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Onwaachige the Dreamer (The Two-spirit Chronicles #3)
by Jay Jordan HawkeSequel to A Scout is BraveThe Two-spirit Chronicles: Book ThreeLove can mean sacrifice. Joshua Ishkoday must decide if he can abandon the boy he loves in order to save him. In the expansive and sometimes deadly northwoods of Wisconsin, Joshua must make a heartbreaking choice as he battles his greatest fears. His best friends, Mokwa and Little Deer, accompany him when a nightmare sends him on an adventure of self-discovery. But the three teenagers aren't alone in the vast forest. Joshua realizes bizarre creatures called Memegwesi have not only been manipulating him through his dreams, but plan to use him in a mysterious plan of their own. Soon he's fighting three enemies: the lethal storm headed their way, the mysterious beings appearing in his dreams, and most frightening of all, his mother's hatred and bigotry.
Onward
by Mags HaywardJen’s had a tough year. Her mother’s sudden passing has created a void in her life and she’s uncertain how to carry on. Thankfully, Alyssa’s there to ease her pain. Originally an online chatroom acquaintance, Alyssa’s becomes the most important person in Jen’s life. She’s fallen for her -- but they live on opposite sides of the world making a real relationship impossible. Or is it?Jen knows she must make changes in her life and an invitation to visit Alyssa could be the break she needs. Could her online love affair finally become a reality? Could she hold Alyssa in her arms and stay with her forever?
The Ooze (Orca Anchor)
by Tash McAdamBran's taking the recycling down to the basement when the lights go out and the elevator stalls. Bran's phone's dead, he can hear screaming, but he can't get out. Eventually, he manages to pry the doors open to find that something's very wrong. His own mother can't remember his name, there is this black slime dripping out of her ear and then she kills their cat. Bran runs. Outside, Vancouver is teeming with people acting strangely, and they all have the same black slime in their ears. What is going on and how can Bran stop it? This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Open and Locked
by Rob RosenWhen Gus’s car breaks down along a deserted country road, what else can he do but get naked? And go looking for help, which he finds in the most unexpected of places. Keep your eyes opened locked; you won’t want to miss a moment of this steamy poolside romantic encounter.NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts
Open Case (The Open Series #3)
by Mickie B. AshlingSequel to Open HouseThe Open Series: Book ThreeSeth Wilder and Bryce McFarland deal with the aftermath of Owen Lightfoot’s destructive rampage. Once again, the insurance company denies the life insurance benefit despite the compelling evidence regarding the underlying cause of Mark’s death. However, they acknowledge their former employee’s complicity in the multiple crimes that have blindsided Seth and Bryce. They settle to keep their name out of the news, offering the couple a million dollars apiece, which they accept. Owen learns of the big payoff and is determined to get his cut. Just when Bryce and Seth think it is all over, Owen reappears, and what follows tests the very limits of their endurance. Through the help of friends and relatives, Seth and Bryce find the strength to keep their relationship intact while seeking out the best way to stop Owen once and for all.
Open Grave: A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller (The DCI Jack Lambert Novels #1)
by A.M. PeacockIn the British city of Newcastle, a pair of bodies leads a police detective into a dark place…DCI Jack Lambert is no stranger to inner demons, having struggled with his own since the admission about his sexuality. But when two bodies are discovered entwined in an open grave, Lambert must put his personal worries aside and work the case. Then, when a local thug turns up dead on the banks of the River Tyne, the DCI&’s criminal past comes back to haunt him. Meanwhile, a local celebrity singer claims that she is being stalked. Could there be a link to the killings? As the bodies start to pile up, Lambert and his colleagues realize the motive lies in the past and the killer is taunting them—but they may not be able to catch the murderer before one of their own ends up in an open grave.
Open Hearts
by Logan MeredithHeartland: Book ThreeFirefighter Asim Bishara knows it's time to start living again. For years he's avoided dealing with his estrangement from his Muslim family and the loss of his first love in the 9/11 attack. Through therapy, Asim begins to heal and combat his own self-loathing. He's ready to leave his loneliness and isolation behind and find love again. Moving on is proving more difficult for Ángel Stanford. When Ángel's husband Zach died, Ángel's dreams of a home and family perished along with him. He always wanted to be a stay-at-home husband and father, but he never imagined he'd be raising Gracie alone. The closer he gets to the handsome firefighter--and the more Asim becomes a part of his and Gracie's life--the more Ángel feels like he's betraying Zach. Ángel has to give himself permission to be happy and realize that while nothing will ever replace the life he had before, the future for him and his daughter can be full of happiness... if he's willing to reach out and take it.
