books of gay interest


Lethe's gay titles include an array of gay-positive novels, poetry, erotica and literature for gay men & lesbians. In addition, Lethe has partnered with the White Crane Institute to bring out new and classic titles in gay spirituality and gay wisdom under the White Crane Books imprint. And the new imprint, Bear Bones Books, will offer fiction and non-fiction titles about Gay Men's Bear Identity. Lethe is one of the world's leading publishers of gay and lesbian spirituality, poetry, and independent fiction. Below is a list of Lethe Press's books of gay interest.


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Hot Off the Presses: A Novel

by Elliott Mackle

As editor of a gay newspaper, Henry Thompson thought he had enough problems dealing with the conservative, old-money owners and the cor-rupt mayor of Atlanta—an evangelical clergyman who denies that African-American men are at risk with AIDS and sees no benefit in accepting federal safe-sex-education funds just months before welcoming the world for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.

Henry lost his lover to AIDS and sees the casual sex happening in the community as almost criminal and certainly lethal. He relies on a good friend’s skilled Tantric massages to release the tension in his life and raise his spirits.Then, while taking in a good, voyeuristic sweat at a men’s-club steam room, Henry finds himself in a tryst with a handsome local athlete.
What happens to a crusading journalist when he finds himself falling for a closeted gymnast favored to win gold medals at the upcoming Olympics? When CNN and Sports Illustrated hound him in their never-ending demand for sensationalism that threatens careers? Henry must fi nd the answer to moral dilemmas:  integrity versus propriety; passion versus restraint.

Author Elliott Mackle, himself a former journalist, offers readers a glimpse back to a remarkable era and events in the life of the Gay South

Lethe Press
308 pages
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-325-4

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Subtle Bodies:   COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2010
A Fantasia on Voice, History and Rene Crevel

by Peter Dubé

It is Paris, 1935, and the poet Rene Crevel has turned on the gas stove in his apartment. As death fills the rooms, Crevel dwells on past events that changed his life and ended the peace among the Surrealists. Years earlier, Crevel enacted seances for Andre Breton and his guests. At first, these performances were fraudulent, but soon Crevel found himself overcome with lapses in memory and time. Portents made during the seances came to pass as Breton's friends fell under a morbid influence. While in a trance, Crevel felt his sense of self expand to new levels, subtle bodies of consciousness. Beings he named "Interlocuters" began to whisper to him of other worlds, other times. What at first feels like a revelation soon brings Crevel to the depths of despair. In this fantastical biography of Crevel, accomplished Canadian author Peter Dube, explores the famed poet's desires of flesh and verse and experience.

Read a review in Chroma by Colin Herd

Lethe Press
106 pages
5 x 8 trade paperback
978-1-59021-330-8

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Seven Sweet Things:
a novella with recipes

by Shaun Levin


An affair that begins in an Internet chatroom takes the narrator and his lover, Martin, further into love than either could have imagined. Disturbingly honest and intensely erotic, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers' exploration of London. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator loves reading Plato, sitting on park benches, and feeding his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing (chocolate-coconut fudge bars, oatmeal cookies, rum-glazed chocolate cake, meringues). The landscape shifts from hidden archaeological mysteries in London to a fantastical stay in an old house in Yorkshire, and from Clissold Park in North London to Roslyn Glen in Scotland, where the narrator gets invited to prepare extravagant desserts for an aristocratic family.



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Lethe Press
142 pages
5 x 8 trade paperback
978-1-59021-202-0

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Snowman
Book 4 in the Beach Reading series

by Mark Abramson

In the fourth release in the San Francisco Chronicle's best-selling Beach Reading series of mysteries by author Mark Abramson, find that not all is well in the City by the Bay. Tim Snow, recently recovered from a debilitating accident, finds himself aimless and troubled over waning feelings for his boyfriend. And just when he wants to escape all the troubles in his life, new complications arise... three M's worth of trouble:  mayhem (a visit from his bigoted and big-haired cousin from Texas), men (a handsome fashion model who's sending mixed signals), and menace (body parts found in the dumpster of Artie's, the restaurant where Tim's works as a waiter). As if the investigations of the police aren't disruptive enough, secrets are soon revealed that affect not only Tim's family by blood but also the treasured souls of the Castro he's made an essential part of his life.

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Great Review by Tom Gunn on Lambda Lit site

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Lethe Press
224 pages
5 x 8 trade paperback
978-1-59021-142-7

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Spring of the Stag God

by J.C. Herneson

Prepare your loins for tales of erotic adventure in the world of Khernia, in this first release of the Stag God Chronicles. "A Stag God is Born" - A sexual prisoner of his cruel uncle, young Ashlan befriends the man's prisoner, Imbru once a feared warrior of the Split Hoof orc tribe, called The Ravager of Men by by the humans, because he spent his seed only on men. Imbru knows the truth behind Ashlan's strange dreams of running through fields with an antlered brow. Ashlan doesn't understand the dreams or know he is about to inherit a divine mantle he never wanted--the legacy of the great antlered Stag God of the wild places. "The Stag & The Bear" - The young god suffering the pains of new divinity goes seeking a mentor, the great Bear God of the stormy mountain tops. Along the way, an orc hunter is forced to his knees to become Ashlan's new discipline. But approaching an old god is treacherous and his were-bear minions must be confronted and defeated before the Bear God's den is reached. "The Stag God's Disciple" - Habra of the Tines, a young orc, goes among humans to preach the worship of Ashlan. But the Patriachs of the human lands do not want to relinquish their power and bind, rape and imprison Habra. But in the dungeons new friends are waiting to be found as the faith in the Lord of the Seven Tines spreads like passion through a man's nethers.

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Lethe Press
174 pages
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-316-2

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Sodomy!

by Simon Sheppard

Award-winning author Simon Sheppard serves up his third collection of erotic stories, tales that are smart, edgy, and very, very hot. From wrestlers to writers, fratboys to buccaneers, the men in Sheppard's stories lust, love, and link up with erect abandon. No one else writes about queer sex quite like Simon Sheppard. Dive into Sodomy! and see.



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Lethe Press
210 pages
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-031-4

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The Unborn Spouse Situation

by Matt Rauscher

Augie Schoenberg is twenty-two, an aspiring filmmaker at a school without a film school, and desperately single. He's just moved into the Harley Hutt, the wildest party house on campus, and has fallen hard for his roommate Victor Radhakrishna, a campus political activist who is, for Augie, "a practical demi-god: a crusader for justice in skateboarding shoes." The problem is, Augie is the only gay one in the house - or so he thinks. This darkly comic novel of sex, betrayal, and cultural clashes follows Augie's search for love: from the cornfields of Illinois, to the gay beach and underground clubs of Chicago, and finally to the ecstasy-fueled nightlife of London, where Victor's secret threatens to keep the two apart forever.
Lethe Press
332 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-127-4

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Tales My Body Told Me

by Wayne Courtois

Sex. Satire. Mystery. Foul Play. True Love. Not necessarily in that order.

Paul Lavarnway thought he had settled into comfortable, middle-aged domesticity in Kansas City with his husband Eric.

So how is it he finds himself confined with four other men at East Oak House, a spooky old mansion from which they can see the rundown, off-season resort of Two Piers, Maine, with its single pier and silent Ferris Wheel? He can't remember. Is it the drugs? The group therapy meant to help Paul and his housemates learn to be happy ex-gays?

While winter deepens outside the windows, Paul and his companions and their sweetly sinister mentor Brian explore the past and the future without ever quite understanding their present in the hot-house atmosphere of East Oak House. As memory comes to the surface, Paul discovers truths about himself, his husband, the man who came between them, and the accidental lover whose death looks more and more like murder.

Shifting with surreal grace from profound emotion to shallow sex to mystery and horror to outrageous comedy to redemption (maybe), Tales My Body Told Me is a novel like no other.



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Lethe Press
303 pages
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-247-9

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Bearotica: Hot & Hairy Fiction

edited by R. Jackson

This first volume in the Hot and Hairy series of outstanding erotic short fiction draws readers deep into the thickest forest of masculine desire to reveal at a hidden bonfire a long-hidden clan of gay, bi, and queer men from the Bear cult.

In Bearotica, you’ll meet: a mountain man who guides a young fellow through his initiation into male love as they cross over the American frontier; a couple of wayward bikers riding together down a dusty, lusty road; four massive musclebears using junkyard metal and their other tools to improvise weightlifting routines; two warriors, one a bear and one wolf, battle in an 8th-Century Norwegian lodge for sexual dominance; and many more unforgettable characters.

Edited by R. Jackson, Bearotica presents seventeen strong, arousing, compelling stories of homomasculine love by famed and favorite contributors such as Dale Chase, Daniel M. Jaffe, Jay Neal, R.E. Neu, Jay Starre, Karl von Uhl, and Thom Wolf, as well as new voices.

If you go out to the woods today, beware: reading these sometimes humorous, often insightful, but always sensual tales of macho men expressing their desires may grow fur on the palms of your paws — or at least, show you exactly what bears really do in the woods.

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Lethe Press
 188 pages
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-108-3

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Van Allen's Ecstasy

by Jim Tushinski

Born into an extraordinarily talented family, 29-year-old Michael Van Allen is the gay son of a well-known concert pianist and an equally famous painter. All his life, he has yearned for the talent and creativity that should have been his birthright but have somehow been denied him. When he wakes up in a mental hospital, his memory gone, his former life erased, his doctor tells him of his screaming breakdown during one of his father's performances. Van Allen's Ecstasy is the story of Michael's journey in search of his former self. As he pieces together his forgotten life, Michael uncovers jealousy, obsession, and secret desires that threaten to destroy his sanity once again.

