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best gay love stories 2010: Vintage Steve Berman, 2008 A lonely seventeen-year-old who has dreamed of meeting a different and special boy desperately seeks help from his friend Trace, a Goth girl, to free him from the clutches of a handsome ghost he has met on a rural New Jersey highway. |
best gay love stories 2010: Fool For Love R. D. Cochrane, 2009-02-01 In an age of hookups and cybersex, who has time for a little romance? For all those who think love’s gone the way of the 8-track tape comes a collection of new gay fiction designed to reignite their belief in love and romance. Follow the travails of a dog walker enchanted with his new client, a restaurant owner who catches the eye of his most loyal customer, a blind date fix-up, and other seekers of the lost flame as they stumble upon romance and a possible chance at love. Showcasing new work from some of today’s best-known gay writers, including Trebor Healey, Felice Picano, Joel Derfner, Andrew Holleran, and Greg Herren, the stories in Fool for Love are a funny, sweet, and sometimes wrenching reminder of the joy romance brings to the human heart. |
best gay love stories 2010: Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2015 Paul Willis, Amie Evans, 2015-03-16 An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2015 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival. |
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best gay love stories 2010: Fatal Shadows Josh Lanyon, 2021-01-07 When a bookstore owner is accused of murdering his ex-lover, proving his innocence might lead a hard-nosed detective to a fatal attraction… Thirty-five-year-old gay bookseller Adrien English searches for love between the pages. As a sensitive intellectual with a heart condition, his dating life is gathering dust on the shelves. But when police name him the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his friend and employee, Adrien doesn't expect his best hope for romance to be assigned to the case… Detective Jake Riordan is hungry to climb the ranks. All he has to do for a promotion is nail the handsome bookstore owner for an obvious crime of passion. If only he could stop fantasizing about the suspect instead of the normal wife and family his career demands… As Riordan’s investigation heats up and the suspect insists on his innocence, the detective doubts both Adrien's guilt and his ability to resist the man's understated charms. Can they turn the crime into passion, or will a killer on the loose write The End? |
best gay love stories 2010: Best Gay Stories 2010 Steve Berman, 2010 In the newest edition of Best Gay Stories, editor Berman has selected confessions and stories that range in scope from sensational to extra-liberating: a personal remembrance of the Stonewall Riots; a tale of awkward first love; the allure of Tadzio; and other explorations of the gay community's desires, heartaches, and wants. |
best gay love stories 2010: Dangerous Days Vincent Diamond, 2011-02-20 Former undercover cop Steven Pershing has officially fallen for Conrad Stalton. They live in the same motel room, sleep in the same bed, share a life ... and yet Steven can't quite figure it all out. When an emergency jolts Steven out of himself, he has to take charge and make some hard choices. |
best gay love stories 2010: Patience & Sarah Isabel Miller, 2005-09-01 “A remarkable story.”—Publishers Weekly Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller’s classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a cross-dressing farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. They choose to live together and love each other freely, even though they know of no precedents for their relationship; they must trust their own instincts and see beyond the disdain of their neighbors. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another. First self-published in 1969 in an edition of one thousand copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association’s first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill’s version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country. Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women’s activism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today. This edition features an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by Emma Donoghue, the Irish novelist whose numerous books include the contemporary Dublin novels Stirfry and Hood, the latter of which won the ALA’s Gay and Lesbian Book Award in 1995. Little Sister’s Classics is an Arsenal Pulp Press imprint dedicated to reviving lost and out-of-print gay and lesbian classic books, both fiction and nonfiction. The series is produced in conjunction with Little Sister’s Books, the heroic gay Vancouver bookstore well-known for its anti-censorship efforts. Isabel Miller was the author of numerous novels, including two under her real name, Alma Routsong. She died in 1996. |
best gay love stories 2010: Island Boys Brad Nichols, 2008-08 Sun, sand, and simmering heat populate this all-new collection of island-themed gay erotica. |
best gay love stories 2010: Feathers Vincent Diamond, 2012-12-30 Two years after his father's death, Brandon is still grieving, running his father's store, watching his sister grow more depressed. Until Ramon saunters into his life bringing sunshine, blue skies, and an injured hawk. But Ramon has issues of his own to deal with, an abusive lover who won't take no for an answer. If Ramon can wriggle free of the ex, can Brandon take a chance on loving again? |
