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Rushing Love (States Of Love)
by Meg BawdenAfter a devastating breakup with the man he thought he’d spend his life with, Flynn Webb takes a vacation to a South Dakota dude ranch. It’s something completely different from anything he’s done before, and it helps that it’s as far away from his ex as possible. Trapped in his own depressive thoughts, Flynn is surprised to meet Grayson Harland. Not only is Grayson a sexy cowboy—one fifteen years younger—but he’s the most charming man Flynn has ever met. Flynn doesn’t have much experience with being seduced, and he has even less with guys like Grayson taking an interest in him—and Grayson is definitely interested. What begins as a fling while visiting iconic South Dakota sights soon develops the potential for much more. But Flynn is afraid that falling in love again so soon—and with a man so much younger—will lead only to another catastrophic heartbreak. Luckily for them both, Grayson isn’t giving up without a fight.States of Love: Stories of romance that span every corner of the United States.
Russian Roulette
by Alex AlderWhen the new neighbor first moves in, Jacob thinks everything is going to be perfect: Nate is smart, funny, gorgeous, and basically everything Jacob ever wanted wrapped up in a pretty green-eyed package. But when a string of horrific murders starts up in the city shortly after Nate's arrival, his new neighbor's quiet, reclusive nature starts to take on new meaning. Jacob could be falling in love with the serial killer next door, and he may very well have to risk everything he cares about in order to make it out alive.
Rust Belt Femme
by Raechel Anne JolieOne of NPR's "Best Books of 2020," and winner of the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards' gold medal for LGBTQ+ nonfiction, Raechel Anne Jolie's blazing memoir is now available in paperback. Raechel Anne Joli
Rusty Summer (The Rusty Winters Series #2)
by Mary MckinleyThere's school, and then there's the real world. If you're lucky enough to survive the first, you owe it to yourself to explore the second...So let's roll...With graduation a month away, I'm hitting the road with my best friends Beau, Leonie, and Leonie's awesome rescue dog, The Bomb. We've all got something on our minds. Beau is schooling our school for ignoring brutal bullying. Beautiful, crazy Leonie is striving to become a model. And I'm drilling to join a local roller derby team--The Rat City Roller Girls--where my bulk is actually a benefit! But first, somewhere between finals and graduation, I need some answers. I need to see my dad. Face to face.Unless he's moved without telling me, my dad is out in the wilds of Alaska--somewhere remote, beautiful, and amazing, where there will be wild animals, and hot guys, and adventures and lies and heartbreaks. It's further from home than any of us have ever been. Sometimes that's how far you need to go to figure out exactly where you want to be...
Ryan
by Wayne MansfieldFor the past twenty years, Dane has taken care of his wealthy Aunt Beatrice. One rainy day, she’s killed in a car accident, and Dane is devastated. When he returns to the large, luxurious home they once shared, he falls into a depression.Lonely, he places an advertisement on Craigslist, in part to find someone to keep the house clean and take care of maintenance, but also to keep him company, as he did Aunt Beatrice. The next morning, Ryan is at his door to claim the job. Soon Dane finds himself falling in love with the handsome handyman. But there’s more to both men than first meets the eye.Secrets and shocks culminate in a decision no one should have to make. Especially without all the answers.
Ryan and Avery
by David LevithanFrom the New York Times bestselling author of EVERY DAY, this is a queer love story for the ages--told over the course of a couple's first ten dates.When a blue-haired boy (Ryan) meets a pink-haired boy (Avery) at a dance--a queer prom--both feel an inexplicable but powerful connection. Follow them through their first ten dates as they bridge their initial shyness and fall in love--through snowstorms, groundings, meeting parents (Avery's) and not (Ryan's), cast parties, heartbreak, and every day and date in between.
