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THE CASE OF THE
NOT-SO-NICE NURSE A NANCY CLUE MYSTERY Mabel Maney When Cherry Aimless lands in San Francisco in search of Nancy Clue and a flock of missing nuns, the earnestly whitegirl 50s meet the oh-so-queer 90s in a delightful parody of both girl detective novels and lesbian romantic fiction.
Cleis Press Paperback $9.95
BUTCH
A NOVEL
Jay Rayn
From the pressures of a small town, through the homophobia of the US Marine Corps to the struggles of lesbians caught up in the second wave of the women's movement, this is a love story and a journey of self-discovery. Lace
Paperback $7.95
BEFORE OUR EYES Joan Alden Bern Rundle is a photojournalist who is never sure of what she sees when she is behind the camera. In unwinding footage, Bern comes to terms with her family and becoming fully adult. From her father's alcoholism, her brother's accident, and her mother's middle-aged lesbianism, she dedicates herself to showing the human side of her family. Firebrand Books Paperback $8.95
HOME MOVIES Paula Marinac Charts the emotional terrain of losing a loved one to AIDS and the intricacies of personal and family relationships. This is the story of Teresa Keenan, a lesbian writer living in NYC who is attempting to come to terms with loss of her Uncle Jamie, a gayrights activist who has just died of AIDS. As Teresa sifts through her memories, she is confronted with the reminders of her sister's death from leukemia, an event rarely discussed in her family. Seal Press Paperback $10.95
THE PRICE OF SALT Claire Morgan Nineteen year old Therese, engaged to be married, looks up from her work one day to gaze into Carol's gray eyes. From that moment on, the two women's lives veer off the straight and narrow. Naiad
Paperback $8.95
WITHOUT WINGS
Jackie Manthorne In this new collection of interwoven stories, the author moves her characters out of the bar and into life. There, they cope with issues that unite and divide lesbians in a big city: illness, abusive partners, the uncertainties of love. Casts a wryly humorous eye on lesbians in a readable tale of lesbian life today.
Gynergy Books Paperback $9.95
BAILEY'S CAFE
Gloria Naylor Welcome to the most mythically real eating place in an urban backwater. It draws a wide variety of customers: Sadie, addicted to alcohol and cleanliness; Eve, the fresh flower madame; Peaches, with the marred face and goddess-like body; Jesse, whose love for a woman cannot overcome her love of heroine; Miss Maple, the transvestite who enters contests; and Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. Vintage Paperback $11.00
EMPATHY
Sarah Schulman Traumatically jilted by a woman in white leather and wearing battle scars of an emotionally bruising relationship, Anna O. retreats to a part of herself so fearful of being female and lesbian that she adopts a male persona. Anna becomes Doc, a post Freudian psychoanalyst, whose desire to cure others and change the world is an attempt to escape his past and ease his own overwhelming pain and confusion.
Plume Paperback $10.00
GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS
Gertrude Stein
A collection of writings from 1910 to 1920. Originally published in 1922 with an introduction by Sherwood Anderson, it has been virtually inaccessible for many years. This compendium of many different genres-plays, poems, portraits, and essays gives insight into Stein's developing strategies of literary style. Univ. of Wisconsin Paperback $14.95
NOT TELLING MOTHER
STORIES FROM A LIFE
Diane Salvatore Stories from the lives of lesbian couple Renee and Celia, and the extended family that surrounds them. Renee's best friend Edie is having an affair. Celia uncovers a new truth about her skeptical father. Renee is out at work but is invited to a party, without Celia. This and many other issues are covered in this new work by the well known author. Naiad
Paperback $9.95
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MAGICIAN'S GIRL
THE MAGICIAN'S GIRL Doris Grumbach
This novel turns out to be something altogether different: an unsettling force that stares at the minds and bodies of its three ambitious women (college roommates) with the clear focus-and eerie serene spirit-of a Diane Arbus photograph. Norton Paperback $8.95
THE LADIES
Doris Grumbach This is an absolutely beautiful book about two reallife, 18th century women, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, who dared to live as a married couple, forging a perfect romanticism. Those who discovered them came away with a profound respect for their life, their love, and their courage. Norton
Paperback $8.95
TRIAD MOON Gillean Chase
Past and present lives, incest and survival, healing, and the astonishing strength of the heart. Chase has deftly woven these themes through the lives of three independent women: Lila, Brook, and Helen. Creating a work that is at once an unusual coming-out story and a passionate affirmation of mature love. Gynergy Books Paperback $9.95
LOVE'S SHADOW Amber Coverdale Sumrall This collection gives voice to the complexities of relationships: the secrets, disappointments, betrayals, fantasies, losses, obsessions, and violence. Here are 65 stories and poems ranging from humorous to horrific, illuminating areas often hidden in the shadow of love. Crossing Press Paperback $14.95
LADY LOBO Kristen Garrett Casey Ellison, brash young jock dyke, heads off to college fulfill her life-long dream: to play basketball with the best...a majorleague champion team. On the court and in the locker room, she thrives with audacity and self-possession, impressing fellow players and coaches alike. And off the court? Casey likes women and likes sex, when and where she can get it. As an emerging jock star, she finds plenty of opportunities. New Victoria Paperback $9.95
Proud Man
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PROUD MAN Katharine Burdekin
Meet Genuine Person, a future everyman/woman from a peaceful, androgynous, vegetarian society without national government or class divisions. Hurtled back thousands of years to post-WWI British society, through a series of interactions with different people, Genuine exposes the folly of modern mass society.
Feminist Press Paperback $14.95
ANNIE ON MY MIND Nancy Garden
A pensive story of love between women that earned high praise from all corners. Chosen by the American Library Association as one of the Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, 1970-1982, this novel tells us what it feels like to be a young woman who is just coming to terms with her lesbianism. Clearly written, consistent, lyrical, and best of all, believable. FS&G Paperback $3.95
CURIOUS
WINE
A NOVEL
Katherine V Forrest
CURIOUS WINE Katherine V. Forrest The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring two women together in this passionate novel of first discovery. This new revised edition celebrates the tenth anniversary of this lesbian classic. Naiad
Paperback $9.95
WELL OF LONELINESS
Radclyffe Hall
Instantly banned on two continents, Hall's book has become a classic story of lesbian love. Today, this haunting novel is judged one of the finest portraits of women in love ever created. It is the story of a raffish tomboy driven away from her family and into the fashionable world of 1920s Paris.
Anchor
Paperback $10.00
STONE BUTCH BLUES Leslie Feinberg Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. This book tells of her coming to terms with the tempest of who she is. Growing up differently, coming out as butch in the bars and the feminist 60s, taking hormones and passing as a man to get a job in the 70s, she must ultimately deal with her transgender when her hormone pills wear off and she comes full circle in her identity. Firebrand Books Paperback $9.95
CLAIRE MCNAB
UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS Claire McNab American Lee Paynter has built an international travel agency and has little time to devote to a relationship. Alexandra Findlay is pursuing a career in Australian tourism and has been assigned to accompany Lee on her visit down under. Suddenly Alex's quiet life explodes and Lee is challenged by a woman unlike any she has ever known. Naiad Paperback $9.95
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