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Fixed for Life the True Saga of how Tom became Sally
by Irene Preiss
Paperback
$14.95
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1-58348-728-X



A lot of people know something about transsexualism, but not much. And a lot of what they do know is incorrect.

This book was written for those who are not sure about their gender or sexuality; the family members of those who are not sure of their gender or sexuality; the professional counsellors for those who are not sure of their gender or sexuality; and for those who have absolutely no question about their gender or sexuality, but will eventually interact with those who do.



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The Foul Line icon
by F Thibou
ISBN 0-595-19873-2
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $17.95

A genuine look at teenage life as seen through the eyes of a seventeen year old basketball phenom, Ashley Scheid, whose homosexuality creates a world of conflict. Feuding with family, testing friendship and succumbing to love prove that it is always a long shot at The Foul Line.

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The Great Debate icon
by Glenn Slade Clark, Jr.
ISBN 0-595-26142-6
Paperback $11.95
Hard Cover $21.95

The four stories in The Great Debate illustrate both the pain of gays who feel rejected by the Church, and the joy that comes with realizing that God is by no means subject to the laws of human society. Who is the ultimate judge of the world? When God and organized religion stand at bitter odds with each other, who are we supposed to listen to? The four tales within The Great Debate, while each fully capable of standing on its own, follow this common theme. This is a book that can be enjoyed by the casual reader, just as it may come to be treasured by any reader who has ever felt rejected by the Church, even where they are certain that God is still with them.

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Green Roses icon
by Thomas Boggs
ISBN 0-595-26149-3
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95

Green Roses is the second novel from Thomas Boggs, whose earlier work, Tokyo Vanilla, described Tokyo's homosexual underground in the 1980s. In this new work, he takes us back to a slightly earlier period, more innocent in some ways, and more dangerous in others.

Two boys from two very different cultures; Tim Glade, an American high school boy living on a U.S. military base in Japan, and Satoru Watanabe, a Japanese boy of the same age, living just outside the perimeter fence. The time is the early 1970s, at the height of the Vietnam War, when anti-U.S. demonstrations were rife throughout Japan. As the boys' forbidden friendship blossoms and develops into something more passionate, their cultural and racial differences only add a headier spice to their relationship. But can their dangerous intimacy survive the disapproval of the world they live in?

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Grits, Gravy, and Girls
by Kristen Garrett
ISBN 0-595-22591-8
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95 icon

KRISTEN GARRETT at her best...sensual, seductive, intriguing, enigmatic. Set in the Deep South, this story of five friends and the haunting tragedy that consumes one of them is wickedly funny, darkly sad, and, in the end, beautifully bittersweet.


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Into This World We're Thrown icon
by Mark Kendrick
ISBN 0-595-21468-1
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $17.95

In this dramatic conclusion to Desert Sons, Scott and Ryan’s relationship takes on new twists and turns. They both come out to those they love and have to confront their responses. Ryan’s grandmother, his long-time caregiver, dies, which causes Ryan to re-evaluate his entire life. The band Scott is in might break up. Scott discovers he has secret allies, a schoolmate who’s bent on having Scott be his no matter what, and a twisted foe. Will his secret admirer permanently ruin his now tenuous relationship with Ryan? Will Scott’s foe turn his life into a living hell? Will Ryan pull himself from the depths of his emotional turmoil? Can the boys remove the bitterness that develops as a rift opens and widens between them? Can they uncover and express their love for one another before it’s too late? All of this and much more is revealed, explored, and concluded in this exciting sequel.

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It Only Hurts When I Polka icon
by Kevin Isom
ISBN 0-595-18370-0
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95

Syndicated gay humorist Kevin Isom is back—with more hilarious and thought-provoking takes on queer life. In this follow-up to his book Tongue in Cheek and Other Places: A Seriously Humorous Look at Queer Life, Isom takes a cue from his latest interest—couples dancing—and looks at queer life as a dance. From chapters like Couples Waltz (a mostly upbeat dance with occasional dips and unexpected turns) to Last Tango (when your dance partnership has exceeded its sell-by date), and from Lead or Follow (stereotypes just can’t boogie) to Queer as Polka (sometimes it’s just plain odd), Isom shows us a Dancin’ Queen who knows how to get into the gay groove. Tap your toe to the rhythm, and read on, baby!

