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Ammoniteby Nicola GriffithISBN 0345452380 (0-345-45238-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ammonite'Book summary:In Ammonite, the 1994 James Tiptree Jr. Award winner, the attempts to colonize the planet Jeep have uncovered a selective virus that kills all men and all but a few women. The remaining women undergo changes that enable them to communicate with one another and the planet itself, and give to birth to healthy, genetically diverse children. Marguerite Angelica Taishan is an anthropologist who realizes this phenomena and makes the decision to give herself up to the planet to uncover its mysteries. [via]
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As Meat Loves Saltby Maria McCannISBN 015601226X (0-15-601226-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As Meat Loves Salt'Book summary:Maria McCann enters the fray of 1640s England and Civil War with considerable gusto in this ambitious first novel. A coldly gruesome murder committed by her youthful narrator opens his account, and the bloody siege of his lover's Diggers colony ends it. Narrator Jacob Cullen, educated but now a servant, flees his royalist household, taking his bride of just an hour and his brother. In a second act of terrible brutality, he beats and rapes his wife. Becoming a pikeman in Cromwell's New Model Army, he befriends Christopher Ferris, an idealist disaffected by the Army and in search of a less tainted freedom. And so the two desert and head for London and the pleasures of Cheapside--and each other. Jacob becomes "a fornicator of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist... I was in love". But Ferris is intent on establishing a commune, a prospect Jacob reviles, yet to keep his lover he has no choice but to join the motley band.
McCann's writing is rich in detail and colour--the muck and mud of battlefields, London's crowded stench, and the colonists' back-breaking work on the land; she manoeuvres her large cast of characters adeptly, and her dialogue is nicely pithy. The flaw that blights the plot is a yawning gap of credibility: Jacob's acts of violence--the murder, the rape and much more--which occur almost out of the blue simply don't fit his persona. His motives are too thin; nor is he presented as an unbridled brute masquerading as sanity itself. So how are we to "read" him? Even Ferris's accusation--"A man's own evil is his devil and yours, Jacob, is mastery"--suggests too little and comes too late. Jacob's pivotal place in the narrative is discredited by the lack of psychic underpinning and this mars an otherwise robust debut. --Ruth Petrie [via]
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Barrel Feverby David SedarisISBN 0316779423 (0-316-77942-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barrel Fever'Book summary:A collection of stories and essays by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris based upon his own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown, U.S.A. Here are images and blasphemies that nice people don't dare look at--blatantly exposed and told with the clear, casual voice of intimate knowledge. Sedaris' humor is born of compassion and his tales range from the sharing of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, to experiences of the Gay and Famous (Charlton Heston and Elizabeth Dole, for example), to the lives of siblings named Hope, Faith, Charity and Adolph and to alcoholics and chain smokers you can laugh with. [via]
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926345 (0-316-92634-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. [via]
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- Brideshead Revisited: ISBN 0316925829 (0-316-92582-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Brideshead Revisited: ISBN 0316926272 (0-316-92627-2)
Hardcover, Little, Brown - Brideshead Revisited: ISBN 0412501007 (0-412-50100-7)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall - Brideshead Revisited: ISBN 0316926345 (0-316-92634-5)
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- Brideshead Revisited: ISBN 0316925829 (0-316-92582-9)
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Burning Brightby Melissa ScottISBN 0312855028 (0-312-85502-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning Bright'Book summary:When space pilot Quinn Lioe gets shore leave on the planet of Burning Bright, she finds herself drawn into the world's mixture of hi-tech games and fascinating political intrigue. By the author of Dreamships. [via]
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By the Light of My Father's Smileby Alice WalkerISBN 0345426061 (0-345-42606-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Light of My Father's Smile'Book summary:The Mundo are a new tribe, created by the intermingling of escaped Black slaves and native Indians in the Mexican Sierras. Ineligible for academic funding, a husband-and-wife team of African American anthropologists pose as Christian missionaries to secure sponsorship to live among the Mundo and study their culture. This soul-stifling deception underlies the family tragedy at the heart of Alice Walker's novel, her first in six years. The father, preaching the message of his puritanical Protestant sponsors, is "sucked into the black cloth" of Christianity and blinded to the Mundo's life-affirming ways. When he discovers his daughter Magdalena's affair with a young Mundo, he beats her with a belt, thus estranging himself from both her and the younger daughter, Susannah. The first of several narrative voices to speak is his. Dead, he has become an "angel" who observes his daughters from the "other side" and seeks to make amends for the pain he inflicted on them in life.
