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1) Bittersweet
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Two women, Sarah and Imogene, defy convention, social strictures, and male-dominated society to carve out their own lives and pursue forbidden love in the late-nineteenth-century American West.
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"Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles"--Jacket
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"Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted by 'polite' society. Shockingly candid for its time, this novel was the very first to condemn homophobic society for its unfair treatment of gays and lesbians." -- From the publisher.
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Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously popular role as hippie mom, Elyse Keaton, on Family Ties. Her warmth, humor, and brilliant smile made her one of the most popular women on television, with millions of viewers following her on the small screen each week. Yet her success masked a tumultuous personal story and a harrowing private life. For the first time, Baxter is ready to share her incredible...
7) Gold fever
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Kate Ballantyne's life was cruising along very nicely. No highs. No lows. Just the way she liked it. She had a good job and a casual relationship. Then Patsy Maclean had a sixtieth birthday and Kate learned her entire family would be attending the party, including her younger daughter, Ashley.
As an orphaned ten-year-old, Kate's young life had been turned upside down when she was sent to live with her aunt in the historic gold mining city of Charters...
9) I am a woman
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I Am a Woman, first published in 1959, is the second installment of the lesbian pulp fiction series, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. It follows Laura, a young woman who moves to Greenwich Village and grapples with her recently discovered identity as a lesbian.
Ann Bannon, the author of I Am a Woman, did not live the free-spirited Greenwich Village life of her literary heroines. Immediately after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,...
10) Car pool
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Car pool heaven turns into car pool hell when Anthea Rossignole realizes her lover is having an affair with the other woman sharing their daily commute. Now shes looking for someone to share the long drive. When Shay and Anthea begin carpooling together, they find that first impressions of each other dont bode well, and second impressions dont improve their chemistry much. But when Shay uncovers alarming test results in her work information that...
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Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, sent away because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor of this small town. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family. So, with a hundred dollars in her pocket and a one-way bus ticket out of town, Jacqueline...
12) Inland passage
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In the most traditional of romantic settings, on board a ship that travels the Inland Passage, two women discover new possibility ... These and many other soul-deep, gentle tales explore the conventional and unconventional relationships in all our lives - relationships among lovers and friends and wives and husbands and children and family ... and the power we all have to sometimes damage, sometimes ennoble those around us.
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After the stress of a long Navy project and Kerry's father's death, Dar and Kerry decide to take their first long vacation together. A cruise in the eastern Caribbean seems just the nice, peaceful time they needed to unwind and relax. It is not long, though, until they get involved in a family feud, an old murder, and come face to face with pirates as their vacation turns into a race to find the key to decades old puzzle.
14) The unlit lamp
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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...
18) Folly
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Folly is a working-class, lesbian novel about black and white women who go on strike in a North Carolina factory town, and two of them fall in love.
19) Aquamarine
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"With dazzling ingenuity and a bittersweet sense of regret, Aquamarine explores the intricate ways early choices--made impulsively or agonizingly--reverberate throughout a life. Shown in triptych is Jesse Austin, on the verge of turning forty in 1990, inhabiting three equally possible lives, each aching with past loss, each defined by headlong love."--Book jacket.
20) 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...