Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&N=3+7496+7266+6609 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=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=1712011 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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=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=1252414 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=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=1586901 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=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=1630257 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=1283748 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734879 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=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=1161393 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=1173834 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=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=1198507 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295022 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=961178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037301 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=941718 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=887913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993671 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298837 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961191 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009882 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252194 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938401 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064978 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=1059713 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=1009546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=823985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=776547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959943 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725016 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=986183 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1273003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=697584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003893 Killian Kendall is used to being overlooked, even in his own family. Thats about to change. With the arrival of a new kid at school, Killians whole world is about to be turned upside down. The new guy is openly gay and, for reasons he cant really understand, Killian finds himself drawn to him. When the boy is killed in a brutal attack, and Killian is injured in the process, Killian begins to question everything around him--P. 4 of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988504 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724656 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692695 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692691 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840053 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043632 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003894 When twenty year old Dennis Eastman arrives in Los Angeles to spend a month with his old mentor and lover Lincoln Gardner, he is confronted by the police who tell him that Gardner has been brutally murdered. Eastman must search for vindication through the sleazy underground bars and gay nightclubs of Southern California. 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=728221 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988502 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741465 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=659734 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298129 Chauncey Greer, the bisexual owner of a thriving card company in Atlanta, is inspired to pursue his old dream of a musical career, a career that had ended in scandal thanks to a teenage love affair with his fellow bandmate in a popular boy band. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=638137 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648443 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=700499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673630 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653686 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631706 Seeking a role model who will help him rise from a lackluster life primarily marked by compulsive cleaning binges and online sex, Boston realtor William Collins begins observing a wealthy suburbanite couple searching for a perfect apartment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642023 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631708 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741470 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673603 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=667508 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=623479 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=674479 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=743984 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=670185 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=675614 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648433 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584867 Now Batting for Boston is a worthy successor to Hayess debut, packed with the same brutal honesty, the same muscular passion, and the same tough-but-tender prose that made his first book an essential read. This book takes readers inside the bars, housing projects, and D Street bedrooms of South Boston - where a young man can feel like a stranger in his own skin, just trying to survive growing up gay among working-class Irish-Catholics who dont want to hear the hard truths about their sons.--BOOK JACKET.