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Affinity
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1573228737 (1-57322-873-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might admire. In her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters explored secrets and longing--capping off this lesbian romp with a utopian-socialist vision. Her intricate follow-up is just as sensual but infinitely darker, its moral more difficult to descry. Its stylistic and psychological rewards, however, are visible at every turn, the author's persuasive imagination matched by her gift for storytelling.
In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corridors. This plain woman on the verge of 30 has come to comfort those behind bars, several of whom Waters brings to instant, sad life. And our Lady Visitor plans to take her role dead seriously, having recovered from two years of nervous indolence in her family's Chelsea house. One person, however, makes her job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or "eye" as these devices are known), Margaret hears "a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story." Peering inward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions--a woman turned toward the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: "As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow..."
Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but this medium is in for fraud and assault, her last session having gone very badly indeed. Suffice it to say that the first full encounter between these two very different women is enthralling. "You think spiritualism a kind of fancy," Selina riddles. "Doesn't it seem to you, now you are here, that anything might be real, since Millbank is?" And soon enough Margaret receives several viable signs of the supernatural: a locket disappears from her room, flowers mysteriously appear, and her dazzling friend knows everything about her. Strangest of all, Selina seems to love her.
As Margaret records her weekly prison forays, her own past comes into focus, notably her plans to travel to Italy with her first love (who is now her sister-in-law). But her current journal, she convinces herself, is to be very different from her last one, which "took as long to burn as human hearts, they say, do take." Meanwhile, Waters offers a narrative two-for-one, placing Margaret's diary cheek by jowl with Selina's chronicle of her pre-Millbank existence. This dispassionate, staccato record initially suggests that we can separate truth from desire. Or can we? What Waters's haunting creation leaves us with is a more painful reality--that knowledge and belief are entirely different things. --Kerry Fried [via]
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- Affinity: ISBN 1573221562 (1-57322-156-2)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Affinity: ISBN 1573228737 (1-57322-873-7)
  Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
by Erica Fischer

ISBN 1555834507 (1-55583-450-7)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns

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Acclaimed in Germany and England, this tragic and remarkable real-life love story won a Lambda Literary Award when it was first published in America in 1995. Lilly Wust ("Aimée") was a conventional middle-class mother of four, estranged from her philandering husband, when she met Felice Schragenheim ("Jaguar") in 1941. Their passionate affair unfolded against the backdrop of the deportation of Jews from Berlin, but several months passed before Felice could even bring herself to tell Lilly that she was Jewish and living illegally on the streets. "I knew, of course, what it meant," Lilly recalled in old age. "Not for a moment did I think that I too could be in danger. On the contrary, all I wanted to do now was to save her." Lilly's heroic efforts to conceal and protect Felice through the next two years make for painful and inspiring reading. Felice was arrested in August 1944 and sent her last letter to Lilly four months later. In 1981 Lilly was awarded the German Federal Service Cross, though no one could read this as a happy ending. --Regina Marler [via]
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- Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943: ISBN 0060183500 (0-06-018350-0)
  Hardcover, Harpercollins
- Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943: ISBN 1555834507 (1-55583-450-7)
  Softcover, Alyson Pubns
Ammonite
by Nicola Griffith

ISBN 0345452380 (0-345-45238-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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In Ammonite, the 1994 James Tiptree Jr. Award winner, the attempts to colonize the planet Jeep have uncovered a selective virus that kills all men and all but a few women. The remaining women undergo changes that enable them to communicate with one another and the planet itself, and give to birth to healthy, genetically diverse children. Marguerite Angelica Taishan is an anthropologist who realizes this phenomena and makes the decision to give herself up to the planet to uncover its mysteries. [via]
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- Ammonite: ISBN 0345378911 (0-345-37891-1)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
- Ammonite: ISBN 0345452380 (0-345-45238-0)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Annie on My Mind
by Nancy Garden

ISBN 0374400113 (0-374-40011-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Liza never knew that falling in love could be so wonderful . . . and so confusing.

