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Frances, Harriette | Sappho ’71 | A collection of poetry and drawings
Jane Rule | Desert Of The Heart | Possibly Jane Rule’s best known novel, The Desert of the Heart is the story of a free spirited woman falling for a repressed older woman. Evelyn Hall
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Sara Farizan | If You Could Be Mine | In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin’s parents announce th
Nicole J. Georges | Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir | Nationally, Portland, Oregon is known for being a rainy green city of bicyclists, 20-something hipsters, and enough log-jammed trends from the ninetie
Alicia Kay Smith | Only in Whispers | ‘Never the sound of your name on my lips/ And my heart speaks ONLY IN WHISPERS’ is the titular designation of Alicia Kay Smith’s only known pertinent
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Gloria L. Joseph | The Wind Is Spirit | Across the country and around the world, the bold and powerful Audre Lorde has been a touchstone for generations of writers and activists. And while s