Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”—Off Our Backs[]

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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”—Off Our Backs[]

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Love Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey

Betty DeGeneres tells her story: the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter; the media's scrutiny of their family life; the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard on the road as the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project.[]

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Love Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey

Betty DeGeneres tells her story: the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter; the media's scrutiny of their family life; the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard on the road as the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project.[]

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Older Man Younger Man

"Older Man/Younger Man" is a memoir of the relationship between a middle-aged man and a man thirty years his junior from their first meeting through the challenges of living together across a wide age-gap to a climactic confession of shame and regret the terror of loss from a life-threatening disease - and ultimately the triumph of love. This is a passionate bittersweet story of a powerful love that transcends gender bridges generations defies convention and brings to the partners the richness of spiritual fulfillment.

The relationship between an older man and a younger man is one of the last taboos left in our culture's sexual closet. "Older Man/Younger Man" is the first book to address an inter-generational gay male relationship as a path of spiritual redemption.

What makes this book unique and special is its presentation of the pairing between an older man and a much younger man as a healthy successful relationship and as a spiritual journey.[]

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Twenty Years at Hull-House (Prairie State Books)

This is the first annotated edition of Jane Addams' superb autobiography.[]

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Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.

Coming Out Then Coming Home
 
 Christopher Yuan the son of Chinese immigrants discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood his mother Angela hoped to control the situation. Instead she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control—and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her.
 
Years of heartbreak confusion and prayer followed before the Yuans found a place of complete surrender which is God’s desire for all families. Their amazing story told from the perspectives of both mother and son offers hope for anyone affected by homosexuality.
 
God calls all who are lost to come home to him. Casting a compelling vision for holy sexuality Out of a Far Country speaks to prodigals parents of prodigals and those wanting to minister to the gay community.

“But while he was still a long way off his father saw him and felt compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”  - Luke 15:20
 
Includes a discussion guide for personal reflection and group use.[]

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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids

The first book by a doctor who works with AIDS victims daily offers a revealing look at the impact of AIDS on a small Tennessee town as townspeople respond to the disease's presence in inspiring ways.[]

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Moab Is My Washpot

A number one bestseller in Britain Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank funny wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series the American profile of this multitalented writer actor and comedian has grown steadily especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde which earned him a Golden Globe nomination and his supporting role in A Civil Action.
        
Fry has already given readers a taste of his tumultuous adolescence in his autobiographical first novel The Liar and now he reveals the equally tumultuous life that inspired it. Sent to boarding school at the age of seven he survived beatings misery love affairs carnal violation expulsion attempted suicide criminal conviction and imprisonment to emerge at the age of eighteen ready to start over in a world in which he had always felt a stranger. One of very few Cambridge University graduates to have been imprisoned prior to his freshman year Fry is a brilliantly idiosyncratic character who continues to attract controversy empathy and real devotion.


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;-) [A memoir...sort of]

[Available in both paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com]

CONTENTS: Rhyme and reason song and dance kiss and tell truth or dare do or die collected thoughts love and marriage grin and bear...a memoir. (Sort of.)


(From the publisher: Francine Saint Marie is the author of the popular series THE SECRET TRILOGY as well as a collection of thematic shorts called GIRL TROUBLE. Her debut novel "The Secret Keeping" was a 2006 LAMBDA Notable Book; a 2007 finalist for the Goldie award in dramatic fiction; a 2007 semi-finalist for the Independent Publishers Award and a 2007 IPPY Award Bronze medalist. THE SECRET TRILOGY was nominated for the 2009 Ferro/Grumley literary prize in fiction. You can find all these titles in both paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon.com.)[]

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Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

Everyone wants to escape their boring stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run -- run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker was an asset rather than a liability.” It was a gutsy move especially for a tall white gay Southerner who didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline and what better way to get one than to leave behind everything he had ever known to move to “a tiny overcrowded island heaving with clever sensibly proportioned people that make him look fat?” In Tokyo Tim became a “gaijin” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly constant humiliation the gaijin from North Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it’s invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind Tim comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about expecting the unexpected…right when he least expects it. []

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Lunch With Miss Hepburn: The Last Interview

In this candid interview the last one granted by the great movie actress before her death critically acclaimed journalist and author Simon Worrall talks to Katharine Hepburn at her home in New York's Turtle Bay about her love of New England her dislike of Hollywood her childhood and parents; and her love affair with Spencer Tracy. Funny tender and moving this revealing portrait of Hollywood's greatest actress is a " Must Read " for all Hepburn fans young and old.[]

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Unbearable Lightness

“I didn’t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . .”

Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work—first as a child model in Australia then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond glamorous and successful. On the inside she was literally dying.

In this searing unflinchingly honest book Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food weight and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.

Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development Portia alternately starved herself and binged all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviors and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder.

From her lowest point Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty falling in love with and eventually marrying Ellen DeGeneres and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues.

In this remarkable and beautifully written work Portia shines a bright light on a dark subject. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies Unbearable Lightness is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.[]

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