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Series: Drag Race UK Hardcover BBC 9781785946417 $31.99 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 23, 2021
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Series: The Natural Mother of the Child A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood Hardcover Krys Malcolm Belc 9781640094383 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 15, 2021

Krys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity.Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner Anna adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.” By considering how the experiences contained under ... + Read More
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Series: Future Feeling A Novel Paperback Joss Lake 9781593766887 $23.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse on a young man—and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the emergent future.The year is 20__, and Penfield R. Henderson is in a rut. When he’s not walking dogs for cash or responding to booty calls from his B-list celebrity hookup, he’s holed up in his dingy Bushwick apartment obsessing over holograms... + Read More
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Series: The Guncle Hardcover Steven Rowley 9780525542285 $36.00 FICTION May 25, 2021

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how ... + Read More
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Series: The Economic Case for LGBT Equality Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All Paperback M. V. Lee Badgett 9780807002926 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 18, 2021

An economist demonstrates how LGBT equality and inclusion within organizations increases their bottom line and allows for countries’ economies to flourishWe know that homophobia harms LGBT individuals in many ways, but economist M. V. Lee Badgett argues that in addition to moral and human rights reasons for equality, we can now also make a financial argument. Finding that homophobia and transphobia cost 1% or more of a country’s GDP, Badgett expertly uses recent research and statistics to analyze how these hostile practices and environments aff... + Read More
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Series: Chasing After Aoi Koshiba Chasing After Aoi Koshiba 2 Paperback Hazuki Takeoka 9781646511884 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 04, 2021

A yuri romance about the intense feelings of youth, and the perspective and regrets that adulthood can bring, for fans of manga like Bloom Into You and Orange. From the creator of Masamune-kun’s Revenge Hazuki Takeoka and acclaimed yuri artist Fly.Sahoko had lots of friends in high school, so there’s no shortage of people to catch up with at her reunion. But the one face she wants to see is missing: that of Aoi Koshiba, her classmate and first love. A star of the basketball team, Aoi caught Sahoko’s eye as an easy way to score social points. Bu... + Read More
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Series: Queer Love in Color Hardcover Jamal Jordan 9781984857644 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 04, 2021

A photographic celebration of the love and relationships of queer people of color by a New York Times multimedia journalist.While LGBTQ+ people and stories are more visible in pop culture than ever before, queer people of color—especially those in happy, loving relationships—are still largely unseen and uncentered in the media.Queer Love in Color is a singular, moving collection of photographs and stories of queer couples and families of color from across the United States and around the world. Inclusive of all gender identities, races, and age... + Read More
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Series: 10 Dance 10 DANCE 6 Paperback Inouesatoh 9781632369239 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 28, 2021

Dip into your new obsession in this steamy gay ballroom romance! The beautifully-detailed, lithe bodies of the two “kings of the ballroom” fly across the dance floor as rivals build a volatile bond in this red-hot romance!IT TAKES TWO Shinya Sugiki, the dashing lord of Standard Ballroom, and Shinya Suzuki, passionate king of Latin Dance: The two share more than just a first name and a love of the sport. They each want to become champion of the 10-Dance Competition, which means they’ll need to learn the other’s specialty dances, and who better t... + Read More
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Series: My Summer of You The Summer of You (My Summer of You Vol. 1) Paperback Nagisa Furuya 9781646512041 $19.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 11, 2021

A wistful summer blossoms between two high-school boys finding themselves and each other through a shared love of movies in this moving, dramatic, two-volume BL romance series, perfect for fans of Seven Days, Given, or I Hear the Sunspot.Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby: They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends, until one day, when Chiharu confesses his love for Wataru. Wataru says that Chiharu’s confession doesn’t bother him, and the boys continue throughout their s... + Read More
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Series: Barbalien: Red Planet--From the World of Black Hammer Paperback Jeff Lemire 9781506715803 $25.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 11, 2021

A groundbreaking new sci-fi action series in the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer universe, about prejudice, honor, and identity.Mark Markz has found his place on Earth as both a decorated police officer and as the beloved superhero, Barbalien. But in the midst of the AIDS crisis, hatred from all sides makes balancing these identities seem impossible—especially when a Martian enemy from the past hunts him down to take him back, dead or alive.Collects Barbalien: Red Planet #1-#5.Series Overview: Collects Barbalien: Red Planet #1-#5.
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Series: All Adults Here A Novel Paperback Emma Straub 9781594634703 $23.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

“Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.”—Ann PatchettThis instant New York Times bestseller is “literary sunshine” (NYT) from the beloved “queen of the summer novel” (Entertainment Weekly): a warm, funny story about the life cycle of one family.When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting... + Read More
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Series: Life is Strange Vol. 4: Partners In Time: Tracks Paperback Emma Vieceli 9781787734739 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 06, 2021

The fourth volume of the comic series based on the critically-acclaimed, BAFTA-winning video game Life is Strange, following the weird and wonderful tales of time traveller Max Caulfield! How far would you go, to get back to the person you love? As Max Caulfield embarks on a road trip across America after coming so close to returning to her own timeline, across the transect Tristan and Chloe follow the same path. But, both Max and Tristan struggle to control their powers and it looks like Max and Chloe may never get their happy ending - unless ... + Read More
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Series: If I Could Reach You If I Could Reach You 6 Paperback tMnR 9781646511556 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 09, 2021

In this heartwrenching new yuri manga, a teenage girl comes to terms with her own sexuality through her crush on her brother’s wife.Hopelessly in love, high schooler Uta must navigate living with her brother and Kaoru, her crush…and sister-in-law. Desperate to get over her unrequited feelings, Uta pulls away, but when the cracks in her brother’s marriage begin to show, Kaoru begins to confide in her new teenage sister, which just makes matters worse!
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Series: Elfquest: Stargazer's Hunt Paperback Wendy Pini 9781506714769 $23.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 16, 2021

When ElfQuest: The Final Quest concluded, it ended the hero’s journey of Cutter Kinseeker, chief of the Wolfriders. But that was only the start of a new adventure for Cutter’s “brother in all but blood,” Skywise.Now the stargazer elf, who thought he knew everything about Cutter, discovers how mistaken he was. In times past, whenever he has felt lost or empty, he has turned to the starry skies for guidance. Now is no exception. Once again Skywise sets his sights on the cosmic horizon for answers, sending him on his own epic quest from the elves’... + Read More
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Series: Whisper Me a Love Song Whisper Me a Love Song 3 Paperback Eku Takeshima 9781646511471 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 04, 2021

An adorable new yuri manga for fans of Kase-san and Yamada and Bloom Into You. One day, high school girl Himari sees a girl, Yori, sing in a band, and it awakens feelings she doesn’t understand…but Yori does!Bubbly, energetic first-year high school student Himari falls head over heels for her senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori she just loves her, and, to Himari’s surprise, Yori says she loves Himari back! But when Himari realizes that she and her senpai are feeling two different kinds of lov... + Read More
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Series: Hitorijime My Hero Hitorijime My Hero 10 Paperback Memeco Arii 9781646510467 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 13, 2021

A yaoi romance between a good boy who didn’t know he was waiting for a hero, and a bad boy who comes to his rescue! Now a hit streaming anime!“I don’t like caramel sauce. I prefer something bitter…”Masahiro Setagawa doesn’t believe in heroes, but wishes he could: He’s found himself in a gang of small-time street bullies who use him to run errands. But when high school teacher (and scourge of the streets) Kousuke Ohshiba comes to his rescue, he finds he may need to start believing after all…and as their relationship deepens, he realizes a hero m... + Read More
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Series: Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 03 Paperback Yuu Toyota 9781646090310 $17.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 25, 2021

It’s complicated: A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reveals he’s the object of his male coworker’s affections!Ever since he was blessed (cursed?) on his thirtieth birthday with the magical ability to read the minds of those he touches, virginal office drone Adachi has been put through the ringer, especially after discovering his colleague Kurosawa’s feelings for him! And just when it seems like Adachi might be able to take his friendship with Kurosawa to the next level, Adachi’s complex abo... + Read More
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Series: The Pronoun Lowdown Demystifying and Celebrating Gender Diversity Hardcover Nevo Zisin 9781925811803 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2021

Dismantle the messy myth of gender, with this a colorful, approachable, and irreverent-AF book.We find ourselves at an exciting moment in history. For the first time, trans and gender diverse people are being seen and heard. Thanks to tireless activism, and an increased visibility worldwide, these lived experiences (the joyful, and the painful) are no longer able to be ignored. And so, The Pronoun Lowdown is here to demystify and celebrate trans and gender diverse excellence.Woven together with author Nevo Zisin’s own pronoun journey, this colo... + Read More
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Series: Chasing After Aoi Koshiba Chasing After Aoi Koshiba 1 Paperback Hazuki Takeoka 9781646511860 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 23, 2021

