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Gay and Lesbian Fiction
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: GN=graphic novels, M=mystery, SS=short story collection.
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Anthologies
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(2007)SSAn original volume of sumptuous tales exploring the paths of eros and love, written by leading female writers of contemporary lesbian fiction.
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(2004)SSIn this first installment of a planned annual series of "New Exploits of..." novellas, authors put a lesbian spin on the classic fairy tales "Cinderella," "The Little Mermaid," "Snow White," and "Beauty and the Beast."
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(2006)SSWe all look forward to that long-deserved vacation and the pleasures it will bring. But aside from the regularly planned activities, it is the unexpected encounter that makes it a vacation to remember. These are the hottest stories of traveling men encountering the exotic and erotic in foreign lands and locales-and not just what but who they did on their summer vacation.
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(2007)SSOver the past years, Alyson's Ultimate Gay Erotica series has set the bar-and repeatedly gone over it-for the most sexually charged stories in the market. Now we've asked our strongest pool of writers to redefine "ultimate." It's a collection guaranteed to make every gay man stand up and be proud.
Fiction
- Aciman, Andre
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(2007)This heartrending elegy to human passion is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' house, a cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.
- Anshaw, Carol
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(2002)From the award-winning author of "Aquamarine" comes a new novel about mothers and daughters and the surprising shape of the contemporary American family.
- Beck, Timothy James
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(2007)From the author of "Someone Like You" and "Im Your Man" comes a superbly entertaining coming-of-age story that is as witty as it is touching.
- Bennett, Saxon
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(2007)Date Night Club is a dark romantic comedy about the pitfalls of dating in your thirties.
- Bram, Christopher
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(2006)The author of "Gods and Monsters" and "The Notorious Doctor August" probes the dark depths of the human heart in this insightful and heartstopping novel that explores how the personal becomes the political.
- Braund, Diana
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(2007)Aspen must choose between the woman she loves and the forest she hopes to preserve.
- Calhoun, Jackie
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(2004)Best selling author Jackie Calhoun left a long term marriage when she could no longer deny her sexual orientation. Crossing the Center Line is autobiographical fiction in that Ms. Calhoun has chosen to share part of her own experience through Michael, a husband and father who comes to realize he's gay. Crossing the Center Line powerfully portrays Michael's struggle with his own internalized homophobia. As Michael comes to terms with his own sexuality, he confronts the external pressures which have kept him in the closet for so long and led to the clandestine sexual acts which will end his marriage. Like Michael, Ms. Calhoun loved her spouse and feared losing the love and respect of her children. In this emotionally realized journey, Ms. Calhoun conveys the anguish inherent in the demise of a marriage based on trust, friendship and the raising of children.
- Cameron, Anne
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(2003)Of the six grown-up siblings at the heart of the story, one lives with children she and her husband produced; one has children by more than one father, including three brothers she calls the Three Wise Men; and one has a foster child whose short past is too unbearable to contemplate. The others don't have families - unless you count the eccentric brother who takes on the bad-girl niece because she sees the same ghosts he does, or the sister and her woman lover who end up co-parenting a troubled little boy, or the other sister who mothers some of her kids' half-siblings when their "real" mother takes off without warning. And just to keep everyone on their toes, there are regular but unpredictable appearances by the squeyanx, a character related to no one and to everyone, part ghost, part trickster, part Greek chorus, who is visible only to those who want to see.
- Camper, Jennifer
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(2007)GNThe only current publication that showcases comix by queer artists, the ground-breaking graphic novel Juicy Mother 2 contains richly drawn tales that examine LGBT life from new perspectives: killer dykes chasing romance, a superhero tranny, how Hothead met Chicken, homeboys in love, lesbian internet hook-ups, West Hollywood parties, kids with queer parents, and many other unexpectedly funny depictions of how like-minded individuals have found each other for love, lust, and heartbreak.
- Cooper, Dennis
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(2002)Dennis Cooper's latest novel has emerged as his finest, most thought-provoking and challenging piece of writing yet. At the heart of the work is Larry, a teenager who is struggling to understand not only his sexuality and physical feelings toward his younger brother but also the purpose and reason behind his own existence. Larry is offered $500 to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It all seems straightforward enough. However, once Larry ventures into the notebook, complications arise. Captivated by both the beauty of its articulation and the horror of its content, he longs for such an ability to communicate himself.
