After coming to Dublin to study at the University, sharing a flat with two eccentric women, and becoming infatuated with a man who turns out to be gay, a teenage Irish girl discovers she is a lesbian. National ad/promo. Tour.

Stir-Fry: A Novel

DONOGHUE, EMMA

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Attending the funeral of her lesbian lover, Pen O'Grady recalls their turbulent fourteen-year relationship, which encompassed shared terms in convent school, Cara's personality oddities, and bittersweet infidelities.

Hood

Contemporary

Where previous historians have concluded that a combination of censorship and ignorance excluded lesbian experience from written history before our era, Emma Donoghue has decisively proved otherwise. She dispels the myth that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century lesbian culture was rarely registered in language and that lesbians of this period had no words with which to describe themselves. Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women was a subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a "hermaphrodite," revered as a "romantic friend," or jailed as a "female husband." By examining a wealth of new medical, legal, and erotic source material, and rereading the classics of English literature, Emma Donoghue has uncovered narratives of an astonishing range of lesbian and bisexual identities in Britain between 1668 and 1801. Female pirates and spiritual mentors, chambermaids and queens, poets and prostitutes, country idylls and whipping clubs all take their place in her intriguing panorama of lesbian lives and loves.

Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

History

Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperTeen

The noted lesbian and author of Hood adds new twists to thirteen age-old fairy tales, including the story of a Cinderella who forsakes her handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother.

Children's Books

Stir-Fry

Perennial

An examination of eighteenth-century lesbian culture reveals previously overlooked lesbian identities in Britain and covers such topics as group sex and sadomasochism

A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an accidental romance." And a forgotten mother writes a poignant letter to the teenage daughter she hasn't seen for fourteen years.
Poised between the past and the future are the stories of now. In nontraditional narratives, short stories, and brief graphics, tales of anticipation and regret, eagerness and confusion present distinctively modern views of love, sexuality, and gender identification. Together, they reflect the vibrant possibilities available for young people learning to love others—and themselves—in today's multifaceted and quickly changing world.

How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity

LEVITHAN, DAVID

Cart, Michael

Koertge, Ron

Boylan, Jennifer Finney

Block, Francesca Lia

Shanower, Eric

Peters, Julie Anne

Sleater, William

How Beautiful the Ordinary

Teen & Young Adult

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room,Emma Donoghue, Hood is a graceful tale of a young woman who must come toterms with love and loss in the wake of her partner’s sudden passing. The NewYork Times Book Review calls Hood “utterly charming,” writing that,“Ms. Donoghue displays her confidence by avoiding the grandiose and the showy,and dipping into the ordinary with control and the occasional sustainingdescriptive flashes of a born writer.” For readers of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and JoyceCarol Oates’s The Widow’s Story, Donoghue’s Hood is a masterfullycrafted narrative of relationships and a daring, deft exploration of the love’simperfection—and how it can nonetheless dominate our lives as we grow andchange.

Hood: A Novel

Literary

Harper-perennial

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Stir-Fry: A Novel

Hood

Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Stir-Fry

Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity

How Beautiful the Ordinary

Hood: A Novel