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In this sequel to the national bestseller B-Boy Blues, Raheim "Pooquie" Rivers and Mitchell "Little Bit" Crawford are back, struggling with issues of first time love between men, newfound fame as a model, the murder of a homeboy friend, the return of a lost father and much more.
This book tells the haunting tale of a young lesbian who is beginning to live life on her own terms.
A series of strikingly original and frankly sexual stories: two women meet by chance in a seaside village; a woman addicted to heroine makes love to the remoteness in herself; a grieving lighthouse keeper dreams of women.
This is the raw and powerful debut novel by a popular porno star who writes about the life of a young male prostitute. With the help of therapy, the character challenges what he has become: a person out of control on drugs, alcohol who seeks abusive and degrading sex in London's underground club scene.
Meg Darcy is a dyke dick who works in a detective agency, doing the sort of petty investigations that are the meat and potatoes. When her Aunt with Alzheimers disappears from a nursing home, the fun really begins.
A kinder, gentler exercise book with easy to follow instructions.
Maris is in deep mourning for her dead lover, Mary Ann. Her grief is so great that she disgraces herself by getting drunk and sloppy when out with her friends. She is also in the process of establishing a new business as a freelance.
This is the story of first love between two adolescent boys who bravely sustain each other as the world around them disintegrates. It's a tale of boundless hope and ultimate tragedy.
In his new novel about male hustlers, the British poet and novelist probes some of the most intractable social problems of our age. He writes with the same concern for character, story line, and style that lead Elmore Leonard to conclue, "He reminds me of Graham Greene".
Sarah McNeil is about to put her heart in the hanfds of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation...or her ruin. Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah into her bed, then make all the right promises to convince the usually cautious young attorney to come live with her in San Francisco.
This is the story of a young man's sexual/emotional entanglement with the ravishing couple who live next door. Peter moves into his new condo and on the very first day finds himself staring at his astonishingly hot next door neighbor Chaz who stares back as he hoses himself down. As Peter becomes involved with Chaz and Chaz's wife Muriel, all three find themselves locked in a state of fierce sexuality and love gone out of control.
Hot Check is Peggy Herring's trite tale of opposites attracting with a side of true love conquering all obstacles. Alice Collins is a corporate type, learning the ways of the various divisions of her father's business so that she can take over when he retires. Of course, she is not out to her parents, but since the job leaves her aboslutely no time for a love life, what's the harm? Plenty.
Toronto homicide detective Stevie Houston has a slight problem. If her hunch about this case is wrong, she could lose her job. If her hunch is correct, she could lose her life!!!! Auto-erotic strangulation is a rather unholy demise---especially for a beloved parish priest. When the grisley death turns out to be murder, Houston is determined to solve it.
Kate Delafields' mystery series explores the cold heart of murder and the landscape of lesbian relationship in this new mystery.
When David Brudnoy, a popular radio talk-show host and Boston media celebrity announced in 1994 that he was gay and had AIDS, he inspired a mild media frenzy, largely because he's an unrepentent conservative who writes for The National Review. Brudnoy doesn't confront his life's seeming contradictions in this enjoyable autobiography, but he's led a colorful life complete with murderous tricks and bad acid trips-worth documenting.
This first collection of stories by the popular New York author of the novels Water Dancer and The Sea of Light includes work written over the last 20 years-some of it never before published. Intimate, raw, erotically charged, sometimes comic and deeply disturbing, always passionate, these stories center on lesbian relationships with lovers, children, and family.
The story of a 24 year old latina lesbian who is exiled to the United States and discovers a group of other women who work together to sift through memories about family from this award winning author.
This is a lively novel about 16 year old Hugo's first love affair in South Beach, Miami with an older man named Glenn who is also dating Hugo's mother. Not wanting to hurt his mother and not about to let go of Glen, Hugo experiences his best, his worst, and surely his strangest year.
Cleo and Romaine have been lovers on and off for 20 years, on when Romaine is in the mood, off when she decides to sleep around. Every lesbian in town knows that Romaine gets involved passionately for a brief time, then dumps the new love when she starts to miss Cleo. However, that doesn't stop a trip to San Francisco where sshe just happens to run into her ex, Electra, who lives with Cecil on Fidelity Lane.
You gotta love a travel guide with an entry on how to keep your skin looking great while traveling, that advises on getting a massage if your back is bothering you, and suggests losing the Louis Vuitton luggage because it screams "Steal me". Practical information that Frommer's never thought...and you didn't either. For instance, if you have a sugardaddy are his air miles transferable???
Carol Queen's new book is an intelligent and progressive look on writings about sex.
A mysterious death.....a series of bizarre events...Minnesota....what happens to the town's most prestigious family when a murder occurs. Jane is on the scene.
The story of a female fox who falls in love with a female rabbit, in violation of the forest's supposed natural laws, was intended to be part of a collection that mixed tall tales and autobiographical essays; undoubtedly this piece would work better as an incidental musing.
Sarah lay in the bed she shared with Fran and wondered what had gone wrong. For five years her heart has been so full of love, but now a strange emptiness that left her feeling alone and desperate. She did not know when it had started, or why. Overwhelmed by the pressures of everyday living and the fear of growing older without the benefit of change, Srah only saw one way out. Dreading the consequences, she made up her mind to leave...
Jess grew up differently gendered in a blue-collar town in the 1950's. She came out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 1960's. She decided to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or community ion the 1970's.
This is some of the brightest, funniest, most touching writing about adolescence in along time.
On Christmas Eve 1956 Mr. Page, a lonely homosexual drone at a department store sitsa down to write the brief but strange history of his youthful encounters with his wealthy doppelganger Mr. Clive. Like all the best weirdos, Mr. Page is psychotic and engagingly chatty at the same time.
Three friends gather on the anniversary of the death of a man related to them all either by blood or by love.
The multi literary award winning author's prose moves from stark realism to the wavering surrealism of fairy tales or dreams as she tells of a woman who is transformed from being a creator of paintings; the effects of a forgotten past on a pair of lovers; or the effort to repair the physical damage of a failed relationship.
Flamboyant actor Julian cannot wait for his star vehicle, so he devises one himself and sets out to stage it, casting himself in drag as the female lead.