A yuri romance about the intense feelings of youth, and the perspective and regrets that adulthood can bring, for fans of manga like Bloom Into You and Orange. From the creator of Masamune-kun’s Revenge Hazuki Takeoka and acclaimed yuri artist Fly.Sahoko had lots of friends in high school, so there’s no shortage of people to catch up with at her reunion. But the one face she wants to see is missing: that of Aoi Koshiba, her classmate and first love. A star of the basketball team, Aoi caught Sahoko’s eye as an easy way to score social points. Bu... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries The Knockout Queen A novel Paperback Rufi Thorpe 9780525567295 $22.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs.Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠—with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Michael is caught smoking in Bunny’s sideyard, it sparks a deep friendship, and he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three, Bunny towers over their... + Read More
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Series: Under the Rainbow A Novel Paperback Celia Laskey 9780525536178 $23.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions to themselves. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the US” and sends in a task force of queer volunteers as an experiment-they’ll live and work in the community for two years in an attempt to broaden hearts and minds-no... + Read More
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Series: Yuri Is My Job! Yuri is My Job! 7 Paperback Miman 9781646510795 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 18, 2021

The new, hilarious yuri comedy! Hime gets roped into working at a weird café where the waitresses pretend to be students at an all-girl boarding school. She’s strangely taken with her partner Mitsuki, who’s so kind to her in front of the customers. There’s just one problem…Mitsuki really can’t stand her!Hime is a picture-perfect high school princess—she’s admired by all and never trips up! So when she accidentally injures a café manager named Mai, she’s willing to cover some shifts to keep her facade intact. To Hime’s surprise, the café is them... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries We Ride Upon Sticks A Novel Paperback Quan Barry 9780525565437 $22.95 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, a comic tour de female force about a 1980s field hockey team that (maybe) makes a deal with the devil.In the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals—even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. In chapters dense with 1980s iconography—from Heathers to “big hair”—Quan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this ench... + Read More
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Series: The Queens' English The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases Illustrated edition Hardcover Chloe O. Davis 9780593135006 $29.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community’s contributions to the English language—an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture.Do you know where “yaaaas queen!” comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA+ stand for?The Queens’ English is a comprehensive guide to modern gay slang, queer theory terms, and playful colloquialisms that define and celebrate LGBTQIA+ culture. ... + Read More
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Series: Joyous Resilience A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World Paperback Anjuli Sherin 9781623174231 $25.95 SELF-HELP Jan 26, 2021

An intersectional guide to building resilience and reclaiming joyWith so much information available on how to build resilience—from meditation, exercise, and time in nature, to the latest neuroscience-backed studies—have you ever wondered what’s holding you back? If you commit to self-care but find yourself exhausted, unhappy, or anxious, do you wonder what’s missing?The fact is, we are all navigating an exhausting, disconnecting, do-more-buy-more culture that disproportionately harms those with marginalized identities and leads us to believe t... + Read More
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Series: Detransition, Baby A Novel Hardcover Torrey Peters 9780593133378 $36.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell ap... + Read More
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Series: Pedro's Theory Reimagining the Promised Land Hardcover Marcos Gonsalez 9781612198620 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 12, 2021

“A searching memoir…A subtle, expertly written repudiation of the American dream in favor of something more inclusive and more realistic.”—Kirkus, starred review There are many Pedros living in many Americas… One Pedro goes to a school where they take away his language. Another disappears in the desert, leaving behind only a backpack. A cousin Pedro comes to visit, awakening feelings that others are afraid to make plain. A rumored Pedro goes missing so completely it’s as if he were never there. In Pedro’s Theory Marcos Gonsalez explores th... + Read More
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Series: The Bloodright Trilogy Bonds of Brass Book One of The Bloodright Trilogy Paperback Emily Skrutskie 9780593128916 $22.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend—the man he trusts most and might even love—only to learn that he’s secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.Ettian Nassun’s life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded. He’s spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. Even better, he’s met Gal Veres—his exasperating and infuriatingly enticing roommate who’s made the Academy feel like a new home.But when dozens of classmates sp... + Read More
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Series: Hitorijime My Hero Hitorijime My Hero 9 Paperback Memeco Arii 9781646510450 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 02, 2021

