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Witzig, wortgewandt und mit einer geballten Ladung Girlpower: Laura Stevens feministischer Roman um drei Freundinnen, einem coolen Diner und einen frechen, bissigen Blog gegen Sexismus und Diskriminierung. Seit Izzy OʼNeil sich erfolgreich gegen einen sexistischen Shitstorm gewehrt hat, läuft es richtig gut für die 18-Jährige. Mit ihren besten Freundinnen Ajita und Meg trifft sie sich regelmäßig in ihrem Lieblings-Diner, um die Themen für ihren gemeinsamen Blog "Bitches bite back" zu besprechen.

Ayato Kirishima. Fils aîné d'une star internationale du rock. Mannequin vedette, féru de mode et de lui-même. Bisexuel assumé. Riche, beau, et tête à claques. Son credo : "Les gens avec qui je baise sont comme la mode : vite dépassés." Néanmoins, si Ayato change de partenaire aussi régulièrement qu'il renouvelle son dressing et qu'il se lasse vite de tout le monde, une personne fait exception. Une personne très particulière à ses yeux qu'il a quasiment élevée au rang du divin. L'intouchable, par excellence.

En el mundo de Yadriel, los nahualos liberan espíritus y las nahualas tienen la capacidad de sanar. Cuando su familia latina se muestra reticente a aceptar su identidad, Yadriel decide demostrarles que es un auténtico nahualo. Con la ayuda de su prima Maritza, realiza su ceremonia de quince años e invoca a su primer espíritu. Pero el espíritu resulta ser Julián Díaz, el chico malo del instituto, y Julián no piensa cruzar tranquilamente al más allá.

Lori works illegally in a rented flat in central London, living in fear of police raids which could mean losing her small daughter and her dream of a new life. Freya is a student who finds she can make far more money as an escort than she could in an office; life, after all, is already a tangle of madness and dissociation. And Paula is a journalist whose long-term campaign against prostitution has brought her some strange bedfellows. After a shock change to the law, with brothels being raided by the authorities, lives across the country are fractured.

Dori, at age 17, participates in a hate crime against a gay boy from her school and runs away to escape prosecution - and her own harrowing childhood. In her pocket, she carries the address of an older, half-sister she’s never met. She has no idea that her sister Teresa is married to another woman. When Dori and Teresa finally meet, they’re forced to confront that, while they don’t like or really even understand one another, they are inextricably bound together in ways that transcend their differences.

When Cuban fisherman first spotted the Key West lighthouse floating in Florida waters, they called her Stella Maris, Star of the Sea. It’s a beacon that draws people from everywhere seeking the end-of-the-line bohemian oasis that can still be found amidst the condo share towers, chain stores, and Redneck Riviera clientele. And it’s a mecca for gay men and the women who love them. Sue Kaufman Prize-winning author Michael Carroll knows the territory intimately. His stories wind in and out of the bars and guesthouses and lives of this singular paradise.

Juillet 1953. Portofino, Italie. Lors d'une party spectaculaire organisée par Truman Capote, le dramaturge Tennessee Williams et son amant Frank Merlo font la connaissance de la Suédoise Anja Blomgren, jeune actrice en devenir au charme vénéneux. Cette rencontre aura sur leur vie un impact profond et durable. Dix ans plus tard, Frank est dans un hôpital new-yorkais. Il attend - en vain ? - que son cher "Tenn" ait le courage de venir le voir.

Oscar Wilde já era reconhecido como um dos melhores autores de seu tempo quando foi condenado à prisão, em 1895. A acusação de “indecência grave” remetia à muito discutida homossexualidade de Wilde, considerada crime na época. Enquanto estava encarcerado, o autor escreveu uma carta a Lord Alfred Douglas, com quem mantinha uma relação que foi o estopim para sua prisão.

When Charlie Guest gets dragged along on a cruise by his friend Martin, he thinks his biggest worry will be seasickness. But when an outbreak forces some of the passengers to quarantine in paradise, things take a decidedly different turn, especially after a body turns up in a pool. Everyone is a suspect. With a cast that includes an aging Hollywood bit player, a closeted rising politician, a recent Oscar winner, a charming drag queen - and a hunky mystery man who might or might not be a former ‘80s porn star - Michael Thomas Ford's latest hysterical novel blends romance and mystery.

Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, 15-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church, replete with Christian salsa, abstinent young dancers, and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic, head of the youth group, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism, Francisca falls in love with Carmen.

The author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough weaves an unforgettable and timely dystopian tale about a near future, where a queer Black performer and his allies join forces to rise up when an oppressive regime gathers those deemed "Other" into concentration camps.

Vi è mai capitato di sentirvi smarriti, eppure dannatamente felici? Di imbattervi in una strada che porta chissà dove, e di morire dalla voglia di percorrerla? Vi è mai successo di inseguire un sogno con tutte le vostre forze, e avere paura che si realizzi davvero? È esattamente così che si sente Diana, appena sbarcata a Milano da una cittadina del Sud per iniziare la sua nuova vita. Nuova scuola, nuova casa ma, al suo fianco, gli amici di sempre, Luca e Arianna. Eppure, nella Città dei Grandi Sogni le cose non sono mai ciò che sembrano.

Polar Vortex is a seductive and tension-filled novel about Priya and Alex, a lesbian couple who left the big city to relocate to a bucolic countryside community. It seemed like a good way to leave their past behind and cement their newish, later-in-life relationship. But there's leaving the past behind - and then there's running away from awkward histories.

Han pasado seis meses desde que Marc y Lucas vivieran su intensa historia de (des)amor, y hay cosas que son difíciles de superar… hasta que aparece Leo, un joven con piel de café arábigo, cantante indie y tremendamente magnético que atrae a Marc como una mosca hacia la luz azul.

Siglo XI, frontera del Reino de Castilla, es tiempo de héroes. Fan Fáñez, sobrino y protegido de Álvar Fáñez, protagoniza esta historia ambientada en la España del siglo XI y principios del XII, cuando Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador, lideraba gestas y combates tanto con musulmanes como con cristianos; mientras el rey Alfonso VI, acompañado de sus servidores Pedro Ansúrez y García Ordóñez, movía las piezas de su reino como si fuera un maestro de ajedrez.

Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.

Ellen, the narrator of Boyd's previous novel, The Revolution of Little Girls, this time pierces the heart of the sexual revolution in her quest to find a woman hero or - by default - to become one. Ferociously paced, Terminal Velocity delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie.

No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen, she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans.

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential from the 1970s through the 1990s, the Women in Print movement created a network of writers, publishers, bookstores, and readers that fostered a remarkable array of literature.

Lucas (the son of farmers) and Ignacio (a descendant of the Barí indigenous people) enter the seminary out of a desire to help others and to get an education. Their visceral love story undergoes stages of passion, indifference, rage, and a final commitment to stay together until the end of their lives. Working in a community largely composed of people displaced by the war, Ignacio stumbles upon the horrifying story of the false positives, which will put the lives of the two men in grave danger.