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When Amadora wins a trip to a Mexican resort, she contacts Madame Eve's 1Night Stand service to live out a one-time fantasy - a night with two hot men. Undercover DEA agents Jason and Angus have been playing it fast and loose with each other. The sex is good, but Jason blames himself for his wife's death during a stakeout and refuses to weigh his heart down with any more guilt. Angus hasn't told Jason how much he cares about him for fear of being pushed away.

A fairytale where the heroine gets the princess. Rose is the youngest of Sir Roland's three children, and the best beloved. When her father fails to come back from an attempt to rescue the princess from a neighboring kingdom from the notorious and mysterious Black Knight, Rose does not hesitate to strap on her father's old armor, the red faded almost to invisibility, and ride into the dark forest to help him.

A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.

Brains, muscle, tenderness, kink. Like the perfect lover, Best Gay Romance 2012 captures the raw energy of man-on man desire like no other. Once again, award-winning editor Richard Labonté has gathered hot, heart-pounding, tent-raising, gorgeous stories of no-holds-barred sex between men that will grab your senses, and send you into the sweaty backrooms of your erotic imagination.

¿Qué tan lejos irías por un sentimiento? ¿Prometerías amar por siempre? ¿Y qué harías si la vida te empuja a romper con ese acuerdo? Una noticia devastadora. La necesidad de transformar la realidad para estar a gusto con ella. La llegada de alguien que amenaza con ponerlo todo de cabeza... ¿Cómo pueden cada una de estas situaciones tejerse entre sí para llevarnos, a su vez, a una verdadera madeja de historias y sentimientos? En esta novela sáfica contemporánea, la vida nos va llevando de la mano por caminos que parecen flanqueados por ortigas, sin imaginar que más allá de las...

In Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living, Daniel M. Jaffe explores various aspects of gay-Jewish life: coming out to self and family; (re)defining one's relationship to tradition and faith; surviving child abuse and teenage sexual identity angst; experiencing the adult joys and heartbreaks of dating, of forming relationships, and of losing them; coping with HIV/AIDS; considering parenting; and dealing with old age.

Are you struggling with a vicious pattern of negative thinking, stress, and anxieties but don't know how to break free? Unlike other guides that simply give you a bunch of theories, this audiobook will show you simple 10-minute mindfulness exercises you can use to live stress-free even in the midst of your busy day.

In the world of Paul Brownsey, God is a camp old queen trying to split up a gay couple. Judy Garland did not die in 1969 and instead ended up wowing her fellow residents in a Scottish care home on karaoke night. A fan of musical theatre steals an Irving Berlin lyric as a Valentine's poem and spends decades contriving to hide the theft from his lover. After a one-night stand, two men maintain a distant awareness of each other's lives for a quarter of a century and then face the question: are we in love?

A never-ending journey awaits you along a Mobius strip that runs the circulatory system from flushed head to rapid heart, along asphalt lanes stinking of gasoline fumes and vulcanized rubber. Join Fields's feral boys, captivating Peter Pans in flight from detestable home life, school life, everyday life. Along the way, you'll pick up passengers, hitchhikers runaways plotting wicked larks, stay-at-homes longing for a nudge, grownups ready to be bent to a boy's whims.

Cuatro lágrimas de plata Mundos paralelos que convergen en una emoción. Una venganza inesperada servirá de pretexto para que los destinos de cuatro desconocidos, se entrelacen movidos por una emoción. Las apariencias, el deseo de huir y construir un universo de espejismos, tejerá una red de coincidencias de las cuales no hay una salida aparente, a menos que recurran a la cordura, la honestidad y el amor. ¡El amor en su expresión más genuina! Cada figura de la baraja en esta historia tendrá que demostrar de qué fibra están tejidos sus sentimientos para salir airosos de esta ...

Gay SDAs: The Untold Stories is an anthology focusing on a specific segment of the gay/ lesbian/ bisexual/ transgender/ intersex community: those who are or have been members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church or have embraced Adventist theology. The stories in this collection are real, though names of persons and places and even ages and time frames have frequently been changed. It is not important to know the actual identities of the individuals involved, though it is important to know that we do have an identity. Our identity is both Adventist and LGBTI+. It is who we are. This ...

Talismans & Temptations collects short stories, songs, poetry, and fragments of novellas by beloved lesbian-feminist author Chris Anne Wolfe. As a special gift for listeners worldwide, the collection includes first-ever previews of Sands of Aggar and Oceans of Aggar - the last two books in the series that began with Chris Anne's Shadows of Aggar and Fires of Aggar. With the exception of the powerful "Death, Sweet Suitor Mine", all the offerings in Talismans & Temptations have never before been published.

This collection of seven short tales are all loosely based on episodes from my own life over the last few years. Of course I’ve changed names and locations, adapted situations to make things less bland to read. Each represents a significant point in what, I’ll admit, has been a difficult few years for me both mentally and financially. The reason for bringing all of these tales together like this is that they don’t really fit in with my other fiction writings. Indeed, each of these was written in response to emotions that I couldn’t lock away and needed an outlet, despair, loss, fear...

El amor llegó en su escarabajo amarillo Un misterio. Una aventura. Una pasión por descubrir. Dos chicas jóvenes, impulsivas y apasionadas están dispuestas a tomar de la vida justo lo que quieren. Creen tener todo lo necesario para alcanzar el éxito en cada uno de sus proyectos y caprichos, sin embargo, la vida está a punto de darles una importante lección. Mientras un enigmático auto amarillo aparece y desaparece por el campus de la universidad, estas jóvenes rebeldes irán descubriendo, poco a poco y paso a paso, que hay que pensárselo dos veces antes de formular un deseo, sin ...

Three provocative and historically important plays by the first journalist to devote a newspaper to investigative reporting of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The three plays in this collection: The Last Lovers on Earth The Closing Argument The Black Party This collection of plays grew out of Charles Ortleb's forty years of covering an epidemic of lies. As described in Apocalypse Then and Now: Collected Works 1980-2020, it all began in a little newspaper called New York Native. Beginning in 1981, Ortleb was the first publisher and editor-in-chief to take the AIDS epidemic seriously and ...

His journey encompasses the survival and battle with the disease of addiction, living the lifestyles of recovery, and a spiritual journey of living one day at a time. We'll leave how it works to the big book, but have written a journey about a boy named Jordan.

A follow up to "I Watched Through Windows".

Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us. Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary...

An ancestry that draws hateful glances. A heart that still dreams of happiness. When his protector becomes his tyrant, can he break free? Baltimore, 2014. Abdul aches with shame. Used to bearing the brunt of people’s judgment, the Afghan immigrant can’t reconcile his love for his charming boyfriend with the bruises the man leaves on his face. So when a handsome activist’s flirtatious exchange offers solace, he goes against his beliefs and enters into a secret tryst.

What happens when you mix Britain’s new prime minister and her secret past; a writer whose new book seems all too real; his former roommate, now a French cultural attaché; and a young homeless man who needs to escape from his mother and her abusive boyfriend? Prepare for intrigue as all of their paths converge.