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28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibusby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060164662 (0-06-016466-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: '28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus'Book summary:"These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader starts playing the old childhood game of 'Just one more chapter and I'll turn out the lights,' only to look up and discover it's after midnight."
-- Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewArmistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in the is omnibus edition--have earned a unique niche in American literature, not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eighties.
When originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980) and Futher Tales of the City (1982) afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.
Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brain Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through mail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
With a foreword by the author. [via]
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Accepting Ourselves: The Twelve-Step Journey of Recovery from Addiction for Gay Men and Lesbiansby Sheppard B. KominarsISBN 0062504932 (0-06-250493-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Am I Blue?by Marion Dane Bauer, Beck UnderwoodISBN 0064405877 (0-06-440587-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Am I Blue?'Book summary:Teenagers are often confused about their sexual identity, and this confusion often puts them at risk. To combat this dilemma, 16 prominent young adult authors offer original short stories that explore aspects of growing up gay and lesbian or with gay or lesbian parents or friends. The stories cover a broad range of genres, styles, and tones, but each is entertaining. [via]
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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0060515198 (0-06-051519-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girlby John ColapintoISBN 0061120561 (0-06-112056-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl'Book summary:Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a mesmerizing story of a medical tragedy and its traumatic results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following a botched circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant son, Bruce, as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next 14 years trying to transform him into a her. Brenda's childhood reads as one filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are present on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain is caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man attempting to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant treatments.
Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor, it's difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more than willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts of his parents, twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily female are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do "right" while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda makes the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name David and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments. David's ultimately successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close family relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public--bring an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest segment of the longtime nature/nurture controversy, and the interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the gender he was meant to be. --Jill Lightner [via]
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Baby Be-Bopby Francesca Lia Block, David DiazISBN 0064471764 (0-06-447176-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Dirk McDonald's life was almost perfect. He lived with this grandmother, Fifi, in a beautiful gingerbread cottage in Hollywood. He had the beach, and his surfboard, and Fifi's red-and-white 1955 Pontiac convertible.
But Dirk wasn't happy. Inside, he was harboring a deep, dark secret. And he was afraid that if he admitted it to anyone - even Fifi - he would never be accepted again.
Then one night, Dirk's magic lamp came to life. Suddenly, all the stories from Dirk's past came flowing out of it. On that night, his life changed forever. At last, Dirk learned who he really was, and that any love that is love is right. [via]
The Birthday of the World and Other Storiesby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060509066 (0-06-050906-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Bisexual Spouseby Ivan HillISBN 0060972319 (0-06-097231-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Breakfast on Plutoby Pat McCabeISBN 0060931582 (0-06-093158-2)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast on Pluto'Book summary:Conceived in a moment of mad passion by a randy Irish priest and his temporary housekeeper -- and abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box as an infant -- her ladyship "Pussy" (né Patrick) Braden grew up fabulous and escaped tiny Tyreelin, Ireland, to start life anew in London. In blousy tops and satin miniskirts she plies her trade as a transvestite rent boy on Picadilly's Meat Rack, risking life and limb among the city's flotsam and jetsam. But it is the 1970s, and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast -- and as radioactive history approaches critical mass, the coming explosion of violence and tragedy may well blow Pussy's fragile soul asunder.
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Dancer from the Danceby Andrew HolleranISBN 0060937068 (0-06-093706-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Placesby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060972890 (0-06-097289-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Death & Fame: Poems 1993-1997by Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan, Bob Rosenthal, Peter Hale, Robert CreeleyISBN 0060930837 (0-06-093083-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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Deliver Us from Evieby M. E. KerrISBN 0064471284 (0-06-447128-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Diaries, 1939-1960by Christopher Isherwood, Katherine BucknellISBN 0061180009 (0-06-118000-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Down and Dirty Sex Secrets: The New and Naughty Guide to Being Great in Bedby Tristan TaorminoISBN 0060988924 (0-06-098892-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dreyfus Affair : A Love Storyby Peter LefcourtISBN 0060975598 (0-06-097559-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreyfus Affair : A Love Story'Book summary:Consider the possibilities: In the middle of a pennant race, a team's star shortstop falls in love with his second baseman. Which is exactly what happens to Randy Dreyfus, the best-hitting, best-fielding, best-looking, and most happily married young shortstop in the major leagues. The Dreyfus Affair combines romance, comedy, social satire, and some of the finest baseball writing in years. The result is a rollicking, provocative odyssey through one unforgettable World Series championship.