- Copp, Rick
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(2003)MFormer 80s child star Jarrod Jarvis has managed to escape the notoriety that has plagued his peers. But his quiet life in the Hollywood Hills is soon in jeopardy when his friend is found dead in his lap pool. Jarrod sets out to find the killer.
- Coyote, Ivan E.
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(2006)Bow Grip, Coyote's first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness; in it, a good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance's suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man's true rite of passage-trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that's as big as the endless prairie sky.
- Craft, Michael
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(2004)MThe unpleasant merger partner for Manning's family company turns up dead-with one of Mark's closest colleagues as the prime suspect Journalist Mark Manning has been successfully running his family's newspaper, The Dumont Daily Register, for several years. But now it's time to consider a friendly merger with a nearby paper company. Unfortunately, the manager of the company is an old, much hated rival of Glee Savage, the society reporter for the Daily Register, and a friendly meeting turns into a fracas when Savage slaps Manning's merger partner in front of everyone. Then due diligence uncovers some very questionable items regarding the paper company. So, the discovery of the manager's body is greeted with surprise, but perhaps not regret. Still, with Glee Savage as the obvious and primary suspect, Mark Manning and his lover Neil Waite can't resist wading into the investigation.
- Craft, Michael
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(2003)MAfter a long, successful career as a director on Broadway, Claire Gray has accepted her first academic position as the theatrical director for Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. After thirty-plus years of a largely peaceful existence in Manhattan, though, Gray is somewhat surprised to find herself enmeshed in her second murder investigation in a matter of months. A local aged and ailing collector of antiques-who frequently lent pieces to local charity events or dramatic productions-is found murdered shortly after Grant Knoll, Claire's neighbor and friend, was at his house. With Grant a suspect in the murder, along with several others, Claire decides to take a hand in the evolving murder investigation.
- Currier, Jameson
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(2004)"Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex" collects the best known of Jameson Currier's short fiction, along with several new stories that meticulously detail the search for love, romance, partnership, and meaning among the moderns. Currier's characteristically spare prose brings into sharp relief the sometimes maddening multiplicity of traits that constitute a person's romantic ideal and shows how the quest for the other can transform -- or derail -- the course of our lives.
- Dean, Elizabeth
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(2002)This fast-paced, outrageous new novel takes a look behind the scenes of a lesbian TV network, where there's more drama, comedy, and romance than prime time ever delivers.
- Dhalla, Ghalib Shiraz
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(2002)Ali has left behind a tempestuous childhood in postcolonial Kenya, the overprotective mother who raised him on a steady diet of Hindi cinema, an emotionally abusive bisexual lover and confused memories of his father's violent death at the hands of his mistress. Now his mother rambles on his answering machine while Ali is lost in his obsession for Richard, his ideal of beauty and "the one" he desperately hopes will help remedy the past.
- Dolby, Tom
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(2004)In the tradition of "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Less Than Zero," Dolby has written a searing debut novel about a person attempting to go after what he really wants--without losing himself in the process.
- Donoghue, Emma
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(2007)A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely 21st century twist, here is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships.
- Esposito, Michelene
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(2003)Night Diving is both a young woman's coming-out story and a 30-something coming-of-age journey that proves you can go home again. It is the story of Rose Salino, a thirty-year-old woman living the San Francisco chic lesbian lifestyle, who loses her job as a chef and her lover on the same day. The next day her grandmother dies and in the course of returning to her hometown for a funeral, she sees her childhood best friend and first love, Jessie. They begin to rekindle their friendship, which later becomes a romance. Through a series of crises Rose is forced to look at her life and find the courage to create a future that is true to her real self and her heart.
- Feinberg, Leslie
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(2006)Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club, is shaken when her friend, a transvestite, is murdered. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbians, and gay men stand together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had disappeared.
- Flores-Williams, Jason
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(2003)Deep inside each of us there is a challenge: Individuality or Conformity? Action or Acceptance? One man, in spite of himself, is going to answer it. Sam is at the bottom of the American grave. His life is a meaningless cycle of work and television. The only thing he has left--besides twisted explorations in an underground sex club--is his dark, cutting sense of humor.
