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A FRESH TEMPEST

It's been five years since Mio and Shun came to stay with Shun's parents. By all accounts, their life is great. Shun has taken a temporary break from writing novels, and Mio is working as a mechanic. But with stability comes ennui, leading both to begin quietly questioning their relationship. And an even more turbulent storm is brewing, as Shun's now-teenage brother, Fumi, has entered a rebellious phase!

A COMPLICATED KIND OF LOVE

Sajo is in his final year of university and trying to figure out what to do after graduation. As the pressure mounts, he suggests to Kusakabe that they take a break from each other. Kusakabe naturally takes this hard and throws himself into his music in an attempt to put their relationship behind him. When a family emergency brings Sajo back to town, can the two young men sort out their feelings and what they need from each other?

Contains blanc volumes one, two and booklet zero.

Life's struggles bring two men together as they teach one another trust, acceptance, and how to love again.

Ethan lives a monotonous life trying to pay off his crippling debt--until the day Mike appears at the neighborhood laundromat looking the worse for wear. Both men find themselves struggling in different ways to go on, and it's these struggles that bring them together in the throes of passion while simultaneously threatening to tear them apart.

At the Sako Detective Agency works the reliable Rou Nakamura. Despite his rugged looks, intimidating glares and pink hair, animals seem to adore him, making him the perfect candidate for finding lost pets. Rou is also in love with his boss, Detective Fumika Sako. When he isn't helping Fumika out on a case, Rou is always on the lookout for a chance to sneak in a kiss!

"My chocolate's so good it'll make you grovel on your knees!"

Kaoru is brimming with confidence. After all, he opened a patisserie after studying in France, and is the head chef of his own store. But there's one small problem: his customers are enamored with a local Japanese sweet shop and Soujirou, the attractive and reserved craftsman who makes the treats on offer.

Convinced that stuffy old Japanese confections could never compete with his modern, Western style creations, he decides the only way forward is to prove to Soujirou that his chocolates are the best. But when Soujirou accepts his gift gracefully and even compliments him on his skills, Kaoru's intense feelings take a sudden turn in the opposite direction.

First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles. "His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled." (Armistead Maupin)

"The bisexual draft dodger living on the skids, the glamorous young widow in search of enlightenment, the skinny gamine from out of town who wants to make it in the movies . . ."* These are the people who inhabit Gavin Lambert's mordant portrait of Southern California at the end of the 1960s: forever swapping addresses, lovers, and dreams. They live in extraordinary, suffocating wealth; or else flirting with a Mansonesque cult; or else in a fantasy where golden-age actresses make ghostly visitations to comment on their daily life. All that binds them together is their common sense of aimlessness--and the clear, judgment-free eye of a British author trying his best to be a friend to each.

Cool, incisive, yet essentially kind, and very much ahead of its time, The Goodby People unfolds "in the yawning chasm between real life in Los Angeles and the fantasies manufactured by its dominant business" (*Gary Indiana), and stands as Gavin Lambert's masterpiece.

It's complicated: A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reveals he's the object of his male coworker's affections!

Pure and innocent businessman-turned-reluctant wizard Adachi has at long last found a person he can't stand to be apart from--Kurosawa, of course!

As a couple, Adachi and Kurosawa are more in love than ever. And when Adachi, unable to keep his secret about his magical power any longer, just blurts out the truth to his boyfriend's face, he's surprised to find that the big reveal deepens their bond even more!

But while their love for each other can withstand shocking revelations of a supernatural nature, will their relationship be able to overcome long distance when Adachi is informed that he's getting transferred to an office 800 miles away?!

A DELICATE DISCLOSURE

After returning to Shun's hometown--and moving into his family's old shop--Shun and Mio have begun their new, if slightly offbeat, life. But just as they're settling in, Shun's younger brother, Fumi, catches these two lovers in the act! With Sakurako's help, Shun tells Fumi the unvarnished truth. Will his family finally be able to accept him for who he is?

He thought they were just friends, but with each passing moment Harumi Deguchi
spends with Ryo Onoda, his affections towards the man grow deeper. However, Onoda is straight and three years Deguchi's junior. Not exactly the ideal person for someone who's gay, like Deguchi, to fall in love with. Regardless, Deguchi can't help but have feelings for the younger man.
Torn by his own insecurities and indecisiveness, Deguchi struggles to express his true feelings to Onoda. After all, he loves the time they spend together, even when their time together is short. Can he really risk what they already have for something that seems so far out of reach?
Even So I Will Love You Tenderly is a story that illustrates the bitter sweet ups and downs that come with falling in love.

