Books like 'Belmont'
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The Spooky Life by S.E. Harmon
Rated: 4.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRain Christiansen isn’t sure he’ll ever fully understand the supernatural. But he’s finally finding his groove as a reluctant medium and cold-case detective. That’s not to say everything is going smoothly—there’s a wedding in the works, after all. He’s finally taking that enormous step with fellow detective, Daniel McKenna, and he couldn’t be happier…about the marriage. Not so much the wedding... -
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Poésies complètes by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings*ILLUSTRATED EDITION French poet and adventurer, who stopped writing verse at the age of 19, and who became, after his early death an inextricable myth in French gay life. Rimbaud's poetry, partially written in free verse, is characterized by dramatic and imaginative vision... -
![The Mistress Files: The Case of the Acting Actress by Tiffany Reisz]()
The Mistress Files: The Case of the Acting Actress by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the private files of Nora Sutherlin, The Mistress. Kingsley Edge, owner of the 8th Circle BDSM club, has ordered her to compose client profiles so the other Dominatrixes in his employ can learn from her expert erotic encounters. She’s the best Dominatrix at the club and her clients always leave satisfied.. -
![Bad Habitzz: What's Yours by Ivy Symone]()
Bad Habitzz: What's Yours by Ivy Symone
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone has bad habits. Some are hard to break, while others can be stopped cold turkey. But what happens when your bad habit gets you in some shit you can’t get out of? Andrea has just returned home after her other half’s passing... -
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![Maverick by Max Ellendale]()
Maverick by Max Ellendale
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRenowned doctor, Lauren Lewis, purchases an old Victorian home after the loss of her former residence and channels her energy into restoring the new property. When a wandering antique restorer shows up to take on the job, together, they uncover the secrets the house harbored for a century... -
![The Collected Books by Jack Spicer]()
The Collected Books by Jack Spicer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Collected Books includes all the poems written from After Lorca (1957) up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962)... -
![The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles]()
The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant fantasies of escape... -
![Live for a Living by Buddy Wakefield]()
Live for a Living by Buddy Wakefield
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Tender, jarring and deeply human, Live For A Living is a book of poetry that is pulsing with the same electricity and honesty found in Buddy's live performances... -
![El libro de Gloria Fuertes: Antología de poemas y vida by Gloria Fuertes]()
El libro de Gloria Fuertes: Antología de poemas y vida by Gloria Fuertes
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAl fin en un mismo libro la vida y la obra de una poeta genial que vio su carrera ensombrecida primero por su género, después por su clase social y finalmente por su fama. El libro sobre la verdadera Gloria - 448 páginas a todo color. - Más de 300 poemas, varios inéditos. - 80 fotos nunca vistas. - 12 dibujos hechos por Gloria. - La biografía glorista más completa hasta la fecha... -
![Stepbrother Next Door by Anna Wineheart]()
Stepbrother Next Door by Anna Wineheart
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe stepbrother Quentin helped to raise is now back in Meadowfall - bigger and stronger than before, and very much an adult. It's a pity they're on bad terms. Especially when they share a bedroom wall... -
![A Costume for Charly by C.K. Malone, Alejandra Barajas]()
A Costume for Charly by C.K. Malone, Alejandra Barajas
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTrick-or-treat! Non-binary Charly must think outside the box to create the perfect Halloween one that represents both their feminine and masculine sides. Halloween is always tricky for Charly, and this year they are determined to find a costume that showcases both the feminine and masculine halves of their identity. Digging through their costume box, they explore many fun costumes. Some are masc... -
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Sweet Things by J.A. Armstrong
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCarrie Maynard’s life changed the day she walked into Devon Brine’s restaurant. It’s about to change again in ways she would never have imagined. On the heels of a romantic proposal, Carrie and Devon are about to embark on the greatest adventure of their lives—attempting to create a family. Families come in many shapes and sizes... -
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Perfect Pairings by J.A. Armstrong
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a tumultuous two years, the death of her best friend, Dar, and the decision to sell her company, Carrie Maynard’s life has finally hit its stride. She’s married to the love of her life, Devon Brine and expecting their first baby. Devon and Carrie’s family might seem unusual to some people. They share custody of Dar’s daughter, CJ with CJ’s father, Tom... -
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![Forbidden Formula by Erica Lee]()
Forbidden Formula by Erica Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHannah Kilpatrick wasn’t looking for more than a one night stand, but she can’t seem to shake the one from New Year’s Eve. Ever since she left Cecelia Webster’s bed, she regretted not getting her number. She knew it could never work anyway since she lied about her age to get into her bed, but she still couldn’t help but wonder about her... -
