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The Clouds Still Hang
ISBN: 9780957236127 / Angielski / Miękka / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A trilogy telling a story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; novels that chart one man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood. The first book deals with Simon's childhood friendship and eventually love affair with an older boy, the second the trauma of his teenage years and early adulthood, the third his struggle to maintain equilibrium and the consequences of his failure at one point to achieve that. It is a fictional biography, written because it tells a strong story which raises many issues over six decades, the post war baby boomer...
A trilogy telling a story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; novels that chart one man's attempts to rise above the leg...
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100,84 zł |
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Gay, Black, African, GenderQueer and Proud: Story behind the Masked Smile
ISBN: 9781481107440 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ekine's debut, a memoir of his brutal upbringing, displays a steely self-acceptance forged as a shield against cultural and religious discrimination. Ibifubara "Daniel" George Ekine was born the oldest of four in Lagos, Nigeria. The only male child of the family, people considered him "un-African," calling him names like "Skeliwawa" ("effeminate") and attacking him on the street. The only familial bonding he shared was the rampant abuse and harsh discipline doled out by his father, an officer in the Nigerian navy. At first, his mother allowed him to behave as he did, thinking it was "just a...
Ekine's debut, a memoir of his brutal upbringing, displays a steely self-acceptance forged as a shield against cultural and religious discrimination. ...
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36,28 zł |
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My Transvestite Addictions: The Story of One Individual's Odyssey Through Crossdressing, Alcohol, Escorts, Strippers, Sex, and Money
ISBN: 9781626463257 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A middle-aged transvestite presents his unusual life story in a fiction-inspired-by-fact account, describing his complex struggles with crossdressing and gender identity and his efforts to deal with various chronic addictions, including those involving alcohol, call girls, strippers, sex, and spending money. The diverse stories in the book range from serious to funny to outrageous and are written in an unflinchingly personal style that is also earthy, sexy, and sometimes politically incorrect.
A middle-aged transvestite presents his unusual life story in a fiction-inspired-by-fact account, describing his complex struggles with crossdressing ...
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85,87 zł |
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Autobiography of My Hungers
ISBN: 9780299292508 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body all are explored by Gonzalez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes. Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the...
Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at hi...
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76,67 zł |
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The Other Man: 21 Writers Speak Candidly About Sex, Love, Infidelity, & Moving On
ISBN: 9781483970967 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who is the other man?
He's an accident waiting to happen: the skateboarder round the bend, the smiling barista with the extra hot mocha, the computer geek eager to retool your mate's hard drive. He's a relationship gatecrasher bound by no rules and with no sense of fair play. Like Caesar, he comes, he sees, he conquers. On the flip side, you or I can be the other man, charging in and breaking the bonds of a committed relationship without a thought to the pain and misery inflicted upon the injured parties. Face it: We're not all innocent bystanders in other-man scenarios. "The Other... Who is the other man?
He's an accident waiting to happen: the skateboarder round the bend, the smiling barista with the extra hot mocha, the comp... |
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60,49 zł |
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Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men
ISBN: 9780615692357 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering anthology released by Transgress Press is the first of its kind, presenting raw, unadulterated testimonies of transsexual men's experiences of sex reassignment surgery. The collection offers a comprehensive understanding of why transsexual men choose genital surgery and its transformative impact on their lives. Hung Jury has widespread appeal, catching the attention and interests of a wide and diverse readership looking to understand transsexuality, sex, and gender identity. Because the book breaks new ground in LGBT, Gender, and feminist studies moreover, it is also an...
This pioneering anthology released by Transgress Press is the first of its kind, presenting raw, unadulterated testimonies of transsexual men's experi...