A yaoi romance between a good boy who didn’t know he was waiting for a hero, and a bad boy who comes to his rescue! Now a hit streaming anime!Stormy Seas Ahead Just when it finally looks like Kousuke and Masahiro are ready to move in together, a friend of Kousuke’s shows up to meddle, and the couple’s best-laid plans are thrown into disarray! What will happen to the happy home they’d both set their hearts on? Even worse, it seems Natsuo has chosen this delicate time to let out all the feelings he’s kept bottled up…Story Locale: Modern JapanSeri... + Read More
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Series: Saiyuki Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition 4 Hardcover Kazuya Minekura 9781646510023 $44.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jan 05, 2021

The boys are back, in 400-page hardcovers that are as pretty and badass as they are! This hit adventure—which blends mythology from around the world into a classic adventure story—has been out of print for years, and this collector’s edition is a fitting celebration of its return!Genjyo Sanzo is a Buddhist priest in the city of Shangri-La, which is being ravaged by yokai spirits that have fallen out of balance with the natural order. His superiors send him on a journey far to the west to discover why this is happening and how to stop it. His co... + Read More
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Series: Whisper Me a Love Song Whisper Me a Love Song 2 Paperback Eku Takeshima 9781646511464 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 22, 2020

An adorable new yuri manga for fans of Kase-san and Yamada and Bloom Into You. One day, high school girl Himari sees a girl, Yori, sing in a band, and it awakens feelings she doesn’t understand…but Yori does!Himari is starting to realize that she and Yori have two very different things in mind when they talk about being in love, and Yori can tell that things aren’t quite the same between them since she asked Himari out. But if they want to stay together, whether as friends or something more, they’ll have to hear each other out and see if they c... + Read More
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Series: Life is Strange: 1-3 Boxed Set Undefined Emma Vieceli 9781787734685 $63.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 06, 2020

For the first time, buy the first three volumes of the Life is Strange sequel series in one hella awesome package! Based on the BAFTA award-winning SQUARE ENIX game. Including art cards featuring the cover art from the individual books.Collecting together the first three Life is Strange books: Dust,Waves and Strings, this box set follows Max and Chloe on one possible string of events after the end of the original Life is Strange game!Story Locale: USASeries Overview: Titan Comics’s LIFE IS STRANGE(TM) returns readers to the setting of Arcadia B... + Read More
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Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Castle Faggot Paperback Derek Mccormack 9781635901375 $21.95 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack’s darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland, a playland for gay men, and Castle Faggot, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—s... + Read More
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Series: Hitorijime My Hero Hitorijime My Hero 8 Paperback Memeco Arii 9781632369321 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 10, 2020

A yaoi romance between a good boy who didn’t know he was waiting for a hero, and a bad boy who comes to his rescue! Now a hit streaming anime!Grown-Up FeelingsBetween the two, Kousuke is usually the rowdy one, but what happens when Masahiro decides to flip the script? The unexpected fun and memories they share are all part of one big promising future together! Meanwhile, Natsuo’s deeply suppressed feelings, Yunge’s smoldering emotions, and Hasekura and Kentaro’s lovey-dovey relationship all come to the fore where mix-ups ensue…Story Locale: Mod... + Read More
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Series: Saiyuki Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition 3 Hardcover Kazuya Minekura 9781646510016 $29.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 17, 2020

The boys are back, in 400-page hardcovers that are as pretty and badass as they are! This hit adventure—which blends mythology from around the world into a classic adventure story—has been out of print for years, and this collector’s edition is a fitting celebration of its return!Genjyo Sanzo is a Buddhist priest in the city of Shangri-La, which is being ravaged by yokai spirits that have fallen out of balance with the natural order. His superiors send him on a journey far to the west to discover why this is happening and how to stop it. His co... + Read More
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Series: On Swift Horses A Novel Paperback Shannon Pufahl 9780525538127 $23.00 FICTION Nov 03, 2020

A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel’s nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slip... + Read More
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Series: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery Fortune Favors the Dead A Novel Hardcover Stephen Spotswood 9780385546553 $35.95 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

“[Fortune Favors the Dead has] razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.”—Tana FrenchA wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York’s best, ... + Read More
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Series: To be a Gay Man Hardcover Will Young 9780753554241 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

PART OF BBC2’S BOOK CLUB BETWEEN THE COVERSIn To Be a Gay Man, Will Young speaks out about gay shame, revealing the impact it had on his own life, how he learned to deal with it, and how he can now truthfully say he is gay and happy.We know Will as a multi-platinum recording artist, Olivier-nominee, and the first winner of the Idol franchise. But his story began long before his first audition. Looking back on a world where growing up being called gay was the ultimate insult and coming out after a lifetime of hiding his sexuality, Will explores ... + Read More
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Series: In the Absence of Men Paperback Philippe Besson 9781784876364 $18.99 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