Open House (The Open Series #2)
by Mickie B. AshlingSequel to Open SeatingThe Open Series: Book TwoBy the time Seth Wilder and Bryce McFarland return to Chicago after their UK cruise, they're halfway in love. They decide to move in together to see if their feelings can survive in the real world. Seth receives word that a mandatory autopsy was performed on his late partner because his death was a suicide. The medical examiner's findings are disturbing and leave some doubt as to the underlying cause of death. Because of the suicide clause, life insurance benefits had been denied, but in light of these new findings, Seth's lawyer advises him to appeal. The insurance investigator turns out to be the man who broke Bryce's heart twenty-five years ago. The guy has fallen on hard times, and when he sees how successful Bryce has become--and how large Seth's potential payout might be--he decides he wants a piece of the pie. Bryce and Seth's new relationship is severely tested in this second novel in the Open Series.
Open House (Helen Black Mysteries #4)
by Pat WelchTo most people, a call in the middle of the night means family trouble. But Helen Black's family disowned her years ago. But the call is indeed from Helen's family. Great Aunt Ruth has passed on, and, inexplicably, left Helen her house. And so Helen journeys from Berkeley, from partner Frieda, to return to her roots in Mississippi. To look once more into the face of the father who repudiated her. Into the face of the woman who was her childhood sweetheart and is now a cop. But Helen finds far more than she could ever imagine. A dying grandfather, and small town secrets, one of them contained in the very house that is now hers. She finds murder, and submerged intrigue that harkens all the way back to a deeply stained period of history in the American south.
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
by Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Open Road
by M. J. O'SheaAngus has been with the same guy for ten years. When his boyfriend breaks up with him the night of his thirtieth birthday party and announces his engagement to a twenty-two-year-old less than ten hours later, Angus is... a mess. To put it lightly. He spends days in bed, drinks himself into a stupor every night, and ends up losing his job and his apartment. His best and oldest friend, Reece, decides it's time for an intervention. And a change of scenery. Reece and Angus take off on a buddy trip across the US. They don't have much of a plan; they just start driving. It takes Angus a couple of days to do much more than grunt when Reece talks to him, but slowly he opens up. They drive, talk, heal, shout, drink a bit too much sometimes, dance, meet new friends... and somewhere between Portland, Oregon, and Portland, Maine, they fall in love. Which was the last thing in the world Angus expected.
Open Seating (The\open Ser. #1)
by Mickie B. AshlingSeth Wilder lost his partner of twenty years to suicide two weeks before a long-anticipated cruise. Cancellation insurance was never purchased, and Seth can't get a refund. Bryce McFarland, his late partner's gym buddy, appreciates his predicament, and when asked, agrees to accompany him on the trip. This way, Seth recoups the money and doesn't have to cancel his plans. The gesture is unexpected but accepted gratefully. The two men have nothing in common. Seth is a reclusive romance writer, and Bryce is a hard-core Grindr user with major commitment issues. Out of necessity and despite the seemingly insurmountable differences in personality, they develop a tentative rapport. As they begin their journey through the UK, Bryce helps Seth come to terms with his partner's sudden death while Seth, in turn, discovers the root cause of Bryce's phobia. Shipboard romances rarely work. Sensible men resist, sexual tension notwithstanding. But a full moon and late summer breezes lend themselves to the impossible situation, barriers are crossed, and a love affair is kindled.
An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton
by Nicholas L. SyrettIn 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history. An Open Secret tells the striking story of these two iconoclasts, locating them among their queer contemporaries and exploring why becoming father and son made a surprising kind of sense for a twentieth-century couple who had every monetary advantage but one glaring problem: they wanted to be together publicly in a society that did not tolerate their love. Deftly exploring the nature of their design, domestic, and philanthropic projects, Nicholas L. Syrett illuminates how viewing the Allertons as both a same-sex couple and an adopted family is crucial to understanding their relationship’s profound queerness. By digging deep into the lives of two men who operated largely as ciphers in their own time, he opens up provocative new lanes to consider the diversity of kinship ties in modern US history.
