The Man Whom Jesus LovedA NovelPaul R. BrennerThe year is 68 CE. Led by the fanatical Sicarii, the ideological dagger men, Jews seize Jerusalem, execute the Roman garrison, and begin to cleanse Judaea of all impurities and foreign influences, including Greek love. Nero sends Vespasianus with three legions to quell the revolt. Caught in this conflict is the Sacred Community of Men, whose leader is the man who was Jesus’ lover, and Joanna, in whose home was held the Last Supper with Jesus. To escape assassination, Jesus’ beloved flees Judaea for cosmopolitan Alexandria, where he has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar in the famous Temple of the Muses, the Mouseion.Within days of arriving in the city, fierce ethnic fighting breaks out between Greeks and Jews, disrupting his life and plans. Further complicating his life is Markos, the sexy, wealthy young Greek, who wants a relationship with him, Hakor, the young orphaned Egyptian boy whom he befriends, and Diokles, Director of Visiting Scholars, who takes more than an intellectual interest in him.He senses he is being followed without being able to identify by whom. When he and his friends are viciously attacked, they discover the Sicarii have him marked for assassination. Finally, to end the chaos, Tiberius Alexander, Governor of Egypt, recalls the legion from fighting bandits in the south of Egypt. As they attack the quarter, our hero is trapped and comes face to face with a Roman centurion with drawn bloody sword eager to kill. Will he survive?

The Man Whom Jesus LovedA NovelPaul R. BrennerThe year is 68 CE. Led by the fanatical Sicarii, the ideological dagger men, Jews seize Jerusalem, execute the Roman garrison, and begin to cleanse Judaea of all impurities and foreign influences, including Greek love. Nero sends Vespasianus with three legions to quell the revolt. Caught in this conflict is the Sacred Community of Men, whose leader is the man who was Jesus’ lover, and Joanna, in whose home was held the Last Supper with Jesus. To escape assassination, Jesus’ beloved flees Judaea for cosmopolitan Alexandria, where he has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar in the famous Temple of the Muses, the Mouseion.Within days of arriving in the city, fierce ethnic fighting breaks out between Greeks and Jews, disrupting his life and plans. Further complicating his life is Markos, the sexy, wealthy young Greek, who wants a relationship with him, Hakor, the young orphaned Egyptian boy whom he befriends, and Diokles, Director of Visiting Scholars, who takes more than an intellectual interest in him.He senses he is being followed without being able to identify by whom. When he and his friends are viciously attacked, they discover the Sicarii have him marked for assassination. Finally, to end the chaos, Tiberius Alexander, Governor of Egypt, recalls the legion from fighting bandits in the south of Egypt. As they attack the quarter, our hero is trapped and comes face to face with a Roman centurion with drawn bloody sword eager to kill. Will he survive?

The Man Whom Jesus LovedA NovelPaul R. BrennerThe year is 68 CE. Led by the fanatical Sicarii, the ideological dagger men, Jews seize Jerusalem, execute the Roman garrison, and begin to cleanse Judaea of all impurities and foreign influences, including Greek love. Nero sends Vespasianus with three legions to quell the revolt. Caught in this conflict is the Sacred Community of Men, whose leader is the man who was Jesus’ lover, and Joanna, in whose home was held the Last Supper with Jesus. To escape assassination, Jesus’ beloved flees Judaea for cosmopolitan Alexandria, where he has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar in the famous Temple of the Muses, the Mouseion.Within days of arriving in the city, fierce ethnic fighting breaks out between Greeks and Jews, disrupting his life and plans. Further complicating his life is Markos, the sexy, wealthy young Greek, who wants a relationship with him, Hakor, the young orphaned Egyptian boy whom he befriends, and Diokles, Director of Visiting Scholars, who takes more than an intellectual interest in him.He senses he is being followed without being able to identify by whom. When he and his friends are viciously attacked, they discover the Sicarii have him marked for assassination. Finally, to end the chaos, Tiberius Alexander, Governor of Egypt, recalls the legion from fighting bandits in the south of Egypt. As they attack the quarter, our hero is trapped and comes face to face with a Roman centurion with drawn bloody sword eager to kill. Will he survive?

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Until the death of his widowed daughter, Jack Turner, syndicated columnist and amateur athlete, savored the solitude of his gay lifestyle in Laguna Beach, California. It’s winter of 2002. He assumes legal guardianship of six-year-old Jamey Fitzpatrick, his only grandchild. The paternal grandparents, Rob Fitzpatrick, a steadfast conservative and esteemed corporate attorney, and Peg Fitzpatrick, his trophy wife and Newport Beach socialite, file a Petition of Termination in Superior Court pursuing full guardianship of Jamey. They allege gross immorality. Jack hires Kevin Stevens, pricey family law attorney and domestic partner to William Broderick, the man who Jack has been in love with for twenty-eight years. Jack’s loss and guarded loneliness are grounded by Jamey’s love and innocent wisdom. But it is the depth of Jamey’s love that empowers Jack to stand his ground against one family’s dogmatic Fundamentalist beliefs and prejudice.

