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Weekly insights from the intersection of queerness, embodiment, and magic with Joeli Caparco and Elle Bower Johnston

Those who knew the streets in Houston knew one thing for sure. The four brothers of the Kinsey Cartel were as crazy as hell. The oldest two, Tremell and Tristan, aka Tre and Tripp, might just have been the craziest of all. Crossing any of them could end your life, especially given Tre's unique skills at murder. No one messed with them… until a pair of best friends, Shamar and Cyn, came in and turned Tre and Tripp's world upside down.

Niall didn't want to know. He thought he didn't care what had happened to his mother after she disappeared all those years ago. But, the past has a way of rising from the, er, dead when least expected. Niall regrets answering that mid-morning phone call. In the past few years, Niall's learned to open up his heart an inch or two. He doesn't like it one bit, but it's proving impossible to slam it shut again. Of course, his beloved husband, Mat, and the few people he thinks of as friends rally around him after he learns Ana's remains have been found—but will they be enough?

For years, they came in on weekends to plan and practice—nearly sixty surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists, preparing to harmonize in a vast medical symphony. For the team at Mayo Clinic, it was their most complex surgery to date: a face transplant. At the heart of this event was Andy Sandness. He grappled with feelings of isolation and shame after a disfiguring suicide attempt but was determined to reclaim his future, to be seen as ordinary, and to belong again.

Kailani . . . She's tough, she's broken, and the last thing she wants or thinks she needs in her life is a man like Traeger. Traeger . . . He's not the one you call to hold a princess's hand. For Kailani he'll become what she needs, battling the very men who should protect her. For the past decade, he's lived and breathed for his MC. Bitter memories are only some of the obstacles they'll have to overcome.

A Finlay Donovan le está costando (otra vez) terminar su siguiente novela y salir adelante como madre soltera de dos hijos. Lo bueno es que puede contar con Vero, su niñera interna y confidente, y que el único cadáver del que se ha tenido que deshacer ú...

Rafael Fairfax: devastatingly handsome, notoriously difficult billionaire CEO of Fairfax Guardian. His staff alternately love him and loathe him. He’s also the brother of my best friend, Dove. I have every reason to despise him after I hear him talking about my father one day. Unfortunately, I need him too. Because my father is in prison for fraud, and I’m determined to get him released. If I can get close to Rafael by working for his company, I’m confident I can prove his innocence.

'Hechos probados' es una conversación entre Alejandro Entrambasaguas y María Jamardo en la que analizan la actualidad con su particular punto de vista

¿Es nuestra realidad un diseño o un accidente? Soy El Arquitecto. A mis casi 66 años, el doble de la edad de Cristo, inicio un diálogo con la Inteligencia Artificial para decodificar el patrón oculto en dios.org . Este podcast es el registro de una intromisión en el Kernel de la existencia. Un manifiesto de la luz nacido de una convicción: No basta con no hacer mal alguno, es necesario hacer todo el bien que se pueda. Transmisiones de lunes, miércoles y viernes. Bienvenidos a la construcción de Dios. STATUS: Transmisión 1.0 // KERNEL: 2-26.

Romantic, amuzant şi încărcat de erotism, acest roman te cucereşte, te captivează şi te domină. Anastasia Steele, studentă la filologie, îi ia un interviu lui Christian Grey, un tânăr om de afaceri de succes, pe care îl găseşte foarte atractiv şi de-a dreptul intimidant. Retrasă...

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the Nile , Saadawi's dark parable of poverty, female exploitation, injustice and religious hypocrisy in rural Egypt. In Searching the disappearance of her lover causes Fouda to question everything. Circling Song is a hypnotic meditation on gender, class and state violence told through the story of two mysterious twins.

Der ehemalige Dieb Sam und die Gelehrtentochter Kani sind erleichtert: Die Fabelwesen konnten erfolgreich aus ihrem Gefängnis - der unterirdischen Bibliothek von Mythia - befreit werden! Doch sie wissen auch, dass sich die dunkle Wüstenhexe Layl nicht so leicht geschlagen gibt. Mit dem Buch der geheimen Namen der Fabelwesen könnte sie ein neues Gefängnis bauen. So schmieden Sam und seine Gefährten einen Plan: Während der Flügelmann Nusar mit seiner Armee die Stadt angreift, soll Sam das Buch stehlen. Doch niemand weiß, wo die Wüstenhexe es versteckt hat.

Paramythia, die Bücherstadt - so heißt das riesige Bibliothekslabyrinth unterhalb der Straßen von Mythia. Dort werden nicht nur Millionen von Büchern gehütet, sondern auch gefährliche Geheimnisse. Der ehemaligen Dieb Sam träumt davon, Wächter des Königs zu werden. Stattdessen wurde er damit betreut, die Bibliothek zu hüten - und entdeckte in ihren flüsternden Schatten, dass die Beraterin des Königs eine Intrige gegen ihren Herrn spinnt. Doch was genau ist ihr Plan? Nur wenn Sam das herausfindet, hat er eine Chance, den König zu retten.

As a peasant, I was forced to work the jewel mines in order to survive. My life was hard, but my worries were few: Affording food to eat, and keeping my pet sloth out of harm’s way. But when a chance encounter with a stranger concludes with me obtaining the power of the gods, suddenly my whole world changes. When the Storm King finds out - and trust me, he always finds out - he plans to make me a princess by marrying me off to one of his four sons.

Stunning and sophisticated, art dealer Samantha King is the only person who knows she doesn't have it all (unless you count her mother and sister, which Sam doesn't). When it comes to men, Sam won't make time for anything more than a one night stand. No commitments, no connections. The night her life changes forever is a night Sam actually can't remember. Even so, the indelible mark a woman named Mia Rossi leaves on Sam's heart is something she can't ignore.

Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them...except Ramya Knox. As she is pulled into her family's world of secrets and spells, Ramya sets out to discover the truth about the Hidden Folk with only three words of warning from her grandfather: beware the sirens. Plunged into an adventure that will change everything, Ramya is about to learn that there is more to her powers than she ever imagined.

US Marine Colin McKinnon fell in love with Emily in high school, but when he elected to join the Marine Corps, Emily chose to marry Colin’s best friend, Alex, preferring a safe and secure life. Brokenhearted but resolute, at their wedding, Colin promised Alex he’d take care of Emily if anything ever happened to Alex. Though Emily loved Colin more, she married Alex, one of her best friends. She couldn’t abide the heartache of Colin marching into harm’s way.

Hannah est une très bonne élève et elle a un don incroyable pour le chant. Mais quand il s'agit d'hommes et de séduction, elle perd tous ses moyens. Garrett est la star de l'équipe de Hockey de l'université, mais ses résultats scolaires ne sont pas à la hauteur et il risque de perdre sa place dans l'équipe. Ils vont passer un drôle d'accord. Elle lui donne des cours et il l'aide à séduire le quater back de l'équipe de football. Cet arrangement original va-t-il changer leur vie ?

The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, MD, who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman's documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius.

By day, Holly Hudson’s a story editor for Wifetime Network. By night, she’s the writer for the network’s very cheesy, very straight holiday romance series -Christmas in Evermore. Holly took the job to accomplish exactly one thing: A gay Christmas movie. She’s been shot down before, but things start to look up when Meredith Drake unexpectedly moves into the network’s holiday division. In this contemporary romance, Holly and Meredith work to make the Yuletide gayer while discovering that happy endings aren’t only for the movies.