Wednesday 17 October 2012

Waiting in Wednesday #21

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Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family, just the two of them against the world. But now her mom is gone most of the time, chasing the next marriage, brining home the next stepfather. Anna is left on her own—until she discovers that she can make boys her family. From Desmond to Joey, Todd to Sam, Anna learns that if you give boys what they want, you can get what you need. But the price is high—the other kids make fun of her; the girls call her a slut. Anna's new friend, Toy, seems to have found a way around the loneliness, but Toy has her own secrets that even Anna can't know.

Then comes Sam. When Anna actually meets a boy who is more than just useful, whose family eats dinner together, laughs, and tells stories, the truth about love becomes clear. And she finally learns how it feels to have something to lose—and something to offer.
Real, shocking, uplifting, and stunningly lyrical, Uses for Boys is a story of breaking down and growing up.
 
Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt
Expected publication 15th January 2013 by St Martin’s Press
Debut YA

REVIEW, Death of a Pirate King by Josh Lanyon

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Death of a Pirate King
Series: Adrien English Mysteries #4
Pub:  2008, MLR Press
Author: Josh Lanyon
Genre: contemporary mystery
Format: ibook; 236p w/ 25 chapters
Age Range: adult

                        Synopsis
Gay bookseller and reluctant amateur sleuth Adrien English's writing career is suddenly taking off. His first novel, Murder Will Out, has been optioned by notorious Hollywood actor Paul Kane. But when murder makes an appearance at a dinner party, who should be called in but Adrien's former lover, handsome closeted detective Jake Riordan, now a Lieutenant with LAPD -- which may just drive Adrien's new boyfriend, sexy UCLA professor Guy Snowden, to commit a murder of his own