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      <title>Left-handed by Jonathan Galassi</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375712173&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780375712173&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375712173&quot;&gt;Left-handed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=148586&quot;&gt;Jonathan Galassi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 128 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Poetry | &lt;b&gt;$16.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-375-71217-3 (0-375-71217-8)&lt;p&gt;An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Left-handed &lt;/i&gt;unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;These poems&amp;mdash;decisive, wrenching, exquisite&amp;mdash;show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a settled existence. They take us from the streets of New York City to a house in the country, from the island of Naxos to the Roman Forum. They reach back to the sonnets of Shakespeare but find inspiration, too, in contemporary life. Naked and raw, lyrical yet formally inventive, rich with the melancholy wisdom of age, this is a work of resonant and shimmering beauty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-10-08T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Faitheist by Chris Stedman</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807014455&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807014455&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807014455&quot;&gt;Faitheist&lt;/a&gt; How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=157866&quot;&gt;Chris Stedman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 208 pages | Beacon Press | Religion - Atheism; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Religious; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8070-1445-5 (0-8070-1445-1)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The stunning popularity of the &amp;ldquo;New Atheist&amp;rdquo; movement&amp;mdash;whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens&amp;mdash;speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In &lt;i&gt;Faitheist&lt;/i&gt;, Chris Stedman tells his own story to challenge the orthodoxies of this movement and make a passionate argument that atheists should engage religious diversity respectfully.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Becoming aware of injustice, and craving community, Stedman became a &amp;ldquo;born-again&amp;rdquo; Christian in late childhood. The idea of a community bound by God&amp;rsquo;s love&amp;mdash;a love that was undeserved, unending, and guaranteed&amp;mdash;captivated him. It was, he writes, a place to belong and a framework for making sense of suffering. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;But Stedman&amp;rsquo;s religious community did not embody this idea of God&amp;rsquo;s love: they were staunchly homophobic at a time when he was slowly coming to realize that he was gay. The great suffering this caused him might have turned Stedman into a life-long New Atheist. But over time he came to know more open-minded Christians, and his interest in service work brought him into contact with people from a wide variety of religious backgrounds. His own religious beliefs might have fallen away, but his desire to change the world for the better remained. Disdain and hostility toward religion was holding him back from engaging in meaningful work with people of faith. And it was keeping him from full relationships with them&amp;mdash;the kinds of relationships that break down intolerance and improve the world. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Faitheist&lt;/i&gt;, Stedman draws on his work organizing interfaith and secular communities, his academic study of religion, and his own experiences to argue for the necessity of bridging the growing chasm between atheists and the religious. As someone who has stood on both sides of the divide, Stedman is uniquely positioned to present a way for atheists and the religious to find common ground and work together to make this world&amp;mdash;the one world we can all agree on&amp;mdash;a better place.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-10-01T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Fighting for Life by Helen Epstein</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177068&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781590177068&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177068&quot;&gt;Fighting for Life&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=174890&quot;&gt;S. Josephine Baker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Introduction by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=174891&quot;&gt;Helen Epstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 280 pages | NYRB Classics | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Medical; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Women; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian | &lt;b&gt;$16.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-59017-706-8 (1-59017-706-1)&lt;p&gt;New York&amp;rsquo;s lower east side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called the neighborhood &amp;ldquo;the suicide ward&amp;rdquo; and referred to one particular tenement&amp;mdash;in an official Health Department report, no less&amp;mdash;as an &amp;ldquo;out and out hog pen.&amp;rdquo; Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of city children. Sweatshop babies with smallpox and typhus dozed in garment heaps destined for fashionable Broadway shops. Desperate mothers paced the streets to soothe their feverish children, and white mourning cloths hung from every building. A third of children living in the slums died before their fifth birthday. