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Probando el Amor (Probando El Amor Ser. #2)
by Olga Andrew GreyUn libro de la saga Probando el AmorEl turno del almuerzo del restaurante de Darryl Hansen, El Café Belgie, se está volviendo demasiado complicado para una sola persona, y Billy Weaver es un joven que busca trabajo --cualquier clase de trabajo-- para mantener a su familia. Billy se gana el respeto de Darryl con su naturaleza concienzuda y por su buena disposición a trabajar duro, pero sus miradas de admiración resucitan el dolor y la vergüenza del pasado de Darryl. Billy sufre en silencio hasta que Darryl se tropieza con su secreto: su padre murió unos meses antes, dejándolo a él solo para criar a sus hermanos gemelos de cinco años. Darryl se lleva a Billy y a los niños al restaurante, donde permanecerán juntos para enfrentar la variedad de problemas de su futuro... mientras que Davey, Donnie y Billy se van ganando el corazón de Darryl.
Probation
by Tom MendicinoAll it took to destroy Andy Nocera's seemingly perfect life was an anonymous tryst at an Interstate rest area. Sentenced to probation and thrown out by his wife, he spends his week as a traveling salesman, and his weekends at his mother's house where no questions are asked--and no explanations are offered.To clear his record, the State of North Carolina requires Andy to complete one year of therapy without another arrest. He attends his sessions reluctantly at first, struggling to comprehend why he would risk everything. Answers don't come easily, especially in the face of his mother's sudden illness and his repeated failure to live as an openly gay man. But as Andy searches his past, he gets an opportunity to rescue another lost soul--and a chance at a future that is different in every way from the one he had envisioned. With profound honesty, sharp wit, and genuine heart, this debut novel portrays one man's search--for love and passion, acceptance and redemption--and for the courage to really live. "If you're looking for a smart, engaging, witty, sad and unusual book about the complicated nature of family and love, try Tom Mendicino's Probation. You'll be glad you did."--Bart Yates"Probation is the rare novel that dares to take the reader on a journey through the dark night of the soul. An unflinching look at the dark side of self-discovery, it is ultimately a story of transformation and the worlds of possibilities hidden within each of us."--Michael Thomas FordTom Mendicino spent six raucous years roaming the country and eking out a living in the Sales Department of several New York publishing houses before attending the law school of the University of North Carolina. His stories, some of them excerpts from Probation, have appeared in several recent anthologies.
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender (Forerunners: Ideas First)
by Marquis BeyA complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed A deep meditation on and expansion of the figure of the Negro and insurrectionary effects of the "X” as theorized by Nahum Chandler, The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender thinks through the problematizing effects of blackness as, too, a problematizing of gender. <P><P>Through the paraontological, the between, and the figure of the “X” (with its explicit contemporary link to nonbinary and trans genders) Marquis Bey presents a meditation on black feminism and gender nonnormativity. Chandler’s text serves as both an argumentative tool for rendering the “radical alternative” in and as blackness as well as demonstrating the necessarily trans/gendered valences of that radical alternative. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
The Problem with Gravity
by Michelle MohrweisA heartfelt selection for STEAM, LGBTQ+, and neurodivergent readers, this companion novel to The Trouble with Robots charmingly explores first crushes.Autistic seventh-grader Maggie Weir loves spacecraft, but aerospace engineering isn't the only thing that gives her butterflies: she&’s teamed up with the amazing, baton-twirling Tatum Jones for an engineering contest! It&’s an out of this world chance for Maggie to tell Tatum, her long time crush, how she feels. Only, Tatum is distracted with her own troubles at home. Worse still, when Maggie learns that her dad wants to move to Houston, her whole universe gets shaken up! Now she has a big decision to make: does she stay with her mom and remain in Tatum's orbit, or does she launch her dreams of visiting NASA by following her Dad? If the stars are meant to align between these two, they'll both have to admit their feelings before Maggie leaves forever.An easy-to-follow, dual perspective narrative that compassionately explores themes of separation, healthy friendship, and sibling rivalry. Another lovable cast of characters in the Barton Junior High universe!
Problème de Garçon: Une histoire d'amour gay sur le passage à l'âge adulte
by Maxwell CarlsenPour des lecteurs adultes, âgés de 18 ans et plus. Luke, 13 ans, tombe amoureux de Tristan, un garçon mignon de son nouveau quartier, mais Tristan s'avère être une brute. Like a-t-il trouvé un petit ami ?
