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Adult Lesbian Books at DCPL FICTION: • Anshaw, Carol – Lucky in the Corner; Carry the One • Aguirre, Ann – Sarantha Jax Science Fiction Series • Argo, Rhiannon – The Creamsickle • Bannon, Ann – Beebo Brinker; Journey to a Woman; I Am a Woman; Women in the Shadows; Odd Girl Out • Barnes, Djuna – Nightwood • Barnett, LaShonda K. – Jam on the Vine • Barr, Nevada – Bittersweet • Brown, Rita Mae – Rubyfruit Jungle • Dennis-Ben, Nicole – Here Comes the Sun • Donoghue, Emma – Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins;Life Mask; The Sealed Letter; Landing • Faderman, Lillian – The gay revolution : the story of the struggle • Faraday, Jess – The Left Hand of Justice • Gidney, Craig Laurance – Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction • Gitlin, Lisa – I Came Out for This? • Gomez, Jewelle –d The Gilda Stories • Guy-Sheftall, Beverly – Words of fire : An anthology of African-American feminist though • Hall, Radclyffe – The Well of Loneliness • Hart, Ellen – Jane Lawless Mystery Series • Herendeen, Ann – Pride/Prejudice • Highsmith, Patricia – The Price of Salt • James, Stanlie et al – Still brave : The evolution of black women's studies • Johnson, Barb – More of This World or Maybe Another • Klaber, William – The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell: A Novel • Lamb, Wally – We are Water: A Novel • McCarthy, Mary – The Group • McDermid, Val – Northanger Abbey • McKenzie, Mia – The Summer We Got Free • Nolan, Monica – Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher • Okparanta, Chinelo – Under the Udala Trees • Picoult, Jodi – Sing You Home: A Novel • Schulman, Sarah – The Cosmopolitans • Shepherd, Joel – Cassandra Kresnov Science Fiction Series • Tea, Michelle – Valencia; Rose of No Man's Land • Walker, Alice – The Color Purple • Waters, Sarah – The Paying Guests; The Nightwatch; Fingersmith; Affinity; Tipping the Velvet • Worsley, Kate – She Rises • Zale, Dynah – Drama in the Church NONFICTION: • Chin, Stacyann – The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love • Donoghue, Emma – Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature • Henderson, Kristen – Times Two: Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made (Biography) • Lorde, Audre – Sister Outsider • Moraga, Cherrie & Anzaldua, Gloria – This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color • Smith Barbara –Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around : Forty years of movement building with Barbara Smith • Wahls, Zach & Littlefield, Bruce – My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family • Wright, Chely – Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Singer .

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'The “I” Inside “Her”': Queer Narration in Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet and Wesley Stace's Misfortune
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