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Changing Tides
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Ford, Michael Thomas
From the author of "Last Summer" and "Full Circle" comes a moving, powerful story about three people who find themselves making surprising new connections over the course of one momentous summer. |
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The Cleft
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Lessing, Doris May
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" ("Times" of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind's beginnings. In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation. The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men. Childbirth was controlled through the cycles of the moon, and only female offspring were born--until the unanticipated event that jeopardized the harmony of their close-knit society: the strange, unheralded birth of a "boy," |
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Nobody does a better job of listing and carrying transgender titles than Giovanni's Room.
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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
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Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda
"Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth."-"The San Francisco Bay Guardian"This exhilarating new novel is about a gay man's struggle to find hope in the ruins of the everyday-battling roaches, Bikram yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, Internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, hundred dollar bills, chronic pain, gay conformity, vegan restaurants, and incest-with the help of herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, and sleeping pills. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the gender-bending author of the highly praised novel "Pulling Taffy "and the editor of the anthology "Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity," Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including "Bitch," "Utne Reader," "AlterNet," "Make/Shift," and "MaximumRocknRoll," |
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New Books and Backlist titles that tell stories of bisexual lives, relationships and people, and that address the issues of particular interest to bisexuals everywhere.
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Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire
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Diamond, Lisa M.
Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships. This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one-hundred women for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to the biology of sex differences. "Sexual Fluidity" offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: "I fall in love with the person, not the gender," say some respondents. "Sexual Fluidity" offers a new understanding of women's sexuality--and of the central importance of love. |
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GIOVANNI'S ROOM EVENTS
Title of Event: An Event with Adam Raphael and Models
When: Saturday, September 13, 2008 5:30 PM
Location: Giovanni's Room
Description: Adam Raphael's new collection of photographs is Barely Working (powerHouse, $39.95, less 10% discount in the store).Adam Raphael, photographer of the widely praised Room Service, offers a delicious collection of young men in his newest book, Barely Working. Once again documenting a racially diverse group of the finest faces and bodies, Raphael has captured his models in various working situations including auto repair, car washing, landscaping, and other similar settings. Of course, work soon gives way to play, and the unique combination of laughter, competition, and youthful energy converge to create a sensual tension that can only be made by a photographer who has the skill and talent to work closely with his models without ever overshadowing or crowding them. To quote Reed Massengill, “Adam Raphael’s photographs are immediately likable and sexy as hell-—a testament to his ability to make his guys comfortable and trusting in front of his camera. Some photographers try twice as hard, but seldom achieve half as much.”
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