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One Degree of Separation
by Karin KallmakerBig city girl in a small town --Liddy Peel has culture shock. Marian Pardoo, Reference Librarian for the Iowa City Public Library, would be happy if the woman she's loved for years wasn't already married. Completely annoyed by the thoughtless out-of-towner Liddy, Marian isn't prepared for the seething passion that erupts when Liddy careens into her meticulously controlled life. Liddy has run two thousand miles from a devastating love affair. Now the idea of spending the sweltering summer watching the corn grow is driving her mad. Finding herself lusting after Marian the Librarian seems like yet another cosmic jest at her hopeless love life. The only thing that keeps her sane is the coffee. In a town where everybody knows your name... along with the names of your exes, your pets, and your third grade teacher... Marian is thankful that at least she and Liddy don't have an ex-girlfriend in common. One degree of separation is too close for comfort. Karin Kallmaker returns with an often hilarious, erotic and insightful story of a close-knit community in America's Heartland. One Degree of Separation joins her impressive string of acclaimed best sellers which includes Painted Moon, Substitute for Love, Maybe Next Time and a dozen more. Combined with her fantasy and science fiction novels written as Laura Adams, Karin has delighted, aroused and entertained lesbians worldwide..
Painted Moon
by Karin Kallmaker"...a delicious romance with just a hint of intrigue...an uncommonly realistic romance, one that surmounts class, race, and closets". -- Small Press Magazine
Roller Coaster
by Karin KallmakerLaura Izmani is starting over. Wiping her feet of her family, her past and her bad habits, she's determined to create a new life and career in sleepy--and very private--Woodside, California. Wealthy and famous families need home-cooked meals just like everybody else, and with several introductions and certain job in her pocket she's determined to succeed as a private chef. Only two things matter to Helen Baynor--her children and her career, in that order. She divides her time between home and New York and pays handsomely to make sure there are no gaps in watchful care over her kids. It's not ideal, but as an aging stage actress, she can't afford to let any Broadway part slip through her fingers. Two very different reasons bring Laura and Helen to the Beach Boardwalk for a symbolic ride on The Cyclone, the biggest, baddest roller coaster on the west coast. The same day, the same hour, the same first car. . . for the ride of their lives. Karin Kallmaker is a three-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for both novels and short stories, as well as numerous other accolades over her twenty-year devotion to lesbian romance.
Stepping Stone
by Karin KallmakerMotion picture producer Selena Ryan has the impossible: Fame and fortune and her integrity. Her reputation for playing fair in an industry rife with games has earned her respect from other producers, writers, and actors. She's learned the lesson that plenty of people would like to use her to get what they want--a starring role or some other way into the movies. Most of them feel no obligation to return any favors she might give. Burned badly by actress Jennifer Lamont, who used her and left her with a devastating aftermath, she's wary of everyone related to the industry. Surrounded by gatekeepers to keep the hopeful at bay, aspiring starlets have tried every trick in the book to make Selena's acquaintance. When Gail Welles literally lands in Selena's lap, she suspects another ploy. Jennifer's sudden announcement that Selena is still her one-and-only is equally ill-timed and suspect. Selena wants everyone to leave her alone, even if that means living without love. Lights, camera and action are the backdrop for this novel of taking chances by Golden Crown and Lambda Literary award-winning author Karin Kallmaker.
Sugar
by Karin KallmakerSugar works hard to establish herself and her bakery business in Seatle. But, when disaster strikes in the form of a fire, she doesn't know what to do. All of a sudden, Sugar, who hasn't had a date in forever, finds herself interested in three very different women. First, there's Tree, a social worker and victim's advocate. Then, there's Charlie, the firefighter who works hard to salvage all that Sugar holds dear. Finally, there's Emily, the TV producer who hopes to make Sugar famous. Which will she choose, and, how can she choose at all when she's living with her homophobic grandmother?
