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From Issue #13:

The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, CA Tripp, $27 cloth, Free Press.
Yiddish With Dick and Jane, Ellis Weiner & Barbara Davilman $14.95, Little, Brown.
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983-2005, Margaret Atwood, $26 cloth, Carroll & Graf.

What They're Reading at InsightOut Book Club
Women's Bestsellers
1. All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker
2. Cat’s Eyewitness by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
3. As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir by Fay Jacobs
4. True Secrets of Lesbian Desire by Renate Stendhal
5. Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2005 edited by Nicole Foster
6. Dinah! Three Decades of Sex, Golf, and Rock 'n' Roll by Michele Kort
7. Dyke Drama: Your Guide to Getting Out Alive by Leslie Lange
8. Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion
9. The Intersection of Law and Desire by J.M. Redmann
10. Is Your Cat Gay? by Charles Kreloff & Patty Brown; Drawings by Victoria Roberts

Awards
The Orange & Whitbread Prizes
Orange Prize, the Whitbread Best Novel Award and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Eurasia Region of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize: Small Island, Andrea Levy, $14, St. Martin's.
Whitbread’s First Novel Award: Eve Green, Susan Fletcher, $23.95 cloth, Norton.

National Book Critics Circle Awards
Fiction: Gilead, Marilynne Robinson.
Poetry: The School Among the Ruins, Adrienne Rich.

The Alice B’s
Sarah Dreher
Katherine V. Forrest
Ellen Hart

Violet Quill Award
Through It Came Bright Colors, Trebor Healey.
The shortlisted titles were:
Naughty Little Secrets, Mary Wilbon
Half-Life, Aaron Krach
Van Allen's Ecstasy, Jim Tushinski
Father's Day, Philip Galanes
The View from Stalin's Head, Aaron Hamburger.

Stonewall Awards 2005
2005 Barbara Gittings Book Award in Literature:
The Master, Colm Tóibín, Scribner.
The other nominees were:
I Am My Own Wife: A Play, Doug Wright, Faber & Faber
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst,Bloomsbury
Luna, Julie Anne Peters, Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown
The Seahorse Year, Stacey D’Erasmo, Houghton Mifflin

The 2005 Israel Fishman Book Award for Nonfiction:
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People, Joan Roughgarden, University of California Press.
The other nominees were:
Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality, Patrick Moore, Beacon Press
Both: A Portrait in Two Parts, Douglas Crase, Pantheon
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris, Little, Brown
Warrior Poet: a Biography of Audre Lorde, Alexis DeVeaux, W.W. Norton

The Publishing Triangle Award Finalists Named
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Warrior Poet: A Life of Audre Lorde, Alexis De Veaux, W.W. Norton
Name All the Animals, Alison Smith, Scribner
Alice Walker: A Life, Evelyn C. White, W.W. Norton

The Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Male Poetry
Survivable World, Ron Mohring, Word Works
The Rest of Love, Carl Phillips, Farrar Straus Giroux
Cocktails, D. A. Powell, Graywolf

From Issue #14:

Of Kids and Moms and Moms Day
Antonio’s Card, Rigoberto Gonzalez, illustrated by Cecilia Concepcion Alvarez, $19.95 cloth, Children’s Book Press.
Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado, Gloria Anzaldua, $7.95 paper, Children’s Book Press.
Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y la llorona, Gloria Anzaldua, $7.95 paper, Children’s Book Press.
Mom and Mum Are Getting Married!, Ken Setterington, illustrated by Alice Priestley, $11.95 hardcover, Second Story Press.
Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be..., created by Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer, $9.95, http://www.girlsnotchicks.com.
Girls Are Not Chicks, Jacinta Bunnell, $5.95, http://www.girlsnotchicks.com.
Welcome to Our Family: A Baby Journal for LGBT Families, Sally Lindsay, illustrated by Laura Shepard, $24.95 hardcover, Two Lives Publishing.

Moms for Grown-Up Kids
The Milk of Human Kindness, edited by Lori L. Lake, $18.95 paper, Regal Crest Enterprises.
In the River Sweet, Patricia Henley, $14, Anchor/Random House.

The Collective Perspective
Leaving Home, Becoming Home: Girls and Women Write About the Search for Self, edited by Linda Bryant and Asha Khalia, $14.95 paper, Inner Light Publishing.
Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships, edited by Jacqueline S. Weinstock and Esther D. Rothblum, $19.95 pb, Harrington Park Press.

Making Change
Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism, by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, $14 paper, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Gay and Lesbian Rights Organizing: Community-Based Strategies, edited by Yolanda C. Padilla, PhD, LMISW, $24.95 paper, Haworth Press.
Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women, Maryanne Barakso, $18.95 paper, Cornell University Press.

More Resources for Change
Changing Corporate America from Inside Out, Nicole Raeburn, $22.95 paper, University of Minnesota Press.
Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market, Katherine Sender, $35 cloth, Columbia University Press.
The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights, Richard Mohr, $22.95 cloth, Columbia University Press.
City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia 1945-1972, Marc Stein, $22.95 paper, Temple University Press.
Good as New, translated/updated by John Henson, £13.99, O Books (UK).
Queers on Wheels: The Essential Guide for the Physically Disabled GLBTQ Community, Eva Sweeney, illustrated by Teresa Tunaley. Contact: Queers on Wheels, 1235 Charles St., Pasadena CA 91103; 629.578.0140.
Reclaiming Self, edited by Leslie M. Tutty and Carolyn Goard, $14.95, Fernwood Publishing.