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Jigsaw icon
by E F Hargett
ISBN 0-595-21827-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95

Take a female lawyer, a courtroom disaster, a messy break-up, add a mysterious woman, and you have the pieces. See how they fit.

Kashay Sinclair thought she knew who she was, who she loved, what she wanted. She had no idea.

See how the pieces fit.


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Leaves of Red and Gold The Journey of Matthew Schipani icon
by Scott R Chapman
ISBN 0-595-24131-X
Paperback  $19.95

A legal thriller of the journey of the first openly gay Attorney General in Massachusetts and his days from social work to the law, and the man who stalks him along the way.


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The Lie icon
by Pamela Hayes
ISBN 0-595-24903-5
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $16.95

Constance is white. Sharon is black. Constance was born female. Sharon is a transsexual. But despite their differences, they are as devoted as two sisters.

The Lie is a story about friendship, love, self-esteem, and the painful consequences of dishonesty. It is a witty, sexy, contemporary blend of the tried-and-true and the different. The story is quick, fast-paced and fresh.

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Murder at Willow Slough or, The Caregiver icon
by Josh Thomas
ISBN 0-595-15686-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $24.95

A Gay reporter, a Straight cop and 13 dead men: will the good guys get the killers, or will the killers get them?

Jamie Foster has a lot going for him—he’s young, blond and handsome, with an exciting career as a journalist. Then his life falls apart.

Kent Kessler is a winner, too, a goodlooking athlete, the youngest sergeant in state police history. Assigned to investigate a Gay murder, he comes up clueless. He teams with Jamie to track down the killer, and soon confronts a mind-boggling conspiracy.

Murder at Willow Slough is exciting and scary, tough and tender, as two very different men stare down danger and discover the truth: the only defense against Evil is people who care for each other.



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Murder in Pastel icon
by Colin Dunne
ISBN 0-595-09281-0
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $12.95

“The path that leads from the back of my cottage to Adam’s lies through a meadow thick with poppies and lupine. Beyond Adam’s cottage this same path disappears into the woods where Cosmo Bari, my father, disappeared one soft summer’s eve ten years ago...”

Ten years ago Cosmo Bari vanished, and with him, his legendary masterpiece, THE VIRGIN IN PASTEL. Since that day no one in the seaside art colony of Steeple Hill has heard from the eccentric painter.

Surrounded by an extended family of Cosmo’s colorful compatriots, mystery writer Kyle Bari believes he has come to terms with being abandoned by his famous father, until the day Adam MacKinnon arrives with his new lover, the beautiful but poisonous, Brett.

Brett has an unerring instinct for other people’s weak spots; soon the quiet colony is seething with hostility and suspicion as Brett hints he knows something about the missing artist.

Kyle doesn’t take Brett seriously until the long lost VIRGIN IN PASTEL is discovered hidden in an antique dresser. A few days later the painting has vanished again--and Brett is dead. Murdered...

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My Year of Living Heterosexually and Other Adventures in Hell icon
by Ronald L. Donaghe
ISBN 0-595-09896-7
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95

Compared to the dangerous, rage-filled military of today, where even the hint of homosexuality will get one badly beaten or savagely murdered, mine were almost halcyon days as an openly gay Airman First Class, where my boyfriend and I could be together and everybody in my flight knew about us.

They could have been halcyon days, that is, if it hadn’t been for the madness of the war and the schizophrenia of the American public over that southeast Asian conflict; and if it hadn’t been for the wife I left back home and the child we had. What should have been idyllic days of my youth spent proudly serving my country as a gay soldier were misspent, instead, trying to make sense of what had gone so terribly wrong, so fast: one day I was a gay college student, the next a self-loathing homosexual trapped in a straight marriage, and the next a GI in the military machine during Vietnam.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't change a thing.