Warming Trend
by Karin KallmakerThere's no sun warm enough to melt the frozen past. . . Women flock to Key West for beaches, margaritas and other women. Anidyr Bycall is there because it's 5,000 miles away from Fairbanks. Tending bar by night, she spends her days immersed in the research of her only remaining passion in life: the ice fields of Alaska. Loss of all her dreams has left Ani cold inside and out, and no amount of warm sunshine--or warm women--has brought about a thaw. But trends may be improving when new data suggests that the melting glaciers back home might yield up a long-buried secret. If Ani finds its first, she might finally gain justice in the courts of public and academic opinions, and reclaim the respect and admiration she once saw in the eyes of the only woman who ever mattered. Golden Crown and Lambda Literary award-winning author Karin Kallmaker's exciting story of the frozen north proves that every icy heart can be thawed when the emotions are hot enough. Warming Trend adds to her long list of bestselling and critically acclaimed novels.
Watermark
by Karin KallmakerTeresa Mandrell's first encounter with advertising executive Rayann Germaine begins badly and goes downhill from there. Within minutes of their meeting, Rayann dubs Teresa a "bumbling amateur." The event changes the course of Teresa's life -- she abandons the corporate world for what she hopes is a more satisfying career in Fine Arts Management. When budget cuts leave her without work, Teresa gets a job as a design artist in another firm, only to discover that the new department head is ... Rayann! But the difference in the woman's demeanor is so startling that Teresa can't believe her eyes. Although the woman she'd fought with had been insensitive and rude, she was full of fire and passion. This Rayann is cold and withdrawn. To Teresa's chagrin, the woman doesn't even remember their fight. In fact, the two fall easily into an increasingly harmonious work relationship. As they grow even closer, Teresa slowly uncovers layer after layer of Rayann's hurtand pain. When she at last arrives at the terrible truth, Teresa is left with one burning question: How can she turn Rayann's heart away from grief and lead her back toward life and love?
In Deep Waters #1: Cruising the Seas
by Karin Kallmaker RadclyffeFrom honeymooning couples to strangers with mutual desires, there are no secrets about what goes on between embarkation, midnight buffets and ports-of-call. Passengers, entertainers, ship's crew and tour staff explore every inch of each other and their floating paradise. The lounge. The ex's stateroom. The casino. The little room no one else has realised is so handy, and so private. It's like no vacation you've ever experienced before when these two adventurous authors lure you into the deep waters where everyone gets wet.
Why We Broke Up
by Maira Kalman Daniel HandlerI'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened.Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.
The Burning Times
by Jeanne KalogridisCarcassonne, France, October, 1357: Michel is a dedicated Dominican monk learning the rules of the Inquisition. He adheres to the church doctrine to rid it of heretics. In only his second inquisition, the scribe encounters Mother Marie Françoise (born Sybille) in the depths of a dungeon. She stands accused of witchcraft and will confess only to the novice. Over three days, she tells the story of Marie Sybille de Cavasulle, born with a caul over her face. She speaks of her grandmother's lessons in magic and healing, and talks of descending from a race of goddesses, all of which led her from her village to seek her future disguised as a nun searching for her people and her soul mate. In learning about her life, Michel learns about his identity. So begins an adventure full of dangers, mythology, witchcraft, and Gnosticism. Kalogridis re-creates with colorful accuracy the Inquisition, the Black Death, and the Hundred Years' War.
La cautiva de los Borgia
by Jeanne KalogridisCuando Sancha de Aragón, la hija de Alfonso II, contrae segundas nupcias con Jofre Borgia, el hijo menor del papa Alejandro VI, esta joven española se convierte en testigo de la ambición, los celos, la sed de sangre y las relaciones incestuosas de una de las familias más poderosas del Renacimiento. Los conflictos y los intereses serán el telón de fondo del drama doméstico: un escenario repleto de violencia, asesinatos y embarazos no deseados.