- Ford, Michael Thomas
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(2004)The critically acclaimed author of "Last Summer" whisks readers off to a small-town community in upstate New York, where seven gay men--regardless of their circumstances, background, and age--are still "looking for it."
- Gerrold, David
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(2002)When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he thought he had prepared himself for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turned out to be more than he expected--a lot more. Dennis suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, the son of a substance abuser and alcoholic who abandoned him in a seedy motel at the age of one-and-a-half. His father died of an overdose. Seized by the state, Dennis was shuffled between eight different foster homes in less than eight years. He was abused and beaten severely in at least tow of his placements. Dennis was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and put on Ritalin and then Disipramine. He was prone to violent emotional outbursts. His case history identified him as "hard to place" --a euphemism for "unadoptable." But for David Gerrold it was love at first sight.
- Glass, Julia
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(2002)"Three Junes" is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marriage.
- Gogoll, Ruth
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(2003?)What do you do when the woman of your dreams makes her living as a seductress? Do you woo her or allow her to maintain a professional distance? Can these two worlds breach the distance or will they collide and love disintegrate?
- Griffith, Nicola
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(2007)"It doesn't matter how well trained you are, how big, how fast, how strong; there will always be someone out there bigger or faster or stronger. Always." That's what Aud Torvingen teaches the students in her self-defense class. But the question is whether Aud really believes this lesson herself-and if not, what it will take for her to learn it." Aud has trained herself to achieve a fierce, machine-like precision, in hand-to-hand combat as well as life. But in Always she is abruptly confronted with the limits of her own power. Her self-defense classes spin violently out of her grasp and, still reeling from the consequences, she embarks on a seemingly simple investigation of Seattle real estate fraud that pulls her into something far more complicated and dangerous than she had imagined.
- Grimsley, Jim
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(2002)Ready for a change in 1978, Newell buys a one-way ticket to New Orleans, where he becomes a quick favorite of the town. Among his new friends are party-boy Mark--Newell's first beau--and the volatile Jack, who shows Newell the blackest heart of the city.
- Harris, E Lynn
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(200)With just the right amount of wickedness, love, and compassion, Harris's masterful storytelling and delicious plot twists will have fans and newcomers alike frantically turning pages to the answer to the ultimate question: Will the wily (and naughtily wonderful) Basil finally be undone?
- Herren, Greg
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(2003)MFrom the drug-fueled dance floors of New Orleans' hottest bars to the body-worship of its packed gyms, "Bourbon Street Blues" takes readers on a dizzying tour of gay life in the French Quarter and introduces an unlikely P.I. whose ironic take on things is as cool as the city he loves.
- Herren, Greg
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(2004)MThe buff, blond go-go boy of "Bourbon Street Blues" is back, embroiled with a few good men and a murder case that is turning the Big Easy into anything but.
- Herring, Peggy J.
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(2004)Bestselling author Herring brings two of her most popular characters--Dr. Maxine Weston and her lover Betina Abbott--back to life in this story of discovery and awakening.
- Hinton, Gregory
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(2002)As funny, heart-wrenching, and evocative as "Cathedral City, Desperate Hearts" reacquaints readers with the first book's unforgettable cast, and with the town that serves as both backdrop and pivotal character in their stories.
- House, Tom
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(2003)In this dark domestic comedy, an 11-year-old fifth-grader writes a play, "The Passion of Christ, " that is produced at his Catholic elementary school--a production that goes terribly awry.
- James, Jamie
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(2002)Hot-blooded Cajun choreographer Joey and perpetually unemployed, upper crust, All-American Asian Andrew have shared 14 tranquil years of gay marriage in an antique-filled Greenwich Village apartment. But that's about to come to an end now that Joey has landed a grant to fund a year of study and dance in Bali--with his reluctant lover in tow.
- Jeffrey, Jon
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(2003)In this hilarious, on-target romantic comedy, four gay friends try all the right moves--and too many wrong ones--in their search for true love, only to discover it in the most unexpected places.
- Johnson, Bett Reece
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(2003)In the third novel in the acclaimed Cordelia Morgan mystery series, Grace "Killer" Frost is released from a mental institution and unexpectedly into the arms of international artist-turned-sleuth Cordelia Morgan, whose own shadowy past is closing in on her.
