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Six stories about six gay men, all clutching the end of their rope, find themselves in Thai monasteries trying to find themselves. What they find there is the last thing they expected: a chance to help others, and for some a chance at love.
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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Buddha’s Bad Boys
by Alan Chin
(Bold Strokes Books, February 2015, $15.26 softcover, $9.99 Kindle)
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color:#2A2C2F">There are many reason why Western men turn to Eastern religion—searching for inner truth, lost love, loneliness, fleeing the law, hopelessness, alcoholism. S | |  | | First Exposure
Straight, married Petty Officer Second Class Skyler Thompson battles homophobia from his Navy buddies, the military, and his wife when he takes a second job creating flower arrangements at a gay-owned florist. But rather than yield to pressure and quit, he refuses to give up the joy of creating beautiful arrangements, battling homophobia for artistic expression.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; ">Straight, Petty Officer Second Class Skyler Thompson battles homophobia from his Navy buddies, the military, and his wife when he takes a second job creating flower arrangements at a gay-owned florist. But rather than yield to pressure and quit, he refuses to give up the joy of creating beautiful arrangements, battling homophobia for artistic expression. /span>
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A scientist discovers the fountain of youth, and then all hell breaks loose as the man’s greed threatens to tear the world apart.
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When his ship is destroyed, Andrew Waters and the crew are interned in Changi, a notorious Japanese POW camp. In order to save the life of the man he loves, Andrew agrees to become the commandant's whore. He uses his influence with the commandant to help his crew survive the hideous conditions, but will they understand his sacrifice or condemn him as a traitor?
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 23px; ">The realities of war are brutal for any man, but for a Buddhist like Andrew Waters, they’re unthinkable. And reconciling his serene nature with the savagery of World War II isn’t the only challenge Andrew faces. First, he must overcome the deep prejudice his half-Chinese ancestry evokes from his shipmates, a feat he manages by providing them with the best meals any destroyer crew ever had. Then he falls in love with his superior officer, and the two men struggle to satisfy their growin | |  | | The Plain of Bitter Honey
Twins Aaron and Hayden Swann are fighting a corrupt government taken over by ultra right-wing Fundamentalist Christians in 2055 America. Each brother fights in his own way, Aaron with bullets, Hayden with words.
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