College Boy Secret


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Corbin is sure that something is the matter with Ted. The silence is killing him. "Did I say something wrong? Maybe I shouldn't have said anything about the scouts." Corbin's voice fills the silence, the darkness of the room. "Nah, it's not that," Ted tells him softly, licking his bottom lip. He feels himself sweating, but it's not because of the heat of the night. He's not sure how much longer he can keep this secret of his from Corbin. "Then what's the matter?" Corbin asks him. "Nothing," Ted tells him too quickly. "You've been quiet for the past week. Even with me, that's not normal. Something's eating at you. Is it your parents? If it is, you know that you can ignore them. You don't have to pick up that phone when they call you." He tells him, feeling the anger growing inside of him hoping that his parents aren't making him feel guilty for creating the life that he's wanted. "No, it's not that at all," Ted whispers to him, feeling his mouth growing dry. "Then what it is," Corbin asks him, sitting up on the bed. Ted can see his figure in the dark now that his eyes have adjusted to it. He knows that he's not going to get any sleep if he doesn't come out with it himself. "There's something that I've been meaning to tell you. Something that I've wanted to get off my chest for years now." Ted tells him, he can't believe that the words are just slipping out of his mouth. Ted can see that Corbin is getting off his bed and making his way to his. He sits down on the edge closest to Ted. "You know that you can tell me anything. It doesn't matter what it is." Corbin whispers which make it even harder for Ted to think straight. "My Sophomore year a lot of things had changed for me. That's when it all started really." Ted tells him, sitting up on his bed and pressing his back against the pillows that are behind him. Corbin doesn't say anything at all to him. He knows that whatever Ted has to say is something serious and he's been holding it in for so long that it's time for him to get it out. "It's only happened one time. Just once and I can't get it out of my head. I can't stop thinking about it." Ted swallows hard. "What?" Corbin asks him softly, feeling his heart racing. He knows that whatever it is it's quite serious.




Love Life


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On the heels of his New York Times bestselling Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe is back with an entertaining collection that “invites readers into his world with easy charm and disarming frankness” (Kirkus Reviews). After the incredible response to his acclaimed bestseller, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe was convinced to mine his experiences for even more stories. The result is Love Life, a memoir about men and women, actors and producers, art and commerce, fathers and sons, movies and TV, addiction and recovery, sex and love. Among the adventures he describes in these pages are: · His visit, as a young man, to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, where the naïve actor made a surprising discovery in the hot tub. · The time, as a boy growing up in Malibu, he discovered a vibrator belonging to his best friend’s mother. · What it’s like to be the star and producer of a flop TV show. · How an actor prepares, for Californification, Parks and Recreation, and numerous other roles. · His hilarious account of coaching a kid’s basketball team dominated by helicopter parents. · How his great, great, great, great, great grandfather may have inspired everything from his love of The West Wing to his taste in classic American architecture. · His first visit to college, with his son, who is going to receive the education his father never got. · The time a major movie star stole his girlfriend. Linked by common themes and his philosophical perspective on love—and life—Lowe’s writing “is loaded with showbiz anecdotes, self-deprecating tales, and has a general sweetness” (New York Post).




The Bad Boy's Secret


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Brandon had it rough growing up, and he acted out, becoming known as the town's bad boy. But becoming a single father changed his entire life around, yet his reputation still keeps him dragged through the mud despite him doing everything he can to prove that he's a changed man. But when Amy pops up in his way - quite literally - can things finally begin looking up for him? **This is a short story and is intended to be a quick read.**




Deep Secrets


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ÒBoys are emotionally illiterate and donÕt want intimate friendships.Ó In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they would go Òwacko.Ó Yet as boys become men, they become distrustful, lose these friendships, and feel isolated and alone. Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted throughout adolescence with black, Latino, white, and Asian American boys, Deep Secrets reveals the ways in which we have been telling ourselves a false story about boys, friendships, and human nature. BoysÕ descriptions of their male friendships sound more like Òsomething out of Love Story than Lord of the Flies.Ó Yet in late adolescence, boys feel they have to Òman upÓ by becoming stoic and independent. Vulnerable emotions and intimate friendships are for girls and gay men. ÒNo homoÓ becomes their mantra. These findings are alarming, given what we know about links between friendships and health, and even longevity. Rather than a Òboy crisis,Ó Way argues that boys are experiencing a Òcrisis of connectionÓ because they live in a culture where human needs and capacities are given a sex (female) and a sexuality (gay), and thus discouraged for those who are neither. Way argues that the solution lies with exposing the inaccuracies of our gender stereotypes and fostering these critical relationships and fundamental human skills.




Our Boys


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College Boy


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An absurd account of a ridiculously absurd young man who goes to college, bringing nothing with him but a hedonistic bag of sex, drugs, rock n' reggae, and the surf culture (oxymoron). In college, he broadens his horizons, learns how to study, and to go through the motions of becoming a respectable citizen in American Society.




