Lesbian Romance
| Outhouse East Library | 1 / 14 | ||||
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 | But She is My Student | Miss Katherine Spicer started her first day at Coldfield Comprehensive, confident, enthusiastic and very well qualified: that was until she met the eyes of the student sat hidden in the corner of her classroom. Kat's final weekend of freedom was about to turn her life upside down and threaten everything she had been working for. | |||
| Kiki Archer | |||||
| 2012 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR001 | |||||
 | Odd Girl Out | Laura Landon is a sheltered freshman at a fictional university in a Midwestern town. Intensely shy and introverted, she is drawn to the president of the Student's Union, Beth Cullison. Beth is outgoing and friendly, experienced socially (with men, particularly) but feels a void in her life. She doesn't understand how the other girls are so fulfilled by the men in their lives, despite having tried. Every time she allows herself to be intimate with one, she breaks it off out of disappointment. | |||
| Ann Bannon | |||||
| 2001 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR002 | |||||
 | I Am a Woman | The story joins the main character of "Odd Girl Out", Laura Landon, one year after she has left college. Exhausted by living with her harsh, judging father for his perception that she failed out of school, Laura leaves home in the middle of the night and goes to New York City. She gets a job as a secretary in a medical office and lands an apartment with a roommate - Marcie. Marcie is young and very impulsive, but vivacious and she puts Laura at ease. Laura moves in to the apartment in Greenwhich Village with a vague gnawing excitement in her. | |||
| Ann Bannon | |||||
| 2002 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR003 | |||||
 | Women in the Shadows | Women in the Shadows picks up with Beebo's relationship with Laura waning, as both women become caught in the cultural tumult (gay bar raids, heavy drinking, gay rights advocacy) that anticipates by ten years the Stronewall Rebellion of 1969. | |||
| Ann Bannon | |||||
| 2002 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR004 | |||||
 | Journey to a Woman | Would she throw away her entire life on the one wild chance that she might find the lost woman out of her past? Following on from classic novels this novel finds Laura in love in the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. | |||
| Ann Bannon | |||||
| 2003 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR005 | |||||
 | Beebo Brinker | Although the last of a four-book series, Beebo Brinker introduces Bannon's central character, a young, handsome butch who arrives in New York scared and innocent (and wearing a dress) but soon has the femmes of Greenwich Village in the palm of her hand. | |||
| Ann Bannon | |||||
| 1962 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR006 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 2 / 14 | ||||
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 | Fresh Tracks | Seven women, seven days. A lot can happen. There are three things that Amy Forrester loves most in the world: Jo, her wife of fifteen years; spending time with her closest friends; and her cabin in the woods. What better way to spend the week between Christmas and New Year's than having all three? When she invites her three best friends to join her and Jo in their mountain hideaway, all she expects is good food, fine wine, and lively conversation. Unfortunately for Amy, there are also three things that she doesn't count on: her best friend's relationship is falling appart; her two other friends share a secret that causes nothing but conflict and discomfort; and the arrival of Jo's fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants niece, Darby, who has a habit of leaving broken hearts in her wake. Childhood friends, new lovers, and old rivals share beginnings, endings and the uncommon bonds of friendship in a story filled with romance and possibility. | |||
| Georgia Beers | |||||
| 2006 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR007 | |||||
 | Finding Home | Rigid and predictable. Sarah Buchanan would never in a million years have used those words to describe herself. Never. But it's been almost a year since her longtime girlfriend left her for a man, and she's suddenly realized that those words now describe her with frightening accuracy, along with one more: boring. Deciding it's time to escape her disaster of a life, at least long enoungh to turn it around, she takes a temporary position with her company overseas. The hardest part is leaving her blue-eyed dog, Bentley, behind. But at least he's in the capable hands of her family. She thinks. Natalie Fox is the exact opposite of Sarah. She's flighty, spontaneous, and lives in The Now. It's how she's always been, and for better or for worse, Natalie loves har carefree life. When she finds a stray, skinny, terrified dog with blue eyes outside the coffee shop where she works, she decides to adopt him as her own, things seem just about perfect to her. Take two stubborn, polar opposites wit... | |||
| Georgia Beers | |||||
| 2008 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR008 | |||||
