Love Has No Gender Gay Classics Collection

June is the Pride month and we have hand-picked the greatest queer classics to spread love and positivity. This collector's collection is a testimony to the versatile writers and poets from the past whose works were throughout the ages - subversive, celebratory, or simply in your face. So come and celebrate the month of love and acceptance. Content: The Picture of Dorian Gray Mrs. Dalloway Joseph and His Friend Regiment of Women Bertram Cope's Year The Green Carnation This Finer Shadow Cecil Dreeme The Satyricon The Sins of the Cities of the Plain Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics The History of Sir Richard Calmady Carmilla

Love is NO Gender, It is the Feeling between two people. Love is eternity if both of them living together with understanding in each other. Love is Love and this book is for all who believe in LOVE.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE Proclaimed as “truly spellbinding,” a “great fable” that “functions as transporting romance” by the Guardian, the runaway #1 international bestseller "A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of storytelling. Spellbinding.” — TRACY CHEVALIER Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder—a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born. Under the old woman’s watchful eye, Emmett learns to hand-craft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Within each one they will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want to forget, a binder can help. If there’s something you need to erase, they can assist. Within the pages of the books they create, secrets are concealed and the past is locked away. In a vault under his mentor’s workshop rows upon rows of books are meticulously stored. But while Seredith is an artisan, there are others of their kind, avaricious and amoral tradesman who use their talents for dark ends—and just as Emmett begins to settle into his new circumstances, he makes an astonishing discovery: one of the books has his name on it. Soon, everything he thought he understood about his life will be dramatically rewritten. An unforgettable novel of enchantment, mystery, memory, and forbidden love, The Binding is a beautiful homage to the allure and life-changing power of books—and a reminder to us all that knowledge can be its own kind of magic.

It is a deep tragedy that same-sex love was long seen as an anomaly. Luckily, the times are changing and there is a wide acceptance of LGBTQ+ community. Thanks to our cherished but at the time - controversial authors, who created the space for some of the most iconic gay and lesbian characters, we know have classics that were always claiming that love knows no boundaries. So come and indulge in the magic of these queer classics with our special edition that celebrates love and the freedom to love. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Orlando by Virginia Woolf_x000D_ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde_x000D_ Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop_x000D_ Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall_x000D_ Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu_x000D_ Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor_x000D_ The Green Carnation by Robert Hichens _x000D_ This Finer Shadow by Harlan Cozad McIntosh_x000D_ Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller_x000D_ The Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul_x000D_ The History of Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet

“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? A New York Times Bestseller Best Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com • Miami Herald • Book Riot • Buzz Feed • Globe and Mail (Toronto) • The Root • Shelf Awareness A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better, coming from one of our most interesting and important cultural critics.

Five years ago, Corin Cadence's brother entered the Serpent Spire -- a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters. Those who survive the spire's trials return home with an attunement: a mark granting the bearer magical powers. According to legend, those few who reach the top of the tower will be granted a boon by the spire's goddess.He never returned.Now, it's Corin's turn. He's headed to the top floor, on a mission to meet the goddess.If he can survive the trials, Corin will earn an attunement, but that won't be sufficient to survive the dangers on the upper levels. For that, he's going to need training, allies, and a lot of ingenuity.The journey won't be easy, but Corin won't stop until he gets his brother back.

Jay Mandal is unique in his writing of gay love - his uplifting stories focus upon romance rather than sex, on fulfilment rather than despair. Of course, there are tragedies in these pages. Life's like that. But the difficulties faced and the thrills enjoyed by his characters are the lot of lovers of any gender in a world both bad and beautiful. In this groundbreaking book you will read of love . slightly - but only superficially - different from that more traditionally featured in tales of boy meets girl. Difficulties overcome by homosexual partners are not magnified out of proportion to those faced by partners of opposite sex. More than any other collection, this thought-provoking work will introduce the heterosexual reader to the meaning of true gay love, and will afford the gay reader a sigh of relief that - at last - a popular, respected and serious author has cast aside threadbare issues of hatred, brutality, perversion, prejudice and misunderstanding to get to the very heart of the matter . the honest to goodness love between human beings who ask little more of life than that. Perhaps the title of this collection should carry a question mark: no intelligent reader - of whatever sexual persuasion - can fail to close Jay's book without asking . "Well, what's so 'different' about this kind of love after all?" This is an exclusive and important collection of beautiful love stories, sad, humorous, heartwarming - and made 'different' simply because key characters share, not only passion and compassion, but gender. Jay Mandal's 'A Different Kind of Love' will go a long way toward making the love he writes of no longer needful of the qualifying word, 'different', in a world where anykind of true love is to be treasured.

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps. Through Osama, we also enter the world of the contemporary Lebanese men and women whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war, conflicted identity, and survival. With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century.