best gay love stories 2010: Off the Rocks, Volume 16 NewTown Writers, 2012-08-31 How do you identify? Do you ident-defy? What are your identities? Do you identi-tease? Do you explore, abhor, adore your identity? Volume 16 of NewTown Writers' annual anthology series is proud to identify the creative endeavors of the GLBT community. |
best gay love stories 2010: Luck in the Shadows Lynn Flewelling, 2010-11-03 A new star is rising in the fantasy firmament...teems with magic and spine-chilling amounts of skullduggery.–Dave Duncan, author of The Great Game When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec’s new mentor, and this time there just might be…Luck in the Shadows. |
best gay love stories 2010: Best Gay Romance Tom Graham, 2006-12-26 In these sexy, satisfying tales, boy gets boy - and keeps him - despite pesky ex-lovers, cops in pursuit or lumps of Kryptonite. S.J. Frost's No More Mirages is a tale of romantic destiny set in a dojo near Chicago - an oasis of bamboo, white mats and sculptures, where an actor finds himself drawn to a charismatic sensai. Dale Chase's The Early Show depicts the tantalising flirtation of two writers who share an eccentric habit of showing up early to Sunday matinees to enjoy the promising half-dark of the theatre... Openly erotic, smart and gorgeously written. |
best gay love stories 2010: My Most Excellent Year Steve Kluger, 2009-02-19 Best friends and unofficial brothers since they were six, ninth-graders T.C. and Augie have got the world figured out. But that all changes when both friends fall in love for the first time. Enter Al‚. She's pretty, sassy, and on her way to Harvard. T.C. falls hard, but Al‚ is playing hard to get. Meanwhile, Augie realizes that he's got a crush on a boy. It's not so clear to him, but to his family and friends, it's totally obvious! Told in alternating perspectives, this is the hilarious and touching story of their most excellent year, where these three friends discover love, themselves, and how a little magic and Mary Poppins can go a long way. |
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best gay love stories 2010: My Diva Michael Montlack, 2009-05-07 From Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross to Queen Elizabeth I, Julia Child, and Princess Leia, these divas have been sister, alter ego, fairy godmother, or model for survival to gay men and the closeted boys they once were. And anyone—straight or gay, young or old, male or female—who ever needed a muse, or found one, will see their own longing mirrored here as well. These witty and poignant short essays explore reasons for diva-worship as diverse as the writers themselves. My Diva offers both depth and glamour as it pays tribute with joy, intelligence, and fierce, fierce love. Finalist, Lambda Book Award for LGBT Anthology, Lambda Literary Foundation |
best gay love stories 2010: Boy Meets Boy David Levithan, 2013-08-01 The unforgettable debut novel by co-author with John Green of Will Grayson, Will Grayson |
best gay love stories 2010: Crisis Mitchell Gold, Mindy Drucker, 2008 A mental health crisis faces American teens right now -- and it is one we can solve. Hundreds of thousands of gay teens face traumatic depression, fear, rejection, persecution, and isolation -- usually alone. Studies show they are, 190 percent more likely to use drugs or alcohol and four times more likely to attempt suicide. Homophobia and discrimination are at the heart of their pain. Love, support, and acceptance -- all within our power to give -- can save them. This book is for: clergy, parents, educators, and politicians who cause harm with their words and actions; parents of gay teens; teens navigating this difficult time; and fair-minded people who want to help to end the harm. Here are revealing stories by forty diverse Americans, some well-known and some not, plus insights from straight clergy and parents explaining their support of gay people as whole human beings guaranteed equal rights by our Constitution. |
best gay love stories 2010: And Tango Makes Three Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, 2015-06-02 The heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own. |
best gay love stories 2010: Chulito Charles Rice-González, 2011 Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the queer youth culture of Manhattan's piers, Chulito is a coming-of-age, coming out love story of a sexy, tough, hip hop-loving, young Latino man and the colorful characters who populate his block. Chulito, which means cutie, is one of the boys, and everyone in his neighborhood has seen him grow up--the owner of the local bodega, the Lees from the Chinese restaurant, his buddies from the corner, and all of his neighbors and friends, including Carlos, who was Chulito's best friend until they hit puberty and people started calling Carlos a pato...a faggot. Culito rejects Carlos, buries his feelings for him, and becomes best friends with Kamikaze, a local drug dealer. When Carlos comes home from his first year away from college and they share a secret kiss, Chulito's worlds collide as his ideas of being a young man, being macho, and being in love are challenged. Vivid, sexy, funny, heartbreaking, and fearless, this knock out novel is destine to become a gay classic. |
best gay love stories 2010: Romance Fiction Kristin Ramsdell, 2012-03-02 A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on Chick Lit in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have. |
