Dream. When racial and cultural prejudices collide with gay politics, a convenient technicality reduces her ranking to runner up and puts her on the alternate list for the Duchess Regionals. No Duchess title. No $25,000 prize money. No moving on to Grand Dame Nationals. No chance at the $100,000 prize. No buying a house. No Gay American Dream. Urged on by her husband Peyton, Latrine orchestrates little accidents to incapacitate the competition. But her efforts to injure the local talent have deadly consequences. Soon homicide detectives are mixing with the Twinks and Bears to watch Latrine's performance, and Peyton can't get that damn glitter off his hands.
Anthem
Trevor Davidson has everything going for him. He's just moved out on his own with three friends, and he's landed a job as music director at a large Boston church. He has high hopes for marrying his long-term girlfriend and settling into a comfortable, devout lifestyle. Andre Cole has spent the past few years throwing himself into a dead-end job at a Cape Cod-based call center. When an opportunity to move back to Boston arises, Andre believes it will be the do-over he needs to put his past behind him. A chance meeting in a club on New Year's Eve brings Trevor and Andre together for a brief but steamy encounter. Both assuming that's the end of it, they are unexpectedly thrown back into each other's lives when Trevor's church hires Andre for their website design. While Andre is content at first to move on, Trevor's conflicted feelings bubble over into his songwriting. Before he can stop it, his ode to Andre becomes an inadvertent Christian radio hit. Unfortunately for Trevor, he isn't the only one who knows the song's hidden meaning. Someone has leaked the story and upended Trevor's life. In order to put the pieces back together, he needs to learn to be honest with his girlfriend, with Andre, and especially with himself.
Haunted by Darkness
Kristine Holt is haunted by the darkness of her past. She has spent years dealing with frequent nightmares and night terrors stemming from years of mental and physical abuse inflicted by her parents while she was growing up. With the help of her best friend Grace Barnes, she is able to escape her parents' clutches, but not the darkness within. Will Kristine find the light or will she be consumed by the darkness of her past?
Joie De Vivre
As a forensic anthropologist, Dr. Kate Riley spends her time dealing with the dead. A career that is more gruesome and intense than most people can handle, it has been her driving passion ever since her partner disappeared in college years ago. Nothing is more important to her than her job. Nothing, that is, until she meets ex-college basketball star and passionate kindergarten teacher, Lisa Sorenson. Lisa Sorenson adores her students' relentless enthusiasm. Light-hearted and intent on celebrating life, she's intrigued by Riley's cerebral aloofness. Drawn to each other, an unlikely romance blossoms and begins to thrive. But when their professional worlds begin to collide in a most unlikely manner, a wedge is driven between them and threatens to push them apart. Can the love they feel for each other overcome such a gulf and can they find their joie de vivre--their zest of life--together before it's too late?
Radiation Canary
Two years ago, the Canaries scattered into the wind, eager to see what else the world held for them. Karen and Laura stayed in Seattle and started a family. Karen released a solo album to critical and commercial acclaim, but lately she's only been playing lullabies for their son. Lana moved to England to be with Catherine and fills her days by writing music for television programs while avoiding her girlfriend's celebrity-fueled parties. Nessa Grace, now going by the married name of Vanessa Weyland, is hiding in suburbia, eager to be a mommy rather than "that woman who used to be famous." And Codie, finally able to afford her dream of flying, takes to the air as often as possible. When one of Codie's flights ends with an emergency landing, she realizes that the band isn't exploring their options: they're wasting time. They found a place they belonged and a life they loved, and they put it on hold just in case there were greener pastures somewhere out there. She decides the time has come to get the band back together and sets out to bring her sisters back to the nest. With the support of their loved ones and the record label, the band reunites at a secluded studio last used by Dash Warren to record her final album. The band picks up where they left off without missing a step and begins work on a secret album that will be used to reintroduce them to the world. Now their career relies on if their fans, the public who made the band famous in the first place, are willing to accept their return. With one band member's relationship falling apart and another's endangered by jealousy, Radiation Canary may discover their greatest hits will be the kind that leave bruises.
