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A trentacinque anni G.H. Hardy, accademico di Cambridge, è considerato uno dei più brillanti matematici del suo tempo. Una mattina del 1913 riceve una lettera da un oscuro contabile indiano che afferma di avere la soluzione a un complesso quesito matematico impostato dallo stesso Hardy. Il professore si reca quindi in India per conoscerlo, e trova un giovane dotato di un genio assoluto per il calcolo. Tra i due nascerà una proficua collaborazione destinata a sfociare in una difficile e contrastata storia d'amore.

In 1988, before her senior year of high school, Nina and her best friend spend the summer alone on Cape Cod. Nina has grown up with her ailing grandmother - and she yearns for the chance of a deeper connection. When she enrolls in an acting course, she soon finds romance with Sarah, one of the teaching assistants. Nina's own world revolves around Sarah, while the rest of the world moves urgently on. Nina's high school teacher does not take the end of their relationship well; her best friend feels abandoned; the AIDS epidemic rages; her fellow actors grow and hone their talents.

Enzo, o jovem protagonista deste romance, é o oposto dessa máxima. Ele não gosta de se apegar. Acha que relacionamentos fixos e duradouros são monótonos, e só se apaixona quando tem certeza de que não será correspondido. Assim se poupa de se tornar responsável pelos sentimentos de outra pessoa. Enzo só não contava com o aparecimento de Ian, namorado de uma amiga, com quem viverá uma experiência amorosa cujas consequências serão avassaladoras.

Sie teilen das gleiche Schicksal und sind doch ganz verschieden: Danny ist erfolgreich und unabhängig. Christina hingegen hat die letzten Jahre auf der Straße verbracht. Verzweifelt bemüht er sich, ihr zu zeigen, dass das Leben auch schöne Seiten hat. Hilft den beiden ihre Freundschaft, die Schatten der Vergangenheit endgültig abzuwerfen?

Danny ist gerade zehn Jahre alt, als sein Leben aus den Fugen gerät. Ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag veranlasst seine Familie, aus den Vereinigten Staaten nach Deutschland zu ziehen. Dannys Vater ertränkt seinen Kummer in Alkohol und fällt zurück in Verhaltensmuster, von denen er glaubte, sie vor der Ehe endgültig abgelegt zu haben. Danny ist seinem Vater schutzlos ausgeliefert. Aber er gibt nicht auf.

Fin MacAuliffe had always been less than masculine, never truly confident enough to be himself. He'd long known he was gay - he'd just never shared it with anyone, not even his own free-thinking, liberal parents. Sure, they knew. Yet they never quite gave up on linking him to some respectable girl with good genes and a generous bank account. Fin's own account was nothing to be ashamed of, but even with all of the advantages, the only true thing he longed for was companionship.

With our family's legacy, Meyers B&B, in the flailing hands of me, Sam Meyers, and my sister, Wynne, we're determined to revive the place. We've started a series of blind-date cooking classes and taken on our first boarder. Granddad is even now rolling in his grave. Signed up for the class is our new guest, Aaron Saunders, a Californian transplant who's distractingly handsome and clearly up to no good. I can't quite figure him out. He blew into town and has been relentless in his search for...something.

A love story between men - without being, basically, a novel about gay issues; more about appreciating what you have while you have it, and ultimately learning what matters to you in life.

After twenty-three years of marriage to Zack Ronan - and after raising the widower's three kids - Chris finds himself facing an uncertain second act. Seeking refuge in North Carolina's Outer Banks, Chris has to come to terms with his own empty nest and challenge himself to move forward with a new relationship. This is a subtle depiction of the meaning of family and motherhood, and of the search for your true soul.

In Metes and Bounds, surf, sand, and sex meet in the macho world of construction workers. For narrator Matt, "the greatest comfort of surfing comes in the sureness and instinct." Matt is not just coming of age, he's coming out, and in the sun-bleached world of the North Carolina beaches his burgeoning sexuality can toss as many curves as a wave. Through his longings and self-discovery, Matt knows he cannot let others triumph over being the man he knows to be.

