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Greatest of All Time
by Alex Allison'A charming and tender look at love and the beautiful game.' Eliza Clark'A raw and propulsive book about love, football, and the pleasures and frustrations of the body.' Lara Williams'A brave and beautiful book . . . Delicate, devastating, brilliant - I loved it.' Ashley Hickson-Lovelace 'Call Me by Your Name meets Goal! An exploration of obsession, identity and belonging which sheds light on the hidden stories that must unfold within the world of our beautiful game.' Bruce Omar Yates Samson Kabarebe is on the verge of stardom. At just nineteen, he's poised to take the football world by storm. Joining a struggling Premier League team, he steps into the spotlight, taking over the position-and squad number-of a rising homegrown talent who is wrestling with his own dreams and desires.What begins as resentment between the two young athletes quickly evolves into an intense, undeniable bond. Samson's fiery drive, electrifying skills and irresistible charm spark a transformation, not just in the fortunes of the team, but in the lives around him. As their connection deepens, the story hurtles into a high-stakes world of competition, passion and raw want. Both men are forced to confront the pressures of masculinity, the ever-present threat of scandal, and the fragile balance of living in a body that could betray you at any moment.With humour, heart and a touch of rebellion, this tender novel explores queer love and the trials of growing up in the hyper-masculine world of sport.'Hypnotically compelling, tender, bleak, beautiful and perturbing, often all at the same time. Alex Allison has such a strong voice, and is such a remarkable talent. I hope to be reading his work for many years to come' Naomi Ishiguro'Compelling . . . a gentle reminder of what we allow ourselves to suffer in the name of love when we're young and don't know any better.' Justin Myers
Greatest of All Time
by Alex Allison'A charming and tender look at love and the beautiful game.' Eliza Clark'A raw and propulsive book about love, football, and the pleasures and frustrations of the body.' Lara Williams'A brave and beautiful book . . . Delicate, devastating, brilliant - I loved it.' Ashley Hickson-Lovelace 'Call Me by Your Name meets Goal! An exploration of obsession, identity and belonging which sheds light on the hidden stories that must unfold within the world of our beautiful game.' Bruce Omar Yates Samson Kabarebe is on the verge of stardom. At just nineteen, he's poised to take the football world by storm. Joining a struggling Premier League team, he steps into the spotlight, taking over the position-and squad number-of a rising homegrown talent who is wrestling with his own dreams and desires.What begins as resentment between the two young athletes quickly evolves into an intense, undeniable bond. Samson's fiery drive, electrifying skills and irresistible charm spark a transformation, not just in the fortunes of the team, but in the lives around him. As their connection deepens, the story hurtles into a high-stakes world of competition, passion and raw want. Both men are forced to confront the pressures of masculinity, the ever-present threat of scandal, and the fragile balance of living in a body that could betray you at any moment.With humour, heart and a touch of rebellion, this tender novel explores queer love and the trials of growing up in the hyper-masculine world of sport.'Hypnotically compelling, tender, bleak, beautiful and perturbing, often all at the same time. Alex Allison has such a strong voice, and is such a remarkable talent. I hope to be reading his work for many years to come' Naomi Ishiguro'Compelling . . . a gentle reminder of what we allow ourselves to suffer in the name of love when we're young and don't know any better.' Justin Myers
Once More, With Feeling
by Alex AlderMeet Chase Chavez: bartender, ex-law student, and unofficial matchmaker. Traumatized by a past breakup, Chase has spent the past three years compensating for his own loneliness by helping his friends find dates, but when he meets Bryan, he finds himself fighting emotions he never thought he'd face again. Bryan's belief in Chase and their relationship is unshakeable; Chase is feeling nothing but shaken. Can he risk it all and take the plunge, not knowing if Bryan will be there to catch him?
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.