Lethe Press
 200 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-216-5

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An Ideal for Living

by Marshall Moore

Grace White and her brother Robert, overweight and affluent, are desperate to hang onto their respective love interests. Grace’s husband Rich is bonking every woman he can talk into bed. Grace is willing to look beyond his affairs if she can just have her marriage back. Robert’s law school fling James’s interest diminished as Robert’s waistline increased, but Robert has never moved on. The only solution? Losing those excess pounds… by any means necessary. And when James finds a supernatural healer who can sculpt living flesh like clay, beautiful ugliness ensues. Will Robert and Grace get what they want, or what they deserve? In An Ideal for Living, Marshall Moore has written a shocking fantastique, a novel that captures the Zeitgeist of contemporary urban life, where beauty is a commodity craved, consumed, and traded.
 
Marshall Moore is the author of the novel The Concrete Sky and the short fiction collections Black Shapes in a Darkened Room and The Infernal Republic. He has also published dozens of short stories, essays, book reviews, and other odds and ends. A native of the American South, he lives and works in Hong Kong. His website is marshallmoore.com.

Lethe Press
 216 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-231-8

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Silver Foxes:
Steamy Stories of Older Men

by C.B. Potts

Daddy lovers rejoice! Author C.B. Potts has devoted an entire collection to that rough and hunky older man who has earned his place in the long history of gay erotica. Whether he has hair gun-metal gray or lustrous white, the daddy  possesses a charisma that drives younger men wild. Who else offers an embrace that promises to keep you warm, safe, and snug? Potts offers readers stirring stories featuring bikers, grease monkeys, soldiers, and even an alderman--all mature men more than willing to provide some much-needed experience to the young fellows who drop to their knees to idolize what the silver fox has learned over the years.

Good and interesting review on Rainbow Reviews

Lethe Press
180 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-233-2

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Bears in the Wild:
Hot & Hairy Fiction

edited by R. Jackson

Does a Bear read in the woods? You bet your sweet woof he does! Bears in the Wild, the third Bearotica collection of hot and hairy short fiction, draws readers deeper into the lush forest of masculine desire. These tales reveal at a mysterious bonfire a whole new tribe of lusty gay, bi, and queer male characters from the Bear cult, joyously playing and participating in their naked, natural rituals. Editor R. Jackson presents sixteen fresh, arousing, compelling stories of homomasculine love by famed and favorite contributors such as Simon Sheppard, Jeff Mann, Dale Chase, Jay Neal, and Jay Starre, as well as new voices. Reading these sometimes humorous, often insightful, but always sensual tales of burly, macho men sharing their fierce and furry love may grow hair on the palms of your paws or at least, show you what bears really do in the woods.

4 Star Review - with good summaries of the stories - on Rainbow Reviews

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Lethe Press
164 pages
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-245-5

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Ask the Fire            


by Dennis Paddie

Ask the Fire blends the high tech culture of modern espionage and the highly politicized social culture of Washington, D.C., the capital of the world, with the secret of the Knights Templar, courtly love and Freemasonry in the architecture of the D.C. streets. Add a dash of 60s hippiedom, and plenty of urban gay and post-gay culture, and readers will discover a new trans-mythological, but deeply spiritual, vision of the meaning of human life in the charged world of the 21st century.

“I had a friend who was a spy.” So begins a story of terrorism and espionage, featuring a brilliant, almost enlightened, but emotionally jaded and politically cynical secret agent, a gay Mati Hari who’d seduced secrets out of Arab rulers and now struggles to prevent the start of the Terrorist Wars. It’s a story with a vast sweep that places spying—and spiritual vision— within the larger history of heresy and homosexuality in Western culture from the Crusades to contemporary Islamic fundamentalists.


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Lethe Press
372 pages
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-248-6

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Wilde Stories 2010            
The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

edited by Steve Berman

A newcomer to San Francisco falls in love too fast despite the warnings of a cadre of ghosts haunting his uncle; a businessman comes to regret his ennui when faced with the machinations of an outsider artist; on a train traveling through a dangerous Russian winter, a passenger encounters a wolf on two legs; a mining colony where love has become dangerous but no less passionate; a young man, mourning the loss of his ballet career, may yet get his chance to fly—these are some of the stories in this anthology, stories chosen from magazines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best gay male speculative fiction of the past year.

  Inside these pages are both authors acclaimed (award-winners Laird Barron, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee and Joel Lane) and fresh voices (Tom Cardamone, Georgina Li) offering the best tales of fantastical and weird happenings befalling gay men.

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Lethe Press
228 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-301-8

also available in Library Binding
978-1-59021-300-9


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Diana Comet            
and Other Improbable Stories

by Sandra McDonald

A writer of whimsy and passion, Sandra McDonald has collected her most evocative short fiction to offer readers in Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories. A beautiful adventuress from the ancient city of New Dalli sets off to reclaim her missing lover. What secrets does she hide beneath her silk skirts? A gay cowboy flees the Great War in search of true love and the elusive undead poet Whit Waltman, but at what cost? A talking statue sends an abused boy spinning through a great metropolis, dodging pirates and search for a home. On these quests, you will meet macho firefighters, tiny fairies, collapsible musicians, lady devils and vengeful sea witches. These are stories to stir the heart and imagination.
 
McDonald's stories have appeared in many national, small press and online magazines and anthologies including Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy and Best New Paranormal Romance. She is the author of a series of novels—The Outback Stars, The Stars Down Under, and The Stars Blue Yonder—about an Australian military lieutenant, her handsome sergeant, and their adventures in deep space.

Wonderful review by M.M. Adjarian in EDGE

Good review at Lambda Literary

Lethe Press
284 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-094-9

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A Handful of Pearls              
and other stories

by Beth Bernobich

A Handful of Pearls & Other Stories showcases author Beth  Bernobich’s versatile talent. Quoted as offering the following advice to writers—

Mix characters and plot. Blend well and set aside to rise. Stir  together equal helpings of conflict and tension. Remember that the pacing used to stir will affect the story’s consistency and flavor. When characters and plot are ready, layer these with  backstory, setting, and description. For a fuller heavier story,  fortify with theme, subtext, and allusion. Add whimsy and logic to taste. Top with a climax and resolution. Sprinkle with surprises.  (Do not overdo.) Beat prose until smooth.

—Bernobich follows that perfect recipe to the letter and offers  stories that will linger in the imagination of readers. Inside these pages are tales of talented painters, tween arthropod aliens, bitter  explorers, and a wistful Medusa.


Lethe Press
248 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-010-9

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Queeroes
Save the Gay...Save the World

by Steven Bereznai

When strange powers emerge in a group of gay teens in the town of Nuffim, their lives are forever changed. Troy is a closeted jock who starts to sense other people's emotions. His geeky brother, Gibbie, develops super strength. Flamboyant Chad unleashes his inner animal, while his gal pal Mandy turns invisible. "I can totally use my power to psych out my competition," says Troy. "My night vision will make cruising guys super easy," exclaims Chad. "I am so going to eavesdrop on people's conversations," exclaims Mandy. "Uh, I was thinking we'd make the world a better place," offers Gibbie. They get the chance when their schoolmates Devon and Liza use their own unique abilities to remake the student body in a darker image.


Lethe Press
228 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-215-8


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Alleys & Doorways
Stories of Queer Urban Fantasy

Edited by Meredith Schwartz

In Alleys & Doorways, editor Meredith Schwartz has brought together stories of the odd and mysterious ways that queer life happens in the city. Covering a wide range of styles, moods and emotions, from the poignant and erotic to the whimsical, these tales from a roster of acclaimed authors strive to create new legends for gay urbanites.

Featuring several stories that were finalists for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, this anthology promises to enchant you. Be wary where you read these stories... that train ride, that bus, that sidewalk may lead you to someplace Else... but be assured that your destination in these new alleys, these new doorways, will be an exciting one!

Meredith Schwartz  •  Rose Fox  •  Valerie Z. Lewis
B.A. Tortuga  •  M. Decker  •  Steve Berman
JoSelle Vanderhooft  •  Wendy Barnum  •  Julia Talbot
A.J. Grant  •  Abbie Strehlow  •  Sean Michael
Elspeth Potter  •  Abbie Strehlow  •  Ann Stocce


Meredith Schwartz’s fiction has appeared in Reflection’s Edge and Strange Horizons. She has reviewed speculative fiction for Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.

Lethe Press
204 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-137-3

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The Boy Can't Help It
Sensual Stories of Young Bottoms

by Gavin Atlas

At some point, hasn’t every bottom yearned to be ravished by a powerful, inescapable top? What dominant hasn’t fantasized about a gorgeous young sub with an incredible ass, so horny he could never say no? the boy can’t help it offers over a dozen such stories of beautiful young men: a gymnast, a diver, a surfer, a marine and an assortment of college boys submitting to construction workers, horny professors, butch jocks, corporate titans, insatiable miners, and even one’s own psychiatrist.
 
Whether you long to be the helpless bottom or the top nailing him... whether your wet dream is a bit of bondage, a gang bang, sex on the sand, or naughty voyeurism... author Gavin Atlas has written the stories to satisfy your every need.
 

Gavin Atlas has emerged as a fresh new voice in gay erotica. Few other writers capture yearning so well. He lives south of the nation’s unbuckled Bible Belt.

 
Lethe Press
220 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-039-0

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Bi Guys: The Deliciousness of His Sex

By R. Jackson


A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Bi Guys returns to print. This groundbreaking fiction anthology presents a unique collection of outstanding sensual writing about the bi male sexual experience.

With stories from such renowned queer authors as Steve Berman, Dale Chase, Felice Picano, and Simon Sheppard, this is bisexual-themed erotica with a decidedly masculine viewpoint, erotica with undeniable male heat, erotica you won’t soon forget!

