Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?N=7496 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738598 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695543 Robert Westfalls life is falling apart--everywhere but in math class. Thats the one place where problems always have a solution. But in the world beyond high school, his father is terminally ill, his mother is squabbling with his interfering aunts, his boyfriend is unsupportive, and the career path thats been planned for him feels less appealing by the day. Roberts math teacher, Andrew McNelin, watches his best student floundering, concerned but wary of crossing the line between professional and personal. Gradually, Andrew becomes Roberts friend, then his confidante. As the year progresses, their relationship--in school and out of it--deepens and changes. And as hard as he tries to resist, Andrew knows that he and Robert are edging into territory that holds incalculable risks for both of them.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559866 Drusus and Marcellus are charged with treason and must answer to the corrupt Roman state with young prince Julian as their only ally in the sequel to Cast Not the Day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585396 The novel tells the story of a young gay advertising executive struggling to find himself and true love in 1970s New York. Author Jeffrey Sharlach paints a picture of life in New York for a gay man at that moment in history. From the streets of Greenwich Village to summers on Fire Island to the dawn of AIDS, Sharlach writes with humor, poignancy, and charm, presenting characters who are universal in their appeal. Running in Beds incomparable, evocative images will resonate with readers, regardless of their personal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680063 Having a baby to save a marriage--its the oldest of clichs. But what if the marriage at risk is a gay one, and having a baby involves a surrogate mother? Pat Faunce is a faltering romantic, a former poetry major who now writes textbooks. A decade into his relationship with Stu, an airline pilot from a fraught Jewish family, he fears hes losing Stu to other men--and losing himself in their no rules arrangement. Yearning for a baby and a deeper commitment, he pressures Stu to move from Manhattan to Cape Cod, to the cottage where Pat spent boyhood summers. As they struggle to adjust to their new life, they enlist a surrogate: Debora, a charismatic Brazilian immigrant, married to Danny, an American home rebuilder. Gradually, Pat and Debora bond, drawn together by the logistics of getting pregnant and away from their spouses. Pat gets caught between loyalties--to Stu and his family, to Debora, to his own potent desires--and wonders: is he fit to be a father? In one of the first novels to explore the experience of gay men seeking a child through surrogacy, Michael Lowenthal writes passionately about marriages and mistakes, loyalty and betrayal, and about how our drive to create families can complicate the ones we already have. The Paternity Test is a provocative look at the new family values.--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1578013 In Coxs third novel, an actor barricades himself in a hotel to escape the fame he feels has ruined him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734573 After a year-long, self-imposed exile, ten whispered words in a cryptic telephone message change everything for Russell Quant: Quant, you are the only one who can help me. Returning to his life as a prairie private eye, he comes face to face with the greatest horror of his career. When an old rival is found dead, Quant is thrust into his most personal and dangerous case yet. Up against a cold, calculating villain, Russell risks everything, including the lives of those he loves. Fighting to right a wrong, Russell recruits his entire entourage of family and friends in an unforgettable caper that races from the frigid winterscapes of Saskatchewan to the pristine beaches of Mexicos Costa Grande, in a tale of love, loss, lies, and coming home.--P.[4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577798 When Gulliver Leverenz abandons LA to make a fresh start in New York, he leaves behind his family, his friends--and one bastard exboyfriend. Its certainly an impusle move: Gully has no job, no money, and no direction. What he does have is a former fraternity brother with a posh apartment, a crew of incredibly hot friends, a reputation as a rising star in the gay nightlife scene. As luck would have it, Gully soon snags a job with a talent agent and even finds himself a new boyfriend. Theres just one catch: Gulliver knows this budding relationship could get him in a lot of trouble. And inevitably, it does just that. The whole mess blows up in his face, leading to an onslaught of catastrophes that leaves him in a tragic and seemingly hopeless situation beheath the skyscrapers. But Gulliver is tougher than he reaslizes and is determined to prove, once and for all, that he has what it takes to make it in New York. By turns exciting, sad, and hysterially funny, Gulliver Takes Manhattan is a candid tale of one mans adventures in the greatest city in the world.--cover, p.4. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735939 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1520512 Traces the decades-long friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright, which is marked by Jacks secret love for Will, Wills marriage in spite of conflicted sexual feelings, and the devastating rise of AIDS. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682417 Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post-World War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe hes leading the good American life--until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor. Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the considerable risks, installs him in the Samsons three-story house on the Upper East Side, where the two men try to keep their amorous relationship secret. Against a backdrop of McCarthy-era fear, with its doleful consequences and with societys pervasive homophobia, Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life, losing much but gaining more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687504 A tale told in bittersweet flashbacks follows a fateful car accident of a young woman devotedly loved by a man and a woman, who discover that the comatose woman is pregnant and that her health is being overseen by her malevolent stepfather. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687489 Despite being a successful book editor with a wife and two children, Walter Samson finds himself risking everything for a relationship with another man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1486911 Some people spend their whole lives looking for the right partner. Nate Schaper found his in high school. In the eight months since their cautious flirting became a real, heart-pounding, tell-the-parents relationship, Nate and Adam have been inseparable. Even when local kids take their homophobia to brutal levels, Nate is undaunted. He and Adam are rock solid. Two parts of a whole. Yin and yang. But when Adam graduates and takes an off-Broadway job in New York at Nates insistence- that certainty begins to flicker. Nates friends cant keep his insecurities at bay, especially when he catches Skyped glimpses of Adams shirtless roommate. Nate starts a blog to vent his frustrations and becomes the center of a school controversy, drawing ire and support in equal amounts. But its the attention of a new boy who is looking for more than guidance that forces him to confront who and what he really wants.--From back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677522 In his wild and addictive follow-up to Gulliver Takes Manhattan, novelist Justin Luke Zirilli revisits a single epic night in the life of Gulliver Leverenz; this time through the eyes of six of Gullys closest companions. Theres Marty, Gullys ex-boyfriend, who gets a shot at a breakthrough role that could propel him straight to Broadway; hotheaded Brayden, who copes with a breakup by carving a path of blistering revenge across the city; bickering exes Servando and Rowan, for whom a subway breakdown ignites a powder keg of drama and discovery; Gullys former best friend Todd, whose job as a gay nightlife promoter is turning out to be anything but glamorous; and go-go boy Chase, finally facing some hard truths about his life - and trying to cope with his harsh reality. Enrapturing, adventurous, and chaotic, Gulliver Takes Five gives readers an exclusive all-access pass to Gay New York for one rough, sexy - and unforgettable - night on the town. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712011 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660629 Receiving an urgent message from hospitalized partner Andy Nolans nephew, who is killed minutes later, restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless embarks on a solo quest to identify the culprit and the victims link to other killings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1391146 As she prepares to marry Brandon Redding, sexy debutante Lena Jamerson cannot stop thinking about her beautiful roommate, Denise, while Denise tries to mend her broken heart, Cooley tries to win back Misha and Carmen tries to get past her fears to find happiness with Nic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734879 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477857 It begins as a simple missing persons case--a young MMA fighters mother has mysteriously disappeared. But as New Orleans private eye Chanse MacLeod starts digging around, he discovers that she is the leader of a group fighting the powerful Archdiocese of New Orleans over the closing of two churches. As the trail leads from corrupt church officials to powerful real estate developers to the world of cage fighting, Chanse soon realizes there are a lot of powerful people who want to make sure she stays gone--and dont have a problem with getting rid of a pesky gay private eye--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1283748 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1422746 Caring for an injured friend, restaurateur Jane Lawless discovers that her friend has been harboring a secret fear about a tragic accident that occurred years earlier and involves a suspicious reporter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1276576 The Saints victory in the Super Bowl just prior to the start of Carnival season has everyone in New Orleans floating on Cloud Nine. But for Scotty Bradley, Carnival looks like its going to be grim yet again when his estranged cousin Jared--who plays for the Saints--becomes the number one suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, dethroned former Miss Louisiana Tara Bourgeouis. Scottys not entirely convinced his cousin isnt the killer, but when he starts digging around into the homophobic beauty queens sordid life, he finds that any number of people wanted her dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1586901 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1361896 Ethan Poe, sixteen and gay, struggles for balance while his life conspires to pull him in many different directions. His parents are divorcing; his older brother Kyle is damaging his right hand in the name of purity; his best friend is a Jesus freak who prays for him to be straight; hes desperate to get his drivers license, but he cant seem to get enough supervised driving time. Hes just starting to see light in the form of Max Modine, a boy he wants to know much better than he does, when his rural Maine town begins to explode around him. Against his intentions he gets pulled into a pitched and sometimes violent conflict about whether to introduce Intelligent Design into science classrooms. Friendships end, families are torn apart, and the school becomes a battleground. Always seeking elusive balance, Ethan finds his way through a maze of lost friends, new love, and the mysteries of tattoos and power animals, with help from quarters where he never expected to find it. And he gains something better than balance.