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10 best books like The Beauty of Men (Andrew Holleran): The Story of the Night, The Complete Yes Minister, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military, The Twins at St Clare's, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Rumpole of the Bailey, Martin and John, Basic Writings of Existentialism, Selected Writings, A Kierkegaard Anthology

The Story of the Night
AuthorColm Tóibín
ISBN0743272714
From the award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Master, a powerful, brave, and moving novel set in Argentina.

In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his sexuality...
The Complete Yes Minister
AuthorJonathan Lynn
ISBN0563206659
'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I
think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a
fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castle's... and
although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it
is distinctly funnier' - Lord Allen of...
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military
AuthorRandy Shilts
ISBN5551973522
So I read this book not necessarily because the topic particularly interests me, but because I read And the Band Played On and fell in love with Shilt's journalistic style. He is one of the many people our society lost because of AIDS and working my way through his three books has brought to my mind again...
The Twins at St Clare's
AuthorEnid Blyton
ISBN0603559581
The Twins at St Clare's (St Clare's, #1), Enid Blyton
The Twins at St Clare's is a children's novel by Enid Blyton set in an English girls' boarding school. It is the first of the original six novels in the St. Clare's series of school stories. First published in 1941, it tells the story of twin sisters...
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
AuthorPaul Monette
ISBN0060595647
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret -- from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian...
Rumpole of the Bailey
AuthorJohn Mortimer
ISBN0140046704
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients. The original show has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and...
Martin and John
AuthorDale Peck
ISBN0374530300
In Martin and John, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a haunting, heartrending portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, a hustler in New York, who falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. Interwoven with these stories is a second set, in which...
Basic Writings of Existentialism
AuthorGordon Daniel Marino
ISBN0375759891
Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino

Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must...
Selected Writings
AuthorThomas Aquinas
ISBN0140436324
In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology.
Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and...
A Kierkegaard Anthology
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
ISBN0691019789
This anthology covers the whole of Kierkegaard's literary career. The selections range from the terse epigrams of the Journal through the famous -Diary of the Seducer- and the -Banquet- scene, in which Soren Kierkegaard reveals his great lyric and dramatic gifts, on to the philosophical and psychological...
Reason in History
AuthorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
ISBN0023513209
The "greatness" of a nation and the individuals who illustrate this greatness, which, according to Hegel, has only one time and corresponds to a phase of expansion that can not last forever: it is the genius of a nation or people that captures that and brings the human, artistic, cultural, economic,...
Ralph's Party
AuthorLisa Jewell
ISBN0452281636
Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road who together weave a tangled web of romance. Ralph, a ne'er-do-well artist, suddenly realizes he's head over heels in love with his new flatmate Jem, the most fun and sensible girl he's ever encountered. Unfortunately, Ralph's best friend,...
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