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  Girl Walking Backwards

  by Bett Williams

  Skye wants what all teenagers want — to survive high school. She lives in Southern California, though, which is making that difficult. Her mother has fallen victim to the pseudo-New Age culture and insists on dragging her to consciousness-raising workshops and hypnotists. As if this weren't difficult enough, Skye falls in love with Jessica, a troubled gothic punk girl who cuts herself regularly with sharp objects.... (more)
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  Beautiful Inez: A Novel

  by Bart Schneider

  Inez Roseman, a noted beauty, has a charismatic husband, two bright children, and a successful career as a lead violinist with the San Francisco Symphony. On the surface, she is a woman with an enviable life. But since the birth of her second child, Inez has been plagued by a depression that’s been deepened by her husband’s philandering. Now, at forty, the violinist is obsessed with thoughts of suicide. Sylvia... (more)
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  Annie on My Mind

  by Nancy Garden

  This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.   Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, “Nancy Garden has the distinction of being the first author for young adults to... (more)
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  Sappho: The Tenth Muse

  by Nancy Freedman

  In this finely drawn portrait, Sappho of Lesbos narrates her extraordinary life, from her childhood in war-torn Mitylene to her later relentless search for passionate love. Driven by the all-consuming fever of her Muse-inspired poetic gift, Sappho leads the reader on a journey that is at once turbulent and divine, desperate and sensuous. With breathtaking lucidity and great leaps of imagination, Nancy Freedman... (more)
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  Pages for You: A Novel

  by Sylvia Brownrigg

  Winner of a 2002 Lambda Literary Award In a steam-filled diner in a college towm, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The seventeen-year-old, new to evrything around her—college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life—is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her. When Flannery... (more)
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  Of Drag Kings And the Wheel of Fate

  by Susan Smith

  A sultry, mystical novel of love and destiny, of leather jackets and cigarettes, Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate will draw you into its passion, power, and magic, leaving you spellbound. Rosalind, a college professor, moves to Buffalo for her first job where she meets Taryn, a young butch tattoo artist, and they set the harsh upstate winter ablaze with their intense attraction, but find out it is so much more... (more)
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  Far from Xanadu

  by Julie Anne Peters

  Every day in Coalton is pretty much the same. Mike pumps iron in the morning, drives her truck to school, plays softball in the afternoon, and fixes the neighbor's plumbing at night. Maybe on a big day she stops by the Dairy Delite. But when an exotic new girl, Xanadu, arrives in the small Kansas town, Mike's world is turned upside down. Xanadu is everything Mike is not-cool, complicated, sexy, and . . . straight.... (more)
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  Elemental Logic: Book 2

  Earth Logic

  by Laurie J. Marks

  A sweeping drama of war, intrigue, magic, and love ith Earth Logic, Laurie Marks continues the epic of her stunningly imagined world of Shaftal, which she first introduced in Fire Logic. Shaftal has a ruler again, a woman with enough power to heal the war-torn land and expel the invading Sainnites. Or it would have a ruler, if the earth witch Karis G'deon consented to rule. Instead, she lives in obscurity with the... (more)
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  Aud Torvigen Mysteries: Book 2

  Stay

  by Nicola Griffith

  Aud (it rhymes with "shroud" ) Torvingen is six feet tall with blond hair and blue eyes. She can restore a log cabin with antique tools or put a man in a coma with her bare hands. As imagined by Nicola Griffith in this ferocious masterpiece of literary noir, Aud is a hero who combines the tortured complexity with moral authority. In the aftermath of her lover's murder, the last thing a grieving Aud wants is... (more)
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  Substitute for Love

  by Karin Kallmaker

  A deep kiss and a single rule. Like most women in dead-end relationships, Holly Markham was used to finding substitutes for love. Like chocolate. Fun times with good friends. Throwing herself into her work. But throwing herself into the arms of a leather-clad stranger was never on her list. When Holly's best friend Tori takes her to a dance for lesbians only, she realizes that Tori is gently trying to push... (more)
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  Hearts Aflame

  by Ronica Black

  A poignant, erotic romance packed with adventure and set in the harsh beauty of the Arizona countryside. Real estate guru Krista Wyler is soon at the mercy of the Arizona desert when she learns she has inherited her family's business, Wyler Ranch. Her aunt is dying and her uncle is no longer capable of making decisions. Krista reluctantly moves in, but her plan is to sell the ranch as soon as... (more)
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  Strapped

  by Laurinda D. Brown

  Seeking escape from the pain that become her life, Monique Cummings finds refuge the only way she knows how. Like the clothes shoved in the bottom of her duffle bag when she flees her mother s house, she packs away the naiveté of her lovely, pigtailed young girl she used to be and replaces it with a newfound masculine boldness. Seeking refuge in a lesbian existence, Monique morphs into a street thug with the soul... (more)
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  What We All Long For

  by Dionne Brand

  “They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.” What We All Long For follows the overlapping stories of a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings living in downtown Toronto. There’s Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who’ve never recovered from losing one of their children in the crush to board a boat out of Vietnam in the 1970s. Tuyen defines... (more)
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  Emma Victor: Book 3

  She Came by the Book

  by Mary Wings

  Protecting the sealed papers of an assassinated gay politician, lesbian P.I. Emma Victor is attacked just before another woman is murdered during the opening of an archive dedicated to the politician's memory. Reprint. AB. K. PW.
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  My Life as a Boy: A Woman's Story

  by Kim Chernin

  A provocative and startling memoir follows a woman trying to figure out what love is, struggling to understand what happens between desire and the determination to possess the object of that desire, and discovering what it is like to chase after what you want.
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  Tea

  by Stacey D'Erasmo

  'D'Erasmo unspools the life of Isable Gold in 3 distinct phases: a child of 8 who loses her troubled mother to suicide; a teen discovering she likes girls as much as pot and Joni Mitchell; and a 22-year-old scrambling to keep her bohemian dreams and her relationship with a cranky Greek girlfriend alive in Lower Manhattan. With wry humour and acute lyricism that recall Lorrie Moore, D'Erasmo reveals how life's true... (more)
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  Crush

  by Carrie Mac

  Just when she thinks she knows who she is, Hope falls in love--and her world is turned upside down. (RL3.8)
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  Every Dark Desire

  by Fiona Zedde

  Pleasure without limits... Desire without rules... Love without mercy... Naomi McElroy's life in Jamaica has always been about the comforts of family and home. But secretly, she yearns for something more. When she surrenders to seduction in a jasmine-scented garden under a full moon, her life is changed forever. In that moment of complete ecstasy, Naomi becomes Belle, one of the undead whose carnal... (more)
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  The IHOP Papers

  by Ali Liebegott

  Francesca, a disgruntled nineteen-year-old lesbian, tries desperately to pull together the pieces of her scattered life. This hilarioius, heartfelt novel opens with Francesca newly arrived in San Francisco. She has fled her hometown, where she rented her childhood room from the new family who moved in when her parents moved out. The new tenants happened to be her childhood babysitter and her alcoholic husband. But... (more)
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  Another Love

  by Erzse?bet Galgo?czi

  A woman journalist who exposes the hypocrisy of the Soviet-dominated press is found murdered. With a plot that could have been ripped from today’s headlines, Another Love offers “a finely balanced blend of entertainment and political commentary” (Publishers Weekly). A great novel of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Soviets, Another Love is a classic of Eastern European literature. Lieutenant Marosi... (more)