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Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identityby Ophira EdutISBN 1580050166 (1-58005-016-6)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Alma Roseby Eidth ForbesISBN 1580050115 (1-58005-011-5)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Best Gay Erotica 1996by Michael Ford, Scott HeimISBN 1573440523 (1-57344-052-3)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Best Lesbian Erotica 1997by Jewelle Gomez, Tristan TaorminoISBN 1573440655 (1-57344-065-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Lesbian Erotica 1997'Book summary:Several years ago finding lesbian erotica was as difficult as locating a liberal at the National Republican Convention. It may have been there, but it stayed out of sight. This has been rectified with the publication of several anthologies of lesbian erotic writing, the most prominent of which has been Best Lesbian Erotica, edited by Tristan Taormino. This second volume, featuring stories selected by Jewelle Gomez, is a fine collection that includes the romantic and the perverse, the sublime and the athletic. Writers such as Chrystos, Jenifer Levin, Heather Lewis, and Kitty Tusi have produced stories that will evoke a number of responses. [via]
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Betty and Pansy's Severe Queer Review of San Francisco: An Irreverent, Opinionated Guide to the Bars, Clubs, Restaurants, Cruising Areas, and Other Attractions of the Queer Meccaby Betty Pearl, Pansy BradshawISBN 1573441775 (1-57344-177-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Body Alchemy : Transsexual Portraitsby Loren CameronISBN 1573440620 (1-57344-062-0)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body Alchemy : Transsexual Portraits'Book summary:The idea of gender is no long as fixed as it once was: Tootsie, La Cage aux Folles, and Milton Berle saw to that. But none of this has prepared us for Loren Cameron's amazing portraits of transsexuals. Beautifully reproduced and complemented with notes and short essays, these portraits of women who are now men may startle, but they will also make you marvel at the genuine complexities of life, sex, and desire. Body Alchemy might have been a curiosity, like Diane Arbus's photographs of those outside the physical and cultural mainstream, but Cameron's art is so empathetic, so precise, that we are left in awe and with a new understanding of the realities of being human. [via]
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Body Languageby Michael CraftISBN 1575665549 (1-57566-554-9)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Bondageby Masquerade StaffISBN 1584190051 (1-58419-005-1)
Hardcover, Masquerade Books, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bondage'Book summary:An anthology of short stories and excerpts from Masquerade's best-selling novels. Sizzling but stylish, this collection was praised for the quality of its writing and variety of approaches to its theme. [via]
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Boy in the Middleby Patrick Califia-Rice, Patrick CalifiaISBN 1573442186 (1-57344-218-6)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriendby Mabel ManeyISBN 1573442275 (1-57344-227-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurseby Mabel ManeyISBN 1573442267 (1-57344-226-7)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Conversations in the Darkby Carmen Mercedes SaxtonISBN 1585001619 (1-58500-161-9)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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Daughters of Darknessby Pam KeeseyISBN 157344233X (1-57344-233-X)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughters of Darkness'Book summary:Lesbian vampires the quintessential bad girls indulge in their perverse pleasures in this red-hot collection.[via]
The female vampire is so deliciously wicked that her powerful sexual nature was hidden for centuries. But the vampire story has always been one of submerged eroticism. The vampire emerges from the shadows, seduces her intended victim, and feeds on her, defying all rules in her pursuit of pleasure. In Daughters of Darkness, editor Pam Keesey brings the eroticism of the female vampire front and center with explicit tales from some of the finest contemporary queer writers.
Patrick Califias The Vampire confounds conventional views of the subject as he uncovers Sapphic bloodlust in the S/M netherworld. Katherine V. Forrest imagines the lesbian vampire cruising the galaxies in search of bed-and-blood partners in the witty sci-fi adventure O Captain, My Captain. In Louisiana: 1850, Lambda Award-winner Jewelle Gomez delights readers with a curious ménage in the antebellum South. Also included is the first major lesbian vampire tale, J. Sheridan Le Fanus Carmilla (1871).More editions of Daughters of Darkness:
Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Picturesby Phoebe GloecknerISBN 1583940634 (1-58394-063-4)
Softcover, Frog Ltd
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The Diary of James Schuylerby James Schuyler, Nathan KernanISBN 1574230255 (1-57423-025-5)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of James Schuyler'Book summary:Howard Moss famously remarked of James Schuyler's poetry: "He is in touch with parts of himself not usually available for examination and not often handled by most writers." Moss was referring to a sexual honesty, but Schuyler is also unusually in touch with the everyday. He saw himself as an observer rather than philosopher, and made magic of what others deem commonplace, knowing there was more going on directly underneath. In his diary, there is much talk of weather, the sort that he turned into fine poetry ("This soft October," for example) and more quotidian fantasy. The entry for Thursday, March 16, 1989, begins: "On this brilliant, cool, delicious day the city seemed the work of a child who owns a pencil, a ruler, and a paint set." As the eighties draw on, his cat, Barbara, becomes a key player. Then again, in the lives of his friends, so does AIDS.