Ryan Murphy's Queer America
by Brenda R. Weber David GrevenRyan Murphy is a self-described "gay boy from Indiana," who has grown up to forge a media empire. With an extraordinary list of credits and successful television shows, movies, and documentaries to his name, Murphy can now boast one of the broadest and most successful careers in Hollywood. Serving as writer, producer, and director, his creative output includes limited-run dramas (such as Feud, Ratched, and Halston), procedural dramas (such as 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lonestar), anthology series (such as American Crime Story, American Horror Story, and American Horror Stories), sit-coms (such as The New Normal) and long-running serial narratives (such as Glee, Nip/Tuck, and Pose). Each of these is infused in different ways with a distinctive form of queer energy and erotics, animating their narratives with both campy excess and poignant longing and giving new meaning to the American story. This collection takes up Murphy as auteur and showrunner, considering the gendered and sexual politics of Murphy’s wide body of work. Using an intersectional framework throughout, an impressive list of well-known and emerging scholars engages with Murphy’s diverse output, while also making the case for Murphy’s version of a queer sensibility, a revised notion of queer time, cultural memory, and the contributions his own production company makes to a politics of LGBTQ+ representation and evolving gender identities. This book is suitable for students of Gender and Media, LGBTQ+ Studies, Media Studies, and Communication Studies.
Ryder: Revenge and Redemption
by Edward KendrickMy name is John Ryder, although everyone who knows me calls me Ryder. I work for an organization that makes it its business to deal with the scum of the scum. We're not assassins. We're people who go undercover to gather information. Mark Blaine was my partner, and the only man I ever loved. We had plans for our life, until he was tortured and killed by a drug dealer and his henchmen.When that happened, I broke all ties with the organization, and did what I do best. I went deep undercover. Now, I'm out for revenge. One by one, I will do to Mark's killers what they did to him until everyone one of them is dead.I will be successful, or die in the process. There are no other alternatives.
S.C.U.D.
by Courtney MilnesteinTo tell the tale of human history, we must also relate the history of our enemy, the archfiend, that apex predator, the vampire known as Count Dracula!For centuries now, the Society for Cutting Up Dracula has been the last bastion of hope against the king of vampires, observing his lives, his loves, standing guard against his devilish ambitions, protecting humanity from his ambitions. Yet as Dracula, cunning and manipulative, takes up a scheme to repay his debts to the family of a man now lost to him, will his gifts prove overpowering for those that have drawn his interest?Discover now the secret origin of the Prince of Darkness, his passions and persuasions, and the truth about vampires; discover now a history of the world unseen played out through the ages ... discover the truth of the Society for Cutting Up Dracula!
Sabbia e fuoco (Serie Sull'isola Di Wight Ser. #2)
by Veronica Zana Sue BrownSeguito di Sabbia e saleSerie Sull’Isola di Wight, Libro 2Dopo la straordinaria vacanza sull’isola di Wight durante la quale ha trovato l’amore della sua vita, Sam Owens lascia andare Liam Marshall a casa, negli Stati Uniti, a chiudere le questioni in sospeso prima del loro lieto fine. Quando le comunicazioni con Liam si interrompono, Sam comincia a preoccuparsi. Temendo il peggio, ingaggia suo fratello, l’agente della polizia metropolitana inglese Paul Owens, per aiutarlo a trovare il fidanzato e riportarlo a casa sano e salvo in tempo per il matrimonio. Per Paul non è difficile sbrogliare il mistero nella piccola città d’oltreoceano. Paul è bello e apertamente bisessuale, tutte cose che aumentano lo sconforto dell’ispettore che si occupa del caso, Olaf Skandik. Olaf è un ex-militare che continua a nascondere la propria sessualità anche dopo essere entrato a far parte del dipartimento di polizia. È frustrato, accerchiato dai muri che lui stesso ha eretto, e quando incontra Paul, si domanda se sia arrivato il momento di cambiare. Mentre è alla ricerca di Liam, Paul comincia a indagare anche su Olaf, e presto il lavoro si mescola al piacere, con un pizzico d’amore che potrebbe convincere l’ispettore a creare un futuro insieme con il poliziotto inglese.
