A Lambda Literary Award Finalist from the author of Don’t Let Me Go. “[A] gripping tale of love, hate of differences and owning up to who you are.”—VOYA   Robert Westfall’s life is falling apart—everywhere but in math class. That’s the one place where problems always have a solution. But in the world beyond high school, his father is terminally ill, his mother is squa ...
"Der Mutterinstinkt ist gefahrlicher als die Atombombe." Loriot Von Super-Mamis, anderen Mutter-Tieren und dem ach so su?en Nachwuchs … Horen Sie herrlich bissige Kurzgeschichten zum Thema «Mutter» : 1. Kerstin Gier, Man lernt nie aus – gesprochen von Kerstin Gier 2. Hanna Dietz, Mama entspannt sich – gesprochen von Sabina Godec 3. Henrike Heiland, Zum Kuckuck – gesprochen von Irina Scholz 4. Steffi von Wolff, Perlen-Paulas – gesprochen von ...
Der Ex-Soldat Jack Archer lebt zuruckgezogen in einem Kloster nahe London. Doch selbst hinter den dicken Mauern lassen ihn die schrecklichen Erlebnisse des Krieges nicht los, verfolgen ihn die Damonen seiner Vergangenheit. Eines Tages sucht ihn ein Inspektor des Scotland Yard auf. Der Polizist ist uberzeugt, dass Jack in Afghanistan nicht nur gegen menschliche Feinde gekampft hat. Jack begreift nicht und will wissen, mit wem er es zu tun hat. «M ...
Sweeping historical novel of espionage, betrayal and identity. When Q was first published in 1999, it was an international sensation; returning to the same world of that extraordinary novel, Altaiis a captivating story of betrayal, beliefs and the clash of civilizations. When a fire breaks out in the Arsenal of Venice in 1569, everyone suspects Joseph Nasi, number-one enemy of the republic. But it is the enigmatic emmanuele De Zante, spy catche ...
Imagine growing up smart, ambitious, and queer in a home where your father Sigmund Freud thinks that women should aspire to be wives and calls lesbianism a gateway to mental illness. He also says that lesbianism is always caused by the father, and is usually curable by psychoanalysis.<br><br>Then he analyzes you.<br><br>Ultimately Anna Freud loved Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham (heir to the Tiffany fortune) for 54 years. They ...
Ann may have been a product of her times–she was certainly, if possibly unwittingly, a product of her grandmother Isabelle. While Ann may have been molded by external forces, Isabelle was a force unto herself–a pacesetter, an indomitable woman of her times. Isabelle forged avenues that were often not taken by women of her day, even foreshadowing changes in perception that were still years away. Yet, in spite of her often avant-garde actions, her ...
These days it seems like heroes fight each other more often than they fight villains. The hero-vs-hero trope so common in comic books and in superhero movies these days can provide us with a means of thinking about the deeply polarized state of modern politics and public opinion about civic life, morality, and even God. There is a real divide in our public life that nobody seems to be able to cross. It's easy to complain that people should ...
"Ham" MacPherson is a promising left-handed baseball pitcher at Wilkes Central High School whom the Atlanta Braves have told will be selected with the third pick of the 1976 MLB draft, complete with a generous signing bonus. Within a twenty-four hour period, however, Ham's world goes topsy-turvy. His relationships with his girlfriend, Nora, and best friend, JC, are turned upside down and inside out. A life-changing catastrophe transfor ...