"'Liza,' Mom said, looking into my eyes, 'I want you to tell me the truth, not because I want to pry, but because I have to know. This could get very unpleasant . . . Now--have you and Annie--done any more than the usual experimenting . . . '

'No, Mom,' I said, trying to look back at her calmly. I'm not proud of it, I make no excuses--I lied to her."
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Beebo Brinker
by Ann Bannon

ISBN 1573441252 (1-57344-125-2)
Softcover, Cleis Pr

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When housewife Ann Bannon brought her first novel to a paperback publisher in the mid-1950s, the publisher skimmed the manuscript and told her to scrap everything but the college love affair between two women. "There's your real story," he said as she blushed, ashamed that her secret obsession had been so obvious to him. The resulting novel was Odd Girl Out, one of the bestselling paperbacks of the period, and perhaps the best (and least depressing) example of lesbian pulp fiction, a genre that flourished from the end of the Second World War until the changing laws on censorship made much seamier material commonplace, and the growing gay rights movement brought the gay life out of the shadows. Although the last of a four-book series, Beebo Brinker introduces Bannon's central character, a young, handsome butch who arrives in New York scared and innocent (and wearing a dress) but soon has the femmes of Greenwich Village in the palm of her hand. Essential reading for anyone interesting in lesbian herstory; a period piece (and a welcome reprint) that has worn remarkably well.--Regina Marler [via]
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- Beebo Brinker: ISBN 0930044878 (0-930044-87-8)
  Softcover, Naiad Pr
- Beebo Brinker: ISBN 1573441252 (1-57344-125-2)
  Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold : The History of a Lesbian Community
by Elizabeth L. Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis

ISBN 0140235507 (0-14-023550-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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"Soars on the plain yet eloquent voices of the women...A necessary and overdue addition to the archives of lesbian and gay history."The Boston Globe. Chronicles working-class lesbians in Buffalo, New York from the 1930s through the 60s.
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
by Madeline D. Davis, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy

ISBN 0415902932 (0-415-90293-2)
Hardcover, Routledge

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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances, nevertheless became powerful agents of historical change.
Based on 13 years of research, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold ranges over such topics as sex, relationships, coming out, butch-fem roles, motherhood, aging, racism, work, oppression and pride. Kennedy and Davis provide a unique insider's perspective on butch-fem culture and argue that the roots of gay and lesbian liberation are found specifically in the determined resistance of working-class lesbians. [via]
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The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend
by Mabel Maney

ISBN 1573442275 (1-57344-227-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr

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Let me be the first to state plainly that Miss Mabel Maney is a pernicious influence on American boys and girls. Her dangerous spoofs of the 1950s surely threaten the morale of impressionable young people, who must learn to accept and appreciate their proper places in life. Nancy Clue, the famous girl detective, may be able to solve exciting mysteries without displacing her shiny Titian locks, but why does her friend Midge dress like a boy, use curse words, and smoke cigarettes? And why does Nancy's sweet new girlfriend, Cherry Aimless, tremble under her starched white nurse's cap as she admires the bulging biceps of police detective Jackie Jones? I suspect that in her private life, the author freely mixes plaids with stripes and wears white after Labor Day. As for her devilish success at demeaning the finest epoch in American manners, I can only say, "Darn and double darn." --Regina Marler [via]
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The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
by Mabel Maney

ISBN 1573442267 (1-57344-226-7)
Softcover, Cleis Pr

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Nurse Cherry Aimlesss first vacation from her hectic career in a big-city hospital takes her to visit her spinster Aunt Gertrude in thrilling San Francisco. Wistfully trading her starched white cap and dress for a bright yellow poplin frock with a flared skirt, young Cherry takes to the highway, never imagining the gay adventures that await her. Imagine her surprise to learn that Aunt Gertrude has been kidnapped! Armed only with the contents of her purse, and with the help of new chums Midge, Velma, and a dashing female police officer named Jackie, the plucky but innocent Cherry must save her aunt, find a gaggle of missing nuns, and stop an illegal land grab all under the warm gaze of her hero, girl detective Nancy Clue. And when the queer caper has ended, will there be a chance for Nancy and Cherry?

Mabel Maneys camp classic The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse has been beloved by readers since it was first published in 1993. This sparkling parody of 1950s girl adventure stories will make you laugh out loud and long for a lemon Jell-O mold. Golly, its a good time!
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Chloe Plus Olivia
by Lillian Faderman

