New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 by Shelly Oria
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Murder Under the Fig Tree by Kate Jessica Raphael
Kate Jessica Raphael | Murder Under the Fig Tree | Kate Jessica Raphael’s first book lured me into this lesbian-murder-mystery tent. A political essayist and blogger whom I had long admired, Ms. Raphae
Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
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Nice Jewish Girls by Evelyn Torton Beck
Evelyn Torton Beck | Nice Jewish Girls | A stunning collection of angry, bitter, proud, and joyful writing–poetry, stories, history, analysis, autobiography–on Jewish lesbian identity. With
Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
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Flamboyant by Elizabeth Swados
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Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
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Beyond the Pale follows the lives of two women: Gutke Gurvich, who apprentices as a midwife in a Russian Jewish settlement before immigrat
Growing Up Golem by Donna Minkowitz
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Delay in the Sun by Anthony Thorne
Anthony Thorne | Delay in the Sun | ‘… Delay in the Sun tells the story of a few days in the lives of a set of ill-assorted English tourists who find themselves unexpectedly stranded i
Tales Out of School by Benjamin Taylor
Benjamin Taylor | Tales Out of School | A breathtaking debut novel of family and coming of age, in the tradition of Edmund White and David Leavitt. In turn-of-the-century Galveston, the Mehm