Julia Watts

UNHOLY MATRIMONYIf Kaitlin O'Herlihy got one more wedding invitation, she was going to scream. Suddenly everyone--including her grandmother--was getting married. It was making a shambles of her well-ordered existence. It had also brought a certain Brendan O'Herlihy back into her life, as the best man. That troublesome ex-husband of hers seemed to be everywhere, making a perfect nuisance of himself. He was as maddening and exciting as ever, and she could certainly do without any pesky reminders that he might be the best man for her.

Road to nightfall -- The Macauley circuit -- Sunrise on Mercury -- Warm man -- To see the invisible man -- Flies -- Passengers -- Nightwings -- Sundance -- Good news from the Vatican -- Capricorn games -- Born with the dead -- Schwartz between the galaxies -- The far side of the bell-shaped curve -- The Pope of the chimps -- Needle in a timestack -- Sailing to Byzantium -- Enter a soldier. Later: enter another -- Hunters in the forest -- Death do us part -- Beauty in the night -- The Millennium Express -- With Caesar in the underworld.

Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south. Their journey through the heart of the American South awakens both teens to the realization that there is a life waiting for them that is very different from what they have known and that the concept of family is more far-reaching than they had ever imagined.

To be honest, my friends were getting on my nerves. Here I was, trying to get my mind off a woman, and they bring me to a lesbian bar where they talk about nothing but lesbians and sex. It was like they were forcing me to think about the one thing didn't want to think about. As though I'd said, "Look, the only thing I don't want to think about is hippopotamuses," and so to distract me, they took me to the zoo. Okay, you're a lesbian. Now what??? That's the question that newly out Kentucky graduate student Jess Hamlin tries to answer In this heartwarming and hilarious account of her southern days and nights. From making and losing acquaintances, to finding and keeping real friends. Through bars and coffee houses, school and work. Surviving family drama and ex-lover trauma. Dealing with well-intentioned matchmakers and dates from hell. Having crushes and getting crushed. Coping — and sometimes not- coping. Falling in lust and, slowly, exquisitely, surrendering to love. In other words, all the stuff that dreams — and real lesbian lives — are made of. —Back cover

"Stop it Bev!" Huge tears were rolling down Andie's cheeks. "You're scaring me." "No. You're scaring me. When we moved in together seven years ago, I thought I was settling down with someone who had some personal integrity. I was obviously mistaken. Ever since we moved here, you've set up this big dividing line between your job and me. Your job's your public life, and I'm your dirty little secret!" When Bev's lover Andie receives an assistant professorship at a Christian-affiliated college, Bev does her best to be supportive. But she isn't too thrilled about the prospect of moving from Boston's lesbian ghetto to the small southern town of Morgan, Kentucky. Before she and Andie are even unpacked, a nosy neighbor is at the door with a welcoming cake and a basketful of personal questions. Bev is shocked when Andie tells the women that the two of them are cousins — and mortified when the woman promises to set them up with all the eligible men in town, beginning with her grandson Cricket, the local mortician. Thus begins a hilarious and heartwarming tale of lesbian culture shock, the resiliency of true love, and the maddening gap between coming out and being out. —Back cover

The anticipation of getting it for the first time... The confusion when it first arrives... The embarrassment of starting it when you're wearing your new white pants... The relief at its arrival when you feared you might be pregnant... The disappointment at its arrival when you hoped you might be pregnant... Perhaps the most universal of female experiences, menstruation is a fact of life for women of all cultures, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Yet surprisingly little writing has been published on the subject. In this groundbreaking anthology, women writers-both established and emerging voices—share poetry, essays, and short fiction that explores the monthly cycle which unites us all as women. Period. —Back cover

Presents the first ten issues of the comic book Green Arrow, in which the archer superhero comes back from the dead and is faced with several obstacles--including family adjustments--in his new life.