Schuyler's diary also served as a commonplace--in the other sense of the word-book. Quotes range from John Webster's great play The Duchess of Malfi to several passages from the memoir of Harry Daley, E.M. Forster's policeman lover; and Nathan Kernan has carefully annotated sources and filled in lacunae. Who knew that Cardinal Spellman's camp nickname was Minnie? What a delight to come upon the name of that Hitchcock-film actress Nova Pilbeam! James Schuyler thought himself as an observer, not a philosopher, but his poetry and prose are filled with decisive moments. Unlike some artists' personal records, his don't seem as if they were written with an eye to future publication. That doesn't decrease their casual intensity. [via]
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Different Daughters: A Book by Mothers of Lesbiansby Louise RafkinISBN 1573441279 (1-57344-127-9)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Different Daughters : A Book by Mothers of Lesbians'Book summary:Among the watershed books for lesbians in past fifteen years, Louise Rafkin's Different Daughters provides support for the rainbow notion that love is what makes a family. When the book first appeared in 1987, there were very few resources for the parents of gays and lesbians, and even the best-intentioned parent could end up confused and angry after a trip to the Sexual Deviance section of the public library. Revised and expanded to include a few more contemporary issues like transgenderism, bisexuality, and gay parenting, these 30 brief memoirs by mothers of lesbians will comfort any mother who worries that her daughter will never be happy, or find a long-term, stable love, or be accepted by those around her. Even hostile parents can find some reassurance here in stories about mothers who were at first horrified by their daughters' lesbianism and have struggled to achieve an uneasy peace with them. A wonderful gift, especially for mothers of lesbians who are newly out of the closet.--Regina Marler [via]
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Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists from A to Zby Roz WarrenISBN 1573440086 (1-57344-008-6)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Empowering the Tribe: A Positive Guide to Gay and Lesbian Self-Esteemby Richard L. Pimental-HabibISBN 1575664240 (1-57566-424-0)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Even Our FantasiesISBN 1584190140 (1-58419-014-0)
Softcover, Masquerade Books
Find This BookBook summary:Gay erotica creates a world of the imagination in which the constraints of civilization fade and are replaced by the boundless Eros of the pleasure principle. At its core, this writing provides us with an alternative vision of life, of pleasure, and Eros. [via]
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Every Man for Himselfby Orland OutlandISBN 1575665530 (1-57566-553-0)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Every Woman I'Ve Ever Lovedby Catherine Reid, Holly IglesiasISBN 1573440302 (1-57344-030-2)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Woman I'Ve Ever Loved'Book summary:In her introduction to this collection of essays, Catherine Reid suggests that the complications of mother-child relationships are more intensified and distilled for lesbians than for others, because both our own bodies and those of lovers can evoke the memory of mother. About half of the 28 essays in this book, by writers such as Audre Lorde, Joan Nestle, and Dorothy Allison, have been previously published; the other half were written for this anthology. Mab Segrest writes eloquently and sadly about her dead mother's relation to Segrest's writing and anti-racist activism. The excerpt from Holly Hughes's World Without End captures the giddy nervousness of a daughter seeing her mother naked. Shay Youngblood's spare vignette describes the affinity between a mother and daughter whose bodies are breaking. Every Woman I've Ever Loved is an extremely powerful collection, best read slowly with time for weeping. [via]
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Eye Contactby Michael CraftISBN 1575664259 (1-57566-425-9)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Fledglingby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 1583226907 (1-58322-690-7)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fledgling'Book summary:Fledgling, Octavia Butlers first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wantedand still wantsto destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. [via]
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Flight Dreamsby Michael CraftISBN 1575668548 (1-57566-854-8)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Forbidden Passagesby Pat Califia, Janine FullerISBN 1573440205 (1-57344-020-5)
Hardcover, Cleis Pr
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Forbidden Passages : Writings Banned in Canadaby Pat Califia, Janine FullerISBN 1573440191 (1-57344-019-1)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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A Fragile Union : New and Selected Writingsby Joan NestleISBN 157344040X (1-57344-040-X)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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Gaudi Afternoonby Barbara WilsonISBN 1580050565 (1-58005-056-5)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Gay & Lesbian Rights: A Guide for Glbt Singles, Couples, and Familiesby Brette McWhorter SemberISBN 1572483318 (1-57248-331-8)