Communications specialist Alto's shift aboard the starship M.G. Yellowjacket turns hellish after waking from a tryst to learn every crewmate has vanished. Worse, a sinister presence has crawled aboard the ship. It's violent, destructive, and it can reach into your thoughts to make you see and feel what it wants.

Anxiety-ridden Alto might be the least-qualified person to face a creature that can hack minds like computers. Only a perilous journey to the ship's bridge can reunite comms specialist with crew and give them a chance to call for help.

But the intruder only scratches the surface of this crisis, and discovering the truth will bring Alto face to face against a nightmare beyond flesh and thought.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

Continue the journey with the international bestselling series The Halloween Boys. Wolf is a little red riding hood reimagining packed with occult legend, lore, and spice.

WOLF

My sights set on her the moment she drove into town.

From the moment her darling aroma invaded my senses, Blythe was mine. I'd watched her silently, I'd allowed Ghost his time, I'd supported Onyx through his turmoil. All the while the sleeping alpha raged inside me, wanting to make her his in every way. But how could I let him out when he was so at odds with her sweet, gentle giant, Wolfgang Jack?

My alpha was wild, untamed, and so... so hungry.

When my community is in shambles and Fenrir pack needs me to rise up to the challenge, can I do that while reconciling the beast within?

Little Red Riding Hood is walking through my forest now.

And she won't escape me this time.

Blythe

Running, always running.

Afraid of the darkness that haunts me, fleeing my past, always at the mercy of whatever grabs me in the night. The Halloween Boys had given me safety, security, and more love and passion than I'd ever imagined.

But now Wolf needs me and it's time to learn how to be his luna. The women of Fenrir lead their pack with strength and grace. They don't cower, they hunt.

If I run now, it'll be because I want to. If I run now, it'll be because I want to be caught.

And now I'm ready for his claws and teeth.

The Halloween Boys Book Three: WOLF is a Little Red Riding Hood retelling wrapped up in all the woodland dark fairy tale magic worthy of your favorite werewolf. Please see author site for content information.

Matoi Souta is an overworked office worker tired of his life. Then, on his way home from a long day of work one day, he decides to watch a traditional Japanese play. But something strange happens. He could have sworn he saw one of the actors has cat ears.

It turns out that the man is actually a bakeneko -- a shapeshifting cat from Japanese folklore. And then, the cat speaks: "From now on, you will be my mate."

The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.

Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O'Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.

In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder in this doctor-patient romance fraught with compulsion!

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows.

Seeing Kurose for the first time in two months, Shirotani takes a big step forward in their relationship--and his treatment--by kissing Kurose's hand when asked. Then, after Kurose fails to invite him home, Shirotani chases after him! Could this new, more impulsive side of Shirotani signal a new phase in their tumultuous relationship?

A prequel to Captain Laserhawk, the Netflix original animated series featuring alter egos from Ubisoft's vast library of characters.

Dolph Laserhawk, the once-powerful and illustrious super-soldier stationed under the oppressive Eden mega-corporation, stands at a crossroads between staying a mindless killing machine under Eden's control and joining a band of rebel outcasts on a risky undercover mission. Before he can finally be free of the manipulative forces surrounding him, he must relive the best and worst moments of his life. Using Holloway's VR technology, he walks through his memories of living as a penniless deserter, meeting and abandoning the love of his life, and coming to terms with the truth behind his passionate and tumultuous love affair with Alex Taylor -- the ruggedly handsome criminal mastermind who once saved his life.

Immerse yourself in the first-hand accounts of Captain Laserhawk's tragic past through this introspective manga adaptation featuring all-new scenes that explore Dolph's conflicting thoughts and motivations leading up to the most memorable moments in his life.

"Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix - Crushing Love is an important prequel. With no official release date announced for a second season, this is the perfect chance to enjoy the series from a new lens during the wait. [...] This volume explores the corruption and manipulations of Eden and Alex while showing why Beach World is such an emotionally important location. Though it is classified as a BL title, it's primarily a boy's heartbreak story worth reading." -- Samantha King, Screen Rant

A CHANCE ENCOUNTER

When Shun and Mio attend Visitors' Day at Fumi's elementary school, Shun runs into his former classmate and crush, Wada. Though Shun is shaken, Mio grows strangely close to this carefree character from his lover's past. And if that weren't stressful enough, the novel Shun's been agonizing over is about to be published!