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Available Titles Bywater Books Are Available to the Trade from Consortium Book Sales and Distribution Risk Verge Elana Dykewomon Z Egloff PO Box 3671 Ann Arbor MI 48106-3671 866-390-7426 (toll-free) email: [email protected] www.bywaterbooks.com Bywater We love good books, just like you do. BOOKS Available Titles Bywater Books are available to the trade from Consortium Book Sales and Distribution www.cbsd.com Risk Verge Elana Dykewomon Z Egloff New novel from a Lambda Literary Award winner Winner of the fourth annual Bywater Prize for Fiction Carol Schwartz is an idealist. Berkeley- “Verge is powerful, quirky, and fresh.” educated, she tutors high school students —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home for a living. A Jewish lesbian, she’s a “A wry story of confronting your demons, community activist in Oakland. Wanting Verge has heart and wit and intelli- to change the world, she’s not afraid to gence.” —Emma Donoghue, author of take risks. The Sealed Letter and Slammerkin Carol learned about risk as a girl. Her father chose to go to Vietnam and she Claire has three goals: to stay sober, to never saw him again. It’s something stay away from sex, and to get into film she’s never understood and now Carol school. So far she’s blown two of the takes risks of her own. She gambles her three and her drunken affair with her inheritance, her relationship with the professor’s wife means she might just woman she loves, even her own well- have blown the third. Stuck without the being. camera she needs to complete her Across the years—from the mid- course work, she turns to Sister Hilary eighties to the post-9/11 world—the at the community center for help. Sister Hilary has a camera to lend, but the stakes get ever higher and her gambles Lesbian Fiction Lesbian Fiction more desperate. And she finds out what price is recruiting Claire as a reluctant Paperback Original Paperback Original is left when the gamble is lost: loyalty volunteer. The only trouble is, Claire’s and love and courage. 272 pages 272 pages more attracted to Sister Hilary than to Elana Dykewomon’s extraordinarily 5.5 x 8.5 5.5 x 8.5 helping out. Claire ought to know well-received novel Beyond the Pale 978-1-932859-69-0 978-1-932859-68-3 there’s no future with a nun, but can’t this two-timing, twelve-stepping, twenty- won both the Lambda Literary Award $14.95 $14.95 and the Ferro-Grumley Award. something film freak get a chance at Available Available happiness? Activist, author, and teacher, Elana Dykewomon is one of the finest thinkers the women’s movement has produced. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award Z Egloff was born in California, raised in the Midwest, and and the Ferro-Grumley Award, she has taught composition and creative writing schooled (academically and otherwise) in Amherst, for the past fifteen years. Her books include Beyond the Pale and They Will Massachusetts, and on Cape Cod. Verge is her first novel. Know Me By My Teeth. Red Audrey and the Roping Last Chance at the Jill Malone Lost and Found Marcia Finical Lambda Literary Award finalist for Debut Fiction Winner of the first annual Bywater Prize for Fiction “A lyrical, passionate novel about desire, In 1972 Bunny LaRue was young and about danger, and about the need for self- beautiful. Days in the sun on the beach forgiveness. A wonderfully impressive at Malibu and nights in the bars with writing debut.” —Sarah Waters the girls. Sex, drugs, and fun were Fight or flight? Jane Elliott has tried both. everywhere and Bunny embraced it all. Surfing, letting the waves take her. After a photographer sees her on the Teaching Latin, clutching at its rules to beach Bunny finds herself making big feel safe. Safe from a lover, safe from money modeling for a lingerie catalog. her friends, safe from her mother’s Then she falls in love and life seems to death—and her guilt. A guilt that has be giving her everything she has ever her flinching from love and embracing wanted—until the day she loses it all. pain. And now she lies in a hospital As the years slip by life doesn’t stay bed, alone. easy and Bunny must find the strength Gripping and emotional, Red Audrey to confront her past and create a new and the Roping is also a remarkable future . literary achievement. The breathtaking Last Chance at the Lost and Found is prose evokes setting, characters, and Lesbian Fiction Lesbian Romance the compelling story of one woman’s journey through twenty-five years of relationships with equal grace. This is a Paperback Original Paperback Original living as a lesbian and her determina- journey that will transform its readers 320 pages 328 pages as well as Jane. tion to find love and happiness. 