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Lethe Press
236 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-218-9


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The Silent Hustler

By Sean Meriwether


Best known for editing the edgy gay fiction of the Velvet Mafia website, Sean Meriwether has quietly been writing short fiction and building up a body of his own work. The Silent Hustler collects his short fiction published over the last decade. Meriwether's fiction spans in range from the literary ("Things I Can't Tell My Father") to  the revolutionary ("Burn the Rich") to the downright raunchy ("Sneaker Queen"). Slip into bed with The Silent Hustler. You won’t feel guilty in the morning.

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5.0 rating review at goodreads.com

10 Star revew by Paul G.Bens at logophilos

Great review at Out in Print

Review by Jessewave

Review in Edge Atlanta

Lethe Press
256 pages
5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-062-8


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The Decade of Blind Dates

By Richard Alther


Peter Bauman, a forty-five-year-old divorced gay painter, plunges into the personal ads just prior to the Internet in his quest for the perfect partner.

He dates a colorful cast of characters from a Connecticut physician, a rabid Republican, to a Texas-two-stepping, tattooed punk. Next there's the heavier-than-advertised geek who arrives with a bag of sex toys, but Peter is more serious with a handsome, stern Maine woodsman, followed by a British aristocrat patron who declines further intimacy because of his AIDS.

As Peter negotiates his new gay identity, his best friend, Barry, counsels and supports him at every step, especially as Peter deals with a health crisis. During a decade of sex and shenanigans, Peter, encouraged by his ex-wife, daughter, and son, examines his life and, at last, discovers his soul mate.


Five Star review by Indigene on Rainbow Reviews: “The Decade of Blind Dates” by Richard Alther is not only a story of man in search of the perfect love, but also very much a journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance. And in the end Peter finds both love and self. I highly recommend this rich and textured novel that is written with intelligence, humor, emotional honesty and depth.
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Lethe Press
284 pages
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-047-5


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Safe As Houses

By Alex Jeffers


When Allen Pasztory discovered he was likely to die before his time, he realized that what he could pass down to the people he loved was stories. Stories of and for his families – the family he was born to and the family he stumbled upon and fiercely embraced.
 
The hearing child of parents raised in the inhumane surroundings of a state school for the deaf, all along Allen knew he and his family were different. His sister tried her best to become ordinary, as if it were possible, but Allen knew better. He would be ready to offer sanctuary when an ordinary family cast out his nephew Kit.
 
Allen fell for freelance artist Jeremy’s talent and looks, but it was Jeremy’s unanticipated bravery that supported them through the years while they nurtured their new family. Despite hostility from without and threat from within, they created a secure and loving home for Jeremy’s precocious son Toby and, later, Allen’s nephew.
 
But safety can’t be guaranteed. Ill, Allen must tell himself stories to survive, stories that may explain his life to the boys he’s raised, for “your life is never only your own story, and what you don’t know for sure you must invent, using all the clues you can gather.”

"...a reading gem" says Indigene at Rainbow Reviews in a 5-star glowing review.


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Lethe Press
320 pages
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-123-6


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Freedom Glorious Freedom
The Spiritual Journey to the Fullness of Life
For Gays, Lesbians,and Everybody Else

By John J. McNeill

In Freedom, Glorious Freedom, acclaimed author John J. McNeill shows how lesbian and gay Christians can achieve full spiritual maturity and self-acceptance. McNeill discusses freedom of conscience and discernment of spirits, ancient teachings of the Christian church that have a special urgency for lesbian and gay people who need to free themselves from all the homophobic authorities and deal with God on a direct and personal basis. The liberating process of coming out of the closet is seen as a spirit-filled effort to achieve the glory of God by becoming fully alive. McNeill offers a twelve-step spirituality as a spiritual process of liberation from all addictions in order to experience the love of God in its fullness. The epilogue expresses in detail a philosophical vision, looking both to the past and to the future, of how gay liberation fits into the Spirit-directed evolution of human history and its role in the ongoing struggle for human liberation.

For more than thirty-five years, John J. McNeill, an ordained priest and psychotherapist, has been devoting his life to spreading the good news of God’s love for lesbian and gay Christians.


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323 pages
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-148-9


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Best Gay Stories 2009

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Best Gay Stories 2009

Edited by Steve Berman

Eighteen tales showing the handsome face of gay writing. Noted editor Steve Berman has spent the past year reading page after page to bring booklovers a collection of the finest stories featuring the range of emotions every gay man feels in his lifetime--
the pain of first love, the mischief spent as a wayward youth, the desires and fears of maturity, and the comfort of old lovers, a life told from the perspective of wistful essays, engaging fiction, and poignant confessions.

Stories by: Steve Berman, Richard Bowes, Jameson Currier, Craig Laurance Gidney, Rhys Hughes, Raphael Kadushin, Jeff Leavell, Trebor Healey, David Levithan, Jeff Mann, Sam J. Miller, Christopher Schmidt, Aaron Shurin, J.M. Snyder, Jeff Solomon, John Stahle, John Morgan Wilson. Richard Zimler
Lethe Press
284 pages
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-211-0

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978-1-59021-149-6

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Loving Someone Gay

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Loving Someone Gay
5th edition

By Don Clark, Ph.D.

For more than three decades, clinical psychologist, Don Clark, has been speaking to the hearts and minds of gay people, their families, friends, teachers and helpers in the many editions of Loving Someone Gay. With compassion he has promoted communication across generations as well as revealing a path of understanding and reconciliation for parents, siblings, husbands and wives—as well as among religious leaders, teachers, librarians, legislators, judges, and law enforcement agencies. Most important he has provided vital insight into the psychodynamics and sociology of individuals, the gay men and lesbians who have been and continue to be misunderstood and abused in societies around the world.


You can download to iTunes & transfer the pdf to an iPad or other ebook reader
Lethe Press
288 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-135-9

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Time Well Bent

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Time Well Bent
Queer Alternative Histories

Edited by Connie Wilkins

We have always been here.

For as long as there’s been such a thing as sex, alternate sexual identities have been a fact of life. So why have we been so nearly invisible in recorded history and historical fiction? Now editor Connie Wilkins, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, has assembled fourteen stories that span the centuries—from ancient times to the Renaissance to the modern era—and explore alternate versions of our past. Their queer protagonists, who bend history in ways dramatic enough to change the world and subtle enough to touch hearts and minds, rescue our past from invisibility, and affirm our place and importance throughout all of history, past, present, and future.

Stories by:

Rita Oakes,  Steven Adamson, Sandra Barret, Dale Chase,
Steve Berman,  M P Ericson,  Barry Lowe,  Erin Mackay,
Catherine Lundoff, Simon Sheppard, Lisabet Sarai,
Emily Salter,  Connie Wilkins, C.A. Gardner

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184 pages
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978-1-59021-134-2

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The Beach Reading series by Mark Abramson





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Beach Reading
By Mark Abramson

The first book in an exciting new series!

San Francisco has never been moire romantic or adventuresome as portrayed by this debut novelist. A bit of magic and a lot of local lore makes for an exciting and fun read.

This book is getting GREAT reviews.

Read them on the author's webpage
beachreading.net

Read Steve Williams' review from Suite101.com

Jesse Monteagudo wrote an interesting piece about Mark Abramson & the Beach Reading Series on After Elton.

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196 pages

ISBN 978-1-59021-139-7

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Cold Serial Murder

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Cold Serial Murder
Book 2 in the Beach Reading series
By Mark Abramson

Tim Snow expected to show his visiting Aunt Ruth the wonders of San Francisco, but never expected one of the sights of the city would be the body of his ex-lover. A killer is on the loose in the Castro district. Meanwhile, Tim’s cadre of quirky friends and neighbors makes life all the more interesting with their drama of weddings and lost (and found) loves. Cold Serial Murder continues the story of one of the Castro’s most adorable characters. Can Tim and his Aunt uncover who the killer is before it’s too late?  (Read about Book 1: Beach Reading)

Bob Lind in ECHO Magazine writes:
In this second of his "Beach Reading" series of light thrillers, Abramson further develops the likeable and relatable characters he introduced in that enjoyable first book (same name as the series), and again provides a story that perfectly captures the cohesive spirit of the Castro community. While mystery purists may prefer a few more "red herrings" to complicate the solving of the crime, the author obviously intends for the series to entertain rather than challenge, and it succeeds wonderfully on that level. A clang from a streetcar, and five golden stars out of five!

GLOWING!! review from Amos Lassen

Jesse Monteagudo wrote an interesting piece about Mark Abramson & the Beach Reading Series on After Elton.

E.B. Boatner - Lavender Magazine, MINNEAPOLIS:
"Grab your towel, some SPF 60 lotion, and these first two of author Mark Abramson's highly entertaining Beach Reading series. He introduces protagonist Tim Snow, Minnesota-born, expelled by his family after an "incident," taken in by his Aunt Ruth, and now comfortably ensconced in the heart of the Castro, where he has lived for some time. Beach moves along briskly, incorporating a homophobic preacher, a gay icon, joint-toking oldsters, a jolt from Tim's past, and a bevy of characters you'll meet again in Cold Serial Murder, including Aunt Ruth. Cold Serial is littered with corpses, one of them Tim's ex-lover. Beach Reading is exactly what it promises. Abramson's witty dialogue; vivid, sexy characters; and comprehensive knowledge of gay SF, its flora, fauna, and idiom, captivate the reader. Number three, Russian River Rat, will be out later this fall. Don't worry - it will be as much fun to read under an electric throw as on a beach blanket."


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240 pages
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978-1-59021-140-3

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Russian River Rat

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Russian River Rat
Book 3 in Beach Reading

By Mark Abramson

Tim Snow is sure he's finally found the perfect man, a handsome guy  with a successful greenhouse business by the Russian River. With his beloved Aunt Ruth now moved to San Francisco, his life should be worry-free.
 