 | Thy Neighbour's Wife | Alex Foster's life is exactly as she wants it. She's quit her job as an English teacher and has decided to hole up in her newly aquired lake house for the summer to try her hand at writing a novel. She has close friends; she has her dog; she plays volleyball. She is content. Jennifer Wainwright is a young, wealthy suburbanite who's life is exactly as she expected it would be. She's married to her high school sweetheart who is about to inherit his father's law firm. She has friends. And she has the whole summer to work on decorating the new house on the lake she and her husband have just purchased as their summer home. She is content. A chance meeting over a runaway pooch is the start of a journey for each woman. Over the course of one unbelievable summer set on the beautiful shores of Canandaigua Lake in upstate New York, these two women will teach one another, learn from one another, question their own beliefs and expectations, and unwittingly fall in love... | |||
| Georgia Beers | |||||
| 2003 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR009 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 3 / 14 | ||||
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 | Bold Coast Love | When her lover Dana accepts a long-term assignment on a foreign shore, physician Jackie Claymont finds her quiet life in rural Maine abruptly transformed by two newcomers, each a nurse, each interested in romance, each capable of changing Jackie's world forever. Kind Joni's warm presence challenges Jackie to question her loyalty to faraway Dana, while lusty Carin, a married woman, takes a direct approach in her quest to inspire the doctor's passion. Jackie's private drama becomes suddenly public when Carin files a sexual harassment complaint that draws the attention of Jackie's colleagues, patients, and neighbors. Another woman would flee in shame, but Jackie Claymont does not quietly disappear. Instead, she stays to fight for her reputation, her career, and ultimately for the right to love the woman she chooses. But which one does she love? | |||
| Diana Tremain Braund | |||||
| 2000 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR010 | |||||
 | The Way Life Should Be | Jennifer - tired of the lies and broken promises... the nights she waited alone and worried... Jennifer Ogden leaves her unfaithful partner and accepts a job as Assistant District Attorney in the small town of Bailey's Cove, Maine. The close-knit townspeople consider anybody who's lives there less than 10 years to be an outsider, and that's fine with Jennifer. The last thing she wants is to get close to anybody. Kristan - Born and raised in Bailey's Cove, headstrong reporter Kristan Cassidy is as rugged and free as the Maine coastline she calls home. Having been burned in the past, she believes there's no room for romance in her life... until she realizes that she's falling hard for Jennifer. Pam - believing that time and therapy heal all wounds, Jennifer's seductive ex-lover, Pamela Rivers, has her heart set on a permanent reconciliation. When she discovers that another woman is interested in Jennifer, her competitive instincts shift into overdrive. As attractive as she is determine... | |||
| Diana Tremain Braund | |||||
| 1998 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR011 | |||||
 | Finest Kind of Love | Thirty-two year old Molly Bean is a popular lobster fisherman in the sleepy coastal community of Gin Cove, Maine. Admittedly, she hasn't had the best of luck with relationships and the chances of falling in love with any of Gin Cove's population are slim to none. Carolyn Stanley, a successful defense attorney from Bar Harbor, has found that she enjoys vacationing and spending time in Gin Cove. When Carolyn sends her high-speed power boat careening across the water on an otherwise quiet morning, splashing Molly's lobster boat and nearly sending her over-board, Molly finds herself ready to throttle the out-of-towner. The sparks that fly between the two soon turn to fascination and anticipation of their next meeting as their attraction for each other begins to boil. Then a complication develops when a professor in Molly's hometown is murdered and someone very close to Molly is involved. Can the two stop clashing long enough to see that their differences really aren't so great after all... | |||
| Diana Tremain Braund | |||||
| 2004 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR012 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 4 / 14 | ||||
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 | Ghosts of Winter | Can Ros Wynne, who has lost everything she thought defined her, find her true life - and her true love - surrounded by the lingering history of the once-grand Winter Manor? When Ros unexpectedly inherits Winter Manor on the condition that she oversee the restoration of the remote and dillapidated house, it seems the perfect place for her to retreat from her recently failed relationship, the death of her mother, and the loss of her job. But Winter Manor is not entirely at rest. The echoes of its past reach forward into the present, and Ros's life is perceptibly shaped by the lives - and loves - of the people who inhabited those rooms and corridors in the centuries before her. Then Anna arrives. The architect - with her designer clothes, hot car, and air of supreme professionalism - is at first an unwelcome, if necessary, intrusion. But as Ros learns Anna's truths, she finds solace from her past losses in their developing intimacy. And when their love is threatened, Ros must decide whe... | |||
| Rebecca S. Buck | |||||
| 2011 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR013 | |||||
