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My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said, writes Roy Blount Jr., "and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces." In the book his readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open...

Told with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery...

West Texas meets West Hollywood, and the culture clash is heard 'round the world!...

This compelling account of racial identity takes a close look at the question "Who is a Latino?" and determines where persons of mixed Latino-Anglo heritage fit into the racial dynamics of the United States. The son of a Mexican American...

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In this intimate collection of poems, an African American writer and mother looks with compelling honesty at love, faith, family, and what it means to be a woman and an African American. Writing sometimes with an almost childlike awe of...

A comprehensive guide to the traditions associated with the Holy Family in Egypt Publishers Weekly This unique coffee-table offering uses text, illustrations and photographs to chronicle the possible journey of Jesus and his parents when they fled to Egypt, escaping...

In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind....

Moving and humorous as well as uninhibited in its homo-erotic exposures, this recounts the author's disaffections with England and subsequent experiences in Sweden and then in Spain, where he falls passionately in love with a young American man. Kirkup is...