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  Love and Larceny

  Anne Russo

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  Ethan and William were once the perfect partners in crime, but their romantic relationship ended when Ethan had enough of their dangerous lifestyle. Six months later, William reappears on Ethan's doorstep, bruised and desperate, needing Ethan's help with one last heist -- on Christmas, no less -- to pay off a debt to a ruthless mob boss.
  As the two embittered ex-lovers reluctantly plan an almost impossible art heist, sparks fly between them once again. But with so much history and heartbreak in the way, can they move beyond their complicated past to have a future together?

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  Breach Point

  Declan Rhodes

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  Michael McCabe doesn't take vacations—especially not after nearly losing his brother to a psychotic arsonist. But when an explosion rocks his enforced getaway in Tahiti, the off-duty SWAT officer is pulled into a crisis that looks like far more than bad luck. 
   
  Alex Kessler came to the islands to scatter his late wife's ashes—a final step in a grieving process that's consumed him for a year and a half. The last thing he expects is to be swept into danger . . . or into the guarded orbit of a man like Michael. 
   
  When the threat follows them back home to Seattle, survival means trust—and what began as a single violent incident spirals into something deeper: secret files, hidden agendas, and a classified operation known only as Project Asphodel. 
   
  As the danger escalates, so does their connection—raw, unexpected, and impossible to ignore. Sometimes what happens in Tahiti doesn't stay there. Sometimes, it follows you home. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Consorting with the King

  C. Quince

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  Prince Francis of Sachs-Stormburg has two objectives. One: join the long line of suitors vying to become King Omar's next gentleman consort. Two: find out anything he can about the natural energy powering his kingdom, especially the fabled solar power which has him called the Solar Sultan across Europe.
  Francis arrives at King Omar's palace in Istanbul, and discovers much to his horror that all suitors must compete in a tournament of skills to win the king's favour. King Omar, meanwhile, is nowhere to be seen.
  When Francis takes refuge from the competition in the palace gardens, he meets a handsome man tending to the palace cats. Francis and the stranger strike up a friendship, which quickly develops into something more. He senses his new companion is hiding something, but Francis himself has not divulged who he truly is, either.
  As their romance unfolds, Francis has to choose between his royal duty and abandoning it entirely to explore this new relationship. But perhaps not all is lost, when it is revealed who the stranger really is ...

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  Querelle of Roberval

  Kevin Lambert

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  Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
  		 
  Homage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.
  		 
  As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers—but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for sex. As the dispute hardens and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Trenchant social drama, a tribute to Jean Genet’s antihero, and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of France’s Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.

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  At Danceteria and Other Stories

  Philip Dean Walker

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  Caught in their last moment of decadent obliviousness, the characters in At Danceteria are so blinded by the strobe lights they can’t see what’s waiting in the shadows. While fictional, each of the collection’s seven stories, set at the dawn of the AIDS crisis, takes as their inspiration a real event: Halston and Liza reliving the Studio 54 glory days; Freddie Mercury Roman Holiday-ing Princess Di to a drag show; the Reagan White House rolling out the red carpet for Rock Hudson; a man-on-the-street with main character energy; Jackie Kennedy at a leather bar; a serenading Sylvester; and Keith Haring’s 26th birthday party… hosted by Madonna. Deftly balancing incisive wit and nostalgic melancholy, Walker paints a neon picture of the past, turning queer legends – both lore and people – into vivid reality.

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  Without Prejudice - My Life as a...

  Harvey Brownstone

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  Harvey Brownstone’s story is a tumultuous, sometimes hilarious, and uplifting journey from bullied child to outcast after coming out to his parents, to trailblazing lawyer, to distinguished judge.
  		 
  Brownstone colorfully details his momentous and inventive judicial career marked by his numerous innovations of the justice system, particularly revolutionizing Ontario’s child support enforcement program.
  		 
  In retirement, he is no longer shackled by the restraints traditionally imposed on the judiciary, and thus Brownstone provides a frank, unfiltered, and refreshing glimpse into the inner workings of the justice system, boldly delineating the strengths and weaknesses of criminal and family courts, both of which he claims are sorely in need of comprehensive reform. His remarkable story, reinventing himself from high-profile judge to highly acclaimed talk show host, is a testament to the resilience and triumph of the human spirit.

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