Yearning by Gun Brooke

Darian Tennen, an LA cop, can’t ignore the pull of her hometown any longer. She returns to Dennamore to renovate her grandmother’s house, where she meets Samantha Pike, a beautiful but distant librarian. Samantha has been digging into strange gaps in the town’s historical records, and as the two team up, they realize Dennamore’s past … Read more

The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge (All Editions)

The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge is a 1974 lesbian romance and a landmark in the history of lesbian publishing: it was the first title issued by Naiad Press, the pioneering lesbian publishing house co-founded by Aldridge’s partner Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford. The novel follows Philippa, returning by ship from Europe, whose life is upended … Read more

We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich (All Editions)

We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich (a pseudonym of Marijane Meaker) is a groundbreaking 1955 work of non-fiction pulp that documented lesbian life in Greenwich Village, drawing on the author’s own experience as a lesbian. Part sociological survey, part first-person reportage, the book addressed its subject at a time when almost no mainstream publishing did … Read more

Bessie by Chris Albertson (All Editions)

Bessie by Chris Albertson is a biography of Bessie Smith, the blues singer known as the Empress of the Blues, who was the highest-paid African-American performer of the 1920s. Drawing on extensive interviews with Smith’s relatives, friends, and associates — including Ruby Walker Smith, a niece by marriage who toured with her for over a … Read more