Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 28, 1999 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-75152-6 (0-679-75152-1)
Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt’s sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative...
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Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: May 7, 2013 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-0183-7 (0-8070-0183-X)
“I was born male and now I’ve got medical and government documents that say I’m female—but I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man. . . .”
Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave, playwright, dyke, gender outlaw—these are just a few words which have defined Kate...
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Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: May 1, 2012 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-0165-3 (0-8070-0165-1)
“I was born male and now I’ve got medical and government documents that say I’m female—but I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man. . . .”
Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave, playwright, dyke, gender outlaw—these are just a few words which have defined Kate...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 15, 1995 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-75767-2 (0-679-75767-8)
This intoxicating book combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-PC passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Eastern...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 30, 1992 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-73812-1 (0-679-73812-6)
No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 26, 1998 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-75032-1 (0-679-75032-0)
"In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Other Press On Sale: July 10, 2012 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-59051-552-5 (1-59051-552-8)
2012 ALA STONEWALL HONOR BOOK It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War.
But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. He...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 8, 2005 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3456-7 (1-4000-3456-6)
Sixteen-year-old Anamika Sharma is a leader among her peers. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents' scooter garage to read the Kama-sutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcée and the family servant, and has caught the eye of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Soho Press On Sale: April 1, 2005 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-1-56947-397-9 (1-56947-397-8)
Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolutionary who spends the summer of 1982, along with her peers, at the “School-in-the-Fields,” tilling tobacco fields to prove her dedication to Fidel and the revolution.
But she is also a study of contradictions. Lourdes outwardly scoffs at the old ways but wears an...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 1, 1994 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-47204-3 (0-385-47204-8)
David Drake's smash hit one-man show tells the story of his call to gay pride and activism through a series of vignettes exploring thoughts and emotions shared by a whole generation of gay men and women.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: November 10, 1998 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-49228-7 (0-385-49228-6)
There are countless works of interest to gay men in print right now--anthologies, novels, memoirs, and more. It is a reflection of progress that there is such an openly recognizable culture. Yet how to make sense of the choices offered? What do gay men need to read? What books have shaped...
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Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: June 19, 2012 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-85768-973-3 (0-85768-973-8)
Prowler, Liberty, Neon, Indigo, Butch, Mr Muscles, Diva -- all superpowered, all British, and the first all gay super-hero team there ever was!
Created by independent comics artist Martin Eden, Spandex charts the highs and lows of a group of superheroes, doing battle with 50 feet lesbians, a group of skilled...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 5, 1988 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-75984-5 (0-394-75984-2)
"A master of the biographer's art...a distinguished book...Ellmann has the first, indispensable virtue of telling his story well--not just the big story but the lesser stories that lie coiled inside it."--New York Review of Books
"It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account."--TimeRead more >
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publisher: Triangle Square On Sale: November 4, 2008 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-850-0 (1-58322-850-0)
Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. . . . Unfortunately, when Bailey’s awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary. “You’re a BOY!” Mother and Father tell Bailey. “You shouldn’t be...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Soho Press On Sale: January 1, 2009 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-1-56947-536-2 (1-56947-536-9)
Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph...
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Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Vertigo On Sale: August 10, 2010 Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-4012-1384-8 (1-4012-1384-7)
A gritty, graphic pulp fiction about the temptation, damnation and redemption of Frank Grissel, an aging, hard-knuckled private eye--and a deeply closeted homosexual, set in the very real world of 1953 San Francisco.
Aided by his long-suffering secretary (and sometime live-in lover) Loretta, Grissel’s search for a runaway girl winds up...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: June 1, 2010 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-7331-5 (0-8070-7331-8)
In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed “child freak,” she acted out...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 8, 2001 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72606-4 (0-375-72606-3)
This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralistand The Counterfeiters.
Gide led a life of uncompromising self-scrutiny, and his literary...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 2, 1999 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70203-7 (0-375-70203-2)
It's 1980, and Hartley Mims jr., a somewhat overbred Southerner, arrives in town to found his artistic career and find a circle of brilliant friends. He soon discovers both Robert Christian Gustafson, archangelic boy composer of Symphony no. 1: The Titanic, and Alabama Byrnes, a failed Savannah debutante whose gigantic paintings...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 27, 2002 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-72763-4 (0-375-72763-9)
A luminous quartet, five years in the writing, reveals even more fully the breathtaking range of "a storyteller in the grand tradition" (New York Times).
Allan Gurganus's voice—by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane—deepens as it soars into this quiet masterwork. Four new fables—rich in event, comedy, experience—surge with the force...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 18, 1990 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-41609-2 (0-385-41609-1)
Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall’'s The Well of Lonelinessis the thinly disguised story of the author’s own life-the struggle of a lesbian couple to be accepted by polite society. Shockingly candid for its time, it was the first book to condemn society for its harsh treatment of gays and...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Doubleday On Sale: July 8, 2003 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-50264-1 (0-385-50264-8)
For almost a decade, author E. Lynn Harris has crafted popular novels which, on the surface, depict mostly affluent, sexually secure, and confident African-American men and their relatively care-free and comfortable lives. Now, in What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, he has decided to write one of his most honest, truthful, and...
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Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: January 8, 2013 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-4473-5 (0-8070-4473-3)
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her rural North Dakota home with its grain trucks and empty main streets. But like many, she followed the out-migration pattern to a more urban life...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 1, 1999 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-75952-2 (0-679-75952-2)
The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes.We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married...
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