Lesbian Books and Lesbian Book Reviews

With winter having settled in - a bit more than some of us would like - we thought we'd spotlight some great lesbian books, lesbian authors and bookstore sites at LesbianShoppingMall.com. It just feels like a time to cuddle up on the couch with a good book. We hope you enjoy perusing our bookstores and book synopses. And don't forget that lesbian novels make great gifts.

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One Degree of Separation

Marian Pardoo, Reference Librarian for the Iowa City Public Library, would be happy if the woman she's loved for years wasn't already married. Completely annoyed by the thoughtless out-of-towner Liddy, Marian isn't prepared for the seething passion that erupts when Liddy careens into her meticulously controlled life. Liddy has run two thousand miles from a devastating love affair. Now the idea of spending the sweltering summer watching the corn grown is driving her mad.
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Gulf Breeze

Dr. Carly Cambridge, wildlife biologist, returns to the Texas Gulf Coast to manage the latest Habitats for Nature project, restoring the woods and wetlands to their natural state. She is devoted to the environmental cause with a passion usually reserved for a lover – something she hasn’t had since a disastrous love affair ten years earlier. Having sworn off women and relationships, Carly is perfectly content to live her life alone while she focuses on her latest project.

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	Awakening the Virgin edited by Nicole Foster Fascinating, forbidden, innocent yet powerful, virgins have captured our sensual imagination since time began. Here, in fiery detail, are the amazing true stories of lesbians seducing or being seduced by virgin women. In the office, a funeral home, the backseat of a car, a bookstore, a summer camp, the wild outdoors, or even at home in bed, these erotic rendezvous are as varied as the experiences themselves.
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	Awakening the Virgin 2 by Nicole Foster Call it what you will, we call it hot: the idea of initiating another woman into the ecstatic joys of woman-on-woman sex. Apparently you liked it because you bought a kazillion copies of the first volume. So here is another collection of scorching true stories by women who had the mind-blowing good luck to be another woman's first.
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	Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest The 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, intensley romantic, remarkably beautiful, Curious Wine is the bestselling romantic lesbian novel of all time.
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	Damn Straight by Elizabeth Sims After her narrow brush with death in Holy Hell, you would think Lillian Byrd would have learned to keep her head down, but when a friend in crisis calls from Palm Springs, Lillian jumps on a plane and wings her way from Detroit to California and danger. It's the weekend of the Dinah Shore golf tournament, the wildest women's sporting event in the world, when thousands of lesbians descend on the desert community of Rancho Mirage and take over.
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	Eleventh Hour, The by Lauren Maddison Connor Hawthorne and her lover, Laura Nez, are enjoying a quiet weekend at a women's resort in Palm Springs, but a poolside conversation soon has them neck-deep in a mystery with global ramifications. Soon, they are in England investigating a healer named Sister Sonia, who is toying with forces which could have disastrous consequences. Then Connor's daughter, Katy, goes undercover to investigate Sister Sonia and disappears.
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	Gay Vacation Guide by Mark Chesnut It doesn't matter what we're looking for - adventure, escape, camaraderie, romance, sex, or relaxation. What matters is a new backdrop. So, what do you look for when you travel? Where do you want to go? Not sure whether to go it alone or with someone you love? Taking a tour this time or just winging it? If you need a few ideas... Then Read This Book!
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	Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest When Detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Detective Joe Cameron, get the call to investigate a homicide in the secluded, old-money neighborhood of Hancock Park, Kate has the feeling it's not going to be murder as usual. Her hunch is correct. A cultured, refined mother of three, Victoria Talbot is the last person you would guess to die by gunshot, execution-style.
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	Is Your Cat Gay? If you've ever wondered if your fabulous feline friend was just a bit too fabulous...Here is a book that finally sheds light on the answer to the perennially puzzling question of your cat's sexual orientation. Funny and charming, it explores the 'tell-tail' signs to help cat lovers get in touch with their feline gaydar, with superb drawings by the New Yorker cartoonist Victoria Roberts in her trademark fun and witty style.
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	Maybe Next Time by Karin Kallmaker Sabrina doesn't need love. She has fame as a brilliant violinist and unlimited options for female company. Nothing can shake her -- except the memory of her very first love. Knowing that neither the teenaged nor adult Jorie will ever return her feelings, Sabrina has escaped into her music and the arms of other women.
