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You might want to get out the tissues for the books in our Lesbian Drama section, the novels within are both heart wrenching and beautiful. There's a diverse range of stories to be found, from coming out tales to AIDs to biographical style novels.

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	All Books by Lesa Luders - Author of : Lady God Paperback (October 1995) New Victoria Pub; ISBN: 0934678596 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Landy is a young woman running from memories of deeply disturbed parents--her mother committed suicide, and her father has been drunk ever since. Haunted by images of early childhood incest at the hands of the sexually abusive, deranged mother, Landy becomes one of two roomers in the ironically named Mansion in a college town just two hours from the scenes of her childhood. There, she takes the first, tentative steps toward defining herself by means of employment, friendship, and her sexuality as she is increasingly drawn to Claire, a lesbian neighbor whose steady caring helps Landy form the bedrock for positive new growth. Luders uses pared-down, minimalist prose to tell this deeply disturbing tale of graphically depicted, ritualistic sexual abuse and alcoholism that is not for the faint of heart." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Ann-Marie MacDonald - Author of : Fall on Your Knees Paperback - 508 pages Oprah edition (January 24, 2002) Scribner; ISBN: 0743237188 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; A sprawling saga about five generations of a family from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is the impressive first fiction from Canadian playwright and actor Ann-Marie MacDonald. This epic tale of family history, family secrets, and music centers on four sisters and their relationships with each other and with their father. Set in the coal-mining communities of Nova Scotia in the early part of this century, the story also shifts to the battlefields of World War I and the jazz scene of New York City in the 1920s." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Bobbi Marolt - Author of : Coming Attractions Paperback - 181 pages 1 edition (September 1997) Rising Tide Pr; ISBN: 1883061172 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "It's been three years since she's made love to a woman; three years that she's buried herself in work as a successful columnist for one of New York's top newspapers. Helen Townsend admits, at last, she's tired of being lonely....and of being closeted. Enter Princess Charming in the shapely form of Cory Chamberlain, a gifted concert pianist. And Helen embraces joy once again. But can two lovers find happiness when one yearns to break out of the closet and breathe free, while the other fears that will destroy her career?" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Paula Martinac - Author of : Home Movies Paperback - 202 pages (September 1993) Seal Pr Feminist Pub; ISBN: 187806732X "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Martinac's second novel is life affirming in the best sense of that overused phrase. Focusing through the lens of a young woman's memory on a Catholic family tormented by loss and the denial of emotion, the novel chronicles how death affects Teresa Keenan, a lesbian novelist. Her favorite uncle, Jamie, is a gay political activist whose death from AIDS forces her to confront a tanglet of memories, both good and bad, many of them revolving around her sister Alison, who died of leukemia at 11, and around her parents' apparent inability to deal with that loss. But if her parents refuse to acknowledge their bereavement, Teresa's reaction is no less pained and inadequate: unable to sustain a relationship with any of her lovers, she is left to grapple with her problems in solitude, but for Jamie and his lover, Tom. Martinac ( Out of Time ) is a keenly observant writer, attuned to her characters' internal states. The book's complex structure of flashbacks is deftly handled and the reader is drawn into the lives of these people with much compassion." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Blanche McCrary Boyd - Author of : The Revolution of Little Girls Paperback - 205 pages Reprint edition (July 1992) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679738126 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "No matter how hard she tries, Ellen will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen, she baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. And as a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard and finds herself as a lesbian before nearly losing herself to booze and shamans." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Marian Michener - Author of : Dreaming Under a Ton of Lizards Paperback - 192 pages 2nd edition (October 1999) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 1883523346 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Michener's novel about fighting toward sobriety in a lesbian culture in which bars are social and romantic focal points is brief, intense, and sharply ironic. Through a haze of booze, Olivia recalls her crushes; her alcoholic husband, Malcolm; and a series of girlfriends. Although still relatively young, she has drifted from bottle to bottle, lover to lover, in an attempt to self-medicate her pain and avoid dealing with it head-on. Only when she is alone, whether in a cabin on the Oregon coast or in a tiny San Francisco apartment, does she begin to write seriously and consider the option of a life without Sister Wine and its insidious hold on her. It is through the urging of her lesbian friend Kathleen, herself in recovery from alcohol addiction, that Olivia finally gives birth to a new self and a sober life and finds within herself previously unknown capabilities for pleasure and pain." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Madeleine Moore - Author of : As You Desire Paperback - 202 pages (April 1993) Spinsters Ink; ISBN: 0933216955 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Lesbian Novel Set in 1960s Paris - Must Read Reviews" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Gloria Naylor - Author of : Bailey's Cafe Paperback - 229 pages (September 1993) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679748210 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of Mama Day and The Women of Brewster Place is a feast for the senses and the spirit." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Roz Perry - Author of : Rose Penski Paperback - 170 pages 1st Ed. edition (November 1989) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 0941483371 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Half medical case history, half love story, this novel traces a few months in the lives of Adelle, a very successful, efficient businesswoman, and Rose, her lover of many years whose major contribution to the household is gourmet cooking. Adelle had always been competent in the work world but naive in affairs of heart and bedroom until the experienced Rose taught her the joys of lesbian love. Now they must both cope with the growing lump in Adelle's breast and the emotional and physical limitations it places on them. Adelle reads everything she can find on cancer while Rose cooks the most wonderful meals imaginable to distract and comfort her lover." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Jane Rule - Author of : Memory Board Paperback - 336 pages (September 1999) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 0941483029 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Memory Board is a multi-faceted novel about aging, loss, and the redefinition of family. - Must Read Reviews" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jody Seay - Author of : The Second Coming of Curly Red: A Novel Paperback - 272 pages (September 1999) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563411148 "Lesbian Dramatic Novels; Seventy-year-old Texan Jimmy Heron, shattered by his wife's tragic death, takes to the road and is befriended by Cory Miller and Leigh O'Brien, a lesbian couple living in Oregon. The two women have become the target of a harassment campaign. But in its heat, a community is forged and a town remembers how it got its name." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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