Chasing a Brighter Blue
A Christmas wedding in Colorado? A two-week celebration with family and friends? Who does that? Photojournalist Reagan Bryant has just returned from six month stint in Afghanistan. Haunted by the tragedy that ended her last assignment, she's searching for some peace-something to end the guilt and chase the trauma away. Two weeks at the resort hotel owned by her future sister-in-law's father seems like the perfect escape. Shelby Sutton doesn't trust women. They always seem more interested in her father's money than in her. But at her sister's request, she vows to make friends with Reagan, a woman whose sad and haunted eyes are nearly impossible to ignore.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wisehouse Classics - with original illustrations by Eugene D矇t矇)
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is a philosophical novel by the writer Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences; all the while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin.
Reviens-moi
L'amour ? n'importe quel prix, tome 1 Pour Josh Brooks, c'est l'矇t矇 de tous les miracles. Il vient d'acheter le cheval de ses r礙ves ? un dresseur concurrent, et un ancien camarade d'arm矇e de son fr癡re, le beau Dane Keller, pourrait bien quant ? lui 礙tre l'homme de sa vie. Dane est sexy, muscl矇, et il vient de dire adieu au cadre rigide et parfois intol矇rant de l'arm矇e. Le hic ? Personne ne sait que Josh et Dane sont gays.Dane Keller n'aspire qu'? une chose: trouver un travail avec un salaire raisonnable dans un ranch sans histoire et mener une vie tranquille. Mais lorsqu'il commence ? travailler pour les Brooks et qu'il fait la connaissance de Josh, ses r礙ves de tranquillit矇 tombent ? l'eau.Josh, le petit fr癡re de son meilleur ami, le petit fr癡re qui envoyait les lettres qui l'ont emp礙ch矇 de perdre la raison en Afghanistan. Tr癡s vite, et malgr矇 sa peur panique des relations amoureuses, Dane s'attache ? lui.Tandis que Dane et Josh tentent (et manquent) d矇sesp矇r矇ment de contenir leurs sentiments, quelqu'un les observe, tapi dans l'ombre, attendant l'heure de la revanche. Et puis un jour, il frappe, et leur secret est r矇v矇l矇 au grand jour.Dane est d矇termin矇 ? prot矇ger Josh, quoi qu'il en co羶te. M礙me si pour 癟a il doit quitter le ranch pour toujours.
Le Rocher Aux Promesses
Promesses, tome 1Carrick Francis a pass矇 la majeure partie de sa vie ? sauter ? pieds joints dans les probl癡mes. La seule chose qui l'a sauv矇 de la prison, ou pire, est sa d矇votion absolue envers Deacon Winters. Deacon a 矇t矇 sa raison et son salut durant une enfance mis矇rable de maltraitance, et Crick ferait tout pour rester ? jamais avec lui. Aussi, lorsque le p癡re de Deacon meurt, Crick suspend ses projets universitaires pour aider Deacon, tout comme Deacon l'a aid矇 auparavant.Le plus grand souhait de Deacon est de voir Crick 矇chapper ? ses souvenirs et ? la ville o羅 ils ont grandi, afin que Crick puisse jouir d'un avenir plus rayonnant. Mais apr癡s deux ans de sentiments refoul矇s et de tentations, le maladivement timide Deacon succombe finalement aux avances insistantes de Crick et reconna簾t se voir faire partie de la vie du jeune homme.Alors Deacon est presque d矇truit en d矇couvrant que Crick attendait qu'il le repousse, exactement comme la famille de Crick l'avait fait par le pass矇. Quand le don de Crick pour prendre des d矇cisions sur des coups de t礙te le conduit loin de chez lui, Deacon finit abandonn矇, traumatis矇 et seul, luttant pour reforger son coeur dans un monde o羅 l'amour avec Crick est une promesse, mais en aucun cas une certitude.
Tarnished Gold
New York City, 1950. Cantor Gold, art smuggler and dapper dyke-about-town, hunts for a missing masterpiece she's risked her life to bring through the port of New York. She must outsmart the Law that wants to jail her; outrun the dockside gangsters who would let her take the fall for murder; and outplay a shady art dealer, his lover, and a beautiful curator who toys with Cantor's passion. Through it all, Cantor must stay out of the gunsights of a killer who's knocking off rivals for the missing masterpiece-and stay alive to solve the mystery of her stolen love: Sophie de la Luna y Sol. A Cantor Gold Crime
El Muchacho De Los Ojos Grises Ii Pentalogia
Segunda Pentalog穩a de "El muchacho de los ojos grises".
