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A Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019

"Ghost Wall has subtlety, wit, and the force of a rock to the head: an instant classic."
--Emma Donoghue, author of Room

"A worthy match for 3 a.m. disquiet, a book that evoked existential dread, but contained it, beautifully, like a shipwreck in a bottle."
--Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker

A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior

The light blinds you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.

For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie's father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs--particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind.

The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?

A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the "primitive minds" of our ancestors.

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.

In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles' 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York.

Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist's life; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer's education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.

Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

Perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Helena Greer, Talia Samuels' debut sapphic romcom is about one woman who fake dates her friend...only to fall for his sister.

Margot Murray is a newly single, successful businesswoman with no interest in a cutesy seasonal romance after her breakup with her long-term girlfriend. Ben Gibson is an unlucky-in-love sweetheart in need of a woman to bring home for the holidays. Together, they make a pact: Margot gets two blissful weeks away from London in a picture-perfect manor, and Ben gets a fake girlfriend for his holiday at home with his family.

Upon arriving to the manor, Margot meets Ben's sister, Ellie, who is suspicious of the supposed relationship right from the start. Ellie intends to get to the bottom of their relationship, not being able to see how the two of them work as a couple. As Ellie and Margot grow closer, will Ben and Margot be able to keep the charade up, or will Margot and Ellie risk the chance at something real?

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years

An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a fresh and assured new literary voice. The tale of a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of generational secrets, the novel follows her back to her family's origins, where ancestral clues begin to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire.

Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger--bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century. In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to visit Poland, hoping her family's mysteries will make more sense if she walks in the footsteps of her great-grandmother Mira, about whom no one speaks. What she finds will make her question not only her past and her future, but also her present.

Electric and sharply intimate, City of Laughter zigzags between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore, asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without leaving them behind.

Elsie's a small town with a lot of heart. Isn't that how most small town romance stories begin?

But this isn't any love story. These five stories cross paths and connections, age, gender, sexuality, and different kinds of relationships. Stories like that of Harriet, the owner of Twelfth Moon perfumery and adopted mother to her nephew, Nu. Harriet always figured she'd be single for the rest of her life, but Dela Atwater appearing in her shop one blustery autumn day sparks something within her. A bit of romance and longing she'd long thought buried.

And what about Nu, Harriet's nephew? He's quickly falling for Miles, who works in the coffee shop next door to Twelfth Moon. The shop is owned by Miles's brother, Jones, who has his own ideas about sex and lust and romance (or lack thereof). Across town, Maeve is learning how to exist as a widower but when they meet Evie, a spark is lit. And Yuri, Nu's best friend, is anxiously awaiting the holidays so he can see his girlfriend, Beckett, once more.

It's about hope and joy and queer love in so many shapes and forms, from the author of the dark fantasy/romance novel Wilderwood ("...will shatter readers' expectations with its bewitching complexities..." - The BookLife Prize).

Cynical and sardonic Eva Brooks ponders what it would take to be satisfied in life.

She fights against familial expectations, societal constraints, and her own desires. Landing herself in an unsatisfying marriage and conventional life, Eva realizes that she is gloomier than ever.

A reunion with Riley, the woman of her dreams, changes her life forever.

A future of happiness hovers on the horizon, beckoning her, calling her forever forwards.

Then reality strikes and it hits hard.

Doug, Eva's ex-husband, is not going to let Eva walk away easily. Just when Eva thinks she has it all, he puts their son in the care of his new wife, Lucy, a controlling, abusive and ever angry woman.

After trying unsuccessfully to protect her son via orthodox methods, life, and death, take a twist.

A ghostly turn of events has Eva trying to decide to what lengths she will go to protect her child.

Can Eva use her haunting new ability to help her son?

Emma Landry must now navigate life post-Bailey. The role she played in her ex-wife's untimely death still haunts her. Also, she needs to understand the mystery that is Morgan. A woman who came into her life at a most inopportune time. Emma is left pondering the reasons their lives intersected, and whether or not they truly belong together.

When these women start to explore the consequences of their decisions, everything changes.

You have to understand Jonathan is a demarcation in my life.

Morgan Hale was once free-spirited and fun-loving. She avoided serious relationships and falling in love. Until she met Jonathan. A tortured and mercurial writer who turned her world upside down.

There was my life before him. And the utter mess left in his wake.

Emma is left to figure out how the broken pieces of their shattered lives are meant to fit together as she learns through Morgan's story not only their lives' parallels but how love can be both destructive and rehabilitative.

Will the ghosts of Morgan's past drive Emma away or bring them closer together?

"Your eyes are amazing. I've never seen a blue like that."

Emma Landry is tough, independent, beautiful, and smart. Being an outcast unable to identify with her classmates, she was willing to do whatever it takes to climb her way out of poverty.