An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton
by Nicholas L. SyrettIn 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history. An Open Secret tells the striking story of these two iconoclasts, locating them among their queer contemporaries and exploring why becoming father and son made a surprising kind of sense for a twentieth-century couple who had every monetary advantage but one glaring problem: they wanted to be together publicly in a society that did not tolerate their love. Deftly exploring the nature of their design, domestic, and philanthropic projects, Nicholas L. Syrett illuminates how viewing the Allertons as both a same-sex couple and an adopted family is crucial to understanding their relationship’s profound queerness. By digging deep into the lives of two men who operated largely as ciphers in their own time, he opens up provocative new lanes to consider the diversity of kinship ties in modern US history.
An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton
by Nicholas L. SyrettIn 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history. An Open Secret tells the striking story of these two iconoclasts, locating them among their queer contemporaries and exploring why becoming father and son made a surprising kind of sense for a twentieth-century couple who had every monetary advantage but one glaring problem: they wanted to be together publicly in a society that did not tolerate their love. Deftly exploring the nature of their design, domestic, and philanthropic projects, Nicholas L. Syrett illuminates how viewing the Allertons as both a same-sex couple and an adopted family is crucial to understanding their relationship’s profound queerness. By digging deep into the lives of two men who operated largely as ciphers in their own time, he opens up provocative new lanes to consider the diversity of kinship ties in modern US history.
Open Sky
by Nickie JamisonBirdie Black isn’t a queen, but she plays one on TV. Abandoned by her mother and raised by her grandparents, Birdie rose to fame when she landed the role of Queen Arihlia on the hit television series Gilded Swords.In Hollywood she met and fell in love with James Tucker Winthrop, heir to the Winthrop Hotel fortune. But no matter how far around the world she flies, Birdie is always drawn back to her first love, Luke, a cattle rancher in Montana ... the place Birdie calls home.On a break from filming, Birdie and Tucker venture back to Montana to meet Luke and his kin, but Birdie’s vacation isn’t relaxing when her mother shows up to wreak havoc in Birdie’s life. Will Birdie’s men be able to save their Queen?
Open Throat: A Novel
by Henry Hoke"Open Throat is what fiction should be." —The New York Times Book ReviewOne of ELLE's Best Summer Books of 2023, and one of i-D's Fiction to be Excited for in 2023. Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Buzzfeed, Boston Globe, Nylon, Alta, Shondaland, Chicago Review of Books, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary HubA lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel.A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting a nearby homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, and the indignities of sentience. When a man-made fire engulfs the encampment, the lion is forced from the hills down into the city the hikers call “ellay.” As the lion confronts a carousel of temptations and threats, they take us on a tour that spans the cruel inequalities of Los Angeles and the toll of climate grief. But even when salvation finally seems within reach, they are forced to face down the ultimate question: Do they want to eat a person, or become one?Henry Hoke’s Open Throat is a marvel of storytelling, a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing world recounted by a lovable mountain lion. Feral and vulnerable, profound and playful, Open Throat is a star-making novel that brings the mythic to life.
An Open Window (2017 Advent Calendar - Stocking Stuffers)
by Rick R. ReedTwo men. One Christmas Eve that changes the courses of both their lives. Henry’s homeless and only wants a warm place to sleep on the coldest night of the year. A forgotten open window in a darkened house entices Henry inside with the promise of warmth and comfort. He knows it’s bad, but he promises himself he’ll be out before the owner wakes on Christmas morning. Except he oversleeps and the homeowner, Jim, discovers a bearded stranger sawing logs under his dining room table. When the shock and the drama that ensues dies down, Henry and Jim discover that they might have found, quite unexpectedly, the Christmas miracle they’d both been longing for—love and home.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2017 Advent Calendar "Stocking Stuffers."
An Open Window (2017 Advent Calendar - Stocking Stuffers Ser.)
by Rick R. ReedTwo men. One Christmas Eve that changes the courses of both their lives.Henry’s homeless and only wants a warm place to sleep on the coldest night of the year. A forgotten open window in a darkened house entices him inside with the promise of warmth and comfort. He knows it’s wrong, but he promises himself he’ll be out before the owner wakes on Christmas morning.Except he oversleeps and the homeowner, Jim, discovers a bearded stranger sawing logs under his dining room table. When the shock and the drama that ensues dies down, Henry and Jim discover they might have found, quite unexpectedly, the Christmas miracle they’d both been longing for -- love and home.
