Bywater Books: 75 books

Bambi Devine, known to her friends as b.d., is a middle-aged bridal consultant who has recently come out to her friends after years of kidding herself about her sexuality—only to find out her friends knew all along and were just too polite to say anything to her. Then b.d. meets Bridget McKnight,...

"Damn if I didn't actually laugh out loud while reading it-several times, in fact. If you're looking for a funny, well-written novel . . . give this a try!"-AfterEllen.comJust when you thought it was safe to pitch your tent, the Santora family shows up. Lisa's taken over a rundown campground, baby sister...

Story features an African American, lesbian lead character, as well as a diverse cast of supporting characters This is Book One in the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series Author regularly consults, blogs, and tweets on a wide range of diversity issues Author is a well known writer,...

Dust was originally published in late 2011, and is considered a strong follow-up to her best-selling debut, Jericho. From the onset, political intrigue and plot twists keep the reader guessing. Each of the characters has their own complexities with varying degrees of “badness,” making it difficult...

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. But then she met, Lila Dubose, the wife of her new employer.

Small-town Idaho, where everyone knows your business, is no place for a baby dyke to go looking for love. Especially when murder and homophobia are stalking the streets. For Wilhelmina “Bil” Hardy, trapped in the coils of her eccentric family and off-the-wall friends, neither the course of true...

"O Captain, My Captain" is an intelligent, enthralling, and sensuous science fiction vampire story. Harper is on a galactic salvage mission into a dangerous asteroid zone with Captain Drake. Alone with the captain for days, Harper falls into her thrall and, eventually, into her bed. But Drake has secrets she protects at all costs . . .

“A pioneer in lesbian literature . . . a believer in the power of stories.”—Lambda Book ReportThe reprint of a long out-of-print classic short story collection featuring the treasured erotic novella O Captain, My Captain. Also includes stories featuring LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield...

In 1983, Livvie Bliss leaves western North Carolina for New York City, armed with a degree in English and a small cushion of cash from a favorite aunt. Her goal is to launch a career in publishing, but more important, to live openly as a lesbian. A rough start makes Livvie think she should give up...

The Girls Club is the coming-of-age story of a young, white, working-class woman. Set in the 1970s, the story revolves around Cora Rose as she copes with her emerging sexuality, an illness her sisters refer to as "the dreaded bowel disease," and the conflicts created by the growing disparity between...

Rose was born facing due north, with an inherent perception of cardinal points flowing through her veins. Her uncanny sense of direction earns her a coveted place among the Archipelago Fleet elite, but it also attracts the attention of Admiral Comita, who sends her on a secret mission deep into pirate...

Nadine Pagan's dyke sister Jane wants to find her. Her lover Rose wants to marry her. And her mother Fay wants to forget her. All Nadine wants is to stop the buzzing in her head. Join Nadine as she escapes from her incendiary Jewish family into the lesbian town of New Chelm-and far, far beyond.

Question: Do any of you know the truly scary part about being seventeen?Answer: Your brain doesn't actually know, understand or care what it can't do; and, while this sounds great in theory, in my particular case, my under-developed brain apparently didn't know I couldn't fly.So I jumped . . .And...

When oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can’t go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There’s only one problem: her grandmother is dead. As the two young women beat their own early path toward marriage equality, Ellen’s...