’An astonishing love story, beautifully told’ Time Out’I am sixteen. I am as old as the century’It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent’s beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, thirty years his senior,... + Read More
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Series: If I Could Reach You If I Could Reach You 5 Paperback tMnR 9781646510474 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 27, 2020

In this heartwrenching new yuri manga, a teenage girl comes to terms with her own sexuality through her crush on her brother’s wife.MOMENT OF TRUTHUta has been trying to move on from her crush on Kaoru, but it hasn’t been easy. Things only get more complicated when, acting on some advice from a friend, Kaoru decides to have a heart-to-heart with Uta…Meanwhile, Chloe finds she’s thinking harder than ever about what Miyabi means to her, and what she wants the two of them to be.Series Overview: Hopelessly in love, high schooler Uta must navigate l... + Read More
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Series: Yuri Is My Job! Yuri is My Job! 6 Paperback Miman 9781632369307 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 03, 2020

The new, hilarious yuri comedy! Hime gets roped into working at a weird café where the waitresses pretend to be students at an all-girl boarding school. She’s strangely taken with her partner Mitsuki, who’s so kind to her in front of the customers. There’s just one problem…Mitsuki really can’t stand her!EXCHANGESAfter turning down Hime’s early birthday gift, Mitsuki realizes she may have rejected her friend’s good intentions along with it…and this wouldn’t be the first time. On the big day, however, Mitsuki can’t make it to Liebe Academy to cel... + Read More
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Series: In the Limelight The Visual Ecstasy of NYC Nightlife in the 90s Hardcover Steve Eichner 9783791386812 $60.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 20, 2020

Dive into the 1990s New York club scene with never-before-seen photos by its most prolific photographer, Steve Eichner.Eichner was a fixture of 1990s New York City nightlife and served as both its official and unofficial photographer in an era before cellphones and selfies. In this book, readers go beyond the velvet ropes and into the spaces that witnessed some of the decade’s most incredible and sought-after parties. Previously unpublished, these intoxicating full-color photographs capture the over-thetop costumes, non-stop dancing, glitter, c... + Read More
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Series: Whisper Me a Love Song Whisper Me a Love Song 1 Paperback Eku Takeshima 9781646511150 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 20, 2020

An adorable new yuri manga for fans of Kase-san and Yamada and Bloom Into You. One day, high school girl Himari sees a girl, Yori, sing in a band, and it awakens feelings she doesn’t understand…but Yori does!Bubbly, energetic first-year high school student Himari falls head over heels for her senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori she’s fallen in love at first sight, and, to Himari’s surprise, Yori confesse that she has as well! But when Himari realizes that she and Yori are feeling two differen... + Read More
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Series: The Cancer Journals Paperback Audre Lorde 9780143135203 $19.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 13, 2020

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.A Penguin ClassicFirst published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde’s experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women’s pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women’s body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not... + Read More
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Series: A Novel from Hell's Library The Archive of the Forgotten Paperback A. J. Hackwith 9781984806390 $22.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

In the second installment of this richly imagined fantasy adventure series, a new threat from within the Library itself could destroy those within it.The Library of the Unwritten in Hell was saved from total devastation, but hundreds of potential books were destroyed, and the dreams that were held within them will never be realized. When the remnants of those books begin to leak a strange ink, and damsels keep disappearing and reappearing in the Arcane Wing, former librarian Claire realizes that the challenges within the Library have only just ... + Read More
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Series: Golem Girl A Memoir Hardcover Riva Lehrer 9781984820303 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 06, 2020

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodiesWhat do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity?In 1958, Riva is one of the first children born with spina bifida to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to “fix” her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring count... + Read More
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Series: The Man Who Ate Too Much The Life of James Beard Hardcover John Birdsall 9780393635713 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 06, 2020

The definitive biography of America’s best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped.In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard’s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the “Dean of American Cookery” to give voice to the gourmet’s complex, queer life and, in the process, illuminates the history of American food in the twentieth century. At a time when stuffy French restaurants and soulless Continental cui... + Read More
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Series: A Country for Dying Paperback Abdellah Taia 9781609809904 $22.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by “one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature”Paris, Summer 2010.Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father’s suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her.Zannouba, Zahira’s friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss, including the loss of her pre-transition male persona.Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who, having fled to Paris... + Read More
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Series: A Love Story for Bewildered Girls Paperback Emma Morgan 9780241984680 $19.99 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

