Quote:
Originally Posted by ATDrake
X-link to the DRM-free thread for the new Humble Bundle:
Humble Book Bundle LGBTQ exploring Pride Month contains three audiobooks: at the $1 minimum tier you can get the non-fiction StoryCorps: OutLoud: Voices of the LGBTQ Community from Across America from National Public Radio.
At the better-than-average tier are added two Lambda Award-winning fiction titles: Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet (which IIRC got adapted into a film), and If You Could Be Mine by Sarah Farizan, which was also named a Rolling Stones Best YA Novel.
|
Thanks for cross-posting. I'll add this to the OP
Humble Book Bundle LGBTQ --
exp 23 Jun @ 11am PT- SALE -- StoryCorps: OutLoud -- David Isay/ Ari Shapiro, et al --> 1.6 hrs/ R-n/a -->
- SALE -- Tipping the Velvet -- Sarah Waters/ Juanita McMahon --> 19.1 hrs/ R-4.3 -->
- SALE -- If You Could Be Mine -- Sara Farizan/ Negin Farsad --> 5.3 hrs/ R-4.0 --> contemp
Quote:
StoryCorps: OutLoud: Voices of the LGBTQ Community from Across America
Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible
Stories from the LGBTQ community, gathered by StoryCorps and heard on NPR
StoryCorps OutLoud sets out across the country to record and preserve the stories of LGBT individuals along with their families and friends. OutLoud is a project undertaken in the memory of Isay's father, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Isay. Professionally credited for helping to persuade the mental-health community that homosexuality is not a mental disorder, Dr. Isay was himself a closeted gay man for many years. He came out to his son at the age of 52, and in 2011 he married his partner of 31 years, Gordon Harrell, before passing away suddenly from cancer on June 28, 2012.
On June 28, 2014, the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, StoryCorps inaugurated OutLoud, a three-year project to capture the experiences of LGBTQ people. In particular the project will seek stories from young people, minorities, and those who lived before the uprising, which was a response by gays to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village and helped precipitate the gay rights movement.
|
Quote:
Tipping the Velvet
Whispersync: Audible ($4.49) | Kindle ($12.99)
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.
|
Quote:
If You Could Be Mine
Whispersync: Audible ($3.99) | Kindle ($7.96)
17-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They've shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love - Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light.
So they carry on in secret - until Nasrin's parents announce that they've arranged for her marriage. Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they have been, only now with new comforts provided by the decent, well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry. But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively - and openly.
Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution. In Iran, homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman's body is seen as nature's mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. As a man, Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin. Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants, in the body she wants to be loved in, without risking her life. Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self?
|