But San Francisco Chronicle's best-selling author Mark Abramson can't stop with telling lively mysteries—Tim starts having troubling dreams; a drowned body haunts his boyfriend, who may be less than perfect; and there are men from both their pasts who might be deadly.

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Wonderful review by E.B. Boatner in Lavender Magazine:
"Book Three of Abramson's Beach Reading series finds protagonist Tim Snow's beloved Aunt Ruth moved to San Francisco and Tim himself finally in love with the perfect man. Oh, really? Tim and Nick begin the "If he really loved me, he'd call first" dance, against the background hum of murder and intrigue, plus the ongoing lives of the wonderfully quirky denizens of Abramson's Snow's Castro. Then, Tim finds more anomalies in Nick's background: a Big Easy cop cousin who turns up as the drowned body fished out of the Russian River, and lurkers from the past out to destroy... whom? Abramson can tie more complicated knots and entangling nets than a 19th-Century sailor, his catch prolific and entertaining. Don't mind that temperatures are falling (especially back in Tim's native Minnesota) "Beach" is a state of mind, and Beach Reading can be done as enjoyably under an electric throw by the fireside as slathered in SP 40 by the lapping waves."

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244 pages
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978-1-59021-141-0

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Snowman
Book 4 in the Beach Reading series

by Mark Abramson

In the fourth release in the San Francisco Chronicle's best-selling Beach Reading series of mysteries by author Mark Abramson, find that not all is well in the City by the Bay. Tim Snow, recently recovered from a debilitating accident, finds himself aimless and troubled over waning feelings for his boyfriend. And just when he wants to escape all the troubles in his life, new complications arise... three M's worth of trouble:  mayhem (a visit from his bigoted and big-haired cousin from Texas), men (a handsome fashion model who's sending mixed signals), and menace (body parts found in the dumpster of Artie's, the restaurant where Tim's works as a waiter). As if the investigations of the police aren't disruptive enough, secrets are soon revealed that affect not only Tim's family by blood but also the treasured souls of the Castro he's made an essential part of his life.

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Great Review by Tom Gunn on Lambda Lit site

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224 pages
5 x 8 trade paperback
978-1-59021-142-7

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A Carnal Cruise

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A Carnal Cruise

By Hank Edwards

Charlie Heggensford, the Idaho farm boy turned L.A. fluffer for hire, is hitting the high seas. Joined by his fluffer friends, as well as hot porn star Rock Harding, Charlie sets sail for Mexico on a steamy cruise filled with sex and awash with mystery. As he works his magic on deck and beneath the sheets, Charlie finds himself in the middle of a boatload of intrigue and hot sex.

Lethe Press
212 pages
5.5 x 8.5  trade paperback

978-1-59021-105-2

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Lets Get Criminal

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Let's Get Criminal

By Lev Raphael

A delightful take on death in the halls of academia. -- Boston Globe

Lev Raphael delivers literate, witty, suspenseful goods.  -- Publishers Weekly


Curiosity turns to obsession at the State University of Michigan. Professor Nick Hoffman can't understand how his supercilious new office mate Perry Cross beat out other candidates for a brand new position in the department. How did Cross get hired when he's under-qualified? But Nick's curiosity changes to a jealousy when he learns that his longtime lover, Stefan, shares a past with Cross. When Cross is found dead and the verdict is murder, Nick becomes a prime suspect since he was one of the last people to see Cross the evening he was killed. Nick has no choice but to investigate on his own. Only acclaimed author Lev Raphael can spin such a tale of twisted academia.

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228 pages
5.5 x 8.5  trade paperback

978-1-59021-204-2

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Shadow Man

By Melissa Scott

In the far future, human culture has developed five distinctive genders due to the effects of a drug easing sickness from faster-than-light travel. But on the planet Hara, where society is increasingly instability, caught between hard-liner traditions and the realities of life, only male and female genders are legal, and the "odd-bodied" population are forced to pass as one or the other. Warreven Stiller, a lawyer and an intersexed person, is an advocate for those who have violated Haran taboos. When Hara regains contact with the Concorde worlds, Warreven finds a larger role in breaking the long-standing role society has forced on "him," but the search for personal identity becomes a battleground of political intrigue and cultural clash.
 
Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay/Lesbian Science Fiction, Shadow Man remains one of the more important modern, speculative novels ever published in the field of gender- and sexual identity.

Lethe Press
312 pages
6x9 paperback

978-1-59021-242-4

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The First Risk
poems

by Charles Jensen

In four extended sequences, The First Risk confronts the murder of Matthew Shepard and the myth of Venus and Adonis through the eyes of Italian Renaissance painter Luca Cambiaso; the eccentric women of Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother and their search for authenticity; the nature of love and obsession in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the pain and confusion of loss; and “The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon,” the compelling novella-in-verse of a physicist in search of his lost wife, haunted by a phantom voice that may or may not be hers...

Wonderful review by Steve Fellner

Lethe Press
80 pages
8.5 x 8.5 oversized paperback

978-1-59021-217-2

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Pumpkin Teeth

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Pumpkin Teeth  
Stories


Tom Cardamone

Let Tom Cardamone lead you into his wicked universe of changelings and mysterious creatures, where a boy transforms into lightning and illuminates his emerging sexuality. Where a man accidentally receives a package meant for his neighbor, a situation complicated by the fact that he lives next door to a Sphinx. A nurse finds herself working in a retirement home for vampires, while in the future a man questions his decision to live life as a manatee. Featuring tales of quiet suburban anomie, to superhero tropes, to intense erotic horror, Pumpkin Teeth spans the range from Palahniuk insanity to almost Bradburyesque tenderness. Warning, once you are bitten by Pumpkin Teeth, it will not let you go.

Great Review at Out in Print

Lethe Press
240 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-132-8

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Wilde Stories 2009

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Wilde Stories 2009:
The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

Edited by Steve Berman

The latest edition of Wilde Stories, once more edited by Steve Berman, promises readers a range of imaginative gay-themed fiction culled from the prior year. These are tales that range from the horrorific (Lee Thomas' "I'm Your Violence") to the surreal (Sven Davisson's "Dim Star Descried") to the fantastical ("Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers). Many of the authors included have won awards for their fiction, and their stories seek to press new boundaries of loneliness, loss and love between men and monsters (and those men who happen to be monsters).

See the first volume: Wilde Stories 2008

Review by Charles Tan on the Bibliophile Stalker
Instructive and positive review of Rainbow Reviews by Ephmera

Lethe Press
240 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-080-2

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978-1-59021-079-6

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Queer Hauntings

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Queer Hauntings:
True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts

Complied By Ken Summers

Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts is a collection of eerie locales worldwide with a queer bent, combining historical fact and unearthly encounters from across the United States, as well as around the globe. From haunted bars in New Orleans to a haunted theater in London, this guide encompasses the other side of the supernatural. The stories range from the serious, from brutal murders in rural Georgia, to the light-hearted, including the male spirit who enjoys unzipping men's trousers at a British pub. Ghosts of legendary celebrities intermingle with ordinary individuals.

Along with these queer spirits are many businesses, either gay-owned or catering to a gay/lesbian clientele, experiencing hauntings. Clubs and bars hide more than shy young lovers in their darkened corners. Countless bed and breakfasts have otherworldly guests staying the night. Behind the shadows and doors of societal homophobia hide find pink phantoms and lavender apparitions in cities and towns spread across the globe.

"Utterly, absolutely fascinating reading; a must-have for paranormal enthusiasts and lovers of ghostly lore, regardless of sexual orientation," says Erin Schmidt  in a review on Rainbow Reviews

Lethe Press
196 pages
 5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-239-4

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The Haunted Heart

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Winner of a Black Quill Award 2010

The Haunted Heart
and Other Tales

By Jameson Currier

Haunted? Or blessed?
Ghosts? Or guardian angels?
Twelve new stories of gay men and the memories that haunt them.

A circuit boy stays at a haunted hotel. An actor recounts a grisly murder in the English countryside. A gay parent unravels a mysterious souvenir. A journalist chases a story through the streets of Amsterdam. An artist grapples with his muse. A musician is inspired by the spirit of a sailor.

Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.

Excellent review at Rainbow Reviews by Kassa

Lethe Press
212 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-203-5

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Hoitter Than Hell

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Hotter Than Hell
& Other Stories

By SimonSheppard

Winner of the Erotic Authors Association Award for Best Collection of the Year, Hotter than Hell & Other Stories offers readers some of the most imaginative and sinful stories by San Francisco’s “Erotica King”  Simon Sheppard.
 
Hard-as-nails hustlers, sweet Midwestern boys, closeted college students, leathermen, and everyone in between are swept away by need, obsession, lust, and even love, in ntense encounters that never fail to  excite and satisfy.

The steamy tales span the globe from Morocco to San Francisco, from a Senator’s office to a  roller coaster queue.

“These steamy stories arouse in the traditional sense, but go one step further, drawing the reader in completely.”
                —Unzipped Magazine 
Come along for the ride.
 
Lethe Press
240 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-207-3

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Japanese Dreams

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Japanese Dreams
Fictions, Fantasies & Fairytales

Edited By Sean Wallace

Japanese Dreams takes the reader to the islands of fire and smoke - where shape-shifters, demons and lovers all populate a landscape blossoming with story. Imaginative contributions by such well-known writers of fantasy as Steve Berman, Eugie Foster, Jay Lake, Yoon Ha Lee, Robert Jordan Levy, Lisa Mantchev, Richard Parks, Ekaterina Sedia, Erzebet YellowBoy, and more, all offer us a glimpse of a silken sleeve or the red fur of the fox as she slips between the rushes, daring us to follow.
 
Lethe Press
184 pages
5x8 trade paperback

978-1-59021-224-0

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Murder on Camac

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Murder on Camac

By Joseph R.G. DeMarco

Gunned down in the street, author Helmut Brandt’s life ebbs away and puts a chain of events in motion placing P.I. Marco Fontana on a collision course with the Church and local community.
 
