Valerie Taylor: 17 books

Jo works for the publisher of a small magazine. She is very good at what she does and enjoys the challenges that come with her job.  Jo is not looking for love, having just ended a relationship with Karen who used her and cheated on her.  No, Jo is going to focus on her work and stay away...

RISING STAR He was the perfect man! Janet Resnick could juggle an appointment book with the best of Wall Street, but two days of caring for her sister's three kids stopped her cold. They'd already eaten her out of house and home-including Vaseline, houseplants and ballpoint pen ink....

Desire and torment swept through Joyce's trembling young body at the gentle touch of Edith's cool hand upon her face. She had never felt like this before. It frightened her ... and filled her with a terrible excitement!   Joyce is a young woman off to her first year at college at prestigious...

Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self-expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to...

First Digital Edition Includes an Afterword on the history of pulp paperbacks Grier Rating:  A**   "Good morning, darling." Kate opened her eyes slowly. A new happiness flooded her. Sunshine was coming in the window and the radiator purred like a kitten, suffusing...

First Digital Edition Grier Rating:  A***      Frances and her new husband, Bill, have recently moved to the Midwest to set up house in 1960s suburbia. Frances is determined to pull off a straight marriage in the wake of a bad lesbian affair, but it’s not working. No...

Sexy, beautiful, frustrated... a neglected housewife finds the delights and degradations of forbidden love. Frances, a 1950s housewife, becomes bored with her suburban life and enrolls in a class at the local community college. When she meets Blake, a butch lesbian, her life completely changes....

We all think we know what we have to do to manage our weight, and blame ourselves when we don't meet the goals we have set. In reality, we need to understand the biology behind the body's regulation of weight to achieve the control we are hoping for. And we need strategies for overcoming obstacles:...

World's Best Dad: Keep your eyes on his kids-not on his body Don't imagine yourself the star in his bedtime stories Make this your mantra: He's not a man-he's a dad Julie Miles had been a mom for 43 hours and 10 minutes when she realized her adopted daughter needed a dad. So it was a stroke...

This treasure from the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction picks up where Stranger on Lesbos left off. Deserted by her butch lover, Frances struggles to re-integrate into conventional married life. But no amount of resolve can keep her away from a new lover, the boyish Erika who lures her back into...

NIGHTMARE was founded on the core idea that all horror is real horror. The whole point of this magazine is that horror fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Horror is about all people and for all people. The People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! special issue exists to relieve a brokenness in the...

Written to address conditions specifically associated with ethnic disparities in skin types, Treatments for Skin of Color, by Susan C. Taylor, Sonia Badreshia, Valerie D. Callender, Raechele Cochran Gathers and David A. Rodriguez helps you effectively diagnose and treat a wide-range of skin conditions...

Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.   Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...

Su belleza solitaria, rodeada por montañas y con vistas al mar, sus alegres calles y sus elegantes monumentos convierten a Barcelona en una ciudad bonita y acogedora. Pero no nos equivoquemos: Barcelona, con todo su encanto y color, no ha podido siempre ocultar su lado oscuro. Represión,...