Bad Boy’s Secret Baby


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STEAMY HOT PREGNANCY ROMANCE COLLECTION 4 Standalone Romance Short Stories With No Cliffhanger Forever Yours Adam is back, and Jenna doesn’t know what to do with herself. She can’t go there, too much has happened, but what if she can’t resist... After all this time, he’s back! Jenna Smee was forced to get on with her life after a tragic event turned all her plans on their head ten years ago, and she assumed that she was doing just fine. Not great, but okay. But then Adam Martin crashes back into her life, reminding her that nothing is perfect after all. He’s hotter than ever, now with power and money to make him even more alluring, but Jenna has to keep away. With this secret hanging over their heads, there’s no way that they can cave. But sometimes, chemistry is too powerful, and there’s no way to resist it, even if it does end up making everything even more complicated than before. Love isn’t always enough, but sometimes it’s too much to ignore. Alien Prince’s Son A lost princess or a lost cause? Melody Harp is taken by a handsome blue-skinned prince who claims she is the key to his planet’s liberation. In the city that never sleeps, Melody Harp has found her boring life to be unfulfilling. Her career is relatively normal, working for a successful graphic design company that only seems to pass the time. But she’s distracted. A reoccurring dream of flashing lights and humming discs remains in the back of her mind until she finally encounters the source: an alien prince from a distant planet. The blue-skinned prince named Tezod Moss appears to her suddenly during a night out and insists she is a princess of the planet Efloe. Their connection is instantaneous and Melody falls for him immediately, the puzzle of her dream finally coming together with a passionate kiss. But the planet is in disarray. The Eflorian people have only one hope—and that hope is her. Could she really be the lost princess or has her dream seeped into her reality? Bad Boy Daddy Cherise Clayton has had it up to here with boring, nice guys. But when bad boy biker Lynx rescues her from a bar fight gone horribly wrong, is he just what she needed or too much for her to handle? Blogger Cherise Clayton is a successful writer and fiercely independent woman who doesn’t have time for romance. She needs to focus on her career. When she’s on the road researching a story, she wanders into the wrong dive bar and is confronted by a group of grizzled bikers who don’t appreciate a black woman wandering into their watering hole. She stands up for herself, but the gang is having none of it. Luckily for Cherise, Alexander “Lynx” Andrews, a handsome young biker, comes to her rescue, defending her from the others and sweeping her off her feet and onto the back of his bike. After a passionate night, Cherise uncovers a few shocking secrets from Lynx’s past and flees back home to San Francisco. When she discovers that she is unexpectedly pregnant by Lynx, Cherise has to decide if it’s best to keep this baby to herself, or reach out to her baby’s bad boy daddy. Trinity Eliana Russet lives an ordinary life with an ordinary job and an ordinary best friend. But her whole world is twisted upside down when she finds out that she’s pregnant…which is virtually impossible considering she’s been celibate for the last six months. Zander Olgarian, an impossibly attractive man, reveals himself as the father of her child and Eliana’s world comes crashing down. Not only is Zander her child’s father, but he is also an alien prince, sent down to Earth to create his heir. Eliana has to fight through secret government groups trying to hunt her, loud-mouthed best friends, and hot-headed women on her quest to protect her child and figure out exactly what she’s gotten herself into. With every new turn, she doesn’t know who to trust. She’s becoming lost in a world unknown to her and she’s struggling to keep a hold on her sanity. But she’s a fighter, and she’ll be damned if she lets anyone hurt her baby.




Ninja Boy's Secret


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**Winner of 2020 Northern Lights Book Awards Author/Illustrator Category** The sweet story of being invisible and becoming seen. Ninja Boy has a secret. It's not that he's flunking out of Ninja Academy--his dad knows that. It's that Ninja Boy doesn't like skulking about quietly in the night, clad in black like a thief, leaving no trace of his existence. He knows he'll never be half the Ninja his father is--silent as a ghost, ever ready to attack. No, this little Ninja has a different calling. He's a talented musician who expresses himself with a violin. He wants to share that passion with his dad, but is afraid his father will not approve. So what's a misguided maestro to do? Summoning all the courage and passion he has, he plays a loud and beautiful violin sonata for his Ninja dad! In Ninja Boy's Secret, Tina Schneider's lively, amusing illustrations bring her character's struggles and ultimate triumph vividly to life. This Japanese-inspired picture book teaches kids valuable lessons through a fun and inspiring story. With his faithful dog in tow, Ninja Boy makes his way from silence to song in a charming tale about being true to yourself and finding your calling in life.




Keeping It Secret


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What do you do when the perfect boy for you is the one that no one wants you to have? I've had a crush on Ethan, my big brother's best friend, for years. Unfortunately he's totally off limits. My brother is jealous and doesn't want me anywhere near him, my parents don't want me dating a boy in college, and Ethan's ex-girlfriend is a psycho stalker who's liable to lock me in her trunk and bury me out on the beach somewhere. Not that it matters, because Ethan has never treated me as anything except a favorite kid sister. Or at least that's how it was until we moved back to Bayview. Now Ethan isn't looking at me like I'm a kid or his sister. He looks more like a cat about to pounce on a mouse. We've been spending time alone, and I'm pretty sure we almost kissed. But even if I'm not imagining things, it could never work. If my brother found out he'd tell my parents, who'd end it in a hurry. And Olivia would do anything she could to sabotage us. But Delaney came up with the one solution that just might work. You could keep it a secret. It's the only way that Ethan and I have a chance. But secrets always come out in the end. High school romance, ya romance, teen romance, beach romance, clean and wholesome romance, romance series




The Husband's Secret


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She finds an envelope: 'To be opened in the event of my death'. It's her husband's handwriting. But he's still alive . . . THE ENTHRALLING STORY OF SECRETS, FAMILY AND THE DANGER OF THE TRUTH 'STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT' Sophie Hannah 'ANOTHER MASTERCLASS' Grazia _________ Cecilia Fitzpatrick thought she knew her husband. That is until she finds an envelope with his writing on: 'to be opened in the event of my death'. She opens it, and learns a shocking truth he has never dared reveal. Now Cecilia faces a terrible choice. Because revealing her husband's secret will hurt those she loves the most . . . But could the consequences of staying silent be worse? _________ 'Finely wrought tension holds up until the final page' TELEGRAPH 'A tense, page-turning story which gradually draws everyone together in a devastating climax' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Dark and compelling . . . a must read' SUN