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Prozac Highway
by Persimmon BlackbridgeLosing her nerve and burning out fast, hardcore lesbian performance artist Jam has trouble coping with the outside world. Her best friend and former lover, Roz thinks Jam's losing it, big time. Her doctor thinks Prozac is the answer. Meanwhile, Jam finds love, comfort and support from ThisIsCrazy, a talk room on the internet, where she trades messages and shards of hard-bitten wisdom about treatment and withdrawal with the likes of Fruitbat, Junior and D'isMay. Tough, funny and sexy, Prozac Highway packs a sweet punch. Think Tales of the City in cyberspace and click onto this dazzling literary breakthrough.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
by Katha PollittA powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good by a noted feminist and longtime columnist for the nation. Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Meanwhile, with each passing day, the rights upheld by the Supreme Court are being systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright. In this urgent, controversial book, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In Pro, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers.
Preserve and Protect (Advise and Consent #4)
by Allen DruryDrury describes the chaos that overtakes America and the world with the suspicious death of the President just after his renomination. His death leaves the incumbent party without a candidate or a clear-cut way of selecting one. Against a backdrop of national and international chaos, Drury examines the motives and ambitions of a now-famous gallery of political characters. As the novel moves to its dramatic climax, the question of what candidate will be nominated by what groups keeps the future of America and the world hanging in the balance.
Prairie Fire
by L. J. MaasIn this sequel to Tumbleweed Fever, the story of Devlin Brown, an ex-outlaw, and Sarah Tolliver, the woman of her heart, continues. Sarah and Devlin must convince the ranchers around them to destroy the wire fences that contain their cattle to avoid certain calamity. Amidst the beautiful and sometimes unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Territory, Sarah and Devlin begin a new life. Adventure and mysticism abound as they revisit the Choctaw camp. Sarah must decide whether she will undergo the clan rituals that will allow her to join with the former outlaw in a ceremony that will bind their hearts together forever. Each woman must undergo an incredible test of her individual skills and all the while race against time to prevent a premonition from becoming a frightening reality.
Political Poison
by Mark Richard ZubroSecond Paul Turner mystery; gay detective with two children; sequel to Sorry Now.
Play Ball, McGill!
by Amelia WaldenWhen things begin to go wrong at home and in her social life, the star pitcher of the high school softball team feels her game being affected also. Ginger McGill's senior year becomes a mix of emotions with her love for softball, her baseball star brother, rebuilding hot rods and a new boy in town.
Peter and Veronica
by Marilyn SachsPeter Wedemeyer never thought when he became friends with Veronica Ganz that his whole world would change. Suddenly, his adoring mother turns fiercely disapproving, his good friend Bill Stover will have nothing to do with him, and Roslyn Gellert, the one girl he admires, gazes off into space when she sees him. Why? And why does Veronica's kid brother, Stanley, throw bananas at him? And why does that drip Reba Fleming giggle whenever she sees him and Veronica together? "I never thought," Veronica says, "that having a friend would hurt so much." But in between the problems, there are many funny, wonderfully happy roller skating adventures, as a boy and a girl struggle to maintain an unusual friendship and come to understand the meaning of prejudice. With Peter and Veronica, boys will join the many enthusiastic girls who welcome the humor and realism of Marilyn Sachs' books.
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
by Greg MilnerIN 1915, THOMAS EDISON PROCLAIMED THAT HE COULD RECORD A LIVE PERFORMANCE and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers now allow musicians and engineers to create the illusion of performances that never were. In between a century of sonic exploration into the balance between the real and the represented! Tracing the contours of this history,-Greg Milner fakes us through the major breakthroughs and glorious failures in the art and science of recording. An American soldier monitoring Nazi radio transmissions stumbles onto the open yet revolutionary secret of magnetic tape, Japanese and Dutch researchers build a first-generation digital audio format and watch as their "compact disc” is marketed by the music industry as the second coming of Edison yet derided as heretical by analog loyalists. The music world becomes addicted to volume in the nineties and fights a self-defeating "loudness war" to get its fix. From Les Paul to Phil Spector to King Tubby, from vinyl to pirated CDs to iPods, Milner pulls apart musical history to answer a crucial question: Should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? The answers he uncovers will change the very way we think about music.
Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801
by Emma DonoghueA groundbreaking work of lesbian scholarship, Passions Between Women discovers and brings together for the first time stories of lesbian desires, acts, and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Where previous historians have concluded that a combination of censorship and ignorance excluded lesbian experience from written history before our era, Emma Donoghue has decisively proved otherwise. She dispels the myth that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century lesbian culture was rarely registered in language and that lesbians of this period had no words with which to describe themselves. Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women was a subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a "hermaphrodite," revered as a "romantic friend," or jailed as a "female husband." By examining a wealth of new medical, legal, and erotic source material, and rereading the classics of English literature, Emma Donoghue has uncovered narratives of an astonishing range of lesbian and bisexual identities in Britain between 1668 and 1801. Female pirates and spiritual mentors, chambermaids and queens, poets and prostitutes, country idylls and whipping clubs all take their place in her intriguing panorama of lesbian lives and revisionist and frankly sexual in its outlook, Passions Between Women boldly asserts that relationships between women were, more passionate than the "romantic friendships" oked by other scholarly works.
Papa John: The Autobiography Of John Phillips
by John Phillips Jim JeromeSex, drugs, and rock 'n ' roll. It was the anthem of the sixties. The psychedelic code by which many lived --and died. And John Phillips, legendary founder and songwriter of the Mamas and the Papas, experienced it all. Now Phillips takes us on a dizzying roller-coaster ride from stardom in L.A. to drug busts in the Big Apple. In an intimate, gritty, all- too-true self-portrait, he offers a startling, reflective look at the turbulent sixties and beyond.
Palomino
by Elizabeth JolleyPALOMINO Laura is in her fifties, a gynecologist now barred from her profession. For ten years, she has lived alone on a remote valley farm in self-imposed isolation. Then, returning by ship from a journey around the world (meant as an act of self-healing, -to reawaken her senses), Laura sees Andrea, a young woman whose golden hair and complexion remind her of the beautiful palomino horses that run together in paddocks in clear view of her verandah. Later, by chance, the two women meet at a dinner party, and to Laura's delight, Andrea insists on an extended visit to Laura's farm. Here, they share early morning walks in the jarrah forest, evenings of music and intimate conversation, and much reading-of diaries and letters, in particular. In this idyllic setting, amid orchards and rain storms, each woman seeks to make herself known to the other. The passion that blossoms is rare and deeply felt. As time passes, events long suppressed are revealed, unorthodox entanglements of friendship and love and a bizarre medical accident (or was it murder?).
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
Paint It Today
by Hilda Doolittle Cassandra LaityThis novel, a never before published Roman a clef by the famous imagist writer, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), that explores H.D.'s love for women, is a lyrical recreation of the love and loss of her friend and first love, Frances Gregg, and of her later meeting with Bryher who was to become H.D.'s lifelong companion. Spanning the years from H.D.'s childhood in Pennsylvania to the birth of her daughter, Perdita, in 1919, this turbulent love story is set against the backdrop of World War I, H.D.'s involvement in early 20th century London literary circles, her brief engagement to American poet, Ezra Pound, and her shattered marriage to British novelist Richard Aldington. Paint it Today is H.D.'s most lesbian novel, a modern, homoerotic tale of passage which focuses almost entirely on the young heroine's search for the sister love which would empower her spiritually, creatively, and sexually. Cassandra Laity's introduction places H.D.'s love for the sexually magnetic, betraying Gregg and for the more nurturing and loyal Bryher in the context of the lesbian romanticism of early modern fiction. Her annotations of all Greek references and literary quotations, as well as biographical facts represented in the text, provide nuance and detail to this engrossing work.