5.5 x 8.5 5.5 x 8.5 “A surfer chick who teaches Latin! The 978-1-932859-54-6 978-1-932859-28-7 smart, adrenaline-addicted protagonist $14.95 $13.95 of Red Audrey and the Roping is irre- sistible.” —Lucy Jane Bledsoe Available Available Jill Malone wen t to a German kindergarten, grade school in the rural southern United States, middle school in the affluent east, Marcia Finical lives and works in New Mexico. high school and college in Hawaii, and graduate school in the state of Washington where she now lives. This is her first novel. Babies, Bikes & Broads GreetingsFrom Jamaica, The Third Cat Rising Novel Wish You Were Queer Cynn Chadwick Mari SanGiovanni Runner-up for the fourth annual Bywater Prize for Fiction A family vacation is just the start in this crazy tale . Cat Hood doesn’t want to go home. She Lambda Literary Award has a new life and a new love in Finalist Scotland. But her brother, Will, has been Marie Santora has always known her widowed and left with two small chil- Italian family is a little crazy, but when dren. So there’s no choice for Cat now. she inherits her grandmother’s estate, She must return to Galway, North they now have a million more reasons Carolina, the place she left when love to act nuts. It soon becomes clear that got lost. the amount of money Marie needs to But it looks like love wants to get live comfortably will be decided by her found all over again. When Cat gets family—if they don’t get enough of her back, she comes face-to-face with Janey, money, she won’t live comfortably. the lover who betrayed her all those Marie plans her escape. She’ll give years ago. And with only the slender her family a parting gift and then move thread of a phone line to bridge the gulf to Hollywood to chase her dream of between America and Scotland, Cat writing film scripts. But the timing can’t help fearing a new betrayal. couldn’t be worse when her hot pursuit As Cat helps her brother to rebuild Lesbian Fiction Lesbian Romance changes from screenplay to foreplay. his life, she starts to see that her own Paperback Original Paperback Original Climb aboard this hilarious roller- needs attention. That maybe it’s time to 240 pages 264 pages coaster ride where Marie is left wishing acknowledge this is her home. That “out” was the new “in,” and where maybe it’s time to leave behind the pain 5.5 x 8.5 5.5 x 8.5 every lounge chair is a hot seat when of the past. 978-1-932859-62-1 978-1-932859-30-0 the Santora family ventures this close And maybe it’s time to get over $14.95 $13.95 to the equator. The island of Jamaica Janey. If she can . Available Available just may not be big enough … Born and raised in New Jersey, Cynn Chadwick has lived in the South for twenty Mari SanGiovanni wor ks hard and plays hard and still finds years. Prior to earning her MA in literature and MFA in fiction at Goddard time to write books faster than her editors can read them. College, she worked for one of the first women in the US to become a master She lives in Rhode Island. Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You carpenter, an experience that continues to inform her writing. She is a lecturer Were Queer, was a runner-up for the Bywater Prize for in the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Fiction. For Now, For Always Under the Witness Tree Marianne K. Martin Marianne K. Martin Torn Between love and duty . Civil War secrets inspire a present day love story. Renee Parker knows what love is and what love does. She An aunt she didn’t know existed leaves Dhari Weston was only seventeen when she fought social services for the with a plantation she knows she doesn’t want. right to raise her four younger siblings. Fought and won. Dhari’s life is complicated enough without an ante- Now the challenge is to parent kids scarred by a step-dad’s bellum albatross around her neck. Complicated enough suicide and a mother’s imprisonment. But Renee doesn’t without the beautiful Erin Hughes and her passion for think twice about sacrificing her own future to give her historical houses, without Nessie Tinker, whose family brothers and sisters their best shot at life. Renee knows breathed the smoke of General Sherman’s march and who what love is and what love does. knows the secrets hidden in the ancient walls—secrets But then a different kind of love threatens everything Renee has built.
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