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Tyler Schaeffer’s whole world has been yanked out from under him. Job? Gone. Marriage? Kaput. With nothing to keep him in Chicago, he’s headed home to Seattle to lick his wounds and start over. To his surprise, his high school best friend—the man he ghosted five years ago—swoops in to help him pick up the pieces.

Dotson Rader arrived in New York in 1963, a young stranger to the city, knowing no one, owning nothing - until a few lucky events opened up an extraordinary new world for him. Through his words, we enter this ardent, unforgettable world of writers, artists, radicals, and sexual rebels in a time of unprecedented cultural freedom and defiance. Against the backdrop of the women's rights, gay liberation, civil rights, and anti-war movements, a singular new period of experimentation and liberation is born.

Stories of "The American West" often rely on tired tropes of tough cowboys, but real history is much less straight and narrow and way more interesting. Join host Niecy Nash-Betts for a wild round-up of LGBTQ+ lives that got buried in the dust of popular culture and history, and a look at how queer people continue to shape the West today–from gay rodeo to two-spirit identity to trans truckers.

Thirteen years ago, I ran away from a cult, Sacro Nuntio, and became Lenix Taylor. Everyone knows me as a free spirit. No one knows about the horrible sins rotting in my past. Or how I killed the leader of Sacro Nuntio—my father—in cold blood. But the past never stays where it should for long. Now, after all this time, my brother has found me, and is threatening to drag me back to punish me for my crime. Escaping from that life was the hardest thing I've ever done. Staying free proves more difficult than expected when it involves the only person powerful enough to protect me—Connor Maxwell.

Hollywood filmmaker Sam Irvin (director of Elvira's Haunted Hills, executive producer of Gods and Monsters) looks back at his outrageously charmed and hilarious life as a closeted gay monster kid who, as a teenager, created his own fanzine as a conduit to meet his horror film idols. This unabridged audiobook is narrated by author Sam Irvin, with guest star voices of Cassandra Peterson, Jane Seymour, Stephanie Beacham, Olivia d’Abo, Juliet Mills, Maxwell Caulfield, Linda Hayden, Madeline Smith, Chloe Franks, Alex Hyde-White and Julie Brown!

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

American Emily Jackson has been in love with her best friend's oldest sister Savannah for as long as she can remember. Which is why a family wedding in far-off Scotland is a dream come true. A week trapped in the Highlands with Savannah is exactly what she needs to prove that they belong together.

Macie Colon spent the last 29 years building a thriving business and raising her daughter, Emma. She made herself one promise. When Emma flew from the nest, Macie would take the adventures she put on hold. It would be her chance to make time for whatever piqued her curiosity. She might take up sailing, travel the world, or get her pilot’s license. Macie never considered falling in love with a woman three years older than her daughter.

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.

Als der Schriftsteller Manuel Ortigosa erfährt, dass sein Mann Álvaro bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen ist, eilt er sofort nach Galicien. Die dortige Polizei ist auffallend schnell dabei, die Akte zu schließen. Manuel muss feststellen, dass Álvaro ihn seit Jahren getäuscht und ein Doppelleben geführt hat. Doch was suchte Álvaro in jener Nacht auf einer einsamen Landstraße? Zusammen mit einem eigensinnigen Polizisten der Guardia Civil und Álvaros Beichtvater stellt Manuel Nachforschungen an.

In AND SHE WAS, Rachel Dover takes listeners on a profound and deeply personal journey of self-discovery and transformation. Through candid reflections and poignant anecdotes, Rachel shares her experiences of transitioning, capturing the emotional highs and lows of her journey with raw honesty and humour. From the initial struggles of self-acceptance and the courage to come out, to navigating the complexities of surgical transition and finding peace in her new identity, Rachel's story is one of resilience, courage, and ultimate triumph.

An “unsparing account” (NPR) of art collective Gran Fury, which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...

The past holds no power when the future is you. It took twenty-four years, but Lucy Lincoln finally escaped the twisted religious cult she was born into—Sacro Nuntio. A year later, Lucy still feels shackled to her past–and smothered by her protective sister, Lenix. In an attempt to finally taste real freedom, she decides to take a road trip across the United States. She hopes that embracing new experiences can lead her to discover who she truly is without the weight of others' expectations.

The court orders brilliant Defense Attorney Mandy Kincaid to handle the death-penalty appeal of Lisa Mercer, a woman accused of killing her three small children. Mandy uncovers evidence that proves the woman is innocent. Mandy’s biggest problem is that Lisa insists that she did murder her children. Femme fatale Jordon Kiser is the owner of the top private-investigation firm in town. Mandy hires her to uncover the truth about the deaths of the children.

Rivalen. Geheimnisse. Und ein Happy End. Der zweite und finale Teil der Between-Hearts-Dilogie. Lennox. Nach und nach kommen Geheimnisse ans Licht, die besser verborgen geblieben wären. Aber Alec kann mir so tief in die Augen sehen, wie er will, zwischen ihm und Quinn ist es vorbei. Diese Tatsache muss ich nur noch in ihr stures Köpfchen bekommen. Alec. Da ich nicht zulasse, dass Lennox Quinn wehtun wird, um sich an mir zu rächen, hole ich sie zu mir zurück.

This is a story about survival that is raw and uninhibited. It is a true story of heartbreak and grief, but it is also a story about heroism, change, and above all, love.

The bestselling, heartfelt memoir from Sophie Cachia, who reveals never-before-shared details of her marriage breakdown, and how delving into her feminine intuition and falling in love with a woman transformed her. Sophie Cachia had her white picket fence life. By the age of 25, she was a mother...

From the Author Ella Marques: I would like to share with you my extraordinary life, not only because I am transgender, but because I am an international person who has lived in many countries, gone to some of the best schools in the world, worked at management levels within international companies, and had many different, wild, and wonderful experiences. I would like for you to understand what it means to be transgender, the courage it takes to become who we really are, and that we can be very positive people for society at large.

My Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog is a novel told in 15 stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who - in her own voice and channeling the voices of others - creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba.

Im Wald ist immer etwas los! Der kleine Siebenschläfer und seine Freunde erleben jeden Tag neue Abenteuer: Sie entdecken spannende Berufe, helfen einander, wachsen über sich hinaus und lernen, dass Zusammenhalt und Freundschaft das Wichtigste sind. Ob als lustige Gutenachtgeschichte, Mutmachgeschichte oder einfach zum gemeinsamen Kuscheln – die fantasievollen Vorlesegeschichten bringen Kinder zum Lachen, Träumen und Nachdenken.