Books written by James Jennings

  • In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery

    love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden—it's something you have to make. —Joyce Carey There probably aren't many of us who feel we're loved enough. The paradox is that looking for love is not the way to find it.

  • Urban Spaces: Planning and Struggles for Land and Community

    Urban Spaces is an interdisciplinary reader focusing on community-based versus corporate-based political and ideological struggles over the utilization of urban land and spaces.

  • Wings of Red

    A homeless substitute teacher's ode to New City.

  • The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America

    Here Jennings (political science, U. of Massachusetts) traces the history of black political activists since the late 1960s, and weighs opinions that blacks are becoming disenchanted with or absorbed into white electoral politics.

  • Mirador

    The author tells the story of one man's reckoning with love and loss, friendship and betrayal, courage and cowardice, and death and rebirth, as he helps a group of rebels prepare for the Zapatista uprising of January 1, 1994: the first war ...

  • The Pearl

    Among the first "Journals of Voluptuous Reading" to be spawned by the Victorians, this novel shows them as vastly different from their public image--beneath the facade of respectability and sexual repression there existed the strongest urge ...

  • First Training

    Young Clara is tutored in all matters sexual by her knowledgable and domineering stepmother, with the girl learning in the process to make those around succumb to her every whim. This book is also known as "Clara Birch."

  • Understanding the Nature of Poverty in Urban America

    A guide to the key issues and writings on urban poverty in contemporary America.

  • Pleasures of Women

    In 19th century Victorian England, a robust young man turns his erotic fantasies into reality.

  • Urban Spaces: Planning and Struggles for Land and Community

    Urban Spaces is an interdisciplinary reader focusing on community-based versus corporate-based political and ideological struggles over the utilization of urban land and spaces.

  • The Light Most Favorable

    Disbarred and ashamed, Boston lawyer Jack Breen fears he's become so insubstantial he won't cast a shadow or have a reflection -- even in a diamond dust mirror.

  • The Scarlet Pansy

    A white-hot gay camp classic. Here's the story of Randall Etrange, a man travelling the world in search of true love. Along the way, he engages one and all, as his journey becomes a transcontinental sexual odyssey of truly epic proportions.

  • Touring Texas Towns... And Some That Ain't

    "As James and Linda Jennings recount their journey through the Lone Star State, they reveal to the reader the color and characters that make up the tableau that is our beloved Texas.

  • Big George: The Autobiography of an Angel

    Nobody guesses that George, who weighs one-and-a-half pounds only, is an angel who has been sent to Earth by our Father on a mission.

  • Day by Day: Daily Meditations for Recovering Addicts

    Written for people in recovery as well as for anyone concerned with getting the most out of each day, this revised edition is designed to bring a renewed sense of meaning and inspiration to every reader's life.

  • You Know You're Anonymous in Washington When...

    Takes a humorous look at politics and anonymity in Washington

  • Vocational Technical Education in Boston: Towards Accountability, Prioritization, and Decentralization

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • A Man with a Maid

    This anonymous classic was published by Olympia during one of the firm's later incarnations.

  • A Secret Life

    A Secret Life

  • Eros in High Places

    Returning to London after a deliciously indulgent pleasure hunt abroad with his companion, Sophia, Andrew Archer sets out to put his erotic talents to the test in London's backstreets and its highest circles of power. Original.