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Echoby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064407446 (0-06-440744-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Equal Affectionsby David LeavittISBN 0060972874 (0-06-097287-4)
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The Essential Guide to Lesbian and Gay Weddingsby Paul Brown, Tess AyersISBN 0062502719 (0-06-250271-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Faraway Placesby Tom SpanbauerISBN 0060975520 (0-06-097552-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Firebird: A Memoirby Mark DotyISBN 0060931973 (0-06-093197-3)
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Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expressionby Susie BrightISBN 0062515918 (0-06-251591-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression'Book summary:In previous books such as The Sexual State of the Union, Susie Bright has told us about the way things are, and while she continues that mission in Full Exposure, she also presents an inspiring vision of the way things could be. This is far more than a self-help book; it's a blueprint for cultural revolution, focused on the liberation of our erotic expression and, as she puts it, "the creativity it demands, the challenges of sexual candor, and the rewards of coming clean about desire." The personal is always political, goes the adage, but whether she's making readers smile with a reminiscence of her first orgasm (during a fantasy in which she imagined herself as Barbara "Agent 99" Feldon) or evoking our concern over a bomb threat at one of her college lectures, Bright reminds us that the personal is always personal as well. Along the way, she tears down the false barriers between porn and erotica, counsels parents on how to negotiate the line between sexual honesty with their children and mutual privacy, and shows us again and again that gender and desire are never as simplistic as moral and cultural watchdogs would have us believe. "Girls can be women with real sexual appetites," she writes. "Men can be love-bunnies and still have raging hard-ons." Bright also includes a 17-step "sexual manifesto" aimed at enabling readers to reclaim their erotic identities and express desire on their own terms. Very few people are writing about sexuality as honestly and as well as Susie Bright--if you care at all about the subject, you owe it to yourself to read Full Exposure. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. A Documentaryby Jonathan KatzISBN 0060912111 (0-06-091211-1)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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The Good, the Bad, and the Undeadby Kim HarrisonISBN 0060572973 (0-06-057297-3)
Softcover, Harper Torch
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Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Upby Bob ColacelloISBN 006092084X (0-06-092084-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brotherby Clifford ChaseISBN 0062510193 (0-06-251019-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother'Book summary:Recounts the author's relationship with his older brother, their experiences of growing up gay in a Christian Science family, and his painful witness to his brother's illness and death from AIDS. Tour. [via]
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Is the Homosexual My Neighbor: Another Christian Viewby Virginia R. Mollenkott, Letha ScanzoniISBN 0060670754 (0-06-067075-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?: A Positive Christian Responseby Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Virginia Ramey MollenkottISBN 0060670789 (0-06-067078-9)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Lesbian Couples' Guide: Finding the Right Woman and Creating a Life Togetherby Judith McDanielISBN 0060950218 (0-06-095021-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexualityby John Shelby SpongISBN 0060675071 (0-06-067507-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality'Book summary:Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage? Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying? Should the church receive homosexuals into its community and support committed gay and lesbian relationships? Should congregations publicly and liturgically witness and affirm divorces? Should the church's moral standards continue to be set by patriarchal males? Should women be consecrated bishops? Bishop Spong proposes a pastoral response based on scripture and history to the changing realities of the modern world. He calls for a moral vision to empower the church with inclusive teaching about equal, loving, nonexploitative relationships.