Softcover, Sphinx Pub
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Gay Dads: A Celebration of Fatherhoodby Susanna Margolis, David StrahISBN 1585423335 (1-58542-333-5)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Gay Dads: A Celebration of Gay Fatherhoodby Susanna Margolis, David StrahISBN 1585422312 (1-58542-231-2)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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The Gay Detectiveby Lou RandISBN 1573441694 (1-57344-169-4)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Gay Witchcraft: Empowering the Tribeby Christopher PenczakISBN 1578632811 (1-57863-281-1)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Girls, Visions and Everythingby Sarah SchulmanISBN 1580050220 (1-58005-022-0)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Hard Evidenceby Timothy LiuISBN 1584980222 (1-58498-022-2)
Softcover, Talisman House Pub
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Hello Cruel World : 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlawsby Kate BornsteinISBN 1583227202 (1-58322-720-2)
Softcover, Seven Stories Press
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Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950'sby Marijane MeakerISBN 1573441716 (1-57344-171-6)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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His Tongueby Lawrence SchimelISBN 1583940499 (1-58394-049-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Homosexuality of Men and Womenby Magnus Hirschfeld, Michael A. Lombardi-NashISBN 1573927058 (1-57392-705-8)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Homosexuality of Men and Women'Book summary:One of the founders of the scientific study of sex, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) led the field with his pioneering objective examinations of homosexuality, tranvestism, and gender identity. "The Homosexuality of Men and Women" was designed to provide a unified, comprehensive description of homosexuality while ridding heterosexuals of gay prejudice and allowing homosexuals to confront their isolation and accept themselves. Opening with a definition and a detailed biological discussion of sexual orientation, including the childhood and adolescent phases, Hirschfeld addresses the physical, mental, and emotional life of homosexuals while explaining the inborn nature of homosexuality and bisexuality. In the second half of the book, Hirschfeld looks at sociology, community life, bonding, roles in society, history, persecution, victimisation, and the law. His documentation of gays in the military and the 'new technology' of his day offers farsighted observations that strongly parallel today's national debates and new developments. [via]
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How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization: The True and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern Worldby Cathy CrimminsISBN 1585424250 (1-58542-425-0)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscanyby Mark Mitchell, David LeavittISBN 1582432112 (1-58243-211-2)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany'Book summary:A whole subset of travel memoirs is now devoted to the theme of restoring old houses in Europe, thanks to Peter Mayle and Frances Mayes. While most authors use the home as a vehicle to examine the surrounding culture, in In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany, David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell tilt their measure decidedly on the side of home decor. "Nothing tells you more about a people than their houses," they write, as they set out to "construct a past based on [their] own private notions of comfort, upon which [they] could glance with pleasure in some hypothetical future".
While initially daunted at restoring a country house in bureaucracy-plagued Italy, the two dive in with gusto when they find Podere Fiume (River Farm) in Maremma, a little known part of Tuscany. Uninhabited for more than 20 years, the farmhouse's downstairs is composed entirely of animal stalls complete with stone troughs while its two acres are lined with olive and fruit trees as well as a small creek. Leavitt and Mitchell tell of tapping into the Italian tradition of craftsmanship replete with iron-fitters, lamp and lampshade makers, wood carvers and furniture restorers. They design their own couch, reconstruct an 1803 fireplace and commission a copy of an 18th century Venetian bookcase with secret doors for CDs. They even recount the paint colours and fabric designs they considered. Needless to say, the density of detail they devote to their decor will mostly be of interest to those who pour over design magazines such as House and Garden and World of Interiors, as the authors do. Fortunately, they also devote some of their short but precise chapters to humorous and telling bits about Italy--the habits, feuds and "poetry and madness" of Italian bureaucracy--as well as portraits of some of their more interesting neighbours, such as Pepe the iron-fitter and Pina the restaurateur.
