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Shadow Man
by Melissa ScottIn this future, there are five human sexual identities throughout the galaxy, and humanity has adjusted to this new culture. Except on the planet Hara: Here everyone must choose to be a man or a woman, and that is final. For hundreds of years, Hara has been out of contact with the Concord, the organization of human worlds, until this moment. Business between Harans and outsiders with different cultural assumptions is a profoundly destabilizing challenge to traditional Haran society. Warreven is a successful Haran attorney, a man who could have married the son of the ruler of the planet if he had chosen to be a woman. But Warreven is neither a man nor a woman, and his daily life is radically in conflict with his world. The social and political situation forces Warreven into the limelight and into the most bizarre identity crisis in contemporary science fiction, which is also the crisis of his world. No one remains as they were on Hara. "Scott
Light Before Day
by Christopher RiceFrom the book jacket: In California's Central Valley, an explosion of white-hot methamphetamine rips through a trailer, its blinding flash killing a dedicated schoolteacher in search of a student whose life is in danger. . . . In West Hollywood, a young reporter discovers that a Marine helicopter pilot visited the gay ghetto just days before he sent his chopper spiraling into the Pacific Ocean .... And in the wilds of California's Coast Ranges, a mercilessly angry young woman pursues the mythic killer she believes has murdered her mother. . . . So begins Light Before Day, a dark new thriller of revenge and sexual obsession from New York Times best-selling author Christopher Rice.
The Hide and Seek Files
by Caeia MarchMoss and her partner Biff are the mainstays of their northern mining community, running the grocer's shop. Are they quite what they seem? One woman guesses at a truth concealed for many years.
Faith For Beginners: A Novel
by Aaron HamburgerIn 2000 a woman travels with her ailing husband and one of her two gay sons to Israel.
Wild Dogs: A Novel
by Helen HumphreysA haunting story of love and wildness; a group of people try to call their dogs back from a pack in the forest.
Maybe Next Time
by Karin KallmakerSabrina Starling doesn't need love. She has fame as a concert violinist, houses on three continents, and available women for company. Nothing can shake her except the memory of her first love.
Forever Chained
by Roxane BeaufortAs a student and a singer Stella is haunted by the vision of a beautiful man, Lazio, who is often in the audience when she performs, but it is not until she takes up residence in Troon Hall and visits a ruined monastery nearby that she meets him properly, and falls victim to those who made him a vampire. A diary that once belonged to Emma, her great-great-grandmother, tells of a trip to Venice where she and her friend Candice met the leader of the Nosferatu, Prince Dimitri. Candice fell in love with him and accepted the dark gift of eternal life.
Daughters of an Emerald Dusk
by Katherine V. ForrestSequel to Daughters of an Amber Noon; about a planet populated by only women.
A Density Of Souls
by Christopher RiceSet in New Orleans; four high school friends torn apart by secrets and violence; five years later more secrets discovered.
With You Or Without You
by Lauren SandersA high schooler in jail because she murdered a soap star; the mother of the soap star also has a story.
The Master of Castleleigh
by Jacqueline BellevoisA old castle is turned into a sexual playground for the rich.
The Reckoning
by AnonymousWasn't it the French humorist, Pierre Daninos, who said: "In the depths of every Englishman's subconscious there is a cat-o'-nine-tails and a schoolgirl in black stockings"? This anthology of contemporary short stories celebrates the extraordinary mythology that has grown up around corporal punishment and young English ladies in their late teens and early twenties. I-author of these stories and professional English schoolmistress-first became painfully aware of corporal punishment when I was a young schoolgirl. At the all-girls high school which I attended in Sussex, not only did we receive the slipper on our bottoms for quite trivial misdemeanours such as lateness, but for more serious offences we could expect anything up to six strokes from the headmistress' three-foot-long rattan cane. That this was a fairly typical situation in England, twenty or so years ago, may be illustrated by the following extract from the provincial English newspaper The Cornishman of 9 July 1964.