Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 21:17:14 EDT From: "Ellen Greenblatt" NEW VICTORIA PUBLISHERS -- SPRING 1995 CATALOG PO BOX 27 NORWICH VERMONT 05055 OR CALL 1-800 326 5297 EMAIL NEWVIC@TELECOMP.COM BAD COMPANY a Stoner McTavish Mystery by SARAH DREHER available June 1995 Stoner McTavish fans have been waiting (none too patiently) for her latest book, the sixth in the series. Stoner and Gwen investigate mysterious accidents, sabotage and menacing notes that threaten members of a feminist theater company. Are jealousy and resentment between ex- lovers motive enough to destroy a company which has worked together for years? As with all of Dreher's books this one is well-populated with interesting, funny characters and enough plot twists to make you dizzy, as Stone and Gwen work together to expose the culprit. "Sarah Dreher's endearing creation, Stoner McTavish, is on every list of beloved lesbian detectives." -- Bay Windows "The touchtone of Dreher's writing is her wit and her compassion for her characters ... I don't think I have ever read better or funnier dialogue anywhere." -- Visibilities An award-winning playwright and novelist who doubles as a psychotherapist and community activist in her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts, Sarah has an avid following. $19.95 hardcover ISBN 0-934678-67-7 $10.95 paper ISBN 0-934678-66-9 ALL THE WAYS HOME -- Parenting and Children in the Lesbian and Gay Communities -- A Collection of Short Fiction, Edited by Jo Schneiderman, Cindy Rizzo, Lisa Schweig, Jan Shafer, and Judith Stein. A unique collection by such well-known authors as Beth Brant, Ruthann Robson, Jane Rule, Julie Blackwomon, Jameson Currier, as well as budding young authors writing about the experience of being part of lesbian and gay families. "This is a powerful, inclusive collection, and oh so very real. We've been waiting a long time for a book like this." -- Irene Zahava, editor, _Lesbian Love Stories_. "Every family is knitted together by stories. This imaginative and compelling collection tells the stories that bind gay and lesbian families. They are stories we have never heard before. Millions of gay and lesbian parents, and their children, are living a quiet revolution simply by creating families. _All the Ways Home_ tells us of the courage, ordinariness, fears and trials of these families. In the process, it shatters the cultural divide between gay and lesbian people and the broader society." -- Urvashi Vaid, author of _Virtual Equality_ $10.95 paper ISBN 0-934678-65-0 $19.95 hardcover ISBN 0-934678-68-5 IF LOOKS COULD KILL a mystsery by FRANCES LUCAS Diana Mendoza, a Latina lesbian lawyer is a scriptwriter for a hot new TV show featuring a woman detective. While on location in LA she meets blonde actress Lauren Lytch. Intrigued by this enigmatic woman, Diana gets sucked into the ongoing drama of Lauren's life. When Lauren is accused of murdering her husband, Diana rushes to her defense, despite bitter protestations from her friend Pat to stay away from this Anglo. An entertaining mystery featuring a scriptwriter who finds herself in the middle of a plot she didn;t create. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-63-4 GIVE MY SECRETS BACK by KATE ALLEN A well-known author of steamy lesbian romances has just moved back to Denver when she is found dead in her bathtub. Suspecting foul play, cop Alison Kaine begins an off-duty investigation to find the chapters of her next book which are inexplicably missing, and may contain clues to her murder. Kate Allen, known for her earlier book, _Tell Me What You Like_, doesn't shrink from the heavy issues of s/m, the leather scene and pornography, but manages to do it with a light touch. Praise for her first in the Alison Kaine mystery series: "Erotic and fast-paced, a great read." "Presents issues facing the lesbian community with a humor and humanity seldom seen in books today." -- Bad Attitude $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-64-2 EVERY WOMAN'S DREAM by Leslea Newman New Victoria's second collection of stories by Leslea Newman combines a lively mix of newly written and previously published stories of lesbian life and love. As always, Newman brings a sharp yet playful style to these tales of sex, monogamy, fantasies, the future, and the possibility of lesbian motherhood. Who else can write about lesbian life through the story of a travelling sock? She's compassionate with her characters yet doesn't flinch from confronting hard issues faced by communities, gay and straight alike. Praise for her collection Secrets: "Sometimes Leslea Newman gets the voice so good and so right that the rest of the prose shines in the afterglow." -- Bay Windows "Newman is a remarkable writer, and this collection highlights her ability to create fully realized characters and compelling narrative." -- Bay Area Reporter $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-62-6 SPARKS MIGHT FLY by Cris Newport In this romantic first novel by Cris Newport, Philippa Martin, a former child prodigy grown into an exceptional concert pianist, discovers that her music and her muse are gone -- from her hands and from her heart -- driven away by her lover Corinne's unfaithfulness. No longer able to play, she returns home in shock and despair, hoping to build her life anew. To do so she must come to terms with the truth about her domineering grandfather, her long absent mother, and her tormenting ex-lover, all the while learning to love again in a whole new way. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-61-8 FIRES OF AGGAR by Chris Anne Wolfe Here, rich with action and romance, is the sequel so many readers have been waiting for! In this second epic of the Aggar sci-fi/fantasy series by Chris Anne Wolfe, Gwyn, a swashbuckling Royal Marshall and her bondpack of sandwolves go to aid and protect a Blue Sighted woman, the "Dracoon" Llinolae, with the help of shadowmates Sparrow and Brit. After a daring rescue, Gwen and Llinolae combine forces to defend Llinolae's city against the brigand Terran clan, and fall in love. Praise for Shadows of Aggar: "The developing romance and sexual relationship between these two strong women lends tension and excitement...This one's genre fiction at its best -- readable, comfortably predictable, escape to a romantic new planet." -- Women Library Workers Journal. $10.95 ISBN 0-934678-58-8 MURDER IS MATERIAL A mystery by Karen Saum This third is the Brigid Donovan series (Murder is Relative and Murder is Germain) by Maine author Karen Saum finds Brigid investigating the firey death of a self-styled Buddhist guru and the kidnapping of the young woman with whom he lived. Brigid, lesbian ex-nun, sober alcoholic, writer and amateur sleuth, searches for clues from her home in rural Maine to Nova Scotia. There, lured by the seductive Suzanne, she is drawn into the machinations of the wealthy Compton family and involved in a tangled web of money, madness and murder. $9.95 ISBN 0-934679-57-X LESBOMANIA by Jorjet Harper with cartoons by Joan Hilty. Examine the scientific evidence that lebonauts visted the Earth in prehistoric times. Cruise down the Nile with Ancient Egypt's lesbian Pharaoh, Hatshepsut! Lesbomania takes a humorous look at life within the lesbian community, its subculture, issues that divide us, sex and romance, coming out. Writer, Editor, and Teacher Jorjet Harper has been arts and entertainment editor for _Outlines_, the Chicago lesbian and gay news journal. Her news articles, reviews features and interviews have appeared in the gay and lesbian press for well over a decade. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-53-7 NUN IN THE CLOSET A Mystery by Joanna Michaels Anne Hollis, the owner of a women's bar is charged with manslaughter in the death of a nun. Insisting she's innnocent, Anne appeals to probation officer Callie Sinclair for help. The case grows more complex and puzzling when another nun is murdered, and Callie discovers that sex and money are involved. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-43-X EVERYWHERE HOUSE by Jane Meyerding It's the late 70s in the university town of Seattle, Washington. The brutal stabbing of a philosophy professor implicates Barb, an angry member of the ultra-radical lesbian collective, the Furies. Student Terry Barber, drawn to Barb's plight when other community women shy away, fears that Barb will not receive fair treatment by the authorities. She begins her own investigation into the death, uncovering Barb's secret identity, a sinister religious cult, and growing political and personal struggles within her own lesbian collective, Everywhere House. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-42-1 THE KALI CONNECTION A Lynn Evans Mystery by Claudia McKay Lynn, an investigative reporter is checking on the connection of a mysterious Eastern cult with possible drug trafficking. Her instant attraction to Marta, a charming and earnest devotee challenges Lynn's skepticism and sparks her desire. Then Marta disappears. Was she kidnapped, or was that her way of telling Lynn their relationship was over? Lynn travels to Nepal to find the answer. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-54-5 FIVE MYSTERIES BY SARAH DREHER Sarah has an avid following in the United States and Canada, as well as in Germany, where all of her books have been translated into German. She is also a playwright and has seen many of her plays produced around the country. When she isn't writing she's a practicing psychotherapist. "The touchstone of Dreher's writing is her wit and her compassion for her characters...I don't think I have ever read better or funnier dialogue anywhere." -- Visibilities STONER MCTAVISH The first Stoner mystery introduces us to travel agent Stoner McTavish. On a trip to the Tetons, Stoner meets and falls in love with her dream lover, Gwen, whom she must rescue from danger and almost certain death. