The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women

The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women
Author: Alex Dally MacFarlane
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780762454709

This anthology showcases the most exceptional science fiction stories written by women in recent decades, from classic stars like Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr. to science-fiction greats such Nancy Kress, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Karen Joy Fowler to new award-winning talents.

Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming
Author: Randy Shilts
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 836
Release: 2005-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312342647

The definitive book on lesbians and gay men in the US military. Randy Shilts, author of the classic documentary history of the AIDS epidemic And The Band Played On, was acclaimed for his ability to take epic histories and molding them into gripping, intimate narratives. Conduct Unbecoming, his groundbreaking exploration of lesbians and gays in the military, came out of hundreds of interviews conducted with servicepeople at all levels of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps and intense research uncovering thousands of documents resulting in a unique history of gays in the military as well as the persecution of gays in the military. Conduct Unbecoming will leave readers moved and imbued with a better understanding of the pressing situation in our nation's military. "A sober, thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history on the subject. [Shilts's] chronicle is excellent military history, closely woven with an enthralling analysis of the changing definitions of sexuality and personal relationships in American society....[A] landmark book....Remarkable." --New York Times Book Review "A masterpiece of investigative reporting...Shilts has shown us the honor homosexuals have brought, and continue to bring, to the uniforms they wear and the country they serve." - Boston Globe "Gays, we are told, would damage morale in the military. Shilts documents the fact that morale has already been eaten away by hypocrisy, contradictions, and favoritism...This book will be to gay and lesbian liberation what Betty Friedan's was to early feminism or Rachel Carson's to ecological consciousness. No fair-minded person can read Conduct Unbecoming and consider the present system defensible. - USA Today "Gripping reading....the history of homosexual people and the movement for gay/lesbian equality in the United States can nowhere be more clearly told." - Los Angeles Times

Room

Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1350419168

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love. Written for the stage by Academy Award® nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.

First-Timers

First-Timers
Author: Rachel Kramer Bussel
Publisher: Alyson Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Oh, that delicious, unforgettable first time. These lusty, passionate, exciting stories recount all kinds of sexy, sweaty firsts between women: first-time strap-ons, spankings, and role-playing, first loves and first affairs. This collection gathers the best true stories inspired by the most memorable firsts. They are 100 percent real and 110 percent hot! Rachel Kramer Busselpreviously edited the best-selling erotica collectionUp All Night. She is the co-author ofThe Lesbian Sex Book, and is a sex columnist forThe Village Voice. She lives in New York.

The Mammoth Book of Women's Erotic Fantasies

The Mammoth Book of Women's Erotic Fantasies
Author: Sonia Florens
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Sexual fantasies
ISBN: 9781849014519

What do women really want? What are their most intimate erotic desires? The confessions gathered together in this volume come from 50 perfectly ordinary women from all parts of the United Kingdom, elsewhere in Europe, North America and Australia. They offer up their most private dreams and most closely kept sexual secrets. Some of their fantasies are shocking, others playful, but all are utterly captivating. The stories lay bare the often bizarre nature of female desire, a buried thread in sometimes mundane lives. Juices run freely at breakfast with Tiffany; another woman enjoys a knickerless ride on public transport; a student experiences an oral examination by the professor of poetry; a housewife joins Club Ped in a foot-fetish fantasy; another woman sleeps her way across America with Kerouac.Erotic and illuminating, these are stories for open-minded, sensual readers.

Wild Girls, Wild Nights

Wild Girls, Wild Nights
Author: Sacchi Green
Publisher: Cleis Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1573449334

There are the fabled urban myths of lesbians who fill up a U-Haul on the second date and lead sweetly romantic lives of cocoa and comfy slippers. Safe and sound. A lot of cozy and not much crazy. These are NOT those stories- these are wild women with dirty minds, untamed tongues, and even the occasional cuff or clamp. A lotta crazy and no cozy slippers to be seen. These Wild Girls tell stories of their own Wild Nights (and days,) memories too hot to keep undercover. Real women with real needs and overwhelming desires find the courage to reveal intimate, unrestrained details of their sex lives, the need to share their stories second only to the urgent impulses that drove the action in the first place. There are first times, life-long commitments, and fleeting encounters to savor for a lifetime. Tenderness merges with edge-play; scenes shift from Caribbean islands to desert battlefields to the ultimate privacy of home; and the writers range from well-known names to newcomers driven to share fresh memories they’ll never forget. In Evan Mora’s “The Insatiable Travel Itch,” repression in public drives her wild. “Transported, transplanted, we are transgressors. And it makes me fucking wet.” Angel Propps struggles to face her deepest desires. “The word Daddy had a familiar shape on my tongue, but not in my head, and for one second I was sure I was going to Hell—and then I came.” She’d found, of course, “The Daddy I Didn’t Know I Needed.” Anna Watson, in “Tamago,” gives a poignant and sizzling view of being a lesbian femme who loves butches. “I know being femme is what makes the breath blow out of me when she calls and says, ‘Babe, I just wanted you to know that I was driving along here, thinking about your breasts.’” Reality doesn’t have to be prosaic. Real sex can be wet, messy, frenzied, sometimes even awkward, but never boring. With these writers and seventeen more, “Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories” is the proof of that.

Second Person Queer

Second Person Queer
Author: Richard Labonté
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

The follow-up to Lambda Literary Award-winning First Person Queer, which featured non-fiction essays all told from the first-person perspective. This collection, all told from the second-person perspective, comprises letters, admonitions, words of advice and missives against sources of contempt. Contributors include Michael Rowe, Achy Obeas, Daniel Allen Cox and Amber Dawn.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2011

Best Lesbian Erotica 2011
Author: Kathleen Warnock
Publisher: Cleis Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1573446890

What are lesbians longing for? Playwright, event host, and editor Kathleen Warnock helps answer this question in her newest edition of this much-loved, best-selling series. Featuring work from some of the best-known erotic writers as well as the debuts of startling new talent, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 welcomes back some familiar faces, including Stella Sandberg. Her story, "Manchester, 2000," follows the European adventures of two studs on a long ride. Perennial favorite Betty Blue returns with "The Garden of Earthly Delights," an encounter between a firespirit and a lost boi on the celestial plane. Cheyenne Blue’s "A Story About Sarah" travels to the antipodes, telling the story of a life-long love between a rancher’s daughter and a half-Aboriginal woman. There’s more... right under the covers of Best Lesbian Erotica 2011.

The Last Hope of Girls

The Last Hope of Girls
Author: Susie Boyt
Publisher: Headline Review
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2002-02-04
Genre: Single women
ISBN: 9780747265153

Newly installed as resident caretaker of four half-derelict West End flats, Martha Brazil can scarcely believe her luck. But even in her new home painful memories intrude: of a high-handed father, a mother willing to embrace only the chronically disposessed and an estranged brother.