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Compelling desires? Forbidden Desires? Undeniable desires! The Jealous and the Free, a classic lesbian pulp novel from March Hastings, follows the relationship between Michele and Leda. As our story begins, Leda and Michele have been roommates for quite some time. Michele comes to realize that she is attracted to Leda, but her inexperience makes her shy and hesitant at first. Leda, who has had experience with women in the past, takes her by the hand and shows her the way. Michele decides ... more info>>

I wanted the role of Juliet more than anything. I studied hard. I gave a great reading for it-even with Bobby checking me out the whole time. I deserved the part.I didn't get it. So I decided to level the playing field, though I actually might have leveled the whole play. You see, since there aren't any Success in Getting to Be Juliet in Your High School Play spells, I thought I'd cast the next best-a Fame spell. Good idea, right?Yeah. Instead of bringing me a little fame, it brought me someone ... more info>>

The 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Two girls. One white. One black, passing for white. It was the summer that changed their lives forever.

The Kingdom of Childhood is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother's extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. Judy sees in Zach the elements of a young man she loved as ... more info>>

Based in part on actual events, The Kommandant's Girl is a compelling tale of love and courage in a dangerous and desperate times. Unique in voice and evocative in historical detail, this stunning debut faithfully explores the gray area between right and wrong and the timeless themes of home, stuggle and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forc... more info>>

Young Nathan Anzalone is excited when new neighbors move into the mansion next door. Awkward, sheltered and geeky, he holds out hope that the neighbors include a new friend with whom he can play. That was not to be, however. Diana Renoir and the formidable Cleo Damien have moved into the sleepy town of Silver River in hopes of finally being able to lead a "normal" life. When the gawky kid from next door is caught spying on them as they play by their pool, Cleo takes Nathan under her wing and all... more info>>

The seismic shifts in American life in the years following World War II have inspired several generations of novelists, but few have described the fallout of those changes as poignantly and with as much understanding as Gerald Green did in The Last Angry Man, published in 1956. At a time when the world had begun to focus on angry young men, Green created a magnificently angry old one as his hero. Based on his father, the title character is a doctor and a man of principle whose life's work is abo... more info>>

Luta's arrogant smile severed his face like a knife. Sun glinted behind his head, outlining the spikes of his hair in a halo of light. McKay fastened her eyes on the livid white scar zig-zagging its way across Luta's cheek. Peccary teeth, Tikitu had said, mark of the vicious peccary. Luta's totem. His flinty eyes lingered on the fist she held to her breast. Gritting her teeth, McKay held the feather tighter still. She'd never give up this feather to Luta. No, she'd rather die at the hands of the... more info>>

For generations, Aurelia was the crowning glory of more than three thousand acres of Iowa farmland and golden cornfields. The estate was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family nameno matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. It was a desperation that wrought the downfall of the Hathawaysand the once-prosperous farm.Now the last inhabitant of the decaying home has diedalone. None of the surviving members of the Hathaway family want anythin... more info>>

Archaeologist Keri St Cloud's dreams feed her unbidden knowledge and energy, forcing her into an initiation as a shaman and one who remembers. Agent Ray Glover, her ex-husband, requests her help a request that sends her on a journey to confront her past life and the man her killed her trying to steal her talent. She knows this man as a former professor who now works with a secretive genetic research company. Men and women at this company have been killed to keep the secret of the Lethe Gene, but... more info>>

Ruth is, by her own admission, an unlucky woman. Ungainly, unattractive, unassertive, she trudges through life bowed under the weight of a loveless marriage to a brazen, cheating, indifferent man named Bobbo. Although she has patiently suffered through the small and not-so-small indignities occasioned by sharing a life with the uncaring Bobbo, as The Life and Loves of a She-Devil opens, Ruth's patience is wearing thin, and the pain and resentment she has been swallowing all these years are final... more info>>

Cameron Nash is the Pastor at Celestial Falls Non-denominational Church. While working in his office, he happens to catch a homeless girl in the act of stealing money from the Food Bank donations box. The girl fully expects Cameron will call the police and she will end up in jail. What he decides to do instead takes the girl by surprise. Cameron feels that God has sent the homeless girl to him so that he can help someone in need. He proceeds to go out of his way to help Shawna turn her life aro... more info>>