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; By 1911, the child death rate had fallen sharply and &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; hailed the city as the healthiest on earth. In this witty and highly personal autobiography, public health crusader Dr. Sara Josephine Baker explains how this remarkable transformation was achieved. By the time she retired from the New York City Health Department in 1923, Baker was famous worldwide for saving the lives of 90,000 children. The public health programs Baker developed, many still in use today, have probably saved the lives of millions more. She also fought for women&amp;rsquo;s suffrage, toured Russia in the 1930s, and captured &amp;ldquo;Typhoid&amp;rdquo; Mary Malone, twice. She was also an astute observer of her times, and &lt;i&gt;Fighting for Life&lt;/i&gt; is one of the most honest, compassionate memoirs of American medicine ever written.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Fighting for Life by Helen Epstein</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177075&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781590177075&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177075&quot;&gt;Fighting for Life&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=174890&quot;&gt;S. Josephine Baker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Introduction by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=174891&quot;&gt;Helen Epstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 280 pages | NYRB Classics | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Medical; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Women; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian | &lt;b&gt;$16.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-59017-707-5 (1-59017-707-X)&lt;p&gt;New York&amp;rsquo;s lower east side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called the neighborhood &amp;ldquo;the suicide ward&amp;rdquo; and referred to one particular tenement&amp;mdash;in an official Health Department report, no less&amp;mdash;as an &amp;ldquo;out and out hog pen.&amp;rdquo; Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of city children. Sweatshop babies with smallpox and typhus dozed in garment heaps destined for fashionable Broadway shops. Desperate mothers paced the streets to soothe their feverish children, and white mourning cloths hung from every building. A third of children living in the slums died before their fifth birthday. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; By 1911, the child death rate had fallen sharply and &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; hailed the city as the healthiest on earth. In this witty and highly personal autobiography, public health crusader Dr. Sara Josephine Baker explains how this remarkable transformation was achieved. By the time she retired from the New York City Health Department in 1923, Baker was famous worldwide for saving the lives of 90,000 children. The public health programs Baker developed, many still in use today, have probably saved the lives of millions more. She also fought for women&amp;rsquo;s suffrage, toured Russia in the 1930s, and captured &amp;ldquo;Typhoid&amp;rdquo; Mary Malone, twice. She was also an astute observer of her times, and &lt;i&gt;Fighting for Life&lt;/i&gt; is one of the most honest, compassionate memoirs of American medicine ever written.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Raising My Rainbow by David Burtka</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437725&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770437725&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437725&quot;&gt;Raising My Rainbow&lt;/a&gt; Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=165727&quot;&gt;Lori Duron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Foreword by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=44512&quot;&gt;Neil Patrick Harris&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=184887&quot;&gt;David Burtka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 224 pages | Broadway | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Family &amp; Relationships - Parenting; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-7704-3772-5 (0-7704-3772-9)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Raising My Rainbow &lt;/i&gt;is Lori Duron&amp;rsquo;s poignant, heart-breaking, and at times hysterical memoir of her and her family's adventures of raising a gender creative child. Whereas her older son Chase is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her youngest son C.J. would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand, singing Lady Gaga's &quot;Paparazzi.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;C.J. is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who likes girl stuff; really likes girl stuff. He floats on the gender variation spectrum from super-macho-masculine on the left all the way to super-girly-feminine on the right. He's not all pink and not all blue. He's a muddled mess or a rainbow creation. Lori and her family choose to see the rainbow.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Written in Lori's uniquely witty and warm voice and launched by her incredibly popular blog of the same name, &lt;i&gt;Raising My&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Rainbow &lt;/i&gt;is the unforgettable story of her wonderful family as they navigate the often challenging but never dull privilege of raising a slightly effeminate, possibly gay, totally fabulous son.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader&amp;rsquo;s guide and bonus content&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Raising My Rainbow by David Burtka</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437718&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770437718&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437718&quot;&gt;Raising My Rainbow&lt;/a&gt; Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=165727&quot;&gt;Lori Duron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Foreword by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=44512&quot;&gt;Neil Patrick Harris&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=184887&quot;&gt;David Burtka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 224 pages | Broadway | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Family &amp; Relationships - Parenting; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-7704-3771-8 (0-7704-3771-0)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Raising My Rainbow &lt;/i&gt;is Lori Duron&amp;rsquo;s poignant, heart-breaking, and at times hysterical memoir of her and her family's adventures of raising a gender creative child. Whereas her older son Chase is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her youngest son C.J. would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand, singing Lady Gaga's &quot;Paparazzi.