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Carol Anne Douglas

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Carol Anne Douglas is a writer of novels and plays. In her lalest novel, Choosing Yellowstone, she looks at a long-term couple who make different choices and have to live with the consequences. In her novel Sister Matthew and Sister Rose: Novices in Love, Douglas revists her Catholic girlhood. She also passionately loves the Arthurian legends and the works of Shakespeare, and has used them as the basis of her own fiction. Her Arthurian books are Lancelot Her Story and Lancelot and Guinevere, in which Lancelot is a woman in disguise. Her young adult novels, Merlin's Shakespeare and The Mercutio Problem, are about a teen-age girl's time travels to Shakespeare's world.

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Lancelot: Her Story

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Lancelot and Guinevere

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Choosing Yellowstone

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To the Cleveland Station

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My Favorite Books of 2025

 These are my favorites of the books I read this year. They weren’t all published this year.

The outstanding book I read this year reads like a novel, but it is autobiographical: The Postcard by Anne Berest. It’s the story of a French Jewish family that gets a postcard in the mail in 2003 containing only the first names of family members who were killed in the Shoah. The family seeks to learn who s Read more of this blog post »
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Rip Tide by Elena Graf
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It's impressive that Elena Graf has developed the Hobbs series, Rip Tide being it's 11th book. The characters are well drawn and they deal with pressing issues. In the wake of a school shooting in the last book, Rip Tide looks at trauma and gun contr ...more
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At Sea on the Range by Josephine  Alexander
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This is the story of a Jo, young woman from a "good family," educated at Berkeley, who goes to the Southwest to soothe the pangs of a relationship gone wrong. She falls in love with a much less schooled man, Harry Alexander, a dairy farmer. They marr ...more
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The Hum of Bees by Patricia  Spencer
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The Hum of Bees is the story of a lesbian, though celibate, bishop (of an unspecified, imaginary denomination) who is fleeing from Victoria to an isolated part of Ontario to cope with troubles she is facing because she discovered and disclosed sex ab ...more
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Her Last Secret by Renee Bess
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This is the story of Vera, a Black woman just out of college who longs to be a writer. The time is 1936. Her aunt, Vangie, who has lived in Paris for many years, urges Vera to visit. Vera knows her aunt is a lesbian, which is exciting because Vera re ...more
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Timing Is Everything by Alison R. Solomon
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A Talent Within by Suzanne Lenoir
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This is the beautifully rendered story of a world based on medieval Europe. One of the main characters is Evelyne, a high-born lady who wants to become one of her father's knights, but is blocked at every turn and told she is destined for an arranged ...more
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The Papercutter by Cindy Rizzo
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I'm dazzled by Cindy Rizzo's The Papercutter. It's a story in which the Red and Blue states have split into separate countries. Ohio is split into North Ohio and South Ohio. The protagonists are Jewish, mostly in their late teens. The Blue State -- U ...more
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“Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action”
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