Download or read book Best Lesbian Romance 2014 written by Radclyffe and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savor gorgeous writing and the pleasure of romance with Best Lesbian Romance 2014. The lesbian literati in this volume comprising the very best of the year raise the bar with tales that grab readers' attention, and their libidos, and have them coming back for more. Romance is many things: thrilling, inspiring, passionate, and life-altering. But most of all, love — whether new or lifelong — is filled with endless possibility. These 18 stories of love, intimacy, and soaring romance from Andrea Dale, Anna Meadows, Lee Lynch, Radclyffe, and the rest of the best, guide readers on an unforgettable journey of adventure, desire, excitement, and discovery.
Download or read book Lesbian Love Story written by Amelia Possanza and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world’s largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza’s journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. Possanza’s hunt takes readers from a drag king show in Bushwick to the home of activists in Harlem and then across the ocean to Hadrian’s Library, where she searches for traces of Sappho in the ruins. Along the way, she discovers her own love—for swimming, for community, for New York City—and adds her record to the archive. At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly lesbian?
Download or read book Dennis and Dad written by Giselle Renarde and published by Giselle Renarde. This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chris visits Dennis and Dad this Father’s Day, his father's confusion and strange behaviour worry him. Dennis is concerned that these are more than just senior moments, but Chris' dad refuses to see a doctor. With legal issues around healthcare and hospitalization in mind, Dennis thinks it’s best to get married. Will Dad agree to take the plunge? A gay Father’s Day short from award-winning queer Canadian author Giselle Renarde.
Download or read book It s Not What You Thought written by Giselle Renarde and published by Giselle Renarde. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leah’s a teacher who dreams of moving to the country. Reggie’s the real estate agent who can make that dream come true. Except life is never that easy, is it? When Leah realizes all she can afford is a run-down shack, will her hopes be dashed? Or will Reggie be able to show her that, if you’re willing to explore new opportunities, dreams never die? A sweet lesbian romance short from award-winning author Giselle Renarde.
Download or read book A Good Chance written by Ali Vali and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet “Harry” and Desi Basantes spent sixteen years waiting to find each other again, and now they’re weeks away from a wedding and the baby they’ve planned since high school. Desi’s sister Rachel Thompson is happy for them. Rachel might wish for her own grand love affair, but her attraction to Harry’s ex Serena Ladding doesn’t exactly spell happily ever after. She’s pretty sure Serena is still in love with Harry and isn’t prepared to take the chance on a broken heart. So then why can’t she stop thinking about Serena? Angola State Penitentiary is one of the toughest prisons in the country, but when Desi’s ex-husband Byron Simoneaux sees the chance to run, he does with only one goal in mind: to finish what he started and kill Desi, Rachel, and Harry, the women who stole his life. Can you really outrun your past? For Harry, Desi, and Rachel, it’s a matter of life or death.
Download or read book The Queer Encyclopedia of Music Dance and Musical Theater written by Claude Summers and published by Cleis Press Start. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aficionados of music, dance, opera, and musical theater will relish this volume featuring over 200 articles showcasing composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers across eras and styles. Read about Hildegard of Bingen, whose Symphonia expressed both spiritual and physical desire for the Virgin Mary, and George Frideric Handel, who not only created roles for castrati but was behind the Venetian opera's preoccupations with gender ambiguity. Discover Alban Berg’s Lulu, opera’s first openly lesbian character. And don’t forget Kiss Me Kate, the hit 1948 Broadway musical: written by Cole Porter, married though openly gay; directed by John C. Wilson, Noël Coward's ex-lover; and featuring Harold Lang, who had affairs with Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal. No single volume has ever achieved the breadth of this scholarly yet eminently readable compendium. It includes overviews of genres as well as fascinating biographical entries on hundreds of figures such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Diaghilev, Bessie Smith, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Alvin Ailey, Rufus Wainwright, and Ani DiFranco.
