Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, ...
The personal and eye-opening story of a young man and his broken family's escape to the refuge of America: Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts by Gerd Korman (Professor Emeritus of American History at Cornell University's School of [... more]
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Honorable Bandit: A Walk across Corsica
I Love to Go Awandering: If you've read any of Bouldrey's other work, this book will come less of a surprise than a delight. If you're new to Bouldrey, I envy you the discovery. "Honorable Bandit" is part travelogue, part memoir, part [... more]
$26.95
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A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture
Behind the Drywalls, Secrets about Gender Role Identity: Will Fellows is himself a sort of preservationist writer. His first book, Farm boys, recovered the childhoods of rural gay men in scholarly-memoir format. This time, he painstakingly identified gay [... more]
$19.95
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Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle
Book Description: Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice for Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from [... more]
$24.95
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Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish ...
should be widely read by people concerned with faith and sexuality: This book, while it may not be perfect or without some hesitencies and perhaps weaknesses, breaks important ground and is a work of courage. It should be read for that reason alone. It [... more]
$21.95
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Glimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties (Library of ...
Gerber seems to remember my youth better than I do!!!!: Although I "went away to school" to what I would have thought was college vastly differernt from the Florida university that is the scene of Gerber's most recent triumph, the similarities [... more]
$24.95
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1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living ...
All About the Body: Editor Glen Johnson has done what I would have thought was just about impossible, between covers, and that is to bring the Tim Miller experience in extraordinary and full dimension. I've seen several of Miller's performances and [... more]
$19.95
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Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
Seeking the Divine: Moses, Jennifer Anne. "Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou", The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. $26.95. Seeking the Divine Amos Lassen My review copy of "Bagels and Grits" just arrived this afternoon as I [... more]
$26.95
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Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and ...
heartbreaking fun: if i were feeling more articulate i'd say something more than just WOW. maureen seaton knows how to write, baby. if you've read her poetry you already knew that, but now you know she can wield prose, too, and make it wickedly funny, [... more]
$26.95
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The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech ...
Czech Film and Literature: Thomas, Alfred. "The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture", University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. Czech Literature and Film Amos Lassen and Literary Pride If you have followed my reviews you know [... more]
$75.00
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Fred in Love
"Freedom to a pet also means having to give him up for good": Just one look at the cute cover of Fred in Love will probably melt most reader's hearts. Encompassing everything that is charming and delightful about these extraordinary animals, [... more]
$14.95
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In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death
Expanding Awareness: Goodkin, Richard E. "In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death". University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. Expanding Awareness Amos Lassen and Literary Pride When Elaine Marks died in 2001, the world lost a powerful [... more]
$65.00
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