best gay love stories 2010: Best Gay Stories 2011 Peter Dubé, 2011-05 In the 2011 edition of Best Gay Stories Peter Dub questions the representations of gay men's lives found in the general media that present gay life and culture as some monolithic structure--that we all go to the same bars, shop in the same stores, eat in the same restaurants, hold the same kinds of political opinions, have similar backgrounds, and work the same kinds of jobs (more often than not urban, and vaguely white-collar.) He has collected authors who have stepped up the proverbial microphone to tell stories that are different through unique voices. Proof that we have moved well past the sentimental coming out story, the boy-meets-boy romance, the dangers and pleasures of sexual adventure, and we have done it without having to abandon them--because those things still happen and are still important. But we have found new ways of thinking about them, and have more experience to share, a deeper understanding of them, and we have added an array of other stories, from other parts of our lives, and dreams, and troubles to them. We have moved past the gay story and towards gay stories. In these pages are a magnificent assortment of narratives and an equally fabulous range of ways of narrating them. The book includes experimental work and traditional tales, fantasy and realism, and as many different perspectives as one might hope to find. |
best gay love stories 2010: Manhandled Austin Foxxe, 2014-07-02 In the spirit of Flesh and the Word and the Friction series comes a sizzling, original gay erotica collection of more than 30 short stories by some of the most well-known names in the genre. |
best gay love stories 2010: Best Gay Love Stories Brad Nichols, 2006 New York City is the world's capital, and every day people fall in love on its streets and in its restaurants, its high rises and even its subways. No matter the season, no matter the borough, there's no better place to find love. |
best gay love stories 2010: Time Was Ian McDonald, 2018-04-24 Ian McDonald weaves a love story across an endless expanse with his science fiction novella Time Was A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found. Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their desperate timelines overlap. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
best gay love stories 2010: Lovers' Legends Andrew Calimach, 2002 Lovers' Legends is a collection of homoerotic Greek myths restored from their primary sources. The collection also includes a new rendition of Lucian's Erotes. The volume is illustrated with ancient art. |
best gay love stories 2010: Adoring Outlander Valerie Estelle Frankel, 2016-02-17 What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama's popularity? Is it author Diana Gabaldon's teasing posts on social media? Is it the real history reimagined? The highly emotional melodrama? Or is it the take-charge heroine and the sweet hero in a kilt? One of the show's biggest draws is its multigenre appeal. Gabaldon--whose Outlander novels form the basis of the series--has called it science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction and military fiction, depending on her audience. This collection of new essays explores the series as a romance, a ghost story, an epic journey, a cozy mystery, a comedy of manners, a gothic thriller and a feminist answer to Game of Thrones, and considers the source of its broad appeal. |
best gay love stories 2010: The Devourers Indra Das, 2016 A dreamlike novel about a young historian and a persuasive and beguiling stranger coming together in modern-day Kolkata, India to transcribe an ancient journal. A collection of paper, parchment, and skins, the journal tells of bloodshed, kidnapping, magic and shapeshifting, set against the harsh landscapes of the 17th-Century Mughal Empire. It reveals the story of hunters and prey, lovers and the beloved, and, in the end, the choice to be transformed, or be quarry-- |
best gay love stories 2010: Best Gay Erotica 2008 Richard Labonté, 2007-11 Whether you like it rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw, you'll find it in Best Gay Erotica 2008. Here are 20 of the hottest and best-written man-on-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In Underground Operator, two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in forceful, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. Donuts to Demons finds a self-described rock'n'roll artfag searching for a lover as patient and gifted and generous as he advertised on craigslist. |
best gay love stories 2010: Tales of Travelrotica for Gay Men Brad Nichols, 2006 We all look forward to that long-deserved vacation and the pleasures it will bring. But aside from the regularly planned activities, it is the unexpected encounter that makes it a vacation to remember. These are the hottest stories of traveling men encountering the exotic and erotic in foreign lands and locales—and not just what butwhothey did on their summer vacation. |
best gay love stories 2010: Speak My Language, and Other Stories Torsten Højer, 2016-05-10 'There is something special about literature . . . that addresses our innermost sexual and amatory selves. Gay stories offer us vindication, fellowship, validation and a sense of shared identity that we need now as much as ever,' writes Stephen Fry in the foreword to this anthology. In this exciting new collection of gay short stories, we hear from authors imagining, surmising, and revealing aspects of gay life from a multitude of perspectives, ages, eras, locations, cultures and political climates. Contributors range from those emerging into a life of writing to those who have enjoyed international mainstream success. Some, such as Felice Picano, were pioneers of not only gay writing but also gay liberation itself. Others are recipients of world-class