 | Abby's Passion | Abby lives a solid and uneventful life...except where her sister, Mona, is concerned. A career in the mental health field combined with a bipolar sister as a roommate has done little for Abby's love life. Often manic and sometimes dangerous with a shotgun, Mona has talent for driving away all of Abby's lovers. When one of Mona's all night painting sessions leads to a new pairing between Mona and a local carpenter, Abby is all too ready to relinquish responsibility for her sister. With Mona occupied, Abby has a chance at passion and romance and soon finds that her interest in Sally, a local attorney, is heating up. But fate has something different in mind. Events out of her control turn Abby's world upside down and soon Abby must figure out what really is most important in life. | |||
| Jackie Calhoun | |||||
| 2005 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR014 | |||||
 | Woman in the Mirror | Josey is about to go through some major life changes. Her college-age niece, Annie, is coming to town to stay with her awhile after running into trouble. Her girlfriend Ellen wants to move in, but Josey is all too willing to use Annie as an excuse to keep Ellen at bay. While Josey spends her time painting her series, Woman in the Mirror, Annie is finding that love for another girl can prove to be quite complicated. After a series of life-changing events, Josey must learn to reach out and love again. Can Josey put the pain behind her and learn to trust the woman she loves? And will young Molly fall in love with Annie - or is their physical attraction nothing more than "practice for the real thing..." | |||
| Jackie Calhoun | |||||
| 2004 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR015 | |||||
 | Seasons of the Heart | Sarah lay in the bed she shared with Fran and wondered what had gone wrong. For five years her heart had been so full of love, but now something else was creeping in - a strange emptiness that left her feeling alone and desperate. She did not know when it had started, or why. Perhaps it was the shock of her mother's death, the frustration with Fran's mother's advancing senility, or the stess of her dead-end job. Overwhelmed by the pressures of everyday living and the fear of growing older without the benefit of change, Sarah saw only one way out. Dreading the consequences, she made up her mind to leave... | |||
| Jackie Calhoun | |||||
| 1997 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR016 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 5 / 14 | ||||
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 | Friends and Lovers | Seeking recuperation from the harsh pain of a divorce and the end of her first lesbian love affair, Danny has returned to Wisconsin. Living quietly with her mother and teenage daughter will bring her peace - won't it? Working at a hardware store while she waits for a teaching position to open, Danny becomes embroiled in a project begun by two gay men - a Bed & Breakfast catering to AIDS patients. She also meets Chris, who makes no secret of her attraction to Danny. But Danny finds herself drawn to the alluring Maureen. Then a very major complication: Danny's closest friend Kara, long-time married, wants more than friendship with Danny. Marital anguish is nothing compared to this minefield of romantic and erotic fireworks. Then Maureen's ex-lover shows up... and Danny's ex-husband... and Danny's daughter learns Danny's a lesbian... | |||
| Jackie Calhoun | |||||
| 1993 | |||||
| AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR017 | |||||
 | Just Business | What should be just business becomes much more when two women agree to a deal that changes their lives. Real estate tycoon Dillon Matthews, in the middle of negotiating the deal of her life, is stunned when the owner of the small parcel of land she desperately needs to complete her latest project presents the final condition she must meet to close the deal. Callie Sheffield is struggling to pay the attorney she has hired to appeal her brother's convition for a crime he didn't commit. When Dillon and Callie meet by chance, they realize each has what the other needs. A simple business transaction will give them both what they need - until love threatens to derail the negotiations. | |||
| Julie Cannon | |||||
| 2009 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR018 | |||||
 | Inside Out | When hidden passions and long-held secrets are brought to light, either triumph or tragedy can follow... Destiny Anderson has everything...success, fame, and scores of adoring women... everything except Andrie LaStella, the woman she was destined to love. The moment they met on a snow-covered New York street so many years ago, a passion began to smolder within them. Now, as their fire burns its way to the surface, these lovers must overcome time, pride, and the manipulations of Ann Capwell, a power-hungry congresswoman, before they can find their way back into each other's arms. | |||
| Juliet Carrera | |||||
| 1999 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR019 | |||||
 | The Feel of Forever | To the casual observer Felicity Devon's life seems ideal. She lives on an island off the coast of Queensland and successfully runs the art gallery that her mother began. She loves her work, her family and her good friends. And as for love? Well, it's been eight long years since Bailey Macrae walked away and broke Felicity's heart...choosing career and conventional lifestyle over love. Eight long years - and Felicity is finally moving on. Then Felicity learns that Bailey - the face of Australian current affairs television - is returning to the island, and suddenly her hard-won composure is being put to the test. But Felicity soon discovers that she isn't quite sure what she fears the most - that Bailey will want to pick up where they left of... or that she won't... | |||
| Lyn Denison | |||||
| 2006 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR020 | |||||
