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Love Shook My Heart 2 Jess Wells (Ed.) SGD26.80

The inescapable power of romantic attraction, enduring love and crushing heartbreak – these are the themes explored by the likes of Elana Dykewomon, Ruthann Robson, Karen X. Tulchinsky and M. Christian. Editor Jess Wells has brought together an assemblage of contemporary writing's brightest talents to map the terrain of lesbian love from flirtation to break-up, from passionate trysts to dead-end affairs, from sweet to bitter.
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Lesbian Pillow Book SGD60.00

This collection traces the elusive figure of the 'lesbian' from the ancient world to today. It states how lesbians appear in fact (via letters, diaries, medical pamphlets and case histories) and in fiction (through fables, poems and stories). Featured authors include Jane Bowles, George Sand, Djuna Barnes, Michael Field, Rosemary Manning and many others.
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The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories Margaret Reynolds (Ed.) SGD24.30

Including previously unpublished stories by Jeanette Winterson, Kathy Acker and Jayne Anne Phillips, this diverse collection also incorporates works by Virginia Woolf, Colette and Sara Maitland as well as stories by less widely known authors.
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Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction Joan Nestle & Naomie Holoch (Eds) SGD30.60 Out of Stock

From the editors of the popular Women on Women series comes a selection of stories from 27 different countries, exploring lesbian life in unfamiliar and often exotic climates. Featured authors include Dionne Brand, Emma Donoghue, Violette Leduc, Anchee Min, Shani Mootoo, Sylvia Molloy and Achy Obejas. A must for collectors.
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Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories Emma Donoghue (Ed) SGD34.40

This superb and most substantial collection of literary lesbian fiction gathered from right around the world includes several original works. Featured authors include Sara Maitland, Patricia Duncker, Dorothy Allison, Shani Mootoo and Jennifer Levin.
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Groundswell Emma Donoghue (Ed) SGD28.40

This superb and most substantial collection of literary lesbian fiction gathered from right around the world includes several original works. Featured authors include Sara Maitland, Patricia Duncker, Dorothy Allison, Shani Mootoo and Jennifer Levin.
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A Woman Like That edited by Joan Larkin SGD30.70 now SGD27.60

A Woman Like That is an incredible collection of extremely intelligent and fascinating coming out stories. Each of the writers here takes us on an adventure, albeit an often-harrowing adventure, into the world of their youth. These stories are much more than just biography, they are poetry, pure and unfettered. These authors are not hampered by the desire to be political correct, but only by the desire to tell some truth about their lives, and all are incredibly moving. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the stories kept getting better and better, even though I didn't think that was possible. The diversity of ages, races and geographic territory covered here further adds to this collection's fullness. Lest you think I mean there are token accounts, there are not. Each is fully developed and stands proudly on its own, as well as fitting in with the other works. Tristan Taormino's entry about visiting her queer father as a teenager, and her adventures with her first girlfriend, and Cecilia Tan's amusing and honest tale of her mother coping with (and celebrating) her bisexuality and erotic writing, are especially enjoyable reading.
These tales will be welcome comfort to the lesbian or bisexual reader, but also to any teenager or other person who has every felt alienated, or who simply enjoys biography. The fact that this collection's contributors are all established, published writers adds both fascination to their stories and a quality of writing that is very welcome. These stories stay in the mind long after one closes the book.
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Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Other Plays: The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset Charles Busch SGD29.70

Charles Busch is renowned for weaving popular culture, wicked camp humor, and biting social satire into an unusual and uproarious theatrical signature that has earned him the Outer Critics' John Gassner Award for Playwrighting and a Drama Desk Award for Best Play nomination. Of his latest play, The New York Times has written, "Uproarious ... wall-to-wall laughs ... Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream and stays comfortably afloat there." Busch is the author of such plays as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom -- one of the longest-running plays in Off-Broadway history -- and Psycho Beach Party, a cross between Gidget and Spellbound. After a successful Off-Broadway run at New York City's Manhattan Theater Club, Busch moves to Broadway with The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, a hilarious comedy about a self-absorbed Upper West Side doctor's wife whose life is devoted to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at the Museum of Modern Art, and evenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her world is shaken and transformed when a childhood friend makes an unexpected visit.
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Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire Merri Lisa Johnson 32.00 now SGD28.80

