A quiet, strong book, startling at times, captures photographic journalist Bern Rundle as she moves from being a grownup to becoming fully adult. "Gracefully written, this novel presents a thoughtful portrait of a mother and daughter, lesbian relationships, and the complexity of family life." (Library Journal)
"These first-person stories form an insightful narrative that chronicles the daily events and small epiphanies in the relationship of a lesbian couple with a young son"--the narrator, her lover Cecile, and Colby, their child. "Robson's writing is spare and graceful, with wonderfully original sparks of sarcasm and wit sprinkled liberally throughout." (Publishers Weekly)
Thirteen surprising, sometimes startling stories about women riding out the storm. Buffeted by the winds of violence, chance encounter, inevitable change, and personal history, Ruthann Robson's characters seek the peaceful place at the center. Winner of the 1990 Ferro-Grumley Foundation Award for an outstanding work of fiction on lesbian life.
Part sophisticated lesbian romance, part western, part contemporary ghost story. With a cast of characters as quirky as the events occurring in Bisbee, Arizona's deserted Copper Queen Mine--Pop Walker, the Southwest's last living gunfighter; Kate, Tia Tortilla Cafe's owner; Mattie Springer, new horsewoman in town--past and future intersect in this engaging "good read".
"Can a heavy-duty political dyke, whose previous writing has dealt largely with Nicaragua and alcoholism, find fulfillment writing a sexy novel set among the summer crowd in Provincetown?" (Gay Community News) Rave reviews for this lesbian romance with an edge, a fast-paced sizzler where homophobia and racism share center stage with lust and love.
Harriet Fordham Croft is in real trouble. Someone wants her dead. Is it her newly discovered lesbianism, her switch from corporate to criminal practice, or some long-standing personal debt that has triggered the danger? This hard-driving, fast-paced, action-filled mystery picks up where The Monarchs Are Flying leaves off.
The sensitive story of two women in love--separated by geography, time, and their own decisions--who revive their relationship in the face of one woman's terminal illness. Joan Lindau has written an intimate book, soft with the details of daily routine and caring, lucid in its portrayal of emotional realities, sincere and honest in its telling.
"Ellen Frye has blended the myths and legends surrounding the life of famed Greek-lesbian poet Sappho and has combined them with some historic facts to create a magical yarn of her own....The story has wise women and rituals, poets, poems and storytelling, adventure, romance, and mystery." (Booklist)
Shoulders is about coming of age in Texas in the 1970s when you're dewy-eyed and brash and a lesbian. Shoulders is about making it through to the '80s, surviving love gone bad, still believing in love against the odds. On the beach or at bedtime, curl up with Shoulders. A best-selling steamy good read.
Grown-up lesbians have a novel about girls and horses they can call their own in this literate, ovable western set in the bis sky, "no whiners" country of Montana. Rander Racel Duncan and the new vet from back East, Dr. Margaret Carson, are as tough as the horses they ride.
