A watershed moment exists in every man's life-the moment he stops being his mother's son and starts being his lover's man. When he transitions from protected to protector. Erik "Fish" Fiskare is only a college junior when a gunman walks into the campus theater, intent on stopping the show. From the lighting booth, Fish sees his girlfriend, Marguerite "Daisy" Bianco, get caught in the line of fire. Everyone runs away from the stage but Fish, in a watershed moment, runs toward it.\nSpanning fifteen years, The Man I Love explores how a single act of violence reverberates through a circle of friends. At the center are Fish and Daisy, two soul mates who always brought out the best in each other. Both are hailed as heroes after the shooting, yet the tragedy starts to bring out the worst in them, tearing the circle apart. Soon, Fish is running again-not toward Daisy this time, but as far away as possible. But can you really leave the one you were born to love? And is leaving always the end of loving?\n"You never got over her, Fish. You just left. You may think that's closure, but it isn't. You may think a woman like Daisy comes along twice in a lifetime, but she doesn't."\nFearlessly touching on today's social and mental health issues, The Man I Love follows Erik Fiskare's journey back to the truth of himself and a woman he can't forget. With its gripping story and an unforgettable cast of characters, this epic novel of love and forgiveness lingers long after the last page is turned.

The Man I Love (Fish Tales)

Literature & Fiction

Laqueur, Suanne

Genre Fiction

Suanne Laqueur, Author

Juleón "Jude" Tholet has survival in his DNA. His father, Cleon, lived through imprisonment and torture during Pinochet's military coup in Chile. His mother, Penny, risked everything to gain her husband's freedom and flee the country with their newborn son. But as a closeted gay teenager growing up in Vancouver, Jude is targeted by a neighborhood bully called El Cóndor, culminating in a vicious hate crime that forces the Tholets to flee their country again. | Jude cautiously rebuilds his life in Seattle, becoming an accomplished pianist, but his his wings have been clipped and he cannot seem to soar in his relationships. Only family remains a constant source of strength and joy, until a DNA test reveals something that shocks all the Tholets: Jude is not their child. | Stunned by the test results, the Tholets must dig into their painful past, re-examine their lives in 1973 Santiago and the events surrounding Jude's birth story. It's a tale rooted in South America's Operation Condor. It spreads through Pinochet's terrifying regime of detention camps, torture, disappeared civilians and stolen children. The journey forces Penny Tholet to confront the gaps in her memory while Cleon must re-live an ordeal he's long kept hidden away in a secret world. The tale ends with Jude digging through his genetic code in a quest to find his biological parents. Are they alive? Or are they among Los Desaparecidos-the Disappeared Ones? | Suanne Laqueur's third book in the Venery series explores the desperate acts of love made in times of war, and the many ways family can be defined.

A Scarcity of Condors (Venery)

United States

Grand Prize Winner in the 2017 Writer's Digest Book Awards.
September 11, 1973: Eleven-year-old Alejandro Penda watches from his apartment window as Santiago, Chile falls to a military coup, destroying his family and his childhood. Arriving alone in America, he's taken in by the Larks: a prominent family in the town of Guelisten. Though burdened by unresolved grief for his disappeared parents, he becomes fiercely loyal to the Larks, eventually marrying one of their daughters, Valerie. September 11, 2001: Javier Landes watches from his apartment window as New York City falls to terrorism. As one of Manhattan's top-paid male escorts, this professional lover has never lacked for company and is loyal only to himself. But in the wake of 9/11, Jav is named guardian for an orphaned nephew in Guelisten and must open his carefully-guarded heart to emotions long suppressed. Alex, Valerie and Jav meet first in their twenties, with a sudden attraction each finds strange and compelling. When they meet again in their forties, they discover not only is their bond still strong, but their life experiences are strangely similar. All have been shaped by separate 9/11's, and their unfinished business from the past will change everything they know about love, loyalty and friendship. Across three decades and two continents, Suanne Laqueur's fifth novel explores the unpredictability of sexual attraction, how family ties are forged, torn and mended, and how love's downfall can turn to exaltation.

An Exaltation of Larks (Venery)

Suanne, Laqueur

"What I feel has no name..."\nSuanne Laqueur's award-winning debut novel The Man I Love thrilled readers with its memorable characters and depth of emotion. Erik Fiskare's journey of love, recovery and forgiveness captivated hearts but also left questions unanswered. Now Daisy Bianco has a chance to tell her story.\nIt's been three years since a single lapse of judgment cost Daisy the love of her life. Erik was a conduit to her soul but now he's chosen a path of total disconnection, refusing to speak to her or acknowledge her betrayal. Alone and shattered, Daisy attempts to take responsibility for her actions while building her career as a professional dancer in New York City. But Erik's unforgiving estrangement proves too much for her strength. Plagued by flashbacks to the Lancaster shootings, she falls into a dangerous spiral of self-harm, cutting into her own skin as a means to atone. Only the timely appearance of an old friend, John "Opie" Quillis, saves her from self-destruction and gives her a chance to love again.\nLaqueur skillfully weaves flashbacks to the college years with Daisy's present life. Supported by John's patient affection, she works to separate her evolution as an adult from the unresolved guilt and grief of her youth. As her professional accomplishments lift her out of depression, Daisy learns to hold onto her accountability without letting it become her identity. Years pass and she builds a beautiful life filled with dance and friends. Lovers come and eventually go, leaving her on her own with the old thought: Come back to me.\nIn this parallel narrative, Laqueur peels open the beloved characters from The Man I Love to reveal new and complex layers of vulnerability. The scars from the shooting are deep and pervasive within this circle of friends. Like Daisy, they are trying to evolve without being fully resolved. But when questions from the past go unheeded, you alone must find and give your answers true.

