Abdellah Taïa: Salvation Army

Introduction by Edmund White. English by Frank Stock. USA 2009, 144 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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An autobiographical novel by turns naïve and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taïa is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. This is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure - from a childhood bound by family order and ... Weiterlesen

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2009, 247 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as »The Nun«) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte: Taking Woodstock

A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life. USA 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Before there ws a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' upstate New York motel. The Jewish clientele who had frequented the Catskills had discovered Florida, and the upstate tourist business was dying. To save his family's livelihood, Elliot put on plays and local festivals. In the process, he became the area's issuer ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: About My Life and the Kept Woman

USA 2009, 356 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Novelist John Rechy probes his nascent self-identity as a Mexican-American and a homosexual. Growing up during the Depression in El Paso, Texas, the youngest son of a Mexican woman who spoke no English and a Scottish musician father, Rechy recalls his early fascination with beauty. Moreover, amid a society that excoriated Mexicans, young Rechy grew into a beautiful, fair-skinned young ... Weiterlesen

William Sutcliffe: Whatever Makes You Happy

UK 2009, 295 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Matt, Daniel and Paul were childhood friends. Now in their 30s, they've lost touch and have only one thing in common: mothers. Little do they know that, having spent a cardless Mother's Day discussing how their emotionally dysfunctional offspring should be settling down, Carol, Gillian and Helen have decided to pay their wayward sons a visit. Now it's time their ... Weiterlesen

David Ebershoff: The 19th Wife

USA 2009, 527 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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It's 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the U.S. A rich account of her family's polygamous history is revealed, including how bith she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Ford: What We Remember

USA 2009, 342 pp., hardbound, € 22.95
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On the morning James McCloud, a Seattle district attorney, gets a call from his sister, Celeste, he senses his own long-buried family history is about to be dragged into the light. James's father, Daniel, a police officer, disappeared 8 years ago. Now his body has finally been found. The evidence leaves no doubt: Daniel was murdered. James immediately returns to ... Weiterlesen

Christos Tsiolkas: The Slap

AUS 2008, € 14.95
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At a barbecue in a suburban Melbourne home, a four-year-old boy is slapped by a man who isn't his father. The fallout from this split-second incident is huge, and the novel comprises separate narratives from eight of those present, delving into their individual psychologies with an intensity that is gripping. Although the majority of the characters are middle-class and in ... Weiterlesen

Robin Reardon: Thinking Straight

USA 2008, 295 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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When Taylor Adams comes out, his parents ship him off to »Straight to God«, a camp for those who have gone astray. The nightmarish camp seeks to exorcise the satanic influence from its charges, some of whom are gay, and some of whom are petty criminals or drug addicts. The camp's strict guidelines include no speaking for newbies (who wear ... Weiterlesen

Gary Zebrun: Only the Lonely

USA 2008, 207 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Asim Zahid is headed to the University of Michigan, ready to bust out of Lackawanna, a rundown steel town outside of Buffalo, New York. But his dream of a bright future is derailed when his father dies and leaves behind two last wishes: to keep open the cherished Bethlehem Theater and to befriend Sonia, the old man's longtime mistress, now ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Child

USA 2008, 231 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Structured like a classic novel of legal suspense, »The Child« explores what happens when Stew, a lonely 15-year-old boy, looks for and finds an adult boyfriend online. In short order his lover is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting and Stew's world is turned upside down. He's exposed to his family and community, leaving the young outcast to fend for ... Weiterlesen

Susan Driver (ed.): Queer Youth Cultures

USA 2008, 307 pp., brochure, € 29.20
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Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing resistance, the essays explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. ... Weiterlesen

Donna Milner: After River

USA 2008, 343 pp., hardback, € 19.89
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At 15, Natalie Ward believes her life is perfect. Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia, she knows little of the outside world. But she knows her family. Friends and neighbors, young and old alike, show up regularly on their farmhouse porch. Natalie cherishes her position as the only daughter of the beautiful Nettie Ward, ... Weiterlesen

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2008, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as »The Nun«) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

Anthony Bidulka: Sundowner Ubuntu

A Russell Quant Mystery. CAN 2007, 286 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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A mother's pain - one million dollars - a missing son - desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic ... Weiterlesen

Laurent Achard (R): The Last of the Crazy People

Le dernier des fous. F 2007, frz.OF, engl.UT, 95 min., € 19.99
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Martin is not like other children. Neglected by his parents, he watches the extraordinary events that occur in and around the family home from a distance. His mother is crazy, his father is absent nearly all the time, and his much older, gay brother suffers from depressive moods. When Martin's brother Didier discovers that his lover will marry a local ... Weiterlesen

Ski Hunter: Coming Out and Disclosures

USA 2007, 219 pp., brochure, € 22.59
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This book is a one-of-a-kind guide to the coming-out process for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, how to prepare for disclosure, and how disclosure is received in various groups. It also examines sexual orientation and identities, developmental models of coming out, disclosure in adolescence, midlife, or later, coming out to parents and family members, and disclosure to non-family. Moreover, ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Jennings: Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son

USA 2007, 267 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end the anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In his memoir, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his school days in the conservative South, where »faggot« became more familiar to him than his own name. The youngest son of a born-again Southern Baptist preacher, and a mother ... Weiterlesen