El secreto de Mona Lisa
by Jeanne Kalogridis«Mi historia no comienza con mi nacimiento, sino con un asesinato... El crimen que unió a mis padres, que los unió a mí... Mi nombre es Lisa di Antonio Gherardini, aunque para los conocidos soy sencillamente Mona Lisa.» Italia, año 1478. Una sinuosa trama de espionaje, narrada y protagonizada por la propia madonna Lisa, se convierte en una apasionante historia de amor, traición y luchas de poder repleta de secretos por desvelar y pasiones que ocultar. La investigación de un brutal asesinato nos sumerge en la Florencia de los Médicis: un escenario asfixiante, dominado por las disputas entre las familias más poderosas de la ciudad, las maquinaciones cortesanas y los intereses papales, sobre el que se cierne la amenaza del vehemente y austero predicador Savonarola. Un emocionante relato que aporta luz nueva a uno de los misterios más subyugantes del Renacimiento: la relación del inigualable maestro Leonardo da Vinci con la mujer que le sirvió de inspiración y modelo.
Sight Reading: A Novel
by Daphne KalotayThe critically acclaimed author of Russian Winter turns her "sure and suspenseful artistry" (Boston Globe) to the lives of three colleagues and lovers in the world of classical music.On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Although their brief meeting may seem insignificant, behind them lie two decades in which their life paths have crisscrossed, diverged, and ultimately interlaced. Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to the composer Nicholas Elko—once the love of Hazel's life.It has been twenty years since Remy, an ambitious conservatory student; Nicholas, a wunderkind launching an international career; and his wife, the beautiful and fragile Hazel, first came together, tipping their collective world on its axis. As their story unfolds from 1987 to 2007, from Europe to America, from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, each discovers the surprising ways in which the quest to create something real and true—be it a work of art or one's own life—can lead to the most personal of revelations.Lyrical and evocative, Sight Reading explores the role of art and beauty in everyday life, while unspooling a transporting story of marriage, family, and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.
Together Tea: A Novel
by Marjan KamaliIn Together Tea, Marjan Kamali’s delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother’s years of endless matchmaking and the spreadsheets grading available Iranian-American bachelors. Having spent her childhood in Tehran and the rest of her life in New York City, Mina has experienced cultural clashes firsthand, but she’s learning that the greatest clashes sometimes happen at home.After a last ill-fated attempt at matchmaking, mother and daughter embark on a return journey to Iran. Immersed once again in Persian culture, the two women gradually begin to understand each other. But when Mina falls for a young man who never appeared on her mother’s matchmaking radar, will Mina and Darya’s new-found appreciation for each other survive?Together Tea is a moving and joyous debut novel about family, love, and finding the place you truly belong.
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
by Jayashree KambléWhile the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries—careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce—romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood.In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: "Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship, and race. Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both, echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so popular.
Brainstorm
by Yehuda Boruch KamenetzkyHe was a regular, 19-year-old yeshiva guy. And then... "I'm sorry. He has a mass growing inside his brain." Those chilling, dreaded words marked the beginning of Yehuda Boruch Kamenetzky's incredible journey through the world of medicine, miracles - and emunah. It's a journey that includes both terror and humor. We will read about great pain, great love, and even greater growth. We will meet -- as young Yehuda did -- kabbalists and sports figures, an African-American ba'al korei and a Jerusalem beggar whose battered old notebook mysteriously contains Yehuda's name. We will accompany the legendary Dr. Fred Epstein into the operating room as he invades Yehuda's brain in order to destroy the intruder threatening a young man's life. We will hear Miriam Lubling, the tiny Holocaust survivor who won the respect of many of the world's top doctors, telling Yehuda to "Remember, He is the true Doctor."
