Emily O'Beirne: Here's the Thing

D 2016, 182 pp., brochure, € 15.32
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
It's only for a year. That's what sixteen-year-old Zel keeps telling herself after moving to Sydney for her dad's work. She'll just wait it out until she gets back to New York and Prim, her epic crush/best friend, and the unfinished subway project. Even if Prim hasn't spoken to her since that day on Coney Island. But Zel soon finds ... Weiterlesen

Emily O'Beirne: Points of Departure

D 2016, 253 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
In this young adult novel friends Kit and Liza have been looking forward to this trip forever. Five girls, five tickets overseas. It's exactly what they all need after the final slog of high school. But when Kit is suddenly forced to drop out, Liza's left with three girls she barely knows. There's Mai, committed only to partying. There's Tam, ... Weiterlesen

Michelle L. Teichman: The Space Between

D 2016, 280 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Everything's great for Harper Isabelle, the most popular girl in grade nine. That is, until she meets Sarah Jamieson. Sarah is a reclusive artist, a loner who wears black makeup and doesn't have any friends, but for some reason, Harper can't stop thinking about her. Sarah isn't used to people looking her way, especially popular girls like Harper Isabelle. Scared, ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ness: The Rest of Us Just Live Here

UK 2016, 352 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Walker
Award-winning writer and gay activist Patrick Ness's novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the »Chosen One«? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story

UK 2016, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, »A Boy's Own Story« became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality and gay life in American fiction. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to ... Weiterlesen

Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Tree

UK 2016, 336 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does - born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. When their lesbian love is discovered, Ijeoma learns ... Weiterlesen

Rita Mae Brown: Rubyfruit Jungle

USA 2015, 223 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bantam
A landmark lesbian coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of most distinctive voices of the US, »Rubyfruit Jungle« remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in ... Weiterlesen

Becky Albertalli: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

USA 2015, 303 pp., brochure, € 11.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed. If he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy ... Weiterlesen

Lloyd Eyre Morgan and Neil Ely (R): Three in a Bed

USA 2014, engl.OF, 81 min., € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
TLA Releasing
»Three in a Bed« is a romantic coming of age comedy about a struggling gay musician set in Manchester. Nate desperately seeks independence. After beginning a relationship with new adorable neighbour Jonny, Nate's independent lifestyle is shattered by the arrival of his two sisters, who come crushing into his life - one of whom is pregnant, when they move ... Weiterlesen

Emily O'Beirne: The Sum of These Things

D 2015, 396 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - A Story of Now Series 2
In the sequel to »A Story of Now«, Claire has already learned a few things this summer. Like falling for a girl is easy. Well, it is if that girl is Mia. What Claire hasn't learned yet is that now comes the hard part: learning to trust in this new relationship. Then there's the pressing question of what to do ... Weiterlesen

Bernard Cooper: My Avant-Garde Education

A Memoir. USA 2015, 251 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
W. W. Norton
Growing up in the suburbs - confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother - Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of ... Weiterlesen

Emily O'Beirne: A Story of Now

D 2015, ca. 250 S., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - A Story of Now Series 1
19-year-old Claire Pearson knows she needs a life. And some new friends. But brittle, beautiful, and just a little bit too sassy for her own good sometimes, she no longer makes friends easily. And she has no clue where to start on the whole finding a life front, either. Not after a confidence-shattering year dogged by bad break-ups, friends who ... Weiterlesen

Kip Nolan: Mulholland Meat

Gay Pulp Fiction, Vol.2. D 2015, 320 pp., brochure, € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bruno Gmünder - Gay Pulp 2
The star-studded premiere of the world's first Cinemascope epic lights up Hollywood with searchlights and glamour. Far from the bright lights, in a run-down apartment in West L.A., private investigator and studio fixer Rick Barker finds a victim of brutal murder. Meanwhile in downtown L.A., a Greyhound bus delivers troubled teenager Zeke Candy to Tinseltown, where he hopes to make ... Weiterlesen

Sonwabiso Ngcowa: In Search of Happiness

South Africa 2014, 152 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Nana is fifteen when she travels from her village in the Eastern Cape to the city. She is over joyed to be reunited with her family, even if they are living in a tiny shack. But she struggles to fit in at her new school, and she is shocked at the violence shown to chino and Agnes, her Zimbabwean neighbours. ... Weiterlesen

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

USA 2014, 280 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Totempole is Sanford Friedman's radical gay coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen's evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen's intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. ... Weiterlesen

Kim Fu: For Today I Am a Boy

USA 2014, 242 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Peter Huang and his sisters - elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant - grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter's own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his Chinese father. At ... Weiterlesen

Christos Tsiolkas: Barracuda

UK 2013, 515 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Atlantic
Daniel Kelly has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His atonishing ability in the swimming pool should transform his life and silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of his dream. But when he ... Weiterlesen

James Hanley: Boy

UK 2012, 212 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Alma
A gay classic of working-class sexuality, acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and suppressed for more than 50 years by a prosecution for obscenity James Hanley's 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work. Escape - in the form of stowing away on a ship ... Weiterlesen