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Faith is not a regular teenager. She has flying superpowers. She's hoping she can get through her senior year in a normal way, but strange things start happening. Meanwhile, she hears rumored sighting of her ex, who was thought to have died months ago.
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Melody McIntyre, stage manager extraordinaire, has a plan for everything.
What she doesn't have? Success with love. Every time she falls for someone during a school performance, both the romance and the show end in catastrophe. So, Mel swears off any entanglements until their upcoming production of Les Mis is over.
Of course, Mel didn't count on Odile Rose, rising star in the acting world, auditioning for the spring performance. And she definitely...
44) Cow girl
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"An udderly hilarious story of friends, family and four-legged beasts. Billie fled her Yorkshire upbringing to pursue her dreams of finding a cure for the illness which killed her mother, yet when her father gets sick, she must return home to save the farm. But the transition from city girl to country lass isn't easy, not least because leaving London means leaving her relationship with Joely Chevalier, French pharmaceutical femme fatale, just as it...
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"The story everyone wants to hear isn't the story I want to tell." Lara Lillibridge grew up with two moms--an experience that shaped and scarred her at the same time. Told from the perspective of "Girl," Lillibridge's memoir is the no-holds-barred account of childhood in an atypical household. Personally less concerned with her mother's sexuality and more with how she fits into a world both disturbed and obsessed with it, Girl finds that, in other...
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"The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest. Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass--and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal...
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In 1970s Texas, on the Gulf Coast, twenty-nine-year-old Lou, mourning her brother's death in Vietnam, attempts to solve the murder of her elderly neighbor and unearths disturbing secrets involving the history of her tight-knit, religious small town and its residents that may be the key to catching a killer.
1970s. Parson, Texas is a small town ravaged by a devastating hurricane and the Vietnam War. Lou is diligently renovating a decaying old mansion...
48) Wave
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I remember how you were, not how you are. We were we until we became you and I. Midori and Âu Cô are international university students tasting freedom from family for the first time. They discover Melbourne and each other. All is well until the tsunami that swamps their world... Midori and Âu Cô are international university students in Melbourne. They play at being silver dragons birthing pearls from their mouths. They are united by loneliness....
49) The Culling
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Love and happiness are the most difficult aspects of life that we as humans continue to try and obtain. They are the most complex emotions and when we are lucky enough to find them, we will do almost anything to hold onto that incredible feeling. We have no control over whom we will fall in love with. We do however have control over whether or not we will allow ourselves to truly feel that absolute joy. Emma Sawyer tried to find love once, but it...
50) Blind Redemption
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Kidnapped and sold into the Chinese slave trade the survival of Annette Freder, the wife of University Chancellor, Charles Freder, depends on struggling psychic detective, Jackie Vaughn. Crippled by grief over the unexpected death of her wife, Jackie deals with her anguish through pills and booze. While these coping mechanisms numb her pain, the growing addiction hampers her abilities, and places her health and livelihood in jeopardy. The missing...
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This brave and moving collection of stories by South African lesbian women from different backgrounds reminds us, again, that rights are never finally won in legislatures or in court rooms. They are won by people exercising them. The authors of the stories and poems in this book have done just that. They have stood up to celebrate the dignity of lesbian women in South Africa. Each contribution is different. And each intensely personal. And each one...
52) Skeleton Woman
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Rose Anthony is recovering from a serious illness, smarting from a fight with her lover, and waiting for the results of an art contest that she entered when an unlikely person arrives at her door in this compelling mystery from a leading New Zealand writer. A baby has been abandoned on her doorstep with an accompanying note that reads "For Rose Anthony." The secret life of her late mother is revealed to Rose in this tightly plotted, entertaining read....
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Brother and Sister, Will and Abby Trask, share a secret. They have owned the family business since Will was twenty and Abby turned eighteen. What they did, they did out of love and family responsibility. With their parents dead as well as their grandfather, all they have left is Nora, their grandmother. When she decides to retire to Florida, the kids find themselves without family or a home to live in. Now it's time they start their own journeys....
54) Night-Sky
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You just never know when IT could find you. There is no way to plan for love. You can want it and look for it and pray for it but if it isn't ready for you, it won't find you. But when IT is ready for you – you better be ready for the heart fluttering – blood pumping – mind blowing ride of your life. You will do things you would never have thought of before. You will be silly and you will be serious. Then when the realization hits you that you...
55) Soul Mistakes
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Soul Mistakes Can the past be undone? Alex is a successful children's author married to an artist living in New York City. But even happily married women can question things when thrown together with their first love. Mindy married the college quarterback, and has two children. She did everything she was supposed to do, but she was only ever happy with Alex. When Alex returns home for the funeral of Mindy's mother, old passions resurface throwing...
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A work of feminist, lesbian fiction, this experimental novel explores the lives of 26 women-each named for a letter of the alphabet-during the 1980s. Following the five women whose names begin with vowels more closely, this account places Iona, the taxi-driving narrator, front and center. Written in several strands of narrative, this compelling account includes an astrological twist that is sure to entertain.
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For sexy, self-confident Ava Miklos, seduction is a game. She lives for the feeling of triumph that accompanies a new conquest, particularly a challenging one. When her mother discovers that Ava is a lesbian, she threatens to cut her off financially if she doesn't go to counselling to "correct the problem". Knowing that without her family's support she won't be able to continue attending university, Ava agrees. But instead of relenting to her mother's...
58) Poppy's Return
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This thoughtful follow up to Poppy's Progress explores issues of family relationships, especially grief and loss. Middle-aged Poppy Sinclair is content enough with her life and her comfortable relationships with her friends, family, and cat. She is thrown into turmoil, however, when she must move back to her hometown to care for her dying father. There, she must face not only the difficult, slow loss of a parent to cancer but also her lingering feelings...
59) Bye the Grace
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The love between two women is tragicly interrupted by more powerful forces than mere hatred.
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Nici inherited a love for beauty and music and delicious foods from her Italian American parents. They give her a strong work ethic by teaching her how to do all the jobs involved in running a restaurant in addition to expecting her to do well in the Catholic school they have chosen for her. By the time she finishes high school, Nici has worked every job involved in running a successful restaurant and graduates into a managerial position. Life appears...