- Table View
- List View
Ready When You Are
by Gary LonesboroughA remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn't want to accept he's gay, and the boy who comes to live in his house who makes him realize who he is.It's a hot summer, and life's going all right for Jackson and his family on the Mish. It's almost Christmas, school's out, and he's hanging with his mates, teasing the visiting tourists, avoiding the racist boys in town. Just like every year, Jackson's Aunty and annoying little cousins visit from the city -- but this time a mysterious boy with a troubled past comes with them. As their friendship evolves, Jackson must confront the changing shapes of his relationships with his friends, family and community. And he must face his darkest secret -- a secret he thought he'd locked away for good.
Ready When You Are
by Gary LonesboroughA remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn't want to accept he's gay, and the boy who comes to live in his house who makes him realize who he is.It's a hot summer, and life's going all right for Jackson and his family on the Mish. It's almost Christmas, school's out, and he's hanging with his mates, teasing the visiting tourists, and avoiding the racist boys in town. Just like every year, Jackson's Aunty and annoying little cousins visit from the city -- but this time a mysterious boy with a troubled past comes with them. As their friendship evolves, Jackson must confront the changing shapes of his relationships with his friends, family, and community. And he must face his darkest secret -- a secret he thought he'd locked away for good.
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
by Mark KurlanskyCan a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote "Dancing in the Street. " The song was recorded at Motown's Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, with lead singer Martha Reeves arranging her own vocals. Released on July 31, the song was supposed to be an upbeat dance recording--a precursor to disco, and a song about the joyousness of dance. But events overtook it, and the song became one of the icons of American pop culture. The Beatles had landed in the U. S. in early 1964. By the summer, the sixties were in full swing. The summer of 1964 was the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election. As the country grew more radicalized in those few months, "Dancing in the Street" gained currency as an activist anthem. The song took on new meanings, multiple meanings, for many different groups that were all changing as the country changed. Told by the writer who is legendary for finding the big story in unlikely places,Ready for a Brand New Beatchronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song about dancing played in history.
Real Good Man
by Elise WhylesIn Book 2 of the Canadian Heroes series you'll discover love can grow in the most unlikely places. Set in the rugged beauty of Banff, two men will find romance. But will love be reason enough to let go of the past and their fears, or like winter snow on blades of grass, will self-doubt and suspicion destroy their passion?Sean Tisman lives in fear of his father's prejudice. When he's stationed in Banff he's determined to live life on his terms. When he meets his counterpart, Sean's world is thrown into further upheaval.Luke Marshall is a man licking his wounds. After a bad break with his ex, he's relieved to be given his old post; that is until he meets the man of his dreams in the young game warden assigned to Banff. Can their love survive the secrets and danger that lie in wait for them?
Real Life: A Novel
by Brandon TaylorA FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award &“A blistering coming of age story&” —O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes & Noble, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, Self, Electric Literature, and Shelf AwarenessA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it&’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.
Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes: Poems
by Nicky BeerWhat is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”? Nicky Beer’s latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine academy specializing in the study of subterfuge; Marlene Dietrich, Dolly Parton, and Batman are its instructors. With an energetic eye, she thumbs through our collective history books—and her personal one, too—in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of duplicity and those that are far more insidious. Through delicious japery, poems that can be read multiple ways, and allusions ranging from Puccini’s operas to Law & Order, Beer troubles the notion of truth. Often, we settle for whatever brand of honesty is convenient for us, or whatever is least likely to spark confrontation—but this, Beer knows, is how we invite others to weigh in on what kind of person we are. This is how we trick ourselves into believing they’re right. “Listen / to how quiet it is when I lose the self-doubt played / for so long I mistook it for music.”Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes asks us to look through the stereoscope: which image is the real one? This one—or this one, just here? With wisdom, humility, and a forthright tenderness, Nicky Beer suggests that we consider both—together, they might contribute to something like truth.
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
by Samantha AllenA transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. <P><P>Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn't changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called "flyover country" rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only queer night club in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more. <P><P>Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, Real Queer America is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times.
