The Boy Beside Me
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The Boy Beside Me
The Boy Beside Me is a coming-of-age novel that does not sugarcoat the experiences of growing up. It is a story that deals with trust, forgiveness and the most important challenge of being accepted by others and oneself. Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Albright is a small-town girl who lives life the way she pleases, no matter what anyone thinks. With her best childhood friend Kevin Dobner beside her, she gives no thought to the opinions of her peers梐nd really has no opinion of herself either. Troubled by her apathy about life and her future, Kevin takes it upon himself to make her see she is worth more than which she gives herself credit. With Kevin抯 support, she begins to grow out of her insecurities and realizes whom she is and what she has to offer the world. Through a warm, tumultuous and heartbreaking relationship with him, Mercedes learns about life and confidence until the recklessness of her past is nothing but a distant memory. And she learns that love, while not always perfect, takes the honesty of two people and the understanding of two hearts.
Rebel
Arsyn has grown up under the oppressive, controlling regime that took power in the chaos created by a world disaster-and she hates it. She dreams of overthrowing the Eirene's iron grip, or at least escaping it. But when she and her sister, Tatiana, are captured and sentenced to be killed in the dreaded "Maze," escape suddenly becomes an imperative. It will take all of Arsyn's formidable intelligence and courage to fight her way to the forbidden zone known as the Periculum-and even more to survive there. For while the Periculum is free of Eirene control, it is walled off for good reason. For the unprepared, the dangers of the Periculum are deadly. And as Arsyn joins up with an informal coalition of rebels and friends, the volatile dynamics of the group prove at least as challenging as the mutants and gangs she must defend herself against. But the hardest test still lies before her: Arsyn must somehow return to the Eirene and rescue Tatiana, and soon. Her sister's life depends on it.
The Men from the Boys
Jeff O’Brien - bright, good-looking, and inching dangerously past thirty, is caught between two generations, the Baby Boomers and Generation X. He’s been with his partner, Lloyd, for seven years now, but when Lloyd announces that there’s no passion left between them, Jeff is sent into something of an existential frenzy. Desperate not to end up alone, Jeff haunts the dance floor and roadside rest stops, finding both the sordid and the sublime in anonymous encounters. But it’s love he’s after, so ultimately it’s his bittersweet romance in Provincetown with Eduardo, twenty-two and a vision of gorgeous, wide-eyed youth, that lingers in his mind and seems to hold the answers he seeks. This is a story of a man coming to terms with the accelerating ambiguity of his world, where men die young but old age is actively devalued. It is the story of gay life today, the life being led by thousands of men trying desperately to keep up, and to discover if anything really unites gay men other than desire. It is the story of how the truths of gay life are handed down from gay generation to gay generation. It is the story of what separates the men from the boys.