*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction*Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award*Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeOne of The Times UK’s Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed’s Best Nonfiction of 2018, Autostraddle’s Best LGBT Books of 2018, and 52 Insight’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018A “no-holds-barred examination of masculinity” (BuzzFeed) and...

In an isolated mountain clinic, doctors work frantically to treat the body of Daniel Forrester, the shattered victim of a plane crash. Desperately trying to save his life, they place him in the latest medical machine.Strange things happen to Forrester after he is sealed into this amazingly sophisticated life support system. His heart stops. The machine brings him back to life. Each cardiac arrest seems the end ... but each time the machine brings him back. During these periods of a...

The Count's daughter sees a beggar. He sees her too. That's it. NO. He keeps seeing her, because he has come to Earth, for HER.

It has many names: Bigfoot . . . Yeti . . . Sasquatch.But whatever it is, it’s out there in the woods and leaving a trail of blood and severed heads behind it.For John Moon, a half-mad Indian, it is a spirit that holds the key to his inner self. He worships its power and he’ll kill to protect it. Desperate, exhausted, half-starved, Moon will follow it wherever it goes.For Raymond Jason, killing it has become an obs...

There are many words that could hold you back and prevent you from being the best person you can be. But those words that hold you back can be the same words that can change your life for the better. In The Seven Deadliest Words, author Dr. Thomas L. Page discusses the seven words in his personal life that transformed him.Page guides you through a series of discussions and exercises narrating how various viewpoints and experiences changed his life, and he shows what steps ...

Award-winning author Thomas Page McBee takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey into the American archive, illuminating four centuries of gender-variant history—and the cost, to all of us, of its erasure.In this groundbreaking, urgent book, Thomas Page McBee gives us the lens of trans time—nonlinear, multiple, cyclical—a radical perspective that opens up new ways of seeing both the past and the future.Exhausted by a political cycle dominate...

Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus is a charming tale about a Virginia boy from a rich family. Tommy always gets what he wants for Christmas, but comes to find that his toys don't make him happy anymore. His friend, Johnny, is not rich, and Tommy earns a visit to Santa Claus by making him a sled. Santa teaches Tommy that true happiness comes from giving, not getting.Thomas Nelson Page (April 23, 1853 – November 1, 1922) was a lawyer and Ame...

Award-winning author Thomas Page McBee takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey into the American archive, illuminating four centuries of gender-variant history—and the cost, to all of us, of its erasure.In this groundbreaking, urgent book, Thomas Page McBee gives us the lens of trans time—nonlinear, multiple, cyclical—a radical perspective that opens up new ways of seeing both the past and the future.Exhausted by a political cycle dominate...

The story of "John Marvel, Assistant" revolves around the character of John Marvel, who is depicted as a young man striving to make a meaningful impact in the world. The novel explores themes of ambition, idealism, and the complexities of social and economic dynamics in the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Thomas Nelson Page's writing style is characterized by its evocative depiction of Southern life, its lyrical prose, and its exploration of moral and ethical d...

The story is set in the South during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. It revolves around two characters: Tom, a Confederate soldier who has been imprisoned by Union forces, and Jack, a Union soldier who is guarding him.Tom and Jack are both prisoners in their own way. Tom is physically confined within the prison walls, while Jack is trapped by his duty to guard the prisoners and the expectations of his fellow soldiers. Despite their opposing allegiances, the two men form an ...

The old Gray plantation, "Red Rock," lay at the highest part of the rich rolling country, before it rose too abruptly in the wooded foothills of the blue mountains away to the westward. As everybody in the coun-try knew, who knew anything, it took its name from the great red stain, as big as a blanket, which appeared on the huge bowlder in the grove, beside the family grave-yard, at the far end of the Red Rock gardens. And as was equally well known, or equally well believed, which amounted...

IT was Christmas Eve. I remember it just as if it was yesterday. The Colonel had been pretending not to notice it, but when Drinkwater Torm knocked over both the great candlesticks, and in his attempt to pick them up lurched over himself and fell sprawling on the floor, he yelled at him. Torm pulled himself together, and began an explanation, in which the point was that he had not "teched a drap in Gord knows how long," but the Colonel cut him short."Get out of the room, you drunken vagabo...