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  The Big Penis Book

 
The Big Penis Book under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $59.99
Sale: $34.17
 
Manufacturer: TASCHEN America Llc
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.23
Publication Date: 2008-06-25
Reading Level: 384
 
Description: When it comes to pleasure, size doesn't matter; as we all know it s quality, not quantity, that counts. But let's admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2% of the world's population, this rare accessory will always fascinate.

In The Big Penis Book we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to depict the male entirely nude. Photographers include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with information about each of their models. And if this isn t enough, the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness Book of Records Norma Stitz featured in The Big Book of Breasts! Can you guess what body part Dian is dissecting next?

 

  Running with Scissors: A Memoir

 
Running with Scissors: A Memoir under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $7.99
Sale: $3.89
 
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Author: Augusten Burroughs
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
Publication Date: 2006-08-29
Reading Level: 352
 
Description: There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours." There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a capella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs's perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it's ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there's always a sense that Burroughs's survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe

 

  Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America

 
Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $23.95
Sale: $15.83
 
Manufacturer: Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Mitchell Gold::Mindy Drucker
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Reading Level: 416
 
Description: A mental health crisis faces American teens right now--and it is one we can solve. Hundreds of thousands of gay teens face traumatic depression, fear, rejection, persecution, and isolation--usually alone. Studies show they are 190 percent more likely to used drugs or alcohol and four times more likely to attempt suicide. Homophobia and discrimination are at the heart of their pain. Love, support, and acceptance--all within our power to give--can save them.

This book is for: clergy, parents, educators, and politicians who cause harm with their words and actions; parents of gay teens; teens navigating this difficult time; and fair-minded people who want to help end the harm. Here are revealing stories by forty diverse Americans, some well known and some not, plus insights from straight clergy and parents explaining their support of gay people as whole human beings guaranteed equal rights by our Constitution.


 

  Lesbian Sex: 101 Lovemaking Positions

 
Lesbian Sex: 101 Lovemaking Positions under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $16.95
Sale: $10.52
 
Manufacturer: Celestial Arts
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Jude Schell
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.96086643
Publication Date: 2008-08
Reading Level: 224
 
Description: Discover 101 positions for tonguing and grooving with this innovative and clever sex guide for women who love women. Enticing lovers to broaden their repertoire, this lesbian Kama Sutra offers dozens of lovemaking ideas to inspire women to pleasure themselves and each other using touch, toys, and other techniques. One position will tease and delight her, another will deepen intimacy, and still another will culminate in mind-blowing orgasms.

 

  The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

 
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $16.95
Sale: $10.36
 
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Randy Shilts
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Reading Level: 400
 
Description:

Known as “The Mayor of Castro Street” even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk’s personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

Harvey Milk has been the subject of numerous books and movies, including the Academy Award–winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk.  His life is also the basis of a 2008 major motion picture, Milk, starring Sean Penn.  


 

  The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction

 
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $12.95
Sale: $6.68
 
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
Publication Date: 1990-04-14
Reading Level: 176
 
Description: The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.

 

  The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us

 
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $24.95
Sale: $15.44
 
Manufacturer: Cleis Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Felice Newman
Publisher: Cleis Press
Edition: 2nd
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.96086643
Publication Date: 2004-10-27
Reading Level: 400
 
Description: Cure for cancer? End to world hunger? What's left to do after the publication of Felice Newman's definitive guide to lesbian sex? Drawing on a wide range of published sources as well as her own notoriously graphic questionnaire circulated by e-mail--stunning mild-mannered office workers as it reeled across their computer screens--Newman has compiled an exhaustively thorough how-to guide for practices as exotic as play piercings and as pedestrian as oral sex. Along the way, she offers a primer in sexual politics and lesbian manners at the turn of the century. The S/M hanky code is laid out once and for all. There is even a (brief, happily brief) section on celibacy.

Highlights include descriptions of sex writer Tristan Taormino's private consultation with Betty Dodson, the author of Sex for One described as "the mother of masturbation": "I was so excited about this adventure that I nearly peed in my pants," recalled Taormino, "I was going to touch myself for Dr. Betty Dodson!" (In the end, Newman reports, "Tristan earned an A+ in pelvic thrusting, but got a big 'needs improvement' in the breathing department.") Although it sometimes skimps on the details, especially with regard to women's health, The Whole Lesbian Sex Book is so rich, inclusive, and authoritative that it invites challenge. Now inventive lovers can ask each other: "Is it in Whole Lesbian?" --Regina Marler


 

  In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

 
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $16.50
Sale: $3.95
 
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Carol Gilligan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.42
Publication Date: 1993-07-01
Reading Level: 216
 
Description:

This is the little book that started a revolution. First published almost twenty years ago, it made women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than three-quarters of a million copies sold around the world. In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate-and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.

Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women--their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.


 

  Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy

 
Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $24.95
Sale: $14.86
 
Manufacturer: Seal Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Thomas Beatie
Publisher: Seal Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19820092
Publication Date: 2008-11-10
Reading Level: 280
 
Description:
Thomas Beatie electrified the world in April 2008 with his announcement that he was seven months pregnant and due to give birth in July. The news made headlines across the globe, but it’s only one chapter in a fascinating saga. Labor of Love reveals Beatie’s unique life experiences: his less-than-idyllic childhood in Hawaii, his feelings of being a young man trapped in the body of a woman, his fight to conceive a child, and the obstacles surrounding the delivery. This astonishing narrative permits an intimate look at a family that refuses to let other people’s definitions of family deter them from creating one on their own terms. Labor of Love is much more than the story of a unique pregnancy and birth — it’s a beautiful and controversial love story about going against the tide, a powerful statement about the evolution of family and identity in the new millennium.

 

  The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

 
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $15.00
Sale: $5.05
 
Manufacturer: Plume
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Dan Savage
Publisher: Plume
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
Publication Date: 2006-09-26
Reading Level: 304
 
Description: In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Savage—outspoken author of the column "Savage Love"— makes it personal.

Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says "no thanks" because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren’t "allowed" to get married, but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails.

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