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“Em uma mistura intensa entre política, excitação e poesia, este audiolivro conta a história de dois homens que se veem entrelaçados em uma paixão muito maior do que a onda de incerteza e violência que tomou conta da Polônia em 1980. Ludwik e Janusz são, entre muitas coisas, um simbolismo atual sobre a infinitude do amar. Esta não é apenas uma arriscada história sobre se apaixonar.

Un romance de verano en un pueblo conservador transformará para siempre las vidas de la hija de un político y la misteriosa hija de un pastor. Astrid, la hija de un impopular político, es forzada a pasar el verano de 1999 con sus tíos en un pequeño pueblo de la zona interiorana de Panamá. Lejos de su casa, lejos de la capital, lejos del caos. Pero la tranquilidad que esperaba se ve interrumpida por una carta de amor, las miradas de la hermosa hija del pastor y un grupo de marginados que solo buscan su lugar en el mundo.

«Una notte ho sognato un demone che mangiava i libri di casa mia.» E al risveglio, questo sogno diventa per l'autore un rovello: un ipotetico demone come sceglierebbe i titoli da aggredire? E quali sarebbe necessario salvare? Ma la cosa più importante che fanno i classici è renderci la vita insieme più intensa e più semplice, insegnandoci senza averne l'aria lezioni importantissime: cos'è l'identità, cos'è la politica, come si forma la coscienza di un popolo – e come esplode la sua ribellione.

Deux opposés en apparence peuvent-ils se compléter ? Quand il emménage avec son père chez sa nouvelle compagne, Sariel est à bout de souffle. Dissimuler un passé torturé et rempli de secrets le rapproche sans cesse de l'explosion. Lorsque son regard croise celui de Elliott, son demi-frère, il sent au fond de lui que cette rencontre ne va pas le laisser indemne. Elliott mène une vie paisible, mais les yeux trop gris de Sari fracassent sa plénitude, jusqu'à le bouleverser. Son attirance pour lui est instantanée. Sariel l'intrigue, éveillant en lui des sentiments extrêmes.

DARK ROMANCE L'un est en prison, condamné à l'injection létale tandis que l'autre s'accroche à la vie. » Lorsque certains s'aiment pour le meilleur, je suis davantage attiré par le pire. Joshua a tout juste quinze ans lorsque je pose un revolver sur sa tempe en lui laissant un choix : appuyer sur la détente ou m'aimer. J'ignorais que cette décision allait me conduire dans le couloir de la mort, à divaguer entre la violence et la folie.

A collection of humorous, sexy, and highly neurotic tales about parenting, long-term relationships, systemic and interpersonal racism, and class conflict from the author of The Town of Babylon, The People Who Report More Stress deftly and poignantly expresses the frustration of knowing the problems and solutions to our society’s inequities but being unable to do anything about them.

Arriving in New York City full of idealism, Paul discovers the queer community gathering strength in the face of government inaction and social stigma. As he protests, parties, and makes a new home, he finds himself pulling away from his HIV-negative boyfriend to pursue an intense bond with a passionate, HIV-positive artist. Paul’s awakening parallels ACT UP’s rise, successes, and controversies. And then everything shifts again, as his family is thrust into their own life-and-death struggle that tests him even further.

Poetry. Literary nonfiction. Fiction. Drama. LGBTQIA studies. Women's studies. Compiled in one book for the first time, featuring both new and out-of-print pieces, the contents of The Judy Grahn Reader span four decades of work by the prominent writer and activist. This volume contains writing from every phase of Judy Grahn's career, including poems from all of her major poetry collections, a number of her groundbreaking essays, as well as selected fiction and the full-length play The Queen of Swords.

It is three years since Anne Bonny crossed the ocean, believing that her beloved Mary Read perished in prison. But even death can’t keep these lovers apart. Mary tracks Anne to a London awash with pleasures and change – full of coffee shops, Molly Houses, and the raucous tunes of the Beggars Opera. London is a world away from the High Seas, but the lawless highways offer new adventures, and new enemies. Anne and Mary must face notorious highwayman, Dick Turpin, as well as the repressive structure of a city where the upper classes retain the upper hand.

