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Series: I Am More Than My Body The Body Neutral Journey Paperback Bethany C. Meyers 9780593544747 $27.99 SELF-HELP Jun 27, 2023

From the founder and CEO of the be.come project comes an inspiring introduction to “body neutrality”—the concept of steering away from self-hate without the pressure of having to love your body—and how thinking in this way can lead to joy, peace, and fulfillment.“Some days I love my body, some days I hate my body, but every day I respect my body.”A lot of us were raised on toxic diet culture—restrictions, limitations, and deprivation. Then the pendulum swung to the other extreme, with messages that we could love ourselves at any size, any weigh... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Frank Paperback CAConrad 9781802062304 $22.99 POETRY Jun 27, 2023

A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the eponymous figure as he grows from his troubled childhood into an adult travesty of the ostensibly straight family man in a male-dominated world. Along the way, he navigates a series of darkly comic situations, commits acts of grotesque violence, loses his soul in the post and debates boundary lines with a pig. Frank is... + Read More
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Series: Negative Money Paperback Lillian-Yvonne Bertram 9781593767532 $19.00 POETRY Jun 27, 2023

From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and emotional marginsNegative Money follows a speaker continually coming of age while probing the binary thresholds of racial and gender identity, violence and safety, security and precarity, love and loneliness.For readers of Readers Claudia Rankine, Torrey Peters, Ocean Vuong, and Jericho Brown, NBA nominated Lillian-Yvonne Bertrams’s poems are innovative, conceptually thoughtful work. Throu... + Read More
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Series: Better Living Through Birding Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World Hardcover Christian Cooper 9780593242384 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up at the birdsChristian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was... + Read More
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Series: How to Write About Africa Essays Hardcover Binyavanga Wainaina 9780812989656 $36.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 06, 2023

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality.“Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this…Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.”Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and e... + Read More
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Series: Lesbian Love Story A Memoir In Archives Hardcover Amelia Possanza 9781646221059 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2023

For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to loveWhen Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world’s largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories i... + Read More
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Series: Horse Barbie A Memoir Hardcover Geena Rocero 9780593445884 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2023

The dazzling, heartfelt memoir of a trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City—until she realized that living her truth was the only way to step into her full power.As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines’ informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a “horse Barbie” due to her statuesque phys... + Read More
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Series: Bad Gays A Homosexual History Paperback Huw Lemmey 9781839763281 $25.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 30, 2023

An unconventional history of homosexualityWe all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked despite their being informative and instructive. Based on the hugely popular podcast series of the same name, Bad Gays asks what we can learn about ... + Read More
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Series: The Male Gazed On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men Hardcover Manuel Betancourt 9781646221462 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2023

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the service of helping us reframe how we talk about (desiring) men—this insightful memoir-in-essays is as much a coming of age as a coming out bookManuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity—in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and television he avidly watched, Betancourt saw glimmers of different possibi... + Read More
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Series: Elizabeth and Monty The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship Paperback Charles Casillo 9781496724809 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 23, 2023

The critically acclaimed dual biography of the lifelong, platonic “love affair” between Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift – now in paperback! Violet-eyed siren Elizabeth Taylor and classically handsome Montgomery Clift were the most gorgeous screen couple of their time. Over two decades of friendship they made, separately and together, some of the era’s defining movies—including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Misfits; Suddenly, Last Summer; and Cleopatra. Yet the relationship between these two figures—one a larger-than-life star, the other ... + Read More
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Series: Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture Paperback Matt Baume 9781637743010 $29.00 PERFORMING ARTS May 23, 2023

There’s a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century.For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ+ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind.From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from network-censor fights over Soap to behind-the-scenes activism on the set of The Golden Girls, from Ellen’s culture... + Read More
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Series: Wild Dances My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision Hardcover William Lee Adams 9781662601576 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 23, 2023

