Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner How-to-Guide Humor

The Homo Handbook by Judy Carter

Judy Carter | The Homo Handbook | Stand-up comic Judy Carter speaks out–way out–in this entertaining and helpful guide to ‘being a homo’. For gays and lesbians thinking about coming

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison | Cavedweller | From the author of Bastard Out of Carolina comes another compelling novel about four women whose lives converge unexpectedly and force all of them to

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Miss Peabody’s inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley

Elizabeth Jolley | Miss Peabody’s inheritance | ‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cu

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Burning Ground by Pearl Luke

Pearl Luke | Burning Ground | Working in a fire tower in the Canadian woods, Percy Turner’s emotional state is hanging on by a thread. Fires smolder within her–the lifelong passio

Posted in Award Winner Sports YA Fiction (Young Adult)

High and Outside by Linnea A. Due

Linnea A. Due | High and Outside | Star of her school softball team and with the highest point average in her class, Niki nonetheless has a severe drinking problem, and after nearly sel

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Other Women by Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther | Other Women | With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a wom

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Luna by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Luna | Regan’s brother Liam can’t stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, on

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Heart Trouble by Jane Vollbrecht

Jane Vollbrecht | Heart Trouble | Jackie Frackman is a consultant for a human resources firm based in Washington, D.C. Her job keeps her on the road much of the time delivering seminar

Posted in Award Winner Graphic Novel

No Straight Lines by Justin Hall

Justin Hall | No Straight Lines | The wildly successful queer comics anthology is being re-released in softcover: with contributions from cartoonists such as Alison Bechdel (Fun Home).