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;C.J. is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who likes girl stuff; really likes girl stuff. He floats on the gender variation spectrum from super-macho-masculine on the left all the way to super-girly-feminine on the right. He's not all pink and not all blue. He's a muddled mess or a rainbow creation. Lori and her family choose to see the rainbow.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Written in Lori's uniquely witty and warm voice and launched by her incredibly popular blog of the same name, &lt;i&gt;Raising My&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Rainbow &lt;/i&gt;is the unforgettable story of her wonderful family as they navigate the often challenging but never dull privilege of raising a slightly effeminate, possibly gay, totally fabulous son.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader&amp;rsquo;s guide and bonus content&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Trade Paperback edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Dreadful by David Margolick</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590515716&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781590515716&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590515716&quot;&gt;Dreadful&lt;/a&gt; The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=162709&quot;&gt;David Margolick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 400 pages | Other Press | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Military; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Literary | &lt;b&gt;$28.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-59051-571-6 (1-59051-571-4)&lt;p&gt;American author John Horne Burns (1916&amp;ndash;1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. His first novel, &lt;i&gt;The Gallery &lt;/i&gt;(1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to unflinchingly depict gay life in the military. &lt;i&gt;The Gallery&lt;/i&gt; sold half a million copies upon publication, but never again would Burns receive that kind of critical or popular attention.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dreadful&lt;/i&gt; follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. With intelligence and insight, David Margolick examines Burns&amp;rsquo;s moral ambivalence toward the behavior of American soldiers stationed with him in Naples, and the scandal surrounding his second novel, &lt;i&gt;Lucifer with a Book&lt;/i&gt;, an unflattering portrayal of his experiences at Loomis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Dreadful by David Margolick</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
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      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590515723" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590515723&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781590515723&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590515723&quot;&gt;Dreadful&lt;/a&gt; The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=162709&quot;&gt;David Margolick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Other Press | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Military; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Literary | &lt;b&gt;$22.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-59051-572-3 (1-59051-572-2)&lt;p&gt;American author John Horne Burns (1916&amp;ndash;1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. His first novel, &lt;i&gt;The Gallery &lt;/i&gt;(1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to unflinchingly depict gay life in the military. &lt;i&gt;The Gallery&lt;/i&gt; sold half a million copies upon publication, but never again would Burns receive that kind of critical or popular attention.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dreadful&lt;/i&gt; follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. With intelligence and insight, David Margolick examines Burns&amp;rsquo;s moral ambivalence toward the behavior of American soldiers stationed with him in Naples, and the scandal surrounding his second novel, &lt;i&gt;Lucifer with a Book&lt;/i&gt;, an unflattering portrayal of his experiences at Loomis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter by Alison Wearing</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345807618" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345807618&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345807618&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345807618&quot;&gt;Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter&lt;/a&gt; Growing Up with a Gay Dad&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=32614&quot;&gt;Alison Wearing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Women | &lt;b&gt;$11.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-345-80761-8 (0-345-80761-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father had always been unusual compared to the other dads in the neighbourhood: he loved to bake croissants, wear silk pyjamas around the house, and skip down the street singing songs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. But when he came out of the closet in the 1970s, when homosexuality was still a cardinal taboo, it was a shock to everyone in the quiet community of Peterborough, Ontario&amp;mdash;especially to his wife and three children.