A memoir of race, glitz, glamour, geopolitics, and the power of pop music, following a misunderstood queer biracial kid from small-town Georgia who became the world’s foremost Eurovision Song Contest blogger.As a boy, William Lee Adams spent his days taking care of his quadriplegic brother, worrying about his undiagnosed bipolar Vietnamese mother, and steering clear of his openly racist and homophobic father. Too shy and anxious to even speak until he was six years old, it seemed unlikely William would ever leave small-town Georgia. He passed t... + Read More
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Series: Uncle of the Year & Other Debatable Triumphs Hardcover Andrew Rannells 9780593443439 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

Candid, hilarious essays from the star of The Book of Mormon, Girls, and Big Mouth on anxiety, ambition, and the uncertain path to adulthood, which ask, how will we know when we get there?In Uncle of the Year, Andrew Rannells wonders: If he, now in his early forties, has everything he’s supposed to need to be a true adult–a career, property, a well-tailored suit–why does he still feel like an anxious twenty-year-old climbing his way toward security? Is it because he hasn’t won a Tony, or found a husband, or had a child? And what if he doesn’t w... + Read More
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Series: The T Guide Our Trans Experiences and a Celebration of Gender Expression—Man, Woman, Nonbinary, and Beyond Hardcover Gigi Gorgeous 9780744070590 $33.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

Real talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and GottmikIn this fabulous, fashion-forward guide, transgender icons Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik discuss the ins and outs of being transgender with their honest, hilarious, and GORGEOUS tales of what it means to be true to oneself—and they’ve picked up a few friends along the way.Whether you’re embarking on your own transgender journey or seeking the knowledge to be the best ally you can be, there is something to be learned from every story they tell.Join the conversation with Gigi and G... + Read More
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Series: Care Of Letters, Connections, and Cures Paperback Ivan Coyote 9780771004308 $21.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 16, 2023

Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet.Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members—letters, Facebook messages, emails, soggy handwritten notes tucked under the windshield wiper of their truck after a gig. Then came Spring, 2020, and, like artists everywhere, Coyote was grounded by the pandemic, all their planned events cancelled. The ener... + Read More
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Series: Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary Paperback Toshio Meronek 9781839763342 $25.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America’s first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van.Miss Maj... + Read More
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Series: The Yards Between Us A Memoir of Life, Love, and Football Hardcover R.K. Russell 9781368081368 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

A groundbreaking memoir from professional NFL player, writer, and advocate R.K. Russell, who made history by becoming the first out active NFL player to identify as bisexual.In 2019, R.K. Russell broke the mold when he came out as bisexual in an essay for ESPN that ignited the sports world. Now, in his powerful memoir, THE YARDS BETWEEN US, he shares his story and explores his love of football, men and women, walking the devastating tightrope of keeping his sexuality secret, the tension between his private and public lives, and the importance o... + Read More
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Series: Gay Lives Paperback Robert Aldrich 9780500297179 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

A comprehensive biographical survey from ancient Chinese courtiers to pioneers of gay liberation in the twenty-first century, from the unknowable relationships of the distant past to the frankest affirmations of modern sexual identity.The exploits of the famous never cease to captivate our imaginations—rulers, artists, explorers, and all the great personalities of history. Yet many quieter lives also have the ability to impress, to teach us something about the remarkable qualities of human nature. In this book, Robert Aldrich presents a fascina... + Read More
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Series: Deadly and Slick Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race Paperback Sita Balani 9781839761027 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 16, 2023

A groundbreaking new analysis of the making of modernity, sexuality and raceIf race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most intimate and essential: sexuality. Modernity inaugurates a new political subject made legible as an individual through the nuclear family, sexual adventure and the pursuit of romantic love. By examining the regulation of s... + Read More
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Series: A Symmetry Poems Paperback Ari Banias 9781324064527 $21.95 POETRY May 09, 2023

Winner of the 2022 Publish Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award A thrilling, discursive second collection from “a poet for this hour—bewildered, hopeful, and cracklingly alive” (Mark Doty). The poems in Ari Banias’s thrilling and discursive second collection, A Symmetry, unsettle the myth of a benevolently ordered reality. Through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, Banias contends with the inscriptions of nationhood, language, and ancestral memory in the architectures of daily experience. Refusing the nostalgias of classi... + Read More
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Series: I Felt the End Before It Came Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness Hardcover Daniel Allen Cox 9780735242104 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2023

