Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Soul Kiss by Shay Youngblood

Shay Youngblood | Soul Kiss | Soul Kiss, an eloquent first novel from well-known African-American playwright Shay Youngblood, opens as seven-year-old Mariah Kim Santos is un

Posted in Action/Adventure Award Winner Drama Romance

The Visitors by Trish Kocialski

Trish Kocialski | The Visitors | The holidays are over, family and friends have returned to their homes, and Dean and Katie are finishing up a short respite on the Caribbean island of

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Clean Slate by Andrea Bramhall

Andrea Bramhall | Clean Slate | After a vicious attack, Morgan Masters wakes up to find that nothing is how she remembers it. John Major isn’t the prime minister anymore, the Millenn

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Paxton Court by Diane Salvatore

Diane Salvatore | Paxton Court | Four couples from the northeast, a close circle of friends, retire together to Lakeside Leisure, a sunny, sleepy community in Florida. They build thei

Posted in Award Winner Movie/Media Tie-In Pulp

Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc | Thérèse and Isabelle | Therese is sent to an all-girl school when her mother marries a man who dislikes children. She meets Isabelle (Anna Gael) and the two become fast frie

Posted in Award Winner Historical Romance Mystery

The Madonna of the Sorrows by Nene Adams

Nene Adams | The Madonna of the Sorrows | May 1889 – A chance meeting in the Turkish baths leads consulting detective Lady Evangeline St. Claire and her lover, Rhiannon Moore, to a mystery – t

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Lover by Bertha Harris

Bertha Harris | Lover | A wonder…I was seduced by its tantalizing elusiveness, its audacity, its sheer brio…a spellbinding, verbal sleight of hand as satisfying as it is

Posted in Award Winner Literary Criticism

Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick | Seduction and Betrayal | Nominee for the National Book Award, this collection of literary criticism considers the careers of women writers as well as the representation of wom

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Award Winner Canadian Eh

In A Queer Country by Terry Goldie

Terry Goldie | In A Queer Country | Publication Date: February 1, 2002

In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most lib

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Historical Fiction

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah |

Winner of the 1971 American Library Assoc.’s first Gay Book Award, later called Stonewall Book Award

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel M