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Fruit Wedge Moon: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Kyoka, and Zappai

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Product Description: (26 words) Zap, grackle, pop! East meets west in these contemporary urban micro poems. Whether exploring haikai forms or improvising jazz renku pops, these poems swing and bop! (152 words) Zap, grackle, bop! These English language haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai, solo renku-like jazz pop sequences both honour the Japanese haikai tradition and play respectfully with it...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781927725290 | Gardners Books, October 24, 2015, cover price $32.65 | About this edition: (26 words) Zap, grackle, pop!

Beatson Mutiny: The Turbulent Career of a Victorian Soldier

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Product Description: Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781784531102 | Tauris Academic Studies, May 30, 2015, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century.

Why Stop at Vengeance

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Product Description: A young African living in Albany is bent on avenging the death of his former lover back in Uganda at the hands of a gay-hating mob. When John Suruma tries to hire PI Don Strachey to burn down the church of an American missionary who promoted Uganda's harsh anti-gay law, Strachey recites a Chinese proverb---"If you set out on a journey of revenge, dig two graves"---and says he has a better plan...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781608209774 | Mlr Pr, February 28, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A young African living in Albany is bent on avenging the death of his former lover back in Uganda at the hands of a gay-hating mob.

A Dog Named Normal

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Product Description: 'Sticks and stones may break my bones/but words will never hurt me,' goes the homiletic children s rhyme. But no: words become both cudgel and wand... Follow poet Richard Stevenson as he looks back at his childhood, adolescence, middle age, and forward to retirement; at the naming and name-calling...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781771710053 | Ekstasis Editions, June 27, 2013, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: 'Sticks and stones may break my bones/but words will never hurt me,' goes the homiletic children s rhyme.

The Last Thing I Saw

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Product Description: Eddie Wenske has gone missing. A popular investigative reporter renowned for both his gay-coming-out memoir and a frightening book on drug cartels, Wenske vanishes while investigating a gay media conglomerate with a controversial owner and dodgy business practices...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781608207060 | Mlr Pr, July 31, 2012, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Eddie Wenske has gone missing.

Haunting of Amos Manor

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Product Description: "An Old House With Possibilities," the Real Estate advertisement had read, meaning, one supposed, a fixer-upper. For the Waldmans at least, that would be half the pleasure, for the house did indeed offer possibilities. The large upstairs bedroom, with it its big turret window, would make a wonderful painting studio for Mrs...read more

By Richard Stevenson (corporate author)

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9781926794075 | Magpie Books, September 15, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "An Old House With Possibilities," the Real Estate advertisement had read, meaning, one supposed, a fixer-upper.

Casting Out Nines: Haiku and Senryu for Teens

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Product Description: In Casting Out Nines, memories and reflections fuse East and West in a jazz bop a la Kerouac, a sort of 'high school haiku.' Irreverent, flippant and sparkling poems about friends, school, dating, sex, drinking, partying, music, teachers, joy, sadness and sex evoke all the concerns of teenagers with a mischievious cool...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781897430682 | Ekstasis Editions, August 15, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Casting Out Nines, memories and reflections fuse East and West in a jazz bop a la Kerouac, a sort of 'high school haiku.

Red White Black and Blue

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Product Description: In an election year, Don finds himself in the unlikely role of political operative. Rumors about the Tea Party's opportunistic gubernatorial candidate, Kenyon Louderbush, paint him as an unfaithful, callous exploiter of young men...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781608203628 | Mlr Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: In an election year, Don finds himself in the unlikely role of political operative.

By Richard Stevenson

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9781608200962 | Lightning Source Inc, July 31, 2010, cover price $14.99

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Product Description: Gay activist and accused murderer Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt. The 1981 book that launched Richard Stevenson's pioneering series is a cracking mystery and a fascinating trip into bygone gay culture - before HIV, in the bad old days of bath houses and gay disco, police corruption and tacit policies of harassment...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781934531907 | Reissue edition (Lightning Source Inc, December 30, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Gay activist and accused murderer Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt.