Opening Day at the County Fair
by J. M. SnyderJesse's a freeloader according to his father, a man he'll never please. Working on the farm is hard work and getting ready for the county fair a welcome respite from the daily grind. There he meets Davis.The son of a local contractor, Davis is helping assemble the booths. He catches Jesse's attention immediately, and the two hit it off. If only they can ditch Jesse's sister long enough to get to know each other a little better ...
Openly, Honestly (Openly Straight Ser.)
by Bill KonigsbergCan't wait to read Honestly Ben? Dive into the world of Rafe and Ben with an all new ebook that picks up right where Openly Straight left off!Can't wait to read Honestly Ben, which Jay Asher called "hilarious" and "touching"? Dive into the world of Rafe and Ben with an all new ebook that picks up right where the award-winning Openly Straight left off!Rafe Goldberg was planning to spend winter break at home in Colorado openly mourning what he almost had with Ben. He wasn't expecting his best friend, Claire Olivia, to kidnap him. And he definitely wasn't expecting what she has planned to cheer him up...Ben Carver was honestly planning to spend winter break at home in New Hampshire not thinking about Rafe. But he wasn't expecting to run into his ex-girlfriend, who's still interested in him. And he wasn't expecting to find himself still attracted to her...Openly, Honestly tells two funny, sad, beautiful stories that were made for anyone who has longed for one person to see you, to understand you, and to love you exactly as you are.
Openly Straight (Openly Straight Ser.)
by Bill KonigsbergA funny, honest novel about being out, being proud... and being ready for something else.The award-winning novel about being out, being proud, and being ready for something else. Pre-order the companion novel Honestly Ben now (out 3/28/17)!Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write.And, oh yeah, he's gay. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't teased, and he goes to other high schools and talks about tolerance and stuff. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to just be a regular guy. Not that GAY guy. To have it be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time.So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret -- not so much going back in the closet as starting over with a clean slate. But then he sees a classmate breaking down. He meets a teacher who challenges him to write his story. And most of all, he falls in love with Ben... who doesn't even know that love is possible.
Operación cliché
by Raquel Tirado FernándezNada une más a dos personas que el deseo de venganza. Inés tiene veintiún años, estudia Farmacia y lleva dos años saliendo con Pedro. Su noviazgo es perfecto... salvo que no lo es. La relación se ve acompañada de un sinfín de discusiones y la sospecha de que Pedro la está engañando. Y cuando descubre que su sospecha no es paranoia, Inés, en un arranque de locura, decide tomar cartas en el asunto y escribir a «la otra». Lara tiene veintidós años, estudia Bellas Artes y lleva un año saliendo con Pedro. Su relación comenzó de manera informal, pero, poco a poco, se convirtió en algo serio. Pedro es su alma gemela. Y, sin embargo, Lara está segura de que su novio le oculta algo: el mensaje de Inés confirma sus sospechas. Ahora las chicas tienen un enemigo en común, Pedro, y un único objetivo: la venganza. Por ello, crean un plan que culminará el día de San Valentín. Pero cuanto más cerca están de la fecha, menos importante les parece Pedro o el plan... Estaban destinadas a odiarse, pero del odio al amor solo hay un paso.
Operation Destiny
by Sarah Hadley BrookLiving on Snow Hope Island has its perks: it’s beautiful, the community is like a family, and if you’re an elf but find the North Pole too busy, it’s the ideal place. Still, Noel is lonely. He loves running Frosty’s Diner and he has a cat, but he wants more.When Charlie Claus shows up on the island, Noel is instantly attracted to him. The more time Noel spends with him, the more he falls for Charlie. Would Charlie ever give up his life and move to the island permanently?
Operation Reindeer Rescue
by Sarah Hadley BrookSequel to Operation Toy RescueWhen one of Santa’s reindeer becomes depressed, what’s an elf to do? Caleb always makes sure the reindeer are ready for the big night, but when Dancer gets worse and won’t participate in any activities, they bring in new vet Greg Starr.There’s an instant attraction between the men, but Caleb’s been hurt in the past and isn’t sure he can risk his heart again. The more time he spends with Greg, the harder he falls. But if he can’t get past his fear, he could lose the man he’s meant to be with.