ISBN 0140172483 (0-14-017248-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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This is a literary anthology with each piece set in an historical and literary context that seeks to redefine four centuries of lesbian writing. From the verse of Sappho in 600BC to Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" published in 1928, there is little women's writing that is recognised as "lesbian". A review of the shifting concept of "lesbian literature" is offered, followed by examples of six different genres - Romantic Friendship, Sexual Inversion, Exotic Inversion, Exotic and Evil Lesbians, Lesbian Encoding, Lesbian Feminism and Post-Lesbian Feminism. Works as diverse as Willa Cather's "My Antonia" and Virginia Woolf's "Orlando", poetry by Gertrude Stein and Amy Lowell, fiction by Carson McCullers, Helen Hulll and Alice Walker are examined here. In addition, writing by men who focused on women's relationship is included. This is Faderman's own personal search for a definition of lesbian literature. [via]
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- Chloe Plus Olivia: ISBN 0670846384 (0-670-84638-4)
  Hardcover, Penguin USA
- Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventh Century to the Present: ISBN 0140172483 (0-14-017248-3)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

ISBN 1568496281 (1-56849-628-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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- The Color Purple: ISBN 1568496281 (1-56849-628-1)
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Curious Wine
by Katherine V. Forrest

ISBN 1555836615 (1-55583-661-5)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns

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The Dyke and the Dybbuk
by Ellen Galford

ISBN 1580050123 (1-58005-012-3)
Softcover, Seal Press

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- The Dyke and the Dybbuk: ISBN 1878067516 (1-878067-51-6)
  Softcover, Pub Group West
- The Dyke and the Dybbuk: ISBN 1580050123 (1-58005-012-3)
  Softcover, Seal Press
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Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1555838286 (1-55583-828-6)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns

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Change is afoot as the best-selling Dykes to Watch Out For series moves to Alyson. Alison Bechdel continues to illuminate the way we live through the comic strip serial that has become a national treasure. In the tenth book in the series, Mo, the curmudgeonly womens bookstore clerk, blithely rants about Dr. Laura, Donald Rumsfeld, gay Enron execs, and the pernicious effects of Frogger, while her cozy counterculture community is shifting beneath her feet. Her job is in jeopardy as Madwimmin Bookss customer base defects to the chains. Her ex, Clarice, is displaying symptoms of soccer mom-itis. Her best friend, Lois, has announced her new name is Louis. And her old pal Sparrow considers whether having a baby with her boyfriend will compromise her identity as a radical lesbian feminist. Meanwhile, Toni doesnt know what do when Clarices George W. Bush-induced depression lasts long after the inauguration and, in the wake of 9-11, her friends square off on questions of idealism, violence, compassion, patriotism, and dissent. As they hash out their ideological differences, a black-and-white world takes on surprisingly variegated shades of gray.
Alison Bechdel is the author of nine previous Dykes to Watch Out For books, three of which have been Lambda Literary Award winners, as was also her autobiography, The Indelible Alison Bechdel. She lives in Vermont.
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Dykes to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563410087 (1-56341-008-7)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Fat Girl Dances With Rocks
by Susan Stinson

ISBN 1883523028 (1-883523-02-8)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1573229725 (1-57322-972-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.

One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be left to live out her days in a mental hospital. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways. . . . But no one and nothing is as it seems in this > Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.

The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "consummate skill" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career. [via]
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- Fingersmith: ISBN 1573222038 (1-57322-203-8)
  Hardcover, Riverhead Books
- Fingersmith: ISBN 1573229725 (1-57322-972-5)
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg

ISBN 1400064627 (1-4000-6462-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again...

"Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!"
--Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller."
--The New York Times

"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful."
--Los Angeles Times

"Funny and macabre."
--The Washington Post

"Courageous and wise."
--Houston Chronicle [via]
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Fun Home: Una Familia Tragicomica
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 0618871713 (0-618-87171-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.

Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
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- Fun Home: Una Familia Tragicomica: ISBN 0618477942 (0-618-47794-2)
  Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
- Fun Home: Una Familia Tragicomica: ISBN 0618871713 (0-618-87171-3)
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Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563410869 (1-56341-086-9)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Will Alison Bechdel ever put a foot wrong? Will she ever lose her sense of humor about the goofy vicissitudes of the lesbian community? If this seventh book of her serial cartoon collection about Mo, the feminist bookseller everywoman and her cohorts, is any indication, I'd have to say no. Bechdel here sets her wry and wonderful sights on the explosion of lesbian erotica. [via]
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- Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out for: ISBN 1563410869 (1-56341-086-9)
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Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For : Cartoons
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563410877 (1-56341-087-7)
Hardcover, Firebrand Books

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The Indelible Alison Bechdel
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563410974 (1-56341-097-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563410966 (1-56341-096-6)
Softcover, Firebrand Books

