In the 1950s, Ann Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embraced their sexuality. With Odd Girl Out, Bannon introduces Laura Landon, whose love affair with her college roommate Beth launched the lesbian pulp fiction genre.

The classic 1950s novel from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp, Odd Girl Out is the first part of Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker series.

Laura Landon has escaped Chicago with little more than a journalism background, a fierce resentment, and a desperate need to outgrow the wealthy father who has spent years humiliating and controlling her. In New York, she discovers that Merrill Landon's influence follows her, shutting journalism out and forcing her into a humbler search for work, identity, and independence. A secretarial job with Dr. Hollingsworth offers her unexpected refuge, where the kindness of Jean Bergman and the ste...

I Am a Woman by Ann Bannon is a powerful and pioneering novel that explores identity, love, and self-discovery. In this audiobook, Bannon delves into the emotional and social challenges faced by women navigating desire, societal expectations, and personal authenticity, offering listeners a compelling and deeply human story that resonates across generations.The audiobook’s expressive narration brings Bannon’s richly drawn characters to life, capturi...

Jack and Laura Mann have built a marriage that works — against all odds. She is a lesbian, he is gay, yet together they have forged a life of quiet love and mutual respect in 1960s Chicago. When a mysterious stranger named Winkler contacts them with news of their dear friends Page and Sunny Pringle, they are drawn back into the drama of a union far more shocking than their own.Page and Sunny were the golden couple — handsome, brilliant, and deeply in love. Their courtship was a whi...

Designated the "queen of lesbian pulp fiction" for authoring five landmark novels, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embrace their sexuality against great odds.With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces the title character, a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in New ...

Designated the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp" for her landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon’s work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Press’s new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, Women in the Shadows picks up with Beebo’s relationship with Laura waning, as both women become caught in the cultural tumult (gay bar raids, heavy drinking, gay rights advocacy) that anticipates by ten years the Stonewall...

Sid Hackbirn and Lisa Wycherly knew that their latest assignment in Lake Tahoe was not going to be your basic pick up of secrets. After all, their bosses upline sent them as people who would never be suspected as the domestic espionage agents they were. Lisa had grown up in Lake Tahoe and had a reputation as a very good girl.But it was Sid who first ran into an old friend from high school - his teacher and former lover Della Riordan, who was murdered shortly after leaving Sid. Then ...

They only thought they knew what they were getting into.It was September, 1982. Broke and desperate, Lisa Wycherly thought she was signing on as simply a secretary for wealthy freelance writer Sid Hackbirn. Okay, it was a live-in position, which was weird. But even though Lisa believed sex belonged in marriage, and Sid believed in free love and slept around, she went for it.However, Lisa soon noticed that things around Sid's house were a little odd, and the oddities were a ...

Who knew collecting cheap serigraphs could cause such trouble?Dancer and aspiring actor Donna Brechter thinks that driving around Delilah Sperling is just the job she needs to be self-supporting and living away from her parents. But Mrs. Sperling isn't just any older woman. She's blind and a private investigator with a nose for murder. When Mrs. Sperling's housekeeper, Glen Weir, picks up a counterfeit print, Mrs. Sperling has Donna drive her and Glen to confront the gallery owner, ...

In this sequel to a beloved fairy tale, an all-too convenient accident supposedly kills a young king and his family. Steffan and Ella and their children are, however, very much alive, but forced into hiding lest Steffan's cousin, Queen Lanicia, wipes them out. Claiming to be a merchant fallen from the new queen's favor, Steffan takes up farming in a small village. He and Ella raise their growing, and expanding, family, keeping their secret while forming friendships and building the support...

Teacher Brenda Finnegan has been haunted by violence for most of her life. But when she and her animal trainer boyfriend Bob Zebrinski witness a kidnapping, then end up caring for the little girl the victim left behind, Brenda decides it's time to do something about the violence by finding the kidnappers.Then the kidnapping victim's body is found and an angry religious cult comes after Brenda and Bob. But Brenda soon finds that dodging vengeful religious fanatics, caring for a traum...