--from authors website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544649 One-hundred-and-three-year-old nursing home resident Ruth Brookes holds the key to an unsolved series of murders, and what she knows has never been more important. A psychotic killer is once again stalking gay men in the streets of Austin. Meanwhile, Matt Bell has finally decided to break out of the social isolation hes lived in since being shot by the still-at-large killer, and meets the handsome, broody, and shy Thatcher. Both men are fighting their own demons as the killings start again. Soon the body count is rising and their friends are dropping like flies. Will Ruth give up her secrets in time to stop the madman before Matt and Thatcher find themselves in the crosshairs of his rifle? Only Ruth knows for sure, because life is seldom black and white -- more often it is just shades of blue--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252414 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262724 Zoe Baxter has spent 10 years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one that takes away her unborn baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. Includes a CD of original songs created especially for this novel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609069 Tristan Sadler, a gay soldier, recalls his time spent fighting in World War I and the intensity of his friendship with Will Bancroft, a soldier who became a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1558344 Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the youth culture of Manhattan, Chulito is a coming-of-age. coming out love story of a sexy Latino man and the colorful characters that populate his block. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453453 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222332 When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, Serenity Ridge, where hes tortured, molested, and put through a straight rehabilitation program. After 11 months, Ahmed manages to escape to a safe house for runaway gay teens in San Francisco, where he meets a slew of other kids like himself, all with their own stories to tell, most just as traumatizing as his own or worse. But life inside the safe house is never entirely safe, as Ahmed, now known as Ben, learns to his sorrow just as he begins to let his guard down. -- Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1368958 Nicholas van der Swart has always known he is different. Unable to live up to the expectations his family, his heritage and his culture have of him, he grows increasingly diffident and introverted. When, at the age of 19, he is conscripted into the South African army, he enters a world that is utterly at odds with his every sensibility. Here, he will face the scorn and violence of his tormenters, but will also find the strength to survive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1385149 The Girls Club is the coming-of-age story of a young, white, working-class woman. Set in the 1970s, the story revolves around Cora Rose as she copes with her emerging sexuality, an illness her sisters refer to as the dreaded bowel disease, and the conflicts created by the growing disparity between her desires and her Catholic upbringing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215506 Renee Matthews is starting over. Free of a demanding ex-husband who left her feeling worthless, shes ready for a purely physical connection, on her terms... --P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1192808 An earthquake didnt break them. Old demons only tested and deepened their commitment. Even a toddler couldnt tear them apart. Now Anna and Lily Kaklis have decided on a new adventure: adding to their family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295022 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1198507 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272507 When financial challenges compel the worlds most elite modeling agency to supply models for a celebrity gala, owners Bentley and Alexandra are forced to send Bentleys protg, a young man who falls in love with a married A-list actor who is publicly hiding the truth about his sexuality. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1161393 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303145 When financial challenges compel the worlds most elite modeling agency to supply models for a celebrity gala, owners Bentley and Alexandra are forced to send Bentleys protege, a young man who falls in love with a married A-list actor who is publicly hiding the truth about his sexuality. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1163480 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088407 To clear his arrest record, Andy Nocera must complete one year of therapy without another arrest, which forces him to deal with his repeated failure to live as an openly gay man, and gives him an opportunity to rescue another lost soul. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1173834 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1250173 The intrepid Jane Lawless tackles a personally complicated case when her ex-husband returns to Minneapolis and wakes up next to the dead body of an art collector. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715652 Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless: murder. When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubais spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground club for fabulous men. From the flamboyant glitz of Dubai to the scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, Quant risks his life as he wades further and further into the shadows cast by the desert sun. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116696 When a car accident leaves forty-year-old Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the Vermont home where he grew up as be begins the long recuperation. A burgeoning relationship with the twenty-year-old son of Burkes high school best friend draws him out of himself and into the community he left behind. Exploring local history, he discovers an intriguing series of letters from a Civil War soldier to his fiance. With the help of librarian Sam Guffrey, he begins to research a 125-year-old mystery that seems to be reaching into the present day. The more Burke delves into the past, the more hes forced to confront the person he has become: the choices he made and those he avoided, his ideas of what it takes to be a successful gay man, his feelings about his mothers death, and the suppressed tension that simmers between himself and his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1023545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014743 After twenty years together, Robbie and Carlo are beginning to see their architectural practice and their marriage falter. When a peculiar young man drifts into their storefront office claiming he has car trouble, Robbie invites him home for dinner. After the stranger has had too much to drink, the two men insist he sleep in their guest room, but during the night the stranger commits an act of violence which shatters the architects ordered lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938401 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=939465 A successful but lonely man reconnects with a long-lost stepdaughter and her newly widowed mother and finds his life turned upside down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=941718 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009882 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538444 Victor Decimus has been a vampire for over 2,000 years. Once a Roman Legionnaire, for millennia Victor has remained a step or two ahead of rivals, would-be executioners, and the mysterious Dark Kingdom, which sets the rules for vampires existence. Having left New York and his lover Paul Lewis - the vampire he made then abandoned to escape the vengeance of the Dark Kingdom, Victor sets himself up again - with his thrall - in New Orleans. But in New Orleans, his thrall becomes the point of a new, larger conflict. On the one hand, a local priest seeks to break Victors hold over the thrall; on the other, the Dark Kingdom fears that Victor is going to become a Vampire Maker - one who continually creates new vampires, while refusing to take his place on the next plain of existence and thus creating an imbalance in the powers of the universe. And between both walks Victor, determined to have his own way, exerts control and remains defiant to the end.--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=942383 A successful but lonely man reconnects with a long-lost stepdaughter and her newly widowed mother and finds his life turned upside down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064978 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252194 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059713 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024258 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993671 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020957 Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid, has built a life of quiet respectability as a doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961191 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=887913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037301 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1301688 Taking a seemingly easy job in her first case as a fledgling private investigator, Jane Lawless attempts to track down the missing father of client Annie Andrews, a successful effort with unanticipated consequences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298837 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=823985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=776533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988500 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=813043 Focuses on the relationship between a pair of young, HIV-positive outcasts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=774931 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=776547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959943 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836769 Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=976601 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=986183 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=728221 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1273003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840053 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724656 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=697583 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988221 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762314 Vivian is a repressed English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks waiting for final divorce papers at a dumpy dude ranch. There she mets Cay, a beautiful young casino worker. The two develop a friendship that stirs desires in Vivian she cannot deny. Slowly their attraction deepens into bold sensuality as they develop a bond that renews their hearts--and breaks all the rules. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725016 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043632 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721948 Sile is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant whos traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Judes and Siles worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=697584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692695 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003888 Wills life is changing so quickly he cant keep up, although hes learning a lot about himself in the process. Then his best friend dies in what appears to be a drunken accident, but Will receives a note hinting that it may be something more. With the help of Killian Kendall, he begins an investigation that results in even more death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988502