Notable literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. Justin Chin's fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals, Chin's early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view.

Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before published in the USA, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasy about the joys and terrors experienced by two young women seeking to escape the degradations of our technological and conformist age by fleeing to a chaotic, poet-ruled utopia.

Non un romanzo d'esordio ma un libro liturgico, non un diario intimo ma una confessione, un canto, una preghiera. "Mi chiamo Fatima", così comincia ogni capitolo de "La più piccola"; talvolta, al nome, l'autrice alter ego della protagonista, aggiunge il cognome: "Mi chiamo Fatima Daas". E via via arricchisce di dettagli la sua biografia. Fatima Daas, la mazoziya, la più giovane della famiglia, quella che avrebbe dovuto essere un maschio come Ahmad, suo padre, aveva sperato. Le sue due sorelle sono nate in Algeria.

Una volante pattuglia le strade di Genova. Mentre un fiume di vestiti colorati, bandiere arcobaleno e cartelli sui diritti dell'amore scorre nel centro della città, Paolo Pastorino - quarantasei anni e la divisa da sempre - cerca con gli occhi sua figlia. Se lei lo vedesse lì, dall'altra parte della barricata, andrebbe su tutte le furie. Giada ha sedici anni e ha appena trovato il coraggio di dirgli che le piacciono le ragazze.

I corpi minori sono corpi celesti di dimensioni ridotte: asteroidi, meteore, comete, ma in questo romanzo "minori" sono tutti i corpi osservati sotto la lente del desiderio. Desiderio che fa gravitare i personaggi attorno ai sogni e alle ambizioni di una vita, o solo di una stagione. Come accade al protagonista, che all'inizio della storia ha vent'anni, più di un talento ma poca perseveranza. Di una cosa però è sicuro, vuole andarsene da Rozzano, percorrere in senso inverso i tre chilometri e mezzo di via dei Missaglia, lasciarsi alle spalle l'insignificanza e la marginalità.

Feys Leben könnte kaum unbedeutender sein. Ständig wird sie übersehen, und in dem Bretagne-Urlaub mit ihren Freunden ist sie das fünfte Rad am Wagen. Doch als sie am Strand auf einen Fremden trifft, ändert sich ihr Schicksal. Magisch angezogen von dem Fotografen und seinem Model betritt Fey eine sinnliche, erotische Welt, in der sie jegliche Hemmungen fallen lässt, um mit leidenschaftlicher Hingabe sich selbst neu zu entdecken.

Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just 23, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review), and “a knowledge of others' lives...that a writer twice his age might envy” (USA Today). “Regardless of age,” wrote the New York Times, “few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages.”

David Leavitt's second collection of stories further confirms a talent deep and wonderfully creative in its empathy. A Place I've Never Been explores family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships, among characters whose sexuality is fluid or uncertain—a barrier or under threat. A real estate agent happily married to a woman finds himself in love with another man in "Houses". A man entering a bold new world of gay hookups feels sheltered from the most intimidating attentions by his more attractive, charismatic friend.

Suddenly jobless and single after a devastating layoff and a breakup with his cheating ex, advertising copywriter Dominick Gibson flees his life in Hell's Kitchen to try to get back on track in his hometown of Detroit. He’s got one objective—exit the shallow dating pool ASAP and get married by 35—and the deadline’s approaching fast.

When tragedy strikes, Cassidy, a cam girl living in Southern California, must return to the small West Virginia town she left behind. Cassidy likes her job getting naked for men on camera, though she prefers sex with women. She never came out to her family or friends back in her home state - not about her sexuality and certainly not about her sex work. Now, she must figure out how to hold on to the life she’s built for herself while picking up the pieces of her fractured family.

Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Portland, Oregon's wealthy progressive elite when he is falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student. The accusation comes just as Thomas is thrust back into the center of his unusual family by his younger brother's battle with cancer. Although cleared of the accusation, Thomas is forced to resign from a job he loves during a potentially life-changing family drama.