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They’re Not Exactly Nick and Nora!

What happens when you take two gay men, one lesbian neighbor, a cross-dresser, a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and assorted other characters and mix in a murder? You have MYSTERY WITHOUT ANY CLUES, a fast and funny murder mystery set in Greenwich Village. Jeremy Baker and Sheraton Rogers, along with their new friend Pris, have quite a time trying to figure out who killed an old college friend. It might be any one of the oddest – and funniest – assortment of characters you’ve ever met. But, they’re determined to find out who the killer is – if they don’t die in the process.


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Navy Blue Dreams icon
by Guy Willard
ISBN 0-595-25844-1
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

The third book in the series beginning with Foolish Fire and continuing with Mirrors of Narcissus, Navy Blue Dreams now finds Guy Willard in the Navy on a cruise to the fabulous Orient. Not only does he meet with exotic adventures in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and other fabled ports, but he finds that the secret homosexual activities aboard his own ship are just as exciting.

Guy Willard has joined the Navy to escape a broken love affair with a roommate in college, and his ship's cruise to the fabulous Orient leads him on a voyage of discovery…not only of the exotic, erotic Far East, but of himself. And as he finds himself drawn into the secret homosexual underground aboard his own ship, his situation becomes fraught with danger. Discovery would bring scandal and disgrace, and perhaps an even worse fate...

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An Omen in the Bone
by Charles J. Frary
ISBN 0-595-01135-7
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $11.95

An Omen in the Bone tells three related stories of desire and flight, love and loss.

In Hospital: During the course of one hot summer's day, a man on the run from himself and a needy boy looking for work encounter each other; a tortured seduction ensues which leaves the boy with an unexpected secret and the man poised for further flight.

Cassiopeia's Wheel: The boy becomes obsessed with the house and with the man inside of it. His obsession finally brings him to the door of the house again, only to find the place empty and the man gone. The boy's ensuing distress and confusion precipitate yet another encounter with a stranger: an experience of a far darker kind, this time.

He Drives: The boy now feels driven to confess his homosexuality to his father - a man whose own secret past leads him to treat his son's confession with a cool distance worse than any rejection. When the boy reacts to this by running away from home, the father sets out after him - on a journey towards both the past and the future, and a disturbing encounter all his own.

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Pastoral
by Lorena Manuel
ISBN 0-595-09289-6
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $18.95  

Alex has a nagging set of problems. He's just moved out to get away from his family, but they wouldn't leave him alone. He's fallen in love with a gorgeous, inaccessible colleague whose idea of intimacy is an intellectual dialogue on art and literature. His friend's boyfriend's a cheat and has taken a liking to him. His students are fighting each other. His fanatic aunt thinks he's going to hell. He has to balance a budget on the wages of a part-time academic. He has a love struck sixteen-year-old practically throwing herself at him. He has to learn how to cook. He has to come out to his family. And he's only twenty-one.

Set in a fictitious city near the San Francisco Bay Area, Pastoral is the story of Alex Chasen, who tackles the world armed with nothing more than a glaring absence of a normal childhood, a dwindling savings account, and wide-eyed optimism. His is a story celebrating romance, diversity, friendship, and, yes, family— while satirizing heterosexism, hypocrisy, and just plain nastiness.

The author has pledged to donate a dollar for every book sold to the Human Rights Campaign on behalf of anti-gay hate crime victims.



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A Portrait of Phillip A Story of Suspense
by J.P. Bowie
ISBN 0-595-23320-1
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

Engrossing page-turner....a deeply insightful look into the lives and friendships of a group of people suddenly faced with danger.

When Peter Brandon, a gifted young artist awakens from a coma of three years, he learns that his lover, Phillip, was brutally murdered and no one brought to justice for the crime. With the help of Andrew Connor, his physical therapist, he slowly regains his strength, but it is not until he visits Phillip’s graveside and receives an affirmation that his dead lover is somehow guiding him to the truth, that he feels the need to get on with his life. Through mutual friends, he meets Jeff Stevens, an ex-cop now a PI, and together they discover that Phillip was not the victim of a random gay-bashing, but of a deliberate act to silence him. They unravel a web of lies, deceit and a friend’s treachery. During their investigation, Peter and Jeff find a mutual attraction for each other, a situation that is thrown into jeopardy in their final face off with Phillip’s killer.

