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Double Life
Portrait of a Gay Marriage From Broadway to Hollywood
2013
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"A fascinating, frank and page-turning memoir about the lifelong love affair of two extraordinary men" (Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City).The human story at the center of this debate is told in Double Life, a dual memoir by a gay male couple in a fifty-plus year relationship. With high profiles in the entertainment, advertising, and art communities, the authors offer a virtual timeline of how gay relationships have gained acceptance in...
2020
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THE RAIN MAY PASS is a coming-of-age memoir from Alan Shayne-actor, casting director, producer, and former President of Warner Bros Television. Set in New England in the 1940s, a teenage boy falls in love with a man twice his age and soon learns more about himself than he ever imagined possible."Alan Shayne shares his life in such great visual style, with self-awareness, warmth, deep humor, and pain...a great read! Don't miss it." Linda Lavin, Broadway, film, and televisio...
2017
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Sylvia was from England. She was titled and beautiful, and one day she disappeared. Having never quite fallen out of love with her, Judd, a young movie producer in search of the next big idea, decides her story just might be it. After all, hasn’t he always known that she’s still alive? His search for clues to Sylvia’s whereabouts take him from Connecticut to Hollywood, New York to London, Israel to Spain and Marrakech. Each city reveals new pieces of the woman Judd thought he knew, and lea...
2026
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AND IT ONLY TOOK 100 YEARS... is the remarkable true story of a man who lived through a century of change-onstage, behind the camera, and in love. From his days as a young Broadway actor and struggling understudy to his rise as President of Warner Television, Alan Shayne built a life defined by artistry, perseverance, and integrity. Through triumphs and heartbreaks, he never stopped chasing excellence, whether guiding Hollywood's brightest stars, producing Emmy-wi...
The Star Dressing Room
Portrait of an Actor
2023
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THE STAR DRESSING ROOM: Portrait of An Actor is Alan Shayne's affectionate, often uproarious new memoir that takes us back to Broadway's golden age.Fans of beloved theatre memoirs in the vein of Moss Hart's Act One and Helene Hanff's Underfoot in Show Business are sure to relate to Alan, the perennially broke young actor as he's repeatedly upstaged in acting class by an incredibly arrogant aspiring young performer named Marlon Brando. With great wit, he relives the terror of being ...
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Murder Most Lovely
Lacetown Murder Mysteries, #1
2022
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Murder Most LovelyLacetown Murder Mysteries: Case OneA killer at a small-town literary festival. Bumbling drug dealers. A kidnapped cat. Starting a romance among all this chaos might be the death of them.Michael Fleishman is excited to meet his favorite mystery writer, Russell Withingham, at Lacetown's Literary Fest. He is not expecting to cross paths with sexy hairdresser Jasper "Jazz" Dilworth―or become embroiled in a real-life mystery. As Lacetown's only morticia...
America's Boy
A Memoir
2025
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"A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us" by the bestselling author of Magic Season ( The Washington Post).Indie Next List "Great Read" SelectionAmerican Library Association's Inaugural "Rainbow List" SelectionIn this memoir, writer and journalist Wade Rouse delivers a humorous and heartwarming account of his Midwestern childho...
2020
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Murder and mayhem, lying and cheating, and one PI trying to sort it all outTake a ride in private investigator Emmett Naoki’s car while he chases down cheating spouses, finds missing persons, and untangles complicated murders faster than anyone else. He might not like having sidekicks, but he hasn’t gotten rid of his yet! David Wright digs up clues right by Emmet’s side. It’s fine, Emmett is totally not still into David. That was over back in high school!Find a Man, Don’t S...
2020
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Jeremy Reeve is one of the best divers in the world, and he's worked hard to get where he is. He intends to keep pushing himself with one very clear goal in mind: winning gold at the summer Olympics in two years. That medal might be the only way to earn his father's respect as an athlete.Brandon Evans is everything Jeremy isn't: carefree, outgoing, and openly gay. With his bright-blue eyes and dramatic tattoos, he's a temptation that Jeremy refuses to acknowledge. But Jeremy can't ...
Favourite Hello. Hardest Goodbye.
A Love Story.
2020
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Ellis.I feel him.Before I even lay eyes on him, I sense him.The air in the room seems charged, my awareness of him heightened, but he is a stranger to me.Unfamiliar, yet familiar.Unknown, yet known.And something inside me says, "Hello, I've been waiting for you."Macsen.I see him.I've seen him a hundred times before and I know this will not be the last, but each time I do, I...
Carved In Bone
The Henry Rios Mysteries, #2
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- The Henry Rios Mysteries
2019
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A new mystery by six time Lambda Literary award-winning author, Michael Nava. It's classic noir with a queer twist. Set in San Francisco in 1984, Henry Rios is hired by an insurance company to investigate the apparently accidental death by carbon monoxide poisoning of Bill Ryan in his Castro Street apartment, but Rios becomes convinced Ryan's death was no accident, and that his young lover is implicated.David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl, calls Carved In Bone a "...
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- Coastal Carolina
2019
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A Coastal Carolina NovelThe first step is the hardest. After a scandal, New York political reporter Reed Barfield is lying low at the North Carolina coast, writing a story about the seafood industry. But it's the harbor pilots on the Cape Fear River who capture his interest—men who jump across ten feet of open ocean to grab a rope ladder and guide huge container ships into port. Men like sexy but prickly Justin Vance.After surviving an abusive chil...











