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Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2024 (Central Avenue Poetry Prize #1)
by Beau AdlerImagine if you could have the best debut poetry from the widest variety of up-and-coming poets in one, single place. A compilation of fresh faces from all walks of life, The Central Avenue Poetry Prize assembles a swathe of standout poetry and delivers it straight to your bookshelf. A collaborative effort between poets from all corners of the world and all walks of life, The Central Avenue Poetry Prize presents a collection of poetry like no other. Rife with heartache, longing, laughter, and life, this book captures the spark of creativity and the vastness that is the human soul within its pages. This collection contains stories that are funny, some that are sad, some that are beautiful—and all that are true. Diverse in content and rich in talent, this is a testament to the art of poetry, and a reminder that the act of writing comes from the act of living, and when we create, we allow ourselves to see and be seen.
Sadopaideia
by Bill AdlerEdwardian in tone and Rabelaisian in content, this underground English classic first published in 1907 relates the bawdy adventures of a young gentleman, Cecil Prendergast. While a student at Oxford, Cecil succumbs to the erotic allure of the domineering Mrs. Harcourt. Under her careful tutelage, he avidly learns the sublime arts of both submission and triumph with the lovely Muriel, Juliette, Gladys, and other adventurous young ladies she brings his way.
Cool for the Summer
by Dahlia AdlerLara's had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He's tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and he's talking to her now. On purpose and everything. Maybe...flirting, even? No, wait, he's definitely flirting, which is pretty much the sum of everything Lara's wanted out of life. <p><p> Except she’s haunted by a memory. A memory of a confusing, romantic, strangely perfect summer spent with a girl named Jasmine. A memory that becomes a confusing, disorienting present when Jasmine herself walks through the front doors of the school to see Lara and Chase chatting it up in front of the lockers. <p><p> Lara has everything she ever wanted: a tight-knit group of friends, a job that borders on cool, and Chase, the boy of her literal dreams. But if she's finally got the guy, why can't she stop thinking about the girl? <p><p> Cool for the Summer is a story of self-discovery and new love. It’s about the things we want and the things we need. And it’s about the people who will let us be who we are.
Going Bicoastal
by Dahlia Adler"This is what it looks like when a brilliant high concept is executed to perfection. It’s got all the Dahlia Adler trademarks—romance, wry humor, specificity, and genuine emotional depth." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Kate in Waiting and Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens AgendaA queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming).In Dahlia Adler’s Going Bicoastal, there’s more than one path to happily ever after.Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?)How's a girl supposed to choose?She can't, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines - one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she's always wanted. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the guy she never saw coming.
Home Field Advantage
by Dahlia AdlerIn Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage, a sweet and funny f/f romance from the author of Cool for the Summer, a cheerleader and the school's newest quarterback are playing to win, but might lose their hearts in the process.Amber McCloud’s dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it’s an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose.The players refuse to be led by a girl, the cheerleaders are mad about the changes to their traditions, and the fact that Robbie’s been not only replaced but outshined by a QB who wears a sports bra has more than a few Atherton Alligators in a rage. Amber tries for some semblance of unity, but it quickly becomes clear that she's only got a future on the squad and with her friends if she helps them take Jack down.Just one problem: Amber and Jack are falling for each other, and if Amber can't stand up for Jack and figure out how to get everyone to fall in line, her dream may come at the cost of her heart.Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage is a sparkling romance about fighting for what - or who - you truly want.
Home Field Advantage
by Dahlia AdlerAmber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it's an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. <p><P>For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose. The players refuse to be led by a girl, the cheerleaders are mad about the changes to their traditions, and the fact that Robbie's been not only replaced but outshined by a QB who wears a sports bra has more than a few Atherton Alligators in a rage. <p><p>Amber tries for some semblance of unity, but it quickly becomes clear that she's only got a future on the squad and with her friends if she helps them take Jack down. Just one problem: Amber and Jack are falling for each other, and if Amber can't stand up for Jack and figure out how to get everyone to fall in line, her dream may come at the cost of her heart. This is a sparkling romance about fighting for what—or who—you truly want.
Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform
by Libby AdlerLibby Adler offers a comprehensive critique of the mainstream LGBT legal agenda in the United States, showing how LGBT equal rights discourse drives legal advocates toward a narrow array of reform objectives that do little to help the lives of the most marginalized members of the LGBT community.