Brandt’s research into the decades old death of Pope John Paul the First made him serious enemies within the Catholic Church. As Fontana digs into the case, he finds Brandt also had rivals in his work and in his love life. Rivals with motives for murder.
 
Dueling with the Catholic hierarchy and combing through seedy gay hangouts, Fontana encounters dangerous characters and powerful forces intent on stopping him. When Fontana himself is attacked, he knows he must find answers before any more lives are lost. The web of intrigue and deceit is intricate, tangled, and deadly.
 
Fontana deftly balances his work as a P.I. with his position as owner of StripGuyz, a troupe of male strippers; he must also negotiate the intricacies of love and relationships which he has been avoiding all too long.
 
Will the solution uncover a decades old plot to kill a pope or will Fontana find that jealous rage or academic rivalry caused Brandt’s death? The only thing Fontana can be certain of is that Brandt's enemies have killed once and won't hesitate to murder a private eye who gets too close to the truth.

"This is a terrific read, and a bit of a departure from your typical gay mystery novel, in that while the story is set in the present, at its heart is another, decades old, mystery – did dark elements within the church assassinate Pope John Paul the first? So, then, consider this the kind of book Dan Brown might write, if Mr. Brown were just a little more gifted as a writer – and of course, supposing Mr. Brown wrote gay mysteries." from  Review by Victor J Banis

"Though this was a bit lengthy, it is a well-written, suspenseful story that will satisfy even the most picky mystery fan. A bubbling Philly cheese steak, and five stars out of five!" from  Review on OurBookShelf Yahoo Group by Bob BigBearPhx

Good review on Rainbow reviews by Kassa
Great review in EDGE
5 star review in Books Wenches by BD Whitney


Review by Ruth Sims: "Murder on Camac is a fast, entertaining read. I expect we will be seeing more of Marco Fontana in the future, with or without the G-string. I give it five Sherlocks and a Watson.

Lethe Press
396 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-213-4

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Sleeping Beauty Indeed

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Sleeping Beauty, Indeed

ed by JoSelle Vanderhooft

Fairy tales have long intrigued readers. They’re the first stories we remember, and they resonate within us as adults.     

   In Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, editor JoSelle Vanderhooft offers us a new take on an ancient theme: fairy tales from a lesbian perspective. From Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty, from original myths by talented authors to classics retold with a deft hand, these tales are by turn erotic and sensuous, loving and wicked. Take a bite of the magic apple and make this anthology your bedtime story tonight.

Positive and instructive review by Charles Tan
Lethe Press
176 pages
5x8 trade paperback

978-1-59021-223-3

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So Fey

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So Fey: Queer Fairy Fictions

Edited By Steve Berman

The legends of Fairyland tell that one should never taste the food or sip the drink, or else risk being caught there forever. But the tempting morsels in So Fey are irresistible! Lambda Award-nominated editor Steve Berman brings together acclaimed fantasy writers with some of the brightest names in speculative and LGBT fiction to create tales that are moving and magical. These stories of romance and grief, adolescence and identity, struggle and hope will enchant readers who long for a fantastic escape—and a wonderful twist! One sample of this bewitching treat is sure to trap you in its pages!

From the pains of loss in Holly Black’s “The Coat of Stars” to dealing with issues of identity in Richard Bowes’s “The Wand’s Boy” to Melissa Scott’s look at the dangers of love in “Mister Seeley,” So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction takes you into worlds that are at once amazing and familiar. With tales that tear and tug at the heart but never cease to enchant, this exciting and unique collection will long last in the minds of readers.
Lethe Press
348 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-228-8

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A Report from Winter

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A Report from Winter

By Wayne Courtois

A Report from Winter is a death-in-the-family story, a love story, and a meditation on the meaning of “winter”—as a season and as a metaphor for family relationships.

It’s January 1998, and southern Maine is recovering from one of the worst ice storms in history. Into this unforgiving environment comes the author, flying “home” from Kansas City after a ten-year absence. His mother, Jennie, is dying of cancer. She is receiving excellent care in a nursing home, but has lost the ability to communicate.

Needing support, Wayne makes an SOS call to Ralph, his longtime partner. Ralph boards a plane to Portland for his first exposure to a Maine winter, and to Wayne’s family as well, including a feisty aunt and an emotionally distant brother. The contrast between a nurturing gay relationship and dysfunctional family bonds is as sharp as the wind sweeping in from the sea.

Stubbornly unsentimental, A Report from Winter weaves childhood memories of winter with the harsh realities of living in a family where there’s not enough love to go around. The memoir is a tribute to hard-won relationships built on mutual trust and understanding, defying an uncaring world.

Very good review from OurBookShelf
4-Star Review at Rainbow Reviews
Interesting interview with Wayne Courtois in Kansas City paper CAMP

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280 pages
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978-1-59021-235-6

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Rest of Our Lives

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The Rest of Our Lives

By Dan Stone

Colm McKenna has led a guarded life. Gifted with a wintry soul and a photographer’s eye, he can stop time as easily as he freezes water, or call down cold north winds.  He thinks he is alone and unique in the world. Then, seemingly by accident, he meets writer Aidan Gallagher, his opposite, a young man who quickens Colm’s heart as magically as heats the air.
 
In this lighthearted, gay romantic fantasy, can two male witches whose passion reincarnates century after century, find a way to express their love for each other again?  Can this enchanting pair finally succeed after so many lifetimes?

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Rave review for The Rest of Our Lives

Wonderful review by Leslie at jessewave: "The Rest of Our Lives is like a bowl of lime sherbet on a hot summer day: the story is sweet, but with a bit of a tang, refreshing in your mouth and it melts on your tongue. What more could anyone ask for?: read the rest

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228 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-147-2

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Exile

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Exile in Gayville

By Ragan Fox

Ragan Fox offers poetry that demands and provokes readers, as well as entertains them.  Fox bares not only his sexuality but his childhood fears and foes, his desires met and never satisfied, in these imaginative poems. These pieces deserve being read by anyone moved by
the plight of today’s gay culture wars.


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“Ragan Fox’s searing chronicle of growing up gay is an anguished autobiography composed of poems unerring in their ferocity and their truths. These stanzas, which seem to be scraped directly from the surface of the poet’s skin, are both gut-twisting and impossible to turn away from. No edges are blurred, nothing is held back. Sharpening a creative signature that already sported a razor edge, Fox grants us witness to the crafting of an unapologetic life.”

    —Patricia Smith, four-time individual National Poetry Slam
          champion & National Book Award finalist for Blood Dazzler 


You can download to iTunes & transfer the pdf to an iPad or other ebook reader

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172 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-107-6

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Love Sucks

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Love Sucks:
New York Stories of Love, Hate and Anonymous Sex
By Ken Shakin

A collection of unforgettable vignettes from Sleaze City, New York.
Ken Shakin's reportage walks the thin line between journalism and fiction. In a free tradition of modern gay writing, Shakin follows John Rechy, Renaud Camus, John Preston and Boyd McDonald in using the perspective of anonymous sex to probe the uncomfortable facts of social relations, and not just gay ones, in the anonymous world of the big city. From "The Anonymous Dog" to "Confessions of a Smoocher", "Man and His Toys" to "The Smelliest Man Alive", Shakin's stories offer a guided tour to Sleaze City, calculated to send a shiver down even the most desensitised spines. Read this book at your own risk!

Lethe Press
252 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-104-5

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Ready to Serve

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Ready to Serve:
Arresting Gay Erotica
By James Buchanan

Author James Buchanan offers readers six tales of sultry encounters between police officers, firemen, border patrol, along with a few irresistible ne'er-do-wells.

Informative & positive review by blondie at rainbow reviews

Good review on Jessewave by Val Kovalin
Lethe Press
180 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-205-9

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Spunky Sailor

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Spunky Sailor
By Ken Smith

What better life for a randy gay man than as a sailor? Sandy knows that a ship crammed full of sexy service men offers plenty of opportunities—and that nights at shore are even more exciting and risque. The lads can’t wait for you to come below decks. There’s plenty of adventure so welcome aboard.

Ken Smith is the author of a series of erotic novels with nautical themes.

Lethe Press
 292 pages
5x8 trade paperback

978-1-59021-029-1

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The Butterfly's Wing

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The Butterfly's Wing
By Martin Foreman

A Literary Tour-de-force!

How do you react when your lover is kidnapped by terrorists and held hostage for over a year? How do you react when you are the man chained to the wall? In Martin Foreman’s moving novel, first published in 1996, Andy McIllray in the Peruvian Andes and Tom Dayton in rural England face that reality every day—each reliving his past and each fearful of the future.

Lethe Press
  304pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-129-8

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Fluffers, Inc

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Fluffers, Inc
By Hank Edwards

Young Charlie Heggensford is fresh off a farm in Idaho when he stumbles (literally) into the office of Fluffers, Inc., where his natural talents are quickly put to use getting male porn stars in the “mood” to perform. A little too good at his job, Charlie over-stimulates the actors he is assigned to arouse and finds himself in trouble not only with his boss but several porn directors as well. Now if only Charlie can spare a breath for some seriously  hilarious and sexy misadventures...

Great Review in Australian Gay Mag AXN
Lethe Press
188 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback

978-1-59021-044-4

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Real Men Ride Horses

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Real Men Ride Horses:
Lost Stories of an American Desert
By Ken Shakin

Wander the pink desert, where the heat is thick, cowboys come clean, Indians tell all, and the author as voyeur writes down their stories. In Ken Shakin’s erotic collection, Western America is revealed, stripped to the waist, where men and boys get lost in the desert, looking for a wet dream.

