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It’s 1972, and eighteen-year-old tomboy Maeve O’Connor must win a photography contest to escape her suffocating, conservative family and attend her dream school in Manhattan. But where will she find arresting subjects? Why, a washed up old seaside resort called Asbury Park, New Jersey—a place where sideshow entertainers, strippers, carnies, artists, and alternative lifestyles coexist on the boardwalk in plain sight.

St. Petersburg, Russia’s Window to the West. Thirteen-year-old tomboy Rian Krieger has run away to Russia to help her uncle and cousin build a railroad for Tsar Nicholas I. But there’s a problem: Rian is posing as her uncle’s coachman, a boy. The Tsar takes note of Rian’s bravery and resourcefulness and asks her (meaning orders her, for a request from the Tsar of All the Russias is, in fact, a command) to spend her days in his palace as companion to Grand Duke Konstantin, his ten-year-old son. Philadelphia, U.S.A, the “Workshop of the World.

A powerful blend of love, resilience, and history. Spanning from World War II through the 1990s, this lesbian historical romance explores the untold stories of women in the military—their struggles for recognition, the bonds of found family, and the courage to claim their own voice. This audiobook shines a light on the fight for equality and the triumph of self‐discovery.

For Caleb McRae—devout Baptist, Texas Ranger, hero of the Wild West—life is simple: lawmen bring bad guys to justice and hellfire's a sinner's fate. But Caleb's world turns upside down when he falls in love with the outlaw Henry Midnight...

La vida es como el viento, variable e impredecible. Cambia de dirección sin que tengas control de ello.

When the speakeasy Sasha Wolfe and her friends frequent is raided by police during prohibition 1928, they make it their mission to open another where they can be exactly who they want to be — which includes loving who they want. When Sasha falls in love with the fiancé of Chicago's newest police detective, everything becomes more dangerous. Once you enter the curtain of The 412 Lounge, everything is forbidden — from the booze to the gay affair. Now Sasha and her beloved lounge are in a race against time to save the secret of not only the speakeasy, but their lives.

When a tornado nearly wipes the town of Croy, Oklahoma, off the map, Lerner Alquist, its wealthiest citizen, vows to memorialize the wife he lost by building a magnificent library. It is a splendid goal, but hard times keep delaying it. By 1952, Alquist needs one final ornament to make it complete: a sculpture over the main entrance. Pursuing that vision sets in motion a series of events that uncovers the racism, religious bigotry, and sexual tensions that underlie the town.

Das Buch entfaltet ein Panorama vom Leben der Homosexuellen in der alten Bundesrepublik. In Geschichten erzählt es von ihrem Leben im Versteck, ihren kleinen Freiräumen und großen Sehnsüchten. Der Roman von 1964 wurde bei der wissenschaftlichen Aufbereitung des Nachlasses von Felix Rexhausen wiederentdeckt und gilt als schwuler Pioniertext. Fast sechs Jahrzehnte hat es gedauert, bis das Buch endlich gedruckt werden konnte – und nun auch als Hörbuch erscheint.

Nikias is amazed by the speed of Alkides, who he races against in the Isthmian games. He even wonders if the older boy is the god Apollo in disguise. At Delphi, where they race again, he realizes Alkides is only a boy, although a rather amazing boy. While in Delphi, Nikias receives a disturbing prophecy from the oracle and his life and that of Alkides become entwined. Nikias knows that he must lose all he loves to gain the deepest desire of his heart, but what is that desire and is it worth the cost?