Over the Mountains
by Pamela Frankau"The shot went on and on. It was chasing me through the darkness, a swift, pursuing pain. After I had outrun it, I slept sound." So Lieutenant Thomas Weston records the moment of his supposed death in war. The time is May, 1940, and the British armies are retreating toward Dunkirk. Thomas is reported as missing, and later a fellow prisoner confirms that he was killed while trying to escape. In London, his grandmother and his old nurse, Brigstock, refuse to give up hope. Living placidly under the same perilous roof, with the German bombers overhead, each believes Thomas to be alive--and each keeps her hope a secret from the other. The rest of Thomas's family accept his death as fact. Six thousand miles away, in Hollywood, his father, the aging movie star, mourns him sadly and ostentatiously. At work in New York, at play in Bermuda, Thomas's brother Gerald finds the taste of a brilliant Broadway success and much-publicized marriage turning sour. Haunted by guilt, he fights a private war with his own weakness. For Thomas's sister Sarah there is also a war to be fought. Heartbroken, rebellious, caught in America and longing for England, she escapes at last, only to find herself in Lisbon, "the crossroads of the world." In this bizarre milieu, she is joined by the girl Thomas was to marry: Rab, through with war and on her reluctant way back to America. But Rab has changed; a different love has turned her into a person lonelier and more adult than before. The backbone of this poignant novel, however, is the "unwritten notebook" in which Thomas tells his own truth. Lost to the world, a prisoner on the run, he hunts his way through his beloved France to the Riviera coast. He is taken prisoner again: first by a vivid eccentric who finds him at her villa gates; next by the guards who pick him up at the Spanish frontier. All his adventures, though capable of rational explanation, have an element of magic to them--even his final, unexpected rescue. Over the Mountains, which ends the trilogy Clothes of a King's Son, brings the main characters to a peak moment in their lives. Thomas, the "king's son" of the title, is an unforgettable person of unusual stature, and readers of Sing for Your Supper and Slaves of the Lamp will rejoice to meet him and the other Westons again. Those who have not yet discovered the previous novels about this stimulating, exasperating and decidedly odd family are in for a happy surprise; the Westons' old friends will find Miss Frankau's continuation of their adventures funny, sad and exhilarating.
Outsiders: Five Women Writers who Changed the World
by Lyndall GordonMary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders, she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed.
Outrageous
by Sheila Ortiz-TaylorMotorcycle-riding lesbian from L.A. comes to a small town in Florida to teach poetry. Sequel to Fault Lines and Southbound.
Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents
by Noelle Howey Ellen SamuelsAn insightful and touching collection of real life experiences of children in the 1970 and 1980's before the level of acceptance for gay, lesbian and transgendered family's had developed. They each touch on their struggles and the secrecy they often had to keep along with the life lessons of human understanding and pride that often came from those challenges. The book also includes references and resources for additional reading and support.
Out Of The Closet Into Our Hearts: Celebrating Our Gay/Lesbian Family Members
by Laura Siegel Nancy Lamkin OlsonOut For Good: The Struggle To Build A Gay Rights Movement in America
by Dudley ClendinenThis is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and until now untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America's culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever
Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
by Bernard LefkowitzIn March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a retarded girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and gang-raped her. Glen Ridge was the kind of peaceful, affluent suburb many Americans dream about. The rapists were its most popular high school athletes. And although rumors of the crime quickly spread through the town, weeks passed before anyone saw fit to report it to the police. What made these boys capable of brutalizing a girl that some of them had known since childhood? Why did so many of their elders deny the rape and rally around its perpetrators? To solve this riddle, the Edgar award-winning author Bernard Lefkowitz conducted years of research and more than two hundred interviews. The result is not just a wrenching story of crime and punishment, but a hauntingly nuanced portrait of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality.
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson Martha Nell Smith Ellen Louise HartFor the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. This remarkable correspondence brings to light Susan Huntington Dickinson as the central source of the poet's passion and inspiration, and as her primary reader and literary companion. Gone is Emily as the precious recluse spinster of Amherst. Here is Dickinson in her own words—humorous, playful, passionate, and fully alive.
Open House (Helen Black Mysteries #4)
by Pat WelchTo most people, a call in the middle of the night means family trouble. But Helen Black's family disowned her years ago. But the call is indeed from Helen's family. Great Aunt Ruth has passed on, and, inexplicably, left Helen her house. And so Helen journeys from Berkeley, from partner Frieda, to return to her roots in Mississippi. To look once more into the face of the father who repudiated her. Into the face of the woman who was her childhood sweetheart and is now a cop. But Helen finds far more than she could ever imagine. A dying grandfather, and small town secrets, one of them contained in the very house that is now hers. She finds murder, and submerged intrigue that harkens all the way back to a deeply stained period of history in the American south.
One Last Thing (Elite Operatives #7)
by Kim Baldwin Xenia AlexiouBlood is thicker than pride. The final book in the Elite Operative Series brings together foes, family, and friends to start a new order. Special Agent Switch needs to get close to Greek tycoon Konstantinos Lykourgos, the prime suspect in the theft of a priceless ancient icon from a monastery on Mount Athos. His accomplice is the EOO's recurring nemesis: Theodora Rothschild, aka TQ, the Broker. Ariadne Lykourgos, heir to her father's shipping empire, expects to have a much-needed holiday on the family yacht with her friends. But the arrival of a new crew member challenges her values and tests her loyalties. Will Agent Switch be strong enough to keep secrets from Ariadne, and will Ariadne be able to cope with the truth?