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'Excellent new collection... Her touch is so light and exuberantly inventive, her insight at once so forensic and intimate, her people so ordinary even in their oddities. ... Unnervingly exact.' – Guardian
In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private dilemmas that result from some of our most public controversies. A man finds
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First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...
3) Loving Her
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All eight of the Loving Her stories in one volume.
In this series of stories, we meet a group of loving friends and couples. Each member of this group is diverse in personalities and abilities, but they are tied together by the common denominator - love. Introduction from Chelle Cordero, Combining Passion & Suspense
The Ballerina - A southern, redheaded, pickup driving lesbian ballerina? You bet! Meet Liz: a southern belle with flair. Vivacious,...
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Certain Women meets The Mars Room in this debut collection featuring three pairs of stories.
Sharp and stylistic, the trifecta of diptychs that is Swimmers in Winter swirls between real and imagined pasts and futures to delve into our present cultural moment: conflicts between queer people and the police; the impact of homophobia, bullying, and PTSD; the dynamics of women's friendships; life for queer women in Toronto during WWII and after; the intersections...
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Una tormenta de nieve deja incomunicadas a cuatro amigas en una casa rural. Blanca y Concha son pareja, Helena y Sofía... no. Encerradas sin luz y sin cobertura, deciden contar historias para matar el tiempo: Blondie es una gata muy especial para su dueña; en una zona rural, una cartera reparte algo más que cartas; Dorian conoce a Malak; Leonor huye de su pasado; Almu y Mari son solo buenas amigas... por ahora; una sincronía sucede en Granada;...
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,...
7) Mother's Gay
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A cardigan of a different colour, a cup of tea and a card game prompt Polly to confront problems in one of her most important relationships. She has to consider the feelings of her mother, her girlfriend and her little sister-but is there someone she's forgotten? A short story.
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En los cuentos de Lagunas y gitanos las voces renacen como una planta después de la helada. Voces que se celebran a sí mismas describiendo los venturosos días de almas humildes, de una voz sola que narra con asombro el mundo. Hay un estado de comunión con las cosas, los seres vivos, incluidas las personas. Llamar a una amiga simplemente para decirle algo, a veces se tiene esa necesidad. Y describir el mundo que las rodea, narrarlo como una forma...
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Call it happily ever after or a perfect life, it's a universal destination we all hope to reach. Lily plays out the anxieties of her freshman year while standing in line. Lin, wanting only to be left alone, watches a stranger waiting on her porch. Denny flies tourists around an Alaska mountain, hoping to forget, while Alice embarks on an adventure to remember. Tate and Emily, friends since childhood, team up to play out the pirate games of their youth,...
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The Struggle for Happiness is a collection of loosely interwoven stories that explore the condition of a series of finely drawn characters and their various desires-for love, belonging, home, and happiness- from a Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Ranging in tone from utopian visions to stark realism and populated by a unique collection of women-from the guitarist whose supposedly dead lover turns up at one of her concerts, to the professor who has...
11) The Slow Fix
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The first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender, identity, and community, based on her own experiences growing up lesbian in Canada's North. Ivan's most recent book, Bow Grip, was her first novel; it was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Prize for Women's Fiction, was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association, and won Canada's ReLit Award for Best Novel of the Year....
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Los relatos que conforman Posiciones geográficas permiten al lector acercarse al apasionante universo literario de Suzana Tratnik, escritora eslovena traducida a más de veinte idiomas que ha logrado el aplauso unánime de la crítica. La identidad sexual ('Travestis en el autobús'), los roles de la femineidad ('Cosas que nunca entendí en el tren'), las relaciones entre mujeres ('Discreción garantizada'), la violencia ejercida contra los más...
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Set among the glittering clubs and grimy side streets of 1920s Berlin (with detours to Italy and Paris), these charming, witty, and erotic tales capture the trials and triumphs of early twentieth-century gay life without apology or shame. Granand, the pen name for theater director and author Erich Ritter von Busse, lost his battle against bigoted censors but won a shining place in literary history with this pathbreaking volume. Instead of hewing to...
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It's only been a couple of years since Janice Parker lost her partner Cheryl to kidney complications, and she is sure that she isn't ready for another relationship. However, when her sister and best friend come up with a complicated scheme to set her up on a date with a stranger, Janice finds out that attraction can exist on different levels. As she explores her feelings regarding the new territory she is presented with, Janice wonders if she is capable...
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Xequina Maria Berber started writing short stories because after coming out, a flood of inventiveness was liberated and she suddenly had many new stories to tell. Ever since, she's been on a mission to write about dignified women who are self-accepting and proud to be out.
In her first collection of stories, Xequina combines fiction and nonfiction into a rich mosaic that elevates characters and settings to legendary and even mythic status. She developed...
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A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. This illustrated ebook edition presents the story for the first time since 1924. Lovers of literature and history will rejoice in this irresistible...
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Reading on Trains: A Collection of Short Stories for Your CommuteTraveling by train offers a unique opportunity to get lost in a book, as the gentle rocking of the carriage and changing scenery create the perfect environment for losing oneself in a story. That's why I'm so excited to promote the new short story collection "Reading on Trains" by author Dolly Owens.This charming book contains 8 short stories, each designed to be read during a real train...
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What happens when a Jewish mother from Brooklyn moves in with her lesbian daughter and partner in small town, Delaware? Of course, Mother never acknowledges their relationship and the partner decides either she or the mother has got to go. What does a good daughter do? Maybe her and her mother's shared love of film, and especially Bette Davis, will help them save the day. A short story.
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A beautiful love story against a backdrop of tragic loss ("By Candlelight")... A life-changing train journey ("The Train")... A young woman who abruptly runs away from home ("What Will Happen Next?")... A powerful tale of love and friendship ("Another Part of Her")... A meeting between a professor and her student ("Hot Chocolate")... A grieving young adult returning to the home of her parents after a five-year absence ("When I Left")... In The Homes...
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