In The Boomerang Kid, Maura Ostryder is coming into her own, professionally and privately, as she begins her 51st year. Maura has always been the master of her own life and has reared her son, Kai (named for the Hawaiian word for sea) to be the same way. But now a grown Kai has come home, having fled emotional attachments to both a young man and a young woman, bringing with him his addiction to painkillers.

In The Good Neighbor, Rory Fallon is walking his dog along the streets of the exclusive Venetian Vistas neighborhood when he notices activity at the house next door. New neighbors have arrived in the form of Austin and Meg Harden, along with their two children. Before long, the Hardens and Rory and his partner Bruno have formed a strange, sometimes symbiotic relationship, bringing up questions of love and marriage, trust and temptation.

As Hayden and Josh journey through rituals - and intimacies - that will knit their souls for life, passion and anger flares, revealing a powerful secret. In a different world, they might have been friends. Now, face to face after five years, the bitterness in Hayden’s eyes fills Josh with regret for what could have been - should have been.

Faithless is a work of experimental fiction weaving through various scenes and memories of being in love, out of love, and abused by love as told and experienced by Grace, a troubled 20-something-year-old struggling with her identity as a bisexual Korean-American. Everything is recounted as experienced - in fragments.

Retired Army Staff Sergeant Lee Winters is trying hard to adjust to civilian life. She was released from duty after a bomb in Ramadi injured her and killed her troops, the only people she ever considered her family. Living day-to-day with the knowledge that she was the only one left alive, she hits rock bottom, and an old army buddy persuades her into taking a bodyguard job.

Perché mai si dovrebbe desiderare di diventare gay? Innanzi tutto perché non c'è un buon motivo per desiderare di essere etero, a parte una patologica assenza di fantasia. Poi perché essere eterosessuale è fuori moda. E infine perché bastano cinque settimane e un po' di buona volontà per scoprire l'altra sponda che, nella maggior parte dei casi, non è poi così lontana. Se siete sicuri di non essere gay, se siete certi di non conoscerne, questo manuale metterà alla prova le vostre sicurezze e vi dischiuderà orizzonti sconosciuti. Seguendo le gesta di Bruce e di Diana.

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.

UMA MULHER REDESCOBRE SUAS RAÍZES E ACEITA O QUE — OU QUEM — REALMENTE QUER NESTE DELICIOSO ROMANCE QUEER. Após cinco anos de namoro, algumas coisas são esperadas, como o tão sonhado pedido de casamento. Mas definitivamente não como o que Nareh, uma jovem armênia-americana, recebeu. Quando seu então namorado se ajoelha em um restaurante cheio de gente bêbada para pedi-la em casamento, ela percebe que talvez seja o momento de encontrar uma pessoa que esteja mais alinhada com a ideia que tem de romantismo.

Fantasy Roman mit einer ergreifenden Liebesgeschichte Das Vergessen war seine Gnade. Die Wahrheit ist sein Untergang. Ein Magier ohne Zukunft versucht, sein Schicksal abzuwenden. Ein Fischer ohne Vergangenheit verliebt sich in einen Feldherrn, der eine Lüge lebt. Drei untrennbar verbundene Schicksale entscheiden über die Zukunft eines kriegszerrissenen Reiches. Inmitten des Konfliktes zwischen der Rebellion und dem grausamen Regime des Sha ist Caliyan der stärkste Magier seiner Zeit. Doch man hat ihm alles genommen.

Elliot y Julián se conocen desde siempre. Crecieron juntos en la pista donde entrenaban. Hasta que dejaron de darse empujones y empezaron a gravitar el uno alrededor del otro. Pero, de la noche a la mañana, Julián se convirtió en el entrenador de Elliot, y lo que sentían, si acaso sentían algo, quedó prohibido.