Suzie-Q --And Other Stories


Book Description

This collection of shorter works is a glimpse of gay & lesbian life in the 1980's. Characters of different walks of life, & nationalities. Some deal with substance abuse. Most deal with their love lives. Tales of struggle and lesbian strength.







La Vida


Book Description

Continuing journal of an old transsexual man living in poverty in San Francisco. He is a fine arts painter, writer, and spiritual seeker.




BOOK CATALOGUE 2008 Red Jordan Arobateau


Book Description

This book lists all 80 of author Red Jordan Arobateau's titles with description and or excerpts of each, as of date autumn 2007.




Curly Hair & Other Stories


Book Description

In Curly Hair and Other Stories, Betty Hunley Carlyon reminisces about her Midwestern upbringing, her married life, and her duties as first lady of a nationally renowned community college in Michigan. Throughout the book, she shares happy and humorous tales of family, friends, marriage, children, and grandchildren. Readers will find this to be a beautiful testament to her. Lovely in face, spirit, and heart, Mrs. Carlyon was a prolific letter writer and a gracious and consummate hostess. In this book, she fills her stories with laughs, insights, perspectives, understandings, information, and even some tears—the good kind! They are heartfelt, written with love and gratitude.




A Snail's Progress


Book Description

Continuing journal of an old transsexual man living in poverty with his 2 parrots and cat. He is a writer, painter & goes to religious institutions in his spiritual quest. His life & times. Many interesting interactions with fascinating characters. He lives in the queer, arts mecca, San Francisco. He sits in the sun on fire hydrants and ledges of buildings, writing his infameous NOTES, which comprise these journals; he is seeing a male hustler and a dancer at the gay men's strip show.




A Snail's Progress --3


Book Description

Continuing journal of an old transsexual man living in poverty with his 2 parrots and cat. He is a writer, painter & goes to religious institutions in his spiritual quest. His life & times. Many interesting interactions with fascinating characters. He lives in the queer, arts mecca, San Francisco. He sits in the sun on fire hydrants and ledges of buildings, writing his infameous NOTES, which comprise these journals; he is seeing a male hustler and a dancer at the gay men's strip show.




The Kidnapping of Suzie Q


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One afternoon Susie Quinn and her mum dash into their local supermarket for a quick shop. While they are there, two robbers decide to hold up the store, Susie is taken hostage by the gang, and has to summon up every ounce of courage to survive.




Reena and Other Stories


Book Description

   This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the New York Times Book Review's series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographical headnotes to each story and "Merle," a novella excerpted from Marshall's 1969 novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People , and extensively reshaped and rewritten for this collection. It stands as an independent story about one of the most memorable women in contemporary fiction.




Opus Dei


Book Description

The continuing journal of an old transsexual man living in poverty with his 2 parrots and cat. He is a writer, painter &... goes to religious institutions in his spiritual quest. His life & times. Many interesting interactions with fascinating characters. He lives in the queer, arts mecca, San Francisco. He is treated to free coffee at the Persian coffeehouse, and sits in the sun on fire hydrants and ledges of buildings, writing his infameous NOTES, which comprise these journals.