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Love Junkieby Robert PlunketISBN 0060922265 (0-06-092226-5)
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The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moonby Tom SpanbauerISBN 0060974974 (0-06-097497-4)
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Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Lifeby Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, George Houston BassISBN 0060968850 (0-06-096885-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life'Book summary:Mule Bone is the only collaboration between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, two stars of the Harlem Renaissance, and it holds an unparalleled place in the annals of African-American theater. Set in Eatonville, Florida--Hurston's hometown and the inspiration for much of her fiction--this energetic and often farcical play centers on Jim and Dave, a two-man song-and-dance team, and Daisy, the woman who comes between them. Overcome by jealousy, Jim hits Dave with a mule bone and hilarity follows chaos as the town splits into two factions: the Methodists, who want to pardon Jim; and the Baptists, who wish to banish him for his crime.
Included in this edition is the fascinating account of the Mule Bone copyright dispute between Hurston and Hughes that ended their friendship and prevented the play from being performed until its debut production at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City in 1991--sixty years after it was written. Also included is "The Bone of Contention," Hurston's short story on which the play was based; personal and often heated correspondence between the authors; and critical essays that illuminate the play and the dazzling period that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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The Noise Of Infinite Longing: A Memoir Of A Family--and An Islandby Luisita Lopez TorregrosaISBN 0060534613 (0-06-053461-3)
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On Certainty/Uber Gewissheitby G.H. Von Wright, G. E. M. Anscombe, WittgensteinISBN 0061316865 (0-06-131686-5)
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The Order of the Poison Oakby Brent HartingerISBN 0060567325 (0-06-056732-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bibleby Nancy L. WilsonISBN 0060693967 (0-06-069396-7)
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Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoirby Zoe TropeISBN 0060529385 (0-06-052938-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir'Book summary:I wrote a story about you. Well, sort of, see, it's mostly about me. Well, entirely about me, but here's the catch: I'm you. No, really, I mean it. Not like that transcendentalism stuff we're learning in English class, but really, truly, I'm you. I know what it feels like when your heart beats so hard against your white bone ribs, when you sing in the shower with soap in your eyes, when you run until you get a side ache. I wrote this story about you because I am so in love with you, your broken-fence teeth and your tissue-paper scars. I love you when you're so exhausted it could topple you to the ground, so in love it could snap guitar strings, so sickly sweet it could make lips smile. This is a reckless love story. This is my shameless confession. [via]
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Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms With the Suicide of Her Gay Sonby Leroy AaronsISBN 0062511238 (0-06-251123-8)
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Pucker Up : A Hands-on Guide to Ecstatic Sexby Tristan TaorminoISBN 0060394153 (0-06-039415-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athensby Eva C. KeulsISBN 0060153008 (0-06-015300-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Rose and the Beastby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064407454 (0-06-440745-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose and the Beast'Book summary:Francesca Lia Block, whose Weetzie Bat novels have often been called pop fairy tales, here turns to the real thing for some very different imaginings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, and other tales. Block's stories are more resonance than retelling, fevered dreams behind which the outlines of the traditional tales move fitfully like figures glimpsed now and then through a summer fog. Veiled references to Block's own Los Angeles appear in the twisty house of the seven dwarfs built into a canyon like Laurel or Topanga, the redwood forest on a seaside cliff through which Beauty travels to her Beast, the tree-darkened canyon houses with French doors that open onto exuberant neglected gardens lush with irises and roses. In these evocations Bluebeard becomes an aging blue-haired producer, Sleeping Beauty pricks her arm with a heroin needle, Red Riding Hood's wolf is a lecherous stepfather, and the Snow Queen is a sex goddess who lives in a marble mansion with her boy toy, possibly in Beverly Hills. Sensuous images enrich these languid and darkly ironic visions: jasmine-scented night gardens, leopard couches with velvet pillows, luscious food flavored with mint, coconut milk, or pomegranate sauce, cool candlelit baths. As always, Block's poetic allegories of adolescence are strikingly original and a bit dangerous, a feast for connoisseurs of YA fiction and savvy older teens. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retoldby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0060281294 (0-06-028129-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Sacramentby Clive BarkerISBN 0061091995 (0-06-109199-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacrament'Book summary:A boy has an encounter with a man who causes extinctions of other species, so he grows up to be a man who documents (and thus appeals for a halt to) those extinctions. This dark fantasy tale is unlike Clive Barker's other recent ones: it is more tightly plotted, and more of this world. In a sequence of well-executed stories within stories (comparable to Russian dolls), Barker unfolds a compelling examination of what it means to be human, to be a man, and to be a gay man--on a planet where aging, disease, and death bring "the passing of things, of days and beasts and men he'd loved." A satisfying long novel packed with vivid images, memorable characters, and a melancholy mood that reaches for hope. [via]
The Secret Fruit Of Peter Paddingtonby Brian FrancisISBN 0060792442 (0-06-079244-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Sex Offenderby Matthew StadlerISBN 0060926554 (0-06-092655-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Six of Oneby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0060105240 (0-06-010524-0)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 006015988X (0-06-015988-X)
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Stir-Fryby Emma DonoghueISBN 0060926244 (0-06-092624-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy Georgeby Boy George, Spencer BrightISBN 0060927615 (0-06-092761-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy Georgeby Spencer Bright, Boy GeorgeISBN 0060173688 (0-06-017368-8)
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The Templeby Stephen SpenderISBN 0060972424 (0-06-097242-4)
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Tommy's Taleby Alan CummingISBN 0060989270 (0-06-098927-0)
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War Boyby Kief HillsberyISBN 0060935014 (0-06-093501-4)
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Way to Go, Smith!by Bob SmithISBN 0060957948 (0-06-095794-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Way to Go, Smith!'Book summary:"The great thing about the shareware between a couple is that the network is limited to the two of you," writes humorist Bob Smith in "Wolf Whistling in the Dark," the first chapter in his second collection of interlinked essays. "No one has ever understood me or known me better than Tom, but recently we seemed to have forgotten each other's access code." The novella-length examination of the breakup of Smith's long-term relationship is one of the highlights of Way to Go, Smith!--but each essay has its gemlike moments. Although some of his epigrammatic quips are gay-specific ("Gay men have a tendency to examine an attractive body almost as if, by some miracle, they might have to identify it later when it turns up in their beds"), Smith's recollections of his childhood experiences at home and school would strike a chord with any reader. His sexuality and the experiences that stem from it are combined with these anecdotes in an unapologetic but also unassuming way that teaches all of us to accept Bob Smith just as he is (though it's hard not to like such a handsome and witty guy)--and, hopefully, to accept others around us for who they are as well. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Languageby Mary Daly, Jane CaputiISBN 0062510371 (0-06-251037-1)
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Weetzie Batby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0060736259 (0-06-073625-9)
Softcover, Harper Torch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weetzie Bat'Book summary:Ten years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has been repackaged with a sleek new design and is available in both hardcover and paperback editions. Rediscover the magic of Weetzie Bat, Ms. Blocks sophisticated, slinkster-cool love song to L.A.the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the last decade. [via]
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What God Has Joined Together?: The Christian Case for Gay Marriageby David G. Myers, Letha Dawson ScanzoniISBN 0060774614 (0-06-077461-4)
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White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985by Allen GinsbergISBN 0060914297 (0-06-091429-7)
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The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crispby Guy Kettelhack, Quentin CrispISBN 0060911786 (0-06-091178-6)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophersby David Edmonds, John EidinowISBN 0060936649 (0-06-093664-9)
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An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, Wittgenstein's Poker explores, through the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-siécle Vienna, Wittgentein's and Popper's birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larger than life -- and spoiling for a fight. [via]
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The Women's History of the Worldby Rosalind MilesISBN 006097317X (0-06-097317-X)
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The Word Is Out: The Bible Reclaimed for Lesbians and Gay Menby Chris GlaserISBN 0060631341 (0-06-063134-1)
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