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At the University of North Carolina, Ronny’s made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm life, and protected his heart. Until he can’t. Ben is in some ways Ronny’s opposite, he’s big and solid where Ronny is small and slight. Ben’s at UNC on a football scholarship. Confident, with that easy jock swagger, and an explosive temper always simmering. He has a steady stream of girlfriends. Ben’s aware of the overwhelming effect he has on Ronn...

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At the University of North Carolina, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm life, and protected his heart. Until he can't. Ben is in some ways Ronny's opposite, he's big and solid where Ronny is small and slight. Ben's at UNC on a football scholarship. Confident, with that easy jock swagger, and an explosive temper always simmering. He has a steady stream of girlfriends. Ben's aware of the overwhelming effect he has on Ro...

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Praise for Winter Birds: --Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters --Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award "I have rarely read anything as powerful as Winter Birds. I wanted to steal it and pretend it was mine, or go on tour reading it out loud...This man got it right, he got it perfectly right."--Dorothy Allison "I think I will not read another novel this year. Nothing else can be as vivid, as awful and aw...

Jim Grimsley's previous science fiction novel, The Ordinary, was named one of the Top Ten science fiction books of the year by Booklist and won the Lambda Literary Award. His novels and short stories have been favorably compared to those of Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack Vance, and Samuel R. Delany. Now Grimsley returns to the richly complex milieu of The Ordinary with a gripping tale of magic, science, and an epic clash between godlike forces.Three ...

Dan und Ford sind schon seit drei Jahren zusammen, die Unterschiede zwischen ihnen scheinen oft unüberbrückbar. Dan arbeitet als Verwaltungsangestellter eines Krankenhauses und ist ein introvertierter aber selbstbestimmter Mann. Für den wohlhabenden Kinderarzt Ford, der sich seiner Anziehungskraft auf andere stets bewusst war, ist es oft schwierig, die Bedürfnisse seines Partners richtig einzuschätzen. Ein Weihnachtsfest wird schließlich zur B...

In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years, in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for the first time he'd be in a classroom with black children.

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 l...

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. . . Good people taught and still teach racism to their children without a second thought. This was true in the South of my birth and remains so to the present . . . We teach that God created the races to be separate from one another for a purpose, and we preach that this purpose cannot be to mix, because why then would He have created the separation in the first place? We teach that when people are different from each other, one is better an...

Der heranwachsende Nathan ist mit seinen Eltern nach unendlich vielen Umzügen in einem kleinen Nest im amerikanischen Süden gelandet. Die fromme Familienidylle ist nur Fassade. Nathans Vater, ein Alkoholiker, neigt zu Gewalttätigkeit, die hilflose Mutter verschließt davor die Augen. In dieser ausweglos und dumpf erscheinenden, für den sensiblen Nathan kaum zu verkraftenden Atmosphäre sehnt er sich nach dem um zwei Jahre älteren Nachbarssohn Ro...

First love is never easy. But when the new boy in a small town is being secretly abused by his father, first love might be the only thing that can save him. With his mother busy in the kitchen and his drunken father reading scripture in the living room, Nathan can watch his schoolmate Roy from his upstairs bedroom window and dream about a life free from his father's night-time prowling. Nathan feels safer with Roy in the house next door and sa...