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  Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World

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  • Posted:Nov-28-2006

  • Lesbians
  • I think all women should be able to decide how to live their lives and raise their children, whether with another woman, a man, both, or neither. Baby steps provides an alternative way to get...
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As the debate escalates over same-sex marriage and a constitutional marriage amendment, you typically hear about... more

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  Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting

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  • Posted:Jun-15-2009

  • Read this book!
  • Stanton nails it! This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the attack on family that is taking place in the US today!
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  • Posted:May-25-2006

  • Marriage natural?
  • If this author did his research he would know that marriage has changed throughout history and it is a social construct. A good book to read is "Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or...
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The stunning third novel from acclaimed author Eric Goodman is the story of a middle class family: college professors... more

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  Child Of My Right Hand

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  • Posted:Feb-03-2009

  • Looking at the Teen Mind
  • Goodman, Eric. "Child of My Right Hand", Sourcebooks Landmark, 2004.
    
    Looking at the Teen Mind
    
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This unique baby book was was created especially for single parent and gay/lesbian families celebrating the birth of... more

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  And Then There Was Me

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  • Posted:Sep-18-2009

  • Yuck
  • I could have made a better baby book than this one, and I am not known for my craft skills. The outside cover is a cheap white photo album with gold letters on it. The inside has white paper that...
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  • It made me happy...
  • I don't know why people say this baby book looks cheap because it is actually quite nice. This is great for any type of family including single parent, gay, egg donor, surogate mother, etc. All...
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"Behind the Moon is a satisfying, original and thought-provoking pleasure."-Good Reading Magazine "Neatly balanc[es]... more

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  Behind the Moon

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  • Posted:Jun-07-2008

  • A multicultural, multigenerational story of acceptance
  • This is the story of three friends and their families. This trio consists of "multicultural rejects"; Justin "Jay" is the gay child of Chinese immigrants; Tien Ho, conceived out-of-wedlock during...
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In the tradition of Michael Cunningham?s The Hours, a beautiful novel destined to become a classic Reeling from... more

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  Grief: A Novel

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  • Posted:Feb-08-2009

  • In Grief, Holleran summons voices from the past as he handles grief masterfully..
  • The narrator in Andrew Holleran's sparse novella, goes to Washington, D. C. at the suggestion of a old friend, Frank. He will to teach literature for a semester in an unnamed school and rents a...
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  • Posted:Dec-30-2007

  • Mourning can be such fun...
  • I have a hunch that the novel was meant to make readers experience the grief of the main character. It gave me grief instead.
    If you're looking for the Holleran who wrote The Dancer from the...
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  • Grief and AIDs
  • This book was listed among the Washington Post's best fiction books of 2006. The writeup appealed to me because I lived in the Washington, DC area for nearly 40 years, and this is the setting for...
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Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky, some pet fish, and two moms who think he's the greatest kid ever. And he... more

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  Between Mom and Jo

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  • Posted:Aug-20-2009

  • Great story! Highly recommended...
  • I stumbled across this book at the library and didn't know what the storyline was about. Originally I thought this was a story of divorce between a Mom and Dad (Jo); but what a beautiful story...
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  • Posted:Oct-23-2006

  • Stuck in the Middle
  • What happens when your parents break up? What if they were not married in the eyes of the law, and one of them has no biological or legal claim to you?
    
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Written with humor and insight by a mom who herself rode the conception roller coaster, The Ultimate Guide to... more

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  The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from...

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  • Posted:Jan-31-2009

  • Nice place to start...
  • Some really good information. She doesn't go into extreme depths in most topics, but does suggest other places to get that information.
    
