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	All Books by Joan Alden - Author of : Before our Eyes Paperback - 152 pages (September 1993) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563410338 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Bern is home for her father's funeral. She now has sole responsibility for her brother, who has been on life support for 14 years, ever since a boating accident when he was a teenager, and because of whom Bern has felt alienated from her parents. The household she returns to has taken on a gothic cast on account of her brother, to be sure, but also because of her mother's death four years ago in a car crash while she was en route to a new life with a lesbian lover, Gillian. In the novel, Bern relives scenes from the years since her brother's accident and struggles to come to terms with personal demons, anger, and guilt." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Madelyn M. Arnold - Author of : A Year of Full Moons Hardcover - 304 pages (October 2000) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312199651 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Brilliant, tomboyish Josephine Margaret Butler-better known as Jos-is the second oldest child in a large, poor family living in provincial Summit, Kentucky, in 1963. After her mother has a miscarriage and retreats into herself, Jos and her sister Ellie are faced with the responsibility of running the household and taking care of their siblings and their decidedly eccentric, sometimes brilliant, and always difficult father. The nation's mounting tensions over civil rights and the Vietnam War finally begin to infiltrate Summit at the same time that Jos begins to act upon her secret passion for women. During the course of this eventful year, Jos realizes that only one thing-her intellect-can provide escape from the stifling family dynamic and small town in which she is trapped." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Madelyn M. Arnold - Author of : Bird-Eyes Paperback - 240 pages (July 2000) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312262949 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "In 1963, being different can be illegal-as sixteen-year-old Latisha, a lesbian runaway, discovers when she is sentenced to treatment in the locked ward of a mental hospital for being "incorrigible" and a threat to society. Her best friend in the ward is Anna, an older deaf woman committed for depression. Although she's forbidden to communicate in sign language, Anna teaches Latisha and gives her a name: "Bird-Eyes." Their growing friendship and their alliance against the hospital oppression forms a bond that is the catalyst for Latisha's eventual act of defiance. A brilliant novel of friendship and defiance, of passion and resistance." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Marci Blackman - Author of : Po Man's Child Paperback - 240 pages (April 1999) Manic D Press; ISBN: 0916397599 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; The faint of heart and delicate of stomach and sensibilities may shy away from Blackman's first novel, for it opens with a detailed, gory description of ritualistic injury made lubricious in the context of lesbian S&M. Lavishly, lushly eroticizing abuse to illustrate the protagonist Po's tactic for warding off encompassing numbness, Blackman's writing may turn some people off precisely because it is so finely honed, and others because it reeks of danger and comes close in its appeal to that of the infamous so-called snuff films, in which sexual abuse is carried to the extremity of murder for the delectation of those who get turned on by such things. Blackman renders her theme--the tragedy of the American family--in extreme terms, as if smashing her fist in one's face, and readers simply cannot avoid its impact." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sara Levi Calderon - Author of : The Two Mujeres Paperback - 211 pages (January 1995) Aunt Lute Books; ISBN: 1879960001 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Cultural Drama - Forbidden Lesbian Love - Traces the romance between two Mexican Jewish women, and the constraints they face from both family and community." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Juliet Carrera - Author of : Inside Out Paperback - 396 pages (June 30, 2000) The Haworth Press, Inc.; ISBN: 156023203X "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Love denied . . . and rediscovered! When hidden passions are brought to light and long-held secrets revealed, either triumph or tragedy can follow. Inside Out explores this dangerous territory through the lives of three very different women. A deeply closeted politician will hurt anyone-even those closest to her-in her ruthless climb to the top. A free-spirited musician, determined to stay true to herself, will do whatever it takes to follow her heart. The woman caught between them struggles to reconcile her lifelong pragmatism with her newly reawakened desires. Set in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., this novel weaves contemporary issues into a compelling tale of political treachery and persistent love. Filled with both humor and heartache, Inside Out will draw readers into its world." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jane Delynn - Author of : In Thrall Paperback - 260 pages (May 1999) Painted Leaf Pr; ISBN: 1891305093 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; So the sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter, and they embark on one of the funniest-- and saddest-- love affairs you'll ever read about: one shrouded in secrecy and guilt. For this is the early sixties, years before Gay Liberation, when all Lynn knows about "lezbos" is that they wear their hair in crew cuts, buy suits like her father's, and sprout mustaches over their upper lips. Lynn, in her desire to appear "normal", continues to make homophobic jokes with her girlfriends, neck with her boyfriend, and play the innocent with her parents, even as she checks the mirror each night for the telltale signs of her "perversion". Here is a story about the kind of seduction that is every parent's nightmare. In this profound, witty, poignant, and highly charged novel, Jane DeLynn proves herself a writer of the first rank." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Elise D'Haene - Author of : Licking Our Wounds Hardcover - 208 pages (March 1997) Permanent Press; ISBN: 1877946818 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Licking Our Wounds, Elise D'Haenes acclaimed debut novel, is the story of Maria, a young woman coming to terms with the complexities of life in the age of AIDS. Abandoned by her lover and faced with the deaths of her friends, Maria seeks help through Peter, HIV-positive and deeply conflicted about the choices facing him, and Christie, a woman full of her own ideas about truth and the meaning of life. REVIEW: A fresh, engagingly sarcastic and determinedly bawdy voice. D'Haene is blessed with a savvy, iconoclastic view of the world that is mordant but never mean." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Janice Eidus - Author of : Faithful Rebecca Paperback (April 1987) Fc2/Black Ice Books; ISBN: 0932511074 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; In this wildly erotic, magical and comic novel of fast-paced suspense, Rebecca, a modern day Scarlett O'Hara from New York City, embarks on an impassioned search for her infant daughter, Lily, and Lily's kidnapper. Her quest leads to a mountaintop community of women emulating mythical Amazon warriors where Rebecca is reunited with both Lily, being raised as an Amazon, and Sagana, formerly Rebecca's devoted best friend and now the passionate, fierce, and beautiful Amazon queen. She also meets the equally memorable Howard Geller, a wisecracking, romantic, runaway teenager living on the fringe of the community. This many-leveled contemporary fable incorporates such motifs as personal ads and female bodybuilding, while asking difficult questions about women's roles as friends, lovers, mothers, and daughters." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:

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