Sculpting Anna
After enduring a soul-crushing loss, Professor Lexy Strayer might be ready to love again. But she's determined that when she takes that step it won't be with one of her students. Anna Stevens, back in the classroom after ten years away, is interested, interesting and oh so appealing, but when she makes a tentative advance, Lexy rebuffs her. Not with a student. Jennifer Gardiner has no such scruples. She teaches in the English Department too--when she's not cranking out gory murder mysteries or jumping in bed with anything that has breasts and a pulse. Jennifer would be happy to take her friend's place with Anna, but for the moment she's too busy with a new adjunct instructor, the sexy and secretive Andrea Cole, a big fan of Jennifer's writing...and her other talents. Lexy's brain knows exactly what she should do, but her hands haven't gotten the message. Every nude she sculpts at her weekly art class looks like Anna. Maybe Anna would be willing to give her another chance? Then Jennifer's exes start to turn up dead in ways that copy her novels. As if things aren't complicated enough...
Sweetgrass
It is spring, 1864. Johnathan and Esher, paramours, survived serving in the Civil War as Union soldiers, and now they are on their way to achieve their dream: homesteading on land in the Dakota Territory, together. Togetherness is Johnathan's dream, just he and Esher, living, loving, and farming their land. Esher's dream is to have a family. While on a wagon train, he met Gladys and found a mother. Now the three of them will be homesteading. But Esher also wants a wife and children. They meet Bethany and her two children; it is a dramatic meeting. It looks like a family is in the making. Johnathan fights for his dream. This puts him at odds with Gladys, Bethany, and lastly, Esher. His fight is especially painful because it resurrects the demons that have plagued him since he was a boy-buried memories of his murdered mother at the hands of his father, and the misery of cold bones he acquired from his father's "touch." He feels compelled to preserve his mother's legacy, her screams and blood, but to do this he must keep the "cold" he inherited from his father. It is admirable that Johnathan will fight for his dream, but his efforts threaten to wreak havoc on the newly formed family. Something has to give. Something has to go. The adage is that love heals, and Sweetgrass is a love story.
Sweetgrass
It is spring, 1864. Johnathan and Esher, paramours, survived serving in the Civil War as Union soldiers, and now they are on their way to achieve their dream: homesteading on land in the Dakota Territory, together. Togetherness is Johnathan's dream, just he and Esher, living, loving, and farming their land. Esher's dream is to have a family. While on a wagon train, he met Gladys and found a mother. Now the three of them will be homesteading. But Esher also wants a wife and children. They meet Bethany and her two children; it is a dramatic meeting. It looks like a family is in the making. Johnathan fights for his dream. This puts him at odds with Gladys, Bethany, and lastly, Esher. His fight is especially painful because it resurrects the demons that have plagued him since he was a boy-buried memories of his murdered mother at the hands of his father, and the misery of cold bones he acquired from his father's "touch." He feels compelled to preserve his mother's legacy, her screams and blood, but to do this he must keep the "cold" he inherited from his father. It is admirable that Johnathan will fight for his dream, but his efforts threaten to wreak havoc on the newly formed family. Something has to give. Something has to go. The adage is that love heals, and Sweetgrass is a love story.
Cr De Loup
Histoires de coeur, tome 1Apr癡s une premi癡re ann矇e en fac de m矇decine, Dakota Holden est contraint de revenir dans le Wyoming de son enfance pour reprendre le ranch familial et s'occuper de son p癡re, atteint d'une scl矇rose en plaques. D矇vou矇 ? sa famille, il ne s'autorise qu'une semaine de vacances par an. Sept jours, sept petits jours qu'il passe le plus loin possible du ranch, et durant lesquels tous les interdits du reste de l'ann矇e tombent enfin. Lors de ses derni癡res vacances sur une croisi癡re, il fait la connaissance de Phillip Reardon, qui va jouer un r繫le important dans sa vie.Lorsque Phillip d矇cide d'accepter l'invitation de Dakota de venir lui rendre visite dans son ranch, Dakota est heureux de le revoir et de rencontrer son ami v矇t矇rinaire, Wally Schumacher. Le probl癡me, c'est que Wally n'a tr癡s vite qu'une seule id矇e en t礙te, prot矇ger les loups que les hommes de Dakota sont oblig矇s de chasser afin de prot矇ger le b矇tail. Mais malgr矇 leurs diff矇rends, Dakota et lui se trouvent de nombreux points communs et tr癡s vite, une forte attirance s'installe entre eux. Il leur faudra alors d矇cider si les terres du Wyoming sont assez grandes pour le troupeau de Dakota, les loups de Wally, et leur amour.
