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Author: Nicole Conn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781562800383
Category : Lesbians
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Two women, Claire and Noel, meet and fall in love on the Oregon coast.

Author: Nicole Conn
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1594936919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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From writer-director Nicole Conn, creator of the film which has captured lesbian hearts everywhere...the whole story. Every detail of the beautifully erotic, haunting tale of one woman's journey to herself. And of another woman's journey through fear to intimacy. Claire Jabrowski, weary of wandering through a maze of one-night stands...Dr. Noel Benedict, the therapist who cannot heal her own loss and despair...Two women who have paid a great price for their place in the world meet at a writer's colony on the brooding coast of Oregon. Follow their journey through strife and denial to heated courtship...to self-discovery...to intimacy... to love.

Author: Michael Patrick Lally
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519024817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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​A story of a young woman's journey through a life changing disaster. Sheltered and shy her whole life, she is suddenly faced not only with her own horrific challenges, but finds herself taking care of another person's life as well. Excerpt:As Claire peeked out of the door, a wisp of wind sent an old crumbled piece of paper by, startling her. It was within her reach, but she receded back into the doorway, suddenly bereft of the courage she had just a moment ago. She had felt such a strong, confident urge to go out of the door and walk away just seconds before, but the sound of that paper immediately made her mind think it was Joe, coming back early. The panic had filled her with adrenaline, and she suddenly felt weak from it. That urgent need had turned into paralyzing fear. 'It wasn't Joe, he can't be back yet. Calm down!', she encouraged herself. Words were one thing, but making her feet cross that threshold was another thing entirely. Another voice, this one inside her head, began 'It's OK Claire, you can try again tomorrow! Let's go back downstairs!'. She hated that voice, but it was the one that often brought her comfort. Claire had a two minute argument with herself before she stepped back from the door, closed it, and turned back to the stairs, back to that....place. She would never call it home.It was her hell. She reached the stair, looked back to the door to make sure she hadn't left or dropped anything that Joe would see, and then started down toward her room. She was absolutely forbidden from coming upstairs. The last time she had, having peeked out of the door that time as well, Joe had known it from a hair tie she had dropped right by the door by accident. He had beaten her so badly that she cried all that night, and her body had ached for a week. Claire had become more brave since that day two weeks prior, but not by much. But two months with Joe was to her an eternity, and the burning desire she had to escape and see what was left of the world outside was growing every day. She went down the stairs to the one room where she was allowed to go, to look outside the window, and stared at the bridge again. She could be halfway to it by now, she told herself, with no small amount of regret. 'Tomorrow, for sure, tomorrow'. She had felt the coolness of the wind when she had opened the door, and knew the cold weather wouldn't be far away. She did not want to be traveling when the snow came.Claire could not stand to stare at the bridge any longer that day. To her it was everything, and nothing, since she couldn't bring out the courage in herself to do it. The world beyond it was uncertain, they had not seen a living soul since the wandering girl, Alyssa, over a month before. She didn't want to think about Alyssa either. For the time being, Claire needed to put away the things she had thrown into a travel bag, before Joe would come back and find it. She had been hiding some items that she would need for her escape a little at a time, in one of the many rooms in the old paper mill that was currently her home, food and water mostly, and fussed over it each day when Joe went out 'hunting'. She didn't have any personal belongings anymore, Joe had taken all of her things, but she had managed to hide one item, a picture of her boyfriend. She had grabbed it from on top of the TV at her apartment on the way out the day of the event. Joe didn't know she had it, and thankfully she had been able to hide it. It was the only thing she had left from her old life, and she prayed and hoped that she would find her boyfriend again. That he had made it through like she had.

Author: Linda Blair
Publisher: LINDA RAE BLAIR
ISBN: 1439204683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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Driven into hiding by a murderer in an era when women had few options, could she survive? Chicago was a violent city. Could she keep her friends safe? Would she ever feel safe to love again?

Author: Linda Blair
Publisher: LINDA RAE BLAIR
ISBN: 143925222X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Three lives suffering from losses due to obsession disguised as love, betrayal, and murder. Their lives intersect in the early decades of twentieth-century Chicago. It wasn't the safest place to hide.

