Robin Reardon
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Micah Jaeger's life is a mess. His folks have split, and his mother is seeing a medium to communicate with Micah's older brother, killed in Afghanistan. He had to change schools for his junior year, which made him retreat further into himself, hiding behind his camera-and hiding that he's gay.
One sunny day in June, as he's shooting a dead seagull on the shore of Long Island Sound, a mysterious guy appears in a beautiful sailboat. At first, the guy's...
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Self-discovery. Sounds simple, right? After all, you're already there. You're already you. So, it can surprise us that it takes so much time, and so much effort. It surprises Nathan Bartlett.
Nathan has lost two family members in a few years. It surprises him to realize he hadn't known them nearly as well as he'd thought, and this makes him question his own worth. And it makes him feel like he belongs nowhere. So, he goes on a spiritual quest.
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Everything sixteen-year-old Simon Fitzroy-Hunt loves is in England. There's his school, his boyfriend, his cat, and especially Oxford University, which Simon plans to attend just as his beloved late father planned. But all of Simon's certainties come crashing down when his mother remarries and drags him to Boston with her.
Furious and unforgiving, Simon finds plenty to resent in America. His stepsister, Persie, is overindulged by her father and struggling...
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A beautiful young man, dancing alone and completely naked at the edge of a pond, is not what Spencer Hill expected to see. It's 1987, and he has been assigned a ministerial post in a Unitarian Universalist parish in Assisi, Vermont, close to the Canadian border-a far cry from his hometown of New York City. So a "sky clad" wood sprite takes him very much by surprise.
What might have been a ho-hum posting in this remote northern location turns out...
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Trust. It's a precious commodity. Nathan Bartlett is looking for someone to trust-someone he can give his heart to, someone he can trust not to drop it. He's ready to love and be loved.
He's lost so much love already. First his parents, then his adored older brother Neil, and finally the grandmother who'd raised him. All but his enigmatic sister Nina are gone. He's had his fill of relationships that go nowhere, men who've led him astray emotionally...
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Jude Connor's rural Idaho hometown is a place of strong values and high expectations. For those who fit into the local church's narrow confines, there's support and fellowship. For those who don't, there's ostracism in this life and damnation in the next.
Jude wants desperately to be saved-to believe with the fervor of the charismatic Reverend Amos King, whose sermons are filled with brimstone and righteousness. But every time Jude thinks he's found...
7) On Chocorua
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A mountain. A blizzard. A young man new to hiking and to love, making mistakes in both.
First year of college. A great time to re-invent yourself. Nathan Bartlett takes the opportunity very seriously-maybe a little too seriously. And he makes mistakes.
His mistakes? Falling for a straight guy who reminds him of his beloved older brother. Getting too invested in the substance abuse disorders of two other students. And climbing a mountain in a snowstorm...
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Nathan Bartlett is a trailblazer-not because he follows established routes in the White Mountains, or on Kaua'i, or on Mt. Desert Island, but because he explores and then follows that inner path that tells him who he is and how, he relates to the world around him. Forging his path doesn't mean he finds all the answers. It means he identifies the questions that matter.
In On Chocorua, Nathan begins his journey as a college freshman. He makes a life-long...