Taylor Kent, now a celebrated artist, has spent the years trying to unsuccessfully forget the young woman who walked out of her life. Best friends forever, neither woman ever had the courage to speak of the passion they felt for one another. Now, an unusual but desperate request will throw the old friends together again. This time, will they be able to voice their unspoken desires, or has time become their enemy?

    But the tribal shaman has a vision that Anpo is wicakte - a two-souled person embodying both male and female spirits. She will become a great warrior and a great asset to her people. During a vision quest, Anpo finds that her life will be intertwined with the lives of a sacred white buffalo and a pale skinned woman with yellow hair, yet both will be wounded by her actions. Kathleen McGlashan Stevens has been captured by renegade Indians, and thrust into a terrifying and foreign culture where she must learn to survive. The sacred white buffalo brings Anpo and Kathleen together. As their relationship develops, Anpo wonders: Can she change her destiny, or is she fated to wound the woman she loves?

    Angel searches for freedom but instead finds pain and prison before finally reaching redemption.

    When her car is washed into a rising creek, it could be the last thing she does. Lexington (Lex) Walters has run the Rocking W Ranch for the last ten years, alone except for hired hands and her feisty housekeeper, Martha. She doesn’t have the time or inclination for dating, but when fate drops a beautiful woman into her path, how can she resist? With the bridge out of service and the weather against them, Lex and Amanda work together to take care of the ranch. When they stumble across a group of rustlers also stranded by the weather, will the stress destroy their budding relationship?

    Their destinies come together one fateful afternoon when the feared outlaw makes the choice to rescue a young woman in trouble. For her part, Josie Hunter considers the brief encounter at an end once the girl is safe, but Rebecca Cameron has other ideas...

    The book contains two stories. In Destiny's Bridge, Lexington (Lex) Walters pulls young realtor Amanda Cauble from a raging creek and the two women eventually forge a strong and lasting love. In Faith's Crossing, Amanda decides to move to Texas for good and she and Lex must determine how to tell Amanda's parents.

    As Betsy spends the last two weeks with her mother, she revisits their difficult relationship and unravels some of the hurt and anger.

    Using the occasion of her eightieth-birthday party to reflect on the past, Doris Grumbach delivers an enchanting memoir of the writers, friends, and loves who have accompanied her in mind and body through an extraordinary life of letters.

    The editors provide an in-depth analysis of the roots, heart, and spirit of this lively and largely lesbian circle of women which extends from the border of Northern California up the I-5 corridor through Eugene, Oregon.

    Headstrong, ambitious, intelligent and self-centered, she is used to everything always going her way. But when she falls in love with her brother's widow Janet, things are about to change. Life with Janet means settling down and domesticity, and Robbie finds herself jointly responsible for the parenting of a pair of dynamic and sometimes willful children. Family life brings new challenges - serious illness, abuse and kidnapping are just a few of the problems the Williams family must deal with. But through it all, two strong women find their way to a loving family and a supportive community.

    Asian American Studies. Anurima Banerji is an exciting new voice in Canadian poetry. Passionate and subtly exotic, keenly aware of Persian mystical love concepts, and with a trained eye on Hindu mythology, these supple new poems explore the territories of love, the longings of the body, and the pains of loss and exile. Born in Ottawa, the poet is now based in Montreal. ** Call to check inventory before ordering.

    These poems are pure eloquence, singing about queer love and desire, and a world of profound feeling, rough tenderness and passion. She is the author of Somebody Should Kiss You (Gynergy Books, 1988).

    When a local widow needs help on her ranch, she enlists Devlin to help her.

    This story of a native Indian poet living and writing in the West discusses class privilege and poverty, language and literacy, and the contradictions that make up the confusing patterns of her life.

    The second story continues the relationship of Megan and Tony, as they balance the demands of work, family, and a determined rogue agent who wants Tony silenced forever.

    The cards show fire, danger and death as family secrets converge when a woman seeks council for a murder not yet committed.

    The two stories here deal with elements of Robbie's career in film and Janet's education, and also examine the crises that occur in an average woman's life. "Seasons" focuses on the courage that it takes to be female and/or gay in today's society.

    Asking dangerous questions unearths some shocking truths.