Adam and Steve never expected love to challenge everything they believed about faith, family, and themselves. When a friendship formed during a church retreat begins to deepen, they must confront fear, secrecy, and religious expectations. Their journey through love, identity, rejection, and spiritual reconciliation asks whether faith and authenticity can truly coexist.

After his Olympic debut, where he won a gold medal for the team and a silver medal in individual show jumping, Thomas returns home determined to prepare for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Between his demanding training schedule, his work with large-animal veterinarians, and his growing collection of horses, he has plenty to keep him busy.But Thomas and Casey have not forgotten their darker side.After a period without taking care of any "trash," they discover a man who has bu...

Some kids grow up knowing exactly where they fit. Thomas wasn't one of them but his story will stay with you long after the last page.Born in the autumn of 1968, Thomas enters a world filled with warmth, love, and complications. His mother's struggle with postpartum depression casts an early shadow over his childhood, while the love of his grandmother helps light the way. As he grows, Thomas discovers that joy and jealousy, friendship and loneliness, can exist side by side....

Bruce has spent years building the life he thought he was supposed to want, a successful career in New York City, a comfortable future, and a carefully guarded secret about his sexuality. But when he returns home and reconnects with his old friend Paul, the feelings he has kept buried for years suddenly become impossible to ignore.Paul has never forgotten his crush on Bruce, and their reunion quickly turns into something neither man expected. As their attraction grows into a compli...

Poems have always been a way for individuals to express themselves. Whether from the pangs of unrequited love or the heated passions one feels towards their rivals and enemies, emotions have been the inspiration for poetry. The High School Years: Poems from an Average American Teenager takes the reader through the ups and downs of adolescence through the use of poetry. All of the poems are filled with raw emotion and passion. The poetry in this book is sure to be as thought-provoking and r...

Concise yet comprehensive, this textbook of clinical pulmonology provides pulmonologists and respiratory disease physicians with all the key information that they need to know to manage the patient through the diagnosis and treatment journeys.From the most common condition to the rarest, each disease is consistently presented and comprehensively covered giving the reader just the key facts. Building upon the basic sciences and integrating these with clinical practice, each chapter ...

A massive army on the brink of conquest looms large in a world where prophecies are lies, magic is believed in but never seen, and hope is where you least expect to find it. Welcome to the Five Isles, where war has come in the name of the invading army of Sor Sevier, a merciless host driven by the prophetic fervor of the Angel Prince, Aeros, toward the last unconquered kingdom of Gul Kana. Yet Gault, one of the elite Knights Archaic of Sor Sevier, is growing disillusioned by the crusade he...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, AICS 2025, held in Dublin, Ireland, during December 1–2, 2025.The 33 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. These papers cover themes such as applications of AI, machine learning and deep learning methods, dataset construction and analysis, AI for social good, AI ethics and responsible AI, cognitive scien...

An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition includes a new introduction and bonus chapters.Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wis...

A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narratorsThis recording includes the following stories:- “The Lightening-Rod Man” by Herman Melville- “One of the Missing” by Ambrose Bierce- “The Leopard Man’s Story” by Jack London- “Tennessee’s Partner” by Bret Harte- “The New Catacomb” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin- “My Watch” and “The Widow’s Protest”...

The original purpose of this work of fiction was to show gay people that they are not broken. They were created by God to be exactly who they are.While the main topic is still the same, it has also turned into a romantic love story between the two main characters, Adam and Steve. The book opens at a gay campground where a Christian group is having a retreat.Steve and Adam both come to the retreat as virgins, and they certainly plan to stay that way. Adam is the twenty-four-...