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Siglo XI, frontera del Reino de Castilla, es tiempo de héroes. Fan Fáñez, sobrino y protegido de Álvar Fáñez, protagoniza esta historia ambientada en la España del siglo XI y principios del XII, cuando Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador, lideraba gestas y combates tanto con musulmanes como con cristianos; mientras el rey Alfonso VI, acompañado de sus servidores Pedro Ansúrez y García Ordóñez, movía las piezas de su reino como si fuera un maestro de ajedrez.

Meet Haskell Hodge. At 16, he’s already garnered some fame as a former child actor and star of a popular cereal commercial. But that doesn’t do much for him when he’s dumped at his aunt’s house in the suburbs of Los Angeles to face an assortment of neighborhood bullies. He thinks he might be gay. In fact, he could be the only gay person in the valley, maybe on the entire planet. Even if he does manage to find a boyfriend, their relationship would have to be secret and invisible.

From the moment she stepped foot in the ominous and towering Gerard House, Constance Beechum sensed an evil chill that was far more deadly than the frigid blasts which had buffeted her on the way to Castine, Maine. She couldn't turn back. She had left nothing behind, not even a life-line. Her uncle had found her a job caring for the old and dying Lady Elizabeth Gerard. Although she hadn't an ounce of experience in nursing or caring for the ill, Constance had no choice but to accept the offer. She was penniless.

London. 1928. For centuries, the establishment has suppressed public knowledge of lesbian love. Now, a celebrated writer is set to fight back. Award-winning author, Radclyffe Hall, hopes her new novel, The Well of Loneliness, will transform attitudes to same-sex relationships. It soon comes under attack from the right-wing press, concerned about its potential impact on readers. One such reader is Maggie Dillon, a young trainee firefighter, who has been struggling with fears that she is an abomination after kissing another woman at a party.

Settembre 1939. Aldo, ventenne fiorentino, giunge a San Domino, l’isola delle Tremiti scelta dal regime fascista come confino per chi era accusato di omosessualità. I cosiddetti “femminielli” alloggiano in due baracche fatiscenti, con un secchio a fare da gabinetto e un camino mal funzionante per le notti più fredde. Sono perlopiù siciliani, perché arrestati per un omicidio avvenuto anni prima a Catania e tuttora impunito, che continua a perseguitarli.

Etta è giovane e affamata di vita quando si trasferisce a New York da Philadelphia, dov'è cresciuta, per lavorare come infermiera all'ospedale di Ellis Island, l'isola degli arrivi, il lembo di terra dove approdano le speranze e i sogni di tanti. Siamo nel 1910 e solo vent'anni prima nello stesso porto sbarcava la nave su cui viaggiavano i suoi genitori, partiti insieme a migliaia di altri migranti dalla Sicilia. Ed è in quel mondo a sé, sospeso tra lacrime ed euforia, che Etta incontra per la prima volta Tessie. Ne rimane subito colpita.

At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance is determined to flee her origins in Utica, New York, and avoid repeating her parents’ dull, limited life. When she meets Oscar Schmidt, a middle manager at a soap company, Vivian finds a partner she can guide to build the life she wants—not least because, more interested in men himself, Oscar will leave Vivian to tend to her own romances with women.

Now a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson. “Several sleepless nights are guaranteed.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of...

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called “a tour de force” (Wall Street Journal), “unputdownable” (The Washington Post), “a delicious hothouse of a novel” (USA Today), “effortless” (The Economist), “seductive” (Vanity Fair) and “pitch perfect” (Salon)...

From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web—an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing’s suicide and plunges into a post-war Britain of immeasurable repression, conformity and fear June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while...

It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-year-old Anton who is running from memories of his brutal childhood and failed marriage. Within months, they begin a love affair that will never let them go. Robbie grows into an accomplished portraitist in the vivid London art world with the help of Anton's enchanting former wife, while Anton turns from his inherited wealth and connections to improve the conditions of the poor.

Against a backdrop of unrest and unforeseen political change, a trio of bygone friends converge in San Francisco. Jonathan is haunted by his past and can’t move forward. Kit, his former student, is disillusioned and in a slump. Milo inhabits the center—the axis of the triangle. Beneath his clownlike behavior and dazzling grin, Milo’s tender heart and wisdom transforms those he loves.

1979. President Carter was in the White House. Three Mile Island. Odd-even gas rationing. Pink Floyd released “The Wall.” The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of the UK. The Iran Hostage Crisis. And disco…lots of disco.

T.S. Eliot is a hollow man trapped in a dreary world. He works at a bank, a slave to the clock, the same routine, day after day. While London’s elite enjoy a Great Gatsby lifestyle and poets like Robert Frost are rock stars, attracting thousands of fans to each reading, Mr. Eliot walks past life, peering at it through cracks or around corners. Only in his imagination does the world drip with color. Then one day he comes across Jack, an out and proud gay man being badly beaten, and something compels him to intervene. Life will never be the same.

She was a stuntwoman in Hollywood during the Golden Age of Motion Pictures, a time when stuntwomen were few and far between. She doubled for some of the industry’s most famous leading ladies, appeared in some of the most popular films, and broke ground for women in entertainment. She supported causes, made a difference, and left her mark in arenas other than just show business.

Worn out by poverty, Lettie Radley and her miner husband Tommy grasp at the offer of their very own smallholding - part of a Government scheme to put the unemployed back to work on the land. When she comes down to Essex to join him, it's not Tommy who greets her, but their new neighbours. Overbearing and unkempt, Jean and Adam Dell are everything that Lettie can't abide. But as Lettie settles in, she finds an unexpected joy in the rhythms of life. She's hopeful that her past, and the terrible secret Tommy has come to Foxash to escape, are far behind them. But the Dells have their own secrets.

How far would you travel for love? Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands...

American Jane Dawson is in search of balance in her life—because she falls on her face—a lot. Now, surrounded by thousands of acres of sheep-poop and social landmines, her romantic sheepdog hero, Moss, stands by her side, looking handsome and dignified while his luxurious hair is swept by unseen winds—until he eats the sheep-poop, that is. Full of history, mythology and legend, there is more to the odd little town than its idyllic sheep-filled pastures. A

A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret...

England 1881. Being gay is both a sin and a crime. Parents disowning their children is considered honourable. Consensual sex risks life in prison. Sodomy scandals ruin careers and reputations. Homosexuals have to choose between safety and happiness. After an unspeakable incident gets him exiled from his idyllic Irish hometown, twenty-four-year-old Jack Branson rebuilds his life in fog-and-mould London as a house call prostitute for closeted members of the British aristocracy.