Author: Linda DeRosier
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813127017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman. DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. She remains unabashedly honest about and proud of her mountain heritage. Now a college professor, decades and notions removed from the creeks and hollows, DeRosier knows that her roots run deep in her memory and language and in her approach to the world. DeRosier describes an Appalachia of complexity and beauty rarely seen by outsiders. Hers was a close-knit world; she says she was probably eleven or twelve years old before she ever spoke to a stranger. She lovingly remembers the unscheduled, day-long visits to friends and family, when visitors cheerfully joined in the day's chores of stringing beans or bedding out sweet potatoes. No advance planning was needed for such trips. Residents of Two-Mile Creek were like family, and everyone was ""delighted to see each other wherever, whenever, and for however long."" Creeker is a story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present. It also recalls one woman's struggle to make and keep a sense of self while remaining loyal to the people and traditions that sustained her along life's way. Told with wit, candor, and zest, this is Linda Scott DeRosier's answer to the question familiar in Appalachia--""Who are your people?""

Author: Linda Rae Blair
Publisher: LINDA RAE BLAIR
ISBN: 1463541694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Part 3 of Ms. Blair's Chicago Trilogy, "Intersections: Love, Betrayal, Murder." Richard hales from a family of cops. Richard's father is murdered and he discovers his mother is sleeping with the man Richard believes is the killer. Unable to continue working on the same police force with his father's killer, Richard relocates to Chicago. A new job, a new friend, and a new love bring joy and challenges to his life. Chicago is not the best place for an honest cop in the early 20th century. Richard must work with and around a series of crooked mayors, police chiefs, and cops. Then there are the days of Capone, Moran, and the other hoods that made a cop's life interesting and certainly could make it shorter!

Author: Raya Morag
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052014692
Category : Defeat
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The burgeoning field of trauma and cinema is an exciting development within contemporary trauma studies. The author of this book describes the complex relationship between cinema and the trauma of defeat in war. An asymmetric and non-binary comparison of two test cases, post-World War II New German Cinema and post-Vietnam War American cinema, illuminates the indirect and intriguing ways these societies have dealt with the enormous psycho-cultural difficulty of acknowledging their defeat and understanding its manifold meanings. This book draws on psychoanalysis, masculinity studies, and corporeal feminism to explore the bodily experience of defeat. It examines themes and representations of body and sexuality to create a theoretical framework that reveals anew the link between defeated masculinity and nationalism. Building on an original analysis of such varied films as The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, The Tin Drum, and Paris Texas, the author suggests new criteria that highlight the characteristics of post-traumatic cinema.

Author: Kristen Zaleski
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190927097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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"It was a warm fall evening in Beijing when the idea for this book was born. Three social work academics, one Chinese and two Americans, discussed the state of the world for women in the 21st century and the longing for a text that could describe the struggles, and the successes of women in the fight for equity and safety throughout the world, on the table of Beijing style hotpot. As professors and feminist researchers, three of us share some similar but different research interests; Kristen's work is extensively on sexual violence in the United States; Annalisa, as a Philippine American Scholar, has been working on sex trafficking issues in Philippines and throughout the world; while Xiying, as a Chinese scholar with overseas training, has paid attention to dating violence, domestic violence, and school-bullying. Through the discussion, we found that though our research topics are different, the underlying issues of gender inequality and the surrounding social structures are similar, no matter the place on earth. A short time later, we invited Eugenia whose expertise on feminist global issues, and her being of mixed heritage and from Latin America, as well as her vast editorial experience, could help us make this book everything we knew it needed to be for maximum impact. We felt a compelling need to create a book in a collaborative spirit to include expert contributors that would provide a global lens to survey parts of the world - not just one region, one race, one voice- and study the intersectional issues of gender, race, class, culture, politics that arise in gender- based violence and the advocacy efforts to fight injustice and promote equality for women and girls, across the world"--

Author: Nicole Conn
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1642472980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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Lindsay Brennan is a Portland architect whose devotion to her work takes the place of other things in her life. Sondra Pinchot, an interior designer, has always depended on the comfort of alcohol. And Samantha, Sondra’s dutiful daughter, is trapped in an affair that’s become nothing but a habit. Now fate brings the three women together and their private addictions give way to deeper passions. But sometimes love can be an addiction too. Originally published by Simon & Schuster 1995.