Happy Lesbian Housewife


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"A heartwarming reflection written with humor, wit and just the right amount of sarcasm, Lorraine Howell's fun and conversational style reels you in. Sit back and laugh as she shares what makes her "The Happy Lesbian Housewife." Jennie McNulty, Comedian, Co-host of LA Talk Radio show "Cathy is In, The Cathy DeBuono Show" and author of a weekly(ish) blog on Lesbian.com. With a partner named Sweetie, three grown children that are threatening to go into the witness protection program and a career as an adult entertainer, Lorraine Howell delivers a somber, no nonsense look at the difficulty of coming out late in life and how it has affected her poor, pitiful family...NOT! She really brings you a weight-loss book that guarantees that by simply reading her tome word for word, you will lose 25 pounds by the end. HA! Don't you wish? "Memoirs Of A Happy Lesbian Housewife - You Can't Make This Stuff Up. Seriously!" is truly a no-holds-barred, irreverent collection of stories looking at the late-blooming lesbian, Howell, and her hilarious take on life, love, friends, family and SEX! Nothing is off limits...Did we mention SEX? So hop on board and enjoy the ride. You will laugh and cry then laugh some more. Lorraine Howell's The Happy Lesbian Housewife, will not disappoint!




Her Neighbor's Wife


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At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.




Lies We Tell Ourselves


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Includes questions for discussions and an excerpt from another novel.




Wife Wants a Lesbian Erotica Affair


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Most women have secretly fantasized about having a sexual encounter with another woman. This erotic tale allows you to take a peek into a day with Ashley Brayton who prides herself on being a good housewife but has reached a point in her life where she is struggling between remaining loyal to her husband, Mark, by keeping her secret fantasies locked away in her mind or allowing the lusts of her heart to finally be unleashed. But Ashley is forced with choosing between her struggles quicker than expected when she encounters Jordyn, the new neighbor who just moved in across the street and is wasting no time with her attempts to seduce Ashley. In Volume 2 of the Wife Wants a Lesbian Erotica Affair series, we pick up where Volume 1 (Wife Wants a Woman) left off as we take a more extensive peek into the life of Ashley Brayton who has grown tired of playing the role of happy housewife for a man who doesn't appreciate her. And after a lifetime of keeping her attraction to women a secret - reserved exclusively for private fantasies - Ashley recently acted on the hidden desires of her heart when her lusts were unleashed by her hot new neighbor, Jordyn, who wasted no time with seducing Ashley; helping her realize just how badly she wants more of the same ...a lot more. As this erotic tale continues to unfold, Ashley finds answers to some of her questions - while many new ones surface - when she is introduced to a kinky type of foreplay that leaves her wanting to explore more of this newly discovered fantasy world full of endless opportunities to role-play. In Volume 3 of the Wife Wants a Lesbian Erotica Affair series, our story wastes no time as it picks up at the cliff-hanger where Volume 2 (Wife Wants Another Woman) left off. We continue to take a private peek into the married life of Ashley Brayton from a private front-row seat, as she continues her indulgence of guilty-pleasures with her beautiful neighbor, Jordyn, who unexpectedly introduces Ashley to her first all-girl threesome. But as Ashley's feelings begin growing rapidly stronger for Jill - an energetic open-minded beauty; full of new ideas - the sexual chemistry they share for one another reaches a new level when they develop an intimate emotional connection to go along with it. And just as Ashley fully accepts the fact that her marriage to Mark has been seriously lacking and she becomes comfortable with keeping secrets from him; believing that it's the only possible way for her to find complete satisfaction without hurting him, he throws her an unexpected curve-ball that has her second guessing her conclusions and rethinking her prior perception of their marriage as she is told about an entirely new type of lifestyle that plants the had never imagined she would ever consider ... until now.




Highland Dew


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A craft whisky trade show offers her inspiration and a chance to revisit Scotland and the majestic scenery of the Speyside region-best known for the "Whisky Trail." Bryce and her coworker, Reggie Ballard, need to find a wholly original whisky for their international distribution division by visiting a number of small distillers.




Recipe for a Perfect Wife


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In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question the foundation of her own relationship with her husband--and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society. When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home's basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook’s previous owner--1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the cookbook’s pages Nellie left clues about her life--including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother. Soon Alice learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secrets may have been anything but. When Alice uncovers a more sinister--even dangerous--side to Nellie’s marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with the mounting pressures in her own relationship, she begins to take control of her life and protect herself with a few secrets of her own.




The Perfect Wife


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This book tells the complete story of Laura Welch Bush. From Mrs. Bush's upbringing in West Texas to her whirlwind romance with George W. Bush, and role as a mother.




Twilight Girls


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Features two classic full-length novels following stewardess Val MacGregor as she loses her heart to passionate and caring Toni Molina, and comes to terms with her lifestyle in order to live and love with wild abandon.




Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life


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This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries. This ambivalence has a strong influence on their relational decisions as they deal with contradictions between family ties, filial piety and lesbianism. Based on individual and couple interviews with self-identified lesbian couples in stable relationships, the book offers vivid narratives of different ways in which Taiwanese lesbians have been able to make sense of their families without recognition by legislation or their families of origin. Specific issues in Taiwan raised in the book challenge the taken-for-granted understandings of same-sex relationships and review the dramatic transformations that have profoundly changed womens' position. It also offers a sensitive analysis of GLBT issues and heteronormativity, arguing that Chinese familialism can cohabite with lesbianism in the context of contemporary Taiwan.




The Home-maker


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Novel describes the problems of a family in which husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles that they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the ideal housekeeper, while her husband, Lester is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed; Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. The changes that take place between husband and wife and between parents and children are handled in a contemporary manner.