This candid book is a heartwarming page turner that takes the reader on an extraordinary journey. Full of amusing and arresting anecdotes, at its heart lies the inspirational story of one man´s extensive search for his birth mother and what happened when he finally found her.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant's complex relationships with his mother and his motherland In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy's life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami. In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind. He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he's become since he left, and with who his mother is: finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love. Hombrecito-little man-is a moving portrait of a young person between cultures, between different ideas of himself. From an extraordinary new talent, this is a story told with startling beauty and intensity, a story for anyone searching for home, searching for a way to love.

The story of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, by the esteemed royal biographer, Ingrid Seward. The relationship between the late Monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fascination. The upbringing of an heir is especially important and places an extra burden on top of all the cares of motherhood. The demands placed on the monarch are unique and there was no one better placed to know this than the late Queen. She knew that not only must they be figureheads, but they must be seen to care for others less fortunate than themselves. They are also expected to uphold family values. Princess Elizabeth made it a point of maternal honour to try and build her routine around her young son while doing her duty. When she became Queen, it was a more delicate balance, but one which she eventually learnt to sustain. Unlike his self-contained mother, who always put duty above personal happiness, King Charles needed love and support to function properly. This is the story of how Charles was shaped and moulded by his heritage. His mother was the woman he always loved but could never be close to. As Queen she held the Pandora's box of the crown and all he could do was wait and learn. In his mother's old age, he finally received the affection and respect from her he had craved for so long. This book documents his life through many personal anecdotes from his family and his friends, from the moment the guns saluted his birth to the day he was officially declared as the King at his Coronation.

David Smith was raised in an orphanage from the time he was a baby until his late teens. Now, as an adult, he decided to have his d. n. a. checked in order to gain some knowledge of his background. He was not expecting the results that showed up while he was on vacation. It was during his vacation that he accidentally found out he may have the ability to access places ordinary people do not have knowledge of. Upon his return from vacation he learns that someone is, to the point of violence, very interested in him. His friends have discovered who it is that is after him, but not why. When Dave tells his friends about his escapades while on vacation they want to test his abilities for themselves. His friends then talk him into giving them a demonstration, which Dave did not find to be a positive experience. As the negative experiences pile up his friends gather and stand with him, becoming the family he had always hoped for.

In this twisted tale of love, murder, and family secrets, nothing is ever as it seems. Identical twin sisters Tokyo and India are as opposite as night and day. India is content with going to college and planning a family, while Tokyo runs a murder-for-hire business that has been extremely profitable for her. She has no patience for men or love in her life. She takes big risks to make money and always gets her target by any means necessary. It is during one of those big risks that Tokyo meets the man who would unexpectedly sweep her off her feet. Python runs the city, unbeknownst to Tokyo, and after he saves her from an incident that almost costs her life, he wants her to himself . . . for both business and pleasure. Tokyo has never allowed herself to fall in love before, but Python's boss swagger soon has her smitten with him. She breaks her rules and lets him into her heart, but loving him will come with severe consequences. India has been with the same man for years, but since getting pregnant with his child, she has noticed that he is acting very suspiciously. Still wanting to have faith in her man, she ignores her intuition that something more is going on than what he's telling her. When her sister finally reveals the truth about him to her, she refuses to believe it, and the tight bond the twins once shared is shattered. Jacob was abandoned at birth by his mother. He comes to town on a crazy quest to find her and kill her and the siblings she decided to keep. Once he discovers the life that Python has, Jacob decides he wants to claim that for himself. Revenge is replaced with jealousy, and Jacob becomes obsessed and does everything in his power to become him, even if that means hurting people in the process. He finds unlikely help in India, and together they devise a plan to make them rich.