Until the death of his widowed daughter, Jack Turner, syndicated columnist and amateur athlete, savored the solitude of his gay lifestyle in Laguna Beach, California. It’s winter of 2002. He assumes legal guardianship of six-year-old Jamey Fitzpatrick, his only grandchild. The paternal grandparents, Rob Fitzpatrick, a steadfast conservative and esteemed corporate attorney, and Peg Fitzpatrick, his trophy wife and Newport Beach socialite, file a Petition of Termination in Superior Court pursuing full guardianship of Jamey. They allege gross immorality. Jack hires Kevin Stevens, pricey family law attorney and domestic partner to William Broderick, the man who Jack has been in love with for twenty-eight years. Jack’s loss and guarded loneliness are grounded by Jamey’s love and innocent wisdom. But it is the depth of Jamey’s love that empowers Jack to stand his ground against one family’s dogmatic Fundamentalist beliefs and prejudice.

The Bliss of Solitude is a novel about sexual obsession, time´s transformation of memory, the gradual erosion of wonder, and the interplay between the external world and inner vision. Its heroine-narrator is Iris Cloud, a 43-year-old product of affluent Boston suburbs and an Ivy League education, who retreated to Vermont twenty years earlier to hide an illegitimate pregnancy and to escape the expectations of her perfectionist parents. Now she runs a hand-knit sweater shop with her longtime lover Carolyn in a small resort town, clinging all the while to memories of her dreamy, awed, and restrained childhood in which she aspired to becoming a great artist and later a renowned physician. Life is tranquil enough, if passion-less, until one day Iris finds out that her 20-year-old daughter, Lydia plans to marry a questionable young man whom she has known for all of three weeks. Iris, stricken with guilt, realizes that she must step in and fulfill her long-neglected maternal duties to Lydia, who had left Iris as a young teenager to live with her grandparents. Iris becomes convinced that part of this duty involves doing what she never bothered doing twenty years earlier: seeking out Lydia´s father, her college boyfriend, and telling him that he has a daughter, a daughter on the verge of marriage. Iris´s search for Jack--a would-be modern-day Michelangelo whose egotistic delusions of grandeur underlie his paradoxical attractiveness--erodes the already fading relationship between Iris and Carolyn and forces Iris to confront the portrait-like reminiscences of her past that in many ways are more alive to her than her current quest.

Kiss! Kiss! Keep It Wet! is a book of 23 Hot short lesbian erotic stories to get the readers Hot! & Wet!... As with "Rain Pouring Down"...Lisa and her soon-to-be ex-girlfriend Tanya,is on the balcony butt naked not giving a damn, making love so passionately as the thunder roars and lighting flashes!!!....and "Missing in my life"...when Carrie discovers the erotic sensual touch of another woman, as Sexy Destiny mouth the words: "Do you want me?" I nodded "YES"...Discover more Sexy Tantalizing Erotic Stories in Kiss! Kiss! Keep It Wet! by Ms. Erotica. It will make you...WET!!!!REVIEW BY SISTAHS ON THE SHELF.COMThese women are doing a lot more than kissing in author Ms. Erotica’s KISS! KISS! KEEP IT WET!This collection of illicit encounters involves ladies and studs droppin’ like it’s hot and tastin’ it like it’s sweet. The nice-naughty storytelling from Ms. Erotica (aka Anita Brown) is sure to make you spend some time with your lover or with yourself, if you follow my drift. All - and I mean all - of the pieces from Kiss go straight for the gusto and don’t hold anything back....Even with all the licking and sucking going, Kiss does have its tender moments. “Our Anniversary” has a woman giving her lover of four years a present she’s always desired, and makes her fantasies come true. And after a long day of work, all Lexi wants to do is have “A Relaxing Night at Home” - until she realizes her brother has invited friends over to her apartment, but it may be an even better night after she meets one of his beautiful homegirls....she could become the next lesbian Zane. It’s only a matter of time.

Kiss! Kiss! Keep It Wet! is a book of 23 Hot short lesbian erotic stories to get the readers Hot! & Wet!... As with "Rain Pouring Down"...Lisa and her soon-to-be ex-girlfriend Tanya,is on the balcony butt naked not giving a damn, making love so passionately as the thunder roars and lighting flashes!!!....and "Missing in my life"...when Carrie discovers the erotic sensual touch of another woman, as Sexy Destiny mouth the words: "Do you want me?" I nodded "YES"...Discover more Sexy Tantalizing Erotic Stories in Kiss! Kiss! Keep It Wet! by Ms. Erotica. It will make you...WET!!!!REVIEW BY SISTAHS ON THE SHELF.COMThese women are doing a lot more than kissing in author Ms. Erotica’s KISS! KISS! KEEP IT WET!This collection of illicit encounters involves ladies and studs droppin’ like it’s hot and tastin’ it like it’s sweet. The nice-naughty storytelling from Ms. Erotica (aka Anita Brown) is sure to make you spend some time with your lover or with yourself, if you follow my drift. All - and I mean all - of the pieces from Kiss go straight for the gusto and don’t hold anything back....Even with all the licking and sucking going, Kiss does have its tender moments. “Our Anniversary” has a woman giving her lover of four years a present she’s always desired, and makes her fantasies come true. And after a long day of work, all Lexi wants to do is have “A Relaxing Night at Home” - until she realizes her brother has invited friends over to her apartment, but it may be an even better night after she meets one of his beautiful homegirls....she could become the next lesbian Zane. It’s only a matter of time.

