LGBTQ+ Books

From #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely comes a sexy, forbidden MM romance novella about a rock star and a bodyguard!There's one thing I need in my life right now and one thing only -- a new job.So I'm stoked when I land a dream gig as a bodyguard for a rock star.But there's definitely one thing I do not need at all -- a complication.Like being wildly attracted to the guy who just hired me.So I vow to do everything I can to deny the intense attraction for the man I'm sworn to protect. All I have to do is ignore it. Eventually it'll go away, right?But that's not what happens one night after a concert... MAYBE THIS TIME is a 14,000-word prequel novella about how Stone and Jackson meet and it leads into their full-length novel ONE TIME ONLY. You don't have to read MAYBE THIS TIME to enjoy ONE TIME ONLY, but you'll likely enjoy this story before the story!

Playing it safe has gotten him everything – except the one guy he’s always wanted.As leader of a covert unit of rescue swimmers, following the mission plan is a matter of professional survival for seal shifter Nate Landry. But recent closure on a colleague’s death has Nate recalculating his own trajectory.It could use a little nudge and a whole lotta juice, and he only has to glance across the cockpit for just the right source of turbulence.Following orders has kept him sane – until the guy giving them goes full throttle.Chopper pilot Gil Espinoza has kept his thing for Landry on cruise control for eight long years. That the guy once chose a fellow shifter over Gil stung like hell but kept him on course.Problem is: the good lieutenant just laid down new coordinates, a radical turn into uncharted waters.And if there’s one thing Gil can’t do, it’s ignore an order from Nate Landry.+CW: one hero's parent living with cognitive decline; depictions of sea rescues; missing person situation+COURSE CORRECTION is the 1st novel in the ROGUE RESCUE series, steamy paranormal romances featuring marine-shifter heroes:1. COURSE CORRECTION2. CRUSH DEPTH3. ENTRY SHOCKROGUE RESCUE SeriesSaving lives is their mission.Saving each other will be far more dangerous.ROGUE RESCUE is a companion series to GRIZZLY RIM.

The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha’s enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation.Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

I was raised without religion. My mother was a lapsed Catholic, my father a lapsed Protestant. My understanding of Easter as a child was that it was that day you ate ham (as opposed to Christmas, which was that other day you ate turkey). I have been to regular church services exactly four times in my life, and I can't say I remember much about them - except for the hymns. For that matter, I've been to Passover services exactly four times, too, with my ex-girlfriend. I seem to remember liking the music there, too.In other words, apart from the singing, when it comes to the Judeo-Christian tradition, I haven't a clue. I could not - and still cannot - tell you the difference between a Presbyterian and an Episcopalian or a Methodist and a Baptist. In addition, I grew up in New England, in an area where Jews were nearly as prevalent as Christians, and seemed to have nearly as many variations on their religious tradition as the Christians did. All of these different people, so much alike in their non-religious lives, yet each of them carrying a torch for some particular branch of a faith, the nuances of which I couldn't begin to understand. What could they all have in common? The Bible, of course.So I decided to read it. Yes, I read it, the whole thing, even the really boring parts about who begat whom ad infinitum. And you know what? It turns out that The Bible is really pretty interesting - particularly when you know next to nothing about the religions that use it as a basis for their doctrine and faith. And so I sat down and began analyzing what The Bible said to me as a layperson, someone with no emotional or historical attachment to its teachings and tenets. These volumes are the result of that analysis.It is not my intention to judge the value, relevance, or accuracy of what The Bible says, nor do I pretend to be a religious scholar of any sort with special knowledge of biblical interpretation or history. Rather, I examine the meaning of what The Bible says to ME, an ordinary twenty-first century person without religious training or knowledge who has picked up The Good Book for the first time and said to himself, "Well, look at that! Who'd have thought that was in there all along?"I had a lot of fun digging these gems out of our most famous work of literature, and I hope you'll have fun reading them, too. This first volume is on everyone's favorite subject: SEXUALITY. What does The Bible really say about homosexuality? About adultery, chastity, and incest? If you're a layperson like me, I think you may be surprised by just what's contained in those two testaments - and the impact those words have had upon our society down to this day.