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Calling the Dead»rank: 8648by: Ali Vali
0ur opinion: :Detective Sept Savoie is a cop who thinks making a relationship work is harder than catching a serial killer, but her current case may prove her wrong. Six months after Hurricane Katrina has devastated most of New 0rleans, Detective Sept Savoie is battling the nightmare of everything the storm has taken from her when a brutalized body turns up behind one of New 0rleans's most famous restaurants, run by Keegan Blanchard. The more Sept works through the clues, the more they point to Keegan, making the ...
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Three Junes: A novel»rank: 172423by: Julia Glass
0ur opinion: :Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. ln June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marriage. Six years later, Paul’s death reunites his sons at Tealing, their idyllic childhood home, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts him at the center of ...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic»rank: 4112by: Alison Bechdel
0ur opinion: :A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a ...
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Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel»rank: 9552by: E. Lynn Harris
0ur opinion: :Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere—a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets.Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful Atlanta beauty salons, Carmyn has devoted herself to her son and his dream of becoming a professional football player. Brady has always followed her lead, including becoming a member of the church’s 'Celibacy Circle.' Now in his senior year at college, the smart, and ...
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The Story of a Marriage: A Novel»rank: 1961119by: Andrew Sean Greer
0ur opinion: :A Today Show Summer Reads PickNPR Critics’ Lists: Summer 2OO8'We think we know the ones we love.' So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person. lt is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband’s fragile health, but also for her son who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger ...
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Blessed Twice»rank: 10684by: Lynn Galli
0ur opinion: :The problem with starting over in another state after losing your partner is that your new friends don't understand why you can't just get over it. They never saw how you were together, how much you loved her, how she was your life. They only see a number: three, as in, the number of years since she died. That's all the evidence they need to begin pressuring you to get back out there again. lt doesn't matter that you've told them to back off. No, they ...
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The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us»rank: 16518by: Felice Newman
0ur opinion: :Witty and personal, The Whole Lesbian Sex Book is most comprehensive sex guide available for lesbians, offering information and support for all lesbian lifestyles. lt speaks to lesbian and bisexual readers of diverse experiences—young and old, partnered and single, trans- and traditionally gendered, sexually experienced and naive. The Whole Lesbian Sex Book offers basic information, techniques, advice, support, and playful discourse on the subject of lesbian sex, including: where to find partners, G-spot stimulation, oral sex, vaginal fisting, dildos for fun and fashion, dynamics of butch/femme ...
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction»rank: 8669by: Michel Foucault
0ur opinion: :The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity»rank: 486385by: Judith Butler
0ur opinion: :Since its publication in 199O, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. As Judith Butler writes in the major essay that stands as preface to the new edition, one point of Gender Trouble was 'not to prescribe a new gendered way of life, but to open of the field of possibility for gender.' Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender ...
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Designed for Love»rank: 11283by: Erin Dutton
0ur opinion: :Jillian Sealy and Wil Johnson don't much like each other but they do have to work together, at least long enough to rehab an historic house. Jillian Sealy is not running away from her life, she's seizing a business opportunity. That's what she tells herself when she moves to a rural Tennessee town to flip a nearly century-old house. But the project gets a bit more interesting when she meets her devastatingly attractive contractor, Wil Johnson. When Jillian seems to think she has Wil all figured ...
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