The Perfect Age
10 best books like The Perfect Age (Heather Skyler): Life is Funny, Fairy tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men, Vintage, Confessions of a Serial Dater, Everyday People, Graham Greene: A Life in Letters, A Year and a Day, The Last Summer of the World, One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide, Tilt
| Author | E.R. Frank |
| ISBN | 0142300837 |
From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good...
Fairy tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men
| Author | Peter Cashorali |
| ISBN | 0062513095 |
Queer retellings of common, and not-so-common, fairytales. These didn’t really work for me. They make use of a lot of gay clichés—hairdressers, leathermen, etc.—and most seemed to be trying too hard: “SEE WHAT I’M DOING HERE? NUDGE NUDGE.” The whole collection seems dated, which,...
Okay, I don't know what to say about this book other than I have never wanted to kick somebody in the nuts so bad after reading a book in my life!
So here's the skinny, there is 3 chicas that in one manner or other come into owning a vineyard. Of the 3, Madeline, the French woman whose dad had more debts...
| Author | Michelle Cunnah |
| ISBN | 0060560371 |
Another great tale of love gone wild from author Michelle Cunnah, a favourite voice of Avon Trade fans whose loveable characters are creating a stir.
A good relationship is like a pair of comfortable shoes, right?
At first, they may pinch and squeeze, but with time (and blisters) they...
| Author | Stewart O'Nan |
| ISBN | 0802138837 |
Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African-American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998. Vibrant, poignant, and brilliantly rendered, Everyday People is a lush, dramatic portrait that...
Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0316727938 |
A revealing portrait of a fascinating life emerges gradually from nearly 70 years’ worth of the great British author’s letters to family members, lovers, literary peers, readers and others.One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene wrote tens of thousands...
| Author | Leslie Pietrzyk |
| ISBN | 0060554665 |
Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unexceptional. But in the world that Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through...
The Last Summer of the World
| Author | Emily Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0393064875 |
In the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army. France is full of poignant memories: his early artistic successes, his marriage, the births of his two daughters. But as he takes up his first command, he learns that...
One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide
| Author | Christian Kiefer |
| ISBN | 0991314131 |
Fiction. Renowned installation artist Frank Poole has embarked on his most ambitious project to date: an entire housing subdivision in the desert of Nevada, with every element painted stark white. By his side is his young wife Caitlin, his manager and confidante who keeps the volatile artist functioning...
| Author | Elizabeth Burns |
| ISBN | 0425195929 |
Which could also be the same as saying everything's impossible in this family. It's the tightrope I walk between the Irish knowledge that cookies always crumble, and the Midwestern fact that a sunny disposition can get you anywhere... Bridget Fox's life is full of blessings, including her husband...
In Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the question of what happens when a mother loves her child too much is deeply and darkly explored. Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, "it would do to find a passion," Redel's narrator sets out to become a mother--a task she feels...
Behind the waterfall waits 1796--and the girl who is slowly capturing his heart. But if Mark travels through time to save Susanna, will her brutal world trap him too?
While mountain biking in the woods, Mark Lewis spots a mysterious girl dressed in odd clothing, standing behind a waterfall....
Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers
| Author | Matt Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0812975669 |
Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the newest, brightest young writers you haven’t heard of . . . yet.
Here, for the first time, current twentysomethings come together...
| Author | Leslie Glass |
| ISBN | 0451199650 |
NYPD Detective April Woo finds herself caught between New York City powerhouse politics and ethnic expectations when a young Chinese-American mother is beaten unconscious, and her newborn son is gone. The woman's domineering husband wants to control the entire investigation. The mayor wants the...
Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One
| Author | Ze'ev Chafets |
| ISBN | 1595230637 |
Do you remember your first time?
People tend to remember the moment they first heard The Rush Limbaugh Show on the radio. For Zev Chafets, it was in a car in Detroit, driving down Woodward Avenue. Limbaugh's braggadocio, the outrageous satire, the slaughtering of liberal sacred cows performed...
It's Not Mean If It's True: More Trials from My Queer Life
| Author | Michael Thomas Ford |
| ISBN | 1555835996 |
With two best-sellers and a Lambda Literary Award under his belt, Michael Thomas Ford is still cranky. Lucky for us. The author of "Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me" and "That's Mr. Faggot to You" returns with more skewed observations on the strange state of the queer union. As fans of his previous collections...
| Author | Bob Smith |
| ISBN | 0380732009 |
As an openly gay comic, Bob Smith broke barriers with an appearance on "The Tonight Show." Now Smith offers up his own original, whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay.In OPENLY BOB, the acclaimed comedian candidly, and humorously, tackles issues facing grown-up gays as they make their place...
| Author | Margaret Leroy |
| ISBN | 0316741574 |
A gripping novel of literary suspense about a woman forced to reveal a secret that may solve a crime but ruin her life. From almost their first meeting, Ginnie Holmes is transformed by the passion she feels with Will-so much so that she risks her marriage and her children as she abandons herself to their...
The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of Pinups
| Author | Richard Foster |
| ISBN | 0806520752 |
What a sad life. For a lady who appeared to be so confident and comfortable, her own inner demons completely destroyed her. She also stabbed some people with a bread knife and spent years in mental institutions, which is a sharp contrast to the mythos that she simply faded from the limelight to avoid damaging...
Please Don't Stop the Music
| Author | Jane Lovering |
| ISBN | 1906931275 |
Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail - until enigmatic Ben Davies offers to stock her handmade belt buckles in his guitar shop and things start looking up, on all fronts.
But Ben has secrets...
| Author | Marjorie Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0425172643 |
This small, unobtrusive 1997 paperback is easy to overlook. At first glance it appears to be one of those "fluff" romance novels that are used primarily as a means of escape. Had I myself come across The Starlite Drive-In most likely, I would have dismissed it without bothering to read the back cover....
| Author | Kathryn Harrison |
| ISBN | 0812973763 |
Will has a good sex life–with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that, were they to break out of his imagination and into the real world, have the power to destroy not only his family but his career? He’s about to lose his grip when he attends a college...