The feminist battles over pornography in the 1970s and '80s left Gen-X third-wave feminists with a complex set of questions, says Johnson. Why do women still settle for unsatisfying sex? What does a thoughtful feminist do about her politically incorrect fantasies? Is heterosexual romance incompatible with female self-determination? While some feminists might tackle these questions without mentioning any body parts, much less their own, the contributors to this racy volume make a great effort to speak honestly about their erotic experiences in intimate, jargon-free essays edited by Johnson, a former stripper with a Ph.D. in English. There are entries from women working as prostitutes and strippers, women into exhibitionism, self-mutilation, muscle-building, girl gang-banging even women working out the impulse toward heterosexual marriage. While no one claims to have definitive answers to the big questions, certain perspectives do emerge. Among them: desire is "both socially constructed and beyond social construction"; viewing sex as a performance a deliberate trying on of other roles can be empowering; anything that defies the traditional heterosexual rules of engagement be it wanting a spanking or masturbating to rape fantasies makes space for different sexualities; and, maybe most importantly, contradictions are okay even feminists don't have to make sense all the time. It's not for the straitlaced, but sex-positive feminists will find this a provocative, important anthology that speaks honestly to the question of pleasure and how to get it. (Mar. 15)Forecast: Jane should please readers of Nerve.com and forward-thinking Camille Paglia fans.
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Bending the Landscape: Horror - Original Gay and Lesbian Writing edited by Nicola Griffith, Stephen Pagel SGD31.40 now SGD28.60

Bending the Landscape: Horror brings together a tantalizing slew of truly horrifying tales guaranteed to provoke, entertain, and inspire fear in even the most seasoned horror aficionado. World-renowned fantasy author Nicola Griffith and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel have compiled an exciting array of never-before-published stories, from both talented newcomers and award-winning genre veterans.
In Kraig Blackwelder's "Coyote Love," a man wakes up in a stranger's bed, not knowing how he got there, after a drunken night out. Terror ensues as the reader is shown just how far a person is willing to go to deny reality. In "The WereSlut of Avenue A," Leslie What shows us that change is not always a good thing, as we witness what may or not be a transformation into something inhuman. These stories, written by writers both gay and straight, incite fear and spur thought, transporting the reader into realms of shock and dread.
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She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not Leslea Newman SGD30.90 now SGD27.90

Best known for her landmark children's book, Heather Has Two Mommies, Newman has also written books on writing and relationships, edited collections of poems and stories, and published her own fiction both for children and for adults. Here she offers 11 stories of "romantic fiction" that explore various aspects of lesbian relationships. She definitely pushes the envelope, touching on the theme of gender identity and role-playing in five of the stories. To readers familiar with the genre of lesbian fiction, some of these stories may feel curiously dated, as if they were written prior to the feminist movement. But subjects Newman visits loss of a partner, a brush with cancer, an affair with a professor, and a chance encounter on an airplane flight range widely enough to appeal to a large audience. Recommended for all gay/lesbian fiction collections.
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Moon Creek Road Elana Dykewomon SGD28.80

A collection of short stories that engages readers in not only the lesbian lifestyle, relationships, family issues, political concerns, but also the Jewishness of their lives. This is critical; we read to find our reflection, to validate our emotions, history, experiences, and dreams. Moon Creek Road will do that for the Jewish women who read it and will engage other lesbians because of its depth, creativity, and emotional exploration of lesbian relationships.
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Queer View Mirror 2: Lesbian & Gay Short Fiction edited by James C. Johnstone & Karen X. Tulchinsky SGD36.30