Going Straight to Hell.... Mike Hamilton is a man marked for death. No, the Mafia isn't after him--hepatitis C is. The disease hid in his system for years, slowly eating at his liver. Mike had no idea the incurable virus was after him. Now it's too late to do anything about it. So why not party? The Lost Generation is a tale about today, tomorrow, and well, the nutzoid place we live. Mike gives up everything your average Ruthless New York lawyer holds dear. He trades it for a cherry RX-7 and hea... more info>>

Five holiday stories of discovery hope and love. The Phone Call -- One day and one minute in the life of Agnes Riley. Chicago winters can be cold and lonely for those in their twilight years. Case in point, ninety-one year old Agnes Riley. The Magic Apron -- A remarkable granny, a magic apron, and a tiny fairy guide a family to forgiveness, and unite them with love. Santa's Clown -- Samantha covers her face with paint, wears a seductive, sequined costume, pokes fun at sadness and creates lau... more info>>

Fourteen years after meeting at Camp Runnymede in the Texas Hill Country, three friends live and work in nearby Denim. Gabrielle is always early, Sandalin is always on time, and Merry is always late. In a way, that's all you need to know about them. Sandalin Pell's life is precise. Her music is very much in demand. She and her concert harp travel around central Texas, playing for weddings, churches, and fashion shows, and auditioning for orchestras. Only a flair for organization keeps Sandalin's... more info>>

Q: How does Heather Greenblotz, the thirty-one-year-old heiress to the world's leading matzo company, celebrate Passover? A: Alone. In her Manhattan apartment. With an extremely unkosher ham-and-cheese panini. But this year will be different. The Food Channel has asked to film the famous Greenblotz Matzo family's seder, and the publicity op is too good to, ahem, pass over. Heather is being courted by the handsome director and the subtly sexy cameraman, and she's got family coming out of her ears... more info>>

In June of 1930, when Maybe Rose Tucker is five years old, her mother is murdered, her father is a suspect and it looks as if the murdered is after Maybe who struggles to fit into the nightmare world she occupies.

Baby boomer Allyson Cole is the poster child for modern success. But a surprise visitor is about to take her down memory lane--back to her teens, and that day in Woodstock, circa 1969...

This Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.

Two policemen pursue a killer across two decades and ultimately along the shores of the Mediterranean. The killings appear motiveless, but perhaps the motive is beyond their understanding.

An outcast from the barrio, Maria was feared and shunned because of her moonpower--a psychic ability to communicate with enchanted spirits, and see the future in dreams and visions. When she is forced to choose between two men--tragedy occurs. Their lives become entangled like the roots of a balete tree, as they journey through the dark labyrinth of love, passion, and betrayal.

A journey about how karmic bonds throw together a diverse group of individuals to uncover a long forgotten secret that may offer a solution to today's ills.

A young man enters a luxury flat from the window - with one objective - to steal what he can from the unknown occupant. But Andrew is not a conventional small-time criminal, and as he prepares to leave, he sees something that makes him pause; he is drawn to a beautiful piano. Andrew cannot resist sitting down to play the instrument, and another life - the one he has abandoned - comes back to him. A short story from our Nibs literary line.

In The Ocean Between Us Susan Wiggs deftly portrays the struggles and triumphs of an American family facing life's greatest challenges as they come to understand the timeless lessons of the heart. On the surface Grace Bennett has it all--three wonderful children, a devoted husband and a life of adventure and travel. But somewhere between her husband Steve's demanding career, raising a family, the constant uprooting and the Navy's routine, Grace has lost her sense of self. And when a nearly forgo... more info>>

Claire leaves her pretentious and arty husband because he declared that her dream journal did not have enough Freudian imagery. Claire realizes that her dream is actually to spend some time alone on her personal and artistic development as a novelist. She rents an apartment above a bistro in New York City's Greenwich Village. Claire pours all of her pain and doubt into a first novel featuring an unconventional heroine named Nevada whose trials mirror Claire's own. As the novel progresses and Nev... more info>>