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		<title>Review: Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Can physicist Kristopher and Resistance member Michel find love and safety in the middle of World War II? Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell, available from Dreamspinner Press. 266 pages   Berlin, 1943. An encounter with an old friend leaves German physicist Dr. Kristopher Lehrer with doubts about his work. But when he confronts his superior, everything goes horribly wrong. Suddenly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4842&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Quatrefoil by James Barr</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/25/review-quatrefoil-by-james-barr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phillip Froelich and Tim Danelaw are irresistibly drawn to each other. Both are in every obvious respect what is generally considered masculine, and live and work in a completely normal man&#8217;s social and professional world. Other men respect and admire their courage and ability and even their physical prowess. Women are very much attracted to both of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4553&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The German by Lee Thomas</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/21/review-the-german-by-lee-thomas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lee Thomas come a new thrilling novel. 1944 &#8211; Barnard, Texas. At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4496&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Butterfly Dream by Dave Lara and Bud Gundy</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/17/review-butterfly-dream-by-dave-lara-and-bud-gundy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 6 years old, long before he discovers that he is gay, Banat Frantz learns that being Jewish in Hitler’s Germany is a bewildering crime for which he and his family must pay. Fire and loathing greet his emerging consciousness and a resourceful child begins to learn survival skills. Violently forced from their home and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4469&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Home Fires Burning by Charlie Cochrane</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/11/11/review-home-fires-burning-by-charlie-cochrane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two stories, two couples, two eras, timeless emotions.  &#8220;This Ground Which Was Secured At Great Expense&#8221; It is 1914 and The Great War is underway. When the call to arms comes, Nicholas Southwell won’t be found hanging back. It’s a pity he can’t be so decisive when it comes to letting his estate manager Paul [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4021&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Vagabond Heart by A J Llewellyn</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/11/04/review-vagabond-heart-by-a-j-llewellyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book one in the Pearl Harbor Series Gay prostitute Tinder McCartney thought he had it made in WWII Honolulu…until true love and an attack on Pearl Harbor turned his life upside down. Tinder McCartney is the only gay male prostitute working in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. Like the 200 female prostitutes who live [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3999&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: As Time Goes By by Anna Lee</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/11/02/review-as-time-goes-by-by-anna-lee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1944, Matt Jackson, a wounded RAF pilot, ends up in the Royal Infirmary after his squadron is attacked. When he meets Doctor Trynt Andrews, both men&#8217;s lives are changed with the instant connection they feel for one another. Alone and injured, Matt is invited into Trynt&#8217;s home and they become inseparable, finding a love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3988&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Lily White, Rose Red by Catt Ford</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/09/05/review-lily-white-rose-red-by-catt-ford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grey Randall: Private Dick Casefile #1 Meet Grey Randall, a hard-boiled detective whose sense of humor makes it hard for him to stay strictly noir. It&#8217;s 1948 in Las Vegas—the newborn Sin City—and he&#8217;s just landed his first murder case. He&#8217;s more at ease among the lowlifes, but his new client, a beautiful, wealthy woman, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3825&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Last Tallyho by Richard Newhafer</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/09/01/review-the-last-tallyho-by-richard-newhafer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting air battles over Wake Island, Tarawa and Truk Lagoon, the U.S. Navy pilots of Air Group Two blazed a trail of flaming Japanese planes and hard-won glory across the Pacific skies. Yet among the heroes lived a man with a terrible secret shame, a vice that kept him from enjoying the conventional pleasures offered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3806&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Pioneers by Lynn Lorenz</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/08/22/review-pioneers-by-lynn-lorenz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Matt films a documentary of gay men living in New Orleans over the last fifty years, his first subject is none other than Sebastian LaGrange, his very own landlord. The elderly gentleman has lived through good times and bad, has seen and done it all, and Matt thinks he’s perfect for the project. Although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3762&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Painting by FK Wallace</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/08/10/review-the-painting-by-fk-wallace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stefan, a naive young Pole, meets Gunter, an artist in 1930s Berlin. Their passionate love affair is overshadowed by the rise of the Third Reich. Denounced to the Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz as pink triangle prisoners. Some things even love cannot withstand. Forty years later Stefan returns to Poland with one question: when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3714&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: A Faint Wash of Lavender by Lucius Parhelion</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/06/27/review-a-faint-wash-of-lavender-by-lucius-parhelion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post World War Two finds Laguna Beach in its heyday as an artists&#8217; colony. Tony runs his uncles&#8217; Grocery store in the town where a man of his bent can hide among the eccentrics who call the place home, including his Aunt Cora, who&#8217;s in charge of this year&#8217;s Pageant, where denizens of Laguna Beach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3623&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Wingmen by Ensan Case</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/05/08/review-wingmen-by-ensan-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEROES IN HELLCATS Jack Hardigan’s Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. As another wingman watches–and waits for the beautiful woman who loves Jack–Hardigan and Trusteau cut a fiery swath through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3351&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Evening Crowd at Kirmser&#8217;s by Ricardo J. Brown</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/02/26/review-the-evening-crowd-at-kirmsers-by-ricardo-j-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Publishers Weekly &#8220;Kirmser&#8217;s was the underground queer bar in St. Paul, a hidden sanctuary for homosexual men and women in the 1940s. It was the haven I found in 1945 after being drummed out of the navy for being a homosexual.&#8221; This extraordinary memoir of postwar, pre-Stonewall Midwestern gay life is as historically crucial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3122&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Sal Mineo: a biography by Michael Gregg Michaud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this riveting new biography filled with exclusive, candid interviews with both Mineo’s closest female and male lovers and never-before-published photographs, Michael Gregg Michaud tells [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2976&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Farewell my Concubine by Lilian Lee</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/12/30/review-farewell-my-concubine-by-lilian-lee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sweeping saga, Farewell my Concubine runs the gamut of China&#8217;s modern history, from 1924 to the 1980&#8242;s, and takes the revered Peking Opera as its centre stage. Xiao Douzi and Xiao Shitou become friends under the harsh training regime of the opera (a mix of martial arts, deprivation and singing) and continue friends through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2816&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Per Ardua by Jessie Blackwood</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/09/27/review-per-ardua-by-jessie-blackwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addicted to the soaring skies, brash high-flier Arthur Edward “Jack” Ratigan returns to Britain to fly bombers when his birth country goes to war against Germany in World War II. It also means a return to his ancestral home of Pren Redyn House in Wales—and risking his career and freedom if it comes to light [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2555&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/09/07/2506/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2506&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Berlin Novels (Mr Norris Changes Trains, Goodbye to Berlin) Christopher Isherwood</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/06/03/review-the-berlin-novels-mr-norris-changes-trains-goodbye-to-berlin-christopher-isherwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We apologise for the break in reviews being posted. Personal reasons, real life, yadda yadda. We will back to normal as soon as possible! Collection of two previously published novels written by Christopher Isherwood, published in 1946. Set in pre-World War II Germany, the semiautobiographical work consists of Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935; U.S. title, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2386&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Room in Chelsea Square by Michael Nelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick, fabulously wealthy and with a good eye for pictures and young men, brings the impressionable Nicholas Milestone to London, intent on reducing him to utter dependence by playing on his naivety and greed.  But Nicholas proves to be not quite as pliable as hoped, and a witty social comedy develops as he struggles with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2329&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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