Book Review
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe
Gathering disparate records together, Noel Malcolm’s history text addresses male-male relationships from 1400 to 1750 within their historical context. Analyzing literature, newspapers, and court records to explain what was once called...
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What Start Bad a Mornin'
Carol Mitchell’s novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ moves between the United States and Caribbean islands in search of buried memories. Amaya has vague memories of her life in Jamaica before she moved to Trinidad and met her husband,...
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American Scholar
An intelligent man with trauma in his past gets in the way of his own personal fulfillment in the powerful novel "American Scholar". In Patrick E. Horrigan’s literary novel "American Scholar", a gay man spends his adulthood learning to...
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Snakes of St. Augustine
Sensual and involving, "Snakes of St. Augustine" follows multiple people’s searches for a missing man. Ginger Pinholster’s winding novel "Snakes of St. Augustine" is about a search for a family member amid a world of snakes, drugs,...
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Tales of a Spiritual Sun
Greek myths are revitalized via the modern additions of psychology and science in the involving short story collection "Tales of a Spiritual Sun". In Paul Kiritsis’s short story collection "Tales of a Spiritual Sun", contemporary...
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Time Story
Three brothers’ differing plans for the future collide in the exciting time travel novel "Time Story". In W. W. Marplot’s science fiction novel "Time Story", three brothers run into challenges while they’re attempting to change the...
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Poor Tom
In the tragicomic novel "Poor Tom", a distressed man muses through a series of what-ifs on his way to a delayed coming-of-age. In Martin Drapkin’s novel "Poor Tom", a middle-aged man muddles through his relationships with the help of...
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Speaking While Female
"Speaking While Female" compiles the powerful words of seventy-five American women who addressed human rights issues with conviction in their times. The speeches collected in Dana Rubin’s "Speaking While Female" cover weighty issues...