The Luckiest Gay Boy in the World

The Luckiest Gay Boy in the World
Author: Paul J Hamel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2020-08-12
Genre:
ISBN:

THE LUCKIEST GAY BOY IN THE WORLD is a story about Eddy and Brat, Eddy's best friend and guardian angel from when Eddy was a toddler to his seventy-fifth birthday. No matter what crises he confronted, Eddy always succeeded in overcoming them and thriving with a little help from Brat.

The Boy Made the Difference

The Boy Made the Difference
Author: Matt Bishop
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1838594876

Rex, a husband and father, makes an unintentional error. Will Rex get away with his terrible, taboo-busting mistake? This opening premise is the starting gun to a rollicking ride through London of the late 1980s and early 1990s, in a literary novel that focuses on human frailty, love, marriage, family bonds, gay sex, betrayal, alcoholism, illness and death. Although aspects of the novel are richly ironic and even comedic, it also deals with challenging themes, not least HIV/AIDS. Matt Bishop wrote The Boy Made the Difference because very few (if any) literary novels are set against the narrative backdrop of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which had a profound and lasting impact on the gay community. All of the proceeds from the book sales will be donated to his late mother’s charity – the Bernardine Bishop Appeal (part of CLIC Sargent – a charity that helps children, young people and their families who are suffering the effects of cancer).

Plain and Proud

Plain and Proud
Author: ALI IMRAN
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1482897458

Gillsbury may seem like any other typical, closeted American small town about to be forced to come to terms with a new LGBT social club formed in the town's only high school. Alain and his lovely Angels will be the pioneers to this revolutionary movement dragging the townspeople kicking and screaming along the way as they all fight their own inner demons. His final year in high school brings new friendship, hope, heartache, lies, deceit and murder all in the name of equality, acceptance and maybe even love.

Boy Meets Boy

Boy Meets Boy
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-02-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307482448

This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance. When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1 against him getting Noah back, but Paul’s not giving up without playing his love really loud. His best friend Joni might be drifting away, his other best friend Tony might be dealing with ultra-religious parents, and his ex-boyfriend Kyle might not be going away anytime soon, but sometimes everything needs to fall apart before it can really fit together right. This is a happy-meaningful romantic comedy about finding love, losing love, and doing what it takes to get love back in a crazy-wonderful world.

Conscious Luck

Conscious Luck
Author: Gay Hendricks, PH.D.
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1250622956

Change Your Luck and Live a Charmed Life! What if you could create your own luck? What if living a charmed life—being lucky in love, lucky in money, lucky in your chosen work—was within your control? The good news is that it’s all entirely possible...when you know how! In Conscious Luck, New York Times bestselling authors Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline share eight Secrets that will allow you to intentionally change your fortune. Instead of hoping and wishing that luck will come your way, let Conscious Luck show you how to seize control of your destiny and create the dazzling life of your dreams. This powerful step-by-step program, which includes practical techniques, inspiring true stories, and the authors’ personal journeys, will lead you to greater freedom and abundance. The Secrets—four core shifts and four daily practices—teach you how to: · plant the seeds of luck in your own psyche · remove unlucky programming (including lifting “curses”) · move at your Essence Pace · practice Radical Gratitude, and much more. Based on decades of the authors’ trailblazing work, this unique and highly effective toolkit offers a surefire way to transform your life.

Oh Boy!

Oh Boy!
Author: Freya Jarman-Ivens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-09-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135866627

From Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. From the dominance of the blues singer over his "woman" to the sensitive singer/songwriter, popular music artists have adopted various gendered personae in a search for new forms of expression. Sometimes these roles shift as the singer ages, attitudes change, or new challenges on the pop scene arise; other times, the persona hardens into a shell-like mask that the performer struggles to escape. Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music is the first serious study of how forms of masculinity are negotiated, constructed, represented and addressed across a range of popular music texts and practices. Written by a group of internationally recognized popular music scholars—including Sheila Whiteley, Richard Middleton, and Judith Halberstam—these essays study the concept of masculinity in performance and appearance, and how both male and female artists have engaged with notions of masculinity in popular music.

Megan's Mate

Megan's Mate
Author: Tamsin Baker
Publisher: Tamsin Baker
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

It's Grayson's little sisters turn at love... but it won't be simple, or straight forward for the Alpha-born female. Megan Nox, has a birthmark which should match her perfect mate's, yet no Alpha male in the Greensborough pack has the same mark. There's only one possibility, her fated mate must be outside the pack she was born into and Megan is convinced he will be at the upcoming Spring Festival. Lucas Noll is a Beta wolf shifter in the Robinvale pack which uses and abuses their underlings. The pack he is devoted to and should protect him, cut the birthmark from the skin on his belly. The mark to identify him to his mate. When he meets the gorgeous Megan Nox, he recognizes her as his mate. He knows it and she feels it, but without the proof of their matching birth marks, coupled with Lucas’s own feelings of inadequacy, how are they ever going to be together? ***Short story. Standalone. Guaranteed happily ever after.

A Lucky Man

A Lucky Man
Author: Jamel Brinkley
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1555979955

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.