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	Never Say Never by Linda Hill Systems analyst Leslie Howard knows all too well that the fastest way to a broken heart is to ignore Lesbian Dating Rule Number One: Never, ever, get involved with a straight woman. Yet, despite her better judgment, and serious warnings from her friends, she finds herself battling a growing infatuation with her very straight--and very attractive--co-worker Sara Stevens.
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	On Our Backs edited by Lindsay McClure For 16 years, On Our Backs has published the lesbian community's sexiest and most controversial erotic fiction. Now, for the first time, the best stories from this groundbreaking magazine are collected in one volume. The talents of a wide variety of writers come together to provide stories of erotic intensity while also exploring many of the political and social issues surrounding lesbian sex.
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	On Our Backs, Volume 2 edited by Diana Cage A new collection of intense lesbian erotic fiction from the archives of the groundbreaking On Our Backs magazine. Buy now: Amazon, tlavideo
	P-Town Summer by Lisa Stocker Ah, Provincetown. An oasis of lazy days, ocean air, and frosty summer drinks -- the perfect place to relax and bond while soaking up the summer sun. At least, that's the plan when long-time couple Claire and Rita initiate newbies Kit and Sabi to the pleasures of Provincetown. But from the first flat tire to the constant delays (can anyone say "hold it in"?) on the road to the Cape, it's clear that this is one ride that will be anything but smooth.
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	Sierra City by Gerri Hill Chris McKenna gladly escaped the crowds of Yosemite to work as the new Search and Rescue in tiny Sierra City, just west of Lake Tahoe. Jessie Stone, a successful but reclusive writer, returns to Sierra City after sixteen years to confront her past. Can the odd assortment of residents of this small mountain town bring the two of them together?
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	Skin Deep 2 edited by Nicole Foster For every woman, there is that one sexual experience that stays on the mind and fuels fantasies. In this collection of blistering true stories, women from around the world share with you their memories of their most unforgettable lesbian encounters.
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	Spring Fire by Vin Packer Spring Fire was the first lesbian pulp novel ever published. The original 1950s cover blared: "A story once told in whispers now frankly, honestly written." Shameless and seductive in an era when lesbian lives were hidden from view, Spring Fire chronicles the story of Leda and Mitch, two sorority sisters at a Midwestern university who stumble into a forbidden love affair.
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	Tangled and Dark by Patty G. Henderson It's Christmas time in Florida but the heat's up full blast. Brenda Strange is investigating the death of Paula Drakes, a local businesswoman and a leader in the lesbian community. When one of Brenda's suspects, Joan Davis, ends up dead, the path of her investigation puts her face to face with not one, but two possible killers --- one diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder and violent enough to commit murder. .
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	Thicker Than Water by Melissa Gold This sequel to "Red Sky at Morning" is the continuing saga of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart. It starts off with Kerry involved in the church group of girls. Kerry is forced to acknowledge her own feelings/experience toward/with her folks as she and Dar assist a teenager from the group who gets jailed because her parents tossed her out onto the streets when they find out she is gay.
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	Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2005 by Nicole Foster Incomparable, intoxicating, radical, sublime, demanding, divine, obscene, outré, exquisite, overwhelming, quixotic, punishing, mischievous, brilliant, torrid, relentless, otherworldly, fierce, dirty, seductive, titillating, chimerical, transcendent.... Buy now: Open Book, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, tlavideo
	Undeniable by KM Jessica Harrison, a brilliant and determined junior partner at a prestigious Florida law firm, rose rapidly to the top of her profession. Although hardened emotionally by a past betrayal, she unexpectedly finds friendship and then something more with a promising young associate newly hired at the law firm.
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	Wombat Strategy, The by Claire McNab Running a pub in the tiny Australian outback town of Wollegudgerie doesn't offer much fun or future to knockabout Aussie dyke Kylie Kendall. So when the father she never knew dies and leaves her 51% of his LA-based private detective agency, she's US bound. Not so happy about he arrival is her father's former and Kylie's new business partner, Ariana Creeling who wants to buy her out.
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