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	63 Johnston St. Fitzroy 3065 Victoria Australia W: www.hares-hyenas.com.au T: +61 3 9495 6589

Hares & Hyenas Queer Bookshop and Screaming Hyena Online Queer Literary Book Review

IN THIS ISSUE:
> New Releases
> Staff Recomendations
> More New Releases
> Magazines
> Top 6
> Events

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Some big titles of 2007 :
>	Gay Travels in the Muslim World byMichael Leoung Great mix of sex and politics!
>	cunt: a declaration of independence by inga muscio If you do not receive this email then it is probably because your net filter do not like this title.
>	Anything by Radclyffe not a single book but a whole shelf of them and each (almost) as popular as the next. A publishing phenomenon.
>	Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin This has divided people on how successful it is in updating Mouse's life but it is still a must read for Tales' fans.
>	Let the Right One In by Leslie Feinberg Twisted Scandinavian vampire tale.
>	Orphan Gunner by Sarah Knox Some books arrive in a blaze of publicity while others tend to become popular by word of mouth. This is our recommendation for the 2008 sleeper of the year.

EVENTS
There are just too many to list! Mechele, our whiteboard queen is the hardest working retail person on the planet. But of course I cannot not mention Midsumma's flagship literary event:

Novel Conversations

Thursday January 24 @ 7:30

HARETICAL JANUARY 2008

Melbourne's queer bookshop Hares & Hyenas is set off Brunswick Street in the heart of Spanishtown at 63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy. With a huge range of fiction and non-fiction titles, coffee table books, erotica, DVDs, cards and the latest magazines from around the world, as well as tickets to all the main queer events, Hares & Hyenas is the one-stop shop for all your queer reading and entertainment needs. The Hares & Hyenas website is a secure online bookshop.

Fresh from sell-out shows in New York and a major UK tour, the Queen of Inflight Kitsch and Air Hostess to the stars, Pam Ann touches down in Melbourne on her way to Mardi Gras for one performance only, Tuesday 19 February 8pm.

Exclusive Hares & Hyenas offer.

Book via internet, phone or through the outlets, mention the code bookshop to receive a discount on your tickets.

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NEW REALEASES




Eyes of Gray by Dani O'Connor	Vital Signs: Essential Aids Fiction ed. by Richard Canning	Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux
Wonderfully written with moving twists, the story digs deep into the fabric of our lives, giving the reader plenty to ponder. You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough to get to the exhilarating conclusion. – Diva magazine	Rediscover 18 gems from the era of early AIDS. The tales transport readers to the ’80s and mid ’90s—when “manageable disease” was not part of the AIDS lexicon. With such heavyweight writers as Holleran and Peck, it is required reading, especially for the growing younger generation of newly infected. – Poz Magazine	“Sad lives make funny people,” So Mr. Leleux has coaxed some head-tossing, high-strung comedy out of the fact that his father walked out on 16-year-old Robert and his mother, leaving them stuck in an East Texas backwater. In their shared opinion the local funeral home was the best-looking place in Petunia. “It figures you’d have to die in this town to experience beauty,” Mr. Leleux quotes his mother as having said.

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STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS


		52 Vol. 1 – 4 by Wayne Hoffman 52 refers to the weeks in a year and the 52 individual comics originally released on a weekly basis over a year. Documenting a DC comics world without Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman after the Infinite Crisis series came to an end. Various secondary heroes and other characters are smoothly reintroduced and come into their own without the big 3 around. Collected here in 4 visually stunning, full colour volumes. Featuring lead stories as well as conceptual drawings and commentary from creators and editors. Notable character reinvention is Batwoman, who hasn't featured in comics since she was assassinated in 1979. And as it happens is an incredibly beautiful lesbian who kicks ass in and out of costume. Vol. 1 weeks 1-13; Vol. 2 14-26; Vol 3. 27-39; Vol 4. 40-52.
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		Seduced by Grace by Michael Bernard Kelly The collected writings and lectures of Michael Kelly, composed over a ten year period and published on three continents. Exploring contemplative spirituality, erotic grace, prophetic activism, gay experience, and the soulful challenges of contemporary living. ... the passionate despatches of a reporter from one of the most hostile – for gay men and women – regimes on earth: the Catholic church. Michael Kelly has come out but stayed in. His indictment of the church is stark but his vision of what it might become has the power to move even hardened atheists. – David Marr
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Books by authors reading at Novel conversations




Redback by Lindy Cameron	Izzy & Eve by Neal Drinnan	El Dorado by Dorothy Porter	Faith by Alicia Bennett
Taking a big step away from her Kit O'Malley series, Lindy Cameron has created an excellent thriller. Pacey, peopled with strong female characters; good male characters; a complicated yet disconcertingly believable multi-threaded plot and a hefty dose of subtle humour, REDBACK is definitely going to be amongst my best books of 2007 list. – GenreFlash	Winner of the Lambda Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror 2006 A thrilling, inventive, and edgy work of speculative fiction about a gay man and a straight woman living together in an anonymous city.... concerning a psychedelic drug that seems to be causing deaths in the gay community. - Locus mag	Once again, Porter succeeds in that impossible juggling act of narrative and poetry. Even for the most casual of reader, El Dorado reads easily as a fast paced, intense and psychologically satisfying thriller. For those who want more than simply a quick escape, El Dorado explores complex topics of childhood innocence and guilt; love and hatred; desire and psychosis with the kind of taut intensity that only poetry can provide.	Faith, a young woman struggling with addiction and prostitution, has lost Her child to the state foster care system. Olive, a hardened police detective meets Faith after she is raped. Olive's life becomes enmeshed in Faith's as she supports her campaign to regain custody of her child, neither woman acknowledging that there are not fairy tale endings when the best place for a child isn't always with her mother.

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MISCELLANEOUS




Transdestinations a symposium for trans & trans connected people	Advocate #1001 January 29 2008	Bust Feb/Mar 2008	Lesbian Sex 101 by Jude Schell
Held over one day and two nights, Transdestinations surveys the current state of play and future possibilities for trans-connected communities. It includes forums, workshops, and arts events ranging from spoken word, music and performance to visual arts exhibitions.	The L Word: Exclusive Photos by Jennifer Beal Cover/ Interview: Memo to Condi: I Quit! A gay ambassador resigns over our 2nd class status at the State Dept. Carson Kressley gets naked(ish)	all about Eve a solo cyclist conquers the fear myth Reno 911's Niecy Nash It's so easy being green Alison Goldfrapp, Justice, & Career waitresses	Back in print It was selling nicely back in late 2006 and then it was featured in LOTL and it went out of print. The orders kept on coming in but there was nothing we could do. To prove that Santa is a dyke we received copies of the reprint edition on Christmas eve.

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