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-06-5 SOMETHING SHADY Investigating the mysterious disappearance of a nurse at a suspicious rest home on the coast of Maine, Stoner finds herself an inmate, trapped in the clutches of the evil psychiatrist Dr. Milicent Tunes. Can Gwen and Aunt Hermione charge to the rescue before it's too late? $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-07-3 GRAY MAGIC After telling Gwen's grandmother that they are lovers, Stoner and Gwen set off to Arizona to escape the fallout. But a peaceful vacation turns frightening when Stoner finds herself an unwitting combatant in a struggle between the Hopi spirits of Good and Evil. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-11-1 A CAPTIVE IN TIME Stoner finds herself inexplicably transported to a town in Colorado Territory, time 1871. There she encounters Dot, the saloon keeper, Blue Mary, a local witch/healer, and an enigmatic teenage runaway named Billy. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-22-7 OTHERWORLD All your favorite characters -- business partner Marylou, eccentric Aunt Hermione, psychiatrist, Edith Kesselbaum, and of course, devoted lover, Gwen, on vacation at Disney World. In a case of mistaken identity, Marylou is kidnapped and held hostage in an underground tunnel. $10.95 ISBN 0-934678-44-8 *MORE MYSTERIES FROM NEW VICTORIA* DEATHS OF JOCASTA by J.M. Redmann What was the body of a woman doing in the basement of the Cort Clinic? Could Dr. Cordelia James really have performed the incompetent abortion that killed her? Micky Knight has to answer these questions before the police and the news media find their own convenient solution. "Knight is witty, irreverent and very sexy." $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-39-1 DEATH BY THE RIVERSIDE by J.M. Redmann Detective Micky Knight, hired to take a few pictures, finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring. The investigation turns personal when her own well- hidden past is exposed. Featuring a fabulously sexual, all too fiercely independent lady dick. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-27-8 TELL ME WHAT YOU LIKE by Kate Allen Alison Kaine, lesbian cop, enters the world of leather-dykes after a woman is brutally murdered at a Denver bar. She's fascinated, yet wary of her attraction to one of the suspects, a dominatrix named Stacy. In this fast-paced, yet slyly humorous novel, Allen confronts the sensitive issues of S & M, queer-bashers and women-identified sex workers. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-48-0 HERS WAS THE SKY by ReBecca Beguin Pilot Hazel Preston and her lover Jo have become fierce rivals in a cross-country flying derby. Then Hazel falls for Vera, who may be involved in a betting scheme that threatens the integrity of the race. This blend of historical fiction and mystery is based on the first women's flying Derby of 1929. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-47-2 WOMAN WITH RED HAIR by Sigrid Brunel The mystery of her mother's disappearance brings Magalie to the swamps of the Camargue and the slums of Marseille. With the help of Danielle, her French lover, she learns of her mother's tortured life, and of her mother's lover, Celine, the woman with red hair. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-30-8 SHE DIED TWICE by Jessica Lauren Twenty years ago, Emma's childhood friend and first lover, Natalie, mysteriously disappeared. Now the remains of a child are unearthed and Emma is forced to relive the weeks leading up to Natalie's death as she searches for the murderer. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-34-0 *NOVELS FROM NEW VICTORIA* DOG TAGS by Alexis Jude First Sergeant Victoria (Tory) Barrett, recently stationed in Korea, is attracted to Myra Sturdivan, but wonders why she seems so isolated and defensive, and why she is ostracized by other military personnel. As Tory and Myra fall in love they must confront the darker side of military life; witch hunts of lesbian soldiers, sexual exploitation of local women and military business as usual. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-50-2 LADY LOBO by Kristen Garrett Casey, a brash young jock dyke, wants to play college basketball with the best. She likes sex too, when and where she can get it, until an older ex- tennis pro engages Casey in an off-the-court match that challenges her in ways she hadnUt thought possible. $9.95 ISBN 0-934-678-49-9 IN EVERY LAUGH A TEAR by Leslea Newman Shayna's upbring as a nice Jewish girl hasn't prepared her to rescue her beloved Grandmother, committed to a nursing home or to work out a lasting relationship with Luz, a Puerto Rican butch who is the love of her life. "Perhaps the greatest gift a granddaughter can give her grandmother is to share the truth about their lives. Leslea Newman does this with exquisite honesty. Her Bubbe would be proud" -- Irene Zahava, editor of, _Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish Lesbians_ $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-46-4 SECRETS by Leslea Newman The surfaces and secrets, sensuality, joy, and conflicts of lesbian relationships are