![]() Canale - Crying wolfe / Jack Lienke - Trans-ventures of an F2M / Alexander Colin Rasmussen - Queer, five letters / Kat Wilson - Falling off my bike and riding into the sunset / Christopher Wilcox - The night Marc Hall went to the prom / J.J. Boehmer - Fourth of July / Lauren Rile Smith - My diary, documented, done / L. ![]() Courtney Gillette - A gay grammar / Gabe Bloomfield - It's not confidential, I've got potential / Eugenides Fico - Snow and hot asphalt / Benjamin Zumsteg - When you're a gay boy in America / Danny Zaccagnino - I smell the gas of my father's fishing boat / Adam K. We have partnered with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and a portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to them. This one of a kind collection will, perhaps, help all readers see themselves and the world around them in ways they might never have imagined. The Full Spectrum includes a variety of writers-gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight, transitioning, and questioning-on a variety of subjects: coming out, family, friendship, religion/faith, first kisses, break-ups, and many others. In order to help create that community, YA authors David Levithan and Billy Merrell have collected original poems, essays, and stories by young adults in their teens and early 20s. ![]() Teens are more aware of sexuality and identity than ever, and they're looking for answers and insights, as well as a community of others. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This time the pair are on the trail of a missing island. ![]() Once again we meet up with the unlikely team of millionaire eccentric Emerson Knight and his new side-kick ex-bank worker Riley Moon – To find out how the two ended up working together you will need to read book one. Together, this mismatched trio will embark on a world-wide investigation that will expose a conspiracy one hundred years in the making.ĭangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich is the second book in the Knight & Moon series and the second that I have read, the first being ‘ Curious Minds‘. Vernon has been Emerson’s loyal and enthusiastic partner in crime since childhood. Riley Moon has a Harvard business degree and can shoot the eyes out of a grasshopper at fifty feet, but she can’t figure out how to escape Emerson Knight’s odd world. ![]() Since a crack team isn’t available, he enlists his cousin Vernon and Riley Moon. When clues start leading to a dark and sinister secret, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help. Finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. Poof! Vanished without a trace.īoyishly charming Emerson Knight likes nothing better than solving an unsolvable mystery. The Pacific island had a mountain, beaches, a rainforest, and a volcano. Format – ebook, paperback, hardcover, audioīuddhist monk Wayan Bagus has lost his island of solitude and wants it back. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() RAPSCOTT'S GIRLS which was an Indies Next Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month and a SIBA bestseller.ĪUNTIE CLAUS is currently in development as a feature musical adaptation at Netflix with Primetime Emmy winner Kenny Ortega (HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, THE DESCENDANTS, HOCUS POKUS) on board as producer/director. Auntie Claus seems to like the best of everything as she prepares for Christmas. Since then she has gone on to write and illustrate the middle grade novel series LIBBY OF HIGH HOPES and MS. In 2006 Elise wrote and illustrated her first middle grade novel the popular SECRET ORDER OF THE GUMM STREET GIRLS. In 2004 she was asked to illustrate the Christmas Brochure for the White House. In 1999 she created the New York Times bestselling series AUNTIE CLAUS. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature from the Bank Street College Of Education, and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award. Her illustrations for RAISING DRAGONS by Jerdine Nolen (Harcourt 1998) received a 1999 Christopher Award, the 1999 Irma S. Elise Primavera has been writing and illustrating children's books for more than twenty-five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The publication information is printed under a mock-up of a high school library's check-out history of the book, spanning the years 1957 to 2000. ![]() ![]() title, no reference is made to Dorst or Abrams, and the only reference to the book's true publishing information appears in fine print inside the back cover. is presented in the form of a novel called Ship of Theseus written by a fictional, elusive author named V. M. It is composed of the novel Ship of Theseus (by a fictional author), hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret, plus loose supplementary materials tucked in between pages. The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J. 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Certainly. E xamine a large-scale map of the Essex coastline between the river Crouch and the river Thames, and you'll see a footpath which departs the land at a place called Wakering Stairs and heads east, straight into – or so it appears – the North Sea. ![]() ![]() A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want.Īfter being sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Lords, I embraced my new role and allowed Ryat to parade me around like the trophy I was to him. ![]() He made me believe that anyway, but it was just another lie. He offered me what no one else ever had-freedom. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander Archer came along and gave me an option for a better life. My entire life has been planned out for me. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it’s not. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. ![]() They are above all-the most powerful men in the world. Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the dark star of the cataclysm rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country fractured by civil war, a precocious young fighter is asked to betray his family and a half-Dhai general must choose between the eradication of her father’s people or loyalty to her alien Empress. In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin. On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself. ![]() The first book in the Worldbreaker Saga series Description From the award-winning author of God’s War comes a stunning new series… ![]() – Kate Elliott, author of the Spiritwalker seriesįile Under: Fantasy Book two is already on my must-read list.” “With vividly inventive world building and a fast-paced plot, The Mirror Empire opens a smart, brutal, and ambitious epic fantasy series. When a shadowy force threatens their world, an orphan blood mage, novice fighter, and illegitimate ruler must unite fractured nations – and confront their own darker natures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout this compassionate and methodical study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love-the key to understanding that brings us closer to God. Lewis exposes the pitfalls in our loves, leading us to the agape love that God has for humankind and the type of love we must develop to nurture our relationships. ![]() With penetrating logic and charming wit, Lewis explores the four aspects of love: affection, the most basic form friendship, the rarest and perhaps most insightful Eros, passionate love and charity, the greatest and least selfish. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics-explores the essence of love and how it works in our daily lives in one of his most famous works of nonfiction based on his series of radio talks from 1958. ![]() Lewisthe great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling. Lewis' beloved classic-the only existing recording of Lewis reading his own work.Ĭ.S. A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of Godpart of the C. ![]() ![]() Now that in the case of erotic books, leaves me hot and heavy. ![]() I can smell the ocean, I can hear the rain, I can feel the caress, and I can picture everything playing out in my head. When I read a book all of my senses come into play. For instance, watching porn may turn you on but it leaves nothing to the imagination. ![]() I have always been a firm believer in the fact that the written word trumps TV, movies, and video's. Though I'm not really a girl on girl type of chick, the voyeur in me won out, and I have to say that I was a bit turned on by Bella Key. Today's review is on Bella Key by Scarlet Chastain But can Maddie throw her hangups to the wind and go with her heart? The magic of Bella Key teaches her that passion cannot be placed neatly into boxes labeled right and wrong, because love knows no boundaries. ![]() The arrival of a fierce storm forces the women’s emotional journey to a head and leads them into each other’s arms. Still reeling from a breakup with her longtime partner, Sunny is thankful for the diversion from her own broken heart. ![]() She almost gives up on weekend retreat when the Bed & Breakfast is closed for repairs until Sunny Rojas, the inn owner, extends an offer of friendship, sweet tea and a room. In need of an escape, Maddie flees to Key West’s most southern island, Bella Key, to rest and recharge at Casa Bonita. Not even a marriage proposal from a man who adores her can quell her search for something more. Professionally, she’s confident and secure personally, she’s a hot mess. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. If you have a LGBTQ+ teen in your life, buy this book for them. It's such a brutal, unflinching look at anger, and the validity of anger, and feeling monstrous in a world that does its fullest to attempt to demonize you-and embracing that monstrosity. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. HELL FOLLOWED WITH US is hands down my favorite horror read of 2022. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. A furious debut novel from Andrew Joseph White about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. ![]() |