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By William Holt

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Series: Drag Race UK Hardcover BBC 9781785946417 $31.99 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 23, 2021
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Series: If I Could Reach You If I Could Reach You 6 Paperback tMnR 9781646511556 $16.99 Dec 14, 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: 10 Dance 10 DANCE 6 Paperback Inouesatoh 9781632369239 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jan 04, 2022

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: The Bloodright Trilogy Oaths of Legacy Book Two of The Bloodright Trilogy Hardcover Emily Skrutskie 9780593128923 $37.00 FICTION Sep 14, 2021

Torn between loyalty and love, a young prince will learn how much he’s willing to sacrifice as he tries to destroy the rebellion that threatens his throne in this exhilarating sequel to Bonds of Brass.When Gal Veres is almost assassinated and his identity as the secret Umber heir is uncovered, it sets off a dangerous battle for power that could crumble the galaxy. In a desperate attempt to claim his throne and put an end to the fighting, Gal teams up with his best friend, Ettian Nassun, and a street-savvy troublemaker, Wen Iffan. During their m... + Read More
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Series: The Swimming-Pool Library Paperback Alan Hollinghurst 9781529113839 $21.99 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel is a tour de force: a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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Series: Red X A Novel Paperback David Demchuk 9780771025013 $24.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries.Men are disappearing from Toronto’s gay village. They’re the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and riots against raids to gentrification and police brutality, the survivors face inaction from the law and disinterest from society at large. But as the missing grow in number, those left behind beg... + Read More
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Series: Summer Fun Hardcover Jeanne Thornton 9781641292382 $34.00 FICTION Jul 27, 2021

From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity. Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B——. Gala needs to know: Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun? And so she writes letters to B——that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gal... + Read More
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Series: Skye Falling A Novel Hardcover Mia McKenzie 9781984801609 $36.00 FICTION Jun 22, 2021

A woman who’s used to going solo discovers that there’s one relationship she can’t run away from in this buoyant novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and communityWhen she was twenty-six and broke, Skye didn’t think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye still moves through life entirely—and unrepentantly—on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Maybe her junior high classmates weren’t wrong when they vo... + Read More
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Series: A Dutiful Boy A memoir of secrets, lies and family love Paperback Mohsin Zaidi 9781529112207 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 27, 2021

’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 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 un... + Read More
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Series: You Exist Too Much A Novel Paperback Zaina Arafat 9781646220595 $23.00 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

A “provocative and seductive debut” of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she tries to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine)On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her moth... + Read More
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Series: Transmutation Stories Paperback Alex DiFrancesco 9781644210666 $22.95 FICTION Jun 22, 2021

Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives.Building on the success of All City, here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom’s boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad’s house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his boat after his c... + 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: With Teeth A Novel Hardcover Kristen Arnett 9780593191507 $36.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love If she’s being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain in her own feelings about motherhood, she tries her best—driving, cleaning, cooking, prodding him to... + 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: 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: After Francesco A Haunting Must-Read Perfect for Book Clubs Hardcover Brian Malloy 9781496733511 $35.00 FICTION May 25, 2021

"Like Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers, author-activist Malloy’s newest novel is a heartrending portrayal of the realities of healing.” – Oprah Mag, Best LGBTQ Books of 2021 Acclaimed author Brian Malloy brings insight, humor, and the authenticity of his own experiences as a member of the AIDS generation to this universal story of love and loss set in New York City and Minneapolis at the peak of the AIDS crisis. Published on the 40th anniversary of the disease’s first reported cases, After Francesco is both a tribute to a generation lost to... + 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: Yuri Is My Job! Yuri is My Job! 7 Paperback Miman 9781646510795 $16.99 Jul 13, 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: My Summer of You The Summer of You (My Summer of You Vol. 1) Paperback Nagisa Furuya 9781646512041 $19.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 01, 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: I Think Our Son is Gay I Think Our Son Is Gay 01 Paperback Okura 9781646090921 $17.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 13 May 11, 2021

