Books like Leaving L.A. by Kate Christie

Celestial and Roy, a young couple embodying the American Dream, are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. Five years later, his conviction is overturned, forcing Celestial to confront the fractured life she must rebuild.

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

Marty Jamison's Broadway show may be a mistake when an unexpected meeting with author Liz Chandler brings the help she needs, but a young actress threatens to steal her lead role.

A tender romance between two lesbian partners confronting cancer and discovering hope together.

Harvard professor Jane, who vowed never to marry or have children, becomes unexpectedly pregnant and reexamines her commitment to motherhood amid a distant partner.

A contemporary romance set in Los Angeles, where an artist feels an uncanny, almost otherworldly connection with a charming baseball player, sparking a case of love, memory, and unexpected life changes.

"LGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry-- but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s? Most are vanishing from the calendar-- and from recent memory. The Disappearing L explores the rise and fall of the hugely popular women-only concerts, festivals, bookstores, and support spaces built by and for lesbians in the era of woman-identified activism. Through the stories unfolding in these chapters, anyone unfamiliar with the Michigan festival, Olivia Records, or the women?s bookstores once dotting the urban landscape will gain a better understanding of the era in which artists and activists first dared to celebrate lesbian lives. This book offers the backstory to the culture we are losing to mainstreaming and assimilation. Through interviews with older activists, it also responds to recent attacks on lesbian feminists who are being made to feel that they?ve hit their cultural expiration date.--P. [4] of cover.

In Los Angeles, three women navigate love, ambition, and desire across the West Coast, meeting PR reps, radio hosts, and competitive men as they face daring challenges and unexpected attractions.

The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.

Jenna McGovern, a fresh musical‑theater graduate, lands a pivotal role on a touring Broadway production and finds herself drawn to star costar Adrienne Kenyon, challenging her career ambitions and personal desires.