“I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s Witness—it’s one or the other.”Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him.But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his ... + Read More
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Series: BIG IDEAS The LGBTQ + History Book Hardcover DK 9780744070736 $36.99 May 09, 2023

Presents a bold and accessible overview of LGBTQ+ history: the good, the bad, and the clandestine. Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world—their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to the Kinseys’ modern sexualit... + Read More
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Series: We See Each Other A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film Hardcover Tre'vell Anderson 9781368081733 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2023

A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that’s long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history’s annals, and further contextualizes our present moment of increased representation. The films and television shows that Tre’vell covers include: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Psycho, Holiday He... + Read More
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Series: Home Paperback Whitney Hanson 9780143138006 $24.95 POETRY May 09, 2023

From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems"the bees aren’t going to go awaybut they are going to change with yousometimes they will be chaoticsometimes they will restsometimes they will give you sweet honeyand sometimes they will remind youof how much love can stingbut if you can find a home within yourselfand make peace with your beesyou will be alright”—from HomeResonant, raw, and vibrant, Home is a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak. Tracing ... + Read More
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Series: What Needs to Be Said Speak Your Truth, Release Shame, Find Oneness Paperback Alex Reegan 9781401971175 $23.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 02, 2023

This is your call to look within and live as your most authentic, compassionate self as Alex Reegan shares his incredible story of healing and growth.When was the last time you truly looked within? What if you realised that everything you’ve ever needed was already there?In this part memoir, part self-help book, interfaith minister, intuitive coach, and empathic trans man Alex Reegan reveals how he overcame grief, depression, addiction and more, and how you can too.Alex deftly weaves his own story – the story of a trans man born into a fundamen... + Read More
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Series: The Digital Closet How the Internet Became Straight Paperback Alexander Monea 9780262545952 $28.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 02, 2023

An exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more. A Next Big Idea Club nominee.In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels—rendering it invisible through opaque algorithms, automated and human content moderation, warped keywords, and other strategies of digital overreach. Monea explains how the United States’ ... + Read More
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Series: Nasty, Brutish, and Short Adventures in Philosophy with Kids Paperback Scott Hershovitz 9781984881830 $27.99 PHILOSOPHY May 02, 2023

From a University of Michigan professor of law and philosophy, a fresh, deep, and funny inquiry into life’s biggest questions with the help of first-rate philosophers—including his two young childrenSome of the best philosophers in the world gather in surprising places—preschools and playgrounds. They debate questions about metaphysics and morality, even though they’ve never heard the words and perhaps can’t even tie their shoes. They’re kids. And as Scott Hershovitz shows in this delightful debut, they’re astoundingly good philosophers.Hershov... + Read More
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Series: All In An Autobiography Paperback Billie Jean King 9781039002180 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAn inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life’s journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career—six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous “Battle of the Sexes.” She poi... + Read More
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Series: Everything Keeps Dissolving Conversations with Coil Paperback Nick Soulsby 9781913689438 $39.95 MUSIC Apr 25, 2023

Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the present-tense, as events unfold across their twenty-year history.Between 1983 and 2004 the legendary British experimental band Coil established themselves as shape-shifting doyens of esoteric music whose influence has grown spectacularly in the years since their untimely end. With music that could be dark, queer, and difficult, but often retained a warped pop sensibility, Coil’s albums were multi-faceted repositories of esoteric knowledge, lysergic wisdom and ace... + Read More
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Series: Perfectly Queer Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet Paperback Jillian Abby 9781401970741 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

