by Marc Acito  Publisher Comments In praising "the witty high school romp" How I Paid for College, the New York Times Book Review said, it "makes you hope there's a lot more where this came from." There is. In this hilarious sequel Attack of the Theater People, Edward Zanni and his merry... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Augusten Burroughs Publisher Comments "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Alison Bechdel 
Powells.com Staff Pick Alison Bechdel, creator of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip, uses the cartoon form to tell the story of her coming out and the discovery of her father's sexual orientation. The title refers to the funeral home where she grew up, and her parents... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jeanette Winterson Publisher Comments Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast... (read more) Your Price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Marc Acito Publisher Comments In praising "the witty high school romp" How I Paid for College, the New York Times Book Review said, it "makes you hope there's a lot more where this came from." There is. In this hilarious sequel Attack of the Theater People, Edward Zanni and his merry... (read more) Your Price $12.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Michelle Tea
Powells.com Staff Pick Michelle Tea, a long-time favorite with streetwise memoir readers, proved she could pull off a novel with Rose of No Man's Land. It's like Freaks and Geeks with lesbians. Tea's writing dazzles and hurts in all the right places and her comic timing has... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Peter Cameron
Powells.com Staff Pick The New York Times Book Review already got it exactly right: "It's his best work....The novel demonstrates every kind of strength....It's as if Cameron had taken the tools earned over a whole career and applied them to the materials of a first book... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Cheryl Peck Synopsis The author of "Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs" is back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Dan Savage Publisher Comments From Dan Savage, the writer whose sex-advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites four million people every week, comes the compelling and unexpected story of this journey into parenthood. Dan and his boyfriend, Terry, want a baby. So they do... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Patricia Highsmith Publisher Comments In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds... (read more) Your Price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Tom (edt) Graham Publisher Comments The real rodeo starts when the spurs are hung up and the chaps come off. Twenty-four stories of ropin’ and ridin’ on the open range. Saddle up and go for a long, hot ride. There's nothing in this world like a sexy cowboy...mounting another... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Melinda Gallagher Publisher Comments Want to explore your sexual fantasies? Wonder why you get off on your own, but not with a partner? Think you were the only one who watched fuzzy cable as a kid? Ready for a sexuality makeover? Looking for more turn-on material? Curious about being with... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Jamye Waxman Publisher Comments Women Loving Women explores the phenomenon of the contemporary "bi-sexual" or "lesbian" experience for the heterosexual woman. However, while women loving women is indeed an emerging trend, it is also an age-old obsession that this book also addresses... (read more) Your Price $19.99 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick Completely autobiographical and, as always, hilarious, Me Talk Pretty One Day is my favorite of all the David Sedaris collections. The first half of the book focuses on his childhood in North Carolina and his very unusual family; the second half details... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by David Sedaris From Powells.com Whether he is best known as a playwright, a radio personality, an essayist, or satirist, David Sedaris in Naked is screamingly funny. In the autobiographical essays that comprise Naked, Sedaris reveals his childhood compulsions (nervous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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