Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
7 best books like Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Martin Duberman): Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, After the Funeral, A Pocket Full of Rye, From Norvelt to Nowhere, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
I am not quite sure how to feel about this book. Aside from the first and last page, the "story" is actually a speech given by Chief Seattle in the 1850's. Though the words are quite poetic, at the end the illustrator herself says that they are not perfectly quoted. Though I found this under "Easy Reader"...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0425173909 |
Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from the Queen of Mystery.
When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the odd remark she made the day before at her brother's funeral becomes chillingly important: "It's been hushed up very nicely,...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0451199863 |
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0374379947 |
This town is haunted by more than just ghosts . . .
When Jack dresses up as a notorious local murderer for Halloween, he thinks he’s found the perfect costume to scare away evil spirits. But when the real murderer returns and another old lady dies, he starts to worry that he might not be showing...
| Author | Rosemary Curb |
| ISBN | 0446326593 |
This is NOT lesbian erotic pulp fiction. It is non-fiction-- the stories of 50 lesbians who were nuns, some were still nuns too.
I found it really interesting to hear about how there was a word used to describe, and chastise women for developing close, intimate relationships inside the convent,...
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
| Author | José Esteban Muñoz |
| ISBN | 0816630151 |
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming...
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
| Author | Anthony Everitt |
| ISBN | 1400061288 |
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow....
