Terry Mangan Memorial Library

"Being Someone" is the story of how two women stay in love while losing four jobs, moving across the country, and ending up on opposite sides of an anti-nuke demonstration. -- Back cover

"Cactus is a novel about four women, how they affect each other, how they struggle to survive. As her daughters grow up, Bea begins to reassess her marriage, her youth, her likely future as a superfluous middle-aged, middle class woman. Ann and Dee are lesbian feminists trying, against formidable odds, to make a world in which they would be at home. Eleanor, finding herself drawn into relationships with the others, sees her painfully acquired independence...

"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.

A novel on Olivia, a lesbian alcoholic, as she goes from one lover to another, always reverting to her favorite, "the seductive woman in green," as she calls the bottle. The novel follows her quest for sobriety and self-respect.

Carmen and Julia seem like the perfect couple--until an old lover returns from the past, and turns up again a month later, dead. Carmen helps a friend accused of the murder, but another body appears, drawing her into a maze of cruelty.--From publisher description.

Aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas that reach from the Greeks to the Grand...