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Backwards to Oregon by Jae
"Luke" Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life...Categorized as:
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![Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis]()
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.In 1977 Uruguay, a military government crushed political dissent with ruthless force... -
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![Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson]()
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation... -
![Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis]()
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn defiance of the brutal military government that took power in Uruguay in the 1970s, and under which homosexuality is a dangerous transgression, five women miraculously find one another--and, together, an isolated cape that they claim as their own... -
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![Silver Wings by H.P. Munro]()
Silver Wings by H.P. Munro
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWINNER - 2014 Golden Crown Literary Society - Historical FictionWhen in 1943, twenty-five-year-old Lily Rivera is widowed, she finally feels able to step out of the shadows of an unhappy marriage. Her love of flying leads her to join the Womens Airforce Service Pilots, determined to regain her passion and spread her wings, not suspecting that she would experience more than just flying... -
![Hidden Truths by Jae]()
Hidden Truths by Jae
Lesbian Fiction: Historical Fiction - Sequel to Backwards to Oregon - Commuter Novel - 19 hours reading - "Luke" Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women... -
![Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity: Including an account of the unnatural tendencies arising on the over-stimulation of the mind of a lady by Suzanne Moss]()
Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity: Including an account of the unnatural tendencies arising on the over-stimulation of the mind of a lady by Suzanne Moss
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratings“At once the easiest truth to know, and the hardest to realise”Thea Morell, Georgian heiress and eligible lady, is not normal. At least, that’s what she has come to believe. She loves nothing more than spending hours at the study of natural history, collecting fossils, insects, dead fish, bones and even the odd spider... -
![Letters Never Sent by Sandra Moran]()
Letters Never Sent by Sandra Moran
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The story unfolds like a flower; the impact of it on each person is profound. It’s a spectacular offering of love gained, lost, and struggled with over a lifetime—a poignant tale with a marvelous reveal at the end."—Anna Furtado, Lambda Literary ReviewThree women, united by love and kinship, struggle to conform to the social norms of the times in which they lived... -
![Neither Present Time by Caren J. Werlinger]()
Neither Present Time by Caren J. Werlinger
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan a house save the lives of the people who live in it? Can an inscription written in a book over sixty years ago change the fates of people not even born when it was written? Beryl Gray is solid and dependable – her partner, Claire, thinks so, her family thinks so, her colleagues think so. She has a long-term relationship and a job she likes as a university librarian... -
![그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #1 (그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #1) by 비완, Seri]()
그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #1 (그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #1) by 비완, Seri
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEp 1 - 10Based on a Korean folktale, two very different women find themselves making the same wish - to leave this world behind. One is Shim Chong, a young beggar living off the kindness of others to support herself and her blind father. The other is the bride-to-be of old Chancellor Jang, sold off to him for the sake of her family... -
![Words Heard in Silence by T. Novan, Taylor Rickard]()
Words Heard in Silence by T. Novan, Taylor Rickard
An epic love story in war-ravaged Culpeper during the Civil War where an unlikely romance blossoms between the widowed Rebecca and the dashing Union Officer Colonel Charles. Can their love survive the agony of war?It's 1864 in Culpeper, Virginia, and the Civil War is raging. War widow Rebecca Gaines struggles to manage the family farm on her own... -
![The Pocket Sappho by Willis Barnstone]()
The Pocket Sappho by Willis Barnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today... -
![Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside]()
Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wartime secret. A journey to uncover the truth.Claire has always had a special bond with her aunt Margaret, but she’s astonished when Margaret suddenly begins talking about a friend called Agnes, who Margaret met working as a WAAF in World War 2 – a past Claire had no idea about. Margaret and Agnes were best friends until Agnes started acting strangely, becoming secretive and distant... -
![Chain Reactions by Lynn Ames]()
Chain Reactions by Lynn Ames
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome of Diana Lindstrom’s fondest memories involve childhood experiments conducted under the watchful supervision of her Great-Aunt Nora, a celebrated physicist long ago shunned by the family for mysterious reasons. Now in her adult years and a sought-after scientist herself, Diana learns that Nora is dying. She hires private-duty nurse Brooke Sheldon to care for Nora... -
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![The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif]()
The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif
In 1950's South Africa, free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob her 'coloured' business partner... -
![Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See]()
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime... -