Download or read book One More Chance written by Ali Vali and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy walked around the bar counter. “I’m happy. I need…want a normal life. It was nice seeing you, though.” “Happy? You?” Kate asked. “Aren’t you bored to tears?” Claire stepped forward, lifting the coat as if to give it to Kate. Andy caught the glimmer of black steel underneath the cashmere. Shit, she hadn't seen that coming. She scrambled onto the nearest bar stool, gunning for the Sig Sauer P266 hidden in her office, when the Taser zapped her in the back. Imagine knowing someone is going to die. Dreaming it. Almost feeling the knife slip in… Will you try to prevent it if you can? Andy Bouchard was a keeper. Someone who had to look after women with particular talents. Forced out of retirement to see what a newcomer—feisty math wizard Isabelle Templeton—can deliver, she has to prevent one last murder before she’s allowed to return to her safe, ordinary life.
Download or read book Romance and Readership in Twentieth Century France written by Diana Holmes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses. This study adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes seriously the pleasure that women readers consistently seem to find in romance. Drawing on the social constructionist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, the psychoanalytical theories of Jessica Benjamin, and a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Zygmunt Bauman, the book uncovers the history of romantic fiction in France from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, and explores its place in women's lives and imaginations. Romance is not defined - as it usually is - solely in terms of its mass-market form. Rather, the history of women's popular fiction is traced in its full context, as one dimension of a literary story that encompasses the mainstream or 'middlebrow' as well as 'high' culture. Thus this study ranges from the formula romance (from the pious but popular Delly to global brand Harlequin), through 'middlebrow' bestsellers like Marcelle Tinayre, Françoise Sagan, Régine Deforges, to critically esteemed stories of love in the work of such authors as Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Elsa Triolet, and Camille Laurens. Criss-crossing the boundaries of taste and class, as well as those of sexual orientation, the romance has been at times reactionary, at others progressive, utopian, and contestatory. It has played an important part in the lives of twentieth-century women, providing both a source of imaginative escape, and a fictional space in which to rehearse and make sense of identity, relationship, and desire.
Download or read book P S written by Megan McMorris and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had something you wanted to say to a friend, but couldn’t? Ever wished you could go back in time to say something you didn’t? Female friendships are some of the most powerful and beautiful relationships in our lives, but it can sometimes be hard to express our true sentiments to these friends. Whether it be pride, fear, feelings, or circumstance that stand in the way, each of us likely has something we wish we could say to someone, but haven’t. In P.S., Megan McMorris collects these sentiments, as an anthology of unsent letters written by a range of women. For the friend who’s been there for you through everything, the friend you’ve lost touch with, or the friend you’ve wished you could help, P.S. offers a chance to express the unspoken. A thought-provoking collection, P.S. is sure to resonate with women readers of all ages, from different walks of life.
Download or read book A Family by Any Other Name written by Bruce Gillespie and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT Anthology Winner of a 2015 Silver Independent Publisher Book Award At no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. A Family by Any Other Name recognizes and celebrates this advance by exploring what “family” means to people today. The anthology includes a wide range of perspectives on queer relationships and families—there are stories on coming out, same-sex marriage, adopting, having biological kids, polyamorous relationships, families without kids, divorce, and dealing with the death of a spouse, as well as essays by straight writers about having a gay parent or child. These personal essays are by turns funny, provocative, and intelligent, but all are moving and honest. Including writers from across North America, this collection offers honest and moving real-life stories about relationships and creating families in the twenty-first century. The fifth book in a series of books about the twenty-first-century family, A Family by Any Other Name follows How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting, Somebody’s Child, Nobody’s Mother, and Nobody’s Father, all essay collections that challenge readers to re-examine traditional definitions of “family.”