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Roman and Jules
by J. Kelly Poorman
ISBN 0-595-16455-2
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $11.95

A gay bull rider. A Straight bull fighter. Their friendship is strange to them, but more so to their circle of acquaintances.

A book about friendship and how two men fight all odds to show that following your heart is more important then not. This is an age old story set in the back drop of Gay Rodeo. Two men, not looking for friendship, must survive what two communities, gay and straight, toss in their way to remain true to themseves and to each other.


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Seahorse Variations
by Thomas Boggs
ISBN 0-595-26433-6
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $15.95

A boy turns into a girl—a man into a woman—a male into a female. This bizarre theme is transformed, in Seahorse Variations, into eight uniquely different renderings, each written in a style matching its subject. "The Girl in the Mirror" could almost be a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, albeit one for adults, about a boy who discovers a fantastic secret in his grandmother's storage room. In the near-future world of "The Investigation," the sinister Metromen track down anyone who deviates from the norm in any fashion. "Butterfly at Night" records the campy confessions of a postal clerk who seeks his romantic weekend encounters dressed as a woman. In "Etude," protagonists, genders, and points of view shift in a dizzying but delightful fashion. Medieval Japan is the setting for "The Tale of Young Lord Tatsunori," in which a warrior-lord's son finds sanctuary in a rival lord's harem, dressed as a girl—for the purpose of exacting his revenge upon his father's killer. The protagonist of "Tiresias" is a successful male novelist popular with women readers, who unexpectedly discovers the secret source of his inspirations. "A Seahorse's Tale" is a fantasy about a young man who wakes up one morning as a woman, and the hilarious results this transformation has upon his girlfriend and his best buddy. In the dystopian future of "Space Opus Alpha," when male homosexuality is the norm, and violence and decadence reign supreme, we are introduced to a spacer who has tasted every sin in the universe—or so he thinks.

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Someone is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona
by Mark A Roeder
ISBN 0-595-09113-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

A brutal murder. Gay ghosts. A Haunted Victorian-Mansion. Sixteen-year-old Sean must delve into the supernatural and race to discover the murderer before he strikes again.

Someone is killing the gay boys of Verona, Indiana, and only one gay youth stands in the way. He finds himself pitted against powerful foes, but finds allies in places he did not expect.

Sixteen-year-old Sean sets out on a quest that takes him into the supernatural and beyond. A haunted mansion, gay ghosts, a cult of hate, and a hundred year old ax murder all await Sean as he races to discover the murderer before he strikes again.

Someone is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona is a supernatural murder mystery that goes where no gay novel has set foot before. It is a tale of love, hate, friendship, and revenge.

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Son in Homing Flight
by Charles J Frary
ISBN 0-595-21314-6
Format: Paperback  / MS Reader / Adobe eBook
Our Price: $16.95 / $6.00 / $6.00

A gay teenager’s flight from his small-town home cityward, and his anguished journey back -- to a father he’s found he cannot forget.

A boy on a bus -- that’s taking him back to the small town and the father he’d run away from.

“I'm queer,” he’d told his father. More than enough to seal his fate in the house he’d been raised in.

The city will be better, he’d thought. No, not better. After three weeks, definitely not better -- only different. And strange. Strange as the three men he’d met there -- complicated puzzles he hadn’t come within a mile of solving. Now, if you can’t solve them -- or the city, either -- where else do you go? But back to what? To square one, was it?

Son in Homing Flight (a continuation of a story begun in Mr. Frary’s previous book, An Omen in the Bone) is an innovative exploration of the mind of someone in transit: on a two-hours-and-change shuttle between the past and the present, between what a scared and confused boy thought he knew about the power of a father’s flawed love and what he still had to learn. In a city -- and all by himself.