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Alison&amp;rsquo;s father was a professor of political science and amateur choral conductor, her mother was an accomplished pianist and marathon runner, and together they had fed the family a steady diet of arts, adventures, mishaps, normal frustrations and inexhaustible laughter. Yet despite these agreeable circumstances, Joe&amp;rsquo;s internal life was haunted by conflicting desires. As he began to explore and understand the truth about himself, he became determined to find a way to live both as a gay man and also a devoted father, something almost unheard of at the time. Through extraordinary excerpts from his own letters and journals from the years of his coming out, we read of Joe&amp;rsquo;s private struggle to make sense and beauty of his life, to take inspiration from an evolving society and become part of the vanguard of the gay revolution in Canada.&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Confessions of a Fairy&amp;rsquo;s Daughter&lt;/i&gt; is also the story of &amp;ldquo;coming out&amp;rdquo; as the daughter of a gay father. Already wrestling with an adolescent&amp;rsquo;s search for identity when her father came out of the closet, Alison promptly &amp;ldquo;went in,&amp;rdquo; concealing his sexual orientation from her friends and spinning extravagant stories about all of the &amp;ldquo;great straight things&amp;rdquo; they did together. Over time, Alison came to see that life with her father was surprisingly interesting and entertaining, even oddly inspiring, and in fact, there was nothing to hide.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Balancing intimacy, history and downright hilarity, &lt;i&gt;Confessions of a Fairy&amp;rsquo;s Daughter&lt;/i&gt; is a captivating tale of family life: deliciously imperfect, riotously challenging, and full of life&amp;rsquo;s great lessons in love. Alison brings her story to life with a skillfully light touch in this warm, heartfelt and revelatory memoir.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter by Alison Wearing</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345807571" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345807571&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345807571&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345807571&quot;&gt;Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter&lt;/a&gt; Growing Up with a Gay Dad&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=32614&quot;&gt;Alison Wearing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Women | &lt;b&gt;$24.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-345-80757-1 (0-345-80757-X)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father had always been unusual compared to the other dads in the neighbourhood: he loved to bake croissants, wear silk pyjamas around the house, and skip down the street singing songs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. But when he came out of the closet in the 1970s, when homosexuality was still a cardinal taboo, it was a shock to everyone in the quiet community of Peterborough, Ontario&amp;mdash;especially to his wife and three children.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Alison&amp;rsquo;s father was a professor of political science and amateur choral conductor, her mother was an accomplished pianist and marathon runner, and together they had fed the family a steady diet of arts, adventures, mishaps, normal frustrations and inexhaustible laughter. Yet despite these agreeable circumstances, Joe&amp;rsquo;s internal life was haunted by conflicting desires. As he began to explore and understand the truth about himself, he became determined to find a way to live both as a gay man and also a devoted father, something almost unheard of at the time. Through extraordinary excerpts from his own letters and journals from the years of his coming out, we read of Joe&amp;rsquo;s private struggle to make sense and beauty of his life, to take inspiration from an evolving society and become part of the vanguard of the gay revolution in Canada.&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Confessions of a Fairy&amp;rsquo;s Daughter&lt;/i&gt; is also the story of &amp;ldquo;coming out&amp;rdquo; as the daughter of a gay father. Already wrestling with an adolescent&amp;rsquo;s search for identity when her father came out of the closet, Alison promptly &amp;ldquo;went in,&amp;rdquo; concealing his sexual orientation from her friends and spinning extravagant stories about all of the &amp;ldquo;great straight things&amp;rdquo; they did together. Over time, Alison came to see that life with her father was surprisingly interesting and entertaining, even oddly inspiring, and in fact, there was nothing to hide.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Balancing intimacy, history and downright hilarity, &lt;i&gt;Confessions of a Fairy&amp;rsquo;s Daughter&lt;/i&gt; is a captivating tale of family life: deliciously imperfect, riotously challenging, and full of life&amp;rsquo;s great lessons in love. Alison brings her story to life with a skillfully light touch in this warm, heartfelt and revelatory memoir.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Outlaw Marriages by Rodger Streitmatter</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003428" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003428&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807003428&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003428&quot;&gt;Outlaw Marriages&lt;/a&gt; The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=152727&quot;&gt;Rodger Streitmatter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt; | Beacon Press | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Social Science - Sociology - Marriage &amp; Family; History - Social History | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8070-0342-8 (0-8070-0342-5)&lt;p&gt;For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other &amp;ldquo;for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health&amp;rdquo; for periods of thirty or forty&amp;mdash;sometimes as many as &lt;i&gt;fifty&lt;/i&gt;&amp;mdash;years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any husband and wife. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In &lt;i&gt;Outlaw Marriages&lt;/i&gt;, cultural historian Rodger Streitmatter reveals how some of these unions didn&amp;rsquo;t merely improve the quality of life for the two people involved but also enriched the American culture.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Among the high-profile couples whose lives and loves are illuminated in the following pages are Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith, literary icon Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, author James Baldwin and Lucien Happersberger, and artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