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Go behind the pen and into the psyche of "dyke to watch out for" Alison Bechdel, cartoon chronicler extraordinaire, as the inner workings of lesbiana's most quick-witted, longest-running social commentator are revealed. Illustrations throughout . [via]
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Martha Moody
by Susan Stinson

ISBN 1883523079 (1-883523-07-9)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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More Dykes to Watch Out For
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 0932379451 (0-932379-45-1)
Softcover, Firebrand Books

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- More Dykes to Watch Out for: ISBN 093237946X (0-932379-46-X)
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New Improved!: Dykes to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 0932379796 (0-932379-79-6)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Academic, Scholarly, Research [via]
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- New Improved!: Dykes to Watch Out for: ISBN 093237980X (0-932379-80-X)
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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1594482306 (1-59448-230-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners-three women and a young man with a past-whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event. [via]
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- The Night Watch: ISBN 159448905X (1-59448-905-X)
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
by Lillian Faderman

ISBN 0140171223 (0-14-017122-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and oral histories by lesbians of all ages and backgrounds, uncovering a narrative of uncommon depth and originality.
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- Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America: ISBN 0231074883 (0-231-07488-3)
  Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
- Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America: ISBN 0140171223 (0-14-017122-3)
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson

ISBN 0802135161 (0-8021-3516-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Jeanette, the protagonist of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and the author's namesake, has issues--"unnatural" ones: her adopted mam thinks she's the Chosen one from God; she's beginning to fancy girls; and an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Already Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical first novel is not your typical coming-of-age tale.
Brought up in a working-class Pentecostal family, up North, Jeanette follows the path her Mam has set for her. This involves Bible quizzes, a stint as a tambourine-playing Sally Army officer and a future as a missionary in Africa, or some other "heathen state". When Jeanette starts going to school ("The Breeding Ground") and confides in her mother about her feelings for another girl ("Unnatural Passions"), she's swept up in a feverish frenzy for her tainted soul. Confused, angry and alone, Jeanette strikes out on her own path, that involves a funeral parlour and an ice-cream van. Mixed in with the so-called reality of Jeanette's existence growing up are unconventional fairy tales that transcend the everyday world, subverting the traditional preconceptions of the damsel in distress.
In Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Winterson knits a complicated picture of teenage angst through a series of layered narratives, incorporating and subverting fairytales and myths, to present a coherent whole, within which her stories can stand independently. Imaginative and mischievous, she is a born storyteller, teasing and taunting the reader to reconsider their worldview. --Nicola Perry [via]
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Patience and Sarah
by Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue

ISBN 1551521911 (1-55152-191-1)
Softcover, Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd

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In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. With no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah try to follow their hearts. Defying society and history, they buy a farm and discover they can live together, away from the world that had sought to limit them and their love . . . [via]
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The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith, Claire Morgan

ISBN 1562800035 (1-56280-003-5)
Softcover, Naiad Pr

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" First Digital Edition
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Therese is nineteen and working in a department store during the Christmas shopping season. She dates men, although not with real enthusiasm. One day a beautiful older woman comes over to her counter and buys a doll. As the purchase is a C.O.D. order, Therese makes a mental note of the customers address. She is intrigued and drawn to the woman. Although young, inexperienced and shy, she writes a note to the customer, Carol, and is elated and surprised when Carol invites her to meet.

Therese realizes she has strong feelings for Carol, but is unsure of what they represent. Carol, in the process of a bitter separation and divorce, is also quite lonely. Soon the two women begin spending a great deal of time together. Before long, they are madly and hopelessly in love. The path is not easy for them, however. Carol also has a child and a very suspicious husband¾dangerous ground for the lovers. When the women leave New York and travel west together, they discover the choices theyve made to be together will have lasting effects on both their lives.

Considered to be the first lesbian pulp novel to break the pulp publishing industry-enforced pattern of tragic consequences for its lesbian heroines, The Price of Salt was written pseudonymously by Patricia Highsmith the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

As one reviewer wrote in 1952, Claire Morgan is completely natural. She has a story to tell and she tells it with an almost conversational ease. Her people are neither degenerate monsters nor fragile victims of the social order. They mustand dopay a price for thinking, feeling and loving differently, but they are courageous and true to themselves throughout.

About Lesbian Pulp Fiction:

A new revolution was underway at the start of the 1940s in Americaa paperback revolution that would change the way publishers would produce and distribute books and the reading public would consume them. In 1939 a new publishing companyPocket Booksstormed onto the scene with the publication of its first paperbound book. Unlike hardback books, these pulp paperbacks were inexpensive and readily available everywhere. The American public could not get enough of them.

