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When Love Comes to Town
The Best Children's Books of the Year 2014, Bank Street College New introduction by James KliseThe year is 1990, and in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland, Neil Byrne plays rugby, keeps up with the in-crowd at his school, and is just a regular guy....- $15.99
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Yves Saint Laurent's Studio: Mirror and Secrets
"Filled with books, photos, fabric swatches, and a wandering French bulldog, Yves Saint Laurent's studio was a wonderfully chaotic and creative space. Fashion historian Jéromine Savignon's new book opens the door into this magical world." -W MagazineThe name of Yves Saint Laurent, one of...- $24.95
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Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco
Named for a part of the city where bribes bought police the highest-grade beef, San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood remains an island of primarily low-income, ethnically diverse residents in a city of ever increasing wealth. How has it survived? Randy Shaw searches for answers in...- $21.95
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Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl
This bestselling photographic Thanksgiving picture book is now available in paperback!At sunup when the cockerel crows, young Sarah Morton's day begins. Come and join her as she goes about her work and play in an early American settlement in the year 1627.There's a fire...- $7.99
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What Is Sexual History?
Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires. In...- $20.95
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Cosmopolitans
A "captivating, perceptive, and empathic novel of New York" told with "panache and mischievous ebullience" (Booklist, starred review). In this retelling of Balzac's Parisian classic Cousin Bette, Sarah Shulman spins her revenge story in Mad Men-era New York City. Bette, a lonely spinster, has...- $15.95
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Gallery
"The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." --John Dos Passos John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age...- $22.95
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Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex
Handcuffs, paddles, whips--the words alone are enough to make a person blush. Even by our society's standards, the practice of things like BDSM is still very hush-hush, considered deviant sexual behavior that must be kept hidden. But the narrow view of what is thought...- $39.00
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Women in Black History: Stories of Courage, Faith, and Resilience
Within the pages of American history are the stories of remarkable African American women who have defied the odds, taken a stand for justice, and made incredible strides despite opposition from the culture around them. Now young readers can discover their exciting true stories...- $16.00
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Out of Orange: A Memoir
The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time--a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous...- $26.99
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Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy (None)
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides...- $40.95
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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association Long-listed for the 2017 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the cinematic cross-dressing...- $40.95
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Games: A Global History of the Olympics
For millions of people around the world, the Summer and Winter Games are a joy and a treasure, but how did they develop into a global colossus? How have they been buffeted by--and, in turn, affected by--world events? Why do we care about them...- $29.95
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You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death, and Transition
YOLT explores two artists' lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and...- $13.95
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Literary Philadelphia: A History of Poetry and Prose in the City of Brotherly Love
Since Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin put type to printing press, Philadelphia has been a haven and an inspiration for writers. Local essayist Agnes Repplier once shared a glass of whiskey with Walt Whitman, who frequently strolled Market Street. Gothic writers like Edgar Allan...- $21.99
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Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage
With this first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), Trisha Franzen sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood.An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the...- $32.00
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Atlantis: Three Tales
Three marvelously structured stories trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self.Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the work of Samuel R. Delany, including this recent fiction, now available in paperback. The three long stories collected...- $17.95
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Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted...- $28.00
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Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery
Lambda Award 2015 for Best Gay Mystery! Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private eye investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends...- $16.95
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Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year "[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train... Becker's...- $18.00
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