      <id>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003428</id>
      <updated>2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385346979" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385346979&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385346979&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385346979&quot;&gt;She's Not There&lt;/a&gt; A Life in Two Genders&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=46607&quot;&gt;Jennifer Finney Boylan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Broadway | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Family &amp; Relationships - Parenting; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | &lt;b&gt;$14.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-34697-9 (0-385-34697-2)&lt;p&gt;The provocative bestseller &lt;i&gt;She&amp;rsquo;s Not There &lt;/i&gt;is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan&amp;rsquo;s fresh voice, &lt;i&gt;She&amp;rsquo;s Not There&lt;/i&gt; is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. As James evolves into Jennifer in scenes that are by turns tender, startling, and witty, a marvelously human perspective emerges on issues of love, sex, and the fascinating relationship between our physical and intuitive selves. Now with a new epilogue from the author and an afterword from Deirdre &quot;Grace&quot; Boylan, &lt;i&gt;She&amp;rsquo;s Not There&lt;/i&gt; shines a light on the often confounding process of accepting ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
      <id>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385346979</id>
      <updated>2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385346986" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385346986&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385346986&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385346986&quot;&gt;She's Not There&lt;/a&gt; A Life in Two Genders&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=46607&quot;&gt;Jennifer Finney Boylan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Broadway | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Family &amp; Relationships - Parenting; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | &lt;b&gt;$11.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-34698-6 (0-385-34698-0)&lt;p&gt;The provocative bestseller &lt;i&gt;She&amp;#8217;s Not There &lt;/i&gt;is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family.      Told in Boylan&amp;#8217;s fresh voice, &lt;i&gt;She&amp;#8217;s Not There&lt;/i&gt; is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Through her clear eyes, &lt;i&gt;She&amp;#8217;s Not There&lt;/i&gt; provides a new window on the confounding process of accepting our true selves.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8220;Probably no book I&amp;#8217;ve read in recent years has made me so question my basic assumptions about both the centrality and the permeability of gender, and made me recognize myself in a situation I&amp;#8217;ve never known and have never faced . . . The universality of the astonishingly uncommon: that&amp;#8217;s the trick of &lt;i&gt;She&amp;#8217;s Not There&lt;/i&gt;. And with laughs, too. What a good book.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8212;Anna Quindlen, from the Introduction to the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Stuck in the Middle with You by Anna Quindlen</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307952844" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307952844&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307952844&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307952844&quot;&gt;Stuck in the Middle with You&lt;/a&gt; A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=46607&quot;&gt;Jennifer Finney Boylan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Contribution by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24734&quot;&gt;Anna Quindlen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 304 pages | Crown | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Family &amp; Relationships - Parenting; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | &lt;b&gt;$11.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-95284-4 (0-307-95284-3)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;A father for ten years, a mother for eight, and for a time in between, neither, or both (&quot;the parental version of the schnoodle, or the cockapoo&quot;), Jennifer Finney Boylan has seen parenthood from both sides of the gender divide. When her two children were young, Boylan came out as transgender, and as Jenny transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother, her family faced unique challenges and questions. In this thoughtful, tear-jerking, hilarious memoir, Jenny asks what it means to be a father, or a mother, and to what extent gender shades our experiences as parents. &quot;It is my hope,&quot; she writes, &quot;that having a father who became a woman in turn helped my sons become better men.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Through both her own story and incredibly insightful interviews with others, including Richard Russo, Edward Albee, Ann Beattie, Augusten Burroughs, Susan Minot, Trey Ellis, Timothy Kreider, and more, Jenny examines relationships with fathers and mothers, people's memories of the children they were and the parents they became, and the many different ways a family can be. Followed by an Afterword by Anna Quindlen that includes Jenny and her wife discussing the challenges they've faced and the love they share, &lt;i&gt;Stuck in the Middle with You&lt;/i&gt; is a brilliant meditation on raising &amp;ndash; and on being &amp;ndash; a child.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