Sabbia e sale (Serie Sull'Isola di Wight #1)
by Valeria Presti Sue BrownSerie Sull'Isola di Wight, Libro 1Quando il migliore amico di Liam Marshall, Alex, perde la lotta contro il cancro al colon, gli lascia un'ultima richiesta: comprare un biglietto per Ryde, sull'Isola di Wight, e spargere le sue ceneri dal molo. Liam è stanco, esausto, e ha un disperato bisogno di una vacanza, ma invece di sole, mare, sabbia e sexy camerieri da spiaggia, ottiene solo un vecchio treno sgangherato, pieno di bambini irrequieti e nessun Ewan McGregor. Liam avrebbe fatto qualunque cosa per il suo migliore amico, ma esaudire l'ultima richiesta di Alex significa anche lasciare andare la sola famiglia che gli era restata. Smarrito, Liam rimane paralizzato sul molo... finché Sam Owens non arriva in suo soccorso. Sam passa le vacanze con la sua famiglia sull'Isola di Wight da sempre, ma non ha mai incontrato un uomo come Liam. Deciso a rendere memorabile la sua vacanza, Sam si prende cura di lui, dentro e fuori dalla camera da letto. Arriva a presentarlo all'intera famiglia. Ma anche se aiuta Liam a lasciarsi andare, a poco a poco Sam è costretto ad ammettere che il suo desiderio è che Liam si aggrappi a qualcosa: non alla sua vita di un tempo, ma a Sam e a quello che c'è tra di loro.a
Sabine (Books That Changed the World)
by A. P.&“This book is The Secret Historymeets Interview with the Vampire. It&’s campy, creepy, sensational fun that&’s hardly life-sucking&” (Daily Candy). A sensual and Gothic tale of obsession and sexual awakening, Sabine &“was deemed so scandalous by its author that she refused to put her name to it. But despite its lusty content, the real shock is the scary secret unearthed toward the end&” (Reveal). It is the 1950s and existentialism is flourishing in Paris. But Viola, a seventeen-year-old English girl, is languishing in an elite boarding school in the dull French countryside. Under the distracted tutelage of Aimée, the students lounge about the crumbling gray château playing records and smoking Gitanes, awaiting the arrival of some suitable distraction. Then a new teacher arrives—Sabine—with her long, tanned legs and mane of golden hair. Sabine questions everything and challenges the girls to look at their world anew. Passion strikes Viola. But there are sinister forces at play in the château and when Sabine becomes ill with a blood disorder, Viola uncovers a dangerous secret . . . In this &“irresistible gothic potboiler . . . the anonymous author of this ardent girl-for-girl romance evokes the mesmerizing quality of a dream at dusk, meshed with an appropriately overheated, breathless, and hormone-driven narrative voice&” (Booklist). &“A.P. writes superbly, whoever she or he may be . . . Sabine is an enchanting novel that deserves to be a cult classic.&” —The Daily Telegraph &“Anonymous A.P marvelously re-creates the hormonal anguish of the fey teenagers.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A sexy, Gothic tale.&” —Harpers & Queen &“Remarkable . . . creepy.&” —Kirkus Reviews
Sábios Antes de seu Tempo: Pessoas com AIDS e HIV falam sobre suas vidas
by Ann RichardsonEles são jovens e têm uma doença mortal... O ano de 1991. Diagnósticos de HIV estão crescendo e não há cura em vista. Vindos de todos os lados do mundo, quarenta e um homens e mulheres falam sobre viver com HIV e AIDS. Eles devem lidar com o enorme estigma e culpa associados com a doença. E há desafios em contar para os seus pais e parceiros, tentar manter uma aparência saudável para o trabalho – tudo enquanto enfrentam um futuro inevitavelmente mais curto. Ainda assim, eles se mantêm comprometidos a celebrar as alegrias da vida tanto quanto conseguem. Esse livro é o testemunho da resiliência do espírito humano. Primeiramente publicado em 1992, o livro conta as suas histórias únicas, nas suas próprias palavras. ‘Essa coleção de histórias verídicas é tão poderosa quanto qualquer grande clássico da ficção’ Sir Ian McKellen.
