Find of the Month
The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald, HarperCollins, $26.95 and Fall on Your Knees, Scribner, $14

Holiday Reading
The Funny Thing Is, Ellen Degeneres, Simon & Schuster, $23; audio: cassette $26, CD $30
Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do, Pearl Cleage, Ballantine Books/One World, $23.95 and What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day, $13, Avon
Angel, Anita Mason, and The Racket, The Yellow Cathedral, and Perfection, all $14, from Spinsters Ink

Visual
Women Seeing Women: A Pictorial History of Women’s Photography, Lothar Schirmer, $65 cloth, Norton
Red Threads, Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon, $24 paper, Diva

Pulps
From Cleis Press:
   Beebo Brinker, Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, and Journey to a Woman, all by Ann Bannon, $12.95
   Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, Marijane Meaker, $14.95
Femme Fatales series from The Feminist Press:
   The Girls in 3-B, Valerie Taylor, $13.95
   Skyscraper, Faith Baldwin, $14.95
   In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes, $14.95
From Kensington:
   Twilight Girls and Another Kind of Love, Paula Christian, $15

Books to Make Time For
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle, Lois Banner, $30, Knopf/Random House
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, John D’Emilio, $35, The Free Press
Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin, Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, $16.95, Cleis Press
After Shock: September 11, 2001: Global Feminist Perspectives, Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter, $18.95, Raincoast
War Talk, Arundhati Roy, $12, South End Press
Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls, Stephanie Wellen Levine, $26.95, New York University Press

What They’re Reading at Boadecia’s
The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald, $26.95, HarperCollins and Fall On Your Knees, $14, Scribner
Love Ruins Everything, Karen X. Tulchinsky, $14.95 and Love and Other Ruins, 15.95, both from Press Gang/Raincoast
Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman, Sourcebooks, $24
American Woman, Susan Choi, HarperCollins, $24.95
Final Girl, Daphne Gottlieb, Soft Skull Press, $12
They Say She Tastes Like Honey, Michelle Sawyer, Alyson, $13.95
Dear First Love, Zoe Valdes, HarperCollins, $12.95

The Crime Scene
Katherine V. Forrest: Amateur City, Murder at the Nightwood Bar, Murder by Tradition, and The Beverly Malibu, Alyson Press, $12.95 each
Liberty Square, Apparition Alley and Sleeping Bones, $13, Berkley/Prime Crime
Blood Link, Claire McNab, $12.95, Bella Books
A Sudden Loss of Serenity, Jacqueline Wallen, $12.95, New Victoria
Lauren Maddison: Epitaph for an Angel, $14.95, Deceptions, $13.95, Witchfire, $13.95, and Death by Prophecy, $14.95, all from Alyson
Stella Duffy: Calendar Girl, WaveWalker, Beneath the Blonde, $12 each and Fresh Flesh, $13, all published in the U.S by Serpent's Tail
Elizabeth Sims: Damn Straight and Holy Hell, both $13.95 from Alyson
Blacklist, Sara Paretsky, $24.95, Putnam
Cara Black: Murder in the Marais, Murder in Belleville, Murder in the Sentier, $13 each, and Murder in the Bastille, $23, all published by Soho Press
Charlotte Carter: Rhode Island Red, Coq au Vin, Drumstick, and Walking Bones, from Serpents Tail or Warner, Jackson Park, $12.95, One World/Ballantine
Paula L. Woods: Inner City Blues, $6.99, Fawcett, Stormy Weather, $6.99, One World/Ballantine, and Dirty Laundry, $23.95, One World/Random House

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