The Changing Faces of Families: Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts (Routledge Studies in Family Sociology)
by Marina A. AdlerWith a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family-friendly" policies. Considering variations in family forms, including differences in the number and marital status of parents, their gender, sexual orientation and biological relationship to the children (adoption), multicultural families, and families created by technological assistance or surrogacy, it presents demographic information, alongside quantitative and qualitative research, across a number of advanced countries. A contribution to our understanding of the diversity of family forms, how diversity is lived in families, and what family diversity means in various international policy contexts. The Changing Faces of Families will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of the family.
The Changing Faces of Families: Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts (Routledge Studies in Family Sociology)
by Marina A. Adler Karl LenzWith a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family-friendly" policies. Considering variations in family forms, including differences in the number and marital status of parents, their gender, sexual orientation and biological relationship to the children (adoption), multicultural families, and families created by technological assistance or surrogacy, it presents demographic information, alongside quantitative and qualitative research, across a number of advanced countries. A contribution to our understanding of the diversity of family forms, how diversity is lived in families, and what family diversity means in various international policy contexts. The Changing Faces of Families will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of the family.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
by Melissa AdlerCruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library’s inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby “buries,” difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference. Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information—as well as categories of difference—in American culture.
Mrs. Nash's Ashes
by Sarah AdlerA Most Anticipated Summer Read by Today ∙ Barnes & Noble ∙ BookRiot ∙ GoodReads ∙ Culturess ∙ and more!A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love.Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she&’d reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash&’s remains in her backpack. But Millie&’s determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it&’s (really) too late—and hopefully reassure herself of love&’s lasting power in the process.She just didn&’t expect to have a living travel companion.After a computer glitch grounds flights, Millie is forced to catch a ride with Hollis Hollenbeck, an also-stranded acquaintance from her ex&’s MFA program. Hollis certainly does not believe in happily-ever-afters—symbolic or otherwise—and makes it quite clear that he can&’t fathom Millie&’s plan ending well for anyone.But as they contend with peculiar bed-and-breakfasts, unusual small-town festivals, and deer with a death wish, Millie begins to suspect that her reluctant travel partner might enjoy her company more than he lets on. Because for someone who supposedly doesn&’t share her views on romance, Hollis sure is becoming invested in the success of their journey. And the closer they get to their destination, the more Millie has to admit that maybe this trip isn&’t just about Mrs. Nash&’s love story after all—maybe it&’s also about her own.
Of Maybugs and Men: A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality
by Pieter R. Adriaens Andreas De BlockA much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality. Questions about the naturalness or unnaturalness of homosexuality are as old as the hills, and the answers have often been used to condemn homosexuals, their behaviors, and their relationships. In the past two centuries, a number of sciences have involved themselves in this debate, introducing new vocabularies, theories, arguments, and data, many of which have gradually helped tip the balance toward tolerance and even acceptance. In this book, philosophers Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block explore the history and philosophy of the gay sciences, revealing how individual and societal values have colored how we think about homosexuality. The authors unpack the entanglement of facts and values in studies of male homosexuality across the natural and human sciences and consider the extent to which science has mitigated or reinforced homonegative mores. The focus of the book is on homosexuality’s assumed naturalness. Geneticists rephrased naturalness as innateness, claiming that homosexuality is innate—colloquially, that homosexuals are born gay. Zoologists thought it a natural affair, documenting its existence in myriad animal species, from maybugs to men. Evolutionists presented homosexuality as the product of natural selection and speculated about its adaptive value. Finally, psychiatrists, who initially pathologized homosexuality, eventually appealed to its naturalness or innateness to normalize it. Discussing findings from an array of sciences—comparative zoology, psychiatry, anthropology, evolutionary biology, social psychology, developmental biology, and machine learning—this book is essential reading for anyone interested in what science has to say about homosexuality.
Of Maybugs and Men: A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality
by Pieter R. Adriaens Andreas De BlockA much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality. Questions about the naturalness or unnaturalness of homosexuality are as old as the hills, and the answers have often been used to condemn homosexuals, their behaviors, and their relationships. In the past two centuries, a number of sciences have involved themselves in this debate, introducing new vocabularies, theories, arguments, and data, many of which have gradually helped tip the balance toward tolerance and even acceptance. In this book, philosophers Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block explore the history and philosophy of the gay sciences, revealing how individual and societal values have colored how we think about homosexuality. The authors unpack the entanglement of facts and values in studies of male homosexuality across the natural and human sciences and consider the extent to which science has mitigated or reinforced homonegative mores. The focus of the book is on homosexuality’s assumed naturalness. Geneticists rephrased naturalness as innateness, claiming that homosexuality is innate—colloquially, that homosexuals are born gay. Zoologists thought it a natural affair, documenting its existence in myriad animal species, from maybugs to men. Evolutionists presented homosexuality as the product of natural selection and speculated about its adaptive value. Finally, psychiatrists, who initially pathologized homosexuality, eventually appealed to its naturalness or innateness to normalize it. Discussing findings from an array of sciences—comparative zoology, psychiatry, anthropology, evolutionary biology, social psychology, developmental biology, and machine learning—this book is essential reading for anyone interested in what science has to say about homosexuality.