Give Me Your Answer True (Fish Tales)

Plenty of fish in the sea. But none like the ones that got away. | Author Suanne Laqueur gives her readers an intimate, guided tour of the award-winning novel, The Man I Love. From the embryonic chapters written over twenty years ago to scenes cut from the final draft, you'll witness the crafting of an emotional journey and the evolution of the beloved characters within The Fish Tales. | Includes never-before-seen material and an excerpt from Laqueur's next novel, An Exaltation of Larks.

The Ones That Got Away: A Collection of Lost Fish Tales

Two co-workers, long attracted but never acted. Over the years, he's only spoon-fed her details of his private life. Despite their easy rapport, even with all their playful and thrilling banter, most of his true feelings remain beyond her grasp. She can't quite tell if he's intrigued by her, or just mildly amused. Does her attention please him, or is he used to fawning female company, and so ambivalent to hers? Does he count her among his blessings or among his worries? Does he ever take her out of the context of their work relationship, or does he just take her for granted as both a colleague and a woman? They've been at arms length for years. Now they're in a hotel elevator, filled with passionate curiosity and about to show each other their true selves. And in doing so, discover more than they thought possible. Why tonight? she wondered. What changed? What made it happen?

An Evening at the Hotel: An Affair in 51 Rooms

Love and Bravery: Sixteen Stories

Erotica

Daisy, Daisy (The Fish Tales)

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

In this companion coloring book to Daisy, Daisy, author Suanne Laqueur embellishes a single scene from her beloved novel Give Me Your Answer True by crafting additional verses to the classic song "Daisy Bell." Brought to life by Julie Sneedon's charming line illustrations and evoking a bygone era, the whole family will enjoy coloring and singing these floral verses, while fans of The Fish Tales will recall the things we do when we're in love.

Daisy, Daisy: Color Your Answer True (The Fish Tales)

A Small Hotel

Review\n"A Small Hotel twines together personal stories with well-researched historical vignettes to create a world you can't help but get caught up in. Her characters step out of the pages to challenge the reader's preconceptions of key themes without relying on cliched romance novel tropes — a story with depth and breadth as well as emotion and scope."\n—GO! Magazine\n"Suanne Laqueur depicts a fine interplay between family, love, and the revised family circumstances of being part of a military world. As A Small Hotel evolves, readers receive a vivid, emotional survey of families challenged by war's arrival and the kinds of decisions that change everyone. Its powerful force brings the times and individual struggles and perceptions to life, making A Small Hotel highly recommended for any fiction reader interested in World War Two's impact on disparate lives around the world."\n—Midwest Book Review\n"A glorious read. Laqueur is a master storyteller. More than a historical romance, [A Small Hotel] is a tale of love, of longing, of heartbreak... a tale of familial loyalty and bonds that transcend blood."\n—Feathered Quill Book Reviews\n"Laqueur is a fine writer and her ambitious historical fiction novel, A Small Hotel, is lively and highly readable. It begins with a 'once upon a time' innocence, a sweet simplicity. Laqueur wastes no time getting her readers engaged. Loving the characters in this book comes easy and quick, and plots unravel swiftly and tangibly. But what begins as a book of family lore and sweet complexities takes a sharp turn when the Fiskare boys go to war. Here, Laqueur's writing becomes sharper, edgier. The horrors of war are not spared. In his journal, Kennet writes down the unspeakable; he experiences the unthinkable; he does the unimaginable. Laqueur leaves nothing out. The aftermath of war is not easy, either, sorting out the dead, the wounded, and the irreparably sad. Not stooping to a fairytale happy ending, Laqueur scrapes up what remains and makes the best of it." 
--BookTrib\nSILVER MEDAL IN FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK OF THE YEAR (Historical Fiction)\nAn American Family. A World War. A First Love. A Small Hotel. 
It’s the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the height of the tourist season. Kennet Fiskare, son of a hotel proprietor, is having the summer of a lifetime, having fallen deeply in love with a Swedish-Brazilian guest named Astrid Virtanen. But the affair is cut short and the young lovers permanently parted, first by Astrid’s family obligations, then by America’s entry into the war. 
The rigors of military life help dull his heartache, but when Kennet’s battalion reaches France, he is thrown into the crucible of front line combat. As his unit crosses Europe, from the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, Kennet falls into a different kind of love: the intense camaraderie between soldiers. It's a bond fierce yet fragile, vital yet expendable, here today and gone tomorrow. Sustained by his friendships, Kennet both witnesses and commits the unthinkable atrocities of warfare, altering his view of the world and himself. To the point where a second chance with Astrid in peacetime might be the most terrifying and consequential battle he’s ever fought. 
With her signature blend of soul-stirring prose and emotional complexity, Laqueur takes readers on a journey through events that shape an American family’s weakest moments and finest hours. A Small Hotel illuminates the experience of ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances, and their once-in-a-generation camaraderie, courage and resiliency. It’s a novel for the world, a heartbreaking, uplifting story of family, love and human endurance.

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