Sapphic Love

Sapphic Love
Author: Sanina
Publisher: Sanina
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2014-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1500698970

Nevaeh Caldwell had almost everything she ever wanted... a successful job, her own home, car, friends and family that loved her, and a handsome son that adored her. She had everything except someone to share her success with. That is until Chance Brewer entered her life. Chance is a charismatic, smooth-talking lawyer with a hidden, dark side. Chance brings Nevaeh to new heights of happiness, but hurls her into a maelstrom of emotions when she decides to indulge in her desire for women. Her life takes another tumultuous turn when she meets Sia Lyle. She quickly learns that when choosing a lover, everything that looks good, isn't always good for you. Caught in a tangled web of love, sex and drama while also dealing with coming out to her parents, she quickly realizes that her intentions to embrace her sexuality will truly test her mettle. Unprepared for what's to come and torn between two women, she is quickly swept into the whirlwind world of Sapphic love.

The Falling in Love Montage

The Falling in Love Montage
Author: Ciara Smyth
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062957139

Two girls embark on a summer of montage-worthy dates (with a few strings attached) in this hilarious and heartfelt lesbian rom-com that’s perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Jenny Han. Seventeen-year-old cynic Saoirse Clarke isn’t looking for a relationship. But when she meets mischievous Ruby, that rule goes right out the window. Sort of. Because Ruby has a loophole in mind: a summer of all the best cliché movie montage dates, with a definite ending come fall—no broken hearts, no messy breakup. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters have fallen in love...for real. Ciara Smyth’s debut is a delightful, multilayered YA rom-com that will make you laugh, cry, and absolutely fall in love.

Briefly, A Delicious Life

Briefly, A Delicious Life
Author: Nell Stevens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982190965

*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books* An “exquisite…too lovely to bear” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training). Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this “deeply wild debut follows the unconventional love triangle” (Cosmopolitan) between George, Chopin, and Blanca—a gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death.

Lesbian Love Addiction

Lesbian Love Addiction
Author: Lauren D. Costine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1442248092

Everyone makes mistakes in relationships at one time or another. Sometimes they learn from those mistakes. Other times, they return to those behaviors and cycle through failed relationship after failed relationship. Sometimes those behaviors become an addiction to love that may leave a person feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, lonely, or worse. Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong makes visible the elements of love addiction that many lesbians suffer from. Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don’t know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered. Others may avoid intimate or sexual relationships all together, becoming sexually anorexic. Some may even vacillate between all of these. The underlying component and common denominator in all of these scenarios is the “Urge to Merge.” Lesbian Love Addiction is designed to help ameliorate at least part of this problem. Lauren D. Costine offers insight for lesbians, bisexual women in relationships with women, queer women, and more specifically, any woman who loves women, as well as their family and friends, and health care professionals, into the psychology of lesbian love addiction. It will give those who struggle with and suffer from love addiction ways to understand, cope, and heal from this debilitating addiction. It will give those who work with this population new tools to use to do this more effectively. Mostly, it will help lesbians understand their relationship failures and how to heal from problems associated with them, so they may grow and cultivate happier, more fulfilling connections in the future.

Pages for Her

Pages for Her
Author: Sylvia Brownrigg
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1760554693

Flannery, a writer with one well-known rather racy book to her name is, by her own admission, is in a situation she never thought she'd be: married to a man who overshadows her and defined by her primary relationships as wife and mother. When Flannery is invited to a writers' conference she sees a chance to return to a world she knew well. And then she recognises the name of the chair of the event: Anne Arden. Suddenly Flannery is thrown back twenty years to her 18-year-old self and the most intense love affair of her entire life. On the other side of the world Anne is travelling for work. Recently out of a decades-long partnership, Anne feels adrift, unsettled. When a friend asks her to chair an event at a writers' conference she says yes and a couple of months later, on the same campus where they met and fell in love, Anne and Flannery are reunited. Though their lives have taken them in different and unexpected directions, the pull between them proves irresistible. Elegant, clever, witty and sensual, Pages for Her is a novel about love, memory and what it is to be a woman, a wife, and a mother.

Highland Fling

Highland Fling
Author: Anna Larner
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626398542

Eve Eddison describes her ideal woman to her best friend, Roxanne, over pints in their local pub a few days before she travels to the Scottish Highlands. There she falls head over heels for an enigmatic local, Moira Burns, and the usually reticent Eve wants more than a holiday romance. Forestry officer Moira Burns has no intention of letting go—either of past pain or for present pleasure. If that means she misses out on her chance at happiness, so be it. Convinced Eve is headed for heartbreak, Roxanne advises her to let Moira go…but has Eve found her ideal woman at last? From the breathtaking Highlands of Scotland to the buzz of a Leicester gay bar, family and friendship are tested to breaking point, as letting go proves painfully hard.

A Lesbian Love Advisor

A Lesbian Love Advisor
Author: Celeste West
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

"On the sweet and savory arts of Lesbian Courtship, sensualizing them with impeccable Bedside Manners, with sage advice on enjoying the Divine Lesbian Relationship in graceful gusto. How to manage a Faux-Pas with Finesse, Jealousy with Mercy and the Apples of Discord without War. Lesbian Rituals, Meta*Physicals and Ceremonies of Life elucidated."--Publisher's description.

In at the Deep End

In at the Deep End
Author: Kate Davies
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1328629678

"A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones-like twenty-something who discovers that she may have simply been looking for love -- and, ahem, pleasure -- in all the wrong places (aka: from men)"--

I Think I Love You

I Think I Love You
Author: Auriane Desombre
Publisher: Underlined
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0593179773

A YA contemporary rom com about two girls who start as rivals but after a twist of events, end up falling for one another--at least they think so. A pitch perfect queer romance! Arch-nemeses Emma, a die-hard romantic, and more-practical minded Sophia find themselves competing against one another for a coveted first-prize trip to a film festival in Los Angeles . . . what happens if their rivalry turns into a romance? For fans of Becky Albertalli's Leah on the Offbeat, full of laugh-out-loud humor and make-your-heart-melt moments. Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.

Concerning My Daughter

Concerning My Daughter
Author: Kim Hye-jin
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781529057683

The Prize-winning International Bestseller When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend Lane in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her home. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having centred her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Her daughter's involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues from the university where she works is similarly strange to her. And yet when the care home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for an elderly dementia patient who has no family, who travelled the world as a successful diplomat, who chose not to have children, Green's mother cannot accept it. Why should not having chosen a traditional life mean that your life is worth nothing at all? In Concerning My Daughter, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin lays bare our most universal fears on ageing, death and isolation to offer, finally, a paean to love in all its forms. 'An admirably nuanced portrait of prejudice . . . one that boldly takes on the daunting task of humanizing someone whose prejudice has made her cruel.' The New York Times