Bitter Taffy
A Candy Man Book Rico Gonzalves-Macias didn't expect to fall in love during his internship in New York--and he didn't expect the boss's son to out them both and get him fired either. When he returns to Sacramento stunned and heartbroken, he finds his cousin, Adam, and Adam's boyfriend, Finn, haven't just been house-sitting--they've made his once sterile apartment into a home. When Adam gets him a job interview with the adorable, magnetic, practically perfect Derek Huston, Rico feels especially out of his depth. Derek makes it no secret that he wants Rico, but Rico is just starting to figure out that he's a beginner at the really important stuff and doesn't want to jump into anything with both feet. Derek is a both-feet kind of guy. But he's also made mistakes of his own and doesn't want to pressure Rico into anything. Together they work to find a compromise between instant attraction and long-lasting love, and while they're working, Rico gets a primer in why family isn't always a bad idea. He needs to believe Derek can be his family before Derek's formidable patience runs out--because even a practically perfect boyfriend is capable of being hurt.
Steel Eyes
Show after show, tour after tour, they scream for Steel Eyes. Yet she could pass any fan on the street and they'd never know it was her. What should have been a life of global stardom is shadowed by debts of honor that can't be set aside. Anonymity is essential to her double life. Sex is easy, love is impossible. The only woman who will ever matter is safer not knowing the truth. But someone has penetrated the secret layers of her identity and now they want Steel Eyes dead. If she is to survive an assassin's plot and claim any kind of future she will have to open the wounds of the past--back when the woman who loved her knew her name. Look behind the mask of Steel Eyes in this powerful, high stakes novel by Melissa Price!
Ella
Drawn to Seattle by the pull of black magics, Ella brings her wrath. A trail of blood and violence left in her wake.By chance, Parker Devareau, meets Ella while rushing home to get behind the safety of her Full Moon Bars on a full moon night. Parker can see, hear and feel things that no ordinary person can.When Ella saves Parker from a breach of the protective city walls caused by the druids, Parker sees something beyond the impression of a schizophrenic with multiple personalities who is constantly talking to someone who is not there. And the truth breaks her heart.The women stand together with the Red Hood and Gretta Snow to save the people of the city who perceive them all as monsters.
College Team Mate's
Ball is and has been my life. I came to school to play ball but fell in love with another team mate. Last night, all night was fucking incredible...Kevin spent the night in my room making love to a nigga all night long. I'm talking about the kind of sex that when you look at each other you both just bust out laughing like there aren't words for that shit. Me and this nigga laid in this room with the smell of after sex, sweat, slight man musk, a mixture of sex and Chrome Legend circulating and we was good ass shit. But in time love and drama will take me on a roller coaster ride. Who the fuck am I anymore? In a matter of a month my existence has been altered and now what I knew to be my truth is now all questionable. I had ball I had my girl I had my family and my GOD! And now I feel separated from them all. The things of the past, these couple weeks have tested the fabric of my character on every side.
College Team Mate's
Ball is and has been my life. I came to school to play ball but fell in love with another team mate. Last night, all night was fucking incredible...Kevin spent the night in my room making love to a nigga all night long. I'm talking about the kind of sex that when you look at each other you both just bust out laughing like there aren't words for that shit. Me and this nigga laid in this room with the smell of after sex, sweat, slight man musk, a mixture of sex and Chrome Legend circulating and we was good ass shit. But in time love and drama will take me on a roller coaster ride. Who the fuck am I anymore? In a matter of a month my existence has been altered and now what I knew to be my truth is now all questionable. I had ball I had my girl I had my family and my GOD! And now I feel separated from them all. The things of the past, these couple weeks have tested the fabric of my character on every side.
Funny Boy
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Deepa Mehta--coming to Netflix December 10, 2020!An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict--one of the country's most turbulent and deadly periods.Arjie is "funny."The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own "different" identity.Refreshing, raw, and poignant, Funny Boy is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy's coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one's self no matter the obstacles.
In the Company of Women
Fort Bliss--it's anything but. Caroline "CJ" Jamieson gave up studying history and joined the Women's Army Corps to live it instead. Along with her new WAC friends, she is ready to do her part to help boys like her brothers, fighting in the European and Pacific theaters, make it home sooner. The Army, however, has derailed her plans. Instead of the California post she anticipated, west Texas cacti and an artillery training base are the unexpected sights on her new horizons. Not one to question orders, she's not sure how her skills in airplane engine maintenance will be of use in this desolate region. But when CJ meets fellow WAC enlistee Brady Buchanan, Fort Bliss might live up to its name.