A doting mother and her two beloved sons, one of whom she thinks is probably gay, go about their daily lives in this hilarious and heartwarming LGBTQIA+-friendly family comedy!Despite belonging to a family of four, the Aoyama residence is typically home to three due to father Akiyoshi’s job. While he’s away at work, mom Tomoko and her two beloved sons Hiroki and Yuri go about their everyday lives—going to school, making dinner, doing homework, etc. But now that Hiroki’s in his first year of high school, his thoughts are turning ever so slightly... + Read More
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Series: Chasing After Aoi Koshiba Chasing After Aoi Koshiba 2 Paperback Hazuki Takeoka 9781646511884 $16.99 Aug 31, 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 Narita was enjoying the perks of finally being one of the popular girls when her world was thrown into disarray after a chance encounter with athletic and tomboyish Aoi Koshiba in the summer of their second year in high school. Their growing friendship is tested when Aoi confides in Sahoko abou... + 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: Whisper Me a Love Song Whisper Me a Love Song 3 Paperback Eku Takeshima 9781646511471 $16.99 Jun 22, 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!After Aki confesses that she is in love with Yori, Himari suddenly has a deadline to figure out how she feels about her senpai. Maybe her new friend Momoka can help? The more time Himari spends with Momoka at the cooking club, though, the more nervous Yori seems to get. Yori has new obligations of her own, too, now that she has to practice ... + Read More
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Series: Secrets of Happiness Hardcover Joan Silber 9781640094451 $35.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kids—the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength in this “expansive and elegantly crafted novel” (Fresh Air, NPR). “Rich with the complexities of life…the stories create a world made fully dimensional through changes of perspective—major characters appear and reappear as part of one or another’s experience and testimony…Pull any life’s thread and you discover a mesh of involvem... + Read More
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Series: Words of Change Queer (Words of Change series) Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas Hardcover Coco Romack 9781632173775 $16.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 04, 2021

Words of Change: QUEER offers a curated collection of thought-provoking quotes and passages from the writings and speeches of activists and allies in the LGBTQIA+ community, with a focus on diverse and previously unheard voices.Compiled by journalist Coco Romack, this highly giftable collection of stirring words is intended to enlighten, to prompt change, to provide encouragement, and to deepen readers’ commitment to the movement. Celebrating activism, focusing on solutions, and avoiding apathy and pessimism, this book is an inspiration and a c... + Read More
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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 13, 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: Hitorijime My Hero Hitorijime My Hero 10 Paperback Memeco Arii 9781646510467 $16.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 01, 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!Trouble in Paradise Masahiro and Kousuke have started living together in their own apartment, and Masahiro is determined not to let the one-month time limit get him down. However, trouble begins to brew when Kousuke gets buried in work and comes home late every night. Much to Masahiro’s dismay, they’re hardly able to see one another outside of school. Meanwhile, Kensuke finally comes to terms with the fee... + Read More
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Series: Malice A Novel Hardcover Heather Walter 9781984818652 $36.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale.Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss.You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. The happily-ever-after.Utter nonsense.Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and ... + Read More
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Series: Victoria Sees It Paperback Carrie Jenkins 9780771049279 $24.95 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

A queer psychological thriller from a beguiling, fresh new voice.Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she’s the only one who seems to care: there are clues all over Cambridge, but Deb is nowhere to be found—and the harder Victoria looks, the less she sees.Victoria is raised in a crumbling house in England by her working-class aunt and uncle, until her academic brilliance gains her entrance to Cambridge. There, she meets her first true friend, Deb, a spacey aristocrat, and the girls create their own tiny bubble within Cambridg... + Read More
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Series: Chasing After Aoi Koshiba Chasing After Aoi Koshiba 1 Paperback Hazuki Takeoka 9781646511860 $16.99 Apr 27, 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 person she wants to see most is missing: Aoi Koshiba, her old classmate and first crush. Years ago, Aoi was the basketball team’s rising star, and caught Sahoko’s eye as an easy way to ... + Read More
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Series: The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida Paperback Clarissa Goenawan 9781641292634 $20.00 FICTION Mar 23, 2021

From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy anddark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako’s best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei’s older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to ta... + Read More
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Series: sulphurtongue Paperback Rebecca Salazar 9780771094699 $19.95 POETRY Mar 23, 2021

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit, and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Doppelgangers, Catholic saints, and polyamorists alike pass on unusual inheritances. Deeply entangled in relations both emotional and ecological, this collection confronts the stor... + Read More
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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: This Town Sleeps Paperback Dennis E. Staples 9781640094642 $23.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

Part mystery, part ghost story, a long unsolved murder becomes the singular fixation of an Indigenous American man living in far northern Minnesota as he grapples with his identity and that of his lover, a heavily closeted white man.On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a white man who isn’t ready to acknowledge his identity. While Marion i... + 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: 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: 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: 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: Real Life A Novel Paperback Brandon Taylor 9780525538899 $22.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE“A blistering coming of age story”—O: The Oprah MagazineOne of the year’s most talked about novels, following a young man who runs away to a Midwestern university townonly to fight a deeper psychic battle.A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend—and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where... + Read More
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Series: We Play Ourselves A Novel Hardcover Jen Silverman 9780399591525 $37.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

In the pursuit of fame, how do you know when you’ve gone too far?After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.” But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape—... + Read More
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Series: The Queens' English The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Yuri Is My Job! Yuri is My Job! 6 Paperback Miman 9781632369307 $16.99 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: 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