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![Lost Soul: AJ's Burden by Nicky James]()
Lost Soul: AJ's Burden by Nicky James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat does rock bottom look like to you? AJ Silva is about to find out. His life has been spiralling the drain for the past year, and if he doesn’t find a way out soon, he may die on the streets of San Francisco. Drowning in a severe drug addiction, battling every day to survive, AJ doesn’t know where to turn... -
![The Case of the Brokenhearted Bartender by Tiffany Reisz]()
The Case of the Brokenhearted Bartender by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the private files of Nora Sutherlin, The Mistress.Kingsley Edge, owner of the 8th Circle BDSM club, has ordered her to compose client profiles so the other Dominatrixes in his employ can learn from her expert erotic encounters. She’s the best Dominatrix at the club and her clients always leave satisfied.. -
![Call Down The Hawk 8 chapter sampler by Maggie Stiefvater]()
Call Down The Hawk 8 chapter sampler by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings8 chapter sample of Call Down the Hawk released by Scholastic on June 3rd in advance of the full novel's publication in November: https://www.scribd.com/document/41236.. -
![KELABU by Nadia Khan]()
KELABU by Nadia Khan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSenang kalau hidup dalam dunia hitam putih.Baik-buruk, betul-salah, cinta-benci,lelaki-perempuan.Apa jadi pada yang tengah-tengah?Apa jadi pada orang-orang macam aku?Bila Jun datang pada aku, menawarkan posisi sebagai 'boyfriend kontrak', aku tak tolak... -
![The Secret Ingredient by Paul Castle]()
The Secret Ingredient by Paul Castle
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollows Pringle and Finn as they deliver birthday cakes to their colorful animal friends. Along the way, our lovable penguins discover the "secret ingredients" to a happy family. The Secret Ingredient is the sequel to Pringle & Finn (The Pengrooms).The Secret Ingredient is a picture book for ALL ages... -
![Dysfonctionnelle by Axl Cendres]()
Dysfonctionnelle by Axl Cendres
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFidèle, jeune adolescente, grandit, entourée de ses six frères et sœurs, dans une famille dysfonctionnelle : son père enchaîne les allers-retours en prison, sa mère est à l'asile. Dotée d'une "intelligence précoce", elle s'intègre à un lycée des beaux quartiers où les élèves la regardent comme un alien. Mais c'est là que l'attend l'amour, le vrai, celui qui transforme, celui qui sauve.. -
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![Mules of Love (American Poets Continuum) by Ellen Bass]()
Mules of Love (American Poets Continuum) by Ellen Bass
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBalancing heart-intelligent intimacy and surprising humor, the poems in Ellen Bass's Mules of Love illuminate the essential dynamics of our lives: family, community, sexual love, joy, loss, religion and death. The poems also explore the darker aspects of humanity-personal, cultural, historical and environmental violence-all of which are handled with compassion and grace... -
![Os Dragões não Conhecem o Paraíso by Caio Fernando Abreu]()
Os Dragões não Conhecem o Paraíso by Caio Fernando Abreu
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEscritor da paixão, como foi chamado por Lygia Fagundes Telles, o gaúcho Caio Fernando Abreu reúne neste livro treze contos girando todos em torno do mesmo tema — o amor... -
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![Convict's Candy by Damon "Amin" Meadows, Jason Poole]()
Convict's Candy by Damon "Amin" Meadows, Jason Poole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCONVICT'S CANDY is based on a teen-aged, pre-op transsexual named Candy, who gets arrested and sent to federal prison exactly one week before her scheduled sex-change operation. Still having male organs, Candy is housed with strong, masculine, handsome male inmates who haven't been around or touched a woman in years... -
![Kai's Aftermath by K. Elle Collier]()
Kai's Aftermath by K. Elle Collier
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKai, Todd and Alana are back in this sequel to My Man’s Best Friend, which ended with Kai's surprise pregnancy. Kai’s Aftermath picks up with Kai relocating to New York City with hopes of putting her life back together as she awaits the birth of her child... -
![Influenced by Felice Stevens]()
Influenced by Felice Stevens
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA MILLION LIKES vs. ONE TRUE LOVEBryce Bauman is one half of a famous influencer couple…until his boyfriend dumps him and puts the whole ugly scene online.Several months later, Bryce is at the end of his rope—he’s lost all his endorsements, along with his so-called friends... -
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Three by Helen Juliet
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll good things come in threes…When three shy best friends sign up to a dating app to finally get some by the end of the year, they don’t expect to all fall for the same gorgeous, slightly scary-looking older man. The only solution? Let him choose who he wants to bed. Except he doesn’t…Jacob didn’t become a billionaire before hitting thirty-five by making compromises. What he wants, he gets... -
![The Other Side of Christmas by Sharon Booth]()
The Other Side of Christmas by Sharon Booth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA festive feel-good novella. Katy’s driving home for Christmas – except an empty, cold caravan hardly seems like home, and it’s not feeling much like Christmas. It wasn’t supposed to be like this: a few months ago she had her dream cottage, a loving fiance, and big plans for a perfect wedding... -
