Books by Michael Thomas Ford and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Thomas Ford, Author . Alyson $14.95 (188p) ISBN 978-1-55583-643-6
Two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Ford's fourth collection of essays offers the adorably cranky humorist the opportunity to rant on how Tiger Beat
magazine made him gay, offer relationship tips for the neurotically inclined and muse on how...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author . Kensington $23 (408p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0405-9
After a string of humorous essay collections, Ford (The Little Book of Neuroses) expands his repertoire with this brimful first novel about life, love and self-discovery over the course of a steamy Provincetown summer. Among the bevy of characters...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author . DK $30 (191p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9697-3
This handsomely illustrated and informative gay man's guide to sex offers the perfect marriage... er, civil union... between reassuring, good-humored and consistently engaging text with more than 300 lush, full-color photographs that are...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author . Kensington $23 (311p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0407-3
In Cold Falls, N.Y., smalltown rules are changing as Ford's seven gay protagonists make lives for themselves far from big-city gay havens. This entertaining if overstuffed sophomore effort follows Russell and John, who decide to take a break...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author . Kensington $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1059-3
Ford (Full Circle
; Last Summer
) bridges the gap between gay romance and mainstream fiction in his latest. Ben Ransome, a 40-something marine biologist living modestly in Monterey, Calif., is anxious about his 16-year-old daughter's summer...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (295p) ISBN 978-0-06-073755-9
Teens in a psych ward populate a novel that overcomes a predictable beginning to make a powerful emotional impact. Regaining consciousness after an aborted suicide attempt, the 15-year-old narrator thinks his parents have “overreacted”...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author . Kensington $24 (342p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1851-3
Ford's adequate if overbusy latest begins with the body of sheriff Daniel McCloud, who went missing seven years ago, discovered buried in a box in the woods. As the investigation by the current sheriff, Nate Derry, progresses, the McClouds must come
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author . Ballantine $14 (299p) ISBN 978-0-345-51365-6
Ford's (Last Summer
) fang-tastic satire of the Jane Austen craze catches up with “Elizabeth Jane Fairfax,” the undead 233-year-old author and owner of an upstate New York book store. She's disgusted by the Pride and Prejudice
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author HarperCollins $15 (225p) ISBN 978-0-688-05322-2
The author of 100 Questions & Answers About AIDS effectively balances objective information about AIDS with accounts of individual experiences with AIDS and HIV to provide a helpful introductory look at this urgent subject. ``AIDS Fast Facts''-succin
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author New Discovery Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-735424-9
This frank, well organized book brings a wealth of information on AIDS to an audience that sorely needs it. Questions and answers about AIDS are presented within the framework of readers' own experiences and vernacular, which makes the facts and...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author Alyson Books $13.95 (234p) ISBN 978-1-55583-496-8
Cranky, bemused and extremely funny, Ford (Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me) is brilliant even on potentially mundane topics like high school reunions (""Michael Thomas Ford is very proud to announce that he is still queer... [and] happier, more...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author Alyson Books $12.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-55583-599-6
Ford continues his winning streak (following Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and That's Mr. Faggot to You) with this collection of astute, acerbic and endearingly grumpy essays about his life as a new millennium gay man. Unlike some humorists--think...
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-82263-6
Bringing the interdenominational approach of such anthologies as Reeve Lindbergh's In Every Tiny Grain of Sand to an older and more critical audience, Ford (Outspoken: Role Models from the Lesbian and Gay Communities) interviews 11 individuals fully
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Michael Thomas Ford, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $23 (422p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1057-9
Following his two previous engaging gay romances (Last Summer and Looking for It), Lambda Award-winner Ford brings loquacious elan to a novel with more heft. This tale of adolescent lust, unrequited love, fumbled friendship and domestic contentment...
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Michael Thomas Ford. Ballantine, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-51367-0
Ford has another winner with the third novel (after Jane Bites Back) featuring undead Jane Austen’s adventures in the modern world. While Jane’s fiancé, Walter, doesn’t know that she’s a vampire, his mother, Miriam, does know and does not approve...
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