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188 pages
5x8 trade paperback

978-1-59021-041-3

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A Strong and Sudden Thaw

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A Strong & Sudden Thaw
By R. W. Day

The Ice fell upon the world nearly a hundred years ago, and if civilization didn’t rightly collapse, it surely staggered and fell ill a while. In the small town of Moline, Virginia, folks struggle to survive, relying on hybrid seed sent by the faraway Dept. of Reintroduction and Agriculture and their own faith in God and hard work. But when a mated pair of dragons starts hunting the countryside, stealing sheep, and attacking children, the townsfolk quickly learn that they don’t have the weapons or the skills to fight off such predators.
 
David Anderson is a farmer’s son who has explored the world through books. When he meets the new healer in town, Callan Landers, he doesn’t quite know what to make of the strange warmth stealing over him. It’s not until he surprises Callan with another man—and both men are promptly arrested for sodomy—that David finally realizes the truth about his own feelings.
 
When David and Callan stumble over a secret in a nearby abandoned town, their personal problems fade before government politics and corruption that threaten lives. It seems the dragons aren’t the worst dangers facing Moline.

Read a thoughtful, positive though critical, and interesting review by Kris on jessewavereviews.
Lethe Press
376 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-063-5

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The Phoenix
By Ruth Sims

At fourteen, Kit St. Denys brought down his abusive father with a knife. At twenty-one his theatrical genius brought down the house. At thirty, his past—and his forbidden love—nearly brought down the curtain for good.

A compelling Victorian saga of two men whose love for each other transcends time and distance—and the society that considers it an abomination. Set in the last twenty years of the 19th century, The Phoenix is a multi-layered historical novel that illuminates poverty and child abuse, theatre history in America and England, betrayal, a crisis of conscience, violence and vengeance, and the treatment of insanity at a time when such treatment was in its infant stage. Most of all it is a tale of love on many levels, from carnal to devoted friendship to sacrifice.

Review of THE PHOENIX by Alan Chin -- look for link to interview with Ruth Sims

Watch the beautiful & evocative YouTube video

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376 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-046-8

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Whistling in the Dark

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Whistling in the Dark

By Tamara Allen

His career as a concert pianist ended by a war injury, Sutton Albright returns to college, only to be expelled after an affair with a teacher. Unable to face his family, he heads to New York with no plans and little money—only a desire to call his life his own.

Jack Bailey lost his parents to influenza and now hopes to save the family novelty shop by advertising on the radio, a medium barely more than a novelty, itself. His nights are spent in a careless and debauched romp through the gayer sections of Manhattan.

When these two men cross paths, despite a world of differences separating them, their attraction cannot be denied. Sutton finds himself drawn to the piano, playing for Jack. But can his music heal them both, or will sudden prosperity jeopardize their chance at love?

Sky Schneider talks with Tamara Allen about her book         

Great review on Our Bookshelf

Very Good review by Killian Malloy in EdgeBoston

Lethe Press
336 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-049-9

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Night's Kiss: Lesbian Erotica

By Catherine Lundoff

Once more Catherine Lundoff offers readers a collection of the sensual and the supernatural. The stories in Night’s Kiss are perfect bedtime reading, as long as you keep the night-light on! Here are stories with alluring vampires and aliens, strange Elvis impersonators and pirates, as well as a few vengeful goddesses and curious tourists. So get under the covers, and remember to lick your finger before daring to turn the page.


Lethe Press
188 pages
5x8 trade paperback

978-1-59021-034-5

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Still Dancing
New and Selected stories


By Jameson Currier

In Still Dancing author Jameson Currier brings together twenty short stories spanning three decades of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community. Along with stories from Currier’s debut collection, Dancing on the Moon, praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form.

Jameson Currier writes about Still Dancing


Lethe Press
204 pages
5x8 trade paperback

978-1-59021-048-2

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Sea, Swallow Me
and other stories


By Craig Laurence Gidney

Magic and myth mingle in dark and dazzling ways in Craig Laurance Gidney's debut collection. A tourist meets an African sea god... A 12th century Japanese monk attracts the attention of a mischievous shapeshifter... The Earl King lives in a briar patch on an antebellum plantation... Spirits of the past haunt a young boy on a Southern coastal island.... Gidney turns the familiar strange and the strange familiar in this landmark debut.

Read a FIVE STAR review at rainbow-reviews

"...transcendence, brilliance, and mastery, all of which this collection evinces in abundance." -- from a great review at thefix-online. Click here to read the whole review

"The best of the stories in this thoughtful debut collection make full use of African and African-American characters, such as when young slave Israel Jones meets a man he's convinced is the guitar-wielding Devil..." --from a good review in Publisher's Weekly

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Lethe Press
204 pages
5x8 trade paperback

978-1-59021-066-6

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Sex as God Intended
A Reflection on Human Sexuality as Play

By John J. McNeill
with Festschrift essays celebrating the life and work of John J. McNeill

For more than thirty-five years, John J. McNeill, an ordained priest and psychotherapist, has been devoting his life to spreading the good news of God's love for lesbian and gay Christians. McNeill presents a simple and straightforward answer to the question: What did God invent sex for? The answer, derived from an incisive investigation of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, is that God intended sex as a source of pleasure, joy and love.

This book represents a concise summary of the wisdom culled over a lifetime. McNeill's ideas have enriched the faith of thousands, including fellow teachers, religious scholars, ministers and lay folk.

 
This volume includes a Festschrift to John McNeill, celebrating his life and work in a series of essays by students, friends, and activists, honoring him for his lasting contribution and spelling out how he touched their lives and work.

Toby Johnson  •  Mark Jordan  •  Robert E. Goss •  Jim Mitulski  •  Mary Elizabeth Hunt  • Sr. Jeannine Gramick • Vincent Virom Coppola • Virginia Ramey Mollenkott • Mel White • Daniel Helminiak  •  John Stasio  •  Brendan Fay  and Rev. Troy Perry


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Very good and interesting review by Jack Gardner from Philadelphia EDGE
Descriptive and analytic, 5-Star review by William Lindsey
Long, critical but positive and celebratory review from "queering the church.com"
Dignity USA review by Jeff Stone
Interesting and provocative review by Thom Nickels

See John McNeill's Freedom, Glorious Freedom

Lethe Press
268 pages
6x9 trade paperback

978-1-59021-042-0

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catherine lundoff accepting award
golden crown award finalist

Crave won a Golden Crown Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica!
 
Crave: Tales of Lust, Love & Longing
By Catherine Lundoff

Catherine Lundoff is one of the most imaginative writers working today. Her daydreams have been published in many anthologies. Her stories combine passion with the weirdness of speculative fiction.

In Crave, Catherine has collected fifteen of her most recent tales. From the howls of lycanthropic desire offered by the "Leader of the Pack" to lust and larceny in "Heart's Thief," these stories will bewitch and entice women.






Here's Catherine at the Goldie Awards with her book and her award for Lesbian Erotica.

Lethe Press Paperback,
168 pages
ISBN 978-1-59021-033-8
 


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Brad


Brad: A Young Man's Adventures
By Ken Smith


You can’t keep a good boy from going down. And Brad, one of the best-selling gay erotica titles of all time, returns in a new edition.

The summer after high school, Brad meets a young man in the woods one day and embarks on a life filled with sexual antics and adventures. Join young Brad on a journey of sexual discovery from his early fumblings in the British countryside until his more experienced days as a rent boy sailor.
 

Ken Smith is the author of a series of erotic novels with nautical themes.

Lethe Press
260 pages
5x8 trade paperback

1-59021-106-5
978-1-59021-106-9

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Contemplations of the Heart: A Book of Male Spirit, Photography, Digital Imaging and Text
By Peter Grahame

Contemplations of the Heart highlights men of many different ages, shapes, sizes and colors. The non-erotic, non-objectifying male nude photographic and digital images, and the meditation-style text, are reflective of positive self-image and self-acceptance, and it suggests how these may lead to a deeper sense of the spiritual self, most especially for Gay men. Hard cover, mostly full color, the book measures 5.75 in. x 8.25 in. All male photo subjects appearing are 18 or older. This book is very reasonably priced, and a great gift.

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Wonderful review in Edge Los Angeles

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ISBN 978-0-977427802
84 pages
$16.95


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Best Gay Stories 2008

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Best Gay Stories 2008
Edited by Steve Berman


Steve Berman has selected twenty stories--some moving essays, some splendid works of fiction--from the prior year that best feature the lives, loves and losses of gay men. With tales by fresh voices and established writers, Best Gay Stories offers readers indiscretions, poignant trysts, and reminiscences that are as evocative as they are imaginative.


Authors:  
M. S. Allen    Holly Black  
Richard Bowes    Tom Cardamone   
Jameson Currier   Peter Dube  
Erastes   Greg Herren   James Klise
David Levithan   Raymond Luczak 
Joseph Manera   Jeff Mann   Billy Merrell  
Ethan Mordden    Paul Reidinger  
Charles Rice-González     Paul Russell 
 Aaron Shurin     Robert Warwick

Splendid and informative review in Rainbow Reviews
The reviewer, "Lizardlez," describes each story individually

Lethe Press
Paperback
ISBN 978-1-59021-191-5
292 pages

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ISBN  978-1-59021-182-3

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Second Thoughts
By Steve Berman

In author Steve Berman's second collection of stories and essays, he once more leads readers through the dark paths of his imagination: stories of the scent of loneliness entices children to start eating away at a caretaker's historic house; a young lover is tempted by a nursery rhyme; and Victorian-era burglars need to be wiley as well as quick to survive together. Berman follows each tale with an author note that dares to question what is fact and what might be fiction, while laying bare his own life and dreams.

Steve Berman has been a finalist for many awards, including the Andre Norton (his yougn adult novel Vintage), the Gaylactic Spectrum, the Golden Crown Literary, and the Lambda Literary Awards. He resides in southern New Jersey.

