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  1. Public Bookmark 36

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    It was 1419, sixteen years had passed since the Siege of Suchdol, and Bohemia sat on a knife’s edge.

    When friend and foe stood on both sides of a battlefield, there was no such thing as neutrality in war.

    Or the one where Hanush had been right. Hans’ importance had only grown over the years. The only issue was that sometimes he felt he was not enough of a man to fill his own shoes.

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    27 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 27

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    09 May 2024

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    In Earthquake, the first of a trilogy of Brokeback Mountain-inspired novels, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar have moved together to Eagle Nest, New Mexico. Jack has a job at a cattle feedlot, Ennis has a job at a horse ranch, and Ennis trains problem horses in the pasture behind their leased house. Here, in the twenty-first year of their tumultuous relationship, Jack and Ennis learn how to live together.

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    06 May 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 46

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    A story set in Norse Scandinavia, inspired by Brokeback Mountain.

    Einnis travels to the British Isles on a viking raid to win gold enough to pay the bride price for his chosen wife-to-be. The marriage will be an advantageous match for his clan. He returns home with Eoin, a captive Irish monk whom he originally intends to sell as a slave at the market. But the Norns, the goddesses of fate, have other plans in mind for these two men who would seem to have nothing at all in common.

    Through dramatic twists and turns over many years, and through difficulties, dangers and opportunities presented by the Norse culture and Norse way of life in war and peace, against all odds Einnis and Eoin's saga may eventually reach an unexpectedly happy conclusion.

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    06 May 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 27

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    “This goes way beyond losing your wife. I’ve never had to deal with anything like this before. I’ve never had guilt, grinding me down, into dust."

    A story about dealing with loss, trauma, and understanding your own thoughts. All alongside a certain courier who sometimes doesn't seem like he appears.

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    25 Jan 2022