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First published nearly one hundred years ago, André Gide's masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author's assertion that homosexuality is a natural human trait At the time of his death in 1951, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature only four years prior, André Gide was considered one of the most important literary...

Overview: The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated...

Follows two gay and lesbian teenagers, who are best friends, through their freshman year of high school.

A collection of stories on the dream factory that is Los Angeles and the nasty people it produces. In The Secrets of Summer, a man picks up women in bars with promises of cocaine and when they are stoned drinks their blood. By the author of American Psycho.

Follows two gay and lesbian teenagers, who are best friends, through their senior year of high school.

Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides' novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of an immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there's a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is an hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back...

Trapped in the bureaucratic morass of JPod, on the fringes of a huge Vancouver video game design company, Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers wage a daily war with the demands of the company's idiotic marketing department

A comedy on two homosexuals in Boston who become parents of a boy when his mother dies. He is Scot, 11, who owns a makeup kit, uses perfume and whose idea of sports is to be a cheerleader.