During the 1940s, mysteries and romances were the hot sellers. In the early 1950s, new pulp fiction subgenres emergedscience fiction, westerns, gay & lesbian fiction, juvenile delinquent and sleaze, for instancethat would tantalize readers with gritty, realistic and lurid stories never seen before. Publishers soon came to realize that sex sells. In a competitive frenzy for readers, they turned from straightforward "tasteful" cover images to alluring covers that frequently featured a sexy woman in some form of undress, along with a suggestive tag line that promised stories of sex and violence within the covers. To this day, the pulp cover art of these vintage paperback books is just as sought after as the books themselves were sixty years ago.

We are excited to make these wonderful pulp fiction stories available in ebook format to new generations of readers, as a new revolutionthe ebook revolutionis in full swing. We hope you will enjoy this nostalgic look back at a period in American history when dames were dangerous, tough-guys were deadly and dolls were downright delicious. [via]
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Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown

ISBN 055327886X (0-553-27886-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize. [via]
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Slow River
by Nicola Griffith, Ellen Key Harris

ISBN 0345395379 (0-345-39537-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The dark and intensely involving story of a young woman's struggle for survival and independence on the gritty underside of a near-future Europe, by the author of Ammonite, which won the Tiptree and Lambda Awards. [via]
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Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563410397 (1-56341-039-7)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563411024 (1-56341-102-4)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Stir-Fry
by Emma Donoghue

ISBN 1555837239 (1-55583-723-9)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns

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Stone Butch Blues
by Leslie Feinberg

ISBN 1555838537 (1-55583-853-7)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns

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Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? Thats the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early 70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence. [via]
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Strange Sisters : The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969
by Jaye Zimet, Ann Bannon

ISBN 0140284028 (0-14-028402-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1573221368 (1-57322-136-8)
Softcover, Tarcher/Putnam

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The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it. Her place is in her father's seaside restaurant, shucking shellfish and stirring soup, singing all the while. "Although I didn't long believe the story told to me by Mother--that they had found me as a baby in an oyster-shell, and a greedy customer had almost eaten me for lunch--for eighteen years I never doubted my own oysterish sympathies, never looked far beyond my father's kitchen for occupation, or for love." At night Nancy Astley often ventures to the nearby music hall, not that she has illusions of being more than an audience member. But the moment she spies a new male impersonator--still something of a curiosity in England circa 1888--her years of innocence come to an end and a life of transformations begins.
Tipping the Velvet, all 472 pages of it, is as saucy, as tantalizing, and as touching as the narrator's first encounter with the seductive but shame-ridden Miss Kitty Butler. And at first even Nancy's family is thrilled with her gender-bending pal, all but her sister, best friend, and bedmate, Alice, "her eyes shining cold and dull, with starlight and suspicion." Not to worry. Soon Nancy and Kitty are off to London, their relationship close though (alas for our heroine) sisterly. We know that bliss will come, and it does, in an exceptionally charged moment. A lesser author would have been content to stop her story there, but Waters has much more in mind for her buttonholing heroine, and for us. In brief, her Everywoman with a sexual difference goes from success onstage to heartbreak to a stint as a male prostitute (necessity truly is the mother of invention) to keeping house for a brother and sister in the Labour movement. And did I mention her long stint as a plaything in the pleasure palace of a rich Sapphist extraordinaire? Diana Lethaby is as cruel as she is carnal, and even the well-concealed Cavendish Ladies' Club isn't outré enough for her. Kitting Nancy out in full, elegant drag, she dares the front desk to turn them away. "We are here," she mocks, "for the sake of the irregular."
Only after some seven years of hard twists and sensual turns does Nancy conclude that a life of sensation is not enough. Still, Tipping the Velvet is so entertaining that readers will wish her sentimental--and hedonistic--education had taken twice as long. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Trash
by Dorothy Allison

ISBN 0452283515 (0-452-28351-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel

ISBN 1563410672 (1-56341-067-2)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Venus of Chalk
by Susan Stinson

ISBN 1563411377 (1-56341-137-7)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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The Well of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall

ISBN 0385416091 (0-385-41609-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career. [via]
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Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson

ISBN 0679744479 (0-679-74447-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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Zami, a New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde

ISBN 0895941228 (0-89594-122-8)
Softcover, Crossing Pr

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ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the authors vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lordes work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.Off Our Backs [via]
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