Real World: A Love Is Blind Novel (Love is Blind #2)
by Ba TortugaA Love is Blind NovelDan White is trying to acclimate to civilian life after a long career in the military with multiple combat deployments. Now he's home in the Austin area, living with his brother Dixon, Dixon's husband, Audie, and their two nine-year-olds. During the New Year celebration, Dan meets Abraham Weldon, and the connection is instant. There's a kiss. There's a dance. There's a proposition. Then Dan finds out Weldon is bisexual. And a dad. With five kids. Five kids, one of whom is a blind fifteen-year-old. Weldon has been in love twice in his life--with his high school best friend, Blake, and with his wife, Krista, who he met in a Dairy Queen as she was crying over a positive pregnancy test. Love number three hits Weldon like a hammer when he meets Dan. But since Dan isn't interested in a guy with kids, they might only get one night together.
Realignment
by A. F. HenleyBlake Truman has come to Sunridge looking for his ex. Finally out of jail and rehab, Blake is ready to start over, this time without the drugs. However, when he finds Lee in the arms of a new man, he knows it's time to get out of town and move on. Which he would do, gladly, if he hadn't wound up on the wrong end of a rifle while stealing some gas.Connor Riley has been struggling to keep up with his farm on his own. With the passing of his wife, and Scott leaving home to start his own business, things are tough. He decides to take Blake showing up on his property as an opportunity. Just because Blake has an ugly past, that doesn't mean he can't lift a shovel or sling some hay.As they get closer, neither age difference nor past loves can stand in the way of a blossoming attraction. Connor's son Scott might though, as soon as Scott finds out his dad's new right hand man is also the man that Scott believes ruined his lover's life.
Really Cute People
by Markus Harwood-JonesA little domestic bliss never hurt anyone…right? Charlie Dee is headed for burnout. They&’ve been burned before, both by their bio family and the now-defunct queer collective they once called home. So when they&’re asked to take a work trip outside the city, they jump at the chance. Sure, it&’s additional work with no additional pay, but it&’s also an excuse to get out of town—and out of their own head.That dream is shattered when Charlie opens the door to their supposedly private rental. There&’s a bird on the loose, circling the living room as it&’s chased by a cat, who is chased by a small child. The girl&’s parents, Hayden and Buffy, only manage to add to the chaos. They promise to leave first thing in the morning, but when a massive snowstorm rolls in, this overnight trip becomes a weeklong affair.Reluctantly charmed by this unfiltered—if forced—look at a loving, healthy family, Charlie begins to develop feelings for both Hayden and Buffy. And they both seem to be flirting back. But when a potential promotion lures Charlie back to the city, all three will have to decide where they go from here—and what it means to truly feel at home.
Reap This (Oh So Happy Holidays Ser.)
by Rafe JadisonWhen Seamus O'Donnell returns to his Massachusetts hometown for Samhain, or Halloween as his neighbors like to call it, he has a bone to pick with someone.At twenty-six, with a career on Wall Street, life was looking up for him until cancer attacked. Now, on that night when the veil is thin between the dead and those who aren't dead, feeling he has nothing to lose, Seamus summons up the one thing nobody wants to see.To Seamus's surprise, he doesn't get an ugly skeleton in a dark robe, but rather something quite handsome. When it misunderstands something Seamus says in anger, the being makes Seamus a proposition he just can't refuse.
Reap This Three: Getting Back Mine
by Rafe JadisonSeamus O’Donnell has waited forever for Mine, the reaper who has saved his life on more than one occasion. At least that’s what his coven tells him.On a crisp Samhain morning when his coven sends him back in time to get this man he loves so much, Seamus soon finds himself in the middle of witch trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and bloody wars in a time before civilization.As he battles eons of pain and lifetimes of loss, Seamus must ask himself will if love find a way to break the curse that has kept him and Mine apart for too many lifetimes, or will he lose Mine forever?
