Tag: Great

Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | John Galardi is a loner, unable to express his feelings except in the pages of his zine, ‘Bananafish.’ He finds inspiration in another zine, ‘Escape V

Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig

Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You A Secret | With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Hol

Nene Adams | Black by Gaslight | 2006 IPPY Award Winner! Gay/Lesbian

Winner: Black by Gaslight/The Madonna of the Sorrows, by Nene Adams (Cavalier Press)

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Elizabeth Stark | Shy Girl | San Francisco’s edgy lesbian culture is the backdrop for this exploration of identity and secret lives. Alta Corral is a butch girl who is hung up on

Marci Blackman | Po Mans Child | From Publishers Weekly

A vivid assortment of characters inhabit Blackman’s first novel, a haunting, dark and visceral story of family entanglement

Nial Kent | The Divided Path | ‘He had known infatuation, but this…this was different! Bigger than anything he’d ever felt before. And it did not seem ‘unnatural.’ Now he felt him

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

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

Ann Bannon | Women in the Shadows | Cover copy reads: ‘Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.’

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