Find of the Month
Fat Girls and Lawn
Chairs, Cheryl Peck, $12.95, Warner Books
Short Reading
The Strange History of Suzanne Lafleshe and other stories
of women and fatness, $16.95 paper, The Feminist Press
Telling Moments: Autobiographical
Lesbian Short Stories, Lynda Hall, $26.95 paper, (Ouch!) Terrace Books/The University of Wisconsin Press
Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies, $17.95 paperback, The
Feminist Press
Sex, Romance & Valentine's Day
True Secrets
of Lesbian Desire: Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships, Renate Stendahl, $14.95, North Atlantic Books
The
Wrestling Party, Bett
Williams, $12.95,
Alyson
O, Mistress Mine, Sarah Aldridge, $15, A&M
Books
One Degree of Separation and Maybe Next Time Karin Kallmaker, $12.95, both from Bella Books.
Wedding Bell Blues and The Law
Civil Wars: Gay Marriage in America, David Moats, $25, Harcourt
Just Married: Gay Marriage
and the Expansion of Human Rights, Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, Doubleday in Canada, University of Wisconsin in the U.S. $26.95
Why You Should Give
a Damn About Gay Marriage by Davina Kotulski, $12.95, Advocate Books
Why Marriage Matters, Evan Wolfson, $23, Simon and Schuster
Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good
for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, Jonathan Rauch, $22, Times Books
The Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals,
and Transgender People by Nan Hunter, Courney Joslin, and Sharon McGowan, $19.95,
Southern Illinois University Press
Lives
“That
Furious Lesbian:” The Story of Mercedes de Acosta” and Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes De Acosta, Robert Schanke, $45, Southern Illinois University Press
Fiction & Science Fiction
The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson, $22.95, Warner
The Moon Pearl, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, $14, Beacon Press
In Brief
Stone
Butch Blues, Leslie
Feinberg, $14.95, Alyson Press
The Trouble
With Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, Irshad Manji, $22.95,
St. Martin’s Press
Leaving Earth and After Image, Helen
Humphreys, (try libraries)
Periodically Yours
Sinister
Wisdom: Women Loving Women in Prison, $20/year, PO Box 3252, Berkeley CA 94703
BITCH:
A Feminist Response to Pop Culture, $4.95, www.bitchmagazine.com or call 877-21-BITCH
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