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Fiction A.S. Byatt's Possession

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)

Fiction Alice Munroe's The Progress of Love

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Alix Berenzy's A Frog Prince

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Ann Copeland's Season of Apples

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996)

Fiction Anna Quindlen's One True Thing

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Anne Perry's The Face of a Stranger

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Anne Tyler's Ladder of Years

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction April Smith's North of Montana

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1996)

Fiction Audrey Wood's The Napping House

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction B.A. Chepaitis' The Fear Principle

Reviewed by Lynn Kane (Q1-2, 1999) (F)

Fiction Babette Cole's Princess Smartypants

Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)

Fiction Barbara F. Graham's Snow Job

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)

Fiction Barbara G. Walker's Amazon

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Non-Fiction Barbara Helen Berger's Grandfather Twilight

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Barbara Helen Berger's When the Sun Rose

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Barbara Quick's Northern Edge

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Beatrice Stone's The Sensual Thread

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)

Non-Fiction Betty Louise Bell's Faces in the Moon

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Bonnie Pryor's The Dream Jar

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction B. Reece Johnson's The Woman Who Knew Too Much

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1-2, 1999) (F)

Fiction Caitlin Sullivan and Kate Bornstein's Nearly Roadkill:
Fiction An Erotic Infobahn Adventure

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)

Fiction Carol Anshaw's Aquamarine

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Carol Guess' Seeing Dell

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996)

Fiction Carol Heyer's Illus. of Rapunzel

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)(F)

Fiction Coll Ela Goetz' The Day Cinderella Died

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)

Fiction Cynthia Ryland's Missing May

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Deborah Hopkinson's Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Debra Riggin Waugh's Ex-Lover Weird Shit:
Short Fiction, Poetry, and Cartoons by Lesbians and Gay Men

Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)

Fiction Diane Davidson's Deadly Gamble

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998)(F)

Fiction Diane Salvatore's Paxton Court

Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q4 1995)

Fiction Dodici Azpadu's Saturday Night in the Prime of Life

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1-2, 1999) (F)

Fiction Doreen Rappaport's The Journey of Meng

(Q1 1998)(F)

Fiction E. Annie Proulx's Postcards

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Edith Forbes' Alma Rose

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)

Fiction Edith Forbes' Nowle's Passing

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q1 1998)

Fiction Elizabeth Berg's Talk Before Sleep

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Elizabeth Pincus' The Hangdog Hustle

Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q1 1996)

Fiction Ellen Hart's A Killing Cure, a Jane Lawless Mystery

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Ellen Orleans'The Butches of Madison County

Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998)

Fiction Ellen Orleans' Can't Keep a Straight Face

Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998)

Fiction Ellen Orleans'Who Cares If It's a Choice

Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998)

Fiction Emily Arnold McCully's Mirette on the High Wire

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Eve Bunting's Secret Place

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Eve Bunting's Smokey Night

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)

Fiction Holly H. Kwon's The Moles and the Mireux

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Isabell Williams' Laurel

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996)

Fiction Jacqueline Woodson's Autobiography of a Family Photo

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Jane Mendelsohn I Was Amelia Earhart

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Jane Smiley's At Paradise Gate

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Jane Smiley's Barn Blind

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1996)

Fiction Jane Smiley's Moo

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Jane Yolen's Owl Moon

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Janell Cannon's Stellaluna

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Janell Cannon's Trupp

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Janet Lee James' One Particular Harbor

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1995)

Non-Fiction Jeanette Belliveau Beau's An Amateur's Guide to the Planet

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996) NF

Fiction Jennifer Fulton's Greener Than Grass

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)

Fiction Jo Dereske's Miss Zukas and the Library Murders

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Joyce Carol Oates' Foxfire

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Karen Marie Christa Minns'Bloodsong

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998)

Fiction Karen Saum's I Never Read Thoreau

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Kate Allen's Takes One to Know One

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Kathleen Alcalá's Spirits of the Ordinary: a tale of Casas Grandes

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Katherine E. Kreuter's Cloud Nine Affair

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998)

Fiction Kathryn Phillips' Tracking the Vanishing Frogs

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Kiana Davenport's Shark Dialogues

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Laura Adams' Night Vision

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998)

Fiction Lauren Wright Douglas' Death At Lavenderv Bay

Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q4 1996)

Fiction Leong Liew Geok's More than Half the Sky, Creative Writings by Thirty Singaporean Women

Reviewed by Lynn Kane (Q 1-2, 1999) (F)

Fiction Lierre Keith's Conditions of War

Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)

Fiction Lierre Keith's Skyler Gabriel

Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)

Fiction Linda Hill's Never Say Never

Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q4 1996)

Fiction Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson's Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Linda Hogan's Solar Storms

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1996)

Fiction Linda Smuckler's Home in three days. Don't wash

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998)

Fiction Lois Lowry's The Giver

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorksogian Series

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Mabel Maney's The Nancy Clue Series

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)

Fiction Marcie Hershman's Tales of the Master Race

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Non-Fiction Mary Logue's Still Explosion: a Laura Malloy Mystery

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Nancy Garden's Annie On My Mind

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)

Fiction Nancy Sanra's No Escape

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q 1-2, 1999) (F)

Fiction Nisa Donnelly's The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)

Fiction Nanci Little's Grass Widow

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)

Fiction Nanci Little's Thin Fire

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)

Fiction Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1996)

Fiction Octavia Butler's Blood Child

Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q1 1996)

Fiction Octavia Butler's Dawn

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Pat Murphy's Nadya

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Pat Murphy's Points of Departure

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Paula Martinac's Chicken

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998)

Fiction Paula Martinac's Out of Time

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)

Fiction Penny Hayes' Kathleen O'Donald

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)

Fiction Robin Mather's A Garden of Unearthly Delights: Bioengineering and the Future of Food

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1998) (F)

Fiction Rochelle Hollander Schwab's In A Family Way

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)

Fiction Rosellen Brown's Before and After

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Ruthann Robson's Another Mother

Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)

Fiction Ruth Sanderson's Papa Gatto, An Italian Fairy Tale

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Non-FictionSadia Carone's Circle Words

Reviewed by Lynn Kane (Q 1-2, 1999) (F)

Fiction Sara Maitland's Ancestral Truths

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998)

Fiction Sarah Van Arsdale's Toward Amnesia

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998)

Fiction Sarah Shankman's She Walks in Beauty

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1995)

Fiction Sarah Smith's The Knowledge of Water

Reviewed by Carol McPhee (Q4 1996)

Fiction Sharyn McCrumb's She Walks These Hills

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Shauna Singh Baldwin's English Lessons and Other Stories

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996)

Fiction Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996)

Fiction Sheri S. Tepper's Raising the Stones

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996)

Fiction Stella Duffy's Wavewalker

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996)

Fiction Susan Fox Rogers', ed. Close Calls: New Lesbian Fiction

Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998)

Fiction Stevie Rios' Playing For Keeps

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)

Fiction Susan Stinson's Fat Girl Dances with Rocks

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)

Fiction Susan Stinson's Martha Moody

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Susan Wittig Albert's Witches Bane

Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)

Fiction Suzy McKee Charnas's The Furies

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)

Fiction Vanna Bonta's Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996)


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