![Shaken to the Core by Jae]()
Shaken to the Core by Jae
Kate Winthrop, the only child of a wealthy shipping magnate, has the course of her life charted for her by her parents. She’s expected to marry well and produce a successor to the Winthrop empire. But Kate has a very different path in mind. Her true passion lies with photography—and with women...Categorized as:
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![The Crook and Flail by Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside]()
The Crook and Flail by Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe son of the god must take her rightful place on Egypt's throne.Hatshepsut longs for power, but she is constrained by her commitment to maat – the sacred order of righteousness, the way things must be. Her mother claims Hatshepsut is destined for Egypt's throne – not as the king's chief wife, but as the king herself, despite her female body... -
![Hood by Emma Donoghue]()
Hood by Emma Donoghue
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA tale of grief and lust, frustration and hilarity, death and family.Penelope O’Grady and Cara Wall are risking disaster when, like teenagers in any intolerant time and place—here, a Dublin convent school in the late 1970s—they fall in love... -
![The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan, Patricia Highsmith]()
The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan, Patricia Highsmith
THE PRICE OF SALT also published as CAROL. THE PRICE OF SALT (1952) is a romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author – known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN – became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction... -
![The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend]()
The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's tempting to describe the actinon in The Crown of Valencia, but then we'd reveal spoilers from The Spanish Pearl.Just know that once again, Kate Vincent finds herself in a mess, both romantically and time travel-wise. Romance, betrayal, intrigue, disobedient children,and religious fanaticism pack this tense conclusion to the epic adventure begun in The Spanish Pearl... -
![Sisters of the Great War by Suzanne Feldman]()
Sisters of the Great War by Suzanne Feldman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by real women, this powerful novel tells the story of two unconventional American sisters who volunteer at the front during World War IAugust 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle... -
![Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane]()
Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSolving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?Victorian Era England. Stetson revels in being unconventional. So when society shies away from her independent nature, the bold woman creates an imaginary boss and opens her own detective agency... -
![Kicker's Journey by Lois Cloarec Hart]()
Kicker's Journey by Lois Cloarec Hart
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThemes: Romance, lesbian.In 1899 two women from very different backgrounds are about to embark on a journey together - one that will take them from the Old World to the New, from the 19th century into the 20th, and from the comfort and familiarity of England to the rigours of Western Canada, where challenges await at every turn...Categorized as:
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![A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe]()
A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt the height of the Cold War, Lucybelle Bledsoe is offered a job seemingly too good to pass up. However, there are risks. Her scientific knowledge and editorial skills are unparalleled, but her personal life might not withstand government scrutiny... -
![Proper English by K.J. Charles]()
Proper English by K.J. Charles
A shooting party at the Earl of Witton’s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton—until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour. That’s not Pat’s biggest problem. She’s visiting her old friend, the Earl’s heir Jimmy Yoxall—but she wants to spend a lot more time with Jimmy’s fiancée...Categorized as:
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![Carol by Claire Morgan, Cassandra Campbell]()
Carol by Claire Morgan, Cassandra Campbell
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsArguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, The Price of Salt is story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce... -
![Branded Ann by Merry Shannon]()
Branded Ann by Merry Shannon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo pirate on the high seas is more bloodthirsty than the notorious Branded Ann, a woman with eyes like ice and a face marred by a mysterious cross-shaped scar. When she raids a merchant vessel bound for Jamaica, her only objective is to obtain the map that will lead her to a legendary treasure. But she hadn't bargained on taking Violet, the merchant's young widow, on board her ship as a prisoner... -
![Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, Edna McCown]()
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, Edna McCown
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsExcerpts A letter from Lilly to Felice, March 31st, 1943 Felice, I love you! What a feeling it is to be able to say that! Oh, Felice, the nicest fate I could hope for is that of lasting happiness. I want to live with you for a long, a very long time, do you hear? And life is so beautiful, so wonderful... -
![The Seduction of Moxie by Colette Moody]()
The Seduction of Moxie by Colette Moody
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Hollywood-bound actress Violet London meets speakeasy singer Moxie Valette, her trip takes an unexpected turn toward love. New York City, 1931: When wry Broadway actress Violet London and her hard-drinking cohorts venture into a speakeasy the night before she is to board a train for Hollywood, she is floored by sassy blond singer Moxie Valette... -
![Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones]()
Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMargerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit the Baron Saveze’s fortunes—and even less his bodyguard. The formidable Barbara, of unknown parentage and tied to the barony for secretive reasons, is a feared duelist, capable of defending her charges with efficient, deadly force... -
![The Gods of Tango: A Novel by Carolina De Robertis]()
The Gods of Tango: A Novel by Carolina De Robertis
From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature—a lush, lyrical, deeply moving story of a young woman whose passion for the early sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change... -
![The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread]()
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThese remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller, and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. The diaries have been edited by Helena Whitbread, who spent years decoding and transcribing them... -
![Fingersmith by Sarah Waters]()
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home... -
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![Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta]()
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love... -
![The Spanish Pearl by Catherine Friend]()
The Spanish Pearl by Catherine Friend
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Kate Vincent and her partner travel to Spain, Kate is accidentally transported back in time...way back in time...to 1085. What does a woman like Kate do in a world of no antibiotics, no feminism, no Diet Coke? She denies it as long as possible, then sets her mind to getting home. Tricky with her now useless twenty-first century skills. Things don't go well... -
![The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend : A Nancy Clue Mystery by Mabel Maney]()
The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend : A Nancy Clue Mystery by Mabel Maney
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collector's edition of the best-selling all-girl action adventure... -
![Turning Back by Katia Rose]()
Turning Back by Katia Rose
Nestled in a towering fir forest on British Columbia’s famous Vancouver Island, Three Rivers Campground is calling you to come relax, explore, and maybe even fall in love...Trish Rivers lives a good life.A happy life... -
![The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody]()
The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Gulf of Mexico, 1702: When pirates of the square-rigger Original Sin steal ashore to abduct a doctor to tend to their wounded, they end up settling for the doctor's attractive fiancée--Celia Pierce, the town seamstress... -
![Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue]()
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another... -
![The Covert Captain: Or, A Marriage of Equals by Jeannelle M. Ferreira]()
The Covert Captain: Or, A Marriage of Equals by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNathaniel Fleming, veteran of Waterloo, falls in love with his Major's spinster sister, Harriet. But Nathaniel is not what he seems, and before the wedding, the truth will out... Eleanor Charlotte Fleming, forgotten daughter of a minor baronet, stakes her life on a deception and makes her name—if not her fortune—on the battlefield... -
![Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman]()
Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitonia, a soul-piercing debut that explores the ways that past and present intertwine, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times.In WILLA & HESPER, two young women fall in love. When they fall apart, they unwittingly take the same path to heal from their breakup, seeking answers in the lands of their ancestors... -
![Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller]()
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSet in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live... -
![Olivia by Olivia, Dorothy Bussy]()
Olivia by Olivia, Dorothy Bussy
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsConsidered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle... -
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![Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert]()
Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen AP political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1932 campaign, the two women become deeply involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship documented by 3300 letters... -
![Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak]()
Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution... -
![Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes]()
Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLadies Almanack by Djuna Barnes is a satirical novel written in the style of an almanac. It portrays the lives of lesbian women in Paris in the early 20th century, particularly focusing on the character Dame Evangeline Musset. The book uses humor and wit to explore the relationships, sexual and social, among women in the expatriate and artistic community of Paris... -
![Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva]()
Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispector and the viscerality of Han Kang.At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the center of everyone’s attention... -
![The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall]()
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsStephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents—a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928... -
![How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans]()
How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn the aftermath of The Great War, everything is changing.But not for Marian Fielding.Marian’s life is quiet and predictable in the solitude of the English countryside, where she plans to remain. But Marian’s world is turned upside down when she meets brash, confident Katherine Fuller...
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