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	BR002		Blue Heaven Joe Keagan Deposit: SGD21.50 Refund: SGD13.50 Set in contemporary New York, Blue Heaven is the hilarious tale of a most unlikely couple and their brilliant plan to earn a fortune in gifts on their way to the altar. Philip Cavanaugh, a homosexual and struggling songwriter, becomes embroiled in a scheme by his former lover, Gilbert Selwyn, who plans to marry a wealthy duchess's daughter to reap the wedding gifts. The plot grows more complicated with, among other things, the involvement of the Mafia, the unmasking of the duchess and a rekindled love affair between "Philly" and "Gilley." Yet, despite these elaborate plot machinations, the characters remain one-dimensional (flighty Gilbert, Philip's yuppie sister and brother-in-law in the suburbs, amoral Moira Finch, the bride), failing to engage the reader's interest in them or in their predicaments. Keenan has Philip narrating in a contrived, light hearted tone and pursuing stereotypes of pretentiously artsy New Yorkers and high-strung, irrational gays. Truly one of the best humour books so far.
	BR003		Cavedweller Dorothy Allison Deposit: SGD19.00 Refund: SGD10.00 New in paperback is this second novel from the lesbian author of the much praised, award winning `Bastard out of Carolina'. Delia Byrd packs up her daughter & her life from California and heads to her childhood home in Georgia, back to the two daughters she abandoned a lifetime ago. Confirms Allison's place as one of the great writers of the Deep South
	BR004		The Comedienne V.G. Lee Deposit: SGD25.00 Refund: SGD17.00 Expect the kind of laughs associated with Tim Allen or Ellen DeGeneres. Showcasing V.G. Lee's ear for dialogue and her eye for the more absurd aspects of everyday life. Joan is dumped by girlfriend Susan, so decides to leave Birmingham and try her luck on the London comedy circuit. After all, everybody always said she was a funny woman. A joy to read.
	BR005		Crocodile Soup Julia Darling Deposit: SGD19.00 Refund: SGD11.00 When a law enforcement officer dies in highly suspicious circumstances, it seems like the perfect case for D.I. Carol Ashton. Too bad, then, that Carol is the prime suspect. This is the twelfth Carol Ashton and follows hot on the heels of the popular 'Set Up' published late last year.
	BR006	No Pic	Family Dancing David Leavitt Deposit: SGD12.00 Refund: SGD4.00 Tender, unsettling, and amusing, these stories present families all unhappy in their own different ways. A mother who presides over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter has trouble accepting her son's lover. A recently separated couple's compulsion to maintain a twenty-six-year tradition seems to magnify futility. These stories are near perfection--and our of a writer in his early 20s!--with well-drawn characters and serious themes, though sometimes playful treatments. Leavitt's preoccupations seem to be with the family, homosexuality, and cancer, but he has yet to make any of these topics stale. Highly recommended.
	BR007	No Pic	Herotica 5: A Collection of Women's Erotic Fiction Marcy Sheiner Deposit: SGD25.00 Refund: SGD17.00 In this gathering of 23 new erotic stories penned by women, Sheiner, (who also edited Herotica 4) proves yet again that good erotica combines playfulness, quality writing and dramatic momentum. Although none is overtly brutal, these stories are not for puritans. The range of activities includes bondage, threesomes, masturbation, lesbian and heterosexual trysts, exhibitionism, domination and pure fantasy. Whether the subject is matchmaking in Bombay or virtual sex, there are no shrinking violets here, only roses? And some thorns thrown in for kicks.
	BR008		The Penguin Book Of International Women's Stories edited by Kate Figes Deposit: SGD19.00 Refund: SGD11.00 A collection of thirty-three short stories from around the world celebrates the diversity of women's experiences and includes selections from both famous and lesser-known female authors. A collection of thirty-three short stories from around the world celebrates the diversity of women's experiences and includes selections from both famous and lesser-known female authors.
	BR010		Lip Service M.J. Rose Deposit: SGD18.00 Refund: SGD10.00 In Lip Service, Julia Sterling's life couldn't be better. After all, she is married to a respected psychiatrist, has a wonderful stepson and lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Her ordered life is suddenly threatened when she decides to research the perverse world of phone sex for a book. This book covers several taboo subjects regarding male and female sexuality. It questions morality and the inhibitions that society has placed upon us.
	BR010		Love Ruins Everything Karen Tulchinsky (Ed) Deposit: SGD19.00 Refund: SGD11.00 An hilarious first novel which heralds the arrival of a great new voice in lesbian literature. Nomi is dumped by her girlfriend Sapphire - for a man! Heartbroken and enraged, Nomi plots her revenge and swears off love forever. Intrigue and melodrama shine bright in this uproarious tragicomic novel.