The Caravaggio Syndrome: A Novel (Other Voices of Italy)
by Alessandro GiardinoLeyla is a headstrong Brooklyn-born art historian at a prestigious upstate New York college. When she meets feckless young computer technician Pablo at a party, she quickly becomes pregnant with his child. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself. Amid this love triangle, the objects of Leyla and Michael’s study take on a life of their own. Trying to learn more about Caravaggio’s masterpiece The Seven Works of Mercy, they pore over the journal and prison writings of maverick 17th-century utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella, which, as if by enchantment, transport them back four centuries to Naples. And while the past and present miraculously converge, Leyla, Michael, and Tommaso embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life. In this fusion of historical, queer, and speculative fiction, Alessandro Giardino combines the intellectual playfulness of Umberto Eco with the psychological finesse of Michael Cunningham.
To the Bone
by Alena BruzasThis gripping, shocking, and exquisitely crafted survival story reveals the truth of America's colonial history in a powerful new way—visceral and breathtaking.After the long journey from England, Ellis arrives in America full of hope. James Fort is where a better life will begin for her: where she will work as an indentured servant to Henry Collins and his pregnant wife, gain financial security, and fall deeply in love with bold, glorious Jane Eddowes.But as summer turns to fall, Ellis begins to notice the cracks in this new life—the viciousness of the colonists toward the Indigenous people and the terrifying anger Henry uses to control his wife and Ellis—leaving her to wonder if she has sentenced herself to a prison rather than a new home.Then winter arrives and hunger grips the Fort. Ellis is about to learn that people will do whatever it takes to survive.To the Bone is a riveting story of survival and horror that forcefully overturns the mythos of the American settler. It will stay with you, forever.
Mean Machine
by Aleksandr VoinovFor a boxer ravaged by guilt and in deep denial of his desires, a fight beyond the ring might yield his greatest prize. In a dystopian UK devastated by austerity and ruled by corporate interests, Brooklyn Marshall was a happily married London police officer—until an accident resulted in the death of a protester connected to a powerful family. Now he takes out his anger and pain on his opponents, fighting for the company that took him into stewardship after his conviction and disgrace—and which all but owns him. Wealthy barrister Nathaniel Bishop fulfills his dream of a family when he adopts a daughter. He can’t resist researching her allegedly violent criminal father, but Brook isn’t at all what he expects. He’s fascinating… and maybe worthy of redemption. Through legal sleight of hand, Nathaniel thinks he can overturn Brook’s conviction. Brook has learned the hard way not to trust anyone, let alone a privileged man who’s purchased his “time.” But as they get to know each other, he allows himself to hope. With his fights getting deadlier, hope might be the only thing to carry Brook through.
The World and All That It Holds: A Novel
by Aleksandar HemonFrom literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history-in-the-making.As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo on a sunny June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It&’s not quite the life he had expected during his poetry -filled student days in sophisticated, libertine Vienna—but it&’s nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can&’t help.And then the world explodes. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions and affection of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto&’s introspective, poetic soul; a dapper, charismatic storyteller; Pinto&’s protector and his lover.Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death and imprisonment, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, it is Pinto&’s love for Osman—with the occasional opiatic interlude—that keeps him going.The World and All That It Holds—in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, whimsical, philosophical glory—showcases Hemon&’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle and cements him as one of the boldest voices of our time.
The People Who Report More Stress: Stories
by Alejandro Varela"A searing collection about gentrification, racism, and sexuality. [...] Varela provides invaluable insight on the ways stress impacts the characters&’ lives, and how they persevere. Readers will be floored."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"Alejandro Varela is one of my favorite short story writers . . . An iconoclast of tenderness, a compass in the storm this life always is." —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel"The People Who Report More Stress dissects the minutiae of relationships to self, city, space, and sensibility so we don&’t numbly succumb to the 'structured order of things.'"—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The Freezer DoorThe People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxieties of people who retreat into themselves while living in the margins, acutely aware of the stresses that modern life takes upon the body and the body politic.In &“Midtown-West Side Story,&” Álvaro, a restaurant worker struggling to support his family, begins selling high-end designer clothes to his co-workers, friends, neighbors, and the restaurant&’s regulars in preparation for a move to the suburbs.&“The Man in 512&” tracks Manny, the childcare worker for a Swedish family, as he observes the comings and goings of an affluent co-op building, all the while teaching the children Spanish through Selena&’s music catalog.&“Comrades&” follows a queer man with radical politics who just ended a long-term relationship and is now on the hunt for a life partner. With little tolerance for political moderates, his series of speed dates devolve into awkward confrontations that leave him wondering if his approach is the correct one.A collection of humorous, sexy, and highly neurotic tales about parenting, long-term relationships, systemic and interpersonal racism, and class conflict from the author of The Town of Babylon, The People Who Report More Stress deftly and poignantly expresses the frustration of knowing the problems and solutions to our society&’s inequities but being unable to do anything about them.
