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  Range of Light - A Novel

  Valerie Miner

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  Two old friends who have not seen each other for decades spend a week hiking through the stunning scenery of California’s High Sierra Twenty-five years ago, a group of five high schoolers trekked through the High Sierra. Now, two of them—lesbian Kath and straight Adele—come back to repeat their journey and renew their friendship. In chapters that alternate between the women’s voices, they reveal their pasts, their thoughts, and their reactions both to the scenery and to each other. For Kath, the sublime topography of the Sierra is inspiring and invigorating. Adele is more trepidatious. Over the course of their journey up to High Country, old stories, tensions, dreams, and disappointments come to the surface.A unique study of the complexity of the bonds between women, this transporting book, written with elegance and restraint, is among Miner’s finest work.

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  The Friendly Young Ladies - A Novel

  Mary Renault

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  A wry romp through 1930s mores, social and sexualProgressive for its time as well as ours, The Friendly Young Ladies is a deftly witty comedy set in England between the wars. At eighteen, Elsie has had enough of life at her bickering parents’ Cornwall home. She decides to join up with her bohemian older sister, Leo, in the city. Leo’s life is full of surprises—not least her significant other, Helen, a beautiful nurse. As Elsie gets acquainted with Leo’s world, new characters—including a novelist and a doctor deluded enough to chase all three women at once—come into play. With acid humor and a supremely light touch, The Friendly Young Ladies colors in an unseen dimension of the 1930s.

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  One Bead at a Time

  Beverly Little Thunder, Sharron...

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  One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder’s narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page. Early in her story, Little Thunder recounts a dream from her early adulthood, “I stared at these lily pads for the longest time and I decided that there was one part of the pond that had lots of lily pads and no frogs. I said, ‘I want to go there because there’s lots of lily pads but no frogs and I like creating community.’” And create community she does. Little Thunder established the first and today, the only all-women’s Sundance in the world, securing a land base in the Green Mountains of Vermont for future generations of Indigenous women’s ceremony. She was active in the A.I.M. movement and she continues to practice and promote political and spiritual awareness for Indigenous women around the world. A truly remarkable visionary.

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  Koolaids

  Rabih Alameddine

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  “Daring, dazzling . . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by the National Book Award–nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman (The Seattle Times).   Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in America and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and their families during the 1980s and 1990s, this “absolutely brilliant” novel mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments (Amy Tan). Clips and quips, vignettes and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both the quick and the dead, all shine their combined lights to reveal the way we experience life today in the debut novel of the author Michael Chabon calls “one of our most daring writers.”   “A provocative, emotionally searing series of connected vignettes . . . For a nonlinear novel the images chosen retain a remarkable cohesion. Often sexually frank or jarringly violent, they merge into a graphic portrait of two cultures torn from the inside.” —Publishers Weekly   “[A] refreshing statement of honesty and endurance . . . Funny, brave, full of heart and willing to say things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics that have rarely been said so boldly or directly before.” —The Oregonian   “Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life.” —Yiyun Li  

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  Johnny Angel Hunter Boy Loves Boy

  John Williams

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  JOHNNY ANGEL HUNTER BOY LOVES BOY.This is the seventh book in the series, the first being JOHNNY ANGEL SPACE STATION QUARK BOY LOVES BOY, the second BEING JOHNNY ANGEL TIME BIT ELEMENT BOY LOVES BOY, the third being JOHNNY ANGEL SEA OF PROSPERITY BOY LOVES BOY, the forth being JOHNNY ANGEL BOOK OF NUMERS, the fifth being JOHNNY ANGEL PLANET SONST BOY LOVES BOY, the sixth being JOHNNY ANGEL GREEN ALIEN BOY LOVES BOY. All books deal with a boy loves boy backdrop to highly imaginative science fictionJohnny AngelStill on a tropical island on the legendry planet of Anama, Johnny is not fast enough to save William from a submerged water spout but the alien boy comes to his aid, using an equation in the book of numbers which sends them to a space ship factory, 20 miles of ships. The presence is detected by a killer drone and it seems Johnny’s love of his William may be his downfall.Mathew SomewayIn the morning Mathew has the luxury of remembering the events of the night before when a falling meteor sent up a tidal wave which descends on the yacht, threating the lives of all aboard. An alien boy appears, Virgil comes to Mathew’s and his friend’s aid, a boy who takes him to the world of underwater mer-folk in the form of boys and girls who take him in, something he is obliged to do for saving the yacht.Christopher CrossOnce again Chris is talked into joining Jules in the jungle. Hunter Frank Black is gone and his jungle hut broken into by the great apes but the trail leads far further afield, had the hunter discovered something more complex than the kings of the jungle, a secret base and ships long forgotten and lost.Simon SevensonThe boy Tuesday is still hard to understand but his technical genius cannot be denied, Simon watched as Tuesday modification of his model ship grows it in full size. Their solo flight brings them into conflict with air force fighters, seeing the prototype as a hostile and Simon will need all his skill to get them to safety.

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  Wherever is Your Heart - A...

  Anita Kelly

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  How long, exactly, had June been coming to Moonie's for the sole purpose of pining after the bartender?Long enough to know, probably, that there was no good reason for Mal Edwards, a bastion of stability and good sense, to see any kind of future with June anyway. Was it even fair to express feelings to a woman like that when June was barely around, on the road more than she wasn't?But as another Pride weekend approaches, June's fiftieth birthday and the eventual end of her long-haul trucking days loom in her mind, nestled against the memories of Moonie's nights gone by where it felt like June and Mal came close—close to something happening, something real. Until June would inevitably chicken out, and retreat once again to life on the road.It's time for June to finally figure out her next act. And if she's not brave enough to ask Mal Edwards to be part of it, she doesn't deserve her, anyway.After all. If you can't tell a butch you love her during Pride, when the hell can you?Contains mature themes.

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