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	All Books by Margaret Vandenburg - Author of : An American in Paris Paperback - 300 pages (September 30, 2000) Cleis Pr; ISBN: 1573441074 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* ""In the States, celibacy had never been my strong suit. In Paris, it was a crime against nature-a mortal sin." With this perspicacious analysis of her new city, Henrietta Adams-recently escaped from Utah, via Radcliffe, and freshly appointed as the art correspondent for En Vogue magazine--sets out to discover the literary, artistic, and more unmentionable pleasures of Paris in the 1920s. Welcomed with open arms by Gertrude Stein (and somewhat more soberly by Alice B. Toklas), Henri meets the luminaries of expatriate society-Picasso, Djuna Barnes, Bryher, Romaine Brooks, Natalie Barney, Ernest Hemingway-and unleashes her Yankee curiosity, only to find herself entangled in the mysterious (albeit fraudulent) dealings of the art world and the shackles of Paris' sapphic underground." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by D. Virtue - Author of : The Corporate Raider Paperback - 468 pages (1999) Buy Books on the web.com; ISBN: 0741402386 "Lesbian General Fiction Books; Alex Madison is a no-nonsense businesswoman used to being in complete control in a world of international glamour and corporate ruthlessness. When she takes on the timid Taylor Young as her personal assistant, their relationship progresses to the very bounds of Taylor's morality." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Ruby Vise - Author of : Sweet Violet Paperback (October 1999) Bbb Worldwide Pub; ISBN: 0352334584 "Lesbian General Fiction Books; Violet is young, butch, and new in town, looking for a way to get over her childhood sweetheart, Katherine, who has recently got engaged. Fortunately there are lots of distractions in 1980s London, which is populated by women who range from cosmic mother-earth worshippers to the leather-clad." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sarah Waters - Author of : Affinity Hardcover - 352 pages (June 1, 2000) Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573221562 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "A spellbinding ghost story set in Victorian London. Greeted with enthusiastic praise, Sarah Waters's debut novel, Tipping the Velvet, was lauded as "amazing" and "delightful" (Salon.com), "buoyant and accomplished" (The New York Times Book Review), "glorious" (The Boston Globe), and "wonderful" (San Francisco Chronicle). Critics compared her to Jeannette Winterson, adding that "readers of all sexes and orientations should identify" with Waters's unforgettable nineteenth-century heroines. Now, Sarah Waters brilliantly returns with Affinity--a haunting ghost story and Guardian (London) bestseller that has left British reviewers "transfixed with horror and excitement" (Daily Mail, London). An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of Millbank prison, London's grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank's murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by one apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Initially skeptical of Selina's gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of sances and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last persuaded to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom. A pulse-quickening read by a remarkably talented writer, Affinity is a sophisticated and spine-tingling historical mystery awash with the scenes, sights, and smells of nineteenth-century London." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sarah Waters - Author of : Tipping the Velvet Paperback: 472 pages ; Reissue edition (May 2000) Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573227889 "Lesbian General Fiction Books; 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 (Amazon.com)" Click to buy this book in USA or UK:
	All Books by Julia Watts - Author of : Pieces of My Heart Paperback - 208 pages (May 1998) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562802062 "Lesbian General Fiction Books; "The coming-out novel" is a common form of lesbian literature. In the typical coming-out story, the heroine starts out confused and unhappy, gradually discovers her own sexuality, and instantly finds happiness. In many of these novels, the experience of "coming out" seems to equal instant happiness and security." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Julia Watts - Author of : Phases of the Moon Paperback - 192 pages (September 1997) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562801767 "Lesbian General Fiction Books; When people talk about the early days of rock 'n roll music, the same names always come up: Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis. If I asked you to add more names to this list, I'd be willing to bet that all the performers you'd mention would be male. But contrary to popular belief, there were many women who played an important role in the dawn of rock 'n roll, as I discovered when I began researching my novel, "Phases of the Moon." Glenda Mooney, the fictional heroine of "Phases," grows up in a coal camp in rural Southeastern Kentucky with dreams of becoming a musician. Over the course of the novel, Glenda finds and loses both love and fame, and most importantly, finds herself. A joyous, lesbian-themed novel, "Phases" could appeal to anyone with an interest in Appalachian literature or the history of rock 'n roll music. "Phases" has also received much positive attention as a young-adult novel, since the majority of the story takes place during Glenda's teen years." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Julia Watts - Author of : Wildwood Flowers Paperback - 208 pages (May 1996) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562801279 "Lesbian General Fiction Books; "Wildwood Flowers" chronicles the comic plight of Bev and Andie, a long-term lesbian couple from Boston, who move to the tiny town of Morgan, Kentucky, where Andie has accepted a teaching job at a small Christian college. Fearful for her new job, Andie constructs a closet around herself and Bev, telling new neighbors and coworkers that she and Bev are cousins. The hilarious complications that ensue raise some interesting questions about the cost of the closet and the meaning of community." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jeanette Winterson - Author of : Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Paperback - 192 pages (September 1997) Grove Press; ISBN: 0802135161 "Lesbian General Fiction Books; This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopted into a Pentecostal household in the dour, industrial Midlands and her coming to terms with her unorthodox sexuality. (Note: DVD and Video also available)" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Monique Wittig - Author of : The Lesbian Body Paperback - 165 pages Reprint edition (January 1986) Beacon Pr; ISBN: 080706307X "Lesbian General Fiction Books; Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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