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Essential Reiki - A Complete Guide To An Ancient Healing Art

Essential Reiki - A Complete Guide To An Ancient Healing Art

by Diane Stein

Reiki is an ancient and profoundly simple system of “laying on of hands” healing derived from Tibetan Buddhism. In the West, Reiki has been kept highly secret for many years. ESSENTIAL REIKI presents full information on all three degrees of this healing system, most of it in print for the first time. Teaching from the perspective that Reiki healing belongs to all people, Diane Stein breaks new ground in her... (more)

B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))

B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))

by James Earl Hardy

Mitchell Crawford's fantasy has always been to have a B-boy. For him, B-boys stand on street corners daring anyone to invade their territory, dress to thrill, move to a rhythm all their own, and, loud and boisterous, "speak to be heard, not so much to be understood." Now, you don't think of any tough black street boy as being gay, don't often read about very different segments of the black community in contact... (more)

Just As I Am

by E. Lynn Harris

Middle-class black homosexuals deal with their sexuality and the AIDS, racism, and homophobia that go with it in a novel that explores the lies people tell one another in an effort to conceal their true selves. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Disinformation Book of Lists

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

Can you name five military leaders who were -transgendered? Twelve cases of involuntary human experimentation by the U.S. government? How about the four porn novels written by famous authors, 11 books left out of the Bible and over 50 side effects of NutraSweet that have been reported to the FDA? In 1977, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace published The Book of Lists, causing an immediate... (more)

2nd Time Around (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))

2nd Time Around (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))

by James Earl Hardy

Pooquie and Little Bit are back in love and back to stirring up the hip-hop community and the rest of New York. But as these two strongly independent yet passionately linked men discover, the pursuit of happiness takes work to maintain. This is the seriously sexy, fiercely funny, black-on-black sequel to the bestseller B-Boy Blues.

Love the One You're With: A B-Boy Blues Novel

Love the One You're With: A B-Boy Blues Novel

by James Earl Hardy

Do men and monogamy mix? It's not a question Mitchell "Little Bit" Crawford gave much thought to until his beaufriend of almost two years, Raheim "Pooquie" Rivers, an All-American jeans model, heads to Hollywood to make his first feature film. As Mitchell soon discovers, the temptation to cheat is very real . . . and it seems to be everywhere. An ex even pops up hoping to pick up where they left -- and got -- off.... (more)

Forth into Light: A Novel (Peter & Charlie Trilogy)

Forth into Light: A Novel (Peter & Charlie Trilogy)

by Gordon Merrick

The Go-Betweens

by David Nichols

The Go-Betweens recorded six albums that are among the finest work of the 1980s, earning them a reputation as the ultimate cult band and the lasting esteem of their peers, from R.E.M. to Sleater-Kinney. In 2000 they returned to making records--and received the best reviews of their career. David Nichols relates their story with wit and verve, and since the Go-Betweens had personalities as well as talent, their... (more)

This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century

This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century

by David Bowman

A fascinating glimpse behind the big suits and deadpan looks to the heart and soul of a band that made it big by playing it cool With their minimalist beats, sophisticated lyrics, and stoic mien, the Talking Heads were indisputably one of the most influential and intriguing bands of their time. Rising from the ashes of punk and the smoldering embers of the disco inferno, they effectively straddled the... (more)

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

by Jon Scieszka

is presented from the humorous perspective of a beleaguered wolf, whose innocent requests to borrow cups of sugar are rendered cataclysmic by a snoutful of unfortunate sneezes. Reprint. NYT. AB. NYT.

