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Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming, Coming out, AIDS, Marriage, Adoption, Religion, Politics, Pop culture and media, and, most importantly, what the future holds.

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most controversial and admired writers of his time. This biography covers his life from his childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, to his suicide in 1961. It offers a sympathetic portrait of a brilliant artist and a complex individual--a private man who led a very public life. Hemingway's formal education ended after high school when the ambitious young writer went off to work for The Kansas City Star. Eager to see th...

Maggie Slone, fast-talking newspaper reporter, covered a special assignment in Gaston Villiere s renowned cafe Le Coq d Or on Mardi Gras night. Along with a good meal, she got an earful of a melodramatic conversation at a nearby table. At the table were two couples. One pair, a blond young man and a green-eyed glamour girl, have a row and break-up the party. The next day, Maggie is assigned to cover a suicide the blond young man of the night b...

Reb Santee was his name. He appeared to be just a rough-and-tumble cowboy, with an unruly shock of flaxen hair, and a puckered frown in his laughing blue eyes. But when he first rode into Wind River Basin, the law already had a grudge against him and the grudges multiplied in a hurry, all because he wanted to be honest. In self-defense, he made a chain store business of outlawry. Brown s Park, over the line in Colorado, the Robbers Roost, down...

The story of Suzanna, an impoverished girl making her way through the romantic California of old, where the grandsons of conquistadores reigned supreme, a time fraught with romance, adventure and danger.

This was the climax, the end of a lifetime of bitterness and hate Rusty Maxwell and Ben Sharp, both grown old, grizzled, and rich, one the owner of a barbed-wire empire, a sea of grass larger than some Eastern states, the other risen to great political po

Helps readers understand just what is, and is not, thyroid disease.

Bring the authentic cuisine of Japan to your own home with these master recipes that highlight the elegant simplicity of Japanese cuisine. Every aspect of Japanese cooking is here in an easy-to-follow format: soups, rice, sushi, tempura, noodles, sukiyaki, teriyaki, noodles, pickles, desserts, beverages and more. In addition to recipes The Complete Book of Japanese Cooking includes menu plans and a complete glossary of Japanese cooking terms a...

According to the theory of 21, there are twenty people who will say no for every person who says yes. The secret to success in business is finding the 21st person, the individual who is open to ideas and innovation and who makes abstract ideas become reality. This book helps you identify the twenties--those who dislike change and fear risk--and teaches you how to elude them and to persevere despite their repeated assurances that whatever you'r...

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Steven Simring and Sue Klavans Simring show you haow to identify damaging behavior patterns and stop making dumb mistakes that mess up you life. Their revolutionary program identifies eight BlindSpots that cloud judgment and lead to career disappointments, botched romantic relationships, unsatisfactory friendships, and financial problems. By taking a simple inventory, you ll pinpoint which of the eight BlindSpo...

We are the first species with the ability to leave planet Earth and expand the horizons of existence into the infinite realm of the universe. Humanity has been working, learning and building toward this accomplishment throughout history. Those who live and work in space will be no different from their predecessors who left ancient homelands to venture into the unknown wilderness. But to travel and work in space, one must not only know the phys...

Within lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead. Henry James himself once urged Roughead: Keep on with them all please, and continue to beckon me along the gallery that I can t tread alone and where, by your leave, I link my arm fraternally in yours: the gallery of sinister perspective just stretches in this manner straight away. Here you will find such Roughead classics as My First Murder: Featuring Jessie Ki...

The Drums of Winter is a sweeping epic, a family saga, a novel of history. Set in the time of the American Revolution, it details the decline and fall of a great family, the proud love of a noble woman, a young man s search for his true father, and a conflict between brothers which moves from Europe to American and climaxes in one of the decisive battles of the Revolutionary War. The Haynows are the most powerful family in Hessia. Baron Haynow...

Daphne du Maurier s correspondence with Oriel Malet began in the early 1950s, after they met at a cocktail party in London. At least twenty years separated them: Oriel was a gauche young writer while Daphne was the famous, much-feted author of bestselling novels including Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel, and Rebecca. The friendship flourished for thirty years, fed by the letters that arrived faithfully from Menabilly, the du Maurier house in Cor...

A classic whodunit, originally published in 1946, follows the plucky New Orleans reporter Margaret Slone as she tries to solve the murder of a womanizing surgeon.

Fueled by tested allegiances, veteran cattle baron Henry Stall sets out across the Oregon territory to defend his honor against the emerging guard of young ranchers on the open range of the American northwest.

There were three things that Steve Greene wanted to do, and they were, in order of importance: 1. Get away from his Great Mistake (her name was Vivian). 2. Write the last movement of his symphony and relieve his mind of an unfinished concerto or two. 3. Whip the waters of some unspoiled mountain lake for record-breaking bass and pike. And so he bought a trailer. When he took to the open road, his house on wheels was replete with gadgets and im...

Babe Gordon, the star of this brilliant, sophisticated novel of modern New York s racy set, is a strange woman. She uses her beauty and her sexual allure as a soldier uses his weapons without mercy or scruples. Her basic appeal attracts all types of men, from bruisers of the prize ring to the more refined sons of the city s aristocracy. From her experiences with men, she is canny, worldly wise, quick thinking. But all her art, her wisdom, and ...

In this vintage cookbook Nika Hazelton shares hundreds of delectable yet refreshingly simple dishes covering every region of her native land, from Lombardy to Sicily, that reflect the incomparable tastes of real Italian home cooking, la cucina casalinga.

The legend of Harold Sterns, the Last of the Bohemians, begins in 1912 when he runs naked through Harvard Yard, a twenty year-old man acting on impulse and looking like Shelley. At thirty-two he had left the United States, disgusted with the sordid red-baiting and prohibition snooping of the early twenties, disgusted also perhaps with himself, vowing never to return to a country so inhospitable to civilization. Harold Stearns symbolized the bi...