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Attack of the Theater People
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...
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Lighthousekeeping
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...
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Rose of No Man's Land
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...
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Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series #3)
by Armistead Maupin Publisher Comments The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon...
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham Powells.com Staff Pick After completing his first two books, Michael Cunningham's writing career was right on track. Both novels had received excellent reviews, and Cunningham had established a small, loyal following among readers of literary fiction. He then decided to...
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Significant Others
by Armistead Maupin Publisher Comments This Fall HarperCollins will publish Armistead Maupin's new novel, The Night Listener (0-06-017143X). As new readers are introduced to Maupin, they'll be drawn to his acclaimed and beloved Tales of the City series, as well as his novel, Maybe the Moon (0-...
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Light Before Day
by Christopher Rice Publisher Comments In West Hollywood, journalist Adam Murphy is abruptly fired while chasing a career-making story. A Marine pilot is killed when his helicopter spirals into the Pacific Ocean -- and Adam suspects the death was not accidental. Battling his own demons in a...
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Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes Synopsis Originally published in 1936, "Nightwood" is a haunting tale of sexual obsession. Robin Vote -- the woman at the heart of this strange and richly atmospheric novel -- is a woman whose passions are strong enough to destroy. The novel circles and spirals...
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Manstealing for Fat Girls
by Michelle Embree Publisher Comments Sixteen-year-old Angie is called "Lezzylard" by her classmates. Her best friend Shelby is an out dyke in a working-class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s while the third member of their trio can't shoplift because security guards always...
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Flesh and Blood
by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments In Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham takes us on a masterful journey through four generations of the Stassos family as he examines the dynamics of a family struggling to "come of age" in the 20th century. In 1950, Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant...
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More tales of the city
by Armistead Maupin Publisher Comments The internationally beloved classic comes to life in a Showtime miniseries. Few Works of Fiction have Blazed a Trail Through popular culture like Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series. Since its publication as a daily newspaper serial in 1976...
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The Night Listener (P.S.)
by Armistead Maupin Publisher Comments I'm a fabulist by trade, warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring...
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh Publisher Comments An outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family, written by the celebrated English novelist. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The...
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A Home at the End of the World
by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college...
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The Man of the House
by Stephen Mccauley Publisher Comments Stephen McCauley's much-loved novels The Object of My Affection and The Easy Way Out prompted The New York Times Book Review to dub him "the secret love child of Edith Wharton and Woody Allen." Now McCauley stakes further claim to that title -- and more -...
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An Arrow's Flight
by Mark Merlis Publisher Comments The award-winning An Arrow's Flight tells the story of the Trojan War and Pyrrhus, the son of the fallen Achilles, now working as a go-go boy and hustler in the big city. Magically blending ancient headlines and modern myth, Merlis creates a fabulous new...
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The Romanian: Story of an Obsession
by Bruce Benderson Publisher Comments "History follows a trail of sputtering desire, often calling upon the delusions of lovers to generate the sparks. If it weren't for us, the world would suffer from a dismal lack of stories," writes Bruce Benderson in this brutally candid memoir...
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Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Parody
by Mabel Maney Publisher Comments Sometimes the Best Bond for a Job is a Jane ... Jane Bond. "What's the story on Bond?" "Your man is a homicidal depressive paranoiac," the doctor reported. "I know that. I want to know what's wrong with him! And be straight with me, man. No medical mumbo...
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Totally Joe
by James Howe Powells.com Staff Pick This book continues the story of Joe Bunch, a character from The Misfits, an earlier book by James Howe. Joe is your average seventh-grade homosexual. He's funny and smart and excited about the future. That future may or may not include starting a gay...
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A Density of Souls
by Christopher Rice Publisher Comments The story of four young friends in New Orleans whose lives are pulled in drastically different directions when they enter high school. Meredith, Brandon, Stephen, and Greg, once inseparable, are torn apart by envy, secret passion, and rage. Soon two...
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