Five Minutes in Heaven

10 best books like Five Minutes in Heaven (Lisa Alther): Hungry Ghost, Undrawn, This Is Not For You, Pennance, Before It Stains, The Way Back from Broken, Even You, In Every Port, Wild Shores, Legacy of Love

Hungry Ghost
AuthorAllison Moon
ISBN0983830932
Strange is the new normal for college freshman Lexie Clarion. She could be writing papers and going to frat parties like a normal girl, but Lexie is no normal girl. She spends each full moon fighting against the beast that threatens to escape her body, and the rest of the time mooning over her alpha ex-girlfriend....
AuthorConchie Fernandez
Kyle Reed stands on the verge of his lifelong dream of artistic immortality when a call from his estranged older brother Stuart puts a halt to everything in his carefully constructed life. Kyle faces the impossible decision to go back "home" and attempt to undo the many painful choices he made that severed...
AuthorJane Rule
ISBN1894663845
This Is Not For You, perhaps Rule's most self-consciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s as she negotiates her lesbian sexuality. This epistolary lament -- an unsent letter to a lover who was never quite a lover -- vividly depicts New...
AuthorClare Ashton
ASIN B0070ZEUCC moved to the most recent edition here

Lucy is haunted by the death of her partner, Jake, and lives in paranoid fear and reclusion. She lives in a small, introverted village in Cornwall called Pennance, and is surrounded by Jake's family and memories of him. She feels intensely...
Before It Stains
AuthorR.E. Bradshaw
Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is work.

Stephanie Austin has it all – a loving wife of 17 years, a handsome teenage son, a comfortable home in the suburbs, professional success, and a bright future. At forty, Stephanie’s life is all she’d ever dreamed of, but like the old blues...
The Way Back from Broken
AuthorAmber J. Keyser
ISBN1467775908
Rakmen Cannon's life is turning out to be one sucker punch after another. His baby sister died in his arms, his parents are on the verge of divorce, and he's flunking out of high school. The only place he fits in is with the other art therapy kids stuck in the basement of Promise House, otherwise known as support...
Even You
AuthorMarilyn Oser
ISBN1634135466
Where do you turn when love turns to hurt, when loss turns to fury?

Impetuous isn’t a word you'd use to describe Claire Bramany. She’s capable, reliable and steady. But when a sudden accident in Brooklyn in 1995 takes the life of her lover, Jessie Friedman, Claire’s world implodes.

And...
In Every Port
AuthorKarin Kallmaker
ISBN1931513368
It was a little funny, after having read a number of Kallmaker books as a teenager, to come back and read her First Novel.

I wasn't super fond of the conversations the MC had with "Herself"; they were occasionally witty, although for me they broke up the flow of narrative. I was amused with how the...
Wild Shores
AuthorRadclyffe
ISBN1626396450
Gillian “Gem” Martin is the lead biologist at a wildlife sanctuary on the Northeast coast and head of the Wildlife Emergency Response Team called in when catastrophes, man-made or natural, threaten the endangered species she studies. Austin Germaine is a troubleshooter, the hired gun for a big...
Legacy of Love
AuthorMarianne K. Martin
ISBN1562801848
Sage pulled Suzanne into her arms and kissed her deeply, melting into the silken heat. "What do you want from me?" she whispered.Suzanne pressed up into Sage's embrace, her body making demands on the skillful hands, commanding pleasure from the exciting mouth. "I need you to love me...as long as you...
Run Away: One Woman's Story of Resilience
AuthorJeanhee Kang
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Runaway: One Woman's Story of Resilience is the true story of a South Korean immigrant who survived prostitution as a teenager and made it a goal to attend high school in America. Jeanhee Kang was shunned by her unforgiving society after being expelled from...
A Sprinkling of Lesbian Short Stories
AuthorQ. Kelly
Three of Q. Kelly's previously published short stories come together in this collection. A fourth story is "Welcome to Paradise," which has never officially been published and which serves as the basis of Q. Kelly's novel "Third."

THE OLD WOMAN: Jessica is a pretty good best friend, but she...
AuthorAnita Brookner
ISBN2020255723
In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is both...
Kvinderne på stranden
AuthorTove Alsterdal
Ung kona finnur lík af svörtum manni á ferðamannaströnd á Spáni. Skammt þar frá tekst annarri konu, ólöglegum innflytjanda sem hrakist hefur yfir hafið, að komast í land. Í New York reynir leikmyndahönnuðurinn Ally Cornwall án árangurs að ná sambandi við eiginmann sinn sem...
Seven Moves
AuthorCarol Anshaw
ISBN0395877563
Christine Snow, a successful Chicago therapist, sets out to find her vanished lover, the sultry and elusive travel photographer Taylor Hayes. Forging a trail that leads into the heart of Morocco, Seven Moves tracks Christine's gradual recognition that no one can ever really know another's soul....
Among Women
AuthorJ.M. Cornwell
ISBN1461031346
A modern Scheherazade in New Orleans in 1984. Alone. Abandoned in New Orleans with no friends or family, surviving only on her wits, Pearl Caldwell has finally put herself back on the road back to the life she wants. Then she's arrested on a false charge and thrown into jail. Among women of all sorts, Pearl...
Iron Branch: A Civil War Tale of a Woman In-Between
AuthorKelby Ouchley
Iron Branch explores cultural conflicts of the American Civil War era as experienced by those not often elevated to lead roles. Abita Carter, a half-Choctaw woman who describes herself as always “in-between,” tells the story of her life and that of the young lawyer/soldier, Minor Barrett, in...
AuthorSarah Ettritch
ISBN0981332021
She gave up everything to become a Salbine Sister, member of a religious order of powerful female mages. But when Maddy nearly dies while trying to draw forth elemental fire, she learns that Salbine has withdrawn from her the gifts every sister works to master. Feeling trapped in an order to which she...
Drawing Dead
AuthorS.M. Reine
The vampire slayer is turning into a vampire? Over her dead body.

Dana McIntyre has been bitten by a master vampire. She's infected with the venom. And after killing hundreds of vampires to keep Las Vegas safe, she'd rather die than turn.

There might be a cure. But the only way to get it...
AuthorSandra Scoppettone
ISBN0345382692
Scoppettone's writing is light, funny, intelligent, and often just fun to read. She writes enjoyably about the troubles in New York during a recession and a time of political conservatism, and about life as a lesbian in a (fairly) welcoming community.

The writing was clearly held back a little...
Praise Jerusalem!
AuthorAugusta Trobaugh
ISBN0801058147
Praise Jerusalem! spans a few vital weeks in the lives of three elderly Southern women who have been thrust into a concerted effort to find their "New Jerusalem" - a utopia of heavenly perfection. In this case, however, it is the small town of Jerusalem, Georgia, to which the women journey, each expecting...
Stilettos and Steel
AuthorJeri Estes
ISBN0984517308
Stilettos and Steel by Jeri Estes is based on a true story.

San Francisco, 1969. The counter culture revolution front lines have overrun the city. Golden Gate Park littered with nude, flower crowned hippies burning draft cards in a psychedelic haze. North Beach rocks with the San Francisco...
Temple Secrets
AuthorSusan Gabriel
ISBN0983588279
Fans of The Help and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will delight in this comic novel of family secrets by acclaimed writer, Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews).

Every family has secrets, but the elite Temple family of Savannah has more...
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