awards, including Vestal McIntyre, whose Lake Overturn: A Novel was named Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review and Out magazine, and a Best Book of 2009 by the Washington Post. It also won the Grub Street National Book Prize and Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. The premise for stories included in this anthology was very simple - other than the stipulation that a major component of the story be in some way concerned with gay life, there were no restrictions. The aim was to bring together fictional reflections of gay life from the minds of authors approaching 'gay' from very different angles. As a result, genres in this collection range from action to sci-fi, from thriller to fantasy. The stories are set in countries including Australia, Cuba, England, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the USA. The youngest contributor is in his twenties, the oldest in his eighties. Readers will find themselves immersed in an engaging set of stories remarkably different from one another, yet, as Stephen Fry notes, offering a surprising sense of shared identity. With stories by: Nick Alexander; Tim Ashley; James Robert Baker; Damian Barr; Neil Bartlett; Sebastian Beaumont; Scott Brown; Michael Carroll; Robert Cochrane; Alfred Corn; Neal Drinnan; Royston Ellis; Nigel Fairs; Hugh Fleetwood; Ronald Frame; Patrick Gale; Damon Galgut; John R. Gordon; Drew Gummerson; Matt Harris; Cliff James; Francis King; Joseph Lidster; David Llewellyn; Paul Magrs; Vestal McIntyre; Brent Meersman; Joseph Olshan; Diriye Osman; Tony Peake; Felice Picano; David Robilliard; Jerry Rosco; Jeffrey Round; Lawrence Schimel; Rupert Smith; Colin Spencer; Joshua Winning; Ian Young; and Richard Zimler. |
best gay love stories 2010: The Complete Book of 2010s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz, 2020-09-10 This volume contains detailed information about every musical that opened on Broadway from 2010 through the end of 2019. This book discusses the decade’s major successes, notorious failures, and musicals that closed during their pre-Broadway tryouts. In addition to including every hit and flop that debuted during the decade, this book highlights revivals and personal-appearance revues. |
best gay love stories 2010: Heights of Passion Don Schecter, 2009-01-13 From the eerie mystery of You've Got Male and the homicides of Happy Hour, to the insistent rhythms of El Baile and the glitter of Heights of Passion, these tales bristle with excitement. A man plans to leave his wife for a lover. Two queens get their dead batteries jumped by a foreign student. An older man attempts to train a young stud as his pet. Murder/suicide in Ft. Lauderdale. One man's life is influenced by a closeted mentor. Another's is altered by his knife-wielding mother. Bisexuals profit from a torrid novel. A Hollywood director finds excitement in domination. A spinner of tales seduces a straight man. Conquest in a Spanish dance bar. A retired doctor finds a wet dream in a chat room. An older man is stalked on the internet. A traveler breaks new ground with a Korean novice. An artist uses food as a metaphor for sex. An observer is asked to referee a squabbling couple in bed. Each story is designed to intrigue. |
best gay love stories 2010: Wes and Toren J. M. Colail, 2020-11-17 Self-proclaimed nerd Toren and sexy rebel Wes fall in love in high school, but after graduation they must face their struggles with the surety that their love will conquer all. |
best gay love stories 2010: Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, 2017-09-20 The past decade has seen an increase in nontraditional representations of gender and sexuality identities in children’s entertainment media, keeping pace with the improved acceptance of these identities in global society and culture. This anthology collects analyses of these representations in a range of media texts from around the world. |
best gay love stories 2010: Boys Like Us Patrick Merla, 1996 An important step in providing role models to ease the pain of young gay people as they approach their own self-identity. |
best gay love stories 2010: THE LAST OF THE WINE MARY RENAULT, 1956 |
best gay love stories 2010: A Boy's Own Story Edmund White, 2002 A young man struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality while coming of age in the 1950s. |
best gay love stories 2010: Love Match: Book 3 (2013-2015) Kyell Gold, 2020-08-25 Rocky's climbing the tennis ranks with an eye to becoming a top ten player. He's closer than ever to bringing his sister to the States, but his old foes aren't done with him yet and his relationships only get more complicated. Headed toward his first major tournament final and a clash with the enigmatic fox he's crossed paths with so often, he'll have to learn from his past to make the most of his future. |
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Oct 18, 2018 · On the linked page, best is used as an adverb, modifying the verb knew. In that context, the phrase the best can also …
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Oct 20, 2016 · I like you best. I like chocolate best, better than anything else. can be used when what one is choosing from is not …
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Jan 2, 2016 · This is the best car in the garage. We use articles like the and a before nouns, like car. The word "best" is an …
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Dec 8, 2020 · 3 "It's best (if) he (not) buy it tomorrow." is not a subjunctive form, and some options do not work well. 3A It's best he buy …
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