Jeanette and Maria Vandermeer were born fraternal twins. Even though they have the same birthday, they don't have anything else in common. They are night and day different, inside and out-most notably in that Jeanette is always happy, while Maria never seems to be. Growing up together, they learned many of the same lessons; even so, the way they look at the world is very different.

As an adult, Maria is kicked out of the family home for unruly behavior, and Jeanette moves away to marry her boyfriend. Despite their differences, they both find themselves settling for less than they're worth-in life and in love. Cheerful Jeanette finds that her sunny disposition is not enough to keep her marriage together, while Maria wanders in her own self-doubt and despair.

But where there's life, there's hope. Jeanette is given a second chance to find true love, while Maria makes the acquaintance of Leon Lanix, who offered her hope for her future. Despite challenges, the sisters do find ways to make life work. Different by birth, they do have something in common: Jeanette and Maria both know that no matter what happens, it's how we react that makes us who we really are. Sisters, one happy, one sad, each seeks her own place in paradise; they may be surprised where they find it.

The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on public transport to and from the city, where she feels like a tourist observing Parisian manners. She goes from unstable student to maladjusted adult, doing four years of therapy - her longest relationship. But as she gains distance from her family and comes into her own, she grapples more directly with her attraction to women and how it fits with her religion, which she continues to practice. When Nina comes into her life, she doesn't know exactly what she needs but feels that something crucial has been missing.

Just out of high school, Zipora Grace is finished with guys?or is she? Camp Chaos needs a counselor. She is determined to be the best and share God's love with all of her campers, but there she faces one challenge after another. Is she going to make it until the end of camp?and what about after camp?

And then there's her biggest challenge yet: an unexpected heartthrob named Thad Wagner. This is not what she came to camp for. To make matters worse, Pastor Jenkins seems to be in cahoots with Thad, making it very hard for Zipora Grace to resist. At least she has Melissa, her junior counselor, and her best friend, Danielle, to aid her during dire times of crisis.

Thad Wagner has been searching for a woman to share his life with. After a tragic love loss, he is ready to move on. Does love at first sight exist? Thad decides that he can't live without Zipora Grace. Can he change her mind? Will his past loss get in the way of what he wants? Thad has to learn to trust God with all things, even Zipora Grace.

Thad and Zipora Grace have another hurdle to cross. What do they do about their feelings? What tools do they set in place to remain pure in God's eyes?

The Tale of the Bloodline Third in a series of books from Etienne de Mendes, takes the reader on a harrowing new adventure. Departing from the nineteenth century world of the first two novels, the story remains closely tied to the main character, Erik the former Phantom of the Opera. Awakened in a new millennium, no longer a man with the face of a ghoul, the Phantom discovers he still has a heart and it beats for the same woman that it always yearned for - Christine Daae. Plagued by memories that haunt every corner of his life, he searches for a way to bring her back to him. In the process he discovers not only his past, but the identity of the creature who shadows and guards him, the very personification of brotherhood - the manifestation of new life. Natura non facit saltum Nature makes no such leap. Or does it? Prepare for a ride into worlds spawned by the evils of pride and science. An intense graphic tale describing man's ability to create and the horrendous circumstances for making bold choices. "Of dust and earth and bone I'm made. I rose and came, when called - obeyed."

Davide del Drago is a normal boy, born into a good family with great fortune and noble titles. Of average intelligence and above average weight, he has no natural affection, and his family is troubled even in the best of times. And so he decides to escape the gilded cage of his youth in a variety of colorful ways. He makes his way through the world with acquaintances and friends, finding trouble and rebelling against his parents' demands. Along the way, through ups, downs, highs and lows, he begins to discover himself-his needs and desires, as well as those of others-and to understand the world around him more clearly. Eventually he finds himself in a town called Cap d'Agde, on the southern coast of France, where sits one of the best well-known naturist villages in the world. There, he learns what it truly means to be free. In this erotic novel, a young man of privileged background gains self-knowledge through a range of experiences both mundane and wild.

Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Realm's most vicious guardian...
Seth's time is running out. If he can't hand over the entrance to Olympus, his own life and those of his people will be forfeit. No matter the torture, Seth hasn't been able to break the god in his custody. Then there's the beautiful Dream-Hunter Lydia: She isn't just guarding the gates of Olympus--she's holding back one of the world's darkest powers. If she fails, an ancient curse will haunt the earth once more and no one will be safe. But evil is always seductive...

A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, now reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, the definitive text of William S. Burroughs's early, long-unpublished novel, now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs's only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs's debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of Queer features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.

Like most young men, Paul Banks grew up playing sports and struggling to understand the feelings rushing through his teenage body. After his mother and sister die suddenly in a car accident, Paul's life changes forever. Neither Paul nor his father seemed able to cope with the memories that living in the house they all shared. So Paul and his father decide to move to Texas, and to begin their lives anew.

Paul's father, a pastor, finds a new church in which to do his work, and Paul makes a fresh start as a senior year in high school. Upon his arrival in Texas, Paul meets Jeremy Groll, the son of one of the deacon's at his father's new church. A spark soon ignites between the two young men. Feelings like he had never before experienced awaken in Paul-feelings for someone of the same sex. Now Paul must endure prejudices from not only his schoolmates, but his own father as well.

Paul soon learns that his love cannot be oppressed by others. Realizing that he must be true to himself, Paul decides finally to follow his heart. In doing so the young man shows us all how you can overcome their prejudice and hate.