Read about Second Thoughts on Rainbow Reviews

Read Steve Williams' review on Suite101.com
"...without exception well-wrought, fluent gems," says the reviewer on rambles.net
Good review in Great Britain's Chroma Journal
Review by Kassa on reviewsbyjessewave.com
Lethe Press
Paperback
212 pages

ISBN-13 978-1-590-21-028-4


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Vintage

A Ghost Story
By Steve Berman

In a small town, a lonely teen walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and sweet, lead him to face not only the ghost but youthful dreams and childish fears. With its cast of offbeat friends, antiques and Ouija boards, Vintage offers readers a memorable blend of dark humor, chills and love that is not your typical teen romance.

Very interesting review on site for Young Adult readers


You can download to iTunes & transfer the pdf to an iPad or other ebook reader


 
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Paperback
204 pages

ISBN-13  978-1-59021-053-6

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ISBN-13 978-1-59021-130-4




Wilde Stories
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Wilde Stories 2008
 
edited by Steve Berman

Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of the prior year's speculative fiction with gay characters and themes. Editor Steve Berman, who has been a finalist for both the Lambda Literary and Andre Norton Award, has collected an engaging selection of the fantastical, the strange, the scary from such notable authors as Victor J. Banis, Jameson Currier, Hal Duncan and Lee Thomas.

GREAT review with interesting comments by Amos Lassen at eurekapride.com

Green Man Review gave a great review with descriptions of several of the stories.

Reviewbyjessewave.com by Kris



Lethe Press
Paperback
240 pages
ISBN-13  978-1-59021-078-9

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rough cut

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Rough Cut

 
Vincent Diamond Collected

Diamonds can be a boy’s best friend, too.

Especially the erotic short stories of Vincent Diamond, sparkling with cut, color, and clarity. Here are sensual encounters between real men that will leave readers feverish to turn the next page. 

Lethe Press Paperback,
 280  pages
ISBN 159021109X
978
1590211090
 
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Berman Trysts
Trysts
A Triskaidecollection Of Queer And Weird Stories
By Steve Berman

Steve Berman has assembled his most compelling stories of trysts that range from the eerie to the horrifying to the wondrous. Cut and paste a voodoo doll made of magazine clippings: watch as a ouija board spells out your deepest secret...mourn the loss of your boyfriend while awaiting his ghost... listen to the ancient whisperings of a threadbare flapper dress...gamble for more than money on a Southern riverboat...renounce your citizenship to walk through a restricted area, rife with magic. Experience passion and loss, all within the pages of this triskaide collection - thirteen stories where the supernatural is as likely to doom as to save those that are drawn to its power. Trysts offers readers dark and quirky tales from a distinctive new voice in gay fiction.

A wonderful review by Jessewave

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Lethe Press Paperback,
164 pages
ISBN 159021000X

19781590210000

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Haunted

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Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades

Lesbian Ghost Stories
Edited by Catherine Lundoff

Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades offers readers seventeen original lesbian ghost stories that stories that range from eerie tales of lost love to the darker side of romantic committments, relationships that linger longer than the grave.

Lethe Press Paperback,
268 pages
ISBN 978-1-59021-162-5

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The Very Bloody Marys
M. Christian

Can San Francisco survive a marauding gang of Vespa-riding vampires? Before it's sucked dry, the city's only hope may be Valentino, who's only a trainee for the supernatural law enforcement agency, Le Counseil Carmin. Swept up in the whole blood-sucking business when his mentor goes missing, Valentino is called upon to deal with the menace of these "Bloody Marys." But Valentino soon realizes that, in order to dispose of the gang, he must go into areas he never dreamed of, deal with some very strange characters and learn the truth about the dark side of town. 

The Very Bloody Marys is a comic horror novel about vampires, ghouls, faeries, and the undead that move around after dark. Part chase, part gallows humor, and all shivery excitement, this new story from the wildly imaginative M. Christian is funny, frightening, and very entertaining.

Great Review by Amos Lassen

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Paperback
216 pages
ISBN-13 978-1-59021-035-2

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Painted Doll

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Painted Doll
By M. Christian

Once more acclaimed author M. Christian writes of the art of seduction. One of the pleasures of the dystopic future are erotists, professionals who paint their clients' bared skin with neurochemicals that induce sensuality. Erotists offer landscapes of ecstasy, pain, joy and delight. Few citizens can afford the skills of the talented Domino. Fewer still know her identity is but a mask.
      Beneath the facade, Claire hides from a vicious crime lord who would not only kill her but her childhood lover. But the mask of Domino is beginning to crack...
    Painted Doll is futuristic noir tale, a wildly imaginative erotic adventure, exploring who we are and the sexual awakenings that occur when we become someone else.

Interesting and positive review in Rainbow Reviews


Lethe Press Paperback
192 pages

1-59021-125-1
978-1-59021-125-0

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seventy times seven

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Seventy Times Seven
a novel
By Salvatore Sapienza


An intriguing look into current-day religious life… The story of a young Catholic teaching brother realizing the true meaning of serving others and living life, Seventy Times Seven is readable and entertaining, with just the right twists and turns to keep the reader engrossed.


One of the "Top 5 Books of 2008" -- UP Reviews

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260 pages
ISBN 978-1-59021-057-4

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chemistry

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Chemistry: a novel
By Lewis DeSimone

When first they meet, Neil and Zach discovered a sexual and emotional chemistry that could not be denied. Then, as mental illness consumes one, each must grow, repair himself, and work to become stronger and more independent to ultimately conquer the life-crushing consequences wrought by mental illness and emotional dependency. Chemistry is the story of attraction between lovers, the brain chemistry that determines personality and mood, the medications needed for regaining mental health, and the relationships between people who care for one another. DeSimone debut is an enthralling novel of courage, liberation, and self-realization.


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260 pgs
ISBN159021157X
978-1-59021-157-1
 

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Hard Road

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Hard Road, Easy Riding
Lesbian Biker Stories
Edited by Sacchi Green & Rekelle Valencia

Take a ride—on the wild side.

Sex should be  intense, joyful, and liberating—exactly as written in these edgy and uninhibited stories. While there are many anthologies of lesbian erotica available, none so far have focused on the interaction between the lifestyles and sexual adventures of lesbian bikers. What’s sexier than a hot woman, clad in form-fitting leather, fiercely in control of the Iron Horse between her legs?

Lethe Press Paperback,
216 pages
ISBN 978-1-59021-068-0

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Getting Life in Perspective

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Getting Life in Perspective
A Fastastical Romance
By Toby Johnson

Sweet, sexy, wise and thoroughly entertaining, this mytho-historical novel, featuring two lovable apparitions from the late 1800s America, interweaves a heart-warming storey of youthful romance and adventure with an ageless life-affirming and gay-positive spiritual message 
             ...along with just a touch of the Twilight Zone.

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Rainbow Reviews gave 5 stars!
read the review by Matthew

Read Steve Williams' WONDERFUL review on Suite101.com

Lethe Press Paperback,
244 pages

ISBN 978-1-59021-126-7

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ISBN 1-59021-076-X
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Pagan and Christian Creeds
By Edward Carpenter

A collection of essays by the English socialist poet, anthologist and early homosexual activist. The book is an attempt to make an objective comparison between the origins and practices of pagan religions and christianity.

Lethe Press Paperback,
320 pages
ISBN  1590210077

978-1-59021-007-9

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Clark

Someone Gay: Memoirs
By Don Clark, Ph.D.

The author of the perennially popular and life-changing book, Loving Someone Gay, recounts his own life journey from shame, failure, guilt and fear to pride, self-confidence and understanding of true feelings. Sharing how he made the transformation himself, the first officially openly gay psychologist in the U.S. and "father of gay-oriented psychotherapy" points the way for others to claim gay identity and gay pride and follow him to happiness, meaning, love and success.


Lethe Press Paperback,
360 pages

ISBN 1590210670
978-1-59021-067-3

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Fox
Heterophobia
By Ragan Fox

This wonderful first collection of performance poetry is sure to make readers laugh and smirk. Discover why Books to Watch Out For writes: ñFox comes out of the world of performance poetry, where heÍs something of a star. Could be why the poems -- as punchy as prose -- in this first collection sizzle with the heat and ripple with the wit of good stories -- short on plot, of course, and character development, but packed with passionate introspection about and investigation of queer life, queer sex, and queer essence."

Lethe Press Paperback,
120 pgs

ISBN 1590210190
978-1-59021-019-2

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secret matter

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Secret Matter
By Toby Johnson

The winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Science Fiction and bestselling novel, Secret Matter returns to print in a revised edition for the 21st century. With an afterword by gay theologian, social commentator Mark Jordan.

BONUS -- with this edition: Adam and Steve, a whimiscal tale with a profound insight.

Kevin Anderson is moving along through his life, finishing up college, and getting ready to leave New York for an internship rebuilding San Francisco after an immense earthquake. Then the Visitors arrive; a race of human-like aliens touch down in several cities around the globe, including SF, and nothing will ever be the same. When Kevin's company is given a contract to build a facility for the Visitors, he forms a friendship with ïBel, one of their number. But is 'Bel so alien after all? They seem so human, but they possess some odd characteristics and seem to be hiding something. What secrets do they carry, and where, exactly, are they from?

A wonderful review by Arthur Breur on rainbow-reviews. Here an excerpt: "...the book resolves in a very enjoyable and satisfying way, and the author's many-layered revelations about the Visitors is both intriguing and pleasantly startling. (I shouted out loud at the most critical revelation, and was very relieved when the author powerfully backed it up with science and reason.) Recommended!" read the whole review

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Lethe Press Paperback,
260 pages

ISBN 1590210174
978-1-59021-017-8

 
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Lundoff crave

golden crown award finalistCrave: Tales of Lust, Love & Longing
By Catherine Lundoff

Catherine Lundoff is one of the most imaginative writers working today. Her daydreams have been published in many anthologies. Her stories combine passion with the weirdness of speculative fiction.