’An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages’ Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High-Low podcastGrace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn’t quite sure. But you’ll love them all…Grace has what one might call a ’full and interesting life’ which is code for not married and has no kids. Her life is the envy of her straight friends, but all this time she has been waiting in secret for love to hit her so hard that she runs out of breath, like the way a wave in a rough sea bowls you over, slams you into the sand, and nea... + Read More
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Series: How to They/Them A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity Hardcover Stuart Getty 9781632173133 $18.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 29, 2020

Ever wondered what nonbinary and gender nonconforming really mean? Or if it’s grammatically correct to use they as a singular pronoun?In this charming and disarming guide, a real-life they-using genderqueer writer unpacks all your burning questions in a fun, visual way. No soapboxes or divisive comment-section wars here! Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always human, this gender-friendly primer will get you up to speed. It’s about more than just bathrooms and pronouns—this is about gender expression and the freedom to choose how to identify.... + Read More
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Series: The Low, Low Woods (Hill House Comics) Hardcover Carmen Maria Machado 9781779504524 $33.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 29, 2020

From New York Times bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body And Other Parties, In The Dream House) comes a story so horrifying you won’t dare to forget!There’s something in the woods…Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people of Shudder-to-Think? Well, they’re not doing so well either.When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two t... + Read More
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Series: A Dutiful Boy A gay, Muslim memoir Paperback Mohsin Zaidi 9781529110159 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 29, 2020

’A beautifully written, heartrending story of a young gay man’s journey, liberation and love. A real page-turner that sparks with humanity and hope’Lord Michael CashmanA coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household.Mohsin grew up in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout shia Muslim community. His family were close-knit and religiously conservative. From a young age, Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone.Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city sch... + Read More
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Series: The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Library Edition Hardcover Michael Dante DiMartino 9781506708935 $53.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 29, 2020

To secure lasting peace for the Earth Kingdom, Korra must trust an unlikely ally!On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom’s future is endangered by its past. As Kuvira works to reclaim her honor, the devious commander Guan undermines the peace Avatar Korra has established to take power for himself. Korra and Kuvira must learn to work together to ensure the future of the Earth Kingdom.Enjoy the continuing Avatar adventures, now with a new sketchbook section and artist commentary! Written by series co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino a... + Read More
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Series: Resistencia Paperback Julia Alvarez 9781951142070 $24.95 POETRY Sep 16, 2020

“To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.” —from the introduction by Julia AlvarezWith a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dic... + Read More
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Series: Self Evident Truths 10,000 Portraits of Queer America Hardcover iO Tillett Wright 9783791386911 $54.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

In the spirit of Richard Avedon, this book contains striking photographic portraits of 10,000 people from across the US, bringing readers face to face with LGBTQ America.The Declaration of Independence states that it is self-evident that we are all created equal. Millions of people in the US, however, are deprived of basic rights merely because they aren’t heteronormative. Believing that it’s impossible to deny the humanity of anyone once you look into their eyes, iO Tillett Wright embarked on an ambitious project to photograph the faces of peo... + Read More
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Series: Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 02 Paperback Yuu Toyota 9781646090303 $17.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 18 Sep 08, 2020

It’s complicated: A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reveals he’s the object of his male coworker’s affections!Businessman Adachi turned thirty a virgin, and now he’s a wizard who can read the mind of anyone he touches…which is how he learned that his handsome coworker Kurosawa was in love with him! Inexperienced Adachi was initially bewildered by Kurosawa’s intense feelings, but after being exposed to Kurosawa’s genuine affection, Adachi finds Kurosawa on his mind a lot more often than he’d... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Drag Hardcover Jake Hall 9781910620717 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

Before RuPaul’s Drag Race propelled the cultural phenomenon into the global spotlight, drag had been around for thousands of years. Immerse yourself in the rich history of drag in this lusciously illustrated guide, brimming with dazzling colors and fabulous facts, all held together with a unique Swiss binding that lets each spread lay flat so that you can experience this book in all its trailblazing glory!The history of drag has been formed by many intersections: fashion, theatre, sexuality and politics—all coming together to create the show st... + Read More
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Series: Be Gay, Do Comics Paperback The Nib 9781684057771 $33.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2020

The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay and Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears apart reality. These are the just some of the comics you’ll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib.Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride. Brimming with resilience, inspiration, and humor, an incredible lineup of top indie cartoonists takes you from the Amer... + Read More
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Series: A History of My Brief Body Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237780 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexua... + Read More