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“Honey isn’t one of these frail wraiths who sip tea and shuffle in worn slippers. Honey subsists on Viognier and Valium and slips on Louboutins just to run to the grocery store.…a feisty heroine readers will embrace as an octogenarian with attitude to spare.” — Booklist Meet a woman as...

Locky Sorenson isn't a risk taker. He's stuck in an awful office job. He's terrified of turning his one true passion, baking, into something real. And worst of all, he hasn't gotten laid in almost a decade. Sure, he could confront the traumatic reason he's in this mess, but stress eating donuts under a cozy blanket sounds like a much better option. Benedict Owens doesn't screw his clients, no matter how beefy and adorkable they are. As a small business advisor, he knows that's a recipe for disaster. Better to keep his distance. That way, he won't get burned again.

David Leavitt's second collection of stories further confirms a talent deep and wonderfully creative in its empathy. A Place I've Never Been explores family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships, among characters whose sexuality is fluid or uncertain—a barrier or under threat. A real estate agent happily married to a woman finds himself in love with another man in "Houses". A man entering a bold new world of gay hookups feels sheltered from the most intimidating attentions by his more attractive, charismatic friend.

Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just 23, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review), and “a knowledge of others' lives...that a writer twice his age might envy” (USA Today). “Regardless of age,” wrote the New York Times, “few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages.”

Luca Torres, a struggling journalism graduate, never meant to take a vow of celibacy. It was just a dumb idea from a job interview gone wrong. He never thought they'd approve the article. Or make his future career conditional on delivering it. Now, with no choice but to steer clear of temptation for the summer, he takes the most isolated job he can find: a fire lookout in the rural and picturesque mountains of Washington State. However, his goal becomes much harder with the arrival of the husky and flirtatious Artair Osmond, a musician and wilderness enthusiast who takes up camp nearby.

Esta es una historia de huida, de supervivencia y de venganza. En el medio, asistiremos a una fiesta de disfraces estrafalaria y sangrienta donde Gladelí, una mujer transgénero a la que le roban sus ahorros para operarse las tetas, pasará de víctima a verdugo en una aventura acuática y...

Nessa releitura sáfica de 10 coisas que odeio em você, duas garotas que tinham tudo para se odiar descobrem que têm mais em comum do que imaginam. Ninguém mexe com Petra Galvão. A "megera adolescente" do Nossa Senhora de Pádua é conhecida pela sua reputação de ter respostas ríspidas na ponta da língua e estar sempre mal-humorada. A única que parece ter vencido essa barreira é sua irmã e melhor amiga, Bianca. Elas são tão unidas que o colégio inteiro sabe que, para conseguir ser amigo de uma, você tem que ser amigo das duas. Todo mundo já ouviu falar sobre Clara Verano.

Depois de viver algumas desilusões amorosas, Marlon parece ter encontrado o cara dos seus sonhos: bonito, inteligente e louco por cachorros. Será sua vez de ter um final feliz? Acredita, Marlon!