Best Lesbian Romance 2014

Best Lesbian Romance 2014

Author: Radclyffe

Publisher: Cleis Press

Published: 2014-01-20

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1627780238

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Savor gorgeous writing and the pleasure of romance with Best Lesbian Romance 2014. The lesbian literati in this volume comprising the very best of the year raise the bar with tales that grab readers' attention, and their libidos, and have them coming back for more. Romance is many things: thrilling, inspiring, passionate, and life-altering. But most of all, love — whether new or lifelong — is filled with endless possibility. These 18 stories of love, intimacy, and soaring romance from Andrea Dale, Anna Meadows, Lee Lynch, Radclyffe, and the rest of the best, guide readers on an unforgettable journey of adventure, desire, excitement, and discovery.


My Lover, My Friend

My Lover, My Friend

Author: Lindsey Elder

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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What happens when a woman's best friend becomes something more? In these fiery true stories, women describe the explosive moment when their friend came into their arms as their lover, even for just one night. Lindsey Elder's series of true-life erotic stories includes the anthologies "Early Embraces, Early Embraces II, Early Embraces III "and "Beginnings." She lives in Los Angeles and is on the lookout for "your "story.


Keeping You a Secret

Keeping You a Secret

Author: Julie Anne Peters

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2007-07-31

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0316025755

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National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters delivers a moving, classic love story between two girls. With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Holland Jaeger. At least, it seems to be. But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have undeniable feelings for each other, but how will others react to their developing relationship? This moving love story is for fans of Nancy Garden's classic young adult coming out novel, Annie on My Mind. With her characteristic humor and breezy style, Peters has captured the compelling emotions of young love.


Curious Wine

Curious Wine

Author: Katherine V. Forrest

Publisher: Bella Books

Published: 2011-04-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1594939764

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The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery. Originally published by Naiad Press in 1983, Bella Books is proud to bring the bestselling romantic lesbian novel of all time back to print. With multiple printings and translations worldwide, Curious Wine is an enduring classic and on everyone's list of the very best in our literature.


Truly Wilde

Truly Wilde

Author: Joan Schenkar

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780306810794

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A biography of the niece of Oscar Wilde reveals a talented but troubled woman who destroyed a promising literary career through substance abuse and a series of distracting affairs. 15,000 first printing.


Journey To A Woman

Journey To A Woman

Author: Ann Bannon

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0857999737

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The classic 1950s love story from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and author of Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman and Beebo Brinker Would she throw away her entire life on the one wild chance that she might find the lost woman out of her past? Following on from classic novels Odd Girl Out, I am a Woman and Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman finds Laura in love among the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. Praise for Ann Bannon “Bannon's books grab you and don't let go” Village Voice “When I was young, Bannon's books let me imagine myself into her New York City neighborhoods of short-haired, dark-eyed butch women and stubborn, tight-lipped secretaries with hearts ready to be broken. Her books come close to the kind of books that had made me feel fatalistic and damned in my youth, but somehow she just managed to sustain a sense of hope. And of course, there was her romantic portrait of the kind of butch woman I idealized. I would have dated Beebo, no question” Dorothy Allison “Called trash by the literary world and pornography by the commercial world, Ann Bannon's books were hidden away on drugstore pulp racks. To pick out the book, carry it to the counter and face the other shoppers and the cashier was tantamount to coming out. But all across the country, lesbians were doing it” Joan Nestle “Little did Bannon know that her stories would become legends, inspiring countless fledgling dykes to flock to the Village, dog-eared copies of her books in hand, to find their own Beebos and Lauras and others who shared the love they dared not name” San Francisco Bay Guardian “Ann Bannon is a pioneer of dyke drama” On Our Backs “Shameless tales of wanton dyke lust are finally unveiled!” Out magazine


The Gay Detective Novel

The Gay Detective Novel

Author: Judith A. Markowitz

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 078648277X

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Gertrude Stein called it "the only really modern novel form that has come into existence," yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its authors call upon a century of development in the mystery genre, while providing new, more accurate images of lesbians and gay men than generally found in mainstream literature and popular media. This groundbreaking study of gay and lesbian detective fiction examines mystery series and historically significant stand-alone novels published since the early 1960s. Part I is an overview that describes how these novels make gay and lesbian life visible and forge new, powerful images. It also examines how they fit into the larger history of mystery fiction. The series analyses in Part II are grouped according to the type of main character (police officer, private investigator, amateur sleuth, etc.). Each section discusses main and secondary characters of that type, characteristic themes for the group, and more. The analyses of individual series cover main characters, themes, plot points and other elements. Comments from authors interviewed for this book play a central role in those analyses. Part III lists series-spanning themes (e.g., homophobia, the closet, gay marriage) and the novels and series that address each of those themes.


Twilight Girls

Twilight Girls

Author: Paula Christian

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2002-12-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780758203137

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Features two classic full-length novels following stewardess Val MacGregor as she loses her heart to passionate and caring Toni Molina, and comes to terms with her lifestyle in order to live and love with wild abandon.


Beebo Brinker

Beebo Brinker

Author: Ann Bannon

Publisher: Cleis Press Start

Published: 2001-06-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1573445754

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Ann Bannon was designated the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp” for authoring several landmark novels in the ’50s. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead characters who embraced their sexuality. With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in Beat-era Greenwich Village.