- Jones, John Sam
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(2004)Moving through city steam rooms, the rugged mountains and estuaries of North Wales, and Italian resorts, the young men in this collection of ten stories make choices: risky sex, new romance and easy understanding, and a mortgage on a semi, or keeping a lid on it all for the sake of family, status, and belief. These sensual and sometimes erotic tales reveal a lucid prose, etched with echoes of the sea, that signals eternity in very different worlds.
- Joseph, Sheri
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(2002)Joseph's assured debut novel explores the lives of two Georgia families soon to be linked by a marriage. While Joseph tackles several dark themes, the core of the story is a hopeful portrait of the different and often elusive faces of salvation.
- Kallmaker, Karin
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(2005)Syrah Ardani tried independence-but the call of the Napa Valley hills and rolling vineyards of her family’s winery have brought her home again. She is content with her ordered world until she learns that her father’s feckless management has put Ardani Vineyards into receivership. Corporate turnaround specialist Toni Blanchard’s arrival is preceded by tales of her slash-and-burn techniques. Determined to meet this soulless corporate raider head on, Syrah proudly prepares to do battle for her home and family business. Toni has reason to retreat from a high-pressure Manhattan lifestyle, not the least of which is a bitter break up. She’s been told that Syrah Ardani is attractive and single, but Toni never mixes business and pleasure. Toni’s father wants her to save his old friend from bankruptcy. The court has appointed her to safeguard the creditors. The creditors clamor for a quick sale and payment. The beautiful-and hostile-Syrah wants Toni off her land and out of her life. Their clashes smolder with distrust and resentment, but also threaten to light a completely different kind of fire. Most dangerous of all is the one thing Toni can't control the way her heart reacts when Syrah looks at her...just like that.
- Karasu, Bilge
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(2002)A young man growing up in a small coastal village comes of age in an atmosphere of sublimated, disoriented male eroticism. Governed by religious and sexual taboos, rigid gender roles, stifling maternal love, and the enforced silences of social decorum, he is driven to the point of insanity from which he must slowly and painfully return. Told from several points of view and structured in a series of intersecting flashbacks and interior monologues, the novel describes the difficult geography of male intimacy from multiple perspectives-adolescent friendship, homosexual desire, mother-son bonds, and those between men and women.
- Kenry, Chris
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(2002)"Uncle Max" is the story of a gawky adolescent teetering on the edge of homosexuality, who discovers an unlikely hero in his outrageous, irreverent uncle. Together, this daring duo embarks on a glorious madcap adventure that will change young Dillon's life forever.
- Kwa, Lydia
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(2002)In Kwa's debut novel, four narrators tell two stories, one of a contemporary Chinese-Canadian psychologist mourning the death of her father, another of two Chinese prostitutes in early 20th century Singapore.
- Lanyon, Josh
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(2003)Someone's out to get Los Angeles bookseller Adrien English. His best friend has been viciously murdered, now he's getting weird phone calls and sinister gifts from a mysterious "admirer." The cops think he's trying to divert suspicion from himself--with the exception of sexy and homophobic homicide detective Jake Riordan. Is his offer to help Adrien on the level or is he out to nail his favorite suspect--to the wall?
- Lemebel, Pedro
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(2004)It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings.
- Lemon, Brendan
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(2002)Late at night, alone in his cell in a decaying Havana prison, a young American writes a letter to his Cuban lover. In it, he struggles to to find a measure of peace and a greater understanding of how their fiery love affair could have disintegrated so tragically into obsession, jealousy and violence. Because in the morning, he will face a firing squad for a murder he did not commit.
- Lemus, Felicia Luna
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(2007)Set amidst the outsider worlds of present-day downtown New York, 1990s Los Angeles, and 1940s Mexico City, Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a love-blindness shared between a father and a son. Born a bouncing baby girl named Francisca Cruz, Frank Cruz is now a post-punk 30-year-old who has inherited his dead father's wanderlust, unrequited love, and hyperbolic tendencies.
- Lerner, Lisa
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(2002)For 14-year-old Edie Stein, the road to Deansville's annual Feminine Woman of Conscience Pageant is strewn with pitfalls. True, she's an ace at Mystery Powders, and she's come a long way in Freestyle Walking and Better Person Skills. But she's increasingly troubled at the prospect of offing her genius bunny, Alice Jones, in the Sacrificial Rabbit event. And despite the strenuous coaching of her mother, training for the Electric Polyrubber Man erotic arts competition has been a disaster: Edie just can't stop thinking about the girl next door, sexy Lana Grimaldi.
