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Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and her searing manifesto about racism in the industry goes viral.
Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter. She has a flashy media job that makes her feel successful and a devoted girlfriend who takes care of her when she comes home exhausted and demoralized....
2) The adult
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"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"--
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"Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel."The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them--communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room"Jewelle Gomez sees right into the heart. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength."-Dorothy...
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A unique and "often quite moving" look at gay women's role in US history (The Washington Post). This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today. Lillian Faderman persuasively argues that their lesbianism may in fact have facilitated...
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"Greeley's storytelling is intricate, masterly, and delightfully imaginative. Highly recommended."-Library Journal (starred review)
In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the author of The Clergyman's Wife combines the knowing eye of Jane Austen with the eroticism and Gothic intrigue of Sarah Waters to reimagine the life of the mysterious Anne de Bourgh.
As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh was prescribed...
6) Not one day
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Winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize
Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards
Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize
Available in a new edition, Anne Garréta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.
Not One Day begins with a maxim: "Not one day without a woman." What follows is an intimate, erotic, and sometimes bitter recounting of loves and lovers past, breathtakingly written, exploring the interplay between memory, fantasy,...
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"Gerstenblatt's distinctive tale, a triumph in storytelling, celebrates the courage and tenacity of women." -Booklist, starred review
Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear…
Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at...
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DELUXE EDITION WITH SEQUEL NOVELLA Sometimes you need to go back to where you came from. When Ella returns to her hometown to recover from trauma, she makes a connection with Kay, the owner of the local lake resort. Ella thought she didn't have time for love, but this extraordinary woman may just prove her wrong. A deeply emotional read by best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss.
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Publisher Annotation: It?s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can?t be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy?s only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk?until she?s matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything....
10) Cider
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This is a story about a sunny and outgoing girl who thought that her life was going smoothly but suddenly had her entire world turned upside down when her father took a position at an all-girl school on the other side of Japan. Was it destiny, fate, or a prayer that allowed her to meet her celebrity crush and find out the real girl hiding behind the celebrity image? A cold girl discovers freedom where she could never imagine. What will happen when...
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Perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Ashley Herring Blake, this sapphic retelling of It's a Wonderful Life will make the yuletide gay. After years of putting aside her dreams of travel and adventure, Bailey George is ready to leave Lanford Falls and her responsibilities behind on a long-awaited vacation to New York City. But when the volunteer who took over her leadership position for the town's Winter Wonderfest has a medical emergency, Bailey...
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A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel
Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin...
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True love deserves a second chance. Leigh Sterling and Jodie Whitehouse share a passionate connection. Unfortunately, their differing visions of the future force them apart. Life goes on, but their attempts at other relationships fail to measure up to the love they once shared. When they see each other again after more than a decade apart, they realize they may be soulmates. Can they ever find their way back to one another? Find out in this emotional...
14) New Ink on Life
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Survival is only the beginning in a novel that "blends a delightfully nuanced opposites-attract romance with real-world issues of health and healing" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Leaving a dependable job to apprentice as a tattoo artist is a drastic step after surviving breast cancer, but Cassie Whiteaker is nearly five years cancer-free. Nearly. She's not ready to go out on her own until she clears that all-important hurdle. Also off-limits...
15) Forbidden
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Lesbian / Fantasy / Romance. Konitah - the Short Story: A story about a woman who lost her true love. She was forced into a marriage with a man. Her lover, Konitah, was changed into a beast. A creature of the dark woods. A killer of men.
ForbiddeN - the Prequel: Two young women from the village Billedar, discovered love for the first time. This love was forbidden and punishable by death. They were brutally separated from each other after their secret...
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award: A beautiful novel about the strength of love and personal perseverance during the political fervor of the Progressive Era Set in Russia and New York during the early twentieth century, Beyond the Pale follows the lives of two women born in a Russian-Jewish settlement who immigrate to New York's Lower East Side. Gutke Gurvich is a midwife who travels to America with her partner, a woman...
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When all hope is lost, can music be the ultimate lifeline? Isabel 'Izzy' Adler used to dominate the world's stages with her vocal acrobatics. But since she lost her voice ten years ago, Izzy's been to hell-and hasn't found her way back. When journalist Leila Zadeh is brought in to finish her biography, Izzy's dark plans for her life are challenged by the brilliant and gorgeous new woman in her life. Will the instant attraction between them be enough...
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Do opposites attract? Hell yeah, they do… Gina Gupta has never truly fallen for anyone. For a flat, yes. But a living, breathing woman? Nope. She came out late, and now she's busy running her property firm. Perhaps she and love are simply incompatible. When she meets business hotshot and TV star India Contelli, she's sure that's not going to change. India is rich, gorgeous and heartbroken. Gina sells her a rooftop dream, then leaves. At least, that...
19) Made In London
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Ready or not, here comes romance…Photographer Heidi Hughes has been single since her daughter was born. But now Maya's walking and talking, she's ready to meet someone who's happy with her cute-but-chaotic extra.Eden Price's world is all about order and precision: in her job, her home, her friendships. A PR guru, she's designed her life to run like clockwork.At least she had, until the universe decided she needed to meet Heidi. Now, Eden's not sure...
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Sometimes what you're running from is exactly what you need Olivia Chevalier is perfectly happy living a quiet life of solitude with her two cats in the tempestuous countryside of Brittany. Olivia's peace is disrupted when heartbreaker extraordinaire Marie Dievart moves in to the holiday home next door after an event at work makes her flee her everyday life. Olivia hates having a neighbour and Marie is put off by Olivia's cranky ways. But maybe these...
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