A Few More Walks on the Academic Side
Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave, edited by Judith M. Glassgold and Suzanne Lasenza, $19.95 paper, Harrington Park Press.
Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An anthropological reader, edited by Jennifer Roberson, $29.95 paper, Blackwell.
Gay Religion, edited by Scott Thumma and Edward R. Gray, $28.95 paper, Rowman & Littlefield.
Journal of GLBT Family Studies: innovations in theory, research, and practice, edited by Jerry J. Bigner, PhD, $38 (indiv. subscription), Haworth/Harrington Park Press.

Friday Night Reads
Passion Bay, Jennifer Fulton, $14.95, Yellow Rose/Regal Crest.
Saving Grace, Jennifer Fulton, $15.95, Yellow Rose/Regal Crest.
The Sacred Shore, Jennifer Fulton, $15.95, Yellow Rose/Regal Crest.
A Guarded Heart, Jennifer Fulton, May 2005, $15.95, Yellow Rose/Regal Crest.
Sugar, Karin Kallmaker, $12.95, Bella.
Love Speaks Her Name, Laura DeHart Young, $12.95, Bella.
Shared Winds, Kenna White, $12.95, Bella.
Honor Guards, Radclyffe, $18.99 paper, Bold Strokes.
Justice in the Shadows, Radclyffe, $18.99 paper, BookEnds Press.

The Crime Scene
By Nan Cinnater
The Dead, Ingrid Black, $23.95 cloth, St. Martin’s.
The Kookaburra Gambit (Kylie Kendall series), Claire McNab, $13.95, Alyson.
Fall Guy (Carol Ashton series), Claire McNab, $12.95, Bella.
With or Without You, Lauren Sanders, $14.95, Akashic Books.
Kamikaze Lust, Lauren Sanders, $14.95, Akashic Books.
Most Wanted, Michele Martinez, $23.95 cloth, Morrow.
The Queen Jade, Yxta Maya Murray, $23.95 cloth, Rayo.
The Conquest, Yxta Maya Murray, $12.95, Rayo.
The Intelligencer, Leslie Silbert, $14.00, Washington Square.
Hard Truth, Nevada Barr, $24.95 cloth, Putnam.
High Country, Nevada Barr, $7.99, Berkley.
Monkeewrench, P.J. Tracy, $6.99, Signet.
Live Bait, P.J. Tracy, $7.50, Signet.
Dead Run, P.J. Tracy, $23.95 cloth, Putnam.
At Risk, Stella Rimington, $24.00 cloth, Knopf.
Now in Paper:
An Intimate Ghost, Ellen Hart, $13.95 Griffin.
The 37th Hour, Jodi Compton, $6.99, Dell.
Out, Natsuo Kirino, $12.95, Vintage.
Deception, Denise Mina, $13.95, Back Bay.
Garnethill, Denise Mina, $14.00, Carroll & Graf.
Exile, Denise Mina, $14.00, Carroll & Graf.
Birth Marks, Sarah Dunant, $12.00, Scribner.
Fatlands, Sarah Dunant, $12.00, Scribner.
Under My Skin, Sarah Dunant, $12.00, Scribner.
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant, $13.95, Random House.

Books To Watch Out For
A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell, $25.95 cloth, Random House.
Califia's Daughters, Leigh Richards (aka Laurie King), $6.99, Spectra.
The Curious Feminist: Searching for women in a new age of empire, Cynthia Enloe, $19.95 paper, University of California Press.
After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement, Cheryl Clarke, $21.95 paper, Rutgers University Press.
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska, $16.95, Cleis Press.
Melymbrosia, Virginia Woolf, $16.95, Cleis Press.
Visa for Avalon, Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman), $15, Paris Press.
February House, Sherill Tippins, $24 cloth, Houghton Mifflin.
On Trans-Gendering
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond, edited by Morty Diamond, 13.95, Manic D Press.
In a Queer Time & Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, Judith Halberstam, $19 paper, NYU Press.
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights, by Deborah Rudacille, $26 cloth, Pantheon/Random.
Lesbians in Sports and the Out of Doors
The Life of Helen Stephens: The Fulton Flash, Sharon Kinney Hanson, $29.50 hardcover, Southern Illinois University Press.
Coyote, Catherine Reid, $18 cloth, Houghton Mifflin.
Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, Ana Maria Spagna, $17.95 paper, Oregon State University Press.
The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight, Martha Ackmann, $13.95, Random House.
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain, Jennifer Jordan, $24.95, Morrow.
And back in inner space:
Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Midlife and Beyond, edited by Marilyn Sewell, $16, Beacon Press.
Not My Mother’s Sister: Generational Conflicts and Third-Wave Feminism, Astrid Henry, $19.95 paper, Indiana University Press.
That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, $16.95, Soft Skull Press.

Back in Print
The Other Side of Desire (which includes the novel, Amanda), Paula Christian, $15.00, Kensington.
A Letter to Harvey Milk, Lesléa Newman, $17.95 paperback, University of Wisconsin Press.

Now in Paperback
Name All the Animals: A Memoir, Alison Smith, $13, Scribner.
Fanny: A Fiction, Edmund White, 13.95, Ecco/HarperCollins.
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, John D’Emilio, $20, University of Chicago Press.
Gay Marriage: Why It is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, Jonathan Rauch, $12, Owl.
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings, Mary Oliver, $16, Da Capo/Perseus.
Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives, Anna Fels, $14, Anchor.

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