Sean Kennedy

"2nd Edition " The most important things in Simon Murray s life are football, friends, and film in that order. His friends despair of him ever meeting someone, but despite his loneliness, Simon is cautious about looking for more. Then his best friends drag him to a party, where he barges into a football conversation and ends up defending the honour of star forward Declan Tyler unaware that the athlete is present. In that first awkward meeting, neither man has any idea they will change each other s lives forever. Like his entire family, Simon revels in living in Melbourne, the home of Australian Rules football and mecca for serious fans. There, players are treated like gods until they do something to fall out of public favour. This year, the public is taking Declan to task for suffering injuries outside his control, so Simon s support is a bright spot. But as Simon and Declan fumble toward a relationship, keeping Declan s homosexuality a secret from well-meaning friends and an increasingly suspicious media becomes difficult. Nothing can stay hidden forever. Soon Declan will have to choose between the career he loves and the man he wants, and Simon has never been known to make things easy for himself or for others. "First Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, 2009.""

Tigers and Devils

An Australian Christmas In New York

Wow!

Never Too Late

The Other Boys

The poems have diverse styles of rhyme and blank verse. I've experienced several crises in my time on the planet; some of which have a humorous touch, but others feature the grim or regretful side. Readers may interpret them as they wish. The complexities of cricket are laid bare, and I was never any good at the game. But I was a world record holder as part of the crowd of more than ninety thousand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1961 when Australia played the West Indies. Finally, there are some whimsical verses drawn on topics like the ocean, home life, psychology, and the Arctic.

Poems from Australia

Into the Fire

If living up to Micah Johnson's hockey success isn't enough of a challenge, Emma's also dealing with the return of her ex, and her ex's new girlfriend, and a crush on a girl whose name Emma doesn't even know.

Get Out Series, Book 3

The Obstruction of Emma Goldsworthy

After a brutal outing, can Micah make it to graduation and accomplish his dream of becoming a professional AFL player?

The Ongoing Reformation of Micah Johnson

Samuel Kalman

During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right had embraced fascism, generating a fierce debate that has engaged scholars for decades, but has also obscured critical changes in French society and culture during the 1920s and 1930s. This collection of essays shifts the focus away from long-standing controversies in order to examine various elements of the French right, from writers to politicians, social workers to street fighters, in their broader social, cultural, and political contexts. It offers a wide-ranging reassessment of the structures, mentalities, and significance of various conservative and extremist organizations, deepening our understanding of French and European history in a troubled yet fascinating era.

Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism

The French Right Between the Wars

Maaike van Putten

Improve application performance by tuning, monitoring and profiling both the garbage collector and JVM Key Features: Understand the different parts of Java memory and the various garbage collectors so you can select your preferred one Explore how memory management can help to effectively improve performance Learn how to spot and avoid memory leaks to enhance application performance Book Description: Understanding how Java organizes memory is important for every Java professional, but this particular topic is a common knowledge gap for many software professionals. Having in-depth knowledge of memory functioning and management is incredibly useful in writing and analyzing code, as well as debugging memory problems. In fact, it can be just the knowledge you need to level up your skills and career. In this book, you'll start by working through the basics of Java memory. After that, you'll dive into the different segments individually. You'll explore the stack, the heap, and the Metaspace. Next, you'll be ready to delve into JVM standard garbage collectors. The book will also show you how to tune, monitor and profile JVM memory management. Later chapters will guide you on how to avoid and spot memory leaks. By the end of this book, you'll have understood how Java manages memory and how to customize it for the benefit of your applications. What You Will Learn: Understand the schematics of debugging and how to design the application to perform well Discover how garbage collectors work Distinguish between various garbage collector implementations Identify the metrics required for analyzing application performance Configure and monitor JVM memory management Identify and solve memory leaks Who this book is for: This book is for all levels of Java professionals, regardless of whether you're a junior or senior developer, a DevOps engineer, a tester, or the system admin of a Java application. If you currently don't have in-depth knowledge of Java memory, garbage collection, and/or JVM tuning, then this book will help you to take your Java skills to the next level.