Kiss! Kiss! Keep It Wet! is a book of 23 Hot short lesbian erotic stories to get the readers Hot! & Wet!... As with "Rain Pouring Down"...Lisa and her soon-to-be ex-girlfriend Tanya,is on the balcony butt naked not giving a damn, making love so passionately as the thunder roars and lighting flashes!!!....and "Missing in my life"...when Carrie discovers the erotic sensual touch of another woman, as Sexy Destiny mouth the words: "Do you want me?" I nodded "YES"...Discover more Sexy Tantalizing Erotic Stories in Kiss! Kiss! Keep It Wet! by Ms. Erotica. It will make you...WET!!!!REVIEW BY SISTAHS ON THE SHELF.COMThese women are doing a lot more than kissing in author Ms. Erotica’s KISS! KISS! KEEP IT WET!This collection of illicit encounters involves ladies and studs droppin’ like it’s hot and tastin’ it like it’s sweet. The nice-naughty storytelling from Ms. Erotica (aka Anita Brown) is sure to make you spend some time with your lover or with yourself, if you follow my drift. All - and I mean all - of the pieces from Kiss go straight for the gusto and don’t hold anything back....Even with all the licking and sucking going, Kiss does have its tender moments. “Our Anniversary” has a woman giving her lover of four years a present she’s always desired, and makes her fantasies come true. And after a long day of work, all Lexi wants to do is have “A Relaxing Night at Home” - until she realizes her brother has invited friends over to her apartment, but it may be an even better night after she meets one of his beautiful homegirls....she could become the next lesbian Zane. It’s only a matter of time.

“Sappho Rising” is an action love story about Hillary and Iris, lovers who defy the conventions of their world with disastrous consequences for their relationship and their future.  Forced to separate by their homophobic parents who intercept them in a motel, they find their isolation intolerable. They need money desperately so that they can runaway together. Iris does something so outrageous to get funds that her criminal actions separates them even more. Hillary moves on to become a fashion photographer and an activist in the lesbian and gay rights movement while Iris becomes a fugitive and lives underground with a new identity.

The novel follows their parallel lives and romantic adventures.

Hillary is blamed for everything and is hated by Iris's family, especially by her homophobic brother, Jerry.  She holds on to the dream of finding Iris until she meets Virginia, a rich, beautiful lesbian who is in a marriage of convenience.

Meanwhile, Iris’s escape route leads her to a group that befriends her and gives her a new identity and a future.  She is a free spirit and romps through life. After a series of jobs she teams up with the gay crowd in the ad agency where she works, spending summers at Fire Island and having casual affairs.

There are many complications that develop including the resurfacing of Iris’s accomplice, a mass demonstration that reopens old wounds for Iris’s brother, who belongs to a secret militia group in New Jersey.  His hate for Hillary and all gays and lesbians triggers another desperate plan that puts everyone in danger.

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Linda Davenport’s “grungy old Ford” has run out of gas for the second time in a month. Stranded on the berm of the Belt Parkway East in Brooklyn, she is rescued by a mysterious person who steals her wallet and her heart and leads her on a silly, soul-mate-searching journey through dirty delis and beer-sloshing bimbos, car washes and clown combs, and a gaggle of other “strangio” stops along the way!

To chase, to embrace, and to savor the deepest passions of her heart, a quirky carpenter’s daughter builds her social work career - and fills the emptiness she has long known - by captivating the love of her life - Carolyn. But Jordan Mathews’ success is short-lived, as her career evolves into an outrageous battle of office politics, where no good deed seems to go unpunished - and where only the power of love survives.

A vibrant and playful celebration of gay pride, Building It All From Scraps is a campy fiction that blends love, relationships, friendships and family, with an understanding of gay culture and history. Set at the Jersey Shore in the 1970’s and 1980’s, the story shares the transformation of a shy and ambiguous girl to a professional gay woman, and pits wants vs. expectations, needs vs. loyalties, in this comical construction of life’s loves, and the quest to find true meaning.

The author includes a variety of articles about prominent social issues — and especially, those affecting gay people - at the end of the book. These condensed, professional, yet easy-to-understand articles form a reference section that serves as a political history and social commentary for gay people everywhere. But you don’t need to use the reference section to enjoy this amusing story about life, and love, fulfilled.

A tale that revels in the clash of the sexual revolution, balancing disco community and true love with family life and working class values, Building It All from Scraps is a humorous and solidifying testimonial to all gay people, an educational and informative book for all human service workers, and a great piece of philosophical entertainment for those who are neither. And it lets us know, at the end of the day, that we are all the same.