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Reginal Walker grew up in the mean streets of Philly and thought that he was not what you call attractive. Well, he considered himself as being ugly and that gave him a very low self-esteem. However, the first person that treated Reginal with kindness...

Jalen Yeung is an 18-year-old young whose mixed. His father is Asian and his mother is Puerto Rican. Jalen was born with the best looks of both cultures. However, Jalen is looking for love from older men. At 18 Jalen moves in with a...

Oberon Baako B.K.A. Obe was born and raised in Liberia, Africa and had lived there all his life. He meets a very well off entrepreneur by the name of Raymond Dash. Raymond promised Obe that if he maintains an A average in all of...

Thomas Smith is a 24 year old average looking, black gay man that seems to have a thing for "Pretty Boys." There would be nothing that he wouldn't do for a pretty face. He allowed them to abuse his mind and his body. However,...

Damon Spence and Aaron Hall have been best friends since high school. Aaron has always had a thing for Damon but Damon always felt that Aaron wasn't his type. And even though they've been friends for so long, why should he have to settle...

Once again the gang is back, James, Angela, Terry, Juan, Frankie and Junior. They have all loved one another and at times hated one another but will they be able to love and understand that sometimes, people make mistakes and should be given a...

TC always enjoyed playing games, spades, monopoly, 359 as well as Truth or Dare. At the age of 12, TC had played his first game of Truth or Dare and that had become his favorite game ever since. After playing his favorite game as...

Alonso Spears was a product of a rape and his family has always treated him as a bad seed. In other words, he's been considered an "Outcast" from day one, hence, his nickname, "Outcast. Outcast has always felt different because growing up he always...

Ronald Atkins has always wanted a better relationship with his son, Jordan Atkins. Ron also knew that from an early age that his son Jordan would grow up to be gay. Ron had mixed emotions about his son, not that he would be gay...

Kevin and Kenneth Whitley are twin brothers and are the best of friends. Wherever you saw one, you saw the over and vice versa. They were very protective over one another because they were born to a crackhead in prison. They were immediately placed...

Raymond Scott had been raised by a single mother until he was 12 years old. His mother then met a man named, James McNair and married him. For several months, Ray was happy that his mom had found someone until eventually, the man she...

Rasaun Thompson has been the type of guy who never wanted to get his feelings hurt. Especially after he was hurt by his first love in his freshman year of college. Therefore, since that time, he's been considered the In & out kind of...

Devontae Lowe is a freshman at Morgan State University and during the Christmas Holiday break he makes a couple of confessions to family and friends. Devontae's father has always called him D-low because he didn't like the name that his mother gave him (Devontae.)...

Safari Davenport is an airline steward for United Airlines and lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. On one of his trips, he had few days layover in Atlanta, Georgia whereby he meets Damon Alexander who is a high school Spanish teacher. For Safari it was almost...

Malcolm Dupree always wanted the better things in life, even if that meant selling his body via stripping or escorting. Malcolm learned early on that he could have any male or female he wanted. Malcolm truly took advantage of his thuggish style to become...

Sequel to Animal InstinctA Duncan Andrews Thriller Duncan Andrews, a private detective who specializes in paranormal cases, is back, along with his usual gang. Robbie Church, his boyfriend, is a ghost. Gina, a centuries old witch, is his best friend. And Daisy, Duncan's bulldog,...

This is the continuing story of Sean Mathews and Cameron Jenkins. Will their marriage bring them closer together or tear them apart? Will their love be strong enough to survive a life threatening illness? Are friends truly friends or will they take advantage of...

An eloquent and timely plea for understanding refugees. Why are young people leaving their country to walk to the United States to seek a new, safe home? Over 100,000 such children have left Central America. This book of poetry helps us to understand why...

The Nature of the Beast is a New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novel from Louise Penny. Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods,...

A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as "red" suffers an identity crisis in this picture book by the New York Times-bestselling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo. This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner...

A Study Guide for Terrence McNally's "Love! Valour! Compassion!," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama...

Slade Maxwell is a noble and a senior in college who's expected to graduate and be next in his family to work for the queen. His desperation to escape that path leaves him unprepared for class, but when his classmate, a chiseled warrior by...

During the days and nights following the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the world listened as various spokespersons attempted to explain to the general public exactly what the gay bar/club meant to LGBTQI people. The words "safe place," "refuge," "free to...

Whether intricately secured by ropes, locked in handcuffs, or bound simply by a lover's command, these dangerously explicit stories of restraint will grab you, tie you down, and never let you go. From professionals letting loose their inhibitions on an office retreat to a...