 | Curious Wine | The group of women who meet for a ski week-end will all be touched by what happens in the intimate log cabin by Lake Tahoe. But for beautiful Lane Christanson and hurt, vulnerable Diana Holland the events are to prove cataclysmic. | |||
| Katherine V. Forrest | |||||
| 2006 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR021 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 6 / 14 | ||||
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 | You Light the Fire | Here's a grown-up Rubyfruit Jungle - sexy, spicy, and sidesplittingly funny. Garrett, a fresh new voice in lesbian fiction, has created two memorable characters in Mindy Brinson and Cheerio Monroe. Can a gorgeous, sexy, high school math teacher and a raunchy, commitment-shy ex-singer, make it last in mainstream USA? With a little help from their friends, they can. This humerous, erotic and unpredictable love story will keep you laughing and marveling at the variety of lesbian love. | |||
| Kristen Garrett | |||||
| 1992 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR022 | |||||
 | To Have and to Hold | The tall woman reached for Dorian's car keys and dropped them on the coffee table. You can stay can't you? she whispered breathlessly as she unbuttoned Dorian's shirt. It was hard to understand why a woman as attractive and likable as successful civil engineer Dorian Sandier would still be living single. Her friends think it's because she's clueless when it comes to picking up on the romantic signals women were always sending her way. But in reality, Dorian has yet to recover from a disastrous relationship that left her numb and empty inside. Enter Lorraine Niles, a beautiful single mom with just the right tools to break down the wall around Dorian's heart. With Lorraine taking the lead, their friendship grows to intense passion, and Dorian begins to fall in love. But, by finally letting down her defenses, is she opening herself up to a devastating betrayal? | |||
| Peggy J. Herring | |||||
| 1999 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR023 | |||||
 | Once More With Feeling | Entertaining, utterly engaging, and real. An everyday lesbian world so credible you'll think you're eavesdropping. Where you will find the challenges as well as the joys of love and friendship. Where you will find yourself, and the women you know. After eight years, Laura's relationship with Mavis has collapsed, as much from its decreasing weight and passion as from Mavis's casual infidelity. Taking temporary refuge with close friends Jolly and Wanda, Laura begins to put herself back together, her first step a brief but erotic interlude in Hawaii. But the most healing person she knows seems to be her own solitary self, and the most healing place, her own house. In the meantime, ex-partner Mavis is busy charming other women. But still she is a presence - an intrusion, feels Laura - in Laura's life, bringing over her newest partners, prevailing upon Laura to widen her horizons, to continue their love as loyal friendship. Then Laura meets appealing, enigmatic Robin... and suddenly find... | |||
| Peggy J. Herring | |||||
| 1995 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR024 | |||||
 | All in the Game | Robin, once a star player, is coach to her small-town team when Penn joins the squad. The side blossoms as young Penn wins and wins. And Penn is delighted to recognize that special gleam in Robin's eyes. Can true love find a way? | |||
| Eleanor Hill | |||||
| 2000 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance, Sports | |||||
| Book#: LR025 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 7 / 14 | ||||
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 | One Summer Night | College professor Johanna Marshall swore she would never fall in love again. She especially did not want to become involved with someone who has a reputation as an extreme womanizer...someone like Kelly Sambino. But on a hot summer night, Jo finds herself unable to resist Kelly. What follows is something Jo would like very much to quickly forget. Embarassed after their night of passion, Jo hopes she will never have to see Kelly again. However, when Fall classes begin, Jo finds herself face to face with the college's new Literature Professor, Kelly Sambino. Will Kelly's charms win Jo over? Will Jo listen to her friends or will she, in a moment of need, follow the stirrings in her heart... | |||
| Gerri Hill | |||||
| 2000 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR026 | |||||
 | Coyote Sky | Kate Winters, author of the popular mystery series The Masters, finds herself in a bit of a predicament—she doesn't seem to be able to write any longer. So when her old friend and wealthy widow Brenda invites Kate to spend the summer in Coyote, New Mexico, Kate decides that a summer in Coyote might be just what she needs to clear her writer's block.Leaving behind the Dallas heat—and her girlfriend Robin—Kate retreats to the high mountain desert and soon finds herself surrounded by Brenda's eccentric friends and artists. But it's the local sheriff, Lee Foxx, who soon grabs her attention. It doesn't take long for Kate to discover that Lee has a penchant for dating the young tourists that flock to the river canyon each summer—and that Lee has no intention of ever settling down.Then an unexpected visit by Kate's girlfriend sends everyone scrambling. Torn between safety and desire, Kate has no idea which way to turn. And as for Lee—she can't quite believe that she's actually fallen in love.... | |||
| Gerri Hill | |||||
| 2006 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR027 | |||||
