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With Don't Ask, Don't Tell nothing more than an unpleasant memory, US Army surgeon Sabine Fleischer is ready to move on with her life - if she can just figure out how to move past her PTSD. Fresh from her first deployment since surviving a vehicle attack in Afghanistan, Sabine is finding the things she's tried so hard to push aside aren't as easy to ignore as she'd hoped.

Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She’d hoped for plenty of it when she agreed to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy. She even volunteered to serve as an old lady's companion on an ocean liner. But Maud didn't expect the old lady to turn up dead on the very first day of the voyage. Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham. Violet is everything Maud has been trained to distrust, yet can’t help but desire: a magician, an actress and a magnet for scandal.

As punishment, the nation of Croatens bears a curse in their name, never to know their love. When the third omega son of the Croatens' king finds himself captive and forced to fight for his life to entertain the lowest of the low, the goddess intervenes. But will her price be too much?

ARCHIE: I can count my regrets on one hand, and they all have to do with the same person . . . my childhood best friend, Owen. There's not much I can do to make right all the hurt I caused at twenty, but living a decadent and hedonistic lifestyle where I don't even give myself the opportunity to make those kinds of mistakes again is a good enough start. I have great friends who love me, even if they don't know the truth about what kind of man I used to be. But when Owen shows up in Los Angeles ten years after I last saw him, that's all about to change.

Uma história de existências que, oprimidas pela violência e pelo preconceito, reivindicam seu direito à felicidade com fúria e ternura inesquecíveis.

Anna Blake has (mostly) accepted her need and deep desire for a sexual life outside of her marriage, and her husband, Dave, couldn't be happier. Now that Anna is truly living her best (sex) life, is there any sexual line she won't cross after getting her Second Wind?

Tyler Riley never thought he’d get the chance to leave home. In the small, coastal town of Perth, Australia, he can only dream of being the next big hockey star. But as luck would have it, opportunity knocks in the form of a prestigious hockey scholarship. Torn between his devotion to his family and his career, Tyler puts everything on the line to start over halfway across the world.

Calvin and Benny may have enrolled in UPA at the same time and been orbiting each other ever since, but neither is prepared for the changes their final year brings. Can they survive it together or will the school itself become collateral damage of their decade-long feud?

East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who happens to have the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started dying of what has recently been named AIDS. So, when her best friend Mark dies, she assumes she'll see him again. There's no way Mark wouldn't give her a chance to say goodbye, would he? But to her disappointment - and increasingly, her concern - Mark doesn't appear. Renata has other problems, too.

Daniel is a queer journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meagre. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly father, Daniel returns to South Africa to care for him during his final months. Following his father's death, Daniel learns of an unusual clause in the old man's will: he will only inherit his half of the estate once he has spent time with Theon, a cousin whom he hasn't seen since they were boys.

Gabriel adora pintar. E odeia o lugar em que trabalha atualmente. No borrão de baixar imagem – colar imagem – copiar texto, ele tem pouco tempo para fazer as coisas de que gosta. As coisas começam a mudar quando conhece Leo: o garoto que trabalha no terceiro andar. Autista, Gabriel vai precisar lutar contra a ansiedade social para puxar conversa com o garoto e, quem sabe, ver se rola alguma química.

Todos os dias daquele ano, Bianca pegou o mesmo ônibus para ir à escola. Todos os dias, admirou a garota do banco de trás, a quem apelidou de Kindle. Agora, a um triz de terminar os estudos e mudar de cidade para fazer a faculdade dos seus sonhos, ela percebe que se algumas coisas não forem resolvidas em cima da hora, talvez seja tarde demais.

Vergiss alles, was du über unmögliche Liebe zu wissen glaubtest... Zehn Jahre unerfüllter Kinderwunsch haben in Kates Ehe tiefe Wunden hinterlassen. Während ihr Mann Kevin sich in den Umbau ihres Hauses flüchtet, sucht Kate Zuflucht im Poolhaus ihrer Schwiegermutter – und muss notgedrungen Zeit mit Kevins unkonventioneller Schwester Stella verbringen, die noch bei ihrer Mutter wohnt. Bei Stella dreht sich gerade alles um ein Casting, das ihre Karriere verändern könnte. Sie ist wenig begeistert, als ihr Bruder und dessen Frau einziehen und spürt Kates unterschwellige Ablehnung ihr gegenüber.

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

Austin Glass seems to have it all: a loving fiancée, a future with the FBI, and a healthy-sized trust fund. At least on the surface. He also has a grin and a wisecrack for every situation. But the smile he presents to the world hides a painful past he’s buried too deeply to remember, and his quips mask bitterness and insecurity. Austin has himself and most of the whole world fooled - until he meets a redhead in a pair of bunny slippers.

Auggie is starting his first year at Wroxall College. It’s a punishment, and he’s determined to make his way through the year, prove himself, and earn the right to go back home. Theo is a grad student recovering from a terrible car accident. He’s lost his husband and their daughter, and he’s trying to figure out how to keep going. When both are tangled up in a murder, though, they have to set their personal problems aside and work together — first to clear their names, and then, when the killer turns his attention on them, to survive.

There is a wild man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past - both the green magic of the woods and the dark things that rest in its heart.

Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen’s adored brother, Declan, is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen to and come to terms with one another.

Love Without Limit catches up with Caitlin and Josephine and explores the unconventional evolution of the relationship they started in Everything Between Us. In Crazy for You, Jessica is torn between giving in to love and keeping up appearances after a mix-up at an escort agency brings Liz to her door. The opening of a third Pink Bean branch throws together former escort Katherine and grieving builder Hera in More than Words, but emotional walls will have to be torn down in this poignant enemies-to-lovers story.

The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for a quick, idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They'll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into the local dive bar like old times. But it's soon clear that this getaway only gets Kit closer to something dire and unfathomable that's been building inside her for years, ever since her sister Julie died.