Abbey: 223 books

Practical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.

Learning to Be a Good Friend allows adults to show kids how to cultivate friendship. It discusses behaviors that foster friendships, as well as those that drive friends away. It illustrates the pitfalls of peer pressure, and what to do when you can’t find a friend or have lost your best friend.

In You Are You, I Am Me, author Cynthia Geisen helps children reflect on how we can appreciate—and even celebrate—the diversity in the world around us while also helping them to recognize those things that we all share.  

Whimsical Elfin characters offer simple, sage advice for dealing with life’s challenges!

Nicky Carson's got a history. With an on-again-off-again bisexual lover, his only constant in life is the harrassment and bullying from local jocks. Hiding his problems from his buddy Jayden, Nicky deals with the situation the only way he knows how: by seducing those stupid sporty straightboys. If you can't beat 'em, bed 'em!

Once the sun sets a new world unfolds: under lonely streetlamps and shrouded alleys, in crowded clubs and hidden beneath the pulse of music. This is where you see him: raven-haired and sweet, with a coy, inviting smile on his lips. A silver ring on a leather cord glitters on his naked chest, and he...

Adrian's fed up with DJ's crap. Sure DJ's popular, and he's as gorgeous as a guy can be with his feathery blond hair and milk-toothed smile. But after DJ made the moves last time, Adrian's out for revenge. What he doesn't know is that DJ's been hiding something for years... A dramatic tale of love-hate tension!

Childhood is the time for virtues to be taught—or, more accurately, “caught.” And the virtue of respect is one sorely needed in a world more and more diverse, congested, and interdependent. Just what is respect? “It’s a good way to be—and a way to be good,” say the authors of this helpful,...

It's natural to hate the popular kid in school. It galls Adrian that someone so mousy gets so much attention from the girls. He grits his teeth over how this kind of guy can get such a reputation for being a sleaze. Yet as the prospective valedictorian, Adrian's been called upon to tutor the very guy he hates most. Of course, Adrian's new pupil has more in mind than hitting the books...

Ever since Tayson saved Jase from the streets, he's made it clear that Jase's virginity will be the first part of repaying that kindness. Now after months of training he's finally ready to give up his cherry and become initiated as a new manwhore. Yet Jase is torn between his duty and his passion when he goes to meet his client. How will he handle the Virgin Auction?

This book is written for younger, school-age children for whom going to church doesn’t always make sense, particularly when it competes with things they’d rather do like sleeping in or playing. Younger children don’t have the cognitive abilities in place yet to understand many of the abstract...

Kids don’t need to be told that Christmas “counts.” They are generally tuned in to the excitement and anticipation! And yet, children can be among the first to forget what it is about the season that really counts. Much of this may have to do with what our culture—and we ourselves—teach...

“If music be the food of love, play on,” wrote William Shakespeare. And linking music with food and love is another example of the Bard’s genius. Music, after all—like food—has the ability to fill us, to satisfy our hunger, to express our joy, longing, regret, sadness, sheer delight. And,...

Book offers inspirational and practical advice for daily situations.