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Liam is excited with his first semester at college, but nowhere near as stirred up as he is on his first day with the cross-country ski team! The coach is one of the most handsome men he has ever seen, blond-haired, blue eyed, and athletic. But right away, Liam notices something different about the ski coach. Something in the way he scans the crowd of excited freshman that are eager to make the team. It is almost as if Coach is looking for something, trying to see that spark of interest that he craves

I’m in the best relationship of my life, which is ridiculous, because I'm absolutely miserable. My boyfriend of two years is a shark in the courtroom but more like a mythical creature at home, meaning he's never home. He doesn't exist here anymore. After months of him choosing to work late into the night, cancel our plans or simply not show up. I find my backbone and leave. I will not stay in another neglectful relationship or ignore the red flags any longer.

A year has passed since Sam Phillips found love again. No longer willing to waste another moment on loneliness, and with life running as smoothly as it could be, neither she nor Luciana were prepared for what was to come. Work and relationships were more than enough to handle—and at times, too much—so why did the universe throw more than necessary at them? One call will change everything—the potential for their lives to fall apart staring them both in the face. Chaos and devastation will threaten to ruin everything they’ve built, but Sam and Luciana refuse to be beaten.

Liam is excited about his first semester at college. His first day with the cross-country ski team gives him a real thrill! The coach is one of the most handsome men he has ever seen, blond-haired, blue eyed, and athletic. Right away, Liam notices something different about the ski coach: something in the way he scans the crowd of excited freshmen eager to make the team.

John Addington e Henry Ellis sono entrambi sposati, ma i loro matrimoni nascondono un segreto. John è omosessuale, o "invertito", come si diceva nell'Inghilterra vittoriana; ha avuto tre figlie con Catherine per conformarsi. Henry è legato a Edith, che però non ricambia il suo amore e trascorre con l'amica Angelica lo stesso tempo che dedica al marito. Quando Henry, medico esperto, inizia a scrivere un testo sull'omosessualità sostenendo che sia una variazione naturale del desiderio umano e non un crimine, coinvolge John, noto studioso, nel progetto.

Nullpunkt erreicht. Keine Familie. Kein Geld. Keinen Bock auf Schule. Ob es mit dem Kunststudium was wird, steht in den Sternen. Und was ist eigentlich mit seinem besten Freund los? Ennoah fühlt sich von seinem Leben ordentlich verarscht. Als dann auch noch Nico, der gepiercte Kerl mit der großen Klappe, anfängt ihm auf die Pelle zu rücken, wird alles nur noch schlimmer ... Oder? Eine Geschichte über Einsamkeit, das Erwachsenwerden ... und auch ein bisschen über die Liebe.

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak.

Dr. Laurel Harlow can’t believe she’s agreed to do a reality TV show. But her years as a chemical dependency counselor and personal history with the show’s director make her the obvious choice. Treating a mansion full of former child stars on the road to recovery is the tallest order of her career—especially when one of them turns up dead while the cameras are still rolling.

Kissing my best friend was a stupid mistake. It earned me a few good hits to the face by his hulking boyfriend, Sebastian, and I can admit that I deserved that. Agreeing to let my stepbrother move in is another stupid mistake, and every single day since he moved in feels worse than Sebastian's beefy fists. Nicolas Aldana has always hated me. His dad marrying my mom ruined his life, and he never lets me forget it. And I hate him too. I don't care how big of a glow-up the guy has had, I. Hate. Him. But what I don't hate is the way his hands feel wrapped around my neck . . .

He is my angel, sent to be my death bringer to save me from my tormentors and betrayers—those who sold me into slavery when I was only eight years old. Angel came in with guns blazing and black wings that were made to crush his enemies and envelope me in love. He belongs to me, and I belong to him. We are destined. After he saves me from my captors, we hunt down the remaining men who had abused me for eleven years to make them pay in blood.

365 Days of Becoming is a compelling fictional memoir that follows Reilly through a self-imposed year of no dating in an effort to “get her life together.” At 34—and fully embracing her later-in-life lesbian identity in New York City—she embarks on a journey of deep reflection, unexpected twists, and moments of both joy and heartache. As she unravels old patterns, embraces her truth, and learns to trust herself, Reilly’s path is anything but linear.

Sean's stuck in an angry rut because he's tried for years to get over his wife leaving him for a woman. This and a few other factors in his life have conditioned him to be disgusted with anything LGBT. He'll never understand how a woman could love another woman or how a man could love another man. That is until suddenly one day he wakes up gay.

This must-listen compilation includes three books from the Movin' to the Mountains series: The Silent Mountain Man, The Curious Mountain Man, and The Reclusive Mountain Man.

What do you do when the love of your life chooses someone else? Easy, you find a nice rebound. If it just so happens to be his hot, dumb hunk of a brother, even better. Elton Hill is everything wrong with people. He's loud, annoying, way too intense, and pushes too hard. But he's available, and our secret friends-with-benefits relationship turns out to be exactly what I need. When I start to see a different side of him, things change. Apparently, the intense, sensitive, flamingo-loving golden retriever is perfect for me, and I'm not willing to give him up.

Kate Cross, a no-nonsense medic, is haunted by the loss of her partner in combat. She's built walls around her heart and has no time for romance—especially with Alexis Cole, the irresistible Combat Rescue Officer with a reputation for breaking hearts. But when they're forced to work together on a high-stakes mission, the sparks between them are impossible to ignore.

Los Angeles lawyer Lena Antinori has dedicated her career to fighting discrimination, including for the LGBTQ community, but her own family's secret haunts her. At thirteen years old, she made the startling discovery that her father, Frank, was gay and her mother, Teresa, knew. Fearing social stigma, Teresa instituted a code of silence meant to protect their Italian Catholic family—a code Lena adhered to for decades. Now, Frank plans to marry his partner, and he wants Lena to help plan the wedding.

Walden is good at her job—no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It’s her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it’s possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from—is herself.

Star point guard Mack Morris’s senior year of high school begins with twin cataclysms: the death of Mack’s father and the arrival of transfer student Liv Cooper. Playing side by side for their high school basketball team, Mack and Liv discover an electrifying, game-winning chemistry on the court. Off the court, they fall into an equally intoxicating more-than-friendship—one that feels out-of-bounds in their small Pennsylvania town. Mack teeters on the precipice of adulthood as desire and grief collide with drugs, sex, and the looming college signing deadline.

From the ashes of a terrible war, humans rise above on a land of floating continents. Some blessed with power, others with nothing at all. For Rowan and Iaden, two entirely different people, navigating the world to become Knights of the Winterlands is no small feat. Finding purpose and power in a world where they have none, finding value in a life where they have been stripped of it... both seem impossible, and yet together they will reach for the stars and become all they yearn to be. Together, they will rise, and together... they will show the world they matter.

Family can be everything, pain and the promise of happiness all at once. For Davis, having a child out of wedlock meant his family cursed his name and cast him out. For Deven, leaving his family was the happiness he sought out so deeply. Who knows what could and would happen when these two forces meet up, finding unity in their differences? Can they both find family once again, where it had been denied them so often? Written by award winning author Mika Mathews as his first attempt at something outside the realm of magic and fantasy!