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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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