![]() ![]() The new collection showed a strong Asian influence that Greene felt he missed in the first volume.įollowing the release of “The Gay Icon Classics of the World II” in 2012, a group of Russian students translated “The Blue Door”, a story from the collection about a young Russian prince who comes out as gay, and used it as a protest against the “homosexual propaganda” laws enacted in Saint Petersburg. Greene’s “This High School Has Closets” was a longlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Awards in the 2012 young adult novels category.Īlso in 2012, the much anticipated release of a new set of gay love stories was introduced in “The Gay Icon Classics Of The World II”. ![]() It touched even the staunchest of critics. Each gay love story represented a culture and a people. The gay-themed love stories were from over 12 different countries. Greene was able to make a dream come true by publishing his short story collection in "The Gay Icon Classics of the World”, published by Icon Empire Press. Greene believed that this branch of relatives came to Canada as runaway slaves from the USA. The Halifax Herald Newspaper acquired a piece written by Greene called “Africaville: A Young Girls Journey.” It detailed his mother’s memory as a child visiting long lost relatives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Greene was already very personal in his writing when, in 2003, he was asked about his family’s heritage in Canada. ![]() Robert Joseph Greene focused his writing career to teach gay men about bravery, chivalry, and selfless romantic acts. ![]()
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![]() For their quarry isn't merely a homicidal maniac-but his deranged maker. ![]() Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For the no-nonsense O'Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more-and less-than human. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself-and that just may be where this case ends up. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. ![]() ![]() Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of - Dean Koontz's prodigal son. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. ![]() ![]() There's the long wishlist of fruit at the beginning, of course: "Bright-fire-like barberries/ Figs to fill your mouth/Citrons from the South…" reminding us of Christina's Italian ancestry. Many brilliant "set pieces" make selection difficult. Rossetti allows herself the full freedom of her poetic gifts: her visual sense, her musicality, her skill in both narrative and lyric modes. ![]() Often read as a poem of renunciation – as perhaps all Rossetti's poems fundamentally are – Goblin Market is also a wonderful fairytale from a writer who was not so far away from her own childhood when she completed it in April 1859. ![]() This week's choice is an extract: lines 408–446 from Christina Rossetti's lavishly sensuous masterpiece, Goblin Market. ![]() ![]() In The Great Divide, acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming examines how the differing character and leadership styles of Washington and Jefferson shaped two opposing views of the presidency-and the nation. ![]() ![]() At its root were two profoundly different visions of America’s future. It also involved the nation’s foreign policy, and the role of the merchant, the soldier, and the farmer in a republic. Their disagreement centered on the highest, most original public office created by the Constitutional Convention: the presidency. History tends to cast the early years of America in a glow of camaraderie, but there were many conflicts between the Founding Fathers-and none more important than the clash between Washington and Jefferson. A conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Most Americans are unaware of this historical reality. ![]() ![]() RFK would prove himself to be the rarest of politicians-both a pragmatist who knew how to get the job done and an unwavering idealist who could inspire millions.ĭrawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the private world of Robert Francis Kennedy. They were the people who turned out for him in his 1968 campaign. It was a life-changing experience that led him to connect with voters from all walks of life: young and old, black and white, rich and poor. When he had the chance to become a naval officer like his older brother, Bobby turned it down, choosing instead to join the Navy as a common sailor. Overlooked by his father, and overshadowed by his war-hero brother, Bobby Kennedy was a perpetual underdog. Now, with Bobby Kennedy, Matthews provides “insight into spirit and what drove him to greatness” ( New York Journal of Books) in his gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at one of the great figures of the American twentieth century. With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of America’s most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized” (Associated Press). ![]() ![]() Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. In Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. ![]() |