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The Family of Max Desir

by Robert Ferro, Felice Picano ...

It was a family dealing with old values, acceptance and death. Max Desir loved his Italian roots and hearing his mother, Marie, recount tales of the old country. And he loved his American family, his father John a successful self-made businessman in New Jersey. As he came of age, Max discovered something else he loved – men – and met the love of his life in Italy. Now, at age 40, the family is ... Read more

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It was a family dealing with old values, acceptance and death. Max Desir loved his Italian roots and hearing his mother, Marie, recount tales of the old country. And he loved his American family, his father John a successful self-made businessman in New Jersey. As he came of age, Max discovered something else he loved – men – and met the love of his life in Italy. Now, at age 40, the family is
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Second Son

by Robert Ferro, Tom Cardamone ...

Mark Valerian, the second son in the Valerian family, is ill, but determined to live life to the fullest – and live forever if he can. When he discovers Bill Mackey, a young theatrical designer who is also suffering from this disease neither wants to name, he also finds the lover of his dreams.Together they develop an incredible plan to survive that will take them to Europe, to rustic Maine, and ... Read more

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Mark Valerian, the second son in the Valerian family, is ill, but determined to live life to the fullest – and live forever if he can. When he discovers Bill Mackey, a young theatrical designer who is also suffering from this disease neither wants to name, he also finds the lover of his dreams.Together they develop an incredible plan to survive that will take them to Europe, to rustic Maine, and
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The Blue Star

by Robert Ferro ...

“Incandescent angels of love ... an electric voyage” – The AdvocateTwo heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and Peter pursues his passion for Lorenzo, a beautiful young Florentine. The past impinges on the present as the story of Chase’s ... Read more

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“Incandescent angels of love ... an electric voyage” – The AdvocateTwo heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and Peter pursues his passion for Lorenzo, a beautiful young Florentine. The past impinges on the present as the story of Chase’s
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Fun Home

A Family Tragicomic

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTime Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book AwardAlison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling literary graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.<... ... Read more

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTime Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book AwardAlison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling literary graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.<...
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Funny Weather

Art in an Emergency

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“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing ... Read more

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“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing
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The Best American Essays 2014

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The acclaimed author of Pulphead collects "21 of the year's most urgent and at times painfully truthful pieces of nonfiction published in the U.S." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the ... Read more

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The acclaimed author of Pulphead collects "21 of the year's most urgent and at times painfully truthful pieces of nonfiction published in the U.S." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the
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Red Christmas

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A few days before the 25th of December, a vicious killer roams the town, targeting men in Santa Claus costume. Clueless, the police gropes in the red. ... Read more

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The Gift of the Magi

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by O. Henry, George Lakon ...

“The Gift of the Magi” is the O. Henry classic Christmas story that has touched generations.-The language of a hundred years ago has been updated making the story easily understood by today’s readers.-End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text.-Every effort has been made to keep the story as close to the original as possible--only word order and difficult vocabulary ... Read more

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“The Gift of the Magi” is the O. Henry classic Christmas story that has touched generations.-The language of a hundred years ago has been updated making the story easily understood by today’s readers.-End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text.-Every effort has been made to keep the story as close to the original as possible--only word order and difficult vocabulary
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Just Kids

An Autobiography

by Patti Smith ...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the
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All the Beauty in the World

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

by Patrick Bringley ...

New York Times bestsellerNamed one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London).An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum gu... ... Read more

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New York Times bestsellerNamed one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London).An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum gu...
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Alien Sex

19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy

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Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love.World Fantasy Award–Winning EditorAn incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of ... Read more

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Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love.World Fantasy Award–Winning EditorAn incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of
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The Red Leather Diary

Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal

by Lily Koppel ...

"A world straight from the pages of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel . . . An extraordinary story about coming of age . . . and discovering who you are." — ParadeRescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman . . .Opening the tarnished brass lock of a red leather diary found in the basement of ... Read more

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"A world straight from the pages of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel . . . An extraordinary story about coming of age . . . and discovering who you are." — ParadeRescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman . . .Opening the tarnished brass lock of a red leather diary found in the basement of
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