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80,66 zł |
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My Daughter, My Son: An Adolscent's Gender Transition Experienced by Mother & Child
ISBN: 9780989208611 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Life isn't worth living if I can't be a boy." My Daughter, My Son" is a riveting inside view from mother and child of a gender transformation. You will be drawn into this human interest story of a middle class family struggling with one of the most emotionally challenging, financially devastating, dangerous and awkward situations they could be thrown into. It will take Betsie's seemingly endless capacity to love and Luca's unwavering determination to bring congruity to the young man's body and life. Ultimately, the authors' bravery and tenacity will carry the day. Brimming with wit and wry...
""Life isn't worth living if I can't be a boy." My Daughter, My Son" is a riveting inside view from mother and child of a gender transformation. You w...
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80,66 zł |
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Let No Stranger Wait Outside Your Door
ISBN: 9780983193562 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lou is a brilliant storyteller "
- Chris Rayan, Culture Savvy Reviews IMPACT Magazine "Those extraordinary times of leather and lashes, "I would even go so far to say there is an essence of Some of us live in a world where being yourself can make others "Lou is a brilliant storyteller "
- Chris Rayan, Culture Savvy Reviews IMPACT Magazine "Those extraordinary times of leather and lashe... |
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60,32 zł |
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Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change
ISBN: 9780988698901 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the price of living an authentic life? Ellen Krug knows. "Getting to Ellen" details the "gender journey" taken by Ellen Krug, a woman born into a male body. As a man, "Ed" Krug had everything anyone could ever want: the love of a soul mate named Lydia, two beautiful daughters, a house in the best neighborhood, a successful trial lawyer's career--a Grand Plan life so picture-perfect it inspired a beautiful pastel drawing. In a quest to find inner peace, Ed gradually confronted fear and loss, including the residue of growing up in an alcoholic household and a parent's suicide. As this...
What is the price of living an authentic life? Ellen Krug knows. "Getting to Ellen" details the "gender journey" taken by Ellen Krug, a woman born int...
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76,46 zł |
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Christos Tsiolkas - The Untold Story: His Life and His Work
ISBN: 9781922168597 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christos Tsiolkas The Untold Story is the first in depth systematic look at the life and work of one of Australia's most popular and controversial storytellers. From Tsiolkas' early days as a struggling writer to the present universal acclaim, his compelling untold story is at last recorded. For the first time the writer speaks candidly and de profundis about everything: his turbulent life (his childhood, adolescence and adulthood) and subjects dear to his heart (literature and criticism, identity, the state of humanity - decadence, materialism, spirituality, ethics, racism, animal...
Christos Tsiolkas The Untold Story is the first in depth systematic look at the life and work of one of Australia's most popular and controversial sto...
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128,91 zł |
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The Road to Dalhousie
ISBN: 9781927032091 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust your sails." A fictional biography showing the difficulties surrounding family and social relationships in small-town Eastern Canada when one's in-built direction is homosexual. "Although I felt relieved that things were now in the open, it took both my mother and I a bit of time before we were comfortable being around each other ... she may not have understood that it wasn't a choice I was making but rather an acceptance of what I couldn't change." Uneasy that something could happen to his parents on their trip to Europe, Richard decides to...
"You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust your sails." A fictional biography showing the difficulties surrounding family and social relationship...
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76,86 zł |
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Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East
ISBN: 9781863956130 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. As the child of migrants, though, he also wonders how different life might have been had he grown up elsewhere. So off he sets to meet his fellow Gaysians. Law takes his investigative duties seriously, baring all in Balinese gay nudist resorts, and taking Indian yoga classes designed to cure his homosexuality. The characters he meets - from Tokyo's celebrity drag queens to HIV-positive Burmese sex workers, from Malaysian... Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise... |
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86,04 zł |
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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water
ISBN: 9781408830512 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extraordinary stroy of 'Joe' Carstairs, the fastest woman on water The Sunday Times bestseller
The extraordinary stroy of 'Joe' Carstairs, the fastest woman on water The Sunday Times bestseller
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65,53 zł |
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Hidden: Reflections on Gay Life, Aids, and Spiritual Desire
ISBN: 9780823261673 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hidden--Richard Giannone's searingly honest, richly insightful memoir--eloquently captures the author's transformation from a solitary gay academic to a dedicated caregiver as well as a sexually and spiritually committed man. Always alone, always fearful, he initially resisted the duty to look after his dying female relatives. But his mother's fall into dementia changed all that. Her vulnerability opened this middle-aged man to the love of another man, a former priest and Jersey boy like himself. Together the two men saw the old woman to her death and did the same for Giannone's sister. In...
