My Queer War
December 24, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780374217488 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. A POWERFUL STORY OF SEXUAL AWAKENING DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR FROM THE NOTED MEMORIST AND CRITIC In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of a young man’s exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnesses firsthand...
The Price of Salt
November 24, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780393325997 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov’s Lolita. “I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol’s frenzied bid for freedom,” writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith’s finest, first...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics)
November 16, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780451527523 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Harriet Jacobs, born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina, recounts her remarkable story. From her sale to an abusive master, to her bid for freedom as the lover of a white man, to her ultimate and harrowing emancipation, this work is an outstanding example of a woman’s extraordinary courage–and one of the most provocative first-person accounts of slavery in American history. Afterword by Myrlie Evers-Williams “One...
Bewitched by Bella’s Brother Reviews
October 30, 2011 by admin
Sebastian Craig and Isabella Bryne have been best friends for five years in the Neverland of academia, and that’s where they’re planning to stay. So when Bella’s brother, Asa, offers them a rent-free summer in his gorgeous home before they move to their next college and degree, they jump at the chance. It looks like a good deal at first… but there’s more to Asa than meets the eye, and Sebastian finds himself suddenly hip-deep in complicated, grown-up problems and the frightening, bemusing prospect of having a family that will miss him when he’s gone. When the...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
August 25, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780802135162 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles. Rating: (out of 53 reviews) List Price: $ 14.00 Price: $ 4.15 Read More →
Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag
August 24, 2011 by admin
Volume: 6 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Subjects: Fiction / Literary Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational Juvenile Fiction / Holidays Rating: (out of 2 reviews) List Price: $ 15.99 Price: Sammy Dane Police Officer James Everson seems to go from one guy to another, never finding exactly what he wants. Frustrated and out of sorts he goes to a local gay bar in the hopes of finding a guy and burning off some steam. What he finds is Sammy. Samuel Dane Summers is a confirmed geek. He has all the classic...
Best Gay Erotica 2009
ISBN13: 9781573443340 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Cleis’ Best Erotica series is the best-selling gay erotica series in America and with good reason. It sets the standard for erotic writing with searing action and stories that are smart, edgy, authentic, and wickedly inventive. Designed for your reading pleasure, Best Gay Erotica 2009 includes 20 of the hottest, best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year. Featuring the works of Simon Sheppard, Jeff Mann, Jamie Freeman, Robert Patrick, and more, these down-and-dirty page-turners...
Orlando: A Biography Reviews
July 29, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780156701600 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. “A poetic masterpiece of the first rank” (Rebecca West). The source of a critically acclaimed 1993 feature film directed by Sally Potter. Index; illustrations. In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and...
A Sticky End: A Mitch Mitchell Mystery
July 13, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9781573443951 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Best friends and sometimes lovers Edward “Mitch” Mitchell and Harry “Boy” Morgan have been in terrible jams before — their adventures of murder, mystery, and unstoppable sex have made The Back Passage and The Secret Tunnel international bestellers. In A Sticky End, Mitch must face the possibility that Boy is involved in the chain of events that led to the suicide of his own colleague and secret paramour, Frank Bartlett. To absolve Boy, Mitch races around London finding clues while...
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
June 28, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780679724698 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. Rating: (out of 31 reviews) List Price: $ 14.00 Price: $ 4.89 Read More →