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When Lizzie and Bee meet on holiday, it feels as if they were always meant to be friends. Escaping their parents and exploring, everything seems perfect in the hot summer sun. As the two girls grow closer, strange questions rise to the surface... Is Lizzie an only child? Why has Bee’s dad disappeared? And why, as the holiday comes to an end, are the two girls forbidden from seeing each other again? Could one dark secret from the past hold the answer? Could one fateful night keep Lizzie and Bee apart... for ever? From the author of Butterfly Summer comes the unforgettable story of a new friendship, a terrible tragedy and long-buried lie.
"This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by the time they were thirty. In 1432 The Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Indeed, nearly all Florentine males probably had some kind of same-sex experience as a part of their "normal" sexual life. Seventy years of denunciations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which author Michael Rocke has used in his vivid depiction of this vibrant sexual culture in a world where these same-sex acts were not the deviant transgressions of a small minority, but an integral part of a normal masculine identity. Rocke roots this sexual activity in the broader context of Renaissance Florence, with its social networks of families, juvenile gangs, neighbors, patronage, workshops, and confraternities, and its busy political life from the early years of the Republic through the period of Lorenzo de' Medici, Savonarola, and the beginning of Medici princely rule. His richly detailed book paints a fascinating picture of Renaissance Florence and calls into question our modern conceptions of gender and sexual identity.
Chantal Rousseau, a brilliant student at Sorbonne, Paris and self denied beauty felt devastated after receiving the tragic and unexpected news of the brutal murder of her parents who were on their vacation during the last years of France's occupation of Algeria. Determined to bring her parents murderer to justice, or take revenge on the killers by herself, Chantal develops a plan to find and revenge her parent's murders with the help of a former Foreign Legion officer. Chantal's clever plan of seduction was working only too well. Using her beauty as bait, she travels to Algeria where she unexpectedly finds herself to be drawn not only to the French Army officer, but to her parent's murderer as well. Chantal must find courage to complete her plan of revenge, and with her deep love for one man, to reignite the light of a once tranquil life.
Quirky mom meets messy suburbia in this entertaining tale. Eddie’s new suburban town is far from normal. She thinks it’s her purple hair and tattoos that make her and her 9-year-old daughter outcasts. What else could it be? She tries to be a good mom, but gets sucked into what the town is hiding, even though she knows it’s wrong. She’s finally had enough, and now she’s in the fight of her life, but can she beat the Psycho Soccer Mom who controls suburbia? Her struggle becomes a battle of two moms; a single, purple-haired, tattooed outcast against the Psycho Soccer Mom, who is also the PTA President. Both are hiding something. One has the community on her side. But which one? And Eddie has to win before her daughter finds out what she’s been doing. After all, to be a good mom, it’s important to be fabulous in the eyes of your daughter.
When he receives a coded message from his missing friend—Van Ryn, who had been hunting for treasure lost during the Soviet takeover of Russia—Duke de Richleau asks his friends Simon Aron and Richard Eaton to join him on a secret mission to rescue Van Ryn before the Secret Police find him. Original.
Marta Veneranda, a Latina neoyorkina, finds that she inspires the confessional in people. In fact, when people come to her, they feel the need to reveal their most embarrassing and shameful stories. And through these reluctantly told tales, where characters enter and leave each other's narrations, Rivera-Valdes revisits and questions our most basic behavioral assumptions. In "Little Poisons," the narrator shares with Marta the minutiae of her self-help book–assisted liberation from her philandering husband, whom she will eventually poison to death, and whose mistress she will befriend: "In the fifteen years of marriage he would tell me everything, even about his sexual escapades-if he couldn't share them with me, who would he share them with? Besides, that way no one could come running to me spreading rumors." Beneath the humor is a dead-serious scrutiny of the commingling of Anglo and Latino cultures. At heart, the stories are an exposé of the comforts and discomforts of that cohabitation.
Sydney Williams has forgiven her fiance, Den, more times than she can count. But his latest betrayal just days before their wedding is too big to ignore. Shocking her friends and family, she calls off the engagement. She walks out on Den . . . and into the arms of his brother, Morgan. Known as a player, Morgan Smith has secretly spent years fighting his feelings for Sydney. When Den's latest dirty deed leaves Sydney devastated, Morgan can't stop himself from coming to her rescue. What begins as friendship quickly escalates into all-consuming passion. Despite their intense connection, Sydney would rather deny her desire than come between brothers. But as Morgan is determined to make Sydney his, Den won't give her up without a fight . . .