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	All Books by Jyl Lynn Felman - Author of : Cravings : A Sensual Memoir (Bluestreak) Paperback - 195 pages (October 1998) Beacon Pr; ISBN: 0807070513 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; In the essays contained in Cravings: A Sensual Memoir, writer and performance artist Jyl Lynn Felman looks at desire not in the abstract, but in the particular: she considers a child's craving for a mother's attention, a daughter's craving for a specific piece of the family china, a lover's craving for her beloved. Felman contextualizes herself as a Jew, a feminist, a lesbian, and a person who grew up in Ohio. She examines how each of these selves experiences desire differently. Cravings is also a memoir of family life, of sibling rivalries that outlast childhood, and of the grief, regret, and anger that a daughter feels because of her parent's death." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Lee Fleming - Author of : To Sappho, My Sister : Lesbian Sisters Write About Their Lives Paperback (October 1995) Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr; ISBN: 0921881363 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Candid, surprising and with sometimes unexpected honesty, both well-known and less-famous lesbian sisters reveal the many faces of lesbian sisterhood through their words and photographs. To Sappho, My Sister is the first collection of writings and musings by lesbian sisters about their lives and their relationships with one another. Eighteen sets of lesbian sisters from Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany and Sweden share their insights and struggles in this fascinating chronicle of what it is like to grow up, come out, laugh, cry, work and live together, as sisters in a family and as lesbians in the world. (Midwest Book Review - In Assoc with Amazon)" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:
	All Books by Lee Fleming - Author of : Hot Licks : Lesbian Musicians of Note Paperback - 136 pages (September 1996) Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr; ISBN: 0921881428 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Biographical Information on Lesbian Musicians including; Azucar y Crema, Jennifer Berezan, Heather Bishop, Alix Dobkin, Melissa Ferrick, Ferron, Girls in the Nose, Janis Ian, Nedra Johnson, k.d.lang, Connie Lofton, Faith Nolan, Genevieve Paris, Phranc, Random Order, Toshi Reagon, Judy Small, Topp Twins, Tribe 8, The Well Oiled Sisters, Cris Williamson & Tret Fure, Wyrd Sisters and Zrazy" Note: Many of these lesbian musicians have CDs available in our music section! Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Diana Frederics - Author of : Diana : A Strange Autobiography (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature Series) Paperback - 242 pages (June 1995) New York University Press; ISBN: 0814726356 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Autobiography originally published in 1935, great resource on lesbianism, identity and lesbian lifestyle back in the 1930's." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Mary Lou Fuller, Kay Amsden & Jim Dugan - Authors of : Sisters by Heart ~ Partners in Aging : A Memoir Paperback - 144 pages 1 edition (February 1, 2001) KALM Publishing; ISBN: 0965789438 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Two women who value the presence of each other in their lives; who feel good about being women; who honor their experiences and feel moved to share them. The chance meeting of two 50-year old women from diverse backgrounds leads to a communion of caring and respect. As they embark on ever-strengthening support for one another and as the certainty of aging draws ever closer, they discover a commonality of spirit and depth of devotion that has sustained them for over twenty years. The knowledge that rather than wither on the vine in their seventies, they are listening to the crones within and are ripening into springtimes still to be shared." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Hawk Madrone - Author of : Weeding at Dawn : A Lesbian Country Life Paperback - 194 pages (October 2000) Harrington Park Pr; ISBN: 1560232072 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Madrone's memoir is richly detailed, deftly turned with just the right metaphors and images; the content is sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, sometimes sensual. It is an evocative portrayal of lesbian country life as well as an invitation to all readers to the meditative richness of rural solitude. (review excerpt: Sarah Tames via Amazon.com)" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Kate Millett - Author of : Mother Millett Paperback: 260 pages (September 2002) Verso Books; ISBN: 1859843999 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Kate Millett's tremulous and hauntingly beautiful memoir begins with a telephone call from Minnesota where her mother is dying. Her return home to a severe, intelligent, and controlling matriarch is the catalyst for a meditation on her upbringing in middle America and her subsequent outcast status as a political