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The Unlit Lamp (1924) is a novel by Radclyffe Hall. After publishing several collections of poems, Hall turned to fiction in 1924 with two successful novels. The Unlit Lamp is the story of a young woman with an unhappy home life who falls in love with an older teacher and dreams of moving to London to become a doctor. Despite her independent spirit, Joan struggles to escape the clutches of her controlling mother. "Mrs. Ogden put her hand up to her...
2) Hood
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A tale of grief and lust, frustration and hilarity, death and family
Penelope O'Grady and Cara Wall are risking disaster when, like teenagers in any intolerant time and place-here, a Dublin convent school in the late 1970s-they fall in love. Yet Cara, the free spirit, and Pen, the stoic, craft a bond so strong it seems as though nothing could sever it: not the bickering, not the secrets, not even Cara's infidelities.
But thirteen years on, a car...
4) Dream lover
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Jo Creighton's life was in tatters. All she had to show for the last ten years was a failed marriage and trampled self-esteem. She'd been a naive fool who believed in fairy tales and true love.
Gathering the last remnants of her resolve Jo decides to make a clean break, get away, find the person she used to be. So she takes leave from work and escapes to the mountains where she's sure the clean, fresh air will clear the negativity, the fuzzy cobwebs...
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Syrah Ardani tried independence-but the call of the Napa Valley hills and rolling vineyards of her family's winery have brought her home again. She is content with her ordered world until she learns that her father's feckless management has put Ardani Vineyards into receivership.
Corporate turnaround specialist Toni Blanchard's arrival is preceded by tales of her slash-and-burn techniques. Determined to meet this soulless corporate raider head on,...
16) Worth every step
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Two women, each at pivotal moments in their life, undertake to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, an experience that will change them permanently.
17) Switch
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The secret lives of waitresses in the M&H Diner in Cartwheel, Indiana. Caddie's secret is that she is a lesbian, Gwen wishes she were not a mother, and no one knows of Selena's fetish that makes her return to the diner after closing.
18) In every port
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Jessica has a condo in San Francisco, as well as a prestigious career as a management consultant that takes her all over the country. She has lovers in Chicago and San Antonio, yet tells herself she's not really a lesbian. Then she meets the captivating Cat.
19) The touch typist
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A novel about sanity, secrets and cyber-sex . Joss has a nice lover, a nasty neighbor and a job on a pointless magazine. She has the kind of pals who go camping for the weekend and wind up lying in a field getting stoned. They don't know she has another life on-line, where she meets women for cyber fun. But one friend does know -- one friend who would like nothing better than "a private chat" with Joss. And it's her best friend's girlfriend. A funny...
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The New Order among animals in a forest. After Great Horned Owl captures power, he announces a program to defend the original inhabitants--the First Ones--from an invasion of refugees and exiles, threatening the forest's way of life. When a female rabbit and a female fox decide to live together Owl has them banished. Eventually Owl is overthrown by a wizard. A political fable by the late author of Becoming a Man.