In Crave, Catherine has collected fifteen of her most recent tales. From the howls of lycanthropic desire offered by the "Leader of the Pack" to lust and larceny in "Heart's Thief," these stories will bewitch and entice women.


Lethe Press Paperback,
168 pages

ISBN 15902190336
9781590210338

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Michaelson
Another Word for Sky: Poems
By Jay Michaelson

"Jay Michaelson knows too well that our life is a wedding and a funeral, at the same time, in any given moment. The erotic on these pages comes hand in hand with the devotional." - Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa

" If you are comfortable in your pew, these may not be the poems for you. But if you want fully embodied poems of outrage and love -- and if you want to "make a religion of flaw," read Another Word for Sky. You won't regret it." - Richard Chess, author of Third Temple

Jay Michaelson is the executive director of Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality, and a leading figure in the gay spirituality movement. Visitors to Easton Mountain, Burning Man, Body Electric, and many other places have thrilled to his ecstatic, erotic performances of visionary queer mystical poetry -- and now his first book of poems is out from Lethe Press. At times reflective, at times outrageous, Another Word for Sky stakes Michaelson's claim to be the James Broughton, even the Allen Ginsberg, of his generation.

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104 pages

ISBN-13 978-1-59021-061-1



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Two Spirits:  A Story of Life With the Navajo

By Walter L. Williams  & Toby Johnson

Twenty years after publishing his ground-breaking The Spirit and the Flesh, anthropologist Walter L. Williams breaks his silence and writes another book on Native Americans. Together with award-winning writer Toby Johnson, he has produced a work of historical fiction striking in its evocation of Navajo philosophy and spirituality. Set in the Civil War era of the 1860s, this novel tells the story of a young Virginian who finds himself captivated by a Navajo Two-Spirit male. This book illuminates the truth of what the United States did to the largest indigenous people of this nation. A novel full of suspense, plot twists, and endearing romance.

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"What can I say about this book. It was AWESOME. I felt like I was there among the Dine, in the Sweat Lodge, in Santa Fe watching Joelle sing. I could see the mountains and feel the hot air and all the glory of the Southwest. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who loves historical fiction with gay characters in it. I'd give this book 10 stars if I could, but definitely 5 stars."

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ISBN 1590210603 978-1-59021-060-4
 

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Bears on Bears:
Interviews & Discussions (Revised edition)
By Ron Suresha

Revealing, challenging, often humorous, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions examines the homomasculine subculture called Bears.

In 30 wide-ranging interviews, these 62 gay and bisexual men expose their furrier side. They reveal their experiences as gay, bi, and trans Bears and Bear-lovers who find their physical image and personal lifestyle at odds with stereotypically ephebic, effeminate, fashion-obsessed gay male culture. Finding intimate affirmation within the increasingly international Bear brotherhood, they discuss coming-out as Bears and the early history of Bear subculture.

Contributors include comedian Bruce Vilanch, “Survivor” Richard Hatch, model Jack Radcliffe, and authors David Bergman, Michael Bronski, Jack Fritscher, Wayne Hoffman, Arnie Kantrowitz, Richard Labonté, Dr. Lawrence Mass, Eric Rofes, Mark Thompson, and Les K. Wright.

Acclaimed by Andrew Sullivan on Salon.com as “the invaluable book” on Bears, the revised edition of Bears on Bears features fresh interviews with filmmakers Kevin Bowe and Dan Hunt, radio personality Larry Flick, author Jonathan Cohen, and Metropolitan Community Church founder Rev. Troy Perry.

Bears on Bears confronts conventional images of male beauty and contemporary concepts of masculinity in a moving and colorful portrait of a men’s community that makes for fas
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328 pages
ISBN 1-59021-244-4
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Edge:
Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear

By Jeff Mann

The autobiographical essays in Edge offer insight into the passions of acclaimed author Jeff Mann. These memories, insightful as they are endearing, range from his boyhood obsession with the gothic allure of Dark Shadows, to the doubt and pain of being a Southerner and so at the edge of the gay community, and the appeal of leather bars and bear culture.

Mann also visits many gay meccas in several of these essays—the resorts of Key West, Provincetown, and Rehoboth Beach, along with several European destinations such as Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and Scotland, have important cameos. But he is never an idle traveler—he is challenged by his experiences, and his observations reveal the thoughts of many gay men. Along the way Mann ruminates on a variety of subjects, from lost lovers to kilts, theophany, Sylvia Plath, adult videos,bear bones logo and bathhouses.

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Bear Bones Book
208 pages
ISBN 1-59021-059-X
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Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories

by Andrew Ramer

Andrew Ramer’s new book, Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories, grapples with traditional midrashim, plays with homoerotic love poems from medieval Spain, and envisions alternate versions of the present. Inspired by the pioneering work of Jewish feminists, working with the narrative tools of the rabbis of old, Ramer has crafted stories that anchor LGBT lives in the three-thousand-year-old history of the Jewish people. “The universe is made up of stories, not atoms,” wrote poet Muriel Ruckeyser. The stories in this book will transport you to a new universe – the one we are striving to create, right here and now.

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978-1-59021-183-0

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Gay Perspective:
Things our [homo]sexuality tells us about the nature of God and the Universe


By Toby Johnson

Back in print, expanded and updated, with a new Preface by the author, Johnson's Lammy-nominated bold statement of the spiritual side of gay consciousness.

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ISBN 1590210158
978-1-59021-015-4

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A Prophet In His Own Land
A Malcolm Boyd Reader
Edited by Bo Young and Dan Vera

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Ten Best Non-fiction for 2008.


For over sixty years, Malcolm Boyd has written truthfully about his own journey to fullness.  From theologian to civil rights pioneer to coffee house troubadour to gay rights icon, Boyd has courageously and whole-heartedly shown the way to a deeper, more honest examination of all our lives, leading by example. Bo Young and Dan Vera interview Malcolm and his partner Mark Thompson about their years together. Many of Boyd's previously unavailable articles are reprinted here.
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ISBN 1590210115
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Take Off the Masks
By Malcolm Boyd

White Crane Books is proud to re-release Boyd's classic spiritual biography and coming out story, Take Off  the Masks, for a new generation of readers hungry for its insight, honesty and soulful perception.  With a new introduction by BoydÍs life partner, Markwhite crane books logo Thompson, and a newly added postscript by Rev. Canon Boyd himself.

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160 pages

ISBN 1590210654
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ALL: A James Broughton Reader
Edited by Jack Foley

In a life that stretched from 1913 to 1999 James Broughton witnessed and commented on the twentieth century from the point of view of an outsider. In a time aghast at its own horrors, Broughton championed laughter. He was a poet, not of the ivory tower but of the innovative street, a playful, urban voice with the notion that a poet could change the world. In a rational century, he asserted mystery. All: A James Broughton Reader collects the range of this acclaimed poet and filmmaker.white crane books logo

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272 pages

ISBN 1590210212
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Lammy Award Nominee 2007 for Best Anthology
Charmed Lives:  Gay Spirit in Storytelling
Edited by Toby Johnson & Steve Berman

Storytelling can be a way of spinning straw into gold, of showing ourselves we have drawn a long straw in this life. Charmed Lives offers readers a collection of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the stories that society often tells about gay men. Some are whimsical with a touch of enchantment, some profoundly spiritual, others romantic--all offer insight into modern gay life that will inspire and shed light on the grace of being gay with tales of hope against adversity and love over loneliness.

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ISBN 1590210166
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Gay Spirituality   
By Toby Johnson

In this Lambda Literary award-winning title, Toby Johnson explores how the rise of gay identity has become an important part of contemporary religious development. This dramatic transformation has resulted due to the perspective of gay men with their ability to step outside the assumptions and conventions of culture and see things from a different point of view. This book will reward readers seeking new insight into faith as well as culture, myth and traditions.

Johnson’s vision of a life-affirming, sex-positive spirituality of love, cooperation, mutual respect and acceptance is in sync with modern scientific knowledge, and does not ask the reader to suspend logic or critical thinking. Gay Christians who are struggling with their sexual orientation will especially appreciate Johnson's convincing refutation of common "biblical" anti-gay arguments. A powerful book for personal change and a great gift to a gay friend who is unhappy with his life or suffering from low self-esteem.

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ISBN 1590210220
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Two Flutes Playing
By Andrew Ramer

A classic of gay mythopoesis. Michael Bails (Seattle WA) writing an unsolicited review on the amazon.com site says: "I was recommended this book after having taken a Body Electric workshop a few weeks before. From the first page I began to re-live the entire bonding rituals that we had experienced over that weekend. How to connect, how to communicate, and how to intimately bond on a higher plane! ... A definite "must have" book for the gay tribe who would like to interact spiritually and emotionally!"
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168 pgs

ISBN 1590210239
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Gay Spirit: Myth & Meaning
By Mark Thompson

Arguably the book that started the Gay Spirituality Movement. Publishers Weekly wrote: Cultural editor of the Advocate, Thompson here collects previously published articles and book excerpts from the magazine, each an attempt to define the status of gay men. In an introduction he distinguishes between homosexual (a form of sexuality) and gay: "A social identity and consciousness actively chosen." The text discusses the gay's role in politics, religion, culture, identity.

Among the contributors are Judy Grahn, author of lesbian/feminist works; Malcolm Boyd, activist Episcopal priest; Harry Hay, a founder of the Mattachine Society; writer William S. Burroughs; and Geoff Mains's presenting an approving, detailed description of sadomasochism.white crane books logo

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White Crane Books Paperback,
352 pgs,

ISBN 1590210247
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