Reap This Too
by Rafe JadisonUnlike his parents and his twin Seamus, Ian O’Donnell is not a good witch. Or rather, he isn’t quite good at it. Studying charts and remembering candles hasn’t ever really been his thing. Still, he longs to see the mystical sites of the world, especially the Great Pyramids of Giza. When Ian finally reaches them, though, he finds himself more attracted to the sexy man who works the night shift at his hotel than he does the pyramids.Ian’s able to convince Khnurn to take him to the desert for a romantic evening in front of the pyramids. Everything’s going great until Khnurn gets serious. He tells Ian he’s a vampire and they’ve known each other before. Unfortunately, Ian can’t recall ever having been in a serious relationship in this life, or any other, and he isn’t quite sure Khnurn isn’t just feeding him pick-up lines. When Khnurn leaves Ian alone to think about things, another man appears in Ian’s life, a crazy-looking spectre that might just be the Angel of Death.Ian soon finds himself hightailing it back to Massachusetts just in time for Halloween with his wonderfully animated witch family and their coven. Unfortunately, it isn’t souvenirs Ian’s brought back with him, but rather the creepy spectre from the desert, and maybe a sexy vampire who might just be the love of his life.
Reaping What We Sewed
by Rafe JadisonWitch Ian O’Donnell and his vampire lover Khnurn have literally waited centuries to really be together, but no matter how many lives they spend trying to make it all work out, in the end it seems things just can’t come together. After moving their wedding from Samhain to Winter Solstice, they are sure they will finally get it right.Unfortunately for them, a giant New England blizzard is just the start of their troubles. When Ian’s twin Seamus and his partner Mine get lost in the snow storm, Ian and Khnurn wonder if fate might just be sending them a message. If so, can they change what it’s saying?
Reaping the Seeds of Love
by Rafe JadisonSeamus O’Donnell has loved Mine for many lives, and he can remember most of them. Unfortunately for Seamus, Mine can’t remember a thing, and Seamus can remember every little detail except how to act when he’s around Mine. All the passion they had before, now seems to turn into awkwardness.Mine keeps having dreams about Seamus. Hot dreams. Weird dreams. Dreams that he’s blue. Even though he knows he knew Seamus before, for the life of him, he can’t remember how, and no one will tell him a thing. As much as he desires the gorgeous man in front of him, Mine can’t be sure that it’s a mutual thing, and he doesn’t plan on getting involved with anyone until he knows what’s going on.When on Winter Solstice they find themselves trapped in a cabin alone in a blizzard, things get more than a little intense. As they battle weather, nature, and a plan that seems like it could only be designed by the ancestors, they wonder if this is just one more life time keeping them apart, or if they might finally be reaping the seeds of love?
Rearranging Stars
by Diane Adams2nd EditionThe freedom to love comes with a cost. As a guardian angel, Drake's destiny is written in the stars. Choice is not part of an angel's life. Drake never thought twice about it until he's unexpectedly thrust into watching over Grey, who inspires passion in Drake but endangers his very identity as a guardian angel. Grey is more than just another human--he can see angels. When he discovers that unlike his previous angel Drake will talk to him, Grey becomes determined to pull Drake off the sidelines and into life. Attraction flares between them from the beginning and causes Drake to question his purpose for the first time. His distraction results in a decision that changes everything--and not just for him and Grey.First Edition published by Silver Publishing, 2011.
Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage (a Camera Obscura book)
by Lee WallaceIn Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality—far from being the threat to “traditional” marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted—is so integral to its reimagining that all marriage is gay marriage. Drawing on the history of marriage, Stanley Cavell's analysis of Hollywood comedies of remarriage, and readings of recent gay and lesbian films, Wallace shows that queer experiments in domesticity have reshaped the affective and erotic horizons of heterosexual marriage and its defining principles: fidelity, exclusivity, and endurance. Wallace analyzes a series of films—Dorothy Arzner's Craig's Wife (1936); Tom Ford's A Single Man (2009); Lisa Cholodenko's High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010); and Andrew Haigh's Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015)—that, she contends, do not simply reflect social and legal changes; they fundamentally alter our sense of what sexual attachment involves as both a social and a romantic form.
