Derek is forty-one years old. His girlfriend has just left him, his father, a local DJ, is about to go to court, and his rec hockey team is up in arms about a TV reporter's attempts to glorify their weekly games. When Derek's half-...
Men
- Author:Fitzpatrick, JamieSummary:
- Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:
Joyce records the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, with its three principal characters--Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and his wife Molly.
- Author:Popova, ElenaSummary:
The American dream has been part of world mythology for generations now. As the land of opportunity, America still entices people from around the world to taste it for themselves. Marrying an American has been one of the most popular...
- Author:hooks, bellSummary:
In a social and cultural analysis, the author explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing...
- Author:Bushkowsky, AaronSummary:
The Vanishing Man is a collection of linked short stories about a man trying to come to terms with his past, a religious upbringing, in an ever-changing personal world that constantly throws him into self-doubt. He marries, finds...
- Author:Pinker, SusanSummary:
After four decades of eradicating gender barriers at work and in public life, why do men still dominate business, politics and the most highly paid jobs' Why do high-achieving women opt out of successful careers' Psychologist Susan...
- Author:Hodgson, William HopeSummary:
In the far future, an unnamed narrator, who along with what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, 'Ab-humans...
- Author:Connell, R.W.Summary:
- Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:
Tristan, fourth Earl of Trentham, laments his return to England after so much adventure during the Napoleonic Wars. With his fellow bachelors, he founds the Bastion Club for privileged gentlemen committed to avoiding marriage at all...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Presents Mysteries of Winterthurn, Part Three.
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
Cornelius Suttree renounces the values held by his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat among the depraved residents on the banks of the Tennessee River.
- Author:John SteinbeckSummary:
- Author:Glover, Robert A.Summary:
Dr. Robert A. Glover has a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy and is co-director of the Center for Healing and Recovery in Washington. In No More Mr. Nice Guy, he presents a guide to creating a healthy and satisfying life. He believes...
- Author:Machart, BruceSummary:
Machart pens this critically acclaimed collection of 10 nuanced tales. The characters in Machart's affecting fiction find themselves attempting to measure up to their own beliefs in what it means to be a man, even as they struggle...
- Author:Pierre, D. B. C.Summary:
Caught up in his decadent lifestyle, 20-something Gabriel Brockwell decides to kill himself. But before he does, he embarks on a quest for Wonderland--a bacchanal to end all bacchanals. His journey takes him around the globe, from...
- Author:Johnson, Robert A.Summary:
The author asks what it means to be a man and explores "landmarks along the road to mature masculity" and "the feminine components of a man's personality."
- Author:Lee, Rebecca HaganSummary:
Obstinate Marquess Jarrod Shepherdston is not about to take the plunge without protest. He has taken great pains to avoid romance his entire life. But when beautiful Sarah Eckersley shows up on his doorstep with a proposal he can't...
- Author:McCormack, EricSummary:
A masterpiece of the sexual gothic, this is the story of Andrew Halfnight, whose life, part dream, part nightmare, begins with a mother's tragic choice and ends with a lover's embrace. In between he experiences tempests at sea, on land...
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
Shipwrecked on the coast of North Carolina, his companions killed, Tatton Chantry is alone and ready for action. In the Old World he fought wars, skirmishes, duels. Now, in the wilderness of America, this swashbuckling hero takes up...
- Author:Morris, Keith LeeSummary:
Keith Lee Morris delivers a collection of stories. In these unforgettable tales of deep humanity, the flaws and strengths of young men are explored with remarkable clarity.