"The nameless narrator in the novel is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parentsduring the height of the AIDS epidemicand has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. With gallows humor, he chronicles the indignities of growing old in a small town"--Provided by publisher.

"After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. Tom does what he always does--answers the call. And therein lies either the beauty or dysfunction, (or perhaps both) of the sometimes too tight ties that bind families together"--

The lives of boyfriends Daniel and David are thrown into turmoil when a long-lost sister shows up as a trans man.

Sam hears the story about a globe-trotting shaman who says he can peform "open-soul surgery' on emotionally damaged people. And the shaman seems credible so the neurotic, depressed Sam travels to Los Angeles to sign up for a week under the shaman's care. But as Sam begins his slippery fall into the enticing world of modern mysticism, he'll be compelled to face his troubled past, his self-delusions, and what it means to be well.

Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. When an older fellow slave seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel's love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful...

"To complete his beloved late sister's bucket list, chef Kellan Murphy needs to triumph over his fear of deep water. Enter American dive instructor Sam Walker, as kind as he is electrifying to every fiber of Kell's being. Sam's soon nudging his way into the Irishman's heart. But with Kellan's dive certification comes an inheritance ... and the restaurant of his dreams a continent away. Is Kellan's future really on Oyster Island-with Sam?"--

The year Paul turns forty, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to him. But for a gay man of a certain age, making a family still means finding your own way through a world with few ready answers. The eighteen-month journey reveals many insights about Paul's past and present, from his strained relationship to his father, his overprotective relationship with his partner Michael, and the...

"Two young students experience their first love"--www.imdb.com.

"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...