This humorous, heartwarming memoir follows a wife and mother’s journey of self-discovery and acceptance as she comes out as a lesbian in her late 30s.Jill had a happy, healthy 20-year relationship with her college sweetheart, two wonderful kids, and rescue cat from the Humane Society. They lived in a nice suburban home with a white picket fence and owned a small bar that was rated one of the “Best Mom & Pop” businesses in Tampa Bay. From the outside, everything looked perfect.Perfectly Queer takes the reader on Jillian Abby’s poignant and painf... + Read More
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Series: Not Everyone is Going to Like You Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser Paperback Rinny Perkins 9780593325520 $24.49 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

A debut illustrated manifesto by Rinny Perkins (@RinnyRiot) about what she’s learned as a queer Black woman through the art of self-validation.In this graphic collection of mini essays, comedian Rinny Perkins illustrates her experiences as the owner of a popular online shop while she figures out antidepressant prescriptions and the seemingly never-ending dating-app cycle.Rinny shares what she’s learned across topics like mental health, work, sex and dating, and family and friends. Featuring funny, real reflections from experiences in her hometo... + Read More
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Series: I Could Not Believe It The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear Paperback Sean DeLear 9781635901832 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 30, 2023

A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA’s most influential artists of subsequent decades.When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered—among other treasures—an extensive diary kept at the age of fourteen. Still living with his Christian parents in the notoriously racist Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, Sean wrote almost every day about crushes and hustling, waterbeds, blackmail, Donna Summer, gloryholes, racism, and shoplifting gay porn. DeLear would go on ... + Read More
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Series: Book Bonding Building Connections Through Family Reading Hardcover Megan Dowd Lambert 9781623541514 $20.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 18, 2023

A collection of essays about family, reading, and bonding with others through books. From children’s literature educator and children’s book author Megan Dowd Lambert.This poignant, funny, and touching essay collection invites readers to consider how they bond with children, other family, friends, and students through shared reading. Divided into 4 sections organized around themes of parenting, adoption, race, and healing, this 21-essay collection with its joyous and colorful illustrations is perfect gift for parents, grandparents, librarians, ... + Read More
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Series: Love Is an Ex-Country A Memoir Paperback Randa Jarrar 9781646221226 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 18, 2023

Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this “exuberant, defiant and introspective” memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review).Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called “politically incorrect” (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer’s journey across the Uni... + Read More
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Series: The Apprentice Tourist Paperback Mário de Andrade 9780143137351 $23.00 TRAVEL Apr 04, 2023

A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the AmazonA Penguin Classic“My life’s done a somersault,” wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, and almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South America in In Patagonia, Andrade, the queer mixed-race “pope” of Brazilian modernism and author of the epic novel Macunaíma, finally embarks on a three-... + Read More
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Series: Reconceptions Modern Relationships, Reproductive Science, and the Unfolding Future of Family Paperback Rachel Lehmann-Haupt 9781637742433 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 04, 2023

Emerging technologies in reproductive science won’t just change the ways we become parents—they’ll play a key role in the evolving definition of “family.”Traditional family structures are adapting to make room for children conceived in previously unimaginable ways. Whole industries and internet-enabled communities are being built around reproductive technologies. And there’s more change coming as science continues to move forward. Combining intimate personal stories with cutting-edge research, Reconceptions invites readers to reconsider their o... + Read More
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Series: Dismissed Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care Hardcover Angela Marshall 9780806542041 $37.99 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 28, 2023

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Race, gender, sexual orientation, age, body size, income, and other cultural factors have a significant bearing on whether you will be diagnosed and treated correctly. The good news is regardless of whether you are a patient, healthcare provider, or administrator, there are steps you can take today to combat medical bias. The only book on this subject written by a primary care doctor who is a woman of color, DISMISSED examines all forms of bias – those related to race and ethnicity, gender identity and sexual ori... + Read More
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Series: Ten Steps to Nanette A Memoir Situation Paperback Hannah Gadsby 9781984819802 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 28, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with her show Nanette when she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.Hannah Gadsby’s show Nanette is a scorching critique of the way society conducts public debates about marginalized communities. When it premiered on Netflix, it left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her singular ability to take ... + Read More
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Series: Sundays A Celebration of Breakfast and Family in 52 Essential Recipes: A Cookbook Hardcover Mark Pupo 9780525611103 $32.00 COOKING Mar 28, 2023