brought to life in these stories. "Five years. I couldn't believe that we'd been ex-lovers for that long. Lesbians are the only people I know who go out for six months, spend a year and a half breaking up, and then become friends for life." $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-24-3 THE NAMES OF THE MOONS OF MARS by Patricia Roth Schwartz Winner Lambda Literary Award "Schwartz examines with dignity and tenderness the battles within and without of women, especially lesbians: of families, created and biological, and the cages and freedom they can provide..." -- Gay Community News $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-19-7 Available on Audio Tape read by the author. -- 52 minutes $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-26-X KITE MAKER by Candace Van Auken Melvina, a country kid, drives up to a women's bar in a new Cadillac convertible. None of her new-found friends know what to make of her -- a tough-acting dyke who's never had a girl friend, an innocent who lies a lot about her past. Yet they are intrigued as she entices Sal to drive off with her in search of a long lost friend. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-32-4 FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS by Fritzie Rogers California dreamin' was becoming a reality of soup kitchens and unemployment lines in the early '70s. Sex was easy, money was hard and Venice, California was packed with gays and lesbians sleeping everywhere and doing everything to survive. A story of disturbing relevance to the '90s. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-29-4 CODY ANGEL by Joanne Whitfield Down and out in San Francisco, after a break-up with her high-school lover, Dana runs (literally) into a Southern matron who offers her a job as a maid. What looked like the way out of her financial difficulties becomes a way into emotional entanglements -- with her alcoholic boss; with Frankie, a bike dyke; and Jerri, an academic who enjoys sex as power. Through it all Dana struggles for self-esteem, independence and love. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-28-6 TOUCH OF MUSIC by Dorothy Clarke Roxanna and her daughter Melissa move into a lesbian household with Becky, a well-known singer of women's music, whose fame has gone to her head. Roxanna and Becky are in constant conflict until Melissa is hospitalized and Roxanna and Becky find their differences are not so important after all. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-31-6 MARI by Jerianne Hilderley The evolving relationship between Mari, an Argentinian political activist, and Judith, a New York City musician, tests their personal and political convictions. "Jeri's taken huge themes -- heroic women, blundered love, passion for justice...Most of us wouldn't dare so much. I'm glad she did." -- Isabel Miller, author of_ Patience and Sarah_ $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-23-5 AS THE ROAD CURVES by Elizabeth Dean Ramsey Sears had it all: good looks, a quick wit, a great job at a prestigious lesbian magazine and a reputation for never having to sleep alone. She had it all, but she was coming close to losing it. So her boss sends her off to report on the lives of lesbians around the country. "Spiced with lively humor from start to finish" -- The Washington Blade $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-17-0 DARK HORSE by Frances Lucas Fed up with corruption in local politics, lesbian Sidney Garrett runs for mayor. Enter socialite Joan Stanford who, surprisingly, finds herself involved in the campaign and its issues, and then, with Sidney. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-21-9 LOOK UNDER THE HAWTHORN by Ellen Frye Stone dyke Eddie Cafferty takes off from the mountains of Vermont on a search for her long lost daughter. Along the way she becomes involved with Anabelle, an unpredictable jazz pianist, on a quest of her own. $7.95 ISBN 0-934678-12-X SHADOWS OF AGGAR by Chris Anne Wolfe Diana, an Amazon is sent from the world of women to the planet Aggar. Elana, a 'shadowmate' is assigned as her guide across continents to rescue a Terran agent and prevent intergalatic war. Pursued by henchmen of the evil Maltar, they find themselves also pursued by a compelling attraction to each other. Will they be forced to return each to her own world when their mission is accomplished? $9.95 ISBN 0-934678 36-7 CATHY IV by Frances Lucas Against her better judgment, Jenny takes a vacation. On the way her space ship crashes and she finds herself on a strange planet which is embroiled in class warfare between the genetically altered servos and those who live off their labor. To further complicate matters, Jennie falls in love with a woman who may not even be human ... $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-41-3 PROMISE OF THE ROSE STONE by Claudia McKay A warrior woman confronts those trying to destroy her peopleUs traditions. She is taken to the Satellite Olyeve where she falls in love with Cleothe, a woman banished for