Hidden--Richard Giannone's searingly honest, richly insightful memoir--eloquently captures the author's transformation from a solitary gay academic to...
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82,71 zł |
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American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
ISBN: 9780142181003 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers powerful messages for both the head and heart ("Entertainment Weekly")
From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial topics political or otherwise. Now, he addresses issues ranging from parenting and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and health care. Among them: Why straight people should have straight pride parades, tooWhy Obamacare, as good as it is, is still kinda evil Why what passes for... On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers powerful messages for both the head and heart ("Entertainment Weekly") <...
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92,23 zł |
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Cam Boy: The debut memoir by Webcam Performer J Matt
ISBN: 9781532739033 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join 23 year old webcam performer Joseph (or J Matt, as he's known to his fans) as he shares his experiences working in a billion dollar industry that so many men and women are a part of, and yet so few are willing to discuss... In his debut memoir 'Cam Boy', J lifts the lid on what it's like to put on adult shows in front of a webcam for an audience of total strangers, and shares a selection of helpful tips and tricks on what it takes to be a top ranking online performer Expect a raw and honest insight in to his past as a drug addicted escort working the streets of London, and a behind the...
Join 23 year old webcam performer Joseph (or J Matt, as he's known to his fans) as he shares his experiences working in a billion dollar industry that...
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58,87 zł |
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Between Shadow and Sun: A Husband's Journey Through Gender - A Wife's Labor of Love
ISBN: 9780996718608 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MAN'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH A WOMAN'S LOVE? Tom had carved out a successful career helping companies transform. He loved big change. He also loved being a husband and father. His wife, Mary, called him her knight in shining armor. But Tom struggled with a secret: was he a man or a woman? He had agonized over this question for most of his life: "God, help me, let it be anything but this." Between Shadow and Sun chronicles Tina White's fifty-year journey to womanhood: her efforts to make sense of life as a man; her awkward first steps... WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MAN'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH A WOMAN'S LOVE? Tom had carved out a successful career helping companies ... |
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60,32 zł |
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I Didn't Choose This: One Man's Journey Through Childhood, Marriage, Parenthood, and Divorce, Before Finally Accepting His Sexual Orientatio
ISBN: 9781481839488 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rob Luciano was living a life he had always dreamed and hoped for, which included a house in Connecticut, a loving wife, two beautiful children, and even an adorable poodle. However, on an October night in 2002, he brought his entire world crashing down with one life-changing declaration: He told his wife that he was gay. Now, he shares his personal experience navigating denial, confusion, and the ultimate freedom of embracing the truth in his dramatic memoir, I Didn't Choose This: One Man's Journey Through Childhood, Marriage, Parenthood, and Divorce, Before Finally Accepting His Sexual...
Rob Luciano was living a life he had always dreamed and hoped for, which included a house in Connecticut, a loving wife, two beautiful children, and e...
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46,37 zł |
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Memoirs of a Jehovah's Witness Drag Queen From Fresno
ISBN: 9781489522399 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by the satirical writing of David Sedaris, Memoirs of a Jehovah's Witness Drag Queen from Fresno is a book of real-life essays that are full of wit, irony, humor and touching wisdom punctuated with delightful and comical caricatures that are bound to delight the inner child, stimulate the philosopher and tickle the irreverent degenerate.
Inspired by the satirical writing of David Sedaris, Memoirs of a Jehovah's Witness Drag Queen from Fresno is a book of real-life essays that are full ...
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40,31 zł |
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The Needle in the Gaystack: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781492353911 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,70 zł |
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