A place where young Americans can seek poetic magic in the winding streets of a beautiful city. The museums, the cafés, the parks. An artist like Lucy can really enjoy Paris in January. If only she can stop griping at her mother. This comic journal details a mother and daughter¿s month-long stay in a small apartment in the fifth arron...more

When Silvana Paternostro went to Brazil in 1993 to research a report on women and AIDS in Latin America, she was confronted with the startling fact that married, monogamous women in the region were at much greater risk of being HIV positive than female prostitutes. Interviewing a Columbian AIDS specialist, she learned that 80% of his female HIV pa...more

A small, exclusive college in upstate New York is nestled along the frozen shores of Lake Mohiga . . . and directly across from a maximum-security prison. The two institutions manage to coexist peacefully, until 10,000 prisoners break out and head directly for the college. "Sharp-toothed satire . . . absurd humor."--San Francisco Chronicle. HC: Put...more

The Angels of Light were more than a queer performance troupe in the 1970s; growing out of the equally legendary Cockettes in San Francisco, the Angels were a way of life, putting on trashy, fantastical drag fairy tales in a city and an era that was in the blissful throes of early gay liberation. Adrian Brooks was a charter member of the Angels and...more

There are sneaking, creeping, crumpling noises coming from inside the walls. Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house -- and, as everybody says, if the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Her family doesn't believe her. Then one day, the wolves come out. But it's not all over. Instead, Lucy's battle with the wolv...more

Lillie Dempster, of Saint John, New Brunswick often imagines herself on the big screen in flickering silver lights. It is the one fantastic escape she can afford from her tragic daily life. Set in the burgeoning early years of the twentieth century, Lillie's life plays out like that of the distressed damsels from the silent films she loves. Orphane...more