	BR011	No Pic	Matricide Carla Tomaso Deposit: SGD14.00 Refund: SGD6.00 The unnamed narrator of Matricide is not happy. A high school English teacher and author of one bad novel, she tends to her ex-lover's cats and longs to fall in love. With friend and principal Doris and recent ex-student Tina, she drives to Taos for a women writers' conference. There she meets 60-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winner Blaire Bennett, who appears naked in her room and announces, "I am not a nice person." The narrator has had plenty of experience with people who are not nice, beginning with her beautiful, competitive mother. These relationships grow, revealing secrets: Doris's drinking, Tina's ambivalent coming-out, the matricide of the title and even darker conflicts and betrayals. At once entertaining and wounding, Tomaso (The House of Real Love) deftly builds her characters and their concerns. What might have been insipid and bitter-the worst intersection of Jane DeLynn's Don Juan in the Village and Diane Salvatore's Love, Zena Beth-is instead funny, moving and horrifying. The narrator's bravado and cynicism are tempered by bursts of romanticism, creating a tension that reveals her vulnerability and humanity. The characters' embarrassing poetry aside, the writing is lucid and deceptively simple. Matricide is a coming-of-age-story, one whose parameters are not years of experience, but memories. Definitely one of the books you can't miss.
	BR012 Hard Cover		Mouthing the Words Camilla Gibb Deposit: SGD27.00 Refund: SGD18.00 Thelma is six years old and life at home is unsettling and disturbing. Her father's games are not enjoyable and her mother dotes on Willy, the favoured child. When her parents move to Canada, Thelma smuggles her imaginary friends with her in her suitcase. This novel is by turns harrowing, terrible and wonderfully funny. Through sexual abuse, anorexia and borderline multiple personality disorder, Thelma retains her spirit, wit and imagination.
	BR013	No Pic	Ready or Not edited by Mark Macleod Deposit: SGD18.00 Refund: SGD10.00 A book not to be missed for the young lesbians. Coming out stories, dealing with denial of parents, writers of this book made all these issues seemed easy to deal with. Compassionate, compelling yet with a touch of humour. A must read for even if you're not gay.
	BR014		The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits Emma Donoghue Deposit: SGD22.00 Refund: SGD13.00 This is a wonderful book of fictions that are also true. It is named for Mary Toft, a real woman, who, in 1726, managed to convince half of England that she'd laboured and given birth to a rabbit. Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes and private tragedies, lesbian author Emma Donaghue has written a sequence of short stories about peculiar moments in the history of the British Isles. Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars with revolutionaries.
	BR015		Dick for A Day edited by Fiona Giles Deposit: SGD22.00 Refund: SGD14.00 When a law enforcement officer dies in highly suspicious circumstances, it seems like the perfect case for D.I. Carol Ashton. Too bad, then, that Carol is the prime suspect. This is the twelfth Carol Ashton and follows hot on the heels of the popular 'Set Up' published late last year.
	BR016		Singling Out The Couples Stella Duffy Deposit: SGD22.00 Refund: SGD13.00 A princess, perfect in almost every way, arrives in London with a self-appointed mission - to break up couples in love. For what this princess lacks is a heart. Sharp, witty & intelligent, this is a vivacious satire on modern relationships.
	BR017		Honk It You Love Aphrodite Daniel Evans Weiss Deposit: SGD23.00 Refund: SGD14.00 The ancient Greek gods live! Weary of Athenian smog, however, they have decamped Olympus for the Catskills. Aphrodite's youngest son wants to prove his mettle by helping a mortal. He is sent to aid Stanley on an epic journey home from a reunion with two pals at Khoni (i.e., Coney Island) to his wife, Eileen, on the upper West Side. First, the god has to assume mortal shape at Stanley's side. Striking globular friend Myron with a thirst that chains him to the beer stand (and sending the other guy after a woman), the god becomes Myron (literally a stretch) and sees Stanley through a night of adventures in the depths of Brooklyn that even includes, as a good epic should, a journey to the underworld--via subway, of course. When the god gets Stanley home, there are complications, even though Eileen is most beauteous and amorous. Mixing verse with prose, Weiss' hilarious mock epic apparently assumes that, if this kind of parody worked for modernist Joyce, it will work for post moderns.
	BR018 Hard Cover		Cravings: A Sensuous Memoir Jyl Lyn Felman Deposit: SGD27.00 Refund: SGD18.00 In the essays contained in Cravings: A Sensual Memoir, writer and performance artist Jyl Lynn Felman looks at desire not in the abstract, but in the particular: she considers a child's craving for a mother's attention, a daughter's craving for a specific piece of the family china, a lover's craving for her beloved. Felman contextualizes herself as a Jew, a feminist, a lesbian, and a person who grew up in Ohio. She examines how each of these selves experiences desire differently. Cravings is also a memoir of family life, of sibling rivalries that outlast childhood, and of the grief, regret, and anger that a daughter feels because of her parent's death.