"What color would you say they are?"

Like Sapphire Blue

Having never known a mother's love, her father "Bear", raised her on the wrong side of the tracks in a wealthy town.

When success beckons, the woman she's been in love with is, finally, within her grasp. Life is now worth living and loving.

That is, until a dark family secret is revealed. A secret tied into the very fabric of who she is, and what she spent a lifetime working to overcome.

Faced with a foundation shattering treachery, Emma finds herself at the crossroads. Can she overcome a destiny stronger than death, destitution, and murder, to prove she is more than just her father's daughter? Or will this new knowledge lead her to destroy the world she's spent a lifetime building?

L'autrice best-seller de romances lesbiennes, Harper Bliss, vous invite à découvrir une histoire aussi délicieuse qu'interdite, sur l'amour impossible pour la personne qu'on ne devrait jamais aimer.

Kate est mariée à Kevin depuis dix ans, mais leur rêve brisé de devenir parents a fragilisé leur relation.

Alors que Kevin tente de se remettre en rénovant leur maison, Kate se retrouve à vivre dans la dépendance de sa belle-mère, passant beaucoup de temps avec Stella, la soeur gâtée de Kevin.

Stella se prépare pour une audition cruciale pour sa carrière, mais elle est heureuse d'accueillir son frère et sa femme-même si elle pense que Kate ne l'apprécie pas vraiment.

En l'absence de Kevin, Kate et Stella se rapprochent en partageant leurs coups de coeur secrets, en parlant de stars sexy du cinéma, et en allant à des fêtes glamour.

Jusqu'à ce qu'une nuit, après un peu trop de tequila, leur complicité dépasse les limites...

Procurez-vous votre exemplaire dès maintenant et suivez Kate et Stella dans leur aventure passionnante et inattendue vers l'amour !

Et si le plus beau rôle de sa vie, c'était d'être elle-même?

Ida Burton était la chérie d'Hollywood, jusqu'à ce que les meilleurs rôles commencent à se tarir à l'approche de la quarantaine.

Quand on lui propose l'un des rôles principaux dans une comédie romantique lesbienne à gros budget, ce n'est pas seulement une chance de donner un nouveau souffle à sa carrière. Ce film est peut-être l'occasion idéale d'enfin émerger du placard dans lequel elle s'est enfermée toute sa vie.

Faye Fleming est au sommet de sa carrière et remporte tous les prix depuis quelques années. Quand elle est choisie pour jouer aux côtés de la légendaire Ida Burton dans un blockbuster, elle est aux anges.

Ida et Faye sympathisent très rapidement et leur alchimie sur le plateau est incontournable...jusqu'au moment où leurs personnages s'embrassent pour la première fois.

Can you build a future if you don't let go of the past?

Louise Hamilton has returned to Sydney after her long term relationship broke down in Brisbane and she's loving her new job at Glow, Darlinghurst's freshly opened yoga studio. She's found new friends in her boss Amber and the gang at the Pink Bean and feels like her life is finally back on track. Until a figure from her past unexpectedly comes back to haunt her.

Mia Miller has just been hired as the Pink Bean's new manager. She's delighted to leave behind the corporate life and become part of a small business whose owners and patrons give her the sense of community and family she's been missing. When a Pink Bean customer catches her eye and she tries to establish a connection, her advances are met with nothing but indifference and disdain.

What happens when a dark past comes back to slap you in the face? And can people ever truly move on from a deeply traumatizing experience? Find out in this new installment of best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss' Pink Bean series. Every book in this series can be read as a stand-alone without having read the other instalments.

Building walls around your heart is easier than breaking them down

Katherine Jones has said goodbye to her job as a luxury lesbian escort to embark on a new adventure. She's opening a new Pink Bean coffee shop with her best friend Rocco.

To renovate the space for their new venture they've hired Rocco's aunt, Hera Walker. It's Hera's first job since the sudden death of her long-term partner and she's finding it hard to reconnect with her old life. The fact that her first new client is a former call girl doesn't help.

Can Hera overcome her prejudices and see Katherine for the person she truly is? And will Katherine be able to break down the wall Hera has built around herself?

Find out in this long-awaited new instalment of Harper Bliss's thought-provoking Pink Bean series!

True love deserves a second chance.

Leigh Sterling and Jodie Whitehouse share a passionate connection. Unfortunately, their differing visions of the future force them apart. Life goes on, but their attempts at other relationships fail to measure up to the love they once shared.

When they see each other again after more than a decade apart, they realize they may be soulmates. Can they ever find their way back to one another?

Find out in this emotional and passionate novel by best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss.

For fans of second chance romance! This special Deluxe Edition contains additional short stories about former lovers finding their way back to each other:

I Still Remember

No Greater Love Than Mine

Lovely Rita