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"ALOHA FREDDY IS ABOUT WORKING CLASS BOY WHO IS HAWAIIAN AND A UPPER CLASS GIRL WHO IS GERMAN. SHE IS SPELLED BY THE MAGICAL HAWAIIAN TIKI HEAD THAT DRAWS HER IRRESISTABLY TO THE WORKING CLASS BOY WHICH ENDS IN TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES.''

Harvard University, 1941

Will Shaw and his friends are typical American students, still celebrating the end of the Depression and dreaming about a future filled with success. The war in Europe is far away and someone else's concern.

Until it isn't.

Compelled to do their part, Will and his best friend enlist, but Uncle Sam has other plans for these boys. Will's classes become consumed with learning German, understanding topography, and secret uses of radio transmitters.

When Thomas, a handsome Naval officer, steps onto campus, Will's heart spins nearly as quickly as his head.

Crimson is a slow-burn MM Romance wrapped in a 1940s thriller, a first-in-series that promises many great adventures.

The christening of the world's first skyscraper on the shores of the mighty Mississippi River is the backdrop for River Runs Red, Lambda Literary Award finalist Scott Alexander Hess' new historical LGBTQ novel set in St. Louis, Missouri circa 1891.Calhoun McBride and Clement Cartwright are men from different worlds. Young Calhoun works backbreaking, midnight shifts at the Snopes Brewery...and earns a little extra selling his body to eager men. Clement (inspired by famed architect Louis Sullivan and the Wainwright building) left St. Louis to pursue his architectural ambitions, and now returns as the man planning the city's big achievement. The two men are fatefully drawn to one another, but their secret affair is discovered by the city's richest sociopath Belasco Snopes who sets out to ruin them. A finale courtroom scene set in the city's Old Courthouse catapults the story to its blood curdling conclusion.Hess's novel is "a cunning mix of lyricism and grit. A triumphant and beautifully-written historical novel." - Joe Okonkwo, Jazz MoonWith a new interview with the author by Amy Dupcak."Hess (Skyscraper, 2016, etc.) returns with a dark thriller set in late 19th-century St. Louis... lyrical, gritty read with a compelling young protagonist." -Kirkus Reviews"Triumph...Set in the summer of 1891, this captivating novel, complete with tasteful homoerotic themes, is immersive and tactile. The sweat lingers from the stifling heat, you smell the lush gardens and you feel the mud of the Mississippi between your toes." - Chris Andoe, Riverfront Times"River Runs Red is a cunning mix of lyricism and grit. A triumphant and beautifully-written historical novel." Joe Okonkwo, Jazz Moon"Hess has written another gritty, steamy (in all senses of the word), and atmospheric historical novel. He travels effortlessly from high society parlors to the shacks of the river drabs..It may be a short novel, but it packs a punch, like a river rat boxer. And like the Mississippi, the short chapters of River Runs Red lap at your ankles, but before you know it, the riptide of the story has drawn you in, and then there's no way to resist the current of this narrative." - Out In Print

Scott Alexander Hess earned his MFA in creative writing from The New School. He blogs for The Huffington Post and his writing has appeared in Genre Magazine, The Fix, and elsewhere. Hess co-wrote Tom in America, an award winning short film starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. His novel The Butcher's Sons was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015 and his novel Skyscraper was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Hess now lives in Manhattan, New York with his husband. He teaches fiction writing at Gotham Writers in New York City.

When Neal Tate, a just-out-of-rehab NYC party columnist, falls for Dewalt, a Harlem drug dealer he meets at a gay bathhouse, he discovers that navigating an honest relationship is a lot more difficult than chasing down the perfect pair of skinny jeans.

Neal finds support from his fashion-loving friends: Rovvy, a blond boy-toy married to Andres Palamos, the shady millionaire owner of Pop magazine where Neal works; Nick, "It-boy" style writer for the New York Times whose fab job and rich hubby are smothering his desires to design; and Annie, straight-girl art director at Pop who gives Neal's life a smidge of balance.

The success of Neal's "Bergdorf Boy" column and his growing love for Dewalt lead him to question his capacity for intimacy and his obsessive commitment to both the latest trend and anonymous sex, and to wonder if a monogamous gay marriage could be in the cards.

These Bergdorf boys hop from Madison Avenue shopping sprees to Fire Island photo shoots, dipping their manicured toes into the dizzy underside of the gay nightlife scene hunting for lust, love, and designer must-haves.

Facing the past is never fun, especially when it involves seeing the man you still love. When their lives are once again intertwined, is a second chance possible?

Ash once stabbed his heart when he broke up with him, who cares if it was high school, pain is still pain. And speaking of pain, this broken foot has done nothing but keep him stuck in Crawford City.

Ash is now the town doctor after his dad retired, which means when the incredibly handsome and totally pissed off Todd comes in, Ash is the only person in town who can treat him.

Like it or not, when Ash and Todd's dads drop a major bomb on them, the two men are forced to deal with one another.

Will they find a way around teenage misunderstandings and bad choices to rekindle a love that's never stopped boiling, or will their pride forever keep them apart?

NOTE: A Long Road Home is a low-heat (no explicit sex scenes, ) sweet, high drama romance.

After his crazy weekend with his dad, Junior heads back to school newly awakened to his sexuality and finds opportunities to fulfill his desires around every corner. But when he meets his new roommate he falls for him hard. He's handsome, funny and everything Junior could want in a boyfriend, only problem he's straight. Will his unrequited pining for him go unfulfilled or will he discover his roommate is a little less straight than he thought?

