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One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative.

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Reading and Writing in Freshman English I by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 49,310. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2014 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Teaching methods & materials / language arts, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Teaching methods & materials / arts & humanities
Freshman composition instructors will not find a more affordable basic textbook for their cash-strapped students. This book and its partner edition, Reading and Writing in Freshman English II, focus on total literacy, with emphasis given to reading comprehension of increasingly challenging texts.
Ode to Boy, Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century through the First World War by
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 154,430. Language: English. Published: September 2, 2014 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Volume 2 is a refreshingly readable collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the 19th Century through the war poets. Includes works from Lord Byron, Gogol, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Henry James, Cather, Stein, Mann, Forster, Lawrence, Owen, and many others. Hale's introductions are to the point and sometimes witty, specifying why the author or work is included in the volume.
Ode to Boy, Vol. 1: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from Antiquity through the 18th Century by
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 99,060. Language: English. Published: September 1, 2014 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Volume 1 is a refreshingly readable collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the ancient Greeks through the Eighteenth Century. Includes works by Plato, Shakespeare, Rumi, Hafiz, & many others. Hale's introductions to the authors are to the point and sometimes witty, specifying why the author or work is included in the volume and sometimes providing a larger biographical scope.
Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada by
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 71,010. Language: English. Published: May 22, 2014 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat remains remarkably current and continues to be unique in coming of age literature.
The Gospel of Lazarus (The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved) by
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 21,230. Language: English. Published: January 11, 2014 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » History, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
The story of Jesus and the Beloved Disciple is a beautiful and intriguing love story, well worth being treated as serious literature and appearing between covers of its own. For this version of the story, editor Tobias Skinner has chosen to believe, for reasons set forth in the preface, that it was Lazarus who first wrote this version of the gospel.
Masculine Beauty: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Poetry of Same-Sex Affection by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 44,820. Language: English. Published: January 11, 2014 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+, Poetry » Biography
This volume seeks to give readers and scholars a single source to consult when the aim is to read Whitman’s homoerotic verse. It contains only those poems Whitman wrote exploring masculine beauty and/or same-sex affection. An abridged introduction by John Burroughs places the work in its historical context.
Collected Poems and Letters From America with Photographs and a New Introduction by &
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 81,420. Language: English. Published: January 11, 2014 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Poetry » U.K. Poetry, Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Biographies
This volume begins with a new introduction by Keith Hale tying Brooke's early poems to his Rugby romantic friendships and discussing Brooke's sexuality in some detail. The Collected Poems and Letters from America are then presented in their entirety together with the original introduction to Letters from America by Henry James.
Sonnets to a Young Man by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 15,430. Language: English. Published: November 8, 2013 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Poetry » U.K. Poetry, Poetry » LGBTQ+
By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, almost anyone in England who knew anything about Shakespeare knew that he had written his famous love sonnets to a beautiful adolescent male who was fifteen when the first sonnet was written. This volume contains the 127 sonnets he wrote for or about his young male love. The introduction details the story of infatuation revealed by the sonnet sequence.
A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 14,800. Language: English. Published: November 7, 2013 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Poetry » U.K. Poetry, Poetry » LGBTQ+
The complete editions of A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems together with an introduction by Keith Hale that ties the poems to their historical root: Housman's love for his friend Moses Jackson.
Nothing Strikes Back by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,260. Language: English. Published: October 27, 2013 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Young adult or teen » LGBTQ+
What do you do when your girlfriend's younger brother is the best-looking person on the planet and has a thing for you? Parish doesn't know what he's going to do, but he's about to find out. Keith Hale, author of the acclaimed novel Cody, delivers a story that is both charming and sexy in this tale of friendship between a younger male who knows he's gay and the guy getting dumped by his sister.
Michael by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,380. Language: English. Published: September 1, 2013 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Ben cannot keep his mind off the handsome young man sitting at the back of his world literature class. He fantasizes and fantasizes, and then he acts. An amorous, hysterical, and ridiculously unusual tale by the acclaimed author of Atom Heart John Beloved, Nathan's Story, Love Underneath, and Desire.
Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 17,910. Language: English. Published: June 22, 2013 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Biographies, Poetry » LGBTQ+
A collection of romantic poems Byron wrote for John Edleston, Lord Clare, Earl Delawarr, Lucas Chalandrutsanos, and other boys. The collection spans Byron's life. Some poems for Edleston, Clare, and Delawarr were among the earliest verse he wrote; the poems to Chalandrutsanos were his very last. Selected and introduced by Keith Hale.
Atom Heart John Beloved by
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 64,320. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2013 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Atom Heart John Beloved chronicles the lives of two boys who become friends at age thirteen. The story is told by eighteen-year-old John, who quietly whispers to his best friend one night in bed, "Do me." John's narrative voice is one of the most unique in gay literature. Atom Heart John Beloved is literate, intimate, erotic, and delightful, delivering unexpected moments of grace.
Nathan's Story by
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 36,620. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2013 by Watersgreen House. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Luke Hartwell's Nathan's Story is a powerful follow-up to his Atom Heart John Beloved. Hartwell has taken Keith Hale's novella Space as the vehicle to introduce an attractive new character, Harper, to the story of Nathan and John. Hartwell intertwines the story of Nathan and Harper with the story of Nathan and John while avoiding a rehash of old information from Atom Heart.
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