 | Love Waits | High school sweethearts…and nobody knew. Ashleigh Pence had been the all-American high school girl: cheerleader, prom queen…and in love with another girl. Gina Granbury hasn’t thought about Calloway High in twenty years, but the arrival of the invitation to the class reunion brings back memories of Ashleigh and the betrayal that drove them apart. With no real choice, Ashleigh has to go the event, hoping that it’s not the one reunion that Gina decides to attend after all these years. Gina had expected to dismiss the possibility as easily as she has during all the years since, but the curiosity is suddenly strong. Her long-broken heart has never mended, but that’s no reason to go back in time…is it? Twenty years seem like yesterday in this latest passionate story from Golden Crown award winner Gerri Hill. | |||
| Gerri Hill | |||||
| 2010 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR028 | |||||
 | Behind the Pine Curtain | Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, sent away because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor of this small town. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family. So, with a hundred dollars in her pocket and a one-way bus ticket out of town, Jacqueline was told not to come back until she had come to her senses. And that included being prepared to marry the son of a business associate of the family. Fifteen years later—long after she’d hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, long after she’d worked nights to put herself through college, and long after she’d written her first best seller, No Place For Family—Jacqueline is persuaded to go back to the tiny town of Pine Springs after her father’s death. The quick trip she’d envisioned for the funeral turns into weeks as she learns her father’s bu... | |||
| Gerri Hill | |||||
| 2006 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR029 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 8 / 14 | ||||
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 | Artist's Dream | Cassie Parker has grown used to denying her sexuality. Her father, the Reverend Parker, has made that a necessity. When Cassie meets Luke Winston, she can no longer deny her attraction to women, or more accurately - to Luke. Will Cassie choose life without family or life without love? | |||
| Gerri Hill | |||||
| 2005 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR030 | |||||
 | Whispers In The Wind | Athletic photographer Dixon Hayes thinks she and her best friend, high school teacher Elizabeth Colter, would make the perfect couple. There's just one problem - Elizabeth is only interested in sharing a friendship and nothing more. Then something happens on a hiking trip thath changes the course of their lives forever... | |||
| Frankie J. Jones | |||||
| 1999 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR031 | |||||
 | Embrace in Motion | Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah MacNeil at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah into bed. Totally captivated for the first time in her life, Sarah surrenders herself completely. Blinded by the glow of Melissa's white-hot sensuality, is Sarah setting herself up for a total meltdown? | |||
| Karin Kallmaker | |||||
| 1997 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR032 | |||||
 | Finders Keepers | After surviving the 'vacation of a lifetime' Marissa Chabot is determined to change. She's through being a geek with fingers working magic only on keyboards. Finally out of the closet, she files an application with 'Finders Keepers', the high-tech dating service. | |||
| Karin Kallmaker | |||||
| 2006 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR033 | |||||
 | The Kiss That Counted | CJ Roshe knows she can never relax her vigilance, especially when her grip on her secrets begins to slip. Contact with the good-hearted Karita Hanssen leaves CJ wishing for impossible things—friends, roots, a lover who knows her real name.With a life cheerfully balanced between all the things that she loves, Karita gives freely of her time and affection. She isn't looking for more until something in CJ's eyes suggests that there could be feelings deeper, stronger—and more dangerous—than any she has ever felt.CJ is committed to only tonight with her body and certainly no tomorrows when it comes to her heart. Karita has always lived for today while she waits for tomorrow to happen. One kiss couldn't change all that—unless it's the kiss that counted. | |||
| Karin Kallmaker | |||||
| 2008 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR034 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 9 / 14 | ||||
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 | Frosting on the Cake 2: Second Helpings | Second helpings—you know you want some. Join the Undisputed Mistress of Lesbian Romance in a literary dessert buffet with short stories featuring characters you fell in love with. Inspired by classics like Touchwood, Painted Moon and Unforgettable, as well as bestsellers and award winners like The Kiss That Counted, Warming Trend and Substitute for Love, Karin’s second volume of follow-up stories is sure to satisfy your craving for more. | |||
| Karin Kallmaker | |||||
| 2010 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR035 | |||||
