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|  | Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Description not available.Shoshanna struggles to overcome personal demons while working to repair family estrangements, while English professor Leah faces the pain of abandonment, and athlete Rachel watches her carefully constructed world fall apart. 40,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | The Crusader
At the Santes Creus monastery in Spain, Brother Francisco returns from the Crusades a changed man: he is full of grisly tales of his adventures, and he is possessed by demons. Brother Lucas is assigned the task of exorcism; if he succeeds he will become a bishop.
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Hunting the Witch by Ellen Hart
Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless escapes to her lover's cabin in a small mountain town to recuperate from her last near fatal adventure chronicled in WICKED GAMES. But when a local philanthropist is found dead at the bottom of a hotel elevator shaft, the amateur detective is lured out of her sickbed to catch the killer. AUTHOR: Ellen Hart
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Homos by Leo Bersani
Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life - and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays on Broadway, big book awards to authors writing on gay subjects, Hollywood movies with gay themes, gay and lesbian studies at dozens of universities, openly gay columnists and even editors at national mainstream publications, political leaders speaking in favor of gay rights: it seems that straight American has finally begun to listen to homosexual America. Still, Bersani notes, not only has homophobia grown more virulent, but many gay men and lesbians themselves are reluctant to be identified as homosexuals. In Homos, he studies the historical, political, and philosophical grounds for the current distrust, within the gay community, of self-identifying moves, for the paradoxical desire to be invisibly visible. While acknowledging the dangers of any kind of group identification (if you can be singled out, you can be disciplined), Bersani argues for a bolder presentation what it means to be gay. In their justifiable suspicion of labels, gay men and lesbians have nearly disappeared into their own sophisticated awareness of how they have been socially constructed. By downplaying their sexuality, gays risk self-immolation - they will melt into the stifling culture they had wanted to contest. In his chapters on contemporary queer theory, on Foucault and psychoanalysis, on the politics of sadomasochism, and on the image of the gay outlaw in works by Gide, Proust, and Genet, Bersani raises the exciting possibility that same-sex desire by its very nature can disrupt oppressive social orders. His spectacular theory of homo-ness will be of interest to straights aswell as gays, for it designates a mode of connecting to the world embodied in, but not reducible to, a sexual preference. The gay identity bersani advocates is more of a force - as such, rather cool to the modest goal of social tolerance for diverse lifestyles - which can lead to a massiv AUTHOR: Leo Bersani
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Herb Garden Design by Faith H. Swanson, Virginia B. Rady
Description not available.Discusses the fundamental concerns in the design of an herb garden and suggests designs for herb gardens in a variety of styles AUTHOR: Faith H. Swanson, Virginia B. Rady
PUBLISHER: University Press of New England
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening
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 | And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos by John Berger
In this collection of lyrical brief prose pieces, novelist and critic John Berger explores love and loss, the relationship of love to absence, and the way these things have been dealt with, historically, in poetry and in art. AUTHOR: John Berger
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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