Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes
Larry Utley, Mistress Miranda (Introduction) $16.95
When Two Knotty Boys, Dan and J. D., began teaching rope bondage together in 1999, they discovered that most people learn best when they're shown — close up, step by step, and repeatedly — how to tie basic knots and combine them into bondage techniques. It is this learning process that they duplicate in this book. With the help of world-renowned photographer Larry Utley, they use over 750 photos and captions to explicate the soup-to-nuts techniques for turning great knots into great bondage that is safe, sensual, attractive, and effective. Readers can learn at their own pace, review whole techniques at a single glance, or even lay it flat on the table (beside their blindfolded partner) and follow along as they tie. Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes appeals to those interested in improving the quality of their sex lives, not to mention aficionados of bondage and discipline/sadomasochism (BDSM), both curious newcomers and serious players alike.

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Hard Boys
by Harry Bush $35.00

Harry Bush’s drawings for magazines such as Physique Pictorial, Mr. Sun, Touch, Drummer, and Stroke combined masterful technique, exceptionally well-endowed subjects, and a wicked sense of humor that made his work extremely popular. Despite long periods of self-imposed retirement and a fear of being outed that led him to destroy much of his own work, the reclusive artist’s drawings were as recognized and recognizable as those of Tom of Finland throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Hard Boys examines the life and work of this brilliant, mysterious, and paradoxical gay artist. Featured are some of Bush’s best-known works along with previously unpublished drawings from the artist’s private sketchbooks, as well as excerpts from Bush’s correspondence that offer insight into a complex personality: egomaniacal artist, self-critical individual, frustrated homosexual, and acerbic social commentator. This eagerly awaited collection allows fans to rediscover Bush’s witty, beautifully executed work while exposing it to a much wider audience.

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Sex by the Book: Gay Men's Tales of Lit & Lust
Edited by Kevin Bentley $15.00

Bars and chat rooms? Forget it. Colleges, libraries, and bookstores are the real hotbeds of hooking up. Many men find their first affirmation of gay sexuality on an obscure shelf at the campus library, so it’s only natural that they return to bookish spots for further research — hands-on, of course. The original memoirs and stories in Sex by the Book treat books and sex as two equally vital, interlocking obsessions and show how they can be powerful forces for fantasy, delusion, arousal, and seduction. A university student makes a sexy punk his new major in a bookstore's bathroom stall. A cultured older man brings home an abusive hustler who quotes Wittgenstein. A beautiful young man meets the author of an S/M abduction story, eager to be the butch Daddy’s next victim. These and other tales of satyriasis and bibliophilism are just the ticket for every smoldering bookworm longing to have his glasses — and pants — removed by the right guy.

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Marijuana New School: Outdoor Cultivation
Jeff Mowta $16.95

Featuring cultivation systems that range from simple “just-add-water” gardens to sophisticated aeroponic and hydroponic systems that produce the most potent pot, this outdoor grow guide ensures that even the most novice grower can quickly become a master gardener. Included are in-depth chapters on building and maintaining systems, germinating and cloning, predator and pest control, making fertilizer, pruning and bending plants, sexing, flower forcing, breeding hybrids, and creating pure strains. The book’s clear instructions are supported by more than 60 illustrations and nearly 200 photographs.

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Marijuana New School: Indoor Cultivation
Jeff Mowta $19.95

This comprehensive book provides step-by-step instructions for 20 affordable indoor growing setups. Packed with over 600 illustrations and photos, the book walks readers through the construction of both hydroponic and soil systems and shows how to maintain them throughout the growing season. Everything the budding gardener needs to know is covered in astonishing detail, including setting up a starter room, cloning, indoor designs, harvesting, drying, storing, troubleshooting, breeding, composting, as well as the latest tips and techniques.

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Marijuana Outdoor Grower's Guide
S.T.Oner $13.00

Written in a practical, no-nonsense style, this book explains how to cultivate marijuana outdoors the natural way, avoiding the use of dangerous chemicals. It focuses on simple gardening techniques and day-to-day maintenance, so that even beginning cultivators will have a successful harvest. For more experienced growers, the guide offers information on new products, new varieties bred specifically for the outdoors, and ways to maximize crop potency and yield. Dozens of photographs, illustrations and charts are included.

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Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure
Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster $15.00

Brian Howard was expected to become one of the leading authors of his generation, but instead he became a secondary character in the books of others. Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster’s biography makes him — at last — the protagonist of his own highly entertaining story. Packed with dishy reminiscences and extracts from Howard’s letters and writings, this book details the outrageous parties, stunts, and confrontations that were second-nature to this ne'er-do-well. Chronicling 30 years of waste and dereliction, Lancaster captures a prototypical gay literary life, perfect for anyone curious about gay history, the 1920s, modernism, or the mystery of failed artistic promise. From austere libraries in Oxford to seedy hotels in Amsterdam to darkened cinemas in Tangiers, Howard lived and died precociously and — most importantly — as he pleased. Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure is the next best thing to an invitation to one of his famous parties.

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