Rebeca y Julieta
by Olga Palma Ocaña Vanessa Alós MartínA veces aparece una Rebeca en lugar de un Romeo. Una historia de amor entre dos chicas que se conocen en el trabajo. Esta es una historia de amor realista y autobiográfica entre dos chicas que nunca pensaron que en el interior de una afinidad femenina pudiera haber algo más. Juntas, y a veces por separado, tendrán que enfrentarse a las expectativas de la sociedad y aprender a quererse tal y como son. Dos escritoras con una historia real, ellas son: Olga Palma OcañaOriginaria de Barcelona y padres de origen Andaluz. Licenciada en márketing y comunicación de moda y gastronomía en la ciudad de Barcelona. Escritora novel a sus 30 años mediante esta obra. Rebeca: Bondad y finura subida a unos tacones, creativa y valiente. Vanessa Alós MartínOriginaria de Tarragona (Reus) de padre francés y madre madrileña, 37 años, Diplomada en Turismo con especialidad en Organización y Gestión de Eventos, escritora novel mediante esta obra. Julieta: inteligencia con elegancia francesa, valiente y sentimental.
Rebel (415 Ink Ser. #1)
by Rhys FordThe hardest thing a rebel can do isn’t standing up for something—it’s standing up for himself. Life takes delight in stabbing Gus Scott in the back when he least expects it. After Gus spends years running from his past, present, and the dismal future every social worker predicted for him, karma delivers the one thing Gus could never—would never—turn his back on: a son from a one-night stand he’d had after a devastating breakup a few years ago. Returning to San Francisco and to 415 Ink, his family’s tattoo shop, gave him the perfect shelter to battle his personal demons and get himself together… until the firefighter who’d broken him walked back into Gus’s life. For Rey Montenegro, tattoo artist Gus Scott was an elusive brass ring, a glittering prize he hadn’t the strength or flexibility to hold on to. Severing his relationship with the mercurial tattoo artist hurt, but Gus hadn’t wanted the kind of domestic life Rey craved, leaving Rey with an aching chasm in his soul. When Gus’s life and world starts to unravel, Rey helps him pick up the pieces, and Gus wonders if that forever Rey wants is more than just a dream.
Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
by Padraig RooneyAnnemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her domineering pro-Nazi mother. She immersed herself in the antifascist, queer and artistic circles of the German diaspora of the 1930s. Her edgy glamour and androgynous beauty turned heads in the lesbian nightclubs of Weimar Berlin, on the ski slopes of St. Moritz, and in New York's luxury hotels and jazz bars. Constantly on the move, Annemarie chronicled the low and dishonest decade leading to war through her unique journalism, writing and photography. Her work was as adventurous and uncompromising as her personal life, and reveals a deep courage, intelligence, and ambition tragically curtailed by her untimely death.
Rebel Boys and Rescue Dogs, or Things That Kiss with Teeth
by Brianna R. ShrumA young adult romantic comedy that will appeal to fans of 10 Things I Hate About You and Jenn Bennett&’s Alex, Approximately. Seventeen-year-old Brynn Riley is on a hundred committees, has earned teacher&’s pet in practically every class she&’s ever taken, and is on track to make valedictorian. But one night, Brynn makes a mistake. A big one. Why wouldn&’t the cops show up on the one night she&’s ever cut loose in her life? Why wouldn&’t she be assigned community service for one tiny mistake? And why, of all things, wouldn&’t a boy from school happen to work at the pitbull rescue where she chooses to do her community service hours? Oliver West&’s dad owns the rescue. And Oliver works there as his second in command. And Brynn and Oliver both know that she absolutely screwed him out of a major scholarship opportunity at school earlier in the semester. If he tells anyone at school that she was arrested, everything she&’s worked so hard for will be disappear. If Brynn doesn&’t want her secret spilled, she&’d better start taking Oliver seriously. He&’ll keep quiet if she helps him get another shot at the scholarship project (since she ruined it, after all). As the two get closer, the stakes begin to shift. Brynn starts to want Oliver for more than the community service checkmark that will give her back her squeaky-clean record, and Oliver, as it turns out, takes Brynn Riley very, very seriously. But, well . . . you know what they say: Nothing brings people together like blackmail, pitbulls, and court-ordered community service.
Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride: 25 Tales of Self-Love and Community (Rebel Girls Minis)
by Elena Favilli Rebel GirlsTRUE STORIES OF PRIDE AND POWER!This collection features 25 inspiring tales of proud members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Read about how these women, girls, and nonbinary people broke down barriers, honored their identities, and lived authentically no matter what anyone else said.Find your voice with Janelle Monae. Play for equality with Billie Jean King. Protect your community with Marcia P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. And organize joyful celebrations with Dr. Lady Phyll and Molly Pinta.With a foreword by Elena Favilli, this book pairs inspiring, easy-to-read text with colorful full-page portraits created by female and nonbinary artists from all around the world. Plus, scannable codes let you listen to longer stories on the Rebel Girls app!
Rebel Hearts
by Alexander VerlangenKennedy is full of secrets. He has superpowers. The superpowered are feared and imprisoned, and Kennedy’s nightmares come to life when his powers are discovered. Sent to an underwater prison run by two tyrants, he is forced to compete to the death against other superheroes in a deadly tournament.It doesn't help that his team leader, Aidy, is enchanting, protective, loyal, and charming. The last thing Kennedy needs is a distraction.No one believes rebellion is possible. No believes living is possible. Can Kennedy find a way to win and keep Aidy, too?
Rebelde de la luna (El Arco del Cielo #1)
by L.M.R. ClarkeEl príncipe Mantos, legítimo heredero del Imperio Masvam, es asesinado para permitir que Dorai, la Diosa Oscura, busque el poder supremo. Sin embargo, no todo está perdido, ya que Mantos ha muerto una vez antes y misteriosamente regresó de entre los muertos. En este tumultuoso conflicto entra Emmy, una esclava que escapó del cautiverio, solo para ser esclavizada una vez más. Reconocido por el sanador Rel, que comparte el color de piel inusual de Emmy, como descendiente de los Uloni, una raza traída al mundo por la hija de los dioses, Emmy puede ser la clave para devolver el equilibrio a este mundo. Los enemigos se vuelven amigos y los amantes se vuelven enemigos mientras las líneas de batalla se dibujan en una lucha desesperada por salvar al mundo de la magia oscura. The Moon Rogue es una lectura obligada para los fanáticos de Becky Albertalli, Emily M. Danforth y Leigh Bardugo.
Rebelle (Série 415 Ink #1)
by Rhys FordLa chose la plus difficile à faire pour un rebelle n’est pas de se battre pour une cause, mais de se battre pour lui-même.La vie prend un malin plaisir à poignarder Gus Scott dans le dos lorsqu’il s’y attend le moins. Après avoir passé des années à fuir son passé, son présent et le sombre avenir que lui avait prédit les assistantes sociales, le karma lui fournit la seule chose à laquelle il ne pourra – ne voudra – jamais tourner le dos : un fils né d’une nuit passée avec une femme quelques années auparavant après une rupture dévastatrice.Retourner à San Francisco et au 415 Ink, le salon de tatouage familial, lui a fourni un abri idéal pour combattre ses démons personnels et se reconstruire… jusqu’à ce que le pompier qui l’avait brisé revienne dans sa vie.Pour Rey Montenegro, le tatoueur Gus Scott était une récompense insaisissable, un prix étincelant qu’il n’avait pas eu la force de retenir. Mettre un terme à sa relation avec le tatoueur versatile avait été douloureux, mais Gus n’avait pas voulu de la vie de famille dont lui rêvait, le laissant avec une âme meurtrie.Lorsque la vie et le monde de Gus commencent à s’effondrer, Rey l’aide à rassembler les morceaux, et Gus se demande si l’histoire d’amour éternel à laquelle aspire Rey peut vraiment exister.