Written from the point of view of expatriates who live among but are not of, In Maremma offers an interesting, sometimes overdone and other times right-on-target portrait of a less glamorous (if no less interesting) part of Tuscany than that of Frances Mayes. --Lesley Reed [via]
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It Had to Be Youby Timothy James BeckISBN 1575668904 (1-57566-890-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Journey to a Womanby Ann BannonISBN 1573441708 (1-57344-170-8)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Joy of Self-Pleasuring: Why Feel Guilty About Feeling Good?by Edward L. RowanISBN 1573927953 (1-57392-795-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 1573920401 (1-57392-040-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:In his quest for a truly native idiom, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) incarnated the American geography and its people in a new and transcendent poetic form. His monumental work, Leaves of Grass, celebrates sexuality, gender equality, and the astonishing beauty of the everyday. For Whitman, "The true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science and to common lives, endowing them with glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to real things, and to real things only."
This complete edition of Leaves of Grass, which includes "Sands at Seventy" (from November Boughs) and "Good-bye My Fancy," contains those poems that have become part of the great American literature, including "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "O Captain, My Captain." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
Marginsby Terri De LA PenaISBN 1580050395 (1-58005-039-5)
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Marianne Faithfull's Cigaretteby Gerry PearlbergISBN 1573440345 (1-57344-034-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Memory Mamboby Achy ObejasISBN 1573440175 (1-57344-017-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memory Mambo'Book summary:Achy Obejas, a Cuban lesbian living in Chicago, scored a huge hit with her 1994 collection of short stories, We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Now in Memory Mambo, her first novel, she describes the life of Juani, a 25-year-old Cuban lesbian who has to deal with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile--from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality--and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home. [via]
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Moving on: The Gay Man's Guide for Coping When a Relationship Endsby Dann HazelISBN 1575663783 (1-57566-378-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1583485090 (1-58348-509-0)
Softcover, To Excel Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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My Best Manby Andy SchellISBN 1575665492 (1-57566-549-2)
Hardcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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My Husband Is Gay: A Woman's Guide to Surviving the Crisisby Carol GreverISBN 1580910890 (1-58091-089-0)
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Navigating the Darwin Straitsby Edith ForbesISBN 1580050492 (1-58005-049-2)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Ojril: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapmanby Graham Chapman, Jim YoakumISBN 1574882708 (1-57488-270-8)
Softcover, Potomac Books Inc
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Posted to Deathby Dean JamesISBN 1575668866 (1-57566-886-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetryby Gerry Gomez PearlbergISBN 157344071X (1-57344-071-X)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Quicksands: A Memoirby Sybille BedfordISBN 1582433518 (1-58243-351-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksands: A Memoir'Book summary:Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).[via]
Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation. None other than notoriously hard-to-satisfy Bruce Chatwin asserted that "when the history of modern prose in English comes to be written, Mrs. Bedford will have to appear in any list of its most dazzling practitioners."
Comparisons. While not yet as big a name in the U.S. as her talent would suggest, Bedford ranks with the elder states(wo)men of contemporary literature. Think of her in the same breath as Shirley Hazzard, Penelope Fitzgerald, Joan Didion, Anita Brookner, and Cynthia Ozick.
Another chance to rediscover a long-lost great. The past few years the literary world has witnessed a number of spectacular career rebirths. Paula Fox, e.g., emerged after a long silence with the NBCC finalist Borrowed Finery and stacks of rave reviews. In some cases, this reassessment has even worked posthumously--as seen in the attention lavished on Rebecca West's Survivors in Mexico. Expect Bedford's Quicksands to be the next to get this royal treatment.