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What happens when a seventeen-year-old Chicana from South Texas is dropped into the rarefied ambience of an Ivy... more

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  Of Two Minds

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  • Posted:May-30-2007

  • Beautifully written.
  • Sylvia Madrigal has crafted an engaging tale with vivid imagery, profound emotion and rare introspection. Beautifully written, Of Two Minds is an entertaining, satisfying read.
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From sharply contrasting families, two Montreal adolescents, Paul and Gilles, discover each other and... more

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In contemporary San Francisco, an extended family is transformed by the emerging breakdown of a troubled adolescent... more

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  A Seahorse Year: A Novel

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  • Posted:Nov-07-2007

  • (4 1/2 stars) An excellent novel
  • "You know what I keep thinking? How a family becomes a family when it falls apart. I feel like we know who we are to one another now." says Nan to her partner Marina and to Hal, her son's gay...
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  • good base to story, flags somewhat as goes on, good close
  • A Seahorse Year sounds from its premise as if it's trying a bit too hard: lesbian mother raised in abusive household raising about-to-be-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia adolescent son with the help...
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Paul Russell's delicately layered, richly textured novels have won him widespread acclaim as one of the finest... more

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  Sea of Tranquillity

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  • Posted:Sep-14-2008

  • Awesom book
  • if your gay or interested in the lifestyle this is the book for you....great book
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  • Posted:Sep-21-2004

  • My own view.
  • Publisher's Weekly got it right in my opinion. The plot suffers from the disjointed narrative and long stylish descriptions.
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Navigating the Darwin Straits reintroduces some of the characters from Edith Forbes's Alma Rose, most notably Jordy... more

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  Navigating the Darwin Straits

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  • Posted:Apr-13-2004

  • Pretty good
  • I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It started off really great, with some incredibly funny parts about Jordy growing being the runt of the class and dealing with his Mom being a Lesbian and Grandma...
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  • The joys of being human
  • Jordy McNeil moves with his mom back to the small town where she grew up. He's always been picked upon, due to his small size and his habits, but when the kids find out his mom's a lesbian, then...
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Despite the sizable community of lesbian families in America, lesbian mothers and their children continue to face... more

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What makes a family?The members of Ms. Marston's kindergarten class are cleaning and decorating their room for the... more

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  Molly's Family

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  • Posted:Jul-29-2009

  • Good for clasroom discussion
  • When my daughter was in 2nd grade, her teacher read this book to the class and then used it to open discussion about why a person might feel that their family was different. It turned out that...
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  • Posted:Jun-18-2007

  • For older kids
  • Bought it along with several other books to reassure my son with 2 lesbian mommies but it was too mature for him. I think this will be more understandable over age 6.
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  • Posted:May-19-2004

  • Why are two Moms always a problem?
  • Why are two Moms always presented as a problem? I have an 11 year old son and a 6 year old daughter. In Kindergarten neither of them even had the concept that having two Moms was bad or that one...
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What awaits lesbians at middle age?Midlife Lesbian Relationships explores the rich world of lesbian relationships at... more

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  Midlife Lesbian Relationships: Friends, Lovers, Children, and Parents

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  • One of the first (& only) books to address midlife lesbians
  • This is an interesting book that covers such topics as: the impact of midlife on the lesbian couple, friendships at midlife, taking care of dying parents, dating, chemical dependency and...
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Sandra Tate has it all. A very successful business, a penthouse apartment, and a beautiful girlfriend. And she is... more

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  Midas Touch

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  • Posted:Aug-24-2006

  • Golden touch with a heart
  • Midas touch was a little slow to start but after a while, I caught myself not wanting to put it down. You want to see Sandra happy and you will fall in love with Cory. You will enjoy most of the...
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David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual... more

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  The Lost Language of Cranes: A Novel

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  • Posted:Jun-02-2009

  • amatuerish
  • This was an excellent summary of a gay man's emotional development and it covers most aspect of the common experience of coming out. But I thought the writing far too amateurish to deserve the...
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  • A Gay Romance
  • I expected better based on the reviews I read. However, the reviews were fairly accurate in describing this book as a gay romance written fairly similarly to heterosexual formulae for this genre...
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When Hedonism can only Take you so Far...From the cruising spots of Boston to the gay tourist scene in Amsterdam,... more

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  The Limits of Pleasure

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  • Posted:Dec-20-2001

  • No Limits for the Pleasure
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When Hedonism can only Take you so Far...From the cruising spots of Boston to the gay tourist scene in Amsterdam,... more

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  The Limits of Pleasure

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  • No Limits for the Pleasure
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