The Truth Behind the Rock
by Jessica KaminskyOh no, it's happening -- you're turning into that girl. The one you never thought you'd become, the one who really wants to get engaged and can think of little else...the one who delivers a series of Oscar-worthy monologues about wanting to take the relationship to the next level, the one who tears out Tiffany ads and leaves them around the house, the one who finally agrees with her mother: "When are we going to get engaged?" Rest assured, you are not alone. Engagement stories tend to focus on the details of a beautifully orchestrated proposal crafted entirely unprompted by a dream boyfriend. Understandably, the unsavory details of the not-so-subtle hinting, the uncomfortable conversations, and the ultimatums issued six months prior are left out of the official recap. But the fact is, like any good relationship, getting engaged takes work -- soul-bearing, gut-wrenching, and occasionally heartbreaking work. In The Truth Behind the Rock, real-life couples share their experiences in "he said/she said" anecdotes that offer a peek behind the curtain at what men and women are really thinking when it comes to engagements. From the subtle art of persuasion (and what to do if it fails) to sifting through the wreckage once he drops the "I don't really believe in marriage" bomb after years of dating, author Jessica Kaminsky offers up sisterly advice to guide you through the dreaded "talk"...again. This candid, reassuring examination of the great engagement debate is essential reading for every serious couple. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be wanted...just be prepared to ask for what you want.
The Dating Repair Kit: How to Have a Fabulous Love Life
by Marni Kamis Janice MacLeodThe Dating Repair Kit is for women who think that all they need to have a good love life is a good boyfriend. Or that they'll be different when they meet the right guy. Or all the guys they meet are dorks who don't live up to first expectations. But really what everybody needs to do to have a great love life is simple--love their own life first.The Dating Repair Kit:Deals with how you can set the scene for a great love life by keeping the focus on yourself.Shows you the spiritual aspects of life such as letting things happen that are beyond your control and knowing good will come from a full and focused life.Offers advice from women who already have a successful love life and shares comforting, realistic ways to find your own happiness.Kamins and Macleod lace wisdom, personal experience, sex tips, fun pampering projects, and recipes in a concise and compact book that readers will want to refer to again and again.
Evanthia's Gift (Gift Saga #1)
by Effie KammenouSophia Giannakos will settle for nothing less than the rare love her parents share. At a tender and impressionable age, she has found her soul mate in Dean, the boy she has known her whole life -- until secrets and deceptions pull them apart. No stranger to heartache, Anastacia, Sophia's mother, attempts to comfort her, without revealing ugly family truths that could haunt her daughter's future. In the year 1956, Anastacia, a former NYU student, finds herself in the challenging role of a single parent. Left with emotional wounds from a bad marriage, she is reluctant to trust and resists her growing feelings for Alexandros, an old acquaintance. But his persistence and unconditional love for Ana and her child is eventually rewarded and his love is returned. In a misguided, but well-intentioned effort to protect the ones they love, both Ana and Alex keep secrets -- ones that could threaten the delicate balance of their family. The story continues in the 1970's, as their daughter attempts to negotiate between two cultures. Greek-American teenagers, Sophia and Dean, have shared a special connection since childhood. Although their desire for one another is undeniable, Dean resists her, rebelling against the pressure his father places on him to uphold his Greek heritage. When he can no longer fight his feelings, Dean asks Sophia to conceal their love. She hesitantly complies, until it becomes too much for her. Like her mother, Sophia loves with every fiber of her soul, leaving her shattered when Dean pulls away from his family, culture and ultimately his love for her, leaving her no choice but to find a life different than the one she'd hoped for. EVANTHIA'S GIFT is a two-part multigenerational love story spanning fifty years and across two continents, chronicling the lives that unify two families.
The Reincarnated
by Kurt KammeyerThe Reincarnated is the fast-paced sequel to The Rejuvenated. In that first book, Anka grew progressively younger, from an eighty-two year old woman to just fifteen years old, when her husband Jeffrey last saw her alive. When Jeffrey casts Anka’s space capsule adrift from the International Space Station, he assumes she is dead. He returns to Seattle and tries to reassemble the broken pieces of his life. Then, bits of Anka’s space capsule begin showing up on the internet. Jeffrey learns that the capsule landed on the Pacific Coast of Washington, with Anka in it. He begins a mad chase to catch up with her, which takes him from Seattle to La Push, Washington, then to British Columbia, Hong Kong, and on to India. Will Jeffrey ever catch up with Anka? Will they even recognize each other when they meet? Can Jeffrey and his friends stop Anka from unleashing Navikarana on the world?