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Uncommon Heroes by Phillip Sherman

Phillip Sherman | Uncommon Heroes | Profiled are actors, athletes, writers, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, ex-priests, psychotherapists, corporate attorneys, activists, poets, p

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I Should Have Been A Hornby Train by Pat Arrowsmith

Pat Arrowsmith | I Should Have Been A Hornby Train | A memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of Britain’s best known lesbian figures. Cover art ‘The Carol Singers’ by Pat Arrowsmith [ watercolour

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Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton

Harold Acton | Nancy Mitford | The only biography in print of Nancy Mitford, written by her friend Harold Acton shortly after her death. Defining an exceptionally witty era whose va

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A Trouser-Wearing Character by Rose Collis

Rose Collis | A Trouser-Wearing Character | When Nancy Spain died in a plane crash in 1964, aged 47, with her partner, Joan Werner Laurie, she was at the height of a brilliant media career. A fa

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Staying True by Lynn Waddington

Lynn Waddington | Staying True | Staying True: Musings of an Odd-duck Quaker Lesbian Approaching Death is a sage, insouciant account of discovering one’s own path and staying true to

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Sergeant Sappho by Sidney K. Lebhart

Sidney K. Lebhart | Sergeant Sappho | ‘Being gay and being in the Army was a never-ending struggle for me. Nothing, and no one was safe, and being on guard continuously for almost ten year

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St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac by Neil Schlager

Neil Schlager | St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac | Publisher’s Note

With its scholarly, mainstream approach and time-tested format, only St. James Press could combine the reliability, objectivity

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Like Me by Chely Wright

Chely Wright | Like Me | Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, and country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in Ame

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La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc | La Bâtarde | An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde

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Confessions of A Failed Southern Lady by Florence King

Florence King | Confessions of A Failed Southern Lady | Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady. When Florence King was born, her Granny, a would-be Virginia grande dame, moved in. Anybody could have a family