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Seven years ago Mac was forced to leave behind her mate, Kate. Now she's come home and Mac is determined to win back her love.

Mac's hidden life, however, makes things complicated. Secretly protecting Kate in her wolf form, she desperately tries to rebuild their bond. Mac will need to navigate her two lives carefully, if she's to rekindle their relationship.

Their journey takes a dangerous turn when Kate becomes a target, forcing Mac to confront her own fears and secrets. Grappling with threats both internal and external, Kate must decide whether she wants to embrace the extraordinary world Mac belongs to.

A spinoff in Brooke Campbell's The Warrior Series, TRUSTING THE WOLF is a captivating story of love, trust, and overcoming adversity.

'This is a book for all the dead queers. It is an attempt at reconciling growing up in the shadow of the AIDS crisis with the realities of PrEP and 21st Century LGBTQ+ culture. It is about finding personal balance in the face of the limits of gender and sexuality. This is a book for anyone who has felt out of sync with mainstream cultures, queer or not.' --Michael J. Wilson

'Wilson's work shines.' --Publishers Weekly

Harold Halpert is the pastor of Hope Christian Fellowship, a church and school that he helped build from the ground up. He is also a strong opponent of gay rights.Drake Halpert is a teenager who feels trapped in this community of people blindly following his father. He is also gay and deeply hurt by his father's outspoken beliefs.But Pastor Halpert isn't aware of his son's sexuality, and Drake has no idea that his father's ideas aren't shared by everyone. How can these two know so little about each other?And what would happen if father and son were to change places - literally?

This collection is a story about the perseverance of the self and the strength of the community; the inevitability of becoming broken and beaten; the reminder that we are connected and we are exquisite; that our scars show where we did not die: and that when we are underestimated, bloodied, and battered, we will rise again.
Both personal and communal, drawing strength specifically from the Yazidi people through her time in Iraq - Maia tries to make sense of the utterly unimaginable and the all too common, so that the reader may take solace in exploring the beauty and depth of their own sheer strength in the face of pain and anguish.
The universe will always promise brutality and struggle.
Individuals will always possess the power of resilience.
Humanity will always offer a future.

Tension in our personal relationships are at an all-time high. Dialogue-when it happens at all-is heated. It isn't that we've lost hope in what faith and politics can accomplish in our world. It's that in our polarizing times, faith and politics seem to be leading more to rage than actual change. It's discouraging, disheartening, and disappointing. But it doesn't have to stay that way. Civility is not a pipe dream. Nuance is not unrecoverable. Peace is possible. And it can all start right here, right now, with us.

For those who are looking for a better way to engage on the topics that mean the most to them,

for those who are looking to build a bridge with the people politics and religion has isolated them from,

for those who won't settle for the growing space between us and who believe there's a better way,

this book is for you.

When Dani returns home after a divorce, she's just looking for a place to hide from her ex and lick her wounds. The neglected house on her parents' property seems like the perfect project to occupy her time. But when Dani starts to experience things she can't explain, she must face the reality that not everyone is quite as they appear. Starting over means a new home, new friends, and new information about her family. Will Dani find the peace she's after, or will family secrets and a persistent ex keep her from building a new life?

I've been in love with my best friend for years.

The problem?

He thinks I'm straight.

And now that I share a dorm with him, his insistent need to cuddle -and lack of clothes- are blurring the careful lines I've drawn.

I'm struggling to keep my defenses up.

I love him but I'm afraid.

Afraid I'm not enough to make him stay.

Afraid he'll rip my heart out.

Afraid he won't love me back.

But I see a side of him no one else does.

In the security of our room, he lets his mask fall.

Lets me hold him.

Something lurks in the dark recesses of his mind that keeps him from going all in.

He's just as hesitant about this as I am, but I don't understand why.

Can I convince him to let me love him the way he deserves...

or will he take my heart and run away with it?

Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly relate to Christianity?

Countless people, including (and sometimes especially) those from religious backgrounds, are exploring radical ideas. The pandemic, the Black liberation movement, climate disaster--all these concerns are leading us to ask, "Does our system actually work? Is capitalism ethical? Is this the only way to build a society?"

Questions like these led author and pastor Terry Stokes to the political philosophy of anarchy. Now, we all have a scary picture in our minds about anarchy: that it calls for chaos, violence, and disorder. But anarchy actually calls for the end of rulership, not violence in the streets. Anarchy seeks to empower small communities of people to take care of their own needs at the local level, thereby making the state obsolete. It's all about constructing societies in which people are placed above profit and systems are built on ethics of justice and equality. To Stokes, that sounded a whole lot like the building blocks of Christian faith.

In Jesus and the Abolitionist, Stokes introduces readers to the ancient practice of anarchy and how it intersects with Christian beliefs and values. We see how beliefs about God, humanity, divine-human interaction, the Bible, and more can be illuminated and faithfully reformulated through an anarchist lens. This view, which Stokes calls anarchist Christianity, seeks to abolish tyrannical systems that do not recognize the changing values of our times and that disempower the people. Stokes's vision of an anarchist Christian future charts a caring theology and practice of living, one based in our voluntary cooperation, the goodness of all people, and faith in God. We can build an ethical world--one built on structures of care--and anarchy might just be the unlikely key.

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