Sabores (Horizontes #2)
by Mickie B. Ashling Rocío AresVolumen 2 de la serie "Horizontes"Lo que debería haber sido un breve interlvalo de vacaciones se convierte en algo más profundo cuando Lil Lampert conoce a Grier Dilorio en la feria de Los sabores de Chicago. Lil está de paso en la ciudad visitando a sus buenos amigos, Jody Williams y Clark Stevens, sin ninguna intención de relacionarse con un hombre más joven y descubrir un amor mutuo por la arquitectura, el diseño de interiores y unas preferencias sexuales muy peculiares que lo tienen enganchado y con necesidad de más. A todas luces, Grier es el clásico chico malo al que le encanta la velocidad, los tatuajes y el cuero, pero poco a poco Lil va descubriendo su otra faceta: desinteresado, responsable y tierno, especialmente con Luca, el hijo al que tuvo que negar. Con el amor y el apoyo de Lil, Grier tomará una decisión clave para abrir la puerta a un posible futuro juntos, uno que incluya la paternidad, algo con lo que Lil había soñado pero que nunca se había atrevido a explorar.
Sabotage (NEON #3)
by Allyson LindtMagnusWhen I was granted immortality, I hoped I could put one of life's worries behind me--that a powerful group of gods want me dead.Turns out undying isn't as literal as I thought.I've got some powerful people fighting by my side, including a phoenix shifter with a sexy AF accent, and a god on the inside of the same organization trying to kill me.I'll gladly take their help in the staying alive department, and I definitely don't mind that the arrangement comes with physical benefits of the naked and horizontal variety.But I can't offer more than that. Not an eternity, or a lifetime, or any sort of love, because it becomes more clear every day that nothing is forever, and trust is the most fleeting thing there is.Author's Note:This series will give you multiple happily ever afters, for multiple MMF polyamorous triads… But getting there will be one hell of an angst-filled ride.
The Sacking of the Muses
by Susan Hawthornethe Muses have been sackedtheir role in the pantheonsold up for some newreal estate ventureWhen the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Muses who inspire poetry, astronomy, history and daily living bring their song and dance into present-day political struggles. These Muses are for rebellion. Susan Hawthorne’s poems span millennia of resistance by women. The earth itself is implicated. She writes about women's bodies, how they are used, abused and celebrated in birthing, in sexual pleasure, in grief, in imagining. She draws on stories from ancient and contemporary India, from Greece and Rome, through language, storytelling and translation.we embrace our double liveslike actors and their alter egossome say slesha is unnaturalI've heard the same said about us
Sacrament of Bodies (African Poetry Book)
by Romeo OriogunIn this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun explores grief and how the body finds survival through migration.
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
by James RommFrom classicist James Romm comes a &“striking…fascinating&” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great&’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world.The tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in women&’s clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might. To counter the Spartans, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life.After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in 1880—some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together.From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band recounts &“in fluent, accessible prose&” (The Wall Street Journal) the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.
The Sacred Beasts
by Bev JafekRuth, a brilliant zoologist and geologist, has just retired with her lover, Katia, to her family home in the southern tip of Argentinean Patagonia. Ruth conceives a unique way of dealing with her grief over Katia's sudden suicide with the creation of an outdoor art garden made of cast-off objects and garbage. Sylvie, a young French artist, is drawn to the art garden and she and Ruth discover that they are kindred spirits. They travel to Spain's Costa Brava and then on to Barcelona--Ruth filtering the world through her feminist political and environmental theories and the concept that liberated women are sacred beasts, and Sylvie capturing the world around her with a vivid, penetrating artist eye.
Sacred Country
by Rose TremainSweeping through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the nineteen-fifties to London of the sixties and seventies America, this story follows Mary's fight to become Martin, as well as the troubled family and circle of acquaintances and friends who also make up the core of this remarkable, emotional yet unsentimental novel. At the age of six, Mary, the child of a Suffolk farm family had a revelation--she knew she was not a girl, but was meant to be a boy. Where this realization takes Mary is the ostensible subject of Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the vivid people around her, that the novel eddies out to encompass others in the village and the times. With a steady eye, the harsh circumstances of Mary's upbringing and her disconnection from her body and surroundings are revealed. That so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin can be found is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and exacting prose.