Problemi d'amore: un racconto di formazione d'amore gay
by Maxwell CarlsenPer lettori maturi, dai 18 anni in su. Il tredicenne Luke si innamora di Tristan, un bel ragazzo del suo nuovo quartiere, ma Tristan si rivela essere un bullo. Luke troverà un fidanzato?
The Prodigal
by Rafe JadisonJonah Gentry knows his family is a lot, so, it’s been three years since he visited them back in Atlanta. As hesitant as he might be to spend another holiday with them, Jonah finds his reluctance is quickly assuaged when he meets the gorgeous man sitting next to him on the plane. After an amazing night together, Jonah realizes he isn’t sure he’s up for competing with the other man who has a place in this man’s heart, Jesus.Paul Carrington left Alabama years ago. Twenty years later, he’s built a life for himself with a thriving business, and a nice house he’s hoping to fill with just the right guy. When he meets a man on a plane ride back from Portland, he wonders if maybe Jonah might be the one. Then Jonah leaves him standing in his bathrobe in the middle of the street chasing after his cab.When Paul and Jonah find themselves next to each other at Jonah’s mother’s Christmas dinner, sparks fly. Can Jonah work through his family and religious issues enough to work it out with the guy with the kind eyes? Can Paul forgive the man who left him without saying goodbye? Or is it just another holiday down the tubes?
Prodigal (Lost and Found #1)
by TA MooreLost and FoundFifteen years ago Sammy Calloway disappeared on his way home from school. Now he’s back… or is he? Boyd Maccabbee has spent his life second-guessing his actions on that fateful day. What if he’d done something differently? Maybe Sammy would have made it home safe and never become Cutters Gap’s most tragic famous son. Or would it have been Boyd who was never seen again? When the police find new evidence on the disappearance, Boyd hopes to finally get some answers. The last thing Morgan Graves needs is to be dragged into some old case about a missing kid. He doesn’t know why police hit on his DNA, but he’s not Sammy Calloway. He thinks he’d remember being kidnapped. He knows he’d remember firefighter Boyd. Drawn into the complex web of suspicion, grief, and anger that has knit Cutters Gap together in the years since Sammy’s disappearance, Morgan struggles to hang on to himself when everyone already assumes they know him. And somewhere, the truth about Sammy Calloway is waiting.
The Prodigal Daughter
by J. P. GarlandBeth Jenkins, raised in an Irish Catholic family outside Chicago, with her father a retired Chicago cop, would not acknowledge to her family that she was gay, fearing how they would react. She moved to New York, visiting her home occasionally. At Christmas just over three years before the story begins, and against her better judgment, she responds to the when-I-you-going-to-find-a-man question by coming out.Any hopes of staying are shattered when her father says he will not sit at the same table with this creature. For three years she speaks to neither her parents. Then her sister calls. "Dad is dying. He's turned over a new leaf." She agrees to come, but only with her girlfriend, with whom she is living in Brooklyn.This is the story of their journey to Beth's home and what happens when she gets there.
Producing the Archival Body (Routledge Studies in Archives)
by Jamie A. LeeProducing the Archival Body draws on theoretical and practical research conducted within US and Canadian archives, along with critical and cultural theory, to examine the everyday lived experiences of archivists and records creators that are often overlooked during archival and media production. Expanding on the author’s previous work, which engaged archival and queer theories to develop the Queer/ed Archival Methodology that intervenes in traditional archival practices, the book invites readers interested in humanistic inquiry to re-consider how archives are defined, understood, deployed, and accessed to produce subjects. Arguing that archives and bodies are mutually constitutive and developing a keen focus on the body and embodiment alongside archival theory, the author introduces new understandings of archival bodies. Contributing to recent disciplinary moves that offer a more transdisciplinary emphasis, Lee interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities. Producing the Archival Body will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of archival studies, library and information science, gender and women’s studies, anthropology, history, digital humanities, and media studies. It should also be of great interest to practitioners working in and with archives
A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking): A Never-Coming-of-Age Story
by Jess H. Gutierrez&“Jess Gutierrez has a one-of-a-kind talent for showing how hilarious and absurd life can be—and, lucky reader, she is ready to share her escapades with the rest of us. I couldn&’t put this book down.&” —W. Kamau Bell, comedian and author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell &“Like Gutierrez, I&’m a millennial making things up as I go along, and as this book hilariously shows, our way is much more fun.&” —Sona Movsesian, New York Times bestselling author of The World&’s Worst AssistantA frank, raucous, and bawdy collection of essays about coming of age through the oddest jobs, misadventures in queer love, and endearing parenting fails This is a perfect book for a very imperfect generation. Millennials were the kids who wore slap bracelets and jeans so low rise they could see one another's colons, and they are now adults wondering, Is everyone else as messed up as I am? In her book, Jess shares relatable tales of a woman who feels like a dumpster fire even with a seemingly ideal set up with a fire-captain wife, three kids, and a mortgage. Highlights include roller-derby catastrophes, a disastrous first night on the job at a lesbian bar, narrow escapes from wild animals, and fond memories of sending printed thirst-trap photos via mail to the lover in Australia she met on the early Internet. Readers will soon cheerfully discover that Jess&’s voice is infectious, her stories are off-the-wall, and her references are deeply and delightfully millennial.