Desert Places
The dry, wide plains of the high desert are a mirror to the barren places in Jean McAllister's heart. With a new home in southern Colorado, and an ideal job as a Deputy County Attorney, she hopes to overcome a painful past. Jean meets the dedicated yet charming Sheriff Lea Hawkins when she defends the Sheriff's Office in a lawsuit. Just as Jean begins to wonder if love can thrive in the desert, the murder of a colleague shatters her cautious happiness and casts doubt over everyone, including Lea. Caught between a scorched past and the dangerous heat that Lea awakens, can Jean find the truth and save their chance for a future together?
These Two Hearts
When the heart wants what it should not have... Settling into a new job at a hospital on the wild southern coast of Washington, Sara Patterson has carefully realized her cautious hopes for a steady, practical life. Education, check. Secure employment, check. Tumultuous attraction to an attractive drifter? Not on the list. Jessie Singer loves the way billiard balls roll over the green baize of a pool table and her dream of playing pool professionally keeps her wandering from job to job, and from woman to woman. But she keeps coming back, drawn to the coastal waters and mountain scenery. And to something she never expected. Two women think they know what they want from life--until their lives collide.
Sombre Est Le Cheval
Californie ?questre, tome 1 Dan pourrait simplement partir, laisser tout ?a derri?re lui. Il a suffisamment d'argent. Il pourrait se faire envoyer ses affaires et son cheval plus tard, o? qu'il soit. Partir, c'?tait ce qu'il faisait quand il ne pouvait plus faire face, avant. Et ?a marchait. Justin Archer est pour Dan Wheeler un coll?gue, un partenaire, un amour et une stabilit? incomparables. Mais quand Dan se retrouve seul, ? travailler comme entra?neur pour les parents de Justin, il doit accepter l'in?luctable: sa vie parfaite a disparu ? jamais.Mais il rencontre le milliardaire Evan Kaminski, venu acheter un cheval pour sa petite sOEur, et Jeff Stevens, le partenaire d'Evan et l'entra?neur de sa sOEur, et qui semble partager plus qu'une passion des chevaux avec Dan. Pris dans la tourmente de sa propre vie, Dan est confront? aux passions tumultueuses d'Evan et ? la sagesse tranquille de Jeff. Sera-t-il assez fort pour se jeter ? nouveau dans le jeu de l'amour, ou serait-il plus simple - plus s?r - de rester seul ?
Road Trip
On this road trip, the past is a boneyard, up ahead is the end of the line, and along the way Myra Stark and Pinkie are driving a 1984 Plymouth Turismo from Minnesota through Wisconsin. The travelers pick up a battered hitchhiker, follow a detour into the darkly comic Stark family history, and veer off track more than once. "Road Trip" is a narrative of disappointment and failed rescues; about the ghosts that haunt us and the relationships we leave behind.
Rouge ＋ Bleu
Contraires qui s'attirent, num矇ro hors s矇rieFra簾chement d矇barqu矇 du Minnesota, Ben Dutoit est fou de joie d'avoir d矇croch矇 un travail au sein de Sydney Family Insurance, l'une des rares compagnies ? offrir des contrats d'assurance-vie aux personnes ? haut risque. Le fait de travailler ? San Francisco, creuset de la culture homosexuelle, constituait juste la cerise sur un g璽teau aux couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel. Ben s'est fix矇 trois buts: affirmer et se montrer suffisamment fier de son homosexualit矇 pour participer ? la Gay Pride; profiter dans les bo簾tes de nuit de la compagnie de ses semblables et, s'il avait de la chance, tomber amoureux.Mais les hommes que Ben rencontre sont tout ce qu'il n'est pas: charmants, s羶rs d'eux, sophistiqu矇s et sexy. Ils constituent l'矇lite de l'矇lite, tiennent une place importante dans la soci矇t矇, sont fortun矇s et endossent toutes les responsabilit矇s qui vont de pair.Ben se demande si le Rouge et le Bleu peuvent se m矇langer quand il d矇couvre la vraie signification du mot 'risque'. L'矇conomie mondiale vacille. Le travail sur lequel il comptait est remis en cause et tous les r礙ves qu'il avait faits sont menac矇s, et plus particuli癡rement celui concernant l'amour.