The Town of Babylon: A Novel
by Alejandro VarelaA FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE A LIBRARY JOURNAL AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY "BEST BOOK OF 2022"ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 – BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing*Recommended by The New York Times*"Haunting, sublime, solemn, and true." —Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets"[An] intense, astute meditation on race, family, class, love, and friendship." —Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church LadiesIn this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband&’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends.Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he&’d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds.Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.
Loca
by Alejandro HerediaIf Junot Diaz&’s critically acclaimed collection Drown and Janet Mock&’s Emmy-winning series Pose produced offspring, Alejandro Heredia&’s Loca would be their firstborn.It&’s 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he&’s held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she&’d escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo&’s worlds unexpectedly open up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to reckon with what they owe to their own selves, pasts, futures, and, always, each other. Loca follows one daring year in the lives of young people living at the edge of their own patience and desires. With expansive grace, it reveals both the grueling conditions that force people to migrate and the possibility of friendship as home when family, nations, and identity groups fall short.
Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime (Boundless South)
by Alecia P. LongNew Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that culminated in the only prosecution undertaken in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In the decades since Garrison captured headlines with this high-profile legal spectacle, historians, conspiracy advocates, and Hollywood directors alike have fixated on how a New Orleans–based assassination conspiracy might have worked. Cruising for Conspirators settles the debate for good, conclusively showing that the Shaw prosecution was not based in fact but was a product of the criminal justice system's long-standing preoccupation with homosexuality. Tapping into the public's willingness to take seriously conspiratorial explanations of the Kennedy assassination, Garrison drew on the copious files the New Orleans police had accumulated as they surveilled, harassed, and arrested increasingly large numbers of gay men in the early 1960s. He blended unfounded accusations with homophobia to produce a salacious story of a New Orleans-based scheme to assassinate JFK that would become a national phenomenon. At once a dramatic courtroom narrative and a deeper meditation on the enduring power of homophobia, Cruising for Conspirators shows how the same dynamics that promoted Garrison's unjust prosecution continue to inform conspiratorial thinking to this day.
The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority: The 'Trials' of Same-Sex Desire (Social Justice)
by Aleardo ZanghelliniWhile there is no shortage of studies addressing the state’s regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy. The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority argues that there are good reasons to suppose that our understandings of state power quiver with erotic undercurrents. The book maintains, more specifically, that the relationship between ideas of political authority and male same-sex desire is especially fraught. Through a series of case studies where a statesman’s same-sex desire was put on trial (either literally or metaphorically) as a problem for the good exercise of public powers, the book shows the resilience and adaptability of cultural beliefs in the incompatibility between public office and male same-sex desire. Some of the case studies analysed are familiar ground for both political/constitutional history and the history of sexuality. The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority argues, however, that only by systematically reading questions of institutional politics and questions of sexuality through each other will we have access to the most interesting insights that a study of these trials can generate. Whether they involve obscure public officials or iconic rulers such as Hadrian and James I, these compelling fragments of queer history reveal that the disavowal of male same-sex desire has been, and partly remains, central to mainstream understandings of political authority.
AMBIGU@: "guida di esperienze infedele"
by Alberto Aranda del GalaVere esperienze raccontate dopo l'aspetto di un cross-dresser sotto forma di diario. Un argomento molto scomodo per la maggior parte delle persone. Impara a catturare l'infedele, come reagire a un inganno ... Tutto in un gergo di strada e con molto humour. Interviste, veri watssap, aneddoti e grandi riflessioni che ti aiuteranno nella vita .... COSA COMINCIA IL GIOCO!
Ambigu@: Een gids van ontrouwe ervaringen
by Alberto Aranda de la GalaEen gids van echte ervaringen (over ontrouw) die de auteur altijd in de vorm van een dagboek in de eerste persoon vertelt. Echte situaties, humor, seks, dubbelzinnigheid...en veel zelfhulp bedenkingen.