Download or read book Slather written by Patricia A. Kuess and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what your dental hygienist is thinking about as she cleans your teeth? Here's a clue-it's not your teeth. Patricia is a dental hygienist, an inveterate daydreamer, and a lesbian. In the midst of cleaning people's teeth, she fluctuates flawlessly between her inner and outer worlds. And it is during one of these routine cleanings that a story pops into her head. There's Frederick, a guy who has failed his driving test ninety-nine times, and a woman on the run named Tulsa. Then there's RaeEllen and Daryl John, brilliant skaters who have always been in Patricia's mind, but never given her a story. As the days go by, Patricia continues to explore her characters by asking her patients questions about their own lives, and soon, she is merrily immersed in her fictional world. When she takes the plunge to write a screenplay, Patricia's creative process explodes and she begins to experience the joy, frustration, and satisfaction of writing. Critique partners and a screenwriting conference in Hollywood follow and Patricia begins to realize that maybe, just maybe, her daydreams will appear on the silver screen someday-if she just believes. Filled with fun and quirky characters, Slather is the engaging account of daydreams in action and of the magic inside us all when we choose to believe the impossible.
Download or read book Never Kiss a Cowgirl written by Ali Vali and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asher Evans is living her dreams eight seconds at a time. She’s finally at the top of the rankings and headed for the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, and she owes it all to the man who taught her everything, Silas Wilson. Reagan Wilson vowed she’d never return to Louisiana. Her father, Silas, was a world champion rodeo rider until an accident destroyed his career, then killed him. Now she’s interning at a sports clinic in New Orleans, and her first patient is Asher Evans. Seeing her childhood neighbor and teenage crush brings all those painful memories rushing back. Asher and Reagan are from different worlds, even if they grew up side by side. Reagan doesn’t understand why anyone would risk their life for a title and a belt buckle, and Asher doesn’t do safe and predictable. Falling in love makes no sense, but as the spark between them ignites, they may have more in common than they think.
Download or read book Unrivaled written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoey Cohen spent a lifetime learning to hide disappointment and loss behind a mask of unshakeable calm and control, even when her longtime friend-with-benefits lover moves on for true love. Declan Black returns to Philadelphia Medical Center after an accident costs her the life she’d built and her career. She’s resolved to protect herself from ever being vulnerable to past mistakes by rebuilding her life around her new role as an ER attending, and that life does not include love. Zoey will never accept second place in matters of the heart, even when her rival is a career, and Dec has nothing left to give of herself or her heart. Sometimes change is a force more powerful than will. A PMC Hospital Romance
Download or read book Clinical Trials written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a graduate student volunteers for a clinical trial, she soon discovers the study is all about arousal—hers, to be exact, in the most intimate of settings. When she can't help but fantasize about the gorgeous female scientist, every lustful twinge shows up on the record. Three stories in one—from the first encounter to the explosive final experiment. Previously published in Change of Pace: Erotic Interludes (Bold Strokes Books, 2004); republished in Radical Encounters (Bold Strokes Books, 2009).
Download or read book Passionate Rivals written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onetime lovers, unexpected rivals... Emmett McCabe never expected to see Sydney Stevens—a woman with whom she'd shared a brief, incendiary connection before it all went up in flames—again. Luckily, ascending the cutthroat ladder of a high-pressure surgery residency to reach the top spot makes it easy to ignore what's missing in her life. Then Sydney reappears after nearly five years. Emmett is barely over her shock when she discovers Sydney is her new competition for the coveted chief's position everyone, including Emmett, expects will be hers. Professional rivalry and long-simmering passions create a combustible combination when the two are forced to work together, especially when past attractions won't stay buried.
Download or read book Tapped Out written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance meeting and instant attraction between two women at an airport leads to an all-out seduction on the mat at a martial arts competition. When the winner calls the game, sex turns out to be the no-holds-barred variety.
Download or read book Word Play written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the still dark of the night, a woman writes her desire and dares, at last, to send her words to the woman who inspired them. Previously published in Erotic Interludes 3: Lessons in Love, edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman (Bold Strokes Books, 2006).