- Mackle, Elliott J. (Elliot James)
(2003)February, 1949. Fort Myers Florida. It started out to be such a nice day. But early morning gunfire at the Royal Plaza Motor Hotel changed all that. One white man is dead. One black man is dead. The widow of the white man has just crashed the investigation, and is waving a gun around. Barely escaping the shot that blows the window out of the car in which he is sitting is Dan Ewing, who isn't even supposed to be there. Saving his bacon is police detective Bud Wright. Bud and Dan are more than fishing buddies, but no one can know that. But their secret is just one of many in this small town.
- Malloy, Brian
(2007)Malloy's stripped-down prose--featuring a 35-year-old gay man whose life is a series of unfortunate failures--makes for quick and immersive reading in his interesting spin on classic noir novels.- Maltese, William
(2003)MWhen a lingerie manufacturer goes to Thailand on business, he gets far more than he bargained for. While innocently shopping for silk and taking in the sights of Bangkok, Stud Draqual finds himself being stalked by a mercenary one who's been implicated in the murder of a male prostitute.- Mann, William J.
(2003)In this witty and provocative follow-up to Mann's acclaimed bestseller "The Men From the Boys, " Jeff O'Brien--still in search of love and sex--navigates the circuit scene in the company of friends, tricks, old loves, and irresistible strangers.- McCann, Maria
(2003)Torn in two by a vicious civil war, seventeenth-century England was the scene of extraordinary violence. Among the soldiers traveling across the country from one deadly battle to another is Jacob Cullen, a former servant who dreams of baptizing himself with the blood of battle into a new life after the war. Only his brewing erotic obsession with a fellow fighter threatens his plans.- McNicholl, Damian
(2004)Gabriel Harkin, the eldest of four children in a working-class family, struggles through a loving yet often brutal childhood. It's a turbulent time in Ulster, and in the staunchly Catholic community to which Gabriel belongs, the strict rules for belief and behavior are clear. As Gabriel begins to suspect that he's not like other boys, he tries desperately to lock away his feelings, and his fears. But secrets have a way of being being discovered, and Gabriel learns that his might not be the only ones in the Harkin family.- Meaker, Marijane
(2003)Even though he has dubbed himself "shockproof," nothing has prepared Sydney Skate for his mother sweeping the girl of his dreams off her feet.- Meyer, Jlee
(2002)A fast-paced adventure takes new lovers Conn and Leigh on a dangerous journey from California to Paris, and through the deadly streets of Karachi, Pakistan.- Moore, Marshall
(2003)Things are not going well for Chad Sobran. His mother is gravely ill. His creditors are circling like sharks. And he's being stalked by his violent, homophobic, and obsessive older brother Martin. One night, while drunk at a party, Chad falls off a balcony and breaks his wrist. He comes to in a psych facility, under observation: Martin has convinced the emergency room doctors that the fall was a suicidal jump. In the hospital, Chad meets Jonathan Fairbanks, an attractive fellow patient. Sparks fly, but there are questions about Jonathan's involvement in the deaths of two other patients. The police are involved, and nothing is what it seems.- Nava, Michael
(1997)MStill devastated by the death of Josh, Henry nonetheless falls for a young actor he successfully defended against burglary charges. When the young man is murdered after leaving Henry's house, Henry finds himself the target of a murder investigation. But the murders don't stop, and with his life in desperate danger, Henry follows the trail of evidence, ever upward to the top levels of Los Angeles politics and Hollywood power.- Newman, Leslea
(1988)This poignant and humorous collection of stories offers a fresh perspective on current issues such as homosexuality and anti-Semitism and lends a unique voice to those experiencing growing pains and self-discovery. Newman's readers accompany her quirky Jewish characters through all types of experiences from an initial lesbian sexual encounter to being sequestered in a college apartment after paranoid Holocaust flashbacks. In these stories characters anxiously discover their lesbian identities while beginning to understand, and finally to embrace, their Jewish heritage.- Nolan, Monica
(2007)This wickedly funny parody of gay and lesbian pulp classics weaves sex, mystery, murder, and mayhem into a highly entertaining romp.- O'Neill, Jamie
(2002)In the tradition of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" comes a gloriously ambitious and resonant novel that transports readers to Dublin in the year preceding the Easter uprising--a pivotal time in Irish history and in the lives of two very young men from different backgrounds.- Outland, Orland
(2002)Ever since high school, Cal Hewitt and Eric Hamilton have had a thing for each other. But they are so different, so opposite, neither has had the nerve to do anything about it. Over more than a decade spanning the late 1980s and the 1990s, life's greatest challenges, victories, and tragedies keep them from ever truly connecting or, alternately, losing touch. When two men are this perfect for each other, however, nothing is going to keep them apart-if they can only stop hating each other long enough to figure that out.- Price-Thompson, Tracy