It is the conceit of By the Light of My Father's Smile that angels have complete access to the consciousness of the living beings they observe. One of the book's very first scenes involves the ebullient lovemaking of Susannah and her partner, Pauline, reported in sweaty detail by the angelic paternal voyeur. Highly explicit, this set piece is a kind of guerrilla assault on our sensibilities, preparing us to receive Walker's urgent message--that sexuality and spirituality are inextricable, that denying one causes the other to atrophy as well. The blessings of fathers are, according to this canon, essential to the sexual flowering and spiritual maturity of their female offspring. It is in the loss, the conferring, and the claiming of these blessings that the novel finds its narrative thrust.
By the Light of My Father's Smile is intended perhaps less as a story than as a parable presenting Walker's cosmology for the new millennium--one that synthesizes ancient and modern wisdoms in a way that's as artistically daring as it is politically correct: Sex is good, repression is evil. Dominant is bad, distaff is good. European culture is dead meat, the third world is wise, there is ongoing commerce between the living and the dead, great orgasms shall set us free. Many readers will agree that a world built upon these precepts surely would be preferable to the one we now inhabit. Here, as in previous fictions, Walker the storyteller is spellbinding, Walker the preacher-theorist, less so. On the other hand, what other novelist risks so bravely or with such generosity, and seeks to give so much? With the proper mindset, Walker assures us, anyone can become a member of the Mundo tribe. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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- By the Light of My Father's Smile: ISBN 0345434552 (0-345-43455-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - By the Light of My Father's Smile : A Novel: ISBN 0375501525 (0-375-50152-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - By the Light of My Father's Smile: ISBN 0345426061 (0-345-42606-1)
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Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Loreby Randy P. Conner, Mariya Sparks, David SparksISBN 0304704237 (0-304-70423-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore'Book summary:An A-Z reference source on the theme of same-sex desire, gender variance and the sacred, this book examines the often-suppressed spiritual dimension of homosexuality. Its coverage includes archetypal figures such as deities, spirits and the characters of fairy tales; sacred texts including religious narratives; myths and legends; symbols and metaphors; persons and groups embodying the domain, such as Native American Indian berdaches; and works of art, including those of painting, sculpture, music, dance, drama and film. The text is arranged alphabetically, primarily by the name of the deity, person, ritual or symbolic concept or object. It is fully cross-referenced and contains two indices, one by attribute and the other by cultural or spiritual tradition. [via]
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- Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore: ISBN 0304337609 (0-304-33760-9)
Hardcover, Cassell - Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore: ISBN 0304704237 (0-304-70423-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
- Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore: ISBN 0304337609 (0-304-33760-9)
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetryby Essex HemphillISBN 0452268176 (0-452-26817-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Chosenby Ricardo PintoISBN 0312872089 (0-312-87208-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lordeby Audre LordeISBN 0393319725 (0-393-31972-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde'Book summary:This is the definitive and complete Audre Lorde collection, including original and revised versions of Lorde's previously unavailable early poems and her later work, which Robin Morgan calls "sinewy, lyrical, celebratory even in the face of death." Lorde was able to write indignantly about political matters ("jessehelms," her excoriation of the right-wing icon, is outrageously funny and angry), and her eloquence from the margins made her an inspiration to many readers. Lorde's writings about family, erotic love, and quiet, beautiful moments of reflection also leave a deep impression. As Adrienne Rich has noted: "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page." [via]
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Cry to Heavenby Anne RiceISBN 0345373707 (0-345-37370-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Dare Truth or Promiseby Paula BoockISBN 0395971179 (0-395-97117-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Death in Veniceby Thomas Mann, Naomi RitterISBN 0312120028 (0-312-12002-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice'Book summary:Thomas mann is widely acknowledged as the greatest german novelist of this century. His 1912 novella death in venice is the most frequently read example of mann's early work.clayton koelb's masterful translation improves upon its predecessors in two ways: it renders mann into american (not british) english, and it remains true to mann's original text without sacrificing fluency. For american readers, this is the translation of choice. "backgrounds and contexts" includes mann's working notes, which allow students to observe the author's creative process. The notes are available here for the first time in english. Illuminating selections from mann's essays and letters are also reprinted, as are period maps of munich, venice, and the lido. "criticism" includes six essays-by andre von gronicka, manfred dierks, t. J. Reed, dorrit cohn, david luke, and robert tobin-sure to stimulate classroom discussion. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included [via]