A bright and shiny follow-up to Queer View Mirror, the popular international anthology of lesbian and gay short fiction. These are snapshots of queer life that articulate, in one thousand words or less, different ways of the world. Their subject matter ranges the wide spectrum of gay experience, from first kisses to journeys home; moving stories of family and childhood, hot tales of furtive glances and one-night stands. Diverse and imaginative, these stories depict the pleasures and the politics of queer desire. Included in the collection are pieces by such well-known writers as Maureen Brady, Nisa Donnelly, Michael Thomas Ford, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Larissa Lai, Leslea Newman, Carol Queen, Patrick Roscoe, and Lawrence Schimel, the anthology acknowledges the common ground within the collective gay experience while at the same time celebrating its diversity.
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Absent Kisses Frances Gapper SGD28.70

From the "bed wife" who teaches medieval brides to make love, to the secretary whose mind turns to murder, these stories are the creations of an imagination that is by turns angelic and demonic. Frances Gapper's stories have been widely anthologized but are brought together here for the first time, with several fresh and surprising new tales. Elements of magic realism, fantasy, historical fiction, and English humor make up a delightful collection.
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Egret Helen Collins SGD36.30

Do you want to be titillated; do you want to be turned on; do you want to read a book you can't put down? Read Egret! Imagine being a young naive Midwesterner, lovely, talented, and you're a lesbian! Than you're Jodi. Jodi moves to NYC to find a place in the art world. What she finds are passions both painful and wonderful. She experiences conflict and acceptance in the gay world. And what about her art? You absolutely must read to find out.
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Girls Will Be Girls Leslea Newman SGD28.70 now SGD25.80

The 11 short stories and one novella in Girls Will Be Girls may satisfy, for the moment, Leslea Newman's large, enthusiastic readership, who will relish her arch humor in stories like "Eggs McMenopause," in which a woman of a certain age decides that the only way she can grasp the fact of her many shed eggs is by buying several hundred chicken eggs at the grocery store, a few dozen at a time, and distributing them around her small apartment. In the titular novella, Newman turns her attention to infidelity, hovering between the comic and the tragic as she describes the breakdown of a long and stable (read: static and dull) relationship between Gwen, a therapist, and her artist girlfriend, Didi, who "couldn't have asked for a more considerate lover. No, what she wanted was a less considerate lover.... A lover who didn't care if her teeth were brushed or if she was going to rip Didi's dress or ruin her brand new manicure." What happens when Gwen's handsome new client gets a look at Didi comes as no surprise, but Gwen's quirky revenge will keep the pages turning.
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Best Short Stories of Leslea Newman Leslea Newman SGD30.60

Spanning the years 1988 to 2002, a time when she published six collections of short fiction, this volume contains the very best of Leslea Newman, perhaps the most influential writer of lesbian fiction today. Included is the author's signature piece, "A Letter to Harvey Milk," wherein Harry Weinberg, a 77-year-old Holocaust survivor, takes a writing class during which he unearths memories that force both him and his writing teacher, a Jewish lesbian, to see their lives differently. Leslea Newman's stories cover a dazzling array of themes pertaining to contemporary lesbian life, including long-term relationships, one-night stands, family-of-origin angst, motherhood, friendships with gay men, AIDS, breast cancer, aging, loss, and bisexuality. Each story in this collection is told with the author's trademark wit, honesty, humor, and compassion.
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Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories Pam Keesey SGD30.60

In an erotic celebration of the lesbian vampire--the quintessential bad girl who defies all the rules--the most popular lesbian authors writing today, including Jewelle Gomez, Robbi Sommers, and Pat Califia, present ten compelling stories.
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Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) J. D. McClatchy SGD25.50

"Longing," "Looking," "Loving," "Ecstasy," "Anxiety," "Aftermath" Academy of American Poets chancellor and Yale Review editor J.D. McClatchy (Twenty Questions, etc.) has sorted 144 poems by the above suggestive categories in Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems. This pocket "Everyman" edition includes Sappho, Whitman, Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Auden, Muriel Rukeyser, Frank O'Hara and many others.

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