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Silver Wings by H.P. Munro
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWINNER - 2014 Golden Crown Literary Society - Historical FictionWhen in 1943, twenty-five-year-old Lily Rivera is widowed, she finally feels able to step out of the shadows of an unhappy marriage. Her love of flying leads her to join the Womens Airforce Service Pilots, determined to regain her passion and spread her wings, not suspecting that she would experience more than just flying... -
![Shaken to the Core by Jae]()
Shaken to the Core by Jae
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKate Winthrop, the only child of a wealthy shipping magnate, has the course of her life charted for her by her parents. She’s expected to marry well and produce a successor to the Winthrop empire. But Kate has a very different path in mind. Her true passion lies with photography—and with women... -
![Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich]()
Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice... -
![In the Shadow of Love by J.E. Leak]()
In the Shadow of Love by J.E. Leak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was prepared to lose her life. She was not prepared to lose her heart. Reporter Jenny Ryan didn’t believe in love at first sight. Until it happened to her. An encounter with a sultry nightclub singer led to a secret job at the Office of Strategic Services and an unlikely romance with the woman of her dreams.OSS agent Kathryn Hammond knows she doesn’t deserve love or happiness... -
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![Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton]()
Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBilly May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different.As Billy May explains, “We was sheltered in them hills. We didn’t know much of nothin’ about life outside of them mountains. I did not know the word lesbian; to us, gay meant havin’ fun and queer meant somethin’ strange... -
![Collected Poems 1945-1990 by R.S. Thomas, Andrew Motion]()
Collected Poems 1945-1990 by R.S. Thomas, Andrew Motion
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublished to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this is a collection of poems by R.S. Thomas, written between 1945 and 1990. Thomas won numerous awards for his work, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964... -
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Juliana by Vanda
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“An Absolutely Beautiful and Moving Novel!”--Philip Crawford, author of Mafia and the GaysReaders say, “I can’t wait for the next book in the series."She went looking for fame, and found her true self, instead.New York City, 1941. Alice “Al” Huffman and her childhood friends are fresh off the potato farms of Long Island and bound for Broadway... -
![Madeleine by Emma Nichols]()
Madeleine by Emma Nichols
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMadeleine isn’t like other grieving war widows. Claudette isn’t like other young French women. As their lives collide, Madeleine and Claude will discover a depth of connection and desire they never knew could exist... -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
![Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.]()
Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it... -
![Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli]()
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLeo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas?s home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas?s flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spells the end for Leo and Thomas? languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to find anonymity... -
![The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin]()
The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions, and other photos, including a portrait photo of Esenin and his wife Isadora Duncan, American dancer (v. 2, p. [7])... -
![Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy]()
Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home... -
![Memory Board by Jane Rule]()
Memory Board by Jane Rule
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor forty years David Crown has kept his twin sister Diana a secret. Until his wife's death, not even his children -- Diana's nieces and nephews -- have known about Diana and her lifetime companion Constance. But now David seeks to bridge over those years and recapture the closeness of childhood, to become part of Diana's life, to have her be a major part of his... -
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![Flow Chart by John Ashbery]()
Flow Chart by John Ashbery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReticent, shy, unfailingly modern, Ashbery is as unorthodox [as] any of the great twentieth-century creators: Breton, Stravinsky, Picasso," observed Jeremy Reed in Britain's "Poetry Review," "We are privileged to be around at a time when he is writing... -
![Alice & Jean by Lily Hammond]()
Alice & Jean by Lily Hammond
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvery lover has her story, and every town has its secrets. It’s 1946 in New Zealand, and Alice Holden has fallen for the woman delivering her milk every morning... -
![Collected Poems: Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas]()
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![The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes]()
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933... -
![Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall]()
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBerlin, 1938It is the summer before World War II begins, but Charlotte Kraus doesn’t know it yet. All she knows is the zing of electricity she feels every time her best friend, Angelika Haas, grabs her hand... -
![La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc, Simone de Beauvoir]()
La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc, Simone de Beauvoir
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women... -
![Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]()
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPublished to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses... -
![The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca]()
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn these three plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernada Alba), García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life... -
![The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Shiwu Qinggong, Stonehouse]()
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Shiwu Qinggong, Stonehouse
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the 2015 Washington State Book Award in Poetry Translation " The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."— Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse—considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets—used poetry as his medium of instruction... -
![Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman]()
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSappho One Hundred Lyrics: Large Print By Bliss Carman Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics is a book of poetry by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. It was first printed in 1904 in Boston by L.C. Page. Carman's cousin, and fellow Canadian poet, Charles G.D. Roberts wrote an introductory essay, "The Poetry of Sappho... -
