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Rest Home Runaways by Clifford Henderson

Clifford Henderson | Rest Home Runaways | Baby boomer Morgan Ronzio’s troubled marriage is the least of her worries when she gets the call that her addled, eighty-six-year-old, half-blind dad,

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama of the same name. It is a coming-of-age stor

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Poppy’s Progress by Pat Rosier

Pat Rosier | Poppy’s Progress |

Middle-aged Poppy Sinclair enjoys an ordinary, quiet life with her partner on New Zealand’s north coast when unexpected changes challenge her hap

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Terminal Velocity by Blanche McCrary Boyd

Blanche McCrary Boyd | Terminal Velocity | ‘In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had

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Tory’s Tuesday by Linda Kay Silva

Linda Kay Silva | Tory’s Tuesday | A unique historical novel about a lesbian couple fighting to survive Auschwitz.

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Charting By The Stars by Linsey Abrams

Linsey Abrams | Charting By The Stars | Ms. Magazine called Charting by the Stars ‘. a memorable account of growing up . about the ways we invent and reinvent ourselves . remin

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Keep Austin Weird by Mary Jane

Mary Jane | Keep Austin Weird | Residents of Austin, Texas so value individualism, most (but not all!) of them rally around the phrase, ‘Keep Austin Weird.’ In the midst of that off-

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A Piece of the Night by Michele Roberts

Michele Roberts | A Piece of the Night | Julie Fanchot, French born, English convent-school educated, learns to please. The seductive daughter, Virgin Mary, romantic heroine, perfect wife and

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Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | On August 1, 1933, two young women, the famous aviatrix Grace O’Gorman and the inexperienced Willa Briggs, take off in a tiny Moth biplane to break th

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Girl Walking Backwards by Bett Williams

Bett Williams | Girl Walking Backwards | Although the protagonist of Girl Walking Backwards is a young, more-or-less ‘out’ lesbian, this not a lesbian novel so much as a classic, post-