Of Maybugs and Men: A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality
by Pieter R. Adriaens Andreas De BlockA much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality. Questions about the naturalness or unnaturalness of homosexuality are as old as the hills, and the answers have often been used to condemn homosexuals, their behaviors, and their relationships. In the past two centuries, a number of sciences have involved themselves in this debate, introducing new vocabularies, theories, arguments, and data, many of which have gradually helped tip the balance toward tolerance and even acceptance. In this book, philosophers Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block explore the history and philosophy of the gay sciences, revealing how individual and societal values have colored how we think about homosexuality. The authors unpack the entanglement of facts and values in studies of male homosexuality across the natural and human sciences and consider the extent to which science has mitigated or reinforced homonegative mores. The focus of the book is on homosexuality’s assumed naturalness. Geneticists rephrased naturalness as innateness, claiming that homosexuality is innate—colloquially, that homosexuals are born gay. Zoologists thought it a natural affair, documenting its existence in myriad animal species, from maybugs to men. Evolutionists presented homosexuality as the product of natural selection and speculated about its adaptive value. Finally, psychiatrists, who initially pathologized homosexuality, eventually appealed to its naturalness or innateness to normalize it. Discussing findings from an array of sciences—comparative zoology, psychiatry, anthropology, evolutionary biology, social psychology, developmental biology, and machine learning—this book is essential reading for anyone interested in what science has to say about homosexuality.
Homossexualidade: As Dimensões Ocultistas, Sanitárias e Psicológicas
by Gabriel Agbo Pedro FalcoHomossexualidade: As Dimensões Ocultistas, Sanitárias e Psicológicas Autoria de Gabriel Agbo A homossexualidade é algo benigno ou maligno? Quais são as origens das preferências sexuais e suas implicações para a sociedade? A intenção inicial de Deus (natureza) foi esta? Quem realmente está por trás disto e por qual motivo? Os praticantes da homossexualidade são verdadeiramente atraídos e aprisionados por forças ocultas? E qual será o impacto disto nas gerações atuais e futuras? Quais são as perspectivas do cristianismo, islamismo, religiões tradicionais, etc., em relação a esta problemática? Quais os perigos do sexo anal e do sexo oral – existe algum risco para a saúde? Podem causar câncer no ânus e na boca e várias outras infeções? A homossexualidade é uma prática do ocultismo? São respostas a todos estes e outros questionamentos que buscamos nesta obra. Relacionamentos entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, em realidade, não é uma coisa recente na humanidade, mas já faz algum tempo que se encontra na consciência mundial, principalmente no que se trata das aprovações sistemáticas concedidas pela liderança ocidental na forma de direitos humanos, direitos dos homossexuais, direitos dos grupos minoritários, movimentos de coalizão, etc. Na realidade, alguns dos líderes e instituições por eles manipuladas, além de preconizar, forçam outras nações a aceitarem e a difundirem a mesma. Prometem ajuda, subsídios e outros auxílios de desenvolvimento como recompensa. Por que têm tamanha obsessão em relação a isto e de quem é a pauta? Nesta obra, tentaremos resumir o nosso próprio objetivo e nossas discussões em sete capítulos interessantes, esclarecedores e informativos: Rebelião Homossexual, No Princípio, Dimensão Ocultista, Implicações Sanitárias, Efeitos Psicológicos, Consequências Evitáveis e O Que Devemos Fazer? Estas discussões são verdadeiramente elucidativas, são fatos que l
Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship (Sexuality, Culture and Health)
by Peter Aggleton Rob Cover Deana Leahy Daniel Marshall Mary Lou RasmussenSexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from ‘child’ to ‘adult’and from ‘unreasonable subject’ to one ‘who can consent’. This international and interdisciplinary collection identifies and locates struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts and at particular moments in time, recognising that sexual and gender diverse young people are neither entirely vulnerable nor self-reliant. Focusing on the numerous domains in which debates about youth, sexuality and citizenship are enacted and contested, Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship explores young people’s experiences in diverse but linked settings: in the family, at school and in college, in employment, in social media and through engagement with health services. Bookended by reflections from Jeffrey Weeks and and Susan Talburt, the book’s empirically grounded chapters also engage with the key debates outlined in it's scholarly introduction. This innovative book is of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality, health and sex education, and youth studies, from a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds, including sociology, education, nursing, social work and youth work.
A Hero's Welcome
by Lauren Agony Jan SpringerFrom the back of the book: On the planet of Paradise in the not so distant future, women rule and men are sex slaves... U.S. astronaut Joe Hero and his two brothers are on a mission to secretly study the newly discovered planet. When Joe is captured by a group of females who plan to turn him into a sex slave, it's up to Slave Doctor Annie Wilkes to get him out of a life worse than death. Little does Joe know, Annie has her own sexual agenda for the handsome hero...
QUE PIENSAN LOS QUE NO PIENSAN...(EBOOK)
by Diana Cohen AgrestEl matrimonio homosexual, la homoparentalidad, el aborto, la eutanasia voluntaria y el suicidio asistido, la prostitución, la venta de órganos, el alquiler de vientre, la pena de muerte, la tenencia de drogas, el perfil genético de los delincuentes... todos estos temas son hoy el centro de debates tan resonantes como inconclusos. Pues dudamos de todo aquello que puede ser hecho y, en un único gesto, de qué debe ser hecho. En circunstancias imposibles de ser procesadas y asimiladas, inmersos en situaciones límite sobre las cuales, tarde o temprano, deberemos pronunciarnos. Deslizándose en los márgenes de lo "políticamente incorrecto", este nuevo ensayo de Diana Cohen Agrest nos acerca las razones esgrimidas en torno de estas prácticas polémicas que, de otro modo, suelen permanecer confinadas en los círculos de los especialistas. La premisa básica que atraviesa esta obra es la necesidad de alentar el pluralismo, que implica la coexistencia, en igualdad de condiciones, de diferentes perspectivas desde las cuales reflexionar sobre la realidad que nos toca. Lejos de adoptar una posición que clausure el debate, la autora ofrece los argumentos a favor y en contra de cada una de esas cuestiones, desafiando al lector a tomar una decisión crítica propia. A todos nos gusta opinar fundando nuestras creencias en razones valiosas. Porque sentimos que así colaboramos en la construcción de un mundo un poco mejor. Si el don de la palabra instaura con el hombre el universo simbólico, podemos ser partícipes de la construcción de aquellos valores que, hoy como siempre, deberían sostener cualquier conducta humana. Qué piensan los que no piensan como yo? contribuye a este fin con claridad, profundo conocimiento y valentía.
Armarios y barricadas
by Adrià Aguacil Portillo¿HASTA DÓNDE PUEDE LLEGAR LA LUCHA POR SER UNO MISMO? UN AMOR TURBULENTO, UN DESEO VORAZ Y SED DE VENGANZA. Óscar tiene muy claro que le gustan los chicos, pero solo habla del tema con su ex. No se siente a gusto en clase, sobre todo después de lo que ha pasado con su mejor amigo. Al día siguiente de ser expulsado del instituto, decide descargarse una aplicación para conocer gente.Con David descubrirá una intimidad electrizante y un ambiente donde por fin podrá ser él mismo, pero su incapacidad para gestionar las emociones le jugará malas pasadas. Cuando parece que nada podría ir peor, se topa con una banda de ultras que lo marcarán para siempre. «De la misma forma que si metes harina y levadura en el horno te sale pan, cuando mezclas maricones y neonazis en un callejón oscuro tienes paliza asegurada».
Armaris i barricades
by Adrià Aguacil PortilloFINS ON POT ARRIBAR LA LLUITA PER SER UN MATEIX? UN AMOR TURBULENT, UN DESIG AFAMAT I SET DE VENJANÇA. L’Òscar té molt clar que li agraden els nois, però només en parla amb la seva ex. No es troba a gust a classe, especialment després del que ha passat amb el seu millor amic. L’endemà que l’expulsin de l’institut, decideix descarregar-se una aplicació per conèixer gent. Amb el David descobrirà una intimitat vibrant i un ambient en què per fi podrà ser ell mateix, però la seva incapacitat per gestionar les emocions li jugarà males passades. Quan sembla que res no podria anar pitjor, topa amb una banda d’ultres que el marcaran per sempre. «De la mateixa manera que si poses farina i llevat al forn et surt pa, quan barreges maricons i neonazis en un carreró fosc tens pallissa assegurada».