9780932870278 | Alyson Pubns, May 1, 1983, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: It's 1979, the height of the post-Stonewall era of gay sexual liberation, and a young man has been brutally murdered.

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Reluctantly accepting a job from a right-wing radio DJ whose life has been threatened, private investigator Donald Strachey becomes intrigued when he learns that the threats are coming from a radical gay rights group that has been defunct for more than twenty years.

By Richard Stevenson

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9780312309749 | 1 edition (Minotaur Books, March 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Accepting a job from a right-wing radio DJ whose wife has been threatened, private investigator Donald Strachey learns that the threats are coming from a radical gay rights group that has been defunct for more than twenty years.

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Product Description: Attacks on Janet Osborne lend new significance to the earlier murder of her brother Eric. They were holding out to keep the family newspaper a beacon of liberal advocacy journalism. A screwy plot to save the newspaper turns tragic and even screwier before Strachey and a driven reporter step in to sort it all out...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781934531976 | Lightning Source Inc, February 28, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Attacks on Janet Osborne lend new significance to the earlier murder of her brother Eric.

Shock to the System

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Product Description: Young Paul Haig dies after hiring PI Donald Strachey. Despite his dislike of her, Strachey agrees with the boy's homophobic mother: Paul didn't commit suicide. But, she clings to deep denial about her son's sexual orientation. Conversion therapy - interventions to create ex-gays - get the once over in this Strachey mystery, and it ain't a pretty sight...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781934531273 | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Young Paul Haig dies after hiring PI Donald Strachey.

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Product Description: Sixteen years after this 1992 story, and forced outing remains a hot button in gay politics. When an activist's claims that men he's outed are stalking him don't ring true, Albany's only gay PI drops his protection detail - and the client winds up dead...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781934531235 | Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Sixteen years after this 1992 story, and forced outing remains a hot button in gay politics.

9780312302146 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Sixteen years after this 1992 story, and forced outing remains a hot button in gay politics.

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Product Description: The ninth book in the Donald Strachey Mystery series. Gay marriage in Massachusetts is a fine institution------except when it leads to murder, as it does in this taut, suspenseful Don Strachey private eye novel, the ninth in the classic series...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781934531334 | Lightning Source Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The ninth book in the Donald Strachey Mystery series.

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Product Description: Shocked to discover the body of the grandson of the godfather of Albany's political machine in his car, P.I. Donald Strachey knows he is in for trouble. But when he learns that the murder victim left a $2.5 million legacy with instructions that it be used to destroy that machine, along with a personal letter to Strachey asking for his help, his suspicions are confirmed...read more

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9780312135171 | Rep sub edition (Griffin, December 1, 1995), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Shocked to discover the body of the grandson of the godfather of Albany's political machine in his car, P.

9780140094039 | Reprint edition (Select Penguin, March 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Detective Donald Strachey finds a dead body in his towed-away car and discovers that the victim is a member of a family whose dark history may hold the key to Albany's political future and Strachey's survival

On the Other Hand, Death

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Product Description: Re-release Dot and Edith's happiness in their home stands in the way of their neighbors' decisions to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape. A campaign of intimidation, at first merely irritating, escalates to murder before PI Strachey sorts it all out and learns something about his feeling for lover Timothy Callahan...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781934531297 | Lightning Source Inc, July 30, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Re-release Dot and Edith's happiness in their home stands in the way of their neighbors' decisions to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape.

9780312118716 | Reprint edition (Griffin, March 1, 1995), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: When the giant Millpond Company finds its plans for a mega-shopping mall stymied by the refusal of an elderly lesbian couple to sell their home, the ladies are subjected to ugly vandalism and frightening death threats.

9780140083194 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1985, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: When two elderly lesbians are threatened after refusing to sell their home to the Millpond Company, the company director hires gay detective Don Strachey to find the culprits and absolve the corporation

Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery

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Product Description: Despite the fact that he was not fond of Queer Nation activist John Rutka--notorious for his self-righteous ""outing"" of Albany's closeted gays--gay private eye Don Strachey agrees to help out when Rutka is shot and his house is firebombed.