Der Tod in Venedigby Thomas Mann, A. W. HornseyISBN 0435385801 (0-435-38580-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational
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The Dialogues of Plato: The Symposiumby R.E. AllenISBN 0300048742 (0-300-04874-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother'S, My Father'S, and Mineby Noelle HoweyISBN 0312422202 (0-312-42220-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Dress Codes : Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine: ISBN 031242258X (0-312-42258-X)
Hardcover, Picador - Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother'S, My Father'S, and Mine: ISBN 0312422202 (0-312-42220-2)
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Dry: A Memoirby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312423799 (0-312-42379-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dry: A Memoir'Book summary:Fans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. In Dry, we find that although adult Augusten is doing well professionally, earning a handsome living as an ad writer for a top New York agency, Burroughs's personal life is a disaster. His apartment is a sea of empty Dewar's bottles, he stays out all night boozing, and he dabs cologne on his tongue in an unsuccessful attempt to mask the stench of alcohol on his breath at work. When his employer insists he seek help, Burroughs ships out to Minnesota for detoxification, counseling, and amusingly told anecdotes about the use of stuffed animals in group therapy. But after a month of such treatment, he's back in Manhattan and tenuously sober. And while its one thing to lay off the sauce in rehab, Burroughs learns that it's quite another to resume your former life while avoiding the alcohol that your former life was based around. This quest to remain sober is made dramatically more difficult, and the tale more harrowing, when Burroughs begins an ill-advised romance with a crack addict. Certainly the "recovered alcoholic fighting to stay sober" tale is not new territory for a memoirist. But Burroughs's account transcends clichés: it doesn't adhere to the traditional "temptation narrowly resisted" storyline and it features, in Burroughs himself, a central character that is sympathetic even when he's neither likable nor admirable. But what ultimately makes this memoir such a terrific read is a brilliant and candid sense of humor that manages to stay dry even when recalling events where the author was anything but. --John Moe [via]
The Einstein Intersectionby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0441196845 (0-441-19684-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Inventionby Martha GeverISBN 0415944805 (0-415-94480-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canonby Alexander DotyISBN 041592345X (0-415-92345-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Funny Boyby Shyam SelvaduraiISBN 015600500X (0-15-600500-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Presentby Claude J. SummersISBN 0415929261 (0-415-92926-1)
Hardcover, Brunner-Routledge
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Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Timeby Carl Morse, Joan LarkinISBN 0312038364 (0-312-03836-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: An Anthologyby Carl Morse, Joan LarkinISBN 0312022131 (0-312-02213-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Henry and June: From a Journal of Love The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1931-1932by Anais NinISBN 015640057X (0-15-640057-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Ninby Anais NinISBN 0151400032 (0-15-140003-2)
Hardcover, Horizon Book Promotions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin'Book summary:Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts. [via]
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Homosexuality in Renaissance Englandby Alan BrayISBN 0231102895 (0-231-10289-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Homosexuality in Renaissance Englandby Lillian Faderman, Alan Bray, Larry GrossISBN 0231102887 (0-231-10288-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Proseby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028646 (0-15-602864-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose'Book summary:As a woman, writer, mother, and feminist, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the womanist tradition of African american women.[via]More editions of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose:
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Kiss of the Spider Womanby Manuel PuigISBN 0393311481 (0-393-31148-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'Book summary:Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before. [via]
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Kushiel's Avatarby Jacqueline CareyISBN 0312872402 (0-312-87240-2)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kushiel's Avatar'Book summary:The land of Terre d' Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good...and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule:[via]
Love as thou wilt.
