Axel by Freda Lingstrom
Freda Lingstrom | Axel | Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits suicide; the girl, Aurio
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The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
The End Of My Life by Vance Bourjaily
Vance Bourjaily | The End Of My Life | When Thomas “Skinner” Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifet
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor
“[A] shrewd and lyrical
The Cherokee Rose by Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles | The Cherokee Rose | Three young women are drawn to the Chief Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia, where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary co
Despised And Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
A.T. Fitzroy | Despised And Rejected | In July 1914 a family gathers at a holiday hotel in Devon. There is a dominant father and a socially ambitious mother who adores her son Dennis. When
The Apes Of God by Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis | The Apes Of God | Satire, including sharp studies of homosexuality, both male and female. Tutored by a 60-year-old Albino dilettante, Dan travels through the London art
Moon Magic by Dion Fortune
Dion Fortune | Moon Magic | Fascinating, funny novel of a modern sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor. It is implied that his marriage failed because his wife, a hyste
Valmouth by Ronald Firbank
Ronald Firbank | Valmouth | An imaginary health resort is presided over by the black masseuse Mrs. Yajnavalkya. The characters engage in an intricate arabesque of secret amours a
Time Of Grace by Gabriella West
Gabriella West | Time Of Grace | Shy young Caroline has come from England to Ireland in 1916 to work as a governess. But beautiful Grace, with her mysterious past and her fierce dedic