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    • A Field Guide to Deception

      A Field Guide to Deception

      $14.95

      Everybody longs for a happy ending.

      The day the kid fell in the river—that was the moment for Claire and Liv. The first inkling of a possibility of something to pull them together, away from grief, back from despair.


    • Babies, Bikes and Broads

      Babies, Bikes and Broads

      $14.95

      Third book in the Cat Rising trilogy. Cat Hood doesn't want to go home. She has a new life and a new love in Scotland. But her brother, Will, has been widowed and left with two small children. So there's no choice for Cat now. She must return to Galway, North Carolina, the place she left when love got lost.


    • Cat Rising

      Cat Rising

      $14.95

      Cat Rising is the richly drawn tale of one woman's quest to build a future through the discoveries of her past. Author Cynn Chadwick paints a vibrant portrait of community—friends and family together for the long haul, no matter how bumpy the ride.


    • Girls with Hammers

      Girls with Hammers

      $14.95

      Girls with Hammers is a lovingly crafted novel of an independent woman's struggle to overcome obstacles and build the life she's always wanted. Author Cynn Chadwick works her literary magic again with this charming tale of family, love, human courage and strength, and Southern hospitality.


    • I Came Out For This?

      I Came Out For This?

      $14.95

      Do you know what it’s like to come out when you’re in your forties, having menopausal symptoms, for God’s sake, and then fall madly in love with someone?


    • Last Chance at the Lost and Found

      Last Chance at the Lost and Found

      $13.95

      Last Chance at the Lost and Found is a story of personal growth, of choices made—good and bad—of how to live and love. It’s also the story of the lesbian and gay community from the 70s through the 90s. A story of friendships and lovers and alcohol and recovery and turmoil and, finally, peace of mind.


    • Mirrors

      Mirrors

      $14.95

      Jean Carson is not a lesbian. Not when wants to keep her job. But Jean's a teacher and one of her students is being bullied; everyone calls her "Lezzie Lin". So Jean stays in the closet and soon Lezzie Lin isn't at school but in a hospital bed.


    • Risk

      Risk

      $14.95

      Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Carol, whose father was killed in the Vietnam War, is an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California. She makes her living by tutoring high school students, engages in community activism, and sometimes supplements her income with gambling. Through Carol's life, Dykewomon explores the changing times and values in America.


    • Thicker than Water

      Thicker than Water

      $13.95

      Kit O'Malley, the Australian PI with the mean right-hook, is smarter, tougher, and more dangerous than ever and she is on the scene when a corpse belonging to a member of a notorious Melbourne crime family is found at her local bar. Asking the right questions of the wrong people sees Kit and her friends dragged into serious danger.


    • Verge

      Verge

      $13.95

      Claire has three goals: to stay sober, to stay away from sex, and to get into film school. So far she's blown two of the three and her drunken affair with her professor's wife means she might just have blown the third.