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The Closet is a collection of stories of gay men who have struggled with discovery of their true nature. Some refuse to admit it to themselves; others freely acknowledge their nature to a select few. But all these men felt the need, the burning need to tell someone and Mr. Treiman as the someone they told. He presents you their stories with their names changed, details obscured, but with absolute honesty nonetheless. This is the honesty for which many of them yearn. Some have even achieved it. Some died with the lie clutched to their bosom. But these are flesh and blood men who yearn for ...

Be Careful What You Know is a dystopic novel in the tradition of 1984, Brave New World, and other classics of the genre. It looks to contemporary USA society, sees many of its worst social and economic forces and amplifies them. Within its pages are specific references to current goings on, but the book as a whole is a warning against unbridled materialism as the sole force truly driving government.

Don't Forget The Broom is a hilarious adventure of a young man who joins an NCAA Competitive Paleontology Team. The team follows all the rules. The novel breaks them all as the novelist literally engages the reader in conversations.

In his third novel, author Dov Treiman brings you Camille Vale, grand-daughter of Charlotte Vale from "Now, Voyager," who copes with her past and establishes her future, as a woman, as a lesbian, and as Boston's leading architect. It is a story of redemption and hope, rising above struggles and setbacks.

Based on a real life incident, in Dov Treiman's novel, The Man With Too Many Shadows, Pope Benedict XVI develops a friendship with a gay man and his husband. The book takes you through the adventures the trio experience, mostly at the couple's own home in Central New York. Benedict uses the opportunity to reflect on a life full of controversy, often as he is playing Monopoly at the couple's dining room table. But the friendship consistently comforts Benedict's troubled spirit, even as he contemplates resigning the papacy.

Leading attorney, Dov Treiman, presents a candid memoir, full of his off beat humor. Organized by themes and ideas, Treiman takes his reader through a world of bizarre ideas and juxtapositions of thoughts, presenting tales of pain, tales of triumph, brushes with the famous, and honest assessments of what it's like for him to be famous. Each page takes surprising turn after turn, as Treiman's thoughts wander over his widely varied experience. In the end, the reader may be dazed and confused, but always delighted as well.

Bedroom Slippers is a journey into science fiction, where the main characters journey amongst various alternative universes. They explore the events that led to the tragedy in Dallas of November, 1963 and look at the alternative paths the players could have taken instead. Based on heavy historical research, the author takes us through the conspiracy theories about the Kennedy Assassination and shows how they played out in real time in other realities, no less valid than our own. In the process we come to meet and learn the depth of the anguish of the main characters that brought them to ...

John, the author of the Fourth Gospel, was Jesus's boyfriend. In this novel, as he flees from various persecutions, he tells his life story to a cat he finds on board ship. He is scared and lonely with only the cat to comfort him as he tells his tale from boyhood to his final exile on the Island of Patmos. In this book, we learn the back story to many of the stories and parables of the New Testament and even come to understand the origin of the imagery in the Book of Revelation. The book teases the reader with unfamiliar accounts of extremely familiar stories, some with new and surprising ...

Penelope Awaits is an epic poem, loosely based on the character Homer presents in his epic poem, "The Odyssey." In The Odyssey, we learn that Penelope is waiting 20 years for her husband, Odysseus, to return from the Trojan War. She has to use wit and guile to keep the kingdom safe and the royal throne empty of others who would take it. Penelope Awaits expands on these ideas and shows a woman of resource and wisdom who struggles as a single parent to keep all in balance while she waits for her husband's return. However, over the course of 20 years, it becomes clear she has a far greater ...

Humorist, novelist, Dov Treiman, creates in The Coffee Hour a parody of his own memoir, "Why Is The Vivaldi Leaking." Taking it from the point of view of alternate universes as he did in "The Bedroom Slippers," Treiman takes both actual incidents from his life and entirely fictitious ones and weaves together adventure, history, time spent with famous characters, and utter fantasy. The book has its dark sides, as lives do, but uses them as background for the gay romp that really has filled out the days of Treiman's life. Spoiler alert: Treiman's encounter with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's ...

A collection of short stories of the quaint and fantastic, the frightening and the heart warming, something to curl up with on a sleepless night.

Blondville is a two act play in the long tradition of broad farces. It is a play within a play, with the inner characters living in a town entirely populated by idiots. However, the actors portraying these idiots are clearly themselves idiots as well.