Profesora Queen
by Kyrian MaloneRomance lésbico en una escuela entre una profesora y su estudiante. [Lana Queen] Faith, de 20 años, deja Boston y se muda a Northfolk con su abuela Rebecca Ryan. A pesar de su complicado expediente escolar y un pasado agitado, se integra a la escuela Emery, Una clase, una mirada a su profesora y Faith sucumbe a lo encantos de ella. Hara de todo para atraer su atención y acercarse a ella, ¿pero cómo lograría Lana Queen llevar su relación?
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
by Afsaneh NajmabadiSince the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable "true" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the "true" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials--which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being--grew out of Iran's particular experience of Islamicized modernity. Paradoxically, state regulation has produced new spaces for non-normative living in Iran, since determining who is genuinely "trans" depends largely on the stories that people choose to tell, on the selves that they profess.
The Professor's Green Card Marriage (Dreamspun Desires #98)
by Heidi CullinanI’ll marry you. Professor Valentyn Shevchenko isn’t sure how to react when, after months of ineffective flirting, the cute barista’s first words to him are a proposal. In many ways, Peter Grunberg is the solution to all his problems. With his work visa inexplicably denied, Valentyn is running out of options to keep from being deported. But is a green card marriage really the answer? Is it still a marriage of convenience when he’s this attracted to his potential spouse? Peter came to his uncle’s coffee shop in Boulder, Colorado, to reset his life after his struggles with selective mutism returned with a vengeance. He never meant his first words to the handsome ecology professor to be an offer of marriage, but he’s not backing out now. It doesn’t matter that Peter struggles to find words. He can say everything he needs to with his body. Though this relationship may have started out back-to-front, Valentyn and Peter are determined to make their fake marriage real. But one misstep in their immigration interview could bring everything crashing down. They’ll have to hope that their love is enough to overcome all their obstacles and give them the prize they’ve both been dreaming of: a certified happy ever after.
Profound and Perfect Things: A Novel
by Maribel GarciaSome truths can do more harm than good. This is what Isa comes to believe at the tender age of nine when she first has a dream about kissing a girl—an act that would never be acceptable to her family. By her late twenties, Isa has left her hometown in South Texas, so her conservative family won't discover that she’s gay, and immersed herself in the workaholic routine of law school. One fateful night, she experiments with a man, and subsequently ended up with an unwanted pregnancy. Meanwhile, Isa’s only sister, Cristina, loses the infant she spent years trying to conceive. Moving forward with her own pregnancy and giving the baby to Cristina seems like the perfect solution—until Isa bonds with the newborn. Still, the sisters move forward with the family adoption. Now everyone in the family has a secret. Twelve years later, after much deceit and loss has passed between the sisters, Isa decides to reveal both her sexuality and her niece’s true parentage to their family, against Cristina’s wishes—but before all can be exposed, tragedy strikes. Timely and gripping, Profound and Perfect Things is a story of two first-generation Mexican-American sisters striving to build a meaningful existence outside their traditional parent’s approval and ways of life—and an exploration of the boundaries of our responsibilities to those we love.
Prognosis: Forever (Forever Ser. #2)
by EtienneCould you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die?Marco Sartori d’Argenzio and his partner Danilo Rosati have created a family and settled in the Duchy of Aragoni, but they still face the challenge of Marco’s family’s legacy: Marco may live forever, but Dani will not; unless the secret of Marco’s unique DNA is found.Marco and Dani are focused on their children and the future, not expecting the past to mar their happiness. A very real threat materializes in a bomb attack and brings with it a twist of fate: the incredible possibility of the future they dream of -- living together forever. But it also brings the specter of danger to hang over the entire d’Argenzio clan, and Marco and Dani will do everything they can to protect their family.
