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The Spindle And Other Lesbian Fairy Tales by Carolyn Gage

Carolyn Gage | The Spindle And Other Lesbian Fairy Tales | ‘. . . a classic in every feminist’s library.’-Sacramento Arts and Entertainment Examiner. A collection of four short stories and one full-length play

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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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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

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The Year Of Needy Girls by Patricia A. Smith

Patricia A. Smith | The Year Of Needy Girls | A young boy’s murder unleashes chaos in the life of a schoolteacher and a small New England town.

Bradley, Massachusetts is in many ways a ty

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Daughters of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron

Anne Cameron | Daughters of Copper Woman | Cameron’s retelling of Northwest Coast Native myths: fiction that weaves together lives of legendary and imaginary characters.

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The Poet and the Donkey by May Sarton

May Sarton | The Poet and the Donkey | A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he

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Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | ‘The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of

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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

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Natural Disasters by Julia Salazar

Julia Salazar | Natural Disasters | Set against mudslides, fires and earthquakes in Los Angeles, Natural Disasters is about a friendship between a gay man and a lesbian who work in a Los

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Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult | Sing You Home | Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she’s about to get her heart’s desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the afterma