Boulevard

An innocent teenager from small-town Alabama, Newell comes to New Orleans with just a duffel-sack full of possessions and a handful of dollars in his pocket. It's 1978, and the city is a gay mecca - filled with bars, bright lights and men everywhere. Newell soon finds an apartment in the atmospheric old French Quarter and lands himself a waiting job. But he finds his good looks are an obstacle to success; his workmates either want his body, or are jealous of the tips he rakes in with his toned pecs and winning grin. So he is much happier after he quits the bitchy restaurant and finds a job in a porn shop. Newell's good nature, good looks and lack of inhibitions make him a popular assistant there - as does the daring stunt he pulls in a local bar. And he is beginning to make friends; Miss Sophia, New Orleans' ugliest transsexual, takes a shine to him, and so does Jack, the sadistic yet irresistible son of a wealthy family. Yet there is danger lying in wait for Newell, and only he can save himself...Boulevard captures New Orleans at its most seductive. Compelling and beautifully written, it is the work of one of America's finest contemporary novelists.

Literature & Fiction

Jim Grimsley

Contemporary

Allison Busby

The Ordinary

Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories have been favorably compared to the works of Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Now he unleashes an ambitious and audacious collision between science and magic.
The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some thirty billion inhabitants, all cybernetically linked and at war with machine intelligences many light-years away. On the other side is Irion, a land of myth and legend, where the world is flat and mighty wizards once ruled.
Jedda Martele is a linguist and trader from Senal. Although fascinated by the languages and cultures of Irion, she shares her people's assumption that Irion is backward and superstitious and no match for her homeland's superior numbers and technology. But as the two realms march inevitably toward war, Jedda finds herself at the center of historic, unimaginable events that will challenge everything she has ever believed about the world--and herself.
The Ordinary is a powerful and entrancing tale of magic, science, and the mysterious truth that binds them together.

Erotica

Tor Books

Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories

Alyson Books

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