Ergebnis für "Tiger! Tiger!" in Literatur & Belletristik

Young Australian Micah Johnson is the first AFL player to be out at the beginning of his career. Retired professional football player Declan Tyler mentors Micah, but he finds it difficult, as Micah is prone to making poor life choices that land him in trouble. Nothing Dec can't handle. He's been there, done that, more times than he'd like to admit. Being Simon Murray's partner all these years has Dec quite experienced in long-suffering and mishaps.

Über den Dächern von Charlestown erstreckt sich für Matt eine Welt voller Mysterien und Rätsel. Er, ein Gestaltwandler der ganz besonderen Art, hüpft so gut wie jede Nacht als schwarze Katze durch die kleine Stadt und genießt die unendliche Freiheit, die seine tierische Form mit sich bringt - vor allem, weil sie im völligen Kontrast zu seinem monotonen, menschlichen Dasein steht. Sein Leben nimmt allerdings eine unerwartete Wendung, als er auf einen faszinierenden Neuankömmling stößt: einen mächtigen Tigerwandler.

Discover the Dark Side of the Decade That Roared. What killed the infamous flapper Rosalie Frazier? And was gay speakeasy owner Dash Parker’s booze to blame? These are the burning questions in Dash’s mind as he is forced to team up with an unusual, unpredictable gangster and investigate the deadlier side of Prohibition. Sinister mob men with hidden motives. A pair of seedy Times Square roommates hoping for a financial windfall. A shattered family full of bitterness and spite. And at the center, a young woman who loved coded messages and uncovering secrets.

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover - a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty - and discover how truth can survive becoming history.

Calvin Summers and Ethan Hobbs have been best friends since childhood, but somewhere along the line, their friendship evolved into something more. With the Therian Youth Center bombing, Calvin realizes just how short life can be and no longer keeps his feelings for his best friend a secret. Unfortunately, change is difficult for Ethan; most days he does well to deal with his selective mutism and social anxiety.

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai - her first in 16 years - a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish", a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing.

Thomas Walsh knows the number-one rule in the film industry: Don't get involved with the talent. But resisting the urge to take the big screen to the bedroom can be hell when the lead actor on the set looks good enough to eat...one slow lick at a time. Peter Erickson's latest role as a gay man hits a little too close to home. He's still in the closet and secretly grieving the death of his lover. Then an enchanting production assistant catches his eye, and he's surprised by the instant attraction that stirs more than his wounded soul.

After an eventful and sometimes uncomfortably public courtship, Simon Murray and Declan Tyler settled into a comfortable life together. Now retired from the AFL, Declan works as a football commentator; Simon develops programs with queer content for a community television station. Despite their public professional lives, Simon and Declan manage to keep their private life out of the spotlight.

Sam was convinced that his pregnancy would be a piece of cake. Not only was he a man, but an OB-GYN by trade. He had helped hundreds of women through their own pregnancies. Boy, was he in for a rude awakening....

Gene Francisco has been a coward her entire life, flying under the radar, and unable to stand up for what is right. When far-right President, Benjamin Buck, is re-elected, he vows to strip freedoms and targets the progressive Golden City. Gene has suppressed her transgenderism and is counting down the days to retirement, but when she is electrocuted, her body begins flipping from female to male to female again. She has no power to stand up to the conservative forces, but for the first time in her life, she is forced to fight for what is right.

La semilla estaba sembrada... La inesperada y furtiva experiencia vivida con Alejandro, había puesto a Aquiles frente a la puerta que lo conduciría a un mundo que, hasta ese momento, le era absolutamente ajeno y desconocido. Su deseo y la búsqueda de formar una familia junto a Marina, lo llevaran a transitar un estado de voracidad sexual propia del macho semental que busca procrearse y ese sentimiento se confrontará con la curiosidad y con la inesperada atracción que Aquiles comenzará a sentir por abrir esa puerta.

Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she's returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria's royal palace. Thanh's new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanh's home.

Catching Tigers in Red Weather, winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award (selected by Joan Larkin), is a collection of poems by a new voice that combines montage cut-ups with an informing dialectic that gives us a wide array of contemporary American viewpoints. By turns playful and serious, the poet deftly embraces and criticizes a popular culture that is too complicated to dismiss with swift and simple comments. It is a book of rich rewards.

Nik's once boring life had been flipped upside down overnight. He left a successful and lucrative career to pursue his passion of photography. It was hard to resist the opportunity to be the assistant to Jean Pierre, a world-famous photographer. A trip to India to search for the mysterious white tiger was just the type of adventure Nik was missing in his life.