Phèdre nó Delaunay is a woman born with a scarlet mote in her left eye and sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman, and he was the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.
Phèdre's path has taken a strange and sometimes dangerous course. She has lain with princes and pirate kings, battled a wicked temptress who is still determined to win the crown at any cost, and saved two nations with her courageous actions and sacrifices. Through it all she has had the devoted swordsman Joscelin at her side, who knew from the beginning what she was. Her very nature is a torturous thing for them both, and it is a bane on their lives--but he is sworn to her and by accepting who she is, Joscelin has never violated the central precept of the angel Cassiel: to protect and serve.
But Phèdre's plans will put his pledge to the test, for she has never forgotten her childhood friend Hyacinthe. She has spent ten long years searching for the key to free him from his eternal indenture to the Master of Straights, a bargain with the gods that he struck so that a nation could be saved; in doing so, he took Phèdre's place as a sacrifice. She cannot forget, and she cannot forgive--herself or the gods. She is determined to seize one last hope to redeem her friend, even if it means her death.
Their search will bring Phèdre and Joscelin on a dangerous path that will carry them across the world, to fabled courts and splendid vistas, to distant lands where madness reigns and souls are currency, and down a fabled river to a land forgotten by most of the world.
And to a power so mighty that none dare speak its name.
Kushiel's Avatar is the concluding volume in Jacqueline Carey's evocative novels about the enigmatic Phèdre nó Delaunay; the third in a triptych of beautifully constructed historical fantasies that combine passion and danger, great battles of the sword and soul, deep eroticism, and mystical enigmas.More editions of Kushiel's Avatar:
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silenceby Rosemary Curb, Nancy ManahanISBN 0446326593 (0-446-32659-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987by Alice WalkerISBN 0156528657 (0-15-652865-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987'Book summary:The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in her most deeply spiritual work yet. She writes of our intimate connection with nature, focuses on racial questions, reports on trips to China, Bali, and Jamaica, and more. [via]
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Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movementby Mark ThompsonISBN 0312131143 (0-312-13114-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Lost Soulsby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 0440212812 (0-440-21281-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Souls'Book summary:In Missing Mile, North Carolina, in search of supple young flesh and thirsting for blood, three beautiful vampires--Molochai, Twig, and Zillah--follow vampires Nothing and Ann on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Reprint. AB. PW. [via]
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Melusineby Sarah MonetteISBN 0441014178 (0-441-01417-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But the horrors of his past as an abused slave have returned, and threaten to destroy all he has since become.
As a cat burglar, Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. But now he has been caught by a wizard. And yet the wizard was looking not for Mildmay, but for Felix Harrowgate...