Programming
by Shelly GreeneSimone, a female-identifying android, is part of a scientific team sent ahead of the first colony to return to Earth, which is finally habitable again after centuries of radiation recovery. She mostly finds her human crewmates irritating, and the most irritating by far is Dr. Lucy Zhong, who slowly becomes Simone's best friend, more important to her than anyone else has ever been.When Lucy is fatally injured, she kisses Simone during her last moments of consciousness. Only then does Simone realize they may be more than friends. To save Lucy, Simone places her in the last functioning cryo-pod, even though this means sacrificing another crewmember. Simone's programming should not permit that kind of choice, but if this is a malfunction, Simone doesn't care as long as it saves Lucy.When the colony ship arrives, Lucy is revived, and discovers it’s her turn to play rescuer, as Simone has been slated for deactivation. Does the android's "malfunction" mean she returns Lucy's feelings? If Lucy can't save her beloved Simone, she'll never find out.
Project Ordell
by Susanna HaysOrdell Rutledge lives in the small town of Blackwick where he helps in his father's modest automaton shop. While he enjoys interacting with the few people who grace his father's business, he feels isolated because he can't relate to them. For ten years, life's been quaint and peaceful, but Ordell has a secret: he is an automaton, sentient enough to pass as human. Ordell's life is upended when the person he trusts most betrays him. Heartbroken, he sets off for Linnesse, a city that accepts automatons as people and is booming with the latest technology. With another sentient automaton, Elias Griffith, at his side, he overcomes obstacles and uncovers the strange truth behind his past. But sometimes the past is best left in the dark.
The Prom: A Novel Based On The Hit Broadway Musical
by Saundra MitchellO livro da nova aposta da Netflix: a adaptação do grande êxito musical da Broadway The Prom! Emma e Alyssa só queriam dançar juntas, não pretendiam dar início a uma revolução… Emma Nolan sonha apenas com uma coisa neste mundo: dançar com a namorada Alyssa no baile de finalistas. Mas na sua pequena cidade de Edgewater, Indiana, é quase como pedir a lua. Alyssa Greene é a rapariga mais popular do liceu, presidente do Conselho de Estudantes e filha da presidente da Associação de Pais. Mas esconde um segredo: o seu relacionamento com Emma. Quando se espalha a notícia de que Emma tenciona levar uma rapariga ao baile, há tanto alvoroço que a Associação de Pais ameaça cancelá-lo. Até que Barry Glickman e Dee Dee Allen entram em ação: quando as duas estrelas da Broadway ouvem falar do caso, decidem assumir a causa para obter um pouco de publicidade em troca. Mas quando chegam a Indiana para travar a luta em nome de Emma, as suas boas intenções dão para o torto. Com Emma a enfrentar o preconceito, Alyssa a perguntar-se se deveria sair do armário, e Barry e Dee Dee a desfrutar de toda a atenção dos media, a tempestade perfeita está prestes a rebentar. Cabe a Emma e Alyssa mostrar à sua pequena cidade de Indiana - e ao mundo - que vale sempre a pena lutar pelo amor. Agora também um filme na Netflix, com Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, Keegan-Michael Key, James Corden, Andrew Rannells e Ariana DeBose! «Uma abordagem divertida e atual do drama dos bailes de finalistas.» Kirkus Reviews
The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical
by Saundra Mitchell Bob Martin Chad Beguelin Matthew SklarBased on the Tony-nominated musicalSoon to be a Netflix film starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Awkwafina, and more!Seventeen-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon. Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular, head of the student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half. When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date, it stirs a community-wide uproar that spirals out of control. Now, the PTA, led by Alyssa's mother, is threatening to cancel the prom altogether.Enter Barry Glickman and Dee Dee Allen, two Broadway stars who decide to take up the cause and get a little publicity along the way. But when they arrive in Indiana to fight on Emma's behalf, their good intentions go quickly south. Between Emma facing the fray head-on, Alyssa wavering about coming out, and Barry and Dee Dee basking in all the attention, it's the perfect prom storm. Only when this unlikely group comes together do they realize that love is always worth fighting for.