 | Unforgettable | Is true love hidden in the moments people can't stop remembering . . . or in those they choose to forget? There is nothing like a high school reunion to bring the old times flooding back. Old Passions... Handsome singer Loretta "Rett" Jamison has built herself a successful career and a repertoire filled with romantic ballads and hot jazz. But her failing relationship with lover/manager Trisha York has left a growing emptiness in her heart. Trisha seems to have found what she needs in the arms of younger omen. Can Rett find it on the lips of the classmate who gave her the first real taste of passion? Old Secrets... Former Head Cheerleader Cinny Keilor is an All-American girl... with an all-consuming secret. Still blond and beautiful, leggy Cinny is looking forward to reliving those idyllic days of proms and pep rallies. But has she forgotten those steamy nights in the back seat of another girl's car? Old Pain... National Science Award winner Dr. Angelica Martinetta is being honored... | |||
| Karin Kallmaker | |||||
| 2000 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR036 | |||||
 | Substitute for Love | When Holly's best friend Tori takes her to a dance for lesbians only, she realizes that Tori is gently trying to push her out of the closet. While it is true that Holly had been trying to come to terms with her growing attraction toward women, no one expected Holly to take one look at the mysterious Reyna and fall hopelessly in lust. Unable to resist the purely physical appeal of Reyna's sensuous demands, Holly quickly succumbs to Reyna's declicious seduction. After a night of delirious passion, Reyna gives Holly a long kiss and a single rule: "Call whenever you want me to make love to you. There can be nothing else." Although sexually fulfilled for the first time in her life, Holly soon realizes that pleasure without emotion is no substitute for love -- a love she knows she and Reyna could share. Knowing too well the high cost of living in shadows and denial, Holly risks everything and sets out to pierce the deep shroud of mystery surrounding the woman she has come to love. | |||
| Karin Kallmaker | |||||
| 2001 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR037 | |||||
 | Painted Moon | Jackie Frakes is a talented architectural intern whose life has fallen into unsatisfying patterns, both personally and professionally. Renowned artist Leah Beck is exhibited in galleries nationwide. But her life has darkened with the death of her lover, Sharla. Trapped by a mountain snow storm over Thanksgiving weekend, Jackie is rescued by Leah. The snowbound weekend in Leah's cabin shakes the very foundations of Jackie's life. As for Leah, Jackie provides renewal and inspiration for her work. And the exhibition of PAINTED MOON, her new series, will reveal Leah as never before,as a lesbian artist. With their relationship increasingly torn by conflict and misunderstanding, the winter weekend together will surely be their last. Then intervention comes... from a most unlikely source. | |||
| Karin Kallmaker | |||||
| 1994 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR038 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 10 / 14 | ||||
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 | The Girl Next Door | A foreign exchange student working as a live-in nanny for a wealthy family in Washington State, level-headed Lina carefully divides her time between her studies and caring for 4-year-old Sean. When the family's prodigal daughter, Alexandra, returns for the summer, Lina isn't sure which she finds more troublesome - Alex's haughty nonchalance... or her long, tan legs and waves of auburn hair. Against her better judgement, Lina finds herself spending less time studying and more time staring out her window at Alex lounging poolside... her well-oiled body glistening in the sun... her fingers stroking the keyboard of a laptop computer. Although Alex obviously enjoys playing the spoiled rich girl, the act does not ring true. Hints of a generous. spiritual nature (such as the affection she showers on her baby brother) belie the young woman's cynicism - and make Lina even more determined to break through that guarded exteriour. When Alex mentions that she frequents the chatrooms on the interne... | |||
| Mindy Kaplan | |||||
| 1996 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR039 | |||||
 | Elise | Former model Elise Lemoine had sworn off romance, including bed-hopping Jamie, until she met Maiju Rittola. Maiju was a beautiful and brilliant new professor. Elise tried to concentrate on her research on Adela Honeycutt - the college founder - although her thoughts kept returning to her stunning advisor. But shutters went down whenever Maiju's past was mentioned, and Elise could only wonder if Maiju could ever give her the love and commitment she so fiercely needed. What was Maiju hiding? And what could the secret of Adela Honeycutt's life in the 1800s teach Elise about modern love? | |||
| Claire Kensington | |||||
| 1991 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR040 | |||||
 | Out of Love | Clients and coworkers know Carmen Delallo, owner and CEO of a Chicago consulting firm for the travel industry, as a smart, engaging woman driven to succeed in business by a genuine love of her work. Judith O'Shea is focused on her work too. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she makes do in a small studio apartment in Chelsea, wondering how she will salvage a livelihood in a dying field. Career motives take a back seat when she finds herself falling hard for the enigmatic Carmen Delallo. For Carmen Delallo and Judith O'Shea, falling in love proves to be the easy part. Separated from Carmen by miles, economic class, and a duty to care for her family, Judith won't allow herself to imagine her life fulfilled. And Carmen, whose secret, unrequited love for her married best friend has compelled her to devote her life to her work, must break both addictions before her love for Judith can flourish. | |||
