Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer

Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer
Author: Mari SanGiovanni
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612940358

Marie Santora comes from a volatile Italian family. But when she inherits her grandmother’s estate and everyone turns nice and caring, Marie knows it’s time to hit the road to Los Angeles, but not before one final family vacation. In Jamaica, Marie meets the woman who could change her life. But will she even talk to Marie after her family tells one too many of Marie’s secrets? Don’t miss this hilarious tale of lesbian love and family togetherness run amok. Greetings from Jamaica is a runner-up for the first annual Bywater Prize for Fiction.

Camptown Ladies

Camptown Ladies
Author: Mari SanGiovanni
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193285987X

The Santora family ride again in the side-splitting sequel to Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer

Idaho Code

Idaho Code
Author: Joan Opyr
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612940366

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 love nor amateur sleuthing runs smooth. Mistaken identity, misunderstandings, and mysteries galore take Bil to places she’s never dreamed of visiting. Idaho Code is a funny book about love, family, and the freedom you can find in a state that values individuality more than common sense. Joan Opyr’s hobbies are politics, politics, and politics, though, for the sake of variation, she has been known occasionally to dance the polka.

Miss McGhee

Miss McGhee
Author: Bett Norris
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2007-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1932859802

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.

Virgil

Virgil
Author: Steve Orlando
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2015-09-09
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1632155990

Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his way across Jamaica for revenge!

96 Hours

96 Hours
Author: Georgia Beers
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1932859845

A powerful new romance from a best-selling writer of lesbian fiction.

Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme

Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme
Author: Mari SanGiovanni
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612942865

Novelist and filmmaker Mari SanGiovanni introduces readers to the irrepressible Liddy-Jean Carpenter, a matchmaker with special talents who will charm readers with her wit, wisdom, and sensibilities in this warm, enchanting love-is-love office romance. Liddy-Jean Carpenter has learning disabilities. But she also has a surprisingly genius plan. While she spends her days doing minor office tasks with nobody paying attention, she sees how badly the wand-waving big boss treats the Marketing Department worker bees. So, she takes lots of notes for a business book to teach bosses to be better. While compiling pages of bad behavior notes, she finds she likes office-mate Rose and Rose’s new friend Jenny. But she doesn’t like Rose’s creepy boyfriend. So how can she save Rose? Liddy-Jean knows with certainty that love is love, and she concludes that Rose should be with Jenny, bosses should do better, and everybody needs the services of Liddy-Jean, Marketing Queen.

80% Done With Straight Girls

80% Done With Straight Girls
Author: Mari SanGiovanni
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612942407

The third book in Marie Santora's search for true love finds her big Italian family still serving the up the fun, Italian style: Loud, lusty, and volatile—overflowing with lots of love and laughter. What's funny about losing everything you love? Plenty, if you're a member of the Santora family. Marie Santora has always suffered from an enormous case of good luck/bad luck when it comes to women, and the past six years have been no exception. When Marie's love life hits the skids—again—her irrepressible sister Lisa begins to wonder if this is the time that her sister's loss is too great for even their eccentric Italian family to heal. To help Marie escape the painful memories, Lisa ditches her gay campground for a family lake house, and Marie vows to be done with straight girls once and for all. But just as the Santora clan descends upon Marie to "help", a surprise house call changes her good luck to bad luck once again, putting Mari's willpower to the ultimate test. The family motto has always been "Either you're IN, or you're OUT!" and this newest family crisis means the Santora's are ALL IN—even though Marie wants them out!

Aftermath

Aftermath
Author: Ann McMan
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161294132X

Over the past eighteen months, Syd, Maddie, and little Henry have become a family, and things are going surprisingly well for most of Jericho’s residents —if you don’t count the devastating storm that whips over, around, and through town. In the weeks and months to come, Syd, Maddie, and all of Jericho are forced to pick up the pieces and rebuild their homes, their lives, and their town. The tasks are sometimes hard, sometimes emotional, and sometimes absurd, but always full of smart and sassy humor and an abundance of good food and wine.