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Kamran’s ex broke his heart, tricked him into aiding a bank robbery, and now he wants him to do one last job. There’s only one way to say no: Seek the protective custody of the biggest, grumpiest FBI agent ever. And pretend to be his boyfriend for a weeklong family reunion in their giant mansion. Wait, what? Agent Lee Marshall is notoriously all work and no play. Letting a flirty, hot-as-sin playboy like Kamran get under his skin is not an option. He has to protect him, not hook up with him. But pretending they’re an item for a week? That couldn’t hurt....

Fasting for Ramadan is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan for purgation and prayer. Estranged in certain ways from his family’s cultural traditions when he was younger, Ali has in recent years re-embraced the Ramadan ritual, and brings to this rediscovery an extraordinary delicacy of reflection, a powerfully inquiring mind, and the linguistic precision and ardor of a superb poet. 

On September 11th, 2001, Kris Caldera was a junior member of the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to finding and stopping Osama Bin Laden. They failed. Ten days later, he was on the ground in Afghanistan with a Special Forces team. On the battlefield, he meets Special Forces Sergeant David Haddad. David - Arab American, Muslim, and gay - becomes the man Kris loves, the man he lives for, and the man he kills for, through the long years of the raging wars. When a botched mission rips David from Kris' life, Kris' world falls into ruin and ash.

How do you suddenly find yourself in love with a friend? A much younger friend! It had been six years since Stella Morris lost her wife. She was doing her best trying to navigate without her soulmate by teaching classes at the fitness center she owned with her two best friends. She knew she was spending too much time alone, so when a friend needed a favor she offered to go along. That favor turned into another and then another, and suddenly Stella found herself falling for her much younger friend.

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. 

With his mysterious heritage shrouded in shadow, Riley Shepard struggles with his identity, his confusing sexuality, and the prohibited - but deepening - feelings for his guardian angels. Questions remain unanswered. His guardians harbor secrets. And danger lurks just out of sight. When disaster strikes, Riley must make a choice that will change everything. 

Kathy has to deal with the mental damage, as well as the physical, that has been inflicted on her. Between federal agents, doctors, and her own family, the stress is nearly killing her. Can Alice be patient enough to wait for her wife after she has been gone for so long, both mentally and physically.... Can Alice wait to enact revenge for what has been done to her wife?

Dealing with the death of her wife, Alice finds raising a teenage daughter and two other children to be a challenge. She hadn’t planned to ever be a parent, but for the love of her wife, now deceased, she will do what is necessary. A threat to her teenage daughter leads to other revelations that bring out the “old” Alice we all know and love.... Her predator instincts are aroused.... What will she do next?

In the summer of 1973, teenage Ruth and her four friends are obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings and a little bit obsessed with each other. They spend the scorching summer days in the river by Ruth's grand family home, pretending to be the drowning Ophelia and recreating tableaus of other tragic mythical heroines. But by the end of the summer, real tragedy has found them. Twenty-four years later, Ruth is a wife and mother of three children and moves her family into her still-grand, but now somewhat dilapidated, childhood home following the death of her father. 

This audiobook includes the two thrilling halves of Fiona Zedde’s lesbian superhero book series that come together in The Mercy Chronicles: The Power of Mercy and A Lover's Mercy.

I hate customers. Do I really have to make sure they’re happy? For the love of God! I make sweet things and chocolate, how can anyone be upset with that? It’ll all get better when I see Sam’s face around lunch time. He’ll come in and have his donuts while flirting with me. My niece will be taking candid photos in the background even though she’s not supposed to have her phone out while she’s working, but the photos are worth it! Between that smile and his mismatched eyes I know I’m already a goner.

Defiant young Annie Laurie Balfour is sent to a distant land in hopes of avoiding a devastating public scandal. There she acquires a dark and dangerous ally, a guardian angel of great, and terrible power. Together they return to Scotland to extract vengeance and gain justice for Annie. Will they succeed or die in the attempt? Only time will tell.