| KG MacGregor | |||||
| 2007 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR041 | |||||
 | Dawn of the Dance | Moni seeks the healing touch that only another woman can give, but Paige turns out to be a heartbreaker. Devastated, Moni vows to never get close to a woman again-until she looks into Katherine¬s sweet, seductive eyes. Among her varied careers, Marianne K. Martin has been a public school teacher, a photojournalist and collegiate field hockey coach. She currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | |||
| Marianne K. Martin | |||||
| 1999 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR042 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 11 / 14 | ||||
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 | Chicken | After 13 years with the same woman Lynn is about to learn that the only thing harder than staying in a long-tern lesbian relationship is ending one. Something of a sex-magnet to younger women, she knows there is more to life than hot babes, but right now, can't think what it is. | |||
| Paula Martinac | |||||
| 1997 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR043 | |||||
 | Miss McGhee | When Mary McGhee moved to a small Alabama town shortly after the Second World War, she was sure she could change her life for good: a new job, a new place, and a chance for a new life. But then she met Lila Dubose, the wife of her new employer. Set in the shadow of the civil rights movement, Miss McGhee is a sweeping tale of forbidden love in a turbulent time. Miss McGhee is a runner-up for the first annual Bywater Prize for Fiction. | |||
| Bett Norris | |||||
| 2007 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR044 | |||||
 | What's Best for Jane | Mary McGhee is a legend-heroic to some, hated by others. Her dead lover¬s inheritance has fueled resentment among a dispossessed family, and in the South, grudges are as hard and immutable as the rocks themselves. But there is one member of that family who seems immune to the grievances of the past. Jane Jackson is a lonely child, isolated from her brutal family by her intelligence and her adventurousness. She¬s drawn to the lonely old woman who owns what her family expected to be theirs and who also carries some of their darkest secrets-secrets of love, hate, and murder. But Jane¬s devotion brings Mary as many problems as pleasures. Ugly rumors, emotional temptation, and a violent death swirl around, poisoning the innocence of their relationship. As Mary struggles with her own mortality, she tries to decide what¬s best for Jane. But Jane Jackson has a mind of her own. A mind that is going to lead her into some difficult places and hard choices before she finally discovers what¬s bes... | |||
| Bett Norris | |||||
| 2011 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR045 | |||||
 | Innocent Hearts | In 1860's Montana Territory, Kate Beecher, a young woman from Boston, faces the hardships and hard choices of life on the frontier. Just eighteen and quietly struggling against the social constraints of the era, Kate meets a woman who fires first her imagination, and then her dreams. Jessie Forbes, a fiercely independent rancher, finds in Kate the passion she never knew she had been missing. This is the story of their struggle to love in a land, and time, as cruel as it was beautiful. | |||
| Radclyffe | |||||
| 2002 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR046 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 12 / 14 | ||||
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 | Fated Love | What do you do when your carefully planned life takes a wrong turn into hell? When Quinn Maguire, a dashing young trauma surgeon, unaccountably accepts a position as an ER physician, her new boss, Honor Blake, suspects that Quinn is hiding a dark secret. While the two declare an uneasy truce in an effort to work together, both struggle with mutual, and unexpected, attraction. Honor, however, has more than one reason to resist her growing feelings for the attractive newcomer—not the least of which is that her heart belongs to the woman whose wedding ring she wears. Amidst the chaos and drama of a busy emergency room, Quinn and Honor must contend not only with the fragile nature of life, but also with the mysteries of the heart and the irresistible forces of fate. | |||
| Radclyffe | |||||
| 2004 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR047 | |||||
 | Best Lesbian Romance 2010 | Ranging from the short and ever-so-sweet to make-you-cry passionate, Best Lesbian Romance 2010 is essential reading for anyone who favors the highly imaginative, the deeply sensual, and the very loving. Radclyffe's romance collections are eagerly anticipated each year because they keep getting better and better. Best Lesbian Romance 2010 revels in the seduction, love, and relationships that happen between women. All readers will enjoy these stories of romance by the best in the genre, including Sommer Marsden, Sacchi Green, Evan Mora, Andrea Dale, and the grand master Radclyffe herself. Whether readers are looking for young love, mature love, or lost love, these stories will more than fill the bill. Also featuring: G.L. Morrison, Patricia Smiley, Colette Moody, Hannah Quin, Jean Roberta, Nell Stark, Trinity Tam, Shannon Dargue, Erin O'Riordan, and Dalia Craig. | |||
| Radclyffe | |||||
| 2010 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR048 | |||||
 | Not Telling Mother | On a Provincetown vacation with two other couples, Renee learns that best friend Edie has begun an affair. Edie's call upon Renee's loyalties sets into motion an unexpected chain reaction... | |||
