The Mermaid that Came Between Them
As a young boy visiting the seaside, Jacob met his first love: a mermaid named Claritha. Three decades later, as a divorced father of a college-age son and a writer of maritime adventure stories, Jacob renews his fantastical relationship with Claritha only to discover that his son has fallen in love with the same bedazzling siren.

Bird at My Window
Rosa Guy's powerful novel follows a
young and brilliant black man who wakes in a mental
hospital and is told he has assaulted his sister. Unable to
recall the circumstances that brought him to commit this
unthinkable act, he retraces his steps and reveals the
rich complexity of mid-twentieth-century Harlem and its
mothers, sons, and daughters whose aspirations prevail
and perish within both white and black America.

Girl Reel
A must-have for all film buffs, Girl Reel is a book about our relationship to popular culture- how media images both preview and rerun our own lives. By surveying images of women and lesbians in television and film over the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and chronicling the move of lesbian and gay issues from the margins to the mainstream, Bonnie Morris offers her own images of strong women, for a new generation of readers.