Títulos en Literatura y ficción

Jackson Davenport, the charismatic, strait-laced heir to the Davenport fortune, has a secret. One he's been hiding since he graduated from South Haven all-boys academy - and that secret's name is Lucas. When a work trip takes Jackson back to his old stomping grounds, memories of the year he shared with Lucas come crashing to the surface. With growing pressure from his father to settle down and take over the family business, Jackson knows he's on borrowed time and sets out to find the free-spirited daredevil he once knew

Jake has too many wild oats to sow to fall in love - or so he claims. Besides, he's much too busy with his band, the Wayward Sons, to go looking for romance. His reticence has nothing to do with his embarrassing crush on Chris, the band's lead singer and Jake's erstwhile best friend. But that was before enigmatic wanderer Parker McAvoy signed on as the band's new lead guitarist. He can only deny his attraction to sweet, dorky Parker for so long before the urge to do something about it becomes impossible to ignore.

Four clergymen seek to make sense of their mission while being torn in all directions by the Church of England. After a critically-lauded debut in 1990 at London’s National Theatre, Racing Demon went on to earn universal acclaim. More than 20 years later, David Hare’s bold and moving revelations on gay ordination and the doctrine of the priesthood ring more resoundingly than ever.

Sometimes things happen that test our resilience and our strength. My life was changed forever one fateful night last year when I lost my leg in an accident. It’s affected my independence and my confidence. But there is one thing—one person—that hasn’t changed, hasn’t wavered when life gets hard. Finn Ledger. He’s been my best friend since the moment we met in middle school. We’re grown now, with separate lives, but he still always manages to be there for me when I need him, even when circumstances try to wrench us apart. He always holds me when I need it and cares for me like no one else can.

I’ve never felt like I fit in, but that changed the day I met him. Liam West. He was larger than life, even back when we were kids. He protected me from every awful thing life threw at me, but somewhere along the way my fascination with him turned into something more. Something filled with pain. I’ve tried to put distance between us, but it never works. Liam will never let me get too far from him. All I can do is stay high enough to forget the hopelessness of it all.

Tony y Jack llevan años viajando por el mundo como exitosos músicos de rock. Se conocen muy bien. De hecho, se conocen más que bien. Pero esa noche Jack parece preocupado, hay algo que le da vueltas por la cabeza. Sin embargo, Tony sabe cómo transformar la noche en un festival de lujuria y diversión.

Esta novela es la combinación de varios personajes, con procedencias e intereses distintos, pero con un fin común: El poder. Álvaro, un banquero madrileño esclavo de sus mórbidos apetitos sexuales, ha de enfrentarse con Knepougel, un empresario francés de dudoso pasado y que pretende su banco sin explicar las razones. Esto los llevará a constantes desencuentros cuyo final no augura nada bueno. Un tercer personaje, Blanchet, bohemio y hermético vividor, se unirá a la trama para complicarla todavía más.

In 1933 in the Shenandoah Valley, there isn't a place for Lum (short for Columbia), a 33-year-old intersex woman. She travels by schedule from one branch of the family to another, assisting with cooking, childcare, and housework. Always an outsider, even in her own family, Lum secretly collects postcards of people like the Dog-faced Girl, imagining their stories, and nurtures her lifelong friendship with Smiley, an African-American man who sells furniture, odds and ends, and a little moonshine.

"Ora lascerò che mi scopi, Max. Sii delicato, sii lento e fallo durare a lungo". Max Campbell è abituato ad averla vinta. Eddie Patterson è abituato a dargliela vinta. Per gli amanti ed ex colleghi Max ed Eddie, gli incontri rubati e le sveltine frenetiche nei bagni aziendali non sono una rarità. Cioè, fino a quando Eddie decide di vendere la sua quota e lasciare la città. Arrapato e stufo di masturbarsi o di avere insulse avventure di una notte, Max salta in auto per andare a trovare il suo vecchio amico, bramoso di averla vinta ancora una volta. Ma Eddie ha altri progetti.