| Diane Salvatore | |||||
| 1993 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR049 | |||||
 | Love, Zena Beth | Young reporter Joyce Ecco interviews author/celebrity Zena Beth Frazer and finds herself overwhelmed by the older woman's irreverence and verve. When Zena Beth calls several weeks later, Joyce is swept into an intense affair that both exhilarates and terrifies her. Is it lust? love? heroine worship? Joyce careens out of control, hurting those closest to her, especially her lover, Elaine. | |||
| Diane Salvatore | |||||
| 1992 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR050 | |||||
 | Sweet Bitter Love | From the moment writer Jenny Ceretti spots Susan Fredrickson at the Village Coffeehouse, her serene life begins to change. As their friendship explodes into a tempestuous love affair, Jenny discovers that all is not as it appears. While Susan is haunted by a terrifying past, Jenny comes face-to-face with past ghosts that no longer will stay hidden. Sweet Bitter Love explores a relationship that walks the fine line between compassion and co-dependence. | |||
| Rita Schiano | |||||
| 1997 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR051 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 13 / 14 | ||||
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 | Sea to Shining Sea | Agent June Gavin, large and solid in her faded sweats, leaned over the bed. "I'll be in the front room if you need me" she said softly.Amelia reached for the broad shoulders of her protector, but June caught her hand. "You'll be furious if I let this happen, Amelia"."I know. And I'll be furious if you make me stop. You can't win, Agent Gavin. So you'd better find a way to deal with the situation". An F.B.I. agent unable to escape the pain of the past... A crime victim with no hope for the future... Two strong women thrown together by fate soon find themselves locked in a war of wills. Unwilling to trust, yet unable to leave, each one struggles to resist the raging passion that threatens the very core of their carefully controlled lives. | |||
| Lisa Shapiro | |||||
| 1997 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR052 | |||||
 | And Love Came Calling | The magic of the Old West comes alive in this timeless tale of love between women. When Kenny Smith (Kendra Nelson), the handsome stagecoach driver, saunters down the dusty main street of Jackson with spurs jangling, all the dance hall girls swoon. Little does Kenny dream that her life is about to take a detour. After Kenny is shot during a holdup, then framed, she is desperate to escape the pursing posse. It is Sophie McLaren, a young, cool-headed widow living in a line shack, who nurses Kenny back to health and hides her from the law. When danger lights the fires of passion between these two women, their fates become entwined. And as they dare to dream of a different life, they learn that love overcomes all obstacles. | |||
| Beverly Shearer | |||||
| 1999 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR053 | |||||
 | Getting to the Point | The Point. A town tucked away at the end of the road on the Florida-Georgia border. Dix's parents are here, her brother and his family, and Iris, her indomitable, iron-tough grandmother. Dix has returned, drawn by the need to share dying Iris's final days. And to make a crucial decision about her relationship with Sarah. If Dix has escaped from the Point into a more expansive world, the Point has moulded her in ways she is omly beginning to fathom. Coming home to her family means once more confronting their disappointment, their condemnation of her choice to leave her marriage for a woman. Then Sarah shows up, claiming her right to be part of Dix's present and future. And to each member of Dix's appalled family, to the astonished town - she issues a frank challenge: her unabashed, unapologetic, forthright lesbian self. | |||
| Teresa Stores | |||||
| 1995 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR054 | |||||
 | Choices | Can you ever really forget your first lover? Sandy and Jenny are college roommates and best friends, and only gradually do they realize their growing attraction to one another. They become secret but passionate lovers, yet after graduation they drift apart. When they meet up again years later by chance, the two women must confront the choices they've made in life. Was theirs just a schoolgirl crush or the romance of a lifetime - about to be rekindled? | |||
| Nancy Toder | |||||
| 1991 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR055 | |||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 14 / 14 | ||||
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 | The Bee's Kiss | A passionate, tender tale of secret love... This romantic new novel from the author of The Other Side of Venus takes place in the late 1950s in a Whitethorn country town just outside London. Roz Taylor - writer, widow, mother of five-year-old Hugh - finds her world turned upside down when Joanna, who is much younger than Roz, enters her life. Their love, blossoming around the ordinary events of their lives, is hidden from everyone. From Cassie and Peter, Roz's lifelong friends. From Alison, a free-wheeling children's book illustrator. From the opinionated Mrs. Carnaby, a cleaning woman who cycles in. From Bill Moon, a yachting fanatic with dreams and desires of his own. Can the love between Roz and Joanna survive the times, survive their differences in background and age? | |||
| Shirley Verel | |||||
| 1989 | |||||
| Fiction, Lesbian, Romance | |||||
| Book#: LR056 | |||||
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