Canciones de Amor Americanas
by L. A. Aguilar Ashlyn KaneJake Brenner está gozando demasiado de su libertad como para enamorarse, o eso es lo que él dice. Además, está muy ocupado con su banda, los Hijos Pródigos, para ir en busca de romance. Su reticencia no tiene nada que ver con su embarazoso amor platónico por Chris, el líder vocal de la banda y antiguo mejor amigo. Pero eso fue antes de que el enigmático vagabundo, Parker McAvoy, se uniera a la banda como el nuevo guitarrista principal. Jake niega su atracción hacia el dulce y torpe Parker, hasta que le es imposible ignorar la necesidad de hacer algo al respecto. El problema es que Parker lo sabe todo acerca de sus hábitos libertinos, ah, y por supuesto, no es gay. O por lo menos eso es lo que Jake piensa hasta que una serie de eventos relacionados, le proporciona una nueva perspectiva alentadora. ¿Podrá convencer a Parker de pasar por alto su pasado colorido para darle una oportunidad? ¿O esta canción de amor se desvanecerá incluso antes de que comience?
The Only Purple House in Town
by Ann AguirreFrom New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes the magical town of St. Claire, where anything is possible…Iris Collins is the messy one in her family. The "chaos bunny." Her sisters are all wildly successful, while she can't balance her budget for a single month. It's no wonder she's in debt to her roommates. When she unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aunt, her plan to turn it into a B&B fails—as most of her plans do. She winds up renting rooms like a Victorian spinster, collecting other lost souls...and not all of them are "human." Eli Reese grew up as the nerdy outcast in school, but he got rich designing apps. Now he's successful by any standards. But he's never had the same luck in finding a real community or people who understand him. Over the years, he's never forgotten his first crush, so when he spots her at a café, he takes it as a sign. Except then he gets sucked into the Iris-verse and somehow ends up renting one of her B&B rooms. As the days pass, Eli grows enchanted by the misfit boarders staying in the house…and even more so by Iris. Could Eli have finally found a person and a place to call "home"?
Witch Please (Fix-It Witches #1)
by Ann AguirrePractical Magic meets Gilmore Girls in this adorable witchy rom-com with:A bisexual virgin baker with a curseA witch looking to avoid romantic entanglementsAnd a chemistry between them that causes literal sparksDanica Waterhouse is a fully modern witch—daughter, granddaughter, cousin, and co-owner of the Fix-It Witches, a magical tech repair shop. After a messy breakup that included way too much family "feedback," Danica made a pact with her cousin: they'll keep their hearts protected and have fun, without involving any of the overly opinionated Waterhouse matriarchs. Danica is more than a little exhausted navigating a long-standing family feud where Gram thinks the only good mundane is a dead one and Danica's mother weaves floral crowns for anyone who crosses her path.Three blocks down from the Fix-It Witches, Titus Winnaker, owner of Sugar Daddy's bakery, has family trouble of his own. After a tragic loss, all he's got left is his sister, the bakery, and a lifetime of terrible luck in love. Sure, business is sweet, but he can't seem to shake the romantic curse that's left him past thirty and still a virgin. He's decided he's doomed to be forever alone.Until he meets Danica Waterhouse. The sparks are instant, their attraction irresistible. For him, she's the one. To her, he's a firebomb thrown in the middle of a family war. Can a modern witch find love with an old-fashioned mundane who refuses to settle for anything less than forever?
How It All Blew Up
by Arvin AhmadiSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda goes to Italy in Arvin Ahmadi's newest incisive look at identity and what it means to find yourself by running away.Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would end in an airport interrogation room. But when faced with a failed relationship, bullies, and blackmail, running away to Rome is his only option. Right?Soon, late nights with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel start to feel like second nature... until his old life comes knocking on his door. Now, Amir has to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth to a US Customs officer, or risk losing his hard-won freedom.At turns uplifting and devastating, How It All Blew Up is Arvin Ahmadi's most powerful novel yet, a celebration of how life's most painful moments can live alongside the riotous, life-changing joys of discovering who you are.
Radiant Fugitives: A Novel
by Nawaaz AhmedA dazzling, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change.Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris&’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West, despite still struggling with her father&’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother, Nafeesa, traveling alone to California from Chennai, and her devoutly religious sister, Tahera, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. But instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal, misunderstanding, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. Told from the point of view of Seema&’s child at the moment of his birth, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance, forgiveness, and enduring love.