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Meridianby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028344 (0-15-602834-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meridian'Book summary:The second novel written by Alice Walker, preceding THE COLOUR PURPLE is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the American South in the 1960s it follows Meridian Hill, a courageous young woman who dedicates herself heart and soul to her civil rights work, touching the lives of those around her even as her own health begins to deteriorate. Hers is a lonely battle, but it is one she will not abandon, whatever the costs. This is classic Alice Walker, beautifully written, intense and passionate. [via]
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Janet SharistanianISBN 019283200X (0-19-283200-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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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Softcover, Mariner Books - My Antonia: ISBN 0451529723 (0-451-52972-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - My Antonia: ISBN 0395083567 (0-395-08356-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - My Antonia: ISBN 0451525795 (0-451-52579-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - My Antonia: ISBN 0395075149 (0-395-07514-9)
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Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writersby Robert GiardISBN 0262571250 (0-262-57125-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers'Book summary:In 1985, photographer Robert Giard set out to create an archive of portraits of gay and lesbian writers from across the United States. His intention was to present visible evidence of their presence in our culture, to attest to their particular voices. The result is an extensive photographic record of the gay and lesbian literary community. This book contains 182 of the more than 500 portraits Giard has made. The collection underscores the diversity of the gay population and encompasses a broad range of literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama, personal narrative, history, criticism, and political/activist statements. Before approaching each subject, Giard immersed himself in the writer's work. Then, after a period of personal exchange and contact between Giard and the writer, Giard travelled to the personal setting, most often the writer's home, where the photograph was to be taken. Usually he worked with the existing light he found there. Each portrait in the book reflects the subtle transaction between the photographer and the writer, who both withholds and presents in varying degrees. For Giard, existing-light portraiture mirrors that exchange, as the subject simultaneously recedes into shadow and emerges into the light. In the book, each portrait faces an excerpt of the writer's work, chosen by Giard in consultation with the writer. Taken as a whole, the portraits and excerpts encompass the many-faceted history of the gay/lesbian experience in the United States since the 1920s. [via]
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The Passion of New Eveby CarterISBN 0151712859 (0-15-171285-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Patience and Sarahby Isabel MillerISBN 0449210073 (0-449-21007-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patience and Sarah'Book summary:In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. With no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah try to follow their hearts. Defying society and history, they buy a farm and discover they can live together, away from the world that had sought to limit them and their love . . . [via]
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Plato's Symposiumby Plato, Seth BenardeteISBN 0226042758 (0-226-04275-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato's Symposium'Book summary:Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The Ladder of Love." In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers give their views on the timeless topics of love and desire, all the while addressing many of the major themes of Platonic philosophy: the relationship of philosophy and poetry, the good, and the beautiful.[via] 
The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desireby Teresa De LauretisISBN 0253208785 (0-253-20878-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in Americaby Dan SavageISBN 0452284163 (0-452-28416-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America'Book summary:[via]In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them:
- Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune.
- Lust: "We're swingers!"-you won't believe who's doing it.
- Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, gun control, and the Second Amendment.
Combine a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bill Bennett, Robert Bork, Pat Buchanan, Dr. Laura, and Bill O'Reilly bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative book of the fall.
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So Far from Godby Ana CastilloISBN 0393326934 (0-393-32693-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Standing Deadby Ricardo PintoISBN 0312872097 (0-312-87209-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Symposiumby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192834274 (0-19-283427-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Symposium'Book summary:"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's "Dialogues" still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execution of Socrates--the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century B.C., and examine the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential. [via]
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0151885338 (0-15-188533-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformationby Analouise Keating, Gloria E. AnzalduaISBN 0415936829 (0-415-93682-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutesby Don KulickISBN 0226461009 (0-226-46100-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes'Book summary:It is wonderful and weirdly fitting that one of the jacket blurbs for this work of social anthropology is by sex educator and former porn star Annie Sprinkle. Just as there is nothing dry or remote about Annie Sprinkle's delivery, there is nothing dry or remote about Don Kulick's. In fact, this may be the most readable and engaging study of transgenderism to surface in years. For seven months in 1994, Kulick lived in a household of "travestis"--Brazilian male prostitutes who live as women. He constantly tape-recorded their casual conversations, whether on the street soliciting customers or in their small rooms in the ghettos of Salvador, and has been able to trace the motivations behind their behavior and body modifications with plausibility and compassion. So absorbing are the details of the travestis' lives, as recounted by Kulick, that the reader can easily miss the author's equally acute analysis of their often bizarre transformations and of what travestis, with their exaggerated performance of "femininity," suggest about the construction of gender in Brazil. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Vintner's Luckby Elizabeth KnoxISBN 0312264100 (0-312-26410-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vintner's Luck'Book summary:"A week after midsummer, when the festival fires were cold, and decent people were in bed an hour after sunset, not lying dry-mouthed in dark rooms at midday, a young man named Sobran Jodeau stole two of the freshly bottled wines to baptize the first real sorrow of his life."
