"Includes the only extant letter to the actor Gianni Garini."
Benedetto Casanova: brother of the famous womanizer; traveler; poet, philosopher, musician. linguist, diplomat, spy, pioneering philanthropist, and consummate seducer of men all over Europe. A few years Giacomo's junior, Benedetto followed the famous lover of women through the courts of Europe. On the way he has adventures with countless men, but, unlike his sibling, fell in love with a German soldier, and managed to keep alive a romantic relationship over time and distance. His memoirs were discovered in 1881, glued to the pages of another book. They have never been published-until now. Back Cover.
High school senior Kalin (Lennon) Macready knows several facts for certain: John Lennon is his hero. Beaumont Finley Danforth (Fin) is his best friend. And--this is the complicated one--he feels more for Fin than mere friendship. For weeks, Lennon pesters Fin, who like Lennon admits to questioning his sexual orientation, for a commitment to spend twenty-four hours together exploring "the gay side of life." Fin reluctantly agrees. Each boy will seek to answer the daunting question, Am I gay? Lennon pre-plans the day, filling the hours with what he assumes "gay life" is all about: shopping for fashionable clothing, indulging in lavish dessert crepes, boogying to Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off", and yes, listening to show tunes. However, Lennon quickly realizes that in creating his plan he has succumbed to the most common and distorted of gay stereotypes. Can he be gay and not fit them? And more importantly, is it possible that spending one very hard day and night together will help Fin accept that he's gay, too? If so, maybe Lennon has a shot at winning the heart of the boy of his dreams. "A Hard Day's Night" is an amusing young adult contemporary romance about two boys who seek to discover if they must fulfill stereotypes to be together. In the end, maybe all you need is love. Back Cover.
"Five years ago, Benji Green lost his beloved father, Big Eddie, when his truck crashed into a river. Everyone called it an accident, but Benji knows it was more. Even years later, he's buried in his grief, throwing himself into managing Big Eddie's convenience store in the small-town of Roseland, Oregon. Surrounded by his mother and three aunts, he lives day to day, struggling to keep his head above water. But Roseland is no ordinary place. With ever more frequent dreams of his father's death and waking visions of feathers on the river's surface, Benji finds his definition of reality bending. He thinks himself haunted; by ghosts or memories, he can no longer tell. Not until a man falls from the sky, leaving the burning imprint of wings on the ground, does Benji begin to understand that the world is more mysterious than he ever imagined--and more dangerous. As uncontrollable forces descend on Roseland, they reveal long-hidden truths about friends, family, and the stranger Calliel--a man Benji can no longer live without"-- summary WorldCat
Introduction : No more inspiration porn / Raymond Luczak --
Truth or dare / Bex --
The politics of pashing / Jax Jacki Brown --
Disability made me do it, or, Modeling for the cause / Kenny Fries --
Eight ways of being disabled in love ; Who killed Frida Kahlo? / Barbara Ruth --
Curvature : learning to stand up straight, or, Growing up sideways / Travis Chi Wing Lau --
All I have is the body ; Meeting Emily ; I chant ; A girl through a hoop of gold / Kristen Ringman --
When love touches me / Sara Ibrahim --
When you saw me ; Don't forget your badge ; That day ; What it means to fall / Mark Ellis --
Outcast : deaf, gay, Christian / Joel Gates --
An incomplete story ; F.U.C.K. / Ashley Volion --
"Can you feel that?" / Andrew Morrison-Gurza --
A prayer for the nonreligious autistic ; I do not want children / Lucas Scheelk --
Prom dresses and popcorn / Monique Flynn --
Hear me out / Allison Fradkin--
How I got disabled / Donna Minkowitz --
Possession / D. Allen --
Limp / Gregory Villa --
Vagina resigning ; Spell for the hairy girl ; Prematurity ; SaraEve's skull ; Advice for the able-bodied poet entering a disability poetics workshop / Liv Mammone --
Missing what you never had : autistic and queer / Kit Mead --
Switch ; Scars ; Perfume of the desert ; Hidden ; Aerial view of the terrain ; Seeing bone ; tenderest of gifts / Arthur Durkee --
Deaf:Gay / Christopher Dempsey --
Torch ; He called me bear / Michael Russell --
The worst, most faithful friend / Nola Weber --
Body language ; Dressing the wound ; Beauty and variations / Kenny Fries --
Twenty-seven Nadines / Kristen Ringman --
The use of blindness in the text ; Shadowland / Marika Prokosh --
Love me, love my ostomy / Tak Hallus --
Flashback, porchlight, and rivers / Cyre´e Jarelle Johnson --
They called it mercy / Jason T. Ingram --
Invisible within the ten percent / Maverick Smith --
Charite´ / Quintan Ana Wikswo --
The changeling / David Cummer --
Our son is a beautiful girl / Carl Wayne Denney --
Perspectiva ; With all due respect / Travis Chi Wing Lau --
Learning the words / Toranse Lowell --
On inheritance / Whittier Strong --
Hands ; Fellowship ; Scene ; Bent / James Schwartz --
The ides of April / Barbara Ruth --
lapse / The Poet Spiel --
The caretaker / Mark Ellis --
Necessary action ; Dreaming awake ; Night swimming / John R. Killacky --
A deaf sapiosexual's reflections / Beatrice Hale --
Love at first sight ; Mind's eye ; Blind porn ; If I were a boy ; A pulp fiction ; Want / Kathi Wolfe --
A collection of thorns / D. Allen --
Ancient pauses / Christopher Dempsey --
A girl for us / John Whittier Treat --
On what I didn't hear you say / Meg Day --
Gracious pain / Brenna Cyr --
Almost solstice / Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers --
The worst husband you can imagine / Larry Connolly --
My first kill ; Savages / Raymond Luczak --
How not to plan disability conferences, (or, How to be an ableist asswipe while planning a disablity conference) / Lydia Brown --
How much can you hear? ; What is the worth of my life? ; No longer an impossible dream / Donna Williams --
Learning to fall in love / Katharina Love --
Intersections ; I want to go down ; Unbend you straight ; Unrequited love (from my wheelchair to a shopping trolley) / Jax Jacki Brown --
