Donna Milner: After River

USA 2008, 343 pp., hardback, € 19.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Insomniac
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

UK 2007, 278 pp., brochure, € 18.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one last duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of 20 photographs which between them tell a tragic family history. At the centre ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: Fun Home

USA 2007, 234 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This breakout memoir from a cult favorite comic artist is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a highschool English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Child

USA 2007, 282 pp., hardbound, € 22.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Roberto C. Ferrari: Pierce

USA/UK 2007, 370 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Graduate student Leo Vasari's life was shattered when his lover Matt died in a car accident. Matt comes from a tragic and dysfunctional past, and suffers demons that have haunted him since early childhood. Exactly one year after Matt's death, Millie, Matt's mother and Leo's close friend, tries to kill herself. Leo, still mourning his loss, must somehow unravel the ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

USA 2007, 312 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to keep herself together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background while her four children spin away to their own separate futures, each carrying the baggage of a complex family history. Matt serves as caretaker to the ailing father who abandoned him as a child, while his wild teenage sister, Karen, hides herself ... Weiterlesen

Wade Rouse: America's Boy

USA 2007, 341 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Growing up gay in the Missouri Ozarks in the 60s and 70s, the author was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Wade was hopelessly out of step with the ... Weiterlesen

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Wisconsin Press
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

UK 2006, 366 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Snowbooks
I was deeply impressed by reading »The Romanian« on a train from Vienna to Munich. I could hardly put it away and felt very sorry when I had to stop, having reached my destination. The novel has already won the French »Prix de flore« in 2004. And this autobiographical book may win even more. The American author is sent to ... Weiterlesen

Nick Nolan: Strings Attached

USA 2006, 291 pp., brochure, € 17.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
17 year-old Jeremy Tyler is the puppet of Tiffany, his alcoholic mother. But when she is forced to rehab, Jeremy moves from the slums to the cliff-top estate of Katherine Tyler and Bill Mortson. Stunned by the wealth surrounding him, Jeremy thinks he's landed in paradise until the couple begins dictating his every move. Jeremy tries to fit in with ... Weiterlesen

Cynthia Tyler: Shadow Work

USA 2006, 193 pp., brochure, € 15.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Chris Cameron, a psychotherapist, moves forward after she has overcome the grief of losing her life partner to murder. Now she finds herself simultaneously falling for a cop named Linda Vasquez, facing new challenges at work, and coming to terms with a world where bigger, better, shinier, louder - the shorthand for the Orwellian superficiality of the new millenium - ... Weiterlesen

Aaron Hamburger: Faith for Beginners

USA 2006, 355 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life - or, at least, get rid ... Weiterlesen

Sulayman X: Adventures of a Bird-Shit Foreigner

USA 2006, 209 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The portrait of an American-Thai young man struggling with his sexual identity, with his family, and with the world at large: Isa is the product of a GI from Kansas City and a prostitute Thai mother. But - different from the global image of a tolerant society - Thai society can be cruel to those not of pure breeding - ... Weiterlesen