Lesbian category: 9059 books

LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity. As an openly lesbian Episcopal priest and professional advocate for LGBTQ justice, the Reverend Elizabeth Edman has spent her career grappling with the core tenets of her faith. After deep reflection on...

An elegiac memoir about food, family, and the thorns of personal history written by a Ukrainian Canadian lesbian, whose family recipes connect intimate vignettes in which food nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past, including those of a father haunted by memories of time spent in a...

Single mother Alison Aronov-Lockewood has just found herself face-to-face with a ghost.  A living, breathing, ghost—of her lost wife Sasha, and mother to her daughter Lidi.  After she manages to get her anxiety under control, she realizes that this apparent apparition is a wonderful woman, a...

How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one’s own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that may be in conflict with some of the tenets of the faith – especially when one is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community?...

”Coyote is an important literary voice, blending a keen sense of gay identity and community with a refreshing appreciation for the goodness at the heart of some straight people.”—OutThe first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender,...

A best-selling book when it appeared in Arabic, The Others is a literary tour de force, offering a window into one of the most repressive societies in the world. Seba al-Herz tells the story of a nameless teenager at a girls' school in the heavily Shi'ite Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Like her...

This book will take you on a spiritual journey into the life of the authors experiences of being gay and Christian in America. It will focus on the taboos associated with homosexuality and the Bible based on the authors own personal opinions, and offer ways of overcoming societys negative views on...

The continuing stories of Ella and Gabby and the wimmin from Pat's Place. The second yr reveals who Becky and Kitty really are. There is a snake also which is found by the pool and an unlikely hero saves the day. All the while Gabby is taking her medication and working to get medical marijuana re-legalized....

Police Officer Grace Booker’s life is good—but not quite everything she'd hoped. When a good deed goes wrong, she’s left with Dirty Harry, a raucous African parrot who really hates her. When Harry becomes louder and more neurotic, Grace takes him to the new local vet, Dr. Dani Wingate. Recently...

Dana Cooper is a busy working student. Any free time should be happily spent with her new husband. But he’s distant and angry, leaving her neglected and frustrated. Dana throws herself into her women’s studies class. When she’s assigned to do a report on lesbianism, her curiosity turns to self-discovery,...

Finnian Kane, famous master of illusion, mentalist, and renowned atheist, has a crisis of faith after her sister’s death. She rents a cottage in the village of Axedale in Kent, desperately trying to find a safe haven from the intrusive media to grieve and work out how to move on. The Reverend...

By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and...

In Close to Spider Man—which won a Danuta Gleed Literary Award—readers were introduced to the crystalline storytelling voice of Ivan Coyote. The talent evident in that first collection is confirmed with One Man’s Trash, a series of connected stories about being queer, searching out new frontiers,...

Politics, gender identity, religion--and hatred--intersect and collide in this fourth Mimi Patterson/Gianna Maglione mystery, and the hatred doesn't come from just outside the vulnerable gay and lesbian community, though there is more than enough of that to go around. This time it seems that splinter...