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  Valencia

  by Michelle Tea

  Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the... (more)
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  Gargantua and Pantagruel

  by Francois Rabelais

  Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times—from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires&#151is one of the great comic... (more)
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  Rent Girl

  by Michelle Tea

  Publishers Weekly called Michelle Tea ""a modern-day Beat, a kind of pop ambassador to the world of the tattooed, pierced, politicized and sex-radical queer-grrls of San Francisco. <She> dramatizes the hopes and hurts, apathies and ambitions of young lesbians looking for love in the Mission District."" Rent Girl continues Tea's graphic and uncompromising autobiographical bender, telling the story of her... (more)