      <id>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307952844</id>
      <updated>2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Stuck in the Middle with You by Anna Quindlen</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767921763" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767921763&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780767921763&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767921763&quot;&gt;Stuck in the Middle with You&lt;/a&gt; A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=46607&quot;&gt;Jennifer Finney Boylan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Contribution by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24734&quot;&gt;Anna Quindlen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 304 pages | Crown | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Family &amp; Relationships - Parenting; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | &lt;b&gt;$24.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-7679-2176-3 (0-7679-2176-3)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;A father for ten years, a mother for eight, and for a time in between, neither, or both (&quot;the parental version of the schnoodle, or the cockapoo&quot;), Jennifer Finney Boylan has seen parenthood from both sides of the gender divide. When her two children were young, Boylan came out as transgender, and as Jenny transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother, her family faced unique challenges and questions. In this thoughtful, tear-jerking, hilarious memoir, Jenny asks what it means to be a father, or a mother, and to what extent gender shades our experiences as parents. &quot;It is my hope,&quot; she writes, &quot;that having a father who became a woman in turn helped my sons become better men.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Through both her own story and incredibly insightful interviews with others, including Richard Russo, Edward Albee, Ann Beattie, Augusten Burroughs, Susan Minot, Trey Ellis, Timothy Kreider, and more, Jenny examines relationships with fathers and mothers, people's memories of the children they were and the parents they became, and the many different ways a family can be. Followed by an Afterword by Anna Quindlen that includes Jenny and her wife discussing the challenges they've faced and the love they share, &lt;i&gt;Stuck in the Middle with You&lt;/i&gt; is a brilliant meditation on raising &amp;ndash; and on being &amp;ndash; a child.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Journey to the Abyss by Laird Easton</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307273581&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307273581&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307273581&quot;&gt;Farther and Wilder&lt;/a&gt; The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59961&quot;&gt;Blake Bailey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 496 pages | Knopf | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Literary; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Gay &amp; Lesbian; Psychology &amp; Psychiatry - Addictions | &lt;b&gt;$30.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-27358-1 (0-307-27358-X)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of &lt;i&gt;The Lost Weekend&lt;/i&gt;&amp;mdash;a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do with the other.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Charles Jackson&amp;rsquo;s novel &lt;i&gt;The Lost Weekend&lt;/i&gt;&amp;mdash;the story of five disastrous days in the life of alcoholic Don Birnam&amp;mdash;was published in 1944 to triumphant success. Within five years it had sold nearly half a million copies in various editions, and was added to the prestigious Modern Library. The actor Ray Milland, who would win an Oscar for his portrayal of Birnam, was coached in the ways of drunkenness by the novel&amp;rsquo;s author&amp;mdash;a balding, impeccably groomed middle-aged man who had been sober since 1936 and had no intention of going down in history as the author of a thinly veiled autobiography about a crypto-homosexual drunk. But&lt;i&gt; The Lost Weekend&lt;/i&gt; was all but entirely based on Jackson&amp;rsquo;s own experiences, and Jackson&amp;rsquo;s valiant struggles fill these pages. He and his handsome gay brother, Fred (&amp;ldquo;Boom&amp;rdquo;), grew up in the scandal-plagued village of Newark, New York, and later lived in Europe as TB patients, consorting with aristocratic caf&amp;eacute; society. Jackson went on to work in radio and Hollywood, was published widely, lived in the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, and knew everyone from Judy Garland and Billy Wilder to Thomas Mann and Mary McCarthy. A doting family man with two daughters, Jackson was often industrious and sober; he even became a celebrated spokesman for Alcoholics Anonymous. Yet he ultimately found it nearly impossible to write without the stimulus of pills or alcohol and felt his devotion to his work was worth the price. Rich with incident and character, &lt;i&gt;Farther &amp;amp; Wilder&lt;/i&gt; is the moving story of an artist whose commitment to bringing forbidden subjects into the popular discourse was far ahead of his time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <title>Farther and Wilder by Blake Bailey</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
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      <title>Faitheist by Chris Stedman</title>
      <author>
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