(2003)Fast-paced, suspenseful, and unpredictable, "Chocolate Sangria" explores the hearts of two lovers who get caught in a great cultural divide, and the trials they face when love spills across racial boundaries.- Raphael, Lev
(2006)Winner of the prestigious Lambda Literary Award, Raphael unites the best stories from "Dancing on Tisha B'Av" with 12 new stories--tales of anti-Semitism on the college campus, of self-hatred and body obsession, and of survivor parents whose only response to the Holocaust is to isolate themselves.- Roszak, Theodore
(2003)The author of the cult-status novel, "Flicker, " brings readers a hilarious exploration of politics and ideas in which the battle for the moral heart of America is waged between a college full of scripture-spouting fundamentalists and one Jewish homosexual writer.- Russell, Paul Elliott
(2003)After nearly succumbing to AIDS, a man hires two local boys to do some renovation work in this powerful novel by the award-winning author of "The Coming Storm" and "Boys of Life."- Sawyer, Michelle
(2007)Readers asked for it, and now Macy Delongchamp, our favorite Manhattan lipstick lesbian, returns for another wild, wicked adventure, only to discover that commitment to your one true love isn't a walk off into the sunset. Mayhem ensues as highstrung Macy is faced with parenthood, sobriety, and life as a California girl!- Schmidtberger, Paul
(2007)Through a hilarious series of events, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger management class, where they soon become fast friends.- Shapiro, NancyKay
(2006)Shaking off his hellish adolescence in a nowhere Nebraska town (and leaving a beloved younger sister to fend for herself in the same hostile environment), Seth McKenna escapes to make a new reality for himself as a struggling artist in Manhattan. When he falls hard for Jim Glaser, an alluring older man who is astonished to find in Seth the second love of his life, it seems simpler to gloss over his old life in Drinkwater and the history he used to have. Jim, who expected to remain alone forever, is happy to start over, too, and theirs becomes a tender, sexy romance. Although Seth seems to have successfully put his past behind him to become the man he wants to be - the kind of man Jim can cherish - his childhood rushes back unexpectedly and with a vengeance. When Seth's sister, Cassie, arrives in the city with significant secrets and plans of her own, Drinkwater's intractable demands force Seth to revisit his hidden past. And what Jim learns about Seth's concealment threatens to destroy their new life together.- Stukas, David
(2004)MEveryone's favorite accidental gay sleuths--Michael, Robert, and their lesbian sidekick, Monette--are back in another wickedly entertaining ride. The dynamic trio is out to find out who murdered a personal trainer/hustler.- Tushinski, Jim
(2004)Born into an extraordinarily talented family, twenty-nine-year-old Michael Van Allen is the gay son of a well-known concert pianist and an equally famous painter. All his life, he has yearned for the talent and creativity that should have been his birthright but have somehow been denied him. When he wakes up in a mental hospital, his memory gone, his former life erased, his doctor tells him of his screaming breakdown during one of his father's performances. Van Allen's Ecstasy is the story of Michael's journey in search of his former self. As he pieces together his forgotten life, Michael uncovers jealousy, obsession, and secret desires that threaten to destroy his sanity once again.- Tyler, Ben
(2003)From the author of "Hunk House" and "Tricks of the Trade" comes a backstage tour of a notorious ice-skating show, where the best follies are off the ice--and between the sheets.- Tyler, Ben
(2002)Tyler turns his satiric sights on reality TV with incendiary results. Those with a taste for mischief will enjoy this heady concoction of plot-heavy, door-slamming farce mixed with gay sex and Tinseltown name-dropping.- Van Arsdale, Sarah
(2003)On a rainy night in Intervale, Maine, an unknown woman appears on a bridge. "Blue," as she comes to be known, has complete retrograde amnesia. Trying to recover fragments of her memory, she becomes the focus of the obsessions of local resident Rita LaPlatte, who attempts to prove that Blue is her "missing" twin. The amnesiac comes under the care of Robert Reichman, a psychiatrist who is grappling with his own lost identity as a Jew. Also under the care of Dr. Reichman is Annie Blaise, a psychotic woman who holds the key to the question of both her own identity and Blue's, an answer not revealed until the book's last pages.- Waters, Sarah
(2002)Raised by a loving family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder is sheltered from the worst of the Victorian underworld until it becomes her turn to make the clan's fortune. She must help a professional rogue named Gentleman marry an heiress and then steal the girl's inheritance by declaring her insane. Sue wants to please everyone, but as she's confronted with the seemingly helpless victim, Maud, she begins to have her doubts.- White, Edmund
(2003)In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright convinced her to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life.- Wilson, Christopher P.