Prom Kings (Lorimer Real Love)
by Tony CorreiaWhen the queer prom committee asks Charlie to join them, Charlie figures it'll be a good way to get closer to cute new guy Andre. The only problem is that Charlie has competition for Andre's attention in rich, good-looking Chad. Charlie and his pal Luis come up with a plan to get Andre's attention: to woo Andre as a secret admirer and then reveal Charlie's true identity with a spectacular promposal that Andre can't refuse. But, Charlie begins to realize how much fun he's been having with Luis and thinks maybe he's been going after the wrong guy. How will Charlie decide which guy to go to prom with? Discover the answer in this light-hearted, high/low YA romance. Distributed in the U.S by Lerner Publishing Group
La promesa de los abedules
by Enara de la PeñaSi eres una apasionada de Anna Karenina, Anastasia y el Doctor Zhivago, este es tu libro. Dos historias de amor en la ciudad de San Petersburgo, en 1880, a las puertas de una revolución que cambiará el mundo. San Petersburgo, 1880. Forzada a casarse, la princesa Nadia Volkonskaya empieza una nueva vida en el hogar de un hombre que ha pasado más tiempo en América que en su rusia natal. Un hombre que puede ser su condena o su liberación. Larissa es una revolucionaria, una mujer dispuesta a romper con los moldes del mundo que le rodea, incluso si debe hacerlos estallar. Cansada de la injusticia, se une a la Voluntad del Pueblo con un plan que destruirá sus grilletes. El príncipe Yuri Khilkov es la conexión de estas dos mujeres. Un príncipe perdido, en busca de un amor de infancia que anhela desde su marcha mientras recupera el honor del apellidofamiliar. El conde Lev Golitsin y el príncipe Nikolay Volkonsky no se soportan. Un vividor y un denigrado héroe de guerra que deberán colaborar para que sus amigos tengan el final feliz que a ellos se les niega. Si, finalmente, villa Betulia permite a sus habitantes alcanzar la felicidad.
Promesas (La saga de la ciudad de Coda #1)
by Marie Sexton Cris P. PérezUn libro de La saga de la ciudad de CodaJared Thomas ha vivido toda su vida en Coda, un pequeño pueblo de montaña en Colorado. No puede imaginar vivir en ningún otro lugar. Desafortunadamente, el único otro hombre gay del pueblo le dobla la edad y fue su profesor, así que Jared se ha resignado a pasar su vida solo. Es decir, hasta que Matt entra en su vida. Matt acaba de ser contratado por el departamento de Policía de Coda, y Jared y él se hacen amigos inmediatamente. Matt afirma ser hetero, pero para Jared, tener un amigo tan sexy resulta demasiado tentador. Entre a la aventura de Matt con una mujer del pueblo, la desaprobadora familia de este y el acoso de sus compañeros del departamento, Jared teme que nunca encuentren la forma de estar juntos..., si es que alguna vez logra convencer a Matt de intentarlo.
Promesse (Coda (Italiano) #1)
by Killerqueen Marie SextonUn libro della serie CodaJared Thomas ha vissuto tutta la vita in un piccolo paesino di montagna, Coda, in Colorado. Non sarebbe in grado di pensare a una vita altrove. Sfortunatamente, l'unico uomo gay della città ha il doppio dei suoi anni ed era il suo insegnante, così Jared si è rassegnato al pensiero di passare la vita da solo. Almeno fino all'arrivo di Matt Richards. Matt è stato appena assunto dalla Polizia di Coda e lui e Jared diventano subito amici. Matt dichiara di essere etero, ma per Jared l'avere un amico sexy come lui è una cosa troppo allettante. Il fatto che Matt abbia una storia con una ragazza del posto, una famiglia che lo disapprova e dei colleghi che lo prendono in giro, fa temere a Jared di non poter trovare un modo per stare con lui, ammesso che possa almeno convincerlo a provare.
Promesse fatte (Serie Promesse #2)
by Emanuela Graziani Amy LaneSerie Promesse, Libro 2Il più grande desiderio di Shane Perkins è essere un eroe. Ma dopo aver preso la decisione di lottare fino alla morte mentre la sua carriera viene distrutta, Shane torna a casa dall'ospedale e trova quattro mura vuote, un mucchio di soldi e un desiderio bruciante di avere qualcuno che sentirà la sua mancanza la prossima volta che verrà ferito compiendo il suo dovere. Finisce a fare l'agente di polizia nella piccola cittadina di Levee Oaks e, ossessionato dalla promessa di una famiglia, fa uno sforzo per riconciliarsi con sua sorella, volubile e inquieta. Kimmy si guadagna da vivere ballando e il suo partner toglie il fiato a Shane dal primo istante. Mikhail Vasilyovitch Bayul balla come un angelo, ma il suo passato è tutto tranne che celestiale. Da quando ha lasciato la Russia, ha fatto solo due promesse: di stare alla larga dalla strada, di rimanere pulito e di portare sua madre in qualche bel posto prima lei che muoia. Fare promesse a chiunque altro è fuori discussione, però Mikhail non ha mai conosciuto nessuno come Shane. Serio, coraggioso, con la tendenza a sminuirsi, Shane sembra parlare il suo linguaggio e nessuno è più sorpreso di Mikhail nello scoprire che il miglior talento di Shane è quello di mantenere le promesse.