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Award-winning author M. E. Kerr challenges stereotypes in this story about a fifteen-year-old grappling with his older sister's sexuality Parr Burrman lives with his parents and his older brother and sister on a farm in Missouri. They're a typical Midwestern family-except for one thing. Parr's father thinks Evie's going to marry Cord Whittle, who's had a crush on her forever, and settle down in their hometown to help out with the farm. Instead, she...
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Two old friends who have not seen each other for decades spend a week hiking through the stunning scenery of California's High Sierra Twenty-five years ago, a group of five high schoolers trekked through the High Sierra. Now, two of them-lesbian Kath and straight Adele-come back to repeat their journey and renew their friendship. In chapters that alternate between the women's voices, they reveal their pasts, their thoughts, and their reactions both...
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After her lover of thirty years dies, a Boston woman opens a bookstore for her neighborhood, an endeavor that forces her to confront her past while she rebuilds her future Over the course of their thirty-year relationship, Vicky and Harriet fell into a predictable cadence: Vicky took the lead while Harriet was content to follow. When Vicky dies, Harriet is lost and in search of an identity that was subsumed by that of her partner for three decades....
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Lose yourself in the next three London Romance books and get caught up in the lives of London's premier ladygays! You get: The London Of Us (Book Four), London, Actually (Book Five) and Made In London (Book Six). Catch up with Alice, whose life with her ideal boyfriend isn't going to turn out as she thought. Not after she meets Rachel. Have a drink with Becca, whose new boss is the last person she expected; and with Cleo, who's got a reputation to...
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Memory-and the tenuousness of life-is the theme of this deeply moving novel by Jane Rule When the novel opens, Diana's twin brother, David, a widower in his mid-sixties, is looking back on his life. As memories swamp him, he decides to take a critical step: to beg for his sister's forgiveness. Diana has never met David's two daughters. She has no idea how many grandchildren he has. David doesn't know Diana's longtime lover, Constance, housebound...
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A wry romp through 1930s mores, social and sexual Progressive for its time as well as ours, The Friendly Young Ladies is a deftly witty comedy set in England between the wars. At eighteen, Elsie has had enough of life at her bickering parents' Cornwall home. She decides to join up with her bohemian older sister, Leo, in the city. Leo's life is full of surprises-not least her significant other, Helen, a beautiful nurse. As Elsie gets acquainted with...
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A wise and funny novel about the kind of love that extends beyond boundaries - within this world and into the next. Raised in the Tennessee hills in the 1950s by a widower father, Jude grows into a young woman who finds her soul mate in her new neighbor Molly. But when age and social convention intervene, she must find a new person to entrust with her heart. Venturing north to pursue all that '60s New York has to offer, Jude finds comfort in her childhood...
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Two women take drastic action to protect the life they've built, in this gripping new novel set in early twentieth-century Belfast by the author of The Devil's Own.
Jane Best and Agnes Williams are known in Belfast for taking in lodgers at Riverdale House, the business they started together after losing their husbands in the Anglo-Zulu War. For forty years, they've welcomed young women in need of a respectable place to stay in the city-including...
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Cosa succede se ti innamori della tua damigella d'onore? Abby Porter ha un lavoro invidiabile e il fidanzato perfetto, Marcus Montgomery.Ma il suo mondo si capovolge quando lui assume una damigella professionista per aiutarla nel periodo di preparazione del matrimonio. Sin dal primo incontro con Jordan, Abby resta senza fiato.Marcus è ignaro di tutto.Mancano poche settimane al matrimonio. La domanda da porsi è una sola: ce la farà Abby ad andare...
10) By Cécile
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By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery. In Paris, an orphan girl, Cecile, finds refuge with an older man. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists (Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. When she falls for his mistress, she begins to live a life she deems worthy of writing about . . . but only under the pseudonym of her husband.
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Jane Rule's second novel follows a group of friends through New York and abroad as they explore the freedoms-and limitations-of sexuality in a time of stifling social convention Katherine George-Kate to her intimates-is captain of her high school debating and swimming teams. But beneath her high-achieving exterior is a young woman on a quest for meaning and fulfilling relationships. Through her decades-long correspondence with Esther, the woman...
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Life in the big city brings unexpected success and reveals startling truths about love. Manhattan offers the promise of escape for an aimless young man from Memphis. When Clay Lee comes to town hoping to take refuge from family ghosts, he has no idea that a fleeting encounter with an impossibly beautiful woman will upend his life. What begins as a brief obsession becomes the catalyst for exploring the meaning of love itself - in ways Clay could never...
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A former child actor searches for her true self in this novel-within-a-novel from a leader of the international feminist movement. Before she even turned fourteen, Julian Travis made enough money as a TV star to support her mother for life in an apartment in one of Manhattan's best buildings. But now Julian is in her mid-forties and things are not so glamorous or easy. Her mother is slowly dying of Parkinson's, her marriage of twenty years is steadily...
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The physical and emotional attraction a charismatic black female evangelist feels for a beautiful but damaged blues singer grows into a powerful, sensual love in a southern city rocked by racism, intolerance, and sexual violence The traveling minister Reverend Myrtle Black is a proud, strong African American woman, passionately devoted to God, justice, and intimate female contact. Enraged over a brutal assault on two young prostitutes, the good pastor...
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Jennifer Baron is a failed Olympic speed skater now running her family's foundation and trying to stay sober, when her billionaire father disappears. She travels to Israel in search of him, becoming recklessly entangled in his illegal dealings and with his enigmatic lover, Gila, a former Mossad agent gone bad. Along the way, she is drawn into the shadow worlds of the Promised Land, where career-jockeying government agents, fake Orthodox Jews, queer...
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London in the 17th century was a difficult place to make a living, especially for a young woman from the worker class. Betty's choices were limited. She could be a prostitute like her mother, or a servant in a rich household. Of the few other choices available to her, she chose to be a cook at a large factory. Life was tough, but it was about to become even tougher. When a couple of prostitutes attacked her at a pub, she almost lost her life. But,...
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Find out how Jems and Jamz came to be through the love, the laughter, and even the heartbreak that made the band what it is today.Don't Tell Me TwiceWhen Buck Miller, the lead singer of Jems and Jamz loses her girlfriend, Olive and lead guitarist to a rival band, her life takes a drastic turn. Just when everything seems like it is too much to handle, her band manager hires a new woman, Ziggy Johnson, to take Olive's place. Ziggy is charming and challenges...
18) Falling For You
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What do you do when a ghost is haunting your attic?For Tally, the answer is simple: enlist the help of her grumpy, yet capable, neighbor Ruby. The woman who does all the maintenance around the apartment complex hasn't said more than a dozen words to her in the two years they've known each other, but that's all about to change.Ruby knows two things. One, seven in the morning is too early to be woken up by her annoyingly cheerful neighbor. And two,...
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Award-winning author Elana Dykewomon's powerful debut novel about lesbian life in America during the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s Written when she was just twenty-four years old, Riverfinger Women is Elana Dykewomon's beloved, intimate coming-of-age novel about Inez and her circle of friends-the Riverfinger women-struggling to find themselves amid the changing social mores of the Civil Rights era. Inez has known she was a lesbian...
20) Outback Born
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Alinta, raised in a simple land far from the white man, is suddenly thrust into their realm through no fault of her own. Suddenly, she must learn to survive amongst these strange, unfamiliar creatures. But not all white men treat her the same: Some see her as the frightened girl she is, and some see her as the amazing woman she is about to become. Follow along as this primitive aboriginal child/woman attempts to survive in a new and rapidly changing...
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