The year is 1808, the place Burgundy, France. Among the lush vines of his family's vineyard, Jodeau, 18 years old and frustrated in love, is about to come face to face with a celestial being. But this is no sentimental "Touched by an Angel" seraph; as imagined by Elizabeth Knox in her wildly evocative and original novel, Xas is equipped with a glorious pair of wings ("pure sinew and bone under a cushion of feathers") and an appetite for earthly pleasures--wine, books, gardening, conversation, and, eventually, carnal love.
The fateful meeting between man and angel occurs on June 27. After an evening during which Sobran spills all his troubles and Xas gently advises him, the angel promises to return on the same night next year to toast Sobran's marriage. Thus begins a friendship that will last for 55 years, spanning marriages, wars, births, deaths, and even the vast distances between heaven, earth, and hell. In addition to the wonderfully flawed Sobran and his mysterious angel, Knox brilliantly limns secondary characters who are deeply sympathetic--from Sobran's unstable wife, Celeste, and his troubled brother, Leon, to his dear friend and confidante, the Baroness Aurora. Love, murder, madness, and a singular theology that would make a believer out of the most hardened atheist all add up, in The Vintner's Luck, to a novel that will break your heart yet leave you wishing for more. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberationby Urvashi VaidISBN 0385472994 (0-385-47299-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Virtual Equality/the Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberationby Urvashi VaidISBN 0385472986 (0-385-47298-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Warrior Marks : Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Womenby Alice Walker, Pratibha ParmarISBN 0156002140 (0-15-600214-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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What Happened To Lani Garverby Carol Plum-UcciISBN 0152050884 (0-15-205088-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Happened To Lani Garver'Book summary:The folks on Hackett Island, near Philadelphia, are not too friendly to newcomers. Anyone the slightest bit different is eyed with suspicion, as Claire found out when she missed a year of junior high due to leukemia. Now she works hard at fitting in, following treacherous but popular Macy's lead, hiding her passion for the guitar, and never talking about her fear that her illness will return. Or her nightmares. Or her eating disorder. The boys of Hackett Island's "in" crowd are members of the "fish frat"--hunky sons of the local fishermen--and their horseplay even among themselves is brutal and edge-of-danger.
And then Lani Garver shows up at school, a tall, thin, strangely androgynous person. "No. Not a girl. Sorry," he says pleasantly when Macy questions him about his gender with vicious curiosity. But Claire, much to Macy's disgust, is drawn to Lani, and his wisdom and kindness begins to heal her. He takes her to Philadelphia to meet his artistic friends, talks sense to her about her eating disorder and her blind devotion to Macy, finds her a therapist. Who is this Lani Garver? He resists "boxes" like "gay." Even his age is a mystery to Claire. Strangest of all, could he be a "floating angel," as his friends at the hospital seem to believe? Meanwhile, the fish frat are closing in for the kill, and when their harassment turns lethal, Lani shows a terrible side of himself Claire has never seen.
Carol Plum-Ucci raises tantalizing questions around a fascinating character in this gut-clenching story that transcends the clichés of the gay-bashing novel. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
Wormwoodby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 0440217989 (0-440-21798-9)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Tan Lejos De Dios / So Far from Godby Ana CastilloISBN 0452280044 (0-452-28004-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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