A Comprehensive Guide to Garbage Collection and JVM Tuning

Java Memory Management

Private lives face a media storm in this story of a football commentator and former AFL player and his partner, a program developer of queer content for a community t.v. station; set in Melbourne, Australia.

Tigerland

Die romantische Liebesgeschichte von Declan und Simon geht weiter! Als Simon Declan endlich seine Liebe gesteht, könnte für beide das Glück perfekt sein. Doch in einem Moment der Unachtsamkeit werden sie von einem Fotografen beobachtet, der Declans lang gehütetes Geheimnis an die Presse weitergibt. Ganz Melbourne weiß am nächsten Tag, dass der gefeierte Starstürmer der Richmond Tigers Männer liebt, und die Hetzjagd der Medien nimmt seinen Lauf. Auch der Verein übt Druck auf Declan aus, und er wird vor eine harte Wahl gestellt: der Sport, der sein Leben ausmacht, oder der Mann, der alles für ihn bedeutet ...

Tigers & Devils - Gemeinsam atemlos

Der romantische Male/Male-Klassiker aus den USA endlich bei LYX.digital! Declan Tyler ist der gefeierte Star-Stürmer des Australienfootball-Teams Richmond Tigers. Die Fans liegen ihm zu Füßen und verehren ihn wie einen Helden - aber nur solange er ihren Erwartungen entspricht. Als Declan Simon Murray begegnet, wird dies auf eine harte Probe gestellt: Der Filmproduzent, der aus seiner Homosexualität noch nie ein Geheimnis gemacht hat, weckt Gefühle in Declan, die er unter keinen Umständen länger verdrängen will. Declan muss sich entscheiden zwischen der Karriere, die er liebt, und dem Mann, den er braucht ...

Tigers & Devils - Schlaflos mit dir

On the football field, Micah Johnson is a star, but off it, he's a mess: confused, isolated, and homesick. Hookups and partying seem like a solution until a tragedy shows him he can't go it alone.

Micah Johnson Goes West

Catt Ford

Stodgy British archivist Henry Percival-Smythe slaves away in the dusty basement of Ealing College in 1934, the only bright spot in his life his obsession with a strange Australian mammal, the thylacine. It has been hunted to the edge of extinction, and Henry would love nothing more than to help the rare creature survive. Then a human whirlwind spins through his door. Jack "Dingo" Chambers is also on the hunt for the so-called "Tasmanian Tiger," although his reasons are far more altruistic. Banding together, Dingo and the newly nicknamed Dash travel halfway around the globe in their quest to save the thylacine from becoming a footnote in the pages of biological history. While they search high and low, traverse the wilds, and fight the deadliest of all creatures--man--Dash and Dingo will face danger and discover another fierce passion within themselves: a desire for each other.

In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger

Dash and Dingo

Hasty Jones was an ordinary guy. But he had one flaw - a temper. And it was thet temper that landed him in Yama Pen for murder. When he finally emerged he was confident that he had learnt his lesson and he could put his past behind him. But that was not the way it was to be. Danger would stalk his every step.

Trouble in Tucson

Can Simon and Dec solve their problems and retrieve a runaway kid by undertaking a thousand-kilometer round trip?

Tigers on the Run

Sequel to Tigers on the Run Documentary producer Simon and ex-footballer Declan are taking some big steps toward a lasting life together. They've bought a house, and they'll need it for the family they plan to start. Their friend, Nyssa, has made the generous offer to be their surrogate, and Declan couldn't be more excited about the idea of a baby. Simon knows fatherhood is a huge commitment, and though it's daunting, he sees how much Dec wants it, and he's sure that together, they can succeed in anything--despite the worries nagging at him. But just as their new life is taking shape, a health scare disrupts their plans at the worst possible moment. With time running short, Simon and Dec will have to bare their fears and doubts to each other so they can face them before their world changes forever. It might mean a literal leap of faith.

Tigers on the Way

Ever wonder where you go when you die? Could there be a world, an afterlife, that exists parallel to this one, with its own dangers and daemons? Take away all your misconceptions about religion and reality and embrace the horrible truth. There is no heaven. There is no hell. There is only Abaddon.

Sean Kennedy

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