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![The Seduction of Moxie by Colette Moody]()
The Seduction of Moxie by Colette Moody
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Hollywood-bound actress Violet London meets speakeasy singer Moxie Valette, her trip takes an unexpected turn toward love. New York City, 1931: When wry Broadway actress Violet London and her hard-drinking cohorts venture into a speakeasy the night before she is to board a train for Hollywood, she is floored by sassy blond singer Moxie Valette... -
![Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini]()
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
![Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler]()
Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novel of adventure, personal disclosure, violence, and finally--a strange redemption... -
![The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman]()
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee]()
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
![The French Girl by Felicia Donovan]()
The French Girl by Felicia Donovan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe heartwarming story of a young French girl raised in a world of prejudice and despair, who becomes orphaned and is sent to live with her distant cousin and her cousin's partner... -
![Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig]()
Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women’s most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets... -
![The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau]()
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character... -
![Laughing Wild - Acting Edition by Christopher Durang]()
Laughing Wild - Acting Edition by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook annotation not available for this title... -
![Girls on the Run by John Ashbery]()
Girls on the Run by John Ashbery
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA book-length poem that is at once tragic and hilarious. Girls on the Run is a poem loosely based on the works of the outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls... -
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![How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans]()
How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the aftermath of The Great War, everything is changing.But not for Marian Fielding.Marian’s life is quiet and predictable in the solitude of the English countryside, where she plans to remain. But Marian’s world is turned upside down when she meets brash, confident Katherine Fuller... -
![Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue]()
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another... -
![Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest]()
Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery.Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic, remarkably beautiful, CURIOUS WINE is a love story that will remain in your memory... -
![Big Woods by William Faulkner]()
Big Woods by William Faulkner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBig Woods is a collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories. An avid hunter as well as one of America's greatest writers, Faulkner spent many days hunting in the big woods near Oxford, Mississippi.Included here is his most famous hunting story, "The Bear", as well as "The Old People", "A Bear Hunt", and "Race at Morning"... -
![Three Tall Women by Edward Albee]()
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlbee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room... -
![A Winter Book by Tove Jansson]()
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFollowing the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths... -
![Mazie by Melanie Crowder]()
Mazie by Melanie Crowder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratings*"Deserves a standing ovation." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*" This is a terrific and realistic piece of historical fiction that is perfect for theater lovers and historical fiction fans." -- SLC (starred review)*"The peppy first-person narrative keeps the story zipping along, and adroitly placed period details make the setting come alive in this bighearted, exuberant novel... -
![Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson]()
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France... -
![Claudine in Paris by Colette]()
Claudine in Paris by Colette
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt the age of seventeen Claudine is in despair having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. Comforted by her devoted maid Melie, her slug-obsessed Papa, and the trustworthy cat Fanchette, Claudine's instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city... -
![Like by Ali Smith]()
Like by Ali Smith
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling to raise Kate, a precocious eight-year-old. Amy is an enigma-a brilliant scholar who has forgotten how to read. She is estranged from her wealthy English parents and lives a nomadic life in Scotland, dragging Kate from one school to the next, barely scraping by... -
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![These Days by Lucy Caldwell]()
These Days by Lucy Caldwell
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many won't make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged... -
![In Another Place, Not Here by Dionne Brand]()
In Another Place, Not Here by Dionne Brand
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAcclaimed by Adrienne Rich as "fierce, sensuous . . . a work of great beauty and moral imagination," In Another Place, Not Here tells of two contemporary Caribbean women who find brief refuge in each other on an island in the midst of political uprising... -
![Fair Play by Tove Jansson]()
Fair Play by Tove Jansson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWinner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for TranslationFair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades... -
![Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert]()
Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen AP political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1932 campaign, the two women become deeply involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship documented by 3300 letters... -
![Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker by Patrick Califia-Rice]()
Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker by Patrick Califia-Rice
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the bleak and not-too-distant future of a culture in its death throes, Doc and Fluff careens through the lives of a pair of outlaw women struggling to survive on the road. Packed with true love, rough sex, and over-the-top adventure, this popular novel is now available with a new introduction to the wild world of Pat Califia's imagination... -
![Te Kaihau: The Windeater by Keri Hulme]()
Te Kaihau: The Windeater by Keri Hulme
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStories deal with dreams, a woman who accidently injures her son, sheep herders, whales, violence, and family life...
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