	BR019		Pages for You Sylvia Brownrigg Deposit: SGD25.00 Refund: SGD16.00 Anne Arden is sophisticated, poised and almost impossibly beautiful. While Flannery Jansen is an unformed, innocent student in her first semester at university. An interesting tale unfolds when Flannery realises that Anne feels the same way about her. The story deals with love, humiliation and the coming out process many of us can relate to.
	BR020		Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry Jessica Adams Deposit: SGD18.00 Refund: SGD10.00 After a whirlwind courtship with Richard, the gentle small-town vet she met in London, Sarah finds herself, to her surprise, moving to Australia as his bride. But on the morning of the wedding itself, she realizes she has made the worst mistake of her life. While the wedding is quickly turning into bad news for some, it's good news for Richard's younger brother Harry, who can at least take some comfort in the fact that his Debbie Harry tribute band has been booked for the reception. Better still, the cute young Wiccan he'd like to date isn't put off by his Blondie obsession, who would rather date his bisexual drummer in his band. Meanwhile, Richard's best friend Tom is wondering if he's crazy to live with a woman old enough to be his mother. Especially as she disapproves of nearly everything in his life, including Richard and Sarah. The only invited guest not at the wedding is in Sydney. Richard's first wife Bronte, a successful magazine editor, threw her wedding invitation in the trash. But she finds herself mysteriously drawn to visit Richard, despite her best efforts to put those thoughts out of her mind. By the end of the summer, life - and love - will have gotten back on track again, but not before one small town in Australia nearly explodes with heat, and an overdose of passion.
	BR021		Local Girls Alice Hoffman Deposit: SGD25.00 Refund: SGD16.00 More than a collection of short stories, yet not quite a novel, Local Girls occupies an undefined territory between these two forms. The local girls in question are Gretel Samuelson, her best friend, Jill, her mother, Franny, and Franny's cousin Margot--four characters who weave in and out of each of the 15 related stories that chronicle the rocky years of Gretel's adolescence room. If you ask me, working so hard at being married can backfire." It is the end of the marriage All pretty depressing plot points, to be sure, yet Hoffman's luminous prose combined with Gretel's tart and funny perspective keeps the reader eagerly turning the pages until the very end.
	BR022	No Pic	K. D Lang: All You Get Is Me Victoria Starr Deposit: SGD16.00 Refund: SGD8.00 Uncovering k.d's deepest emotions, from a commitment to animal rights that threatened to ruin her career and her coming to terms with sexuality that made her an unwitting poster girl for the lesbian and gay community, this is truly her definitive biography.
	BR023		The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica Rose Collins Deposit: SGD25.00 Refund: SGD15.00 This book brings together a dynamic selection of new erotic fiction by women writers from around the world. Their writings cover the emotional spectrum from intimate reminiscence and intensely personal experiences to humorous tales and magical encounters.
	BR024		Love Undetectable: Reflections on Friendship, Sex & Survival Andrew Sullivan Deposit: SGD20.00 Refund: SGD10.00 Speaking to heterosexual and homosexual audiences alike, Sullivan takes on religions authorities and gay activists, talks candidly about his own promiscuity, risk-taking and the search for love; revisits Freud in the origins of homosexuality; and makes one of the most memorable modern cases for elevating the virtues of friendship over the two-edged satisfaction of love. Impassioned, challenging, honest and illuminating, Love Undetectable if an important book that is ultimately not about homosexuality or plague, but about humanity and morality.
	BR025	No Pic	Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience Karla Jay Deposit: SGD26.00 Refund: SGD16.00 A mix of serious and educational, this wide-ranging book provides a comprehensive view of the many rites and phases of lesbian life. Karla Jay, one of the lesbian community's best known writers and activists, has brought together essays by a fascinating group of lesbian and bisexual women of different ages, races and classes. In pieces discussing everything from coming out to commitment ceremonies, form sexual trends to nurturing the lesbian body, this authoritative collection gives vibrant voice to the diversity of lesbian experience.
	BR026		Hood Emma Donoghue Deposit: SGD26.00 Refund: SGD16.00 As an Irish convent school teenager in the late '70s, Pen O'Grady fell in love with Cara Wall. And although Cara was always engaged in unrequited love for other people, their unconventional relationship survives until their late twenties, when Cara dies in a car accident. Pen's narration covers the week of the funeral and fourteen years of baffling memories about Cara. This is a bittersweet, sexy, beautifully written tale about romance and loss.