By Richard Stevenson

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9781560237310 | Harrington Park Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Despite the fact that he was not fond of Queer Nation activist John Rutka--notorious for his self-righteous ""outing"" of Albany's closeted gays--gay private eye Don Strachey agrees to help out when Rutka is shot and his house is firebombed.

9780312071103 | St Martins Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Despite the fact that he was not fond of Queer Nation activist John Rutka, notorious for his self-righteous 'outing' of Albany's closeted gays, gay private eye Don Strachey agrees to help out when Rutka is shot and his house is firebombed

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9781560236566 | Harrington Park Pr, November 4, 2006, cover price $10.95

9780312089061 | Reprint edition (Griffin, February 1, 1993), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Despite the fact that he was not fond of Queer Nation activist John Rutka, notorious for his self-righteous 'outing' of Albany's closeted gays, gay private eye Don Strachey agrees to help out when Rutka is shot and his house is firebombed

Riding on a Magpie Riff

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By Richard Stevenson

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9780887534232 | Black Moss Pr, October 31, 2006, cover price $17.00

Ice Blues: A Donald Strachey Mystery

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Product Description: Someone's left a man's body in Donald Strachey's car - the grandson of Albany's most connected political fixer. A letter from the deceased asks Strachey to dismantle his grandfather's party machine. Like a chess master, Strachey moves ten suitcases, an army of colorful pawns (all of whom think they're king) and $2...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781560237327 | B&t Database Management/Cip, September 1, 2006, cover price N/A

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9781934531402 | Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Someone's left a man's body in Donald Strachey's car - the grandson of Albany's most connected political fixer.

9781560236559 | Harrington Park Pr, November 4, 2006, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Shocked to discover the body of the grandson of the godfather of Albany's political machine in his car, P.

The Swift Passage of Time

By Richard Stevenson

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9780595358427 | Iuniverse Inc, August 30, 2005, cover price $14.95

9781413444209 | Xlibris Corp, March 25, 2005, cover price $20.99

Bengal Tiger And British Lion: An Account of the Bengal Famine of 1943

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By Richard Stevenson

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9780595362097 | Iuniverse Inc, July 31, 2005, cover price $17.95

Village Life in Bengal Hindu Customs in Bengal

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Product Description: India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls. Understanding Modern India is not all that difficult as it is much like the United States. However, even in modern India, people retain many of the religious beliefs and superstitions which they have absorbed from timeless India...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9781413455663, titled "Village Life in Bengal, Hindu Customs in Bengal" | Xlibris Corp, April 13, 2005, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls.

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9780595362332 | Iuniverse Inc, July 31, 2005, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls.

9781413455656, titled "Village Life in Bengal, Hindu Customs in Bengal" | Xlibris Corp, April 13, 2005, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls.

Alex Anklebone And Andy The Dog

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Alex Anklebone, upset because his mother is too busy with his baby brother to play, locks himself in his room to sail far away in his bed, imagined as a ship, but after a nap he starts to feel differently about his situation.

By P. J. Masi (illustrator) and Richard Stevenson

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9781896209579 | Bayeux Arts Inc, July 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Alex Anklebone, upset because his mother is too busy with his baby brother to play, locks himself in his room to sail far away in his bed, imagined as a ship, but after a nap he starts to feel differently about his situation.

No Entanglements

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Product Description: The Mafia, rock and roll, high finance. In a story of the conflict between ages, attitudes and culture, Ellsworth Dodge acquires the contract of Millie Armor, an up and coming young singer. Hiding a part, Millie (who yearns for a simple, quiet life) falls in love with both Dodge and a fellow musician who means her no good...read more

By Richard Stevenson

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9780595341948 | Iuniverse Inc, March 31, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Mafia, rock and roll, high finance.

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