Subject to Change is an anthology celebrating the work of five poets who are unapologetically trans: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Christopher Soto, beyza ozer, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. Featuring poetry and interviews, this collection is a testament to the power of trans poets...

The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the...

Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel. Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.

NEBULA AWARD WINNER - HUGO AWARD FINALIST - "If you want a fantasy with strong characters and brilliantly original variations on ancient stories, try Uprooted!"--Rick Riordan "Breathtaking . . . a tale that is both elegantly grand and earthily humble, familiar as a Grimm...

JT is an orc on the way up. He's got his own boutique robotics shop, high-end clientele, and deep-pocketed investors. He's even mentoring an orc teen who reminds him a bit too much of himself back in the day. Then Austin shows up, and...

After learning that he has contracted the HIV virus, attorney Zak Raven leaves his practice behind to set forth on a mission of relaxation-- until his peaceful trip goes wildly astray, leaving Zak shipwrecked on what he thinks is a deserted island with only...

Do you know who you are? What lies beneath the surface? Ever get the feeling that something Deep down wasn't quite right? I did. Who are you to tell me otherwise? The birthers, who think your external Shell defines your whole identity, while Pointing...

The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold, a boyish girl on the brink of adolescence, is struggling with the reality of her broken family and a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is...

This novella-length collection of Erehwynan Idylls offers readers an indulgent and weird agglomeration of randy boys and revelations, as the embodiment of a small breeze--actually the gene-spliced child of the gods Zephyros and Ares--flirts and seduces fleshlings on a terraformed future Mars. Hal Duncan's...

Scotsman Derek Maclaine has fallen in love with his adopted West Virginia home and its burly native son, Matt Taylor. But a local mining company's recent efforts to destroy the land spell an end to all that Matt holds dear. Derek happens to be...

A vicious lie plunges Robert Robinson's life into darkness. As he prepares for his freshman year of college, he tries to put his tragic past behind him and move forward. But suppressed sexual desires ignite when he meets Jelin Church, the best friend of...

Follow novelist Geoff Berner through a world of knockabout musicians and chancers, as he chronicles his search for DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the the face of the earth.

Luke can uncross almost any curse-they unravel themselves for him like no one else. So working for the Kovrovs, one of the families controlling all the magic in New York, is exciting and dangerous, especially when he encounters the first curse he can't break....

London was a very different place in the early 1980s. Ian Young regales us with colorful stories about Finsbury Park, a neighborhood and its fascinating habitués long gone--stamp collectors, anarchist poets, and gay skinheads--resisting the dark forces of a Thatcherite government. Getting lost is...

He's just your type. But hold on. He's about to tell you he's got HIV. How will you respond emotionally? Brush it aside and practice safe sex? Go on to a deeper relationship? Or do you walk away?

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction  "[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange."--Roxane Gay "In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn't put it down."--Karen Russell...

Part poetry, part art gallery, fagart is a fragile collection of queer love, longing, lust, and loneliness.

National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters returns with a compelling novel about relationships, trust, romance, and loss--with a suspenseful twist. When Alix's charismatic girlfriend, Swanee, dies from sudden cardiac arrest, Alix is overcome with despair. As she searches Swanee's room for mementos of...

She's Such a Geek is a groundbreaking anthology that celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana. Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders bring together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female...

"Poignant and punchy." --The New York Times Three friends go looking for treasure and find horror in Jeffrey Ford's The Twilight Pariah. All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in an old...

This inspirational "magic-infused narrative . . . is a moving account of a young writer and mother striving to claim her own agency and find her voice" (Publishers Weekly).Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes...

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) From the "author to watch" (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes an "equal parts sarcastic and profound" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or...

#1 New York Times best seller!Booklist Editors' Choice 2015 - Youth!Named a "Best Book of 2015" by Time Magazine, School Library Journal, Barnes & Noble, NPR, PopSugar, The Millions, and The News & Observer! Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been...

Chad meets Joel. It's practically love at first sight. The only problem? Chad is dating Nikki, his girlfriend of two-and-a-half years.Awkward...What's a boy to do when he's in love with another boy but doesn't want to break his girlfriend's heart?Follow Chad Walker's life after...

Robert Morton is in for the surprise of a lifetime. His mother, a bit of a rebel, raised him away from the rest of the family, and it's not until he's contacted by his lawyer about an inheritance that he learns who he truly...

Newly turned thirty, Cameron North is preparing himself to spend his life alone. When he inherits his great-aunt's teashop on the remote island of Farlough, he returns for the first time in more than a dozen years to a place where memories--and demons--flit close...