(2006)Lee Cotton' s voice - equal parts Delta Blues and Motown - takes us on an exhilarating freedom ride through America' s preoccupation with identity politics. His funny, forgiving charm ultimately embodies a serious message: The freaks and oddities of this world may well be divine.- Wilson, John M.
(2003)MBenjamin Justice, a disgraced journalist in his mid-forties, is slowly putting his life back together. Under contract to write his tumultuous life story, Justice is trying to put all the elements of his life into perspective for the first time. When trying to locate his childhood priest, however, he runs into a bureaucratic stone wall. Then his best friend's fiance, a Lost Angeles Times columnist, is killed in a tragic and suspicious hit-and-run accident shortly after trying to aid Justice in his search. Reluctant at first, Justice soon finds himself in the midst of a complex case involving a decades-old child murder, a powerful and controversial cardinal, and elements of his own dark past.- Wizowaty, Suzi
(2002)An extraordinarily accomplished first novel of desires postponed, thwarted, and sometimes fulfilled.- Woodcraft, Elizabeth
(2003)MFull of surprising twists, the debut novel in Woodcraft's new mystery series introduces Frankie Richmond, a London barrister long on attitude and short on paying clients. In "Good Bad Woman, " Frankie's career and search for Ms. Right gets unexpectedly sidetracked when she's accused of murder.- Yates, Bart
(2003)Meet 17-year-old Noah York, the hilariously profane, searingly honest, completely engaging narrator of Yates's astonishing debut novel. Part Portnoy, part Holden Caulfield, never less than truthful, and always fully human, Noah York is a touching and unforgettable character.- York, Rachel
(2003)In this startlingly funny, sensual, and beautifully written debut novel, York introduces the thoroughly winning, defiant Scarlett Faye--a woman whose greatest fear is knowing herself--while exploring the lightning-fast power of love to change people in ways they can never predict.- Zubro, Mark Richard
(2007)MSince when are vacations ever relaxing? All Chicago police Detective Paul Turner is hoping for on his annual retreat from the city and his job is a little peace and quiet. This time he’s headed to the Canadian Great North Woods for a couple of weeks with family and friends -- his two teenaged sons, his lover Ben, neighborhood pals, and his long-term police partner, Detective Buck Fenwick, along with his wife. But hopes of tranquility are soon crushed when Turner intervenes in a scuffle between a group of First Nations teens and a local bully and his cohorts. In the days following the incident, Turner and company find themselves the object of a series of attacks, break-ins, and sabotage of their equipment. Unable to get the attention of the local police, the events continue to escalate, culminating in the local bully’s dead body being found floating in the water near the dock of their houseboat. Making this not only one of the least relaxing vacations ever, but one of the deadliest.
Web Resources
- Lambda Literary Foundation
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http://www.lambdaliterary.orgThe Lambda Literary Foundation in a non-profit organization supporting gay and lesbian literature. They publish the Lambda Book Report, a monthly book review journal, and The James White Review, a gay men's literary quarterly and sponsor the annual Lambda Literary Awards and Behind Our Masks, a regional writers conference. Selected articles from their publications can be found on their web site.
- GLBTQ.com
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http://www.glbtq.com/subject/literature_a-b.htmlAn online encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer culture, this section of site lists both authors and subjects related to literature from the GLBTQ communites.