From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is honestly a bit out of his league. So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of "Guncle Rules" ready to go, Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a...

What will it take to heal a broken spirit?When Katrina and Andrew Starry moved to Colorado territory to start Liberty Ranch, a home for adoptive families. They never expected to be parents right away to three extremely broken girls. As they try to parent, they find out it is harder than they ever thought. Will these children come between them? Can God heal their hurts and quarrels?Isabella Donovan came to help Liberty Ranch running smoothly, but she has her own issues while being courted by rough mountain man Jesse Starry. Being through what the girls had faced every day Izzy attempts to help them while trying to save Jesse. Will he lead her away from what she knows is right? After making a terrible mistake, Izzy runs like she always has. Can Jesse truly be the man she needs? Can God forgive them? Will they get a second chance at love?As the starry women meet new circumstances along the way, they have a choice to follow God. When disaster...

Girl meets boy.Boy meets girl.Girl and boy fall in love. If only it was that simple.Fate has screwed me over once again.I'm sitting at my desk across from my teacher, the man I just so happened to have made out with a week ago.It doesn't look like fate wants to give me a happy ending after all.Juggling work, parenthood, and an alcoholic father, I thought I'd finally catch a break, yet even though I shouldn't want him, I can't stop.He has so many things to teach me.Will I ever learn my lesson?Publisher's Note: Happily Ever After Guarantee, No cliffhanger. Standalone Novel. No cheating. Triggers Include: Parental Abuse among others. Please reading warning label.

American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family.Things can change in a second: The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he's in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second Frankie joins his uncle's gang in exchange for paying for his father's medical bills, there's no going back...or is there? As Frankie does things he never thought he'd be capable of, he's forced to confront the truth of the family and future he was born into—and the ones he wants to build for himself.

'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was nurturing for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Or perhaps, in dealing directly with gay desire, they were too audacious – too near to life – for the censorious society of the time. In these stories, published in English for the first time, we find an intimate portrait of a young author full of darkness, complexity and melancholy, longing to reveal himself to the world.

"...An intensely personal reflection on [Garcia's] father's legacy and his family bonds, tender in its treatment and stirring in its brevity." — Booklist (starred review)The son of one of the greatest writers of our time—Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel García Márquez—remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as "Gabo," was then nearly 87 and battling dementia. I don't think we'll get out of this one, she told their son Rodrigo. Hearing his mother's words, Rodrigo wondered, "Is this how the end begins?" To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to write...