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Sons Like Me
by Damon Murphy
Paperback
$16.95
Pages: 314
ISBN: 0-595-21840-7

An exciting tale on the lives of black gay men told in four thought provoking short stories. You must check it out!

A book of four short stories on the lives of Black Gay Men, largely set in New York City in contemporary time, it combines psychology and fiction so that the reader gets greater understanding of Same Gender Loving Black Male issues. The DL brotha, The Hustler brotha, The average trying to stay positive brotha, The coming out of the closet brotha…They are all here to share their worlds with you.
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Coming Soon the William Maltese Official Website. Read More about this author in the newsletter, elsewhere at rondonaghe.com.
SS Mann Hunt
by William Maltese Our price: $12.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 178
ISBN: 0-595-26188-4
Published: Dec-2002


About this prolific writer...

William Maltese majored in Business/Advertising, served to Sergeant rank in the U.S. Army. Under various pseudonyms, he's published over one hundred books in genres that include erotica, sci-fi, science-fantasy, adventure-espionage, romance, and mystery. His work has been translated into six foreign languages. He presently resides in the Pacific Northwest.
Can renewed passion survive a possibly horrific past, a steamy tropical jungle, the dangers of a cave complex, and the secrets of an SS-Nazi butcher possibly still on the loose?

FATHER. FIEND? SCIENTIST. BUTCHER? PATRIOT. NAZI?

Sebastian S. Mann, prominent member of post-WWII U.S. rocket development, has gone missing with other expedition members supposedly caving in South America. Having done so just days before revelations that he may have been responsible for the deaths of over two-hundred thousand gays, Jews, gypsies, and Romanian freedom fighters.

Years later, the male heirs of three missing members of Mann's lost expedition meet up in deep Brazilian jungle to explore evidence finally turned up of their fathers' possibly last campsite.

Brad Lexly and Kurt Mann, childhood friends and lovers, rekindle their previous passionate relationship but know its success, beyond the isolating jungle environment, depends upon an acceptable explanation for Sebastian Mann's disappearance. More dangerous people than they, though, seek answers, too, and also provide definite possibilities for this expedition ending up just as missing as the one gone before it.






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The Story of Me
by Advocate
ISBN 0-595-13744-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $9.95

A crazy scheme leads two women on a hilariously disastrous road trip across America, where, begrudgingly, they find that all paths lead to each other.

Randi is just trying to make sense of it all as she sits in the park, pouring out her woes to a pair of bemused squirrels. The first thing she determines is that she sucks at thinking up snappy titles. Hence, the prosaic name for this classic farce that might best be described as a free fall into insanity.

In truth, it would be hard to find something better to call this screwball comedy, featuring the misadventures of a tall, dark driving instructor and the blonde nurse who's stalking her. Mac is intent on drawing Randi into a madcap plot to exact revenge upon a common enemy; the two-timing wench who dumped Mac for her brother, the doctor - and who, years earlier, deprived Randi of academic fame and a college scholarship. The ill-conceived plan takes them across America to Las Vegas. It's a 'road trip from Hell' that features a wild array of occurrences, ranging from mere mishap to outright disaster. Inexorably - delightfully - the women slide into an endearing, nutty relationship that was simply meant to be.


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The Transition of Sinful Sadie
by Dann Hazel
ISBN 0-595-21170-4
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $19.95

Dann Hazel’s riveting psychological thriller explodes with passion and conflict as three people “in transition” struggle—with each other, with a culture that misunderstands them, and with themselves—to find comfort in a world in which they do not belong. Paul Lyles (a.k.a. Sadie Bedenbaugh), a male-to-female transsexual, fights desperately to remain in a deteriorating relationship—and his upcoming surgery certainly won’t help. Wally Bedenbaugh, a closeted gay televangelist, finds himself on a collision course with his faith, his spouse and a domestic terrorist. And Duncan Trace, a religious extremist losing touch with reality, follows a murderous path as he plots the destruction of a media empire.

The Transition of Sinful Sadie is a riveting exploration of fanaticism and terrorism—and the redemptive power of love and acceptance.


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