Books like Closer to home by Elizabeth Reba Weise

In 1964 South Carolina, Lily Owens, grieving her mother’s death, seeks refuge with a fierce stand‑in mother and a trio of black beekeeping sisters who open her to the secret world of bees, honey, and healing.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

When a mysterious psychic arrives in 1969 Lower East Side, New York, four siblings learn the day they will die, setting off a life‑long quest that tests fate, choice, family and the search for meaning.

A biomythography of the author's experiences and relationships with women, based on her childhood in Barbados and New York City, exploring themes of sexuality and identity among African American lesbians.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

A collection of Audre Lorde's non-fiction prose, focusing on her commitment to progressive social change and marginalized communities, presented for the first time in print.

"In a society supposedly grown more open and accepting in the wake of Stonewall, women’s liberation, and AIDS activism, what can it mean that bisexuality continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures and dismissed as either a phase or, worse, a cop-out? With intimacy and humor, the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual and the struggle she has undergone to reconcile the privilege she has garnered as a women who is perceived as straight with the empowerment and satisfaction she’s derived from her relationships with women. Part memoir, part pop-culture study, part feminist theory, Look Both Ways is a compelling and current examination of bisexual lives lived secretly and openly and an exploration of the lessons learned by writers, artists, an activists who have refused the either/or paradigm defended by both the gay and straight communities." --Back cover

Judith C. Brown’s *Immodest Acts* chronicles the rise and fall of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, whose visions, investigated supernaturally, led to the earliest documented lesbian affair in modern Western history.

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