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
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
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-
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries
Odd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Jane Howard | Odd Girl Out | Howard’s fifth novel is the story of a marriage that has lasted a decade and has settled into a comfortable and very pleasurable routine. Yet even the
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
Spelling Mississippi by Marnie Woodrow
Marnie Woodrow | Spelling Mississippi | From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two stranger
This Secret I Keep by Angela Hall
Angela Hall | This Secret I Keep | Journeying through life with undisclosed secrets can make the very ground you walk on unstable. Close friends, Aire Johnson and Camille Douglas, learn
North and Left from Here by C. C. Saint-Clair
C. C. Saint-Clair | North and Left from Here | North and Left From Here includes a series of often poignant flashbacks set in the Spanish town of Mallorca, the island of Ibiza and the sand dunes of