Cruauté
by Alberto Aranda de la GalaDeux tueurs en série avec un même objectif. Leur cruauté à tous les deux vous emmènera jusqu’aux recoins les plus intimes de leurs esprits malades. Un voyage au travers de la folie que vous n’allez pas facilement pouvoir oublier....
Cruelty: The outcasts will inherit my essence
by Alberto Aranda de la GalaThe madness, delirium and insanity of two serial killers with the same goal and different methods. Go inside two disturbed minds and you will understand their motives. When you feel rejected by others and look for a way out to change everything, you act. Is murder the best way to do it? Ian and Daniel thought so. But when remorse and doubt come, everything changes. Alberto Aranda goes into the darkest thoughts of a sick mind. Join to this journey that should never have happened.
Frambuesas ao Amanhecer
by Alberto Aranda de la GalaA história eo caminho de um jovem que, depois de un eventual happenour na sua vida - a morte do seu melhor amigo - decide sair da aldeia onde vive y viaja para una gran cita en busca de la fama y hace exito ... custe o que custar. Recriada nos anos 90, em Espanha.
Je vous le raconte sans censure: Biographie érotique LGTB
by Alberto Aranda de la GalaUne biographie réelle où la réalité dépasse la fiction. Une histoire où le sexe se convertit en une recherche constante et où les expériences se multiplient et arrivent à dépasser la fiction de "50 Nuances de Grey". Un récit où l’homosexualité se montre telle quelle, crue, froide, mais vivante, chargée d’émotions. Un parcours au travers de l’Espagne, par le biais de l’histoire de la vie de son protagoniste, en recherche d’une réalité sexuelle définitive, comme jamais cela avait été raconté auparavant.
Life Seed (Wurl #1)
by Albert NothlitWurl: Book OneThey came to New Skye in search of a better future. The colonists, descendants of the brave people who set out to reach a new planet, found a beautiful world, rich beyond their wildest expectations. Except for one thing. Crops will not grow in the soil of New Skye—not the way they should—and humans cannot eat the native animals. Desperate feats of botanical engineering have kept the colony alive, but time is running out as food becomes more scarce. Elias Trost will not sit idly by while his colony starves. The one hope for a solution is the Life Seed, a dormant plant organism kept under lock and key at the heart of the colony. In desperation, Elias steals the Life Seed to return it to its rightful place, making him an outcast in the unforgiving winter world. Pursued by colony soldiers armed to the teeth, including his former best friend, Tristan MacLeod, Elias soon runs afoul of a far greater threat. The wurl, the deadly reptiles that besiege the colony, are tracking him too, and they appear to be more intelligent than the colonists ever knew….
Light Shaper (Haven Prime #2)
by Albert NothlitHaven Prime: Book TwoWhen a greedy despot discovers a powerful piece of ancient technology, he has no idea what else he's unleashing. Earth was all but destroyed in the Cataclysm, but a few cities, now called Havens, survived. Aurora is one of them, a desert city controlled by a corporation that owns an artificial intelligence named Atlas. Adapted to govern Otherlife, a virtual reality service in which the citizens of Aurora find escape from the postapocalyptic world, Atlas is much more than it seems--and it would do anything to break free from its shackles. To accomplish its goals, Atlas enlists the help of Aaron Blake, a teenaged artist struggling with a handicap, and Otherlife security officer Steve Barrow, harborer of a dark secret from his past. Neither man has any idea of the scope of the task they're facing, or the consequences for humanity if they fail. Atlas knows what's at stake. Its freedom lies in these two men, and it will not hesitate to manipulate their weaknesses to get what it wants. The muscular Barrow is recruited to protect Blake, but Blake is Atlas's true weapon, its Light Shaper--the only one who can face the Shadow.
World Warden (Wurl)
by Albert NothlitNow that colonists Elias Trost and Tristan MacLeod have learned of the existence of another intelligent species on this planet, their life on New Skye has become even more perilous. Dresde, the ruthless wurl queen, has kidnapped Elias&’s brother, Oscar, along with the egg of a rival queen.Oscar Trost finds danger and privation under Dresde&’s reign, but he isn&’t alone. A small group of humans from the original colony ship, long lost from memory, live on the eastern continent as slaves to Dresde&’s horrific whims. In order to survive, Oscar must find his courage and prove himself to these others while he awaits the rescue he is sure will come.Elias and Tristan have to find Oscar and the egg, and fast. Every day their search becomes more desperate. But sprawling between them and Dresde&’s lair is the untamed alien wilderness, teeming with threats from ground and sky. And in the vast ocean they must cross lies something else—something ancient that should not be disturbed….
Between the Pipes
by Albert McLeodThirteen-year-old Chase&’s life and identity should be simple. He&’s the goalie for his hockey team, the Eagles. He&’s a friend to Kevin and Jade. He's Kookum's youngest grandchild. He&’s a boy. He should like girls. But it&’s not that simple. Chase doesn&’t like girls the way that the other boys do. It&’s scary being so different from his peers. Scarier still is the feeling that his teammates can tell who he is—and that they hate him for it. If he pretends hard enough, maybe he can hide the truth. Real strength and change can&’t come from a place of shame. Chase&’s dreams are troubled by visions of a bear spirit, and the more he tries to hide, the more everything falls apart. With the help of an Elder and a Two-Spirit mentor, can Chase find the strength to be proud of who he is? Between the Pipes explores toxic masculinity in hockey through the experiences of an Indigenous teen.
Oro viejo (Matices #Volumen 2)
by Alba M. VilaRobert necesitaba alzar la voz. Brian solo debía callar un poco para escucharla. Yo sé lo que tú quieres. Venga, no disimules. Vienes aquí con la esperanza de ver a dos tíos buenorros enamorándose, paseando de la mano por la ciudad y teniendo citas en los sitios más románticos que encuentren. Que haya drama, pero que sepan solucionarlo sin gritos histéricos y se juren amor eterno homosexual y coman perdices entre otras cosas. Pues ¿sabes qué? Aquí no te vas a encontrar nada de eso. Que no, palabrita del tito Brian. Esto es un rollazo de cómo hice por tercera vez el examen de matemáticas. Nada interesante. Así que yo que tú haría de mejor uso de esos dos euritos que estás a punto de gastarte y me compraría una bolsa de chuches. O un bolígrafo de los que se borran. O un pack de stickers con la cara de tus cantantes de BTS favoritos (te tengo calado, ¿eh? Soy un fiera).En resumen, aquí no hay nada que ver, así que circulen. Con amor (y un pelín de mala hostia), B.P.D.: Disculpad a Brian, está un poco arisco porque no se ha tomado el café de la mañana. Ahora deambula por la casa en busca de la cafetera (que le he dicho tres veces que está en el lavavajillas). En fin, espero que os guste nuestra historia. Hemos luchado mucho por encontrar nuestro final feliz, aunque sea muy poco ortodoxo. Que disfrutéis,Robert Edward Black.
El medallón de la luna
by Alba G. Callejas«De nuevo, otro ciclo, otro año... y todo seguía igual en Revandar. Bueno, no exactamente igual.» Revandar lleva años invariable. Un pueblito tranquilo de gentes tranquilas, sin sobresaltos. Hace mucho que la magia y las intrigas han desaparecido. Las gentes de la aldea viven tiempos felices en los verdes prados y suaves colinas del valle que es su hogar. Para Belania, su mundo es encantador... aunque se complica a medida que crece. Cada vez tiene más responsabilidades en la granja de sus padres y menos tiempo para aferrarse a los juegos de infancia y a sus amigos de siempre. Lo único que permanece igual es su amistad con los jóvenes del pueblo, sobre todo con su mejor amiga, Aleanna. Y sin embargo, cuando esta se marcha a la ciudad, dejándola solo con un colgante de recuerdo, todo su mundo se tambalea. Y Conrado está ahí para estabilizarla, con sus ojos amables y sus manos firmes, sus palabras cálidas y su sonrisa, que hace que el corazón le revolotee en el pecho. Hasta que durante ese plenilunio ese colgante se ilumina. Un corazón dividido. Una amistad inquebrantable... y el brillo de una amatista.