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STOLEN MOMENTS by John Preston

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STOLEN MOMENTS, by John Preston, $5.00. Who says heroes can't be gay? In the fourth of the "Mission of Alex Kane" series, Kane and his partner Danny Fortelli head for Houston. There, they take on a media baron who is intent on using homophobia to build his tabloid's circulation.

Also available: Sweet Dreams, Golden Years and Deadly Lies; each starring Alex and Danny; $5.00 each.

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IN THE TENT, by David Rees, $6.00. Seventeen-year-old Tim realizes that he is attracted to his classmate Aaron, but, still caught up in the guilt of a Catholic upbringing, he has no idea what to do about it. Then in the middle of a camping trip, a storm traps the two of them in a tent with two other boys, and the issues can no longer be avoided.

COMING TO POWER: Writings and graphics on lesbian S/M, edited by Samois, $8.00. Few issues have divided the lesbian-feminist community as much as that of S/M practices among lesbians; here are essays, stories, pictures and personal testimony from members of Samois, the San Francisco lesbian-feminist S/M group.

Lillian Halegua

The Pearl Bastard

REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER, by Aaron Fricke, $5.00. The moving autobiography of Aaron Fricke, who made national news when he took a gay date to his high school prom.

SECOND CHANCES, by Florine de Veer, $7.00. Is it always harder to accept what is offered freely? Jeremy, young and still naive about the gay world, could easily have the love of his devoted friend Roy, yet instead he finds himself pursuing the handsome and unpredictable Mark.

YOUNG, GAY AND PROUDIE

YOUNG, GAY AND PROUD!, $4.00. Gay teenagers have no place to go with. their questions. This candidly-written book addresses such concerns as: Am I really gay? What should I tell my parents? Is it a good idea to come out in school? How can I tell if my best friend is gay?

Dancer Dawkins

and the California Kid Wiliyce Kim

MEDITERRANEO, by Tony Patrioli, $12.50. Through some 46 photos, Italian photographer Tony Patrioli explores the homo-erotic territory in which, since the beginning of time, adolescent boys have discovered sex. (Oversize paperback)

I ONCE HAD A MASTER and other tales of erotic love, by John Preston, $8.00. This story of one man's journey through the S/M world is not for the faint of heart.

"After I Once Had a Master, hot gay fiction can never be the same; these stories are the ideal against which all subsequent forays into this genre will be measured." Dungeonmaster. Confessions of schoolteach re

Eric Roles

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MURDER IS MURDER IS MURDER, by Samuel M. Steward, $7.00. This unusual mystery sends Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas sleuthing through the French countryside, attempting to solve the mysterious disappearance of a man who is their neighbor and the father of their handsome deaf-mute gardener. A new and very different treat from the author of the Phil Andros stories.

THE PEARL BASTARD, by Lillian. Halegua, $4.00. Frankie is fifteen when she leaves her large, suffocating Catholic family in the inner city for Montauk, work, and the sea. This story of her sudden entry into a harsh maturity is told with a simplicity of style reminiscent of The Color Purple.

DANCER DAWKINS AND THE CALIFORNIA KID, by Willyce Kim, $6.00. In Bangor, Maine, Little Willie Gutherie renames herself The California Kid, stocks up on Rubbles Dubble bubble gum and her father's best Havana cigars and heads west. "Willyce Kim has created a wonderful, rip-roaring Western lesbian adventure that left me warm, tickled and hoping she writes a dozen more. I loved it," writes Judy Grahn.

SOCRATES, PLATO AND GUYS LIKE ME: Confessions of a gay schoolteacher, by Eric Rofes, $7.00. When he graduated from Harvard, Eric Rofes began teaching sixth grade at a conservative private school. Soon he felt the strain of a split identity between "the gay Eric and the teacher Eric;" here he tells of two years of teaching from within the closet, and his difficult decision to come out at work.

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THE HUSTLER, by John Henry Mackay, translated by Hubert Kennedy, $8.00. A gay classic about Gunther, a 15-year-old youth who runs away from home to Berlin, and the young man who falls in love with him. A fascinating picture of gay life in the Berlin of the '20s.

EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, by Larry Duplechan, $7.00. Johnnie Ray Rousseau is a 22-year-old black gay pop singer whose day starts at 11 pm. Keith Keller is a white banker with a 10 o'clock bedtime and muscles to die for. This story of their love affair is one of the most engrossing and funniest you'll ever read.

THE LAW OF RETURN, by Alice Bloch, $8.00. The widely-praised novel of a woman who, returning to Israel, regains her Jewish heritage while also claiming her voice as a woman and as a lesbian. "Clear, warm, haunting and inspired" writes Phyllis Chesler. "I want to read. everything Alice Bloch writes," adds Grace Paley.

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HOT LIVING: Erotic stories about safe sex, edited by John Preston, $8.00. The AIDS crisis has closed off some forms of sexual activity for health-conscious gay men, but it has also encouraged many men to look for new forms of sexual expression. Here, over a dozen of today's most popular gay writers erotically describe those new possibilities.

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