giving birth. Together they plan an escape. "The complexities are interesting... and the book touches on many philosophical issues." $7.95 ISBN 0-934678-09-X WOMANSPACE Future and Fantasy Stories and art by women which explore our ways of seeing, our creativity and our space. Includes stories by Joanna Russ and Josephine Saxton. This genre is a useful vehicle for testing women's theories and ideas. $4.95 ISBN 0-934678-04-9 IN UNLIKELY PLACES by ReBecca Beguin Chosen Best of the small presses by _New American Writing_. While following her dream of exploring Africa, Lily Bascombe, 19th century adventurer, finds herself searching for the elusive Miss Margery Poole. Adventure turns to romance, then to conflict as Lily is torn between the enticement of Africa and MargeryUs love, and loyalty to her English past. "Beguin's writing ... takes your breath away ... so delightful, so intelligent, so perfectly crafted ... as welcome as cool water in dry land." - - Lesbian News $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-25-1 RUNWAY AT ELAND SPRINGS by ReBecca Beguin Anna, a bush pilot hired to track game for a white hunter, and Jilu, the proprietor of the safari camp at Eland Springs are forging their own paths in colonial East Africa of the 1930's. Together they forge a bond that sustains them both. $7.95 ISBN 0-934678-10-3 *HERSTORY* A PERILOUS ADVANTAGE The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney Edited and Translated by Anna Livia with a Forward by Karla Jay Finally, the writing of one the century's most notorious lesbians is available in English. Natalie Barney was a woman blatantly gleeful about her lesbianism at least 20 years before _The Well of Loneliness_ was published. She felt that ideas should be lived, not merely entertained, and that one should not write about romance but live it. $10.95 paper ISBN 0-934678-38-3 $19.95 hard cover ISBN 0-934678-45-6 RADICAL FEMINISTS OF HETERODOXY by Judith Schwarz An account of Heterodoxy, the club for unorthodox women that flourished in Greenwich village from 1912 through the '30s. Among its members were many of the most dynamic women of the times. Revised edition. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-08-1 LOCKED DOWN by Idella Serna The story of Mary (Lee) Dortch who has been in prison for thirty years - - most of her adult life. Lee knew she was "different" early on. In this book she tells about her relationships and about how being "masculine" affected her life both in and out of prison. $8.95 ISBN 0-934678-40-5 LESBIAN STAGES by Sarah Dreher Five of Sarah Dreher's wonderfully poignant and funny plays about the complexities and rewards of relationships. "Included in the Dreher style is a blend of warmth, droll one-liners, casual repartee, sly observation and passionate, wrenchingly honest explorations of women coming to terms with their personal histories and with their relationships to other women" -- Amherst Bulletin Selected for New American Writing -- Best of the U.S. Small Presses. $9.95 ISBN 0-934678-15-4 SATURDAY IS PATTYDAY A book for children by Leslea Newman When Frankie's two mothers break up, he feels hurt and confused. Patty assures him that even though she and Allie, Frankie's other mom, can't get along, she still loves him and will always be his mommy. Frankie is consoled when he learns that he will be able to visit Patty every Saturday, and together they laugh that Saturday is Pattyday. This is Leslea's fourth children's book focusing on children whose parents are lesbian. Gay- positive books are valuable tools to help in our understanding that children today come from all kinds of family configurations, and that they need to see themselves reflected in the books they read and have read to them. $6.95 paper ISBN 0-934678-51-0 $14.95 hardbound ISBN 0-934678-52-9 THERE IS A CHILD HIDDEN IN THIS PICTURE by Muriel F. Cole A first-person account of one woman's experience as a teacher in a rural open classroom in New Hampshire. Muriel Cole combines her own fears with the accomplishments of teaching, and writes readily of her conflicts with administration and other teachers. "The book could be the most important text book for teachers' education departments in colleges everywhere." -- Kate Sharp, Psychotherapist and Educator. $7.95 ISBN 0-934678-35-9 THE SKY BLEW BLUE Cora Vail Brooks A book to encourage and inspire writing and poem-making by giving suggestions of writing exercises which are playful, simple and unusual. There are as many ways to "solve" these writing tasks as there are people writing. One can play with the writing exercises many times and each time there could be a different result. " Her poems are made out of the everyday sky and trees and words and stones. She joyfully shows you how to use these when you decide to set about making poems yourself" -- Grace Paley $4.95 ISBN 0-934678-13-8 ***** In 1860 women's rights activist Emily Faithful founded Victoria Press, an all-women print shop in London, England. 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