Elf Child

by David M. Pierce

Russ, a twenty-something-looking gay man, is a changeling...a shape-shifter who will never age, and who, perhaps, will never die. Living a carefree beach life in San Diego, he uses his uncanny abilities to feed his desire for men of all shapes and sizes - but something important is missing...This suspenseful novel unfolds as Russ realizes that his obsession with image has become empty and that what he really needs... (more)

And This Too Shall Pass: A Novel

by E. Lynn Harris

In And This Too Shall Pass , E. Lynn Harris takes us into the locker rooms and newsrooms of Chicago, where four lives are about to intersect in romance and scandal. At the heart of the novel is the gay but celibate Zurich, a rookie quarterback for the Chicago Cougars whose trajectory for superstardom is interrupted by a sexual harassment suit by Mia, a female sportscaster with her own sights on fame. With his... (more)

It's What He Would've Wanted: A Novel

by Sean Hughes

Sean Hughes is an award-winning Irish comic turned bestselling writer whom the British Independent has compared to the likes of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, and Will Self. Now, the popular comedian delivers It's What He Would've Wanted, a brutally funny, highly charged, and moving novel about a directionless thirty-year-old man's belated transition into adulthood. Our narrator and protagonist is Shea... (more)

Blood Prophet: A Novel

by John Michael Curlovich

The gripping sequel to John Michael Curlovich's best-selling Blood of Kings , found 21-year-old Jamie Dunn desperately searching for his lover and mentor Danilo Semenkaru, a charismatic vampire who had initiated Jamie into a blood cult of ancient kings before vanishing. Jamie returns to Egypt, the place he last saw Danilo, and uncovers a plot by rival immortals to gain power over a fundamentalist Christian... (more)

Dave Matthews Band - Just the Riffs for Sax (Just the Riffs)

Dave Matthews Band - Just the Riffs for Sax (Just the Riffs)

This book is your guide to playing 60 of LeRoi Moore's super sax riffs from four Dave Matthews Band albums: Under the Table and Dreaming (Ants Marching * The Best of What's Around * What Would You Say); Crash (Proudest Monkey * So Much to Say * Too Much * Tripping Billies); Before These Crowded Streets (Crush * Don't Drink the Water * The Dreaming Tree * Stay); and Everyday (Fool to Think * Sleep to Dream Her *... (more)

Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

by Norma Broude, Mary Garrard

A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present.

X-Rated Bible: An Irreverant Survey of Sex in the Scriptures

X-Rated Bible: An Irreverant Survey of Sex in the Scriptures

by Ben Edward Akerley

Where Troy Once Stood: The Mystery of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey RevealedIman Wilkens

Where Troy Once Stood: The Mystery of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey Revealed

by Iman Wilkens

Wilkens, identified only as a scholar living in Paris, claims that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey do not describe Greek civilization at all. According to his fanciful reading of these texts and of history, the Trojan War was fought between Bronze Age Celts; Troy was in East Anglia, England, not in Asia Minor; and Odysseus plied the Atlantic, with stops in Senegal (Land of the Lotus-Eaters) and Havana, Cuba. Homer, it... (more)

Invoking Angels

by David A. Cooper

Have you ever experienced something so extraordinary as to leave you wondering whether some higher power or force were responsible? "We do not need to sit and wait for the finger of Grace to tap us on the shoulder," explains Rabbi David A. Cooper, "rather, we can practice the invocation of angels—cultivating profound experiences that immediately open us to guidance and blessings from the Divine." Invoking Angels... (more)

R.E.M. Fiction: An Alternative Biography

R.E.M. Fiction: An Alternative Biography

by David Buckley

A unique biography of one of the most influential rock bands of the last three decades. R.E.M. formed in the early 80s and sold almost no records for the first ten years of their existence, yet the media portrayal of them has been unquestioning. They shot to fame in the 1990s with their singles Out of Time and Automatic for the People selling over 25 million copies between them. They were heralded as the... (more)

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by Diane Stein

by James Earl Hardy

by E. Lynn Harris

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

by James Earl Hardy

by James Earl Hardy

by Gordon Merrick

by David Nichols

by David Bowman

by Jon Scieszka

by David M. Pierce

by E. Lynn Harris

by Sean Hughes

by John Michael Curlovich

by Norma Broude, Mary Garrard

by Ben Edward Akerley

by Iman Wilkens

by David A. Cooper

by David Buckley