Voces vibrantes en la celebración de la palabra y el deseo. Lo queer supone una respuesta amplia a los roles de género tradicionales del universo heteropatriarcal. Como la literatura se alimenta de la identidad personal, la escritura queer refleja la experiencia autobiográfica y el pensamiento crítico del autor queer, nuevas vías que abren fugas al patriarcado global.

È così che Young, giovane studente universitario con velleità letterarie, tiene lontano il futuro ogni sera. Un po' per noia, un po' per paura, si fa beffe di tutto - dei soldi, della famiglia, del senso comune che guarda chi è giovane e gay con sospetto e invidia. Ma quando Jaehui, sua migliore amica, coinquilina e compagna di sbronze, trova un lavoro e parte per l'Australia, Young si ritrova solo e la sua vita accelera all'improvviso.

Handsome singer Loretta "Rett" Jamison has built herself a successful career and a repertoire filled with romantic ballads and hot jazz. But her failing relationship with lover/manager Trisha York has left a growing emptiness in her heart. Trisha seems to have found what she needs in the arms of younger women. Can Rett find it on the lips of the classmate who gave her the first real taste of passion?

Eleanor Brewster is a proper English lady with a crumbling manor to prove it, and one inconvenient problem: she needs to marry to keep her family estate. Danni Franks is a no-nonsense farmer with a newly acquired (and deeply in debt) farm, a complicated family, and precisely zero interest in aristocratic drama. But when Danni's tractor collides, literally, with Eleanor's sports car, she somehow ends up engaged to a woman who considers tweed a fashion statement.

In the glittering city state of Volun, Lorelei Steddart never thought she'd be anything but an office drone—until her family all die under mysterious and likely magical circumstances, leaving her to inherit everything. To figure out what's happened, her uncle marries her off to the city state's top War Alchemist, Nephele Corisande, an intimidating older woman who might just be able to save her.

Domino Rush can't write a song. Every time she tries, nothing comes out. Her band, The Shrikes, had a hugely successful first album, but writing the follow up is way too much pressure. Adding to the pressure? Her entire band is depending on her. But Domino has never been one for responsibility. So, instead of writing, she surfs, drinks, and finds pretty women to keep her company.

Sloane Smith is the world's number one tennis player, and at 35 years old, she is reaching the latter years of her playing career. When injury strikes, she is determined to make a come back and retire from the sport on her own terms. She employs a hot butch physical therapist to help her rehab from her injury. The attraction between the two of them is instant, but Sloane is always a professional. She doesn't date. Tennis means everything to her, and coming out would be a disaster? Wouldn't it?

After giving twelve years of my life to the service, I didn't just lose my leg. I lost everything, including my career. When the dust settled, the only person still standing by my side in the rubble was Brandt—the single lifeline I had left to a world I didn't want to live in anymore. With painstaking care, he healed my body and my mind. When he eventually started healing my heart, I realized I didn't just need him in my life, I needed him in ways I'd never wanted him before.

Orpheus can't believe it's come to this. After helping his childhood friend conquer the realm by raising an army of hell-beasts, the befuddled dark sorcerer finds himself banished when the price of his magic endangers the palace. Isolated and betrayed, the feared spellcaster isn't exactly thrilled when his irritating and handsome rival keeps stepping between him and certain doom.

Stevie has everything she wants, except the one thing that matters most: her friend and roommate, Angie. But the shadows of Angie's past have a long reach, and even though everyone in the small town of Seal Cove knows Stevie and Angie have been in love for years, none of that matters if Angie herself isn't willing to take the risk. Risk, as far as Angie is concerned, equals loss. She once risked everything by telling the truth—and that ended badly. Friendship is the only thing that has ever worked out for her. She can't afford to lose Stevie—even at the expense of her own happiness.

¿Concluye en algún momento la experiencia del tránsito de género? En esta delicada novela, a partir del tránsito de la autora se escribe un relato poblado de profundas e inteligentes reflexiones sobre lo que significa ese camino, sobre los destinos familiares y sus cargas, sobre la posibilidad de liberarlo y lo que pueden suponer esa decisión.