![The Finish Line by Erica Lee]()
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![The Woman Who Climbed A Mountain by Jamey Moody]()
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![The Human Line by Ellen Bass]()
The Human Line by Ellen Bass
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.” The Human Line, Bass’ seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors... -
![L'ora dei dannati. La montagna by Luca Tarenzi]()
L'ora dei dannati. La montagna by Luca Tarenzi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsL'atteso secondo episodio di una trilogia. Un romanzo che è un fantasy ambientato tra Inferno e Purgatorio dantesco, un racconto carcerario, una storia di redenzione piena di colpi di scena. I quattro dannati evasi dall'Inferno approdano sulle sponde del Purgatorio... -
![Filhos da Degradação by Felipe Castilho]()
Filhos da Degradação by Felipe Castilho
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVocê destruiria seu mundo em nome da verdade?A última região habitada do mundo, Untherak, é povoada por humanos, anões e gigantes, sinfos, kaorshs e gnolls. Nela, a deusa Una reina soberana, lembrando a todos a missão maior de suas vidas: servir a Ela sem questionamentos. No entanto, um pequeno grupo de rebeldes, liderado por uma figura misteriosa, está disposto a tudo para tirá-la do trono... -
![Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 by Zane]()
Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 by Zane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSteamy, sensual and poetically hypnotic, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 is the follow-up to the bestseller Purple Panties. No one can debate the fact that Zane knows sex. The Queen of Erotic Fiction has hit home run after home run in the literary arena with her literary offerings... -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
![Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov]()
Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time, and specifically the months of the year as an overarching structure, Dimitrov elevates the every day and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message... -
![Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli]()
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLeo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas?s home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas?s flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spells the end for Leo and Thomas? languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to find anonymity... -
![Les falaises by Virginie DeChamplain]()
Les falaises by Virginie DeChamplain
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsV. vient d’apprendre que l’on a retrouvé le corps sans vie de sa mère, rejeté par le Saint-Laurent sur une plage de la Gaspésie, l’équivalent « du bout du monde »... -
![Triângulo das Águas by Caio Fernando Abreu]()
Triângulo das Águas by Caio Fernando Abreu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsO próprio Caio Fernando Abreu definiu este livro como sua obra mais atípica. "Não o escrevi, fui escrito por ele."O Trinângulo é formando pelas três novelas que contém esse livro, publicadas originalmente em 1983 e revistas pelo autor em 1991. Nele, o leitor encontrará um retrato desesperado da contemporaneidade, repleto de imagens sensoriais, descritas com uma linguagem lírica e poderosa... -
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![Flow Chart by John Ashbery]()
Flow Chart by John Ashbery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReticent, shy, unfailingly modern, Ashbery is as unorthodox [as] any of the great twentieth-century creators: Breton, Stravinsky, Picasso," observed Jeremy Reed in Britain's "Poetry Review," "We are privileged to be around at a time when he is writing... -
![Damon Ich by Aaron D. Key]()
Damon Ich by Aaron D. Key
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDamon Ich, an introverted and lonely workaholic, lives in a paradise with power to do anything, and to go anywhere, at any time. He uses this gift to help people in need.One night, he rescues a man who is revealed to be the founder of his way of life - and suggests a rescue mission he can't refuse. The meeting and the rescue set off a train of events that shatter everything... -
![The Third Act by Michele L. Rivera]()
The Third Act by Michele L. Rivera
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author who brought you Not My Type, comes a story about momentous choices, forgiveness, and second chances. Sometimes people stay with us long after we’ve let them go. Nearly a decade ago, Sophie Chapman stepped into the newest bistro in Boston to see what the buzz was about... -
![Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny]()
Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico... -
![Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney]()
Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."—The Guardian"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."—Daily News"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . -
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Whiskey and Chocolate by J.A. Armstrong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReal estate guru, Gina Thompson is no stranger to loss. Six years after the loss of her wife, Gina has adjusted to life on her own. She enjoys the company of her best friends, Drew and Sam, and weekend visits from her lively daughter, Chesley. At forty-six, she’s ready to try something new. Gina is on a mission to turn her hobby into a career...
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