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When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn't so sure. His rounds with his father to evangelize at hospices and sell his father's self-published book, Heaven or Bust!, feel inauthentic and strange, especially now that he's started having sex dreams about Jesus. 

Take the ride of a lifetime with this mother/son, crime/revenge thriller James Patterson praises as “audacious, addictive, highly entertaining.” ​ Eighteen-year-old aspiring comic Joey Rossi just found out his boyfriend has been cheating on him for the past ten months. But what did he...

Clayton appreciates the comfort of his pub in Lodi, California, but he still feels the draw of the open road. He fears connecting with one special person will rob him of the freedom he cherishes. Then, he steps into the Rainbow Coffee Shop in Stockton, California and meets Sawyer, wearing a homemade rainbow bracelet.

Boredom gets the best of Jim, and he finds himself accepting an invitation to visit a Master and slave in their home. An awkward dinner and a show of force quickly leads into an unexpected afternoon as Jim receives his first lesson on BDSM.

Jim's a shy country boy who just moved to New York to escape his closeted gay life. When he ventures to a BDSM club with his friend Eric, a new world is opened to him that he never planned to experience. After meeting a mysterious and powerful Dom, Jim considers giving BDSM a try. There's another slave in the Dom's life though, and he doesn't want Jim to be a part of their world.

Tensions mount as Jim recklessly pursues his interest in Master Wicked. A dark past causes concern for the slave already in Wicked's possession. Is the inexperienced boy biting off more than he can chew, and is he treading onto territory where he's secretly not welcome?

Jim moved to a big city with hopes of finally being able to come out of his shell. When his roommate Eric invites him to go to an exclusive BDSM club, Jim feels out of his element. After a less than welcoming introduction to the lifestyle, Jim decides to branch out and let Eric have his fun. Little does he know that there's a wicked adventure waiting just around the corner.

In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block—until she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author...

Despite coming out years ago, twenty-six-year-old Sean Preston has never been one to shout his sexuality from the rooftops. When his relationship of three months comes to a humiliating end, he vows never to become emotionally attached again, falling into a cycle of hook-ups, booze and an unrelenting gym routine. The rest of Sean's life isn't panning out how he hoped either.

It is more than just the late November weather that has cast a chill over the campus of Atherton University. When the wife of respected professor Eric Eberman is killed in a tragic accident, his secret student lover, Randall Stone, fears the professor tried to avert career suicide by committing homicide. Or do the dead woman’s haunting last words point to an even more damning crime? Fearing the truth, Randall digs into his lover’s hidden history.

Pierpaolo è cresciuto in un quartiere popolare alla periferia di Napoli, ma ha avuto la fortuna di nascere in alto, all'ultimo piano di una delle palazzine innalzate dal padre, e da quella posizione privilegiata lui e i genitori dominano la giungla di tetti, antenne e terrazzi abusivi sotto di loro. Studia medicina per accontentare i suoi, esce con le ragazze per non deludere gli amici, convinto che assecondando le aspettative degli altri possa difendersi da se stesso: ha vent'anni e ha appena capito di essere gay.

The almost daughter is almost normal, because she knows how to know and also not know. She knows and does not know, for instance, about the barracks by the athletics field, and about the lonely woman she visits each week. She knows—almost—about ghosts, and their ghosts, and she knows not to have questions about them. She knows to focus on being a woman: on training her body and dreaming only of escape. Then, the almost daughter meets Oksana. Oksana is not even almost normal, and the questions she has are not normal at all.

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Twelve-year-old Hari tries to make sense of his tumultous and complex world in 1980s India. His experiment at eating fish leads to the death of his grandmother; his preference for Hindi leads to slandeours graffiti agsinst his family in Madras; and his friendship with the family maid lands hin trouble with a militant Tamil film fan and political operative named Vishu.

Torin O’Connor thought he could handle the shadows of his family’s Brooklyn mafia past, but one reckless mistake with the wrong Italian mobster changes everything. Sent to Montana’s rugged Carrillo Ranch to escape his own self-destructive choices—Torin finds himself under the watchful eye of Garett Barnes, a stoic cowboy with a past as unyielding as the land he works.

Set over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole. Seventeen–year–old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with...

2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more “One of the buzziest, most human novels of the...

Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2017 For fans of Donna Tartt and Megan Abbott, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There On a warm August night in 1980, six college students...

Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher, he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, encouragement, and sense of possibility that helped him and his friends become themselves here half a lifetime ago.

Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London, looking for love and distraction. But this isn't quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London's gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an emotionally stunted young man who lives in upscale Kensington with his foster mother, novelist Charlotte Fontaine. But all of this changes when he meets Tim, Charlotte's 3--something literary agent with whom Oscar becomes hopelessly infatuated.