activist, artist, and lesbian. Mother Millett is an intensely personal journey through the author's interior life, a subject she has visited over the years in such classic texts as Sita and The Loony Bin Trip. In these pages are reflections on a life of political engagement, beginning with the sexual politics of the feminist movement, proceeding to the struggle for gay liberation, and culminating in her campaign for housing rights on the Lower East Side of New York where she and her neighbors currently face eviction. Throughout, Millett confronts her fears of losing her mother, the anchor to a world she has long ago rejected but which continues to define her. Echoing Philip Roth's Patrimony, Millett writes with great poignancy about caring for the person who brought her into the world, a role reversal that brings with it both devastation and grace." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Carmen L. Oliveira - Author of : Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares Hardcover - 200 pages (January 20, 2002) Rutgers University Press; ISBN: 0813530334 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Rare and Commonplace Flowers (a Brazilian best-seller) tells the story of two women. Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography-brilliantly researched, and written in a lively, novelistic style-follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil. The fact that these two women had an intimate relationship caused an uproar when it first came to public notice. The relationship started out happily, yet ended tragically. In 1961, Soares became increasingly obsessed with building and administering Flamengo Park, Rio de Janeiro's equivalent to New York City's Central Park. Though she had been the driving force behind the park's inception, the ultimate credit that was due her was stripped away because of petty politics and chicanery." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Connie Panzarino - Author of : The Me in the Mirror Paperback - 260 pages (May 1994) Seal Pr Feminist Pub; ISBN: 1878067451 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Born with a rare muscle disease, the author recounts the challenges of growing up handicapped, her early adulthood and dawning political activism, her relationship with Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, her lesbianism, and her work as a disability rights activist." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Shelly Roberts - Author of : Baby Dykes Paperback - 110 pages 0 edition (December 2000) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555835252 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; They are all well-known, and their work is enormously popular. Readers will have laughed with them, cheered with them, admired them, and been in awe of them. But now renowned humourist Shelly Roberts reintroduces the reader to this Who's Who of the lesbian glitterati as they've never been seen before - as children! This collection of photographs from the earliest days of our lesbian leaders is enchanting, humanising, and hilarious. From first pets to first dress, holiday snaps to school sports day, get a glimpse of these women and others, including Leslea Newman, Suzanne Westenhoefer, and Sheila James Kuehl as they were before they became larger than life. The list of subjects include: Tammy Baldwin Linda Villarosa; Nicole Conn; Carol Midgen; Joan Drury; Toni Armstrong Jr; Tee Corrine; Patricia Neil Warren; Barbara Grier; Alison Bechdel; Lillian Faderman and more." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Michelle Tea - Author of : The Chelsea Whistle (Live Girls Series) Paperback: 296 pages ; (August 2002) Seal Pr Feminist Pub; ISBN: 1580050735 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; "Childhood is morbid," declares Tea, author of the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, in this gritty girlhood memoir. As a kid, she perfected the art of playing dead. In her teens, she was deep into Goth-black lipstick and lace, her hearse-driving boyfriend and other grim reaperesque fashions. In lush detail, she describes growing up on the other side of the tracks in the Boston suburb of Chelsea." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jan Welles and Lisa E. Davis - Authors of : Stardust Girl : A Memoir Paperback - 227 pages (November 2001) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555836275 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Jan Welles was a stunning, velvety-voiced crooner who drew raves from Walter Winchell and Cole Porter. Perched on the brink of stardom, she was faced with an impossible choice: deny her lesbianism or abandon the career she had worked a lifetime to achieve. Ranging from the dazzling lights of Broadway to dusty bullfighting rings in the Dominican Republic, flings with Lana Turner and Paulette Goddard to an attempted rape by Broadway impresario Billy Rose, Jan Welles's tale is a saucy story of achievement, danger, and the ultimate triumph of being true to yourself." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
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