Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Author: Vaibhav Saria

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 019287389X

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Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance or irresponsibility but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of self-fashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programmes and queer theory. Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday laughter, flirting, and teasing to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.


That's what Brothers Do--

That's what Brothers Do--

Author: Derekica Snake

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-02-03

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0981180213

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To save his family, he sold his innocence. To save his sisters, he sold his body. To save his love, he sold his soul. Why? That's what brothers do... 2009 Rainbow Award Winner - 3rd place in Contemporary Novel category


Love on the Range (Brothers in Arms Book #3)

Love on the Range (Brothers in Arms Book #3)

Author: Mary Connealy

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1493433792

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Falling for someone who doesn't want to get married is soon be the least of his concerns. While his brothers and their new wives search for who shot him, Wyatt Hunt is temporarily bedridden and completely miserable. Somehow Molly Garner's limited skills have made her the most qualified in their circle to care for Wyatt. But by the time he's healed, she's fed up with him and the whole ungrateful family. For even worse than his grumpiness were the few unguarded moments when he pulled at her heartstrings, and she has been long determined to never repeat her mother's mistakes. When alternate plans of finding her own independent life fall through, Molly volunteers to work for the Pinkertons and help investigate nearby ranch owner Oliver Hawkins. She signs on to be his housekeeper, hoping to find clues to prove his nefarious, and possibly murderous, past. Wyatt refuses to let her risk it alone and offers to act as Hawkins's new foreman. But when another Pinkerton agent gets shot, they realize Hawkins isn't the only danger. The Hunt brothers will have to band together to face all the troubles of life and love that suddenly surround them.


My Brother's Lover

My Brother's Lover

Author: Lynn Kelling

Publisher:

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781622341443

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What happens when two different sets of identical twins fall in love with the other? Growing up gay in a small town with no mother, Evan Savage learned the hard way to cherish his secrets above all else. Now he's eighteen, not even his father can hurt him anymore. When his long-lost twin brother Brennan shows up out of nowhere looking for a new home, Evan's world, and his very identity, comes crashing down around him all over again. Evan's twin, Brennan, is searching for sense of connection after their mother's death. Together, frustrated and reckless, anonymous sexual encounters are just the first step on a journey of self-discovery for both Evan and Brennan, when the two meet Alek and Luka, another set of twins whose love leads them find in each other things they never knew they had lost...and lures them all into danger. (M/M)


Vincent and Theo

Vincent and Theo

Author: Deborah Heiligman

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1250109698

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Printz Honor Book • YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner • SCBWI Golden Kite Winner • Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award Winner From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love. The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend—Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Meticulously researched, drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime, Deborah Heiligman weaves a tale of two lives intertwined and the extraordinary love of the Van Gogh brothers.


Anything For Love

Anything For Love

Author: Lola StVil

Publisher: Lola St.Vil

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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An emotionally scarred beauty who has closed the door on love... ...isn’t ready for a hardened cop who wants to be her hero. Is she destined for a lonely life, or is there hope for her frozen heart? Winter’s latest nightmare of a date gets worse with an ex-boyfriend sighting - the same jerk who betrayed her trust. Desperate to escape, she wiggles out a bathroom window to avert a crisis, only to crash into a bigger one. Winter falls into a police stakeout and lands in the arms of handsome NYPD homicide detective Wyatt. He’s furious at the distraction, but can’t take his eyes off her. As the tension between them heightens, he needs to figure out how to romance a stubborn ice queen and make her melt. Will his efforts be in vain, or can he fight through her defenses so real love can salvage them both? If you swoon for romances by Megan March, Penelope Ward, or Lara Swann you’ll flip for Lola Stvil! Find out why excited readers are saying “I plan on telling everyone I know about this story!” Don’t wait. Click the DOWNLOAD button now! Books in the "Hunter Brothers" series (All stand alone novels and can be read in any order) Anything For Love (The Hunter Brothers, book 1) Anything For Her (The Hunter Brothers, book 2) Anything For Us (The Hunter Brothers, book 3) Anything For Them (The Hunter Brothers, book 4) Anything For Family (The Hunter Brothers, book 5)


Enemies With Benefits

Enemies With Benefits

Author: Roxie Noir

Publisher: Clever Capybara Press

Published:

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13:

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I don’t love him. I don’t even like him. I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to do better - and vice versa. The day he left town was the best day of my life. Ten years later, the day he came back was the worst. Now he’s my co-worker. Grown-up Eli Loveless is sexy as sin. He’s hotter than asphalt in the summer. The irritating kid I once knew is gone, and he’s been replaced by a man with green eyes, perfect abs, and a cocky smile. It’s bad that I want him. It’s worse that he wants me back. There are looks. There are smirks. There are smiles that make my panties burst into flame. And then there’s a shared kiss that leads to the hottest night of my life. This is no office romance. This is a five-alarm fire. What’s a girl to do when the man I can’t stand is the one I can’t stop lusting after? Enter into a friends-with-benefits agreement, of course. No dates. No relationship. Just blisteringly hot sex, because if there’s one person I could never fall for, it’s Eli. ...right? Enemies With Benefits is the first book in the Loveless Brothers series, and can be read as a total standalone. It's for fans of high-heat, low-angst romantic comedies and anyone who enjoys a rivals-to-lovers story. This book also has tons of sibling banter, a workplace romance that smolders, and a small town with tons of charm and quirk. It's steamy, hilarious, and of course it's got a guaranteed HEA. (And yes, it bangs.) This series is perfect for fans of Cate C. Wells, Kate Canterbary, Melanie Harlow, Elizabeth O'Roark, and Claire Kingsley.


Braced for Love (Brothers in Arms Book #1)

Braced for Love (Brothers in Arms Book #1)

Author: Mary Connealy

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1493430122

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Left with little back in Missouri, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half brother he never knew existed. Turns out, Kevin's supposedly dead father led a secret and scandalous life. But danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if his half brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at the ranch, everyone is at each other's throats and the only one willing to stand in between is Winona Hawkins, a nearby schoolmarm. Despite being a long-time friend to Wyatt, Winona can't help but be drawn to the earnest, kind Kevin--and that puts her in the cross hairs of somebody's dangerous plot. Will they all be able to put aside their differences long enough to keep anyone from getting truly hurt?


Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

Author: Makambe K. Simamba

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Published: 2021-05-31

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780369102423

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Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples with the truth of the life he lived and the death he didn't choose. Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers is a protest for all Black life beyond headlines and hashtags, a prayer for all families left behind, and a promise to the community that all Black lives matter.