Sacred Fate
by EressëSacred Fate introduces you to an amazing world from the imagination of fantasy romance author Eressё. Some things are worth fighting for, which both high-born ruler and low-born lover learn in Book 1 of The Chronicles of Ylandre. In the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, the great divide between the high-born True Bloods and the lower-ranked Half Bloods is deemed impassable by most. Rohyr Essendri dared to cross it when he took young Lassen Idana from his provincial town and made him his paramour. Lassen perforce learned how to navigate the intricate byways of life at court. What he never expected, however, was to fall in love with Rohyr, a most inadvisable and impractical thing to do when one's lover is sovereign ruler of the land. But anything worth having is worth fighting for, both figuratively and, as Lassen discovers, literally speaking.Content Notes hermaphrodism and explicit homoerotic sexual encounters.
Sacred Isle
by Eve FrancisAfter Tara Hayes's most recent best seller, she and her long-time girlfriend Wendy go on a road trip. They soon arrive along the Florida coastline at the Sacred Isle Diner where yet another case falls into Tara's lap. She uses her training as a PI and the notoriety from her famous book to wedge her way into the investigation of a man who appears to have been killed by a mermaid.Though Tara knows the idea is ridiculous, the possible siren that haunts the Florida coastline is all she can think about. It's not long before Tara stumbles on Sabrina Taylor, the victim's sister, and forgets about Wendy entirely.Sabrina is a blonde bombshell with an amazing voice and even more amazing touch. Tara is enchanted right away, but a shocking turn in the investigation makes her realize Sabrina may be more than who she says she is.
Sacred Isle
by Eve MortonAfter Tara Hayes's most recent best seller, she and her long-time girlfriend Wendy go on a road trip. They soon arrive along the Florida coastline at the Sacred Isle Diner where yet another case falls onto Tara's lap. She uses her training as a PI and the notoriety from her famous book to wedge her way into the investigation of a man who appears to have been killed by a mermaid.Though Tara knows the idea is ridiculous, the possible siren that haunts the Florida coastline is all she can think about. It's not long before Tara stumbles on Sabrina Taylor, the victim's sister and forgets about Wendy entirely.Sabrina is a blonde bombshell with an amazing voice and even more amazing touch. Tara is enchanted right away, but a shocking turn in the investigation makes her realize that Sabrina may be more than who she says she is.
The Sacrifice
by Stephanie ParkFor years now the harvest has been less than it should be. Last year the people of Oisin's village sacrificed a goat, but their god did not come. Now, in desperation, a human sacrifice has been suggested, and Oisin, recently orphaned and feeling life is not worth living, volunteers.But the god Belinos is not quite what he seems, and Oisin's sacrifice will not be what he expects, for Belinos first came out of the darkness to drink the sacrificial blood not because he was a god, but because he was a vampire.This is just the beginning of the changes to Oisin's life, as he is drawn further and further into a world of gods and magic, where the most unexpected thing is not even his own blossoming talent, but the blossoming feelings he has for Belinos.Love between mortal and immortal is not without its difficulties, though. As outright war among the gods threatens, Oisin will end up making a far greater difference in the conflict than he could ever have dreamed possible.
Sacrificed (Little Boy Lost Series #6)
by J. P. Barnaby2nd EditionLittle Boy Lost: Book SixReunited with his father but missing the one man he loves more than any other, Jamie Mayfield attempts to put his life back together amid rehab, seizures, and the gutting loneliness of Brian's rejection. As he tries to cope, Jamie finds that relying on his friends isn't nearly as difficult as he'd imagined, and soon he can once again stand on his own two feet. While recovering from his addiction, Jamie starts a new phase of his life at college, working to become the man Brian needs him to be. Only one question remains: Can Jamie earn Brian's forgiveness and win back his trust, or will their love be sacrificed at the altar of Jamie's demons? Brian and Jamie's epic journey comes to a close in this thrilling conclusion to the Little Boy Lost series.First Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, June 2012