Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Define ‘Normal’ by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Define ‘Normal’ | Now in its fourth hardcover printing, Define ‘Normal’ has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. This is a thoughtful, wry story about two girls-a ‘punk’

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 Canadian Eh Mystery

Ninth Life by Lauren Wright Douglas

Lauren Wright Douglas | Ninth Life | Ninth Life, Lauren’s second novel, won the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Mystery (1990).

In the acclaimed debut of The Always Anonymous Beas

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein; Renate Stendhal

Gertrude Stein; Renate Stendhal | Gertrude Stein | ‘After an astonishing, playful essay, the book opens into a revelatory combination of quotes, quips and 360 photos of Stein and her wildly brilliant c

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

Wild Girls by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | Wild Girls | Natalie and Romaine met in London during World War I and their partnership lasted until Natalie died 52 years later. They were both American expatriat

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Jewish Interests Speculative Fiction

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz

Judith Katz | Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound | Nadine Pagan’s dyke sister Jane wants to find her. Her lover Rose wants to marry her. And her mother Fay wants to forget her. All Nadine wants is to s

Posted in Award Winner Pulp

Room to Swing by Ed Lacy

Ed Lacy | Room to Swing | ‘The story of a young girl’s sudden urgent awakening to love and desire.’–Cover

Plot Summary

Toussaint Marcus Moore, private eye, is h

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah | Set in the Housatonic Valley of Connecticut in 1816, this exquisitely told and unusual love story is about two young women.

Posted in Award Winner Pulp

Room To Swing by Ed Lacy

Ed Lacy | Room To Swing | Plot Summary

Toussaint Marcus Moore, private eye, is hired by Kay Robbens to keep an eye on Robert Thomas, the man who is going to premiere Kay’s

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas | Memory Mambo | A Cuban-American’s quest to learn the truth about her family. Are the stories of their achievement in pre-revolutionary Cuba true, or are they exagger