The Counterpoint reissues. This book, very likely to be Bedford's last (she's 92), will also form the culmination of the Counterpoint reissues of the Bedford backlist. Look forward to the same crisp, classic packaging for this latest outing.More editions of Quicksands: A Memoir:
Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Rightby Mel WhiteISBN 1585425311 (1-58542-531-1)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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Restricted Accessby Susan Raffo, Victoria A. BrownworthISBN 158005028X (1-58005-028-X)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Reunion: A Year in Letters Between a Birthmother and the Daughter She Couldn't Keepby Katie Hern, Ellen McGarry CarlsonISBN 1580050301 (1-58005-030-1)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Sex & Single Girls: Straight and Queer Women on Sexualityby Lee DamskyISBN 1580050387 (1-58005-038-7)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Storyby Mark MatousekISBN 1573225819 (1-57322-581-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story'Book summary:An edgy, no-holds-barred, post-modern memoir that moves with ease from the gritty details of a harrowing childhood, to the soulless meanderings of a young man "making it" in New York City, to the soaring search for meaning. [via]
Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xenaby Varla VenturaISBN 1573241288 (1-57324-128-8)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Signals: An Inspiring Story of Life After Lifeby Joel Rothschild, Neale Donald WalschISBN 1577311795 (1-57731-179-5)
Softcover, New World Library
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Someone Is Watchingby Mark A. RoederISBN 158348616X (1-58348-616-X)
Softcover, iUniverse, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Someone Is Watching'Book summary:It's hard hiding a secret. It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else knows.
Someone is watching. Someone knows. It was a nightmare come true for seventeen year-old Ethan. It's hard hiding a secret. It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else knows. Who is the mysterious note-writer, the secret tormentor? Who is the enemy that hides among Ethan's friends and teammates? Who holds Ethan's secret over his head, threatening to destroy his entire world?
Someone Is Watching is the story of a young high school wrestler who must come to terms with being gay. He struggles first with himself, then with an unknown classmate that hounds his every step. While struggling to discover the identity of his tormentor, Ethan must discover his own identity and learn to live his life as his true self. He must choose whether to give up what he wants the most, or face his greatest fear of all. [via]
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Spring Fireby Vin PackerISBN 1573441872 (1-57344-187-2)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Subgurlzby Jennifer CamperISBN 1573440906 (1-57344-090-6)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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The Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have a Great Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuseby Staci HainesISBN 1573440795 (1-57344-079-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex Worldby Susie BrightISBN 1573440779 (1-57344-077-9)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Menby Bill BrentISBN 157344121X (1-57344-121-X)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Ultimate Guide To Pregnancy For Lesbians: How To Stay Sane And Care For Yourself From Preconception Through Birthby Rachel PepperISBN 157344216X (1-57344-216-X)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: Tips and Techniques from Conception to Birth How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourselfby Rachel PepperISBN 1573440809 (1-57344-080-9)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: Tips and Techniques from Conception to Birth How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself'Book summary:This lively and readable book provides basic pregnancy and preconception advice for lesbians and their partners. Concentrating on topics of special interest to lesbian families--such as choosing an anonymous donor, drafting agreements with known donors, and defining the nonbiological mother's parenting role--it also suggests how and when to inseminate and walks the reader through a normal full-term pregnancy and delivery. Despite its title, however, the book cannot really substitute for a comprehensive guide to pregnancy along the lines of What to Expect When You're Expecting, and the breezy section on labor will be of little use when you feel mysterious twinges in your 39th week (or your 29th). This would be best as a first book to buy when considering pregnancy, or as an addition to other, more detailed guides. (However, the section on sex during pregnancy does provide lesbian-specific advice unlikely to be found anywhere else.) --Regina Marler [via]
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The Ultimate Guide to Strap-On Sexby Karlyn LotneyISBN 157344085X (1-57344-085-X)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Wallby Marlen HaushoferISBN 1573440949 (1-57344-094-9)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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White Stainsby Anais NinISBN 1584190205 (1-58419-020-5)
Softcover, Masquerade Books
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The Woman Who Found Grace: A Cordelia Morgan Mysteryby Bett Reece JohnsonISBN 1573441503 (1-57344-150-3)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Woman Who Knew Too Muchby Bett Reece JohnsonISBN 1573440450 (1-57344-045-0)
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The Woman Who Rode to the Moonby Bett Reece JohnsonISBN 1573440868 (1-57344-086-8)
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Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Menby Brian BouldreyISBN 1573225452 (1-57322-545-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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