A cookbook with a memoir at its heart—about breakfast, the joy of a father and son cooking together, and how we show love through food.Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but it’s also the most intimate and personal. It’s when we’re in our pyjamas and with our families, not quite ready to face the world. It’s what we crave when we want comfort and it’s the easiest way to turn us back into kids again.Mark Pupo got into the habit of preparing big breakfasts every Sunday with his neurodivergent kindergartener, Sam. Everything else... + Read More
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Series: Trace Evidence Paperback Charif Shanahan 9781953534668 $22.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2023

A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Chicago Book of 2023 “A truly magical achievement.” —Ocean VuongIn Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection’s center sits “On the Overnight from Agadir,” a poem that chronicles Shanahan’s survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his ... + Read More
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Series: We Should Not Be Friends The Story of a Friendship Hardcover Will Schwalbe 9780525654933 $39.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 21, 2023

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years—from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book ClubA "searching, tender, insightful, and wise memoir…Reading this beautifully written and generous book, you will find yourself thinking of your own friendships” —Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know: the theater people, writers, visual artists and comp... + Read More
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Series: 69 Exhibition Road Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance Paperback Dorothy Max Prior 9781913689636 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 14, 2023

A vibrant, wry, and engaging account of life as an adventurous, queer young person in late 1970s London discovering themselves as an artist, and an individual.While working as a photographer’s model, gallery usher, and exotic dancer, Dorothy “Max” Prior witnessed the births of Adam and the Ants, The Monochrome Set, The Sex Pistols, and Throbbing Gristle, as well as drumming in her own cult band Rema Rema and recording with Industrial Records. Her exuberant commentaries, each presented as a stand-alone episode, illustrate the multilayered natu... + Read More
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Series: Wanting Women Writing About Desire Paperback Margot Kahn 9781646220113 $24.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 14, 2023

An intimate and empowering anthology of essays that explore the changing face of female desire in whip-smart, sensuous prose, with pieces by Tara Conklin, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, and othersWhat is desire? And what are its rules? In this daring collection, award-winning and emerging female writers share their innermost longings, in turn dismantling both personal and political constructs of what desire is or can be.In the opening essay, Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time. Rena Priest’s desire for a pair ... + Read More
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Series: Hijab Butch Blues A Memoir Hardcover Lamya H 9780593448762 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 07, 2023

“A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart.” —GLENNON DOYLE, author of UntamedA queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and inspiration from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir.When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overac... + Read More
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Series: Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers A Sex-Positive Handbook for Mental Health Practitioners Paperback Theodore R. Burnes PhD 9781623176808 $25.95 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 24, 2023

An affirming and sex-positive guide to working with sex workers: uncovering clinical biases, creating safe spaces, and dismantling the whorearchy.Despite the wide range of sex work—from street-based to OnlyFans—clinicians too often focus on what they think sex workers need, instead of building trust, developing rapport, and really doing the work to understand the unique stressors that make quality mental health care essential for sex worker communities. Sex-positive therapists Theodore Burnes and Jamila Dawson break down everything that men... + Read More
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Series: Fandom Acts of Kindness A Heroic Guide to Activism, Advocacy, and Doing Chaotic Good Paperback Tanya Cook 9781637741702 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 03, 2023

Fandom can save the world!This first of its kind, actionable and inspirational resource provides the tools and motivation necessary for pop culture fans to make a difference—while having fun! Fandoms are united as a community because of the power of story. And it’s exactly the magical alchemy forged when mixing story and community that has helped fandoms across the world feed thousands of hungry children, donate countless books, build schools, register voters, disrupt online hate speech, and save lives through crafting PPE for COVID-19 frontlin... + Read More
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Series: Fifth Spirit Tarot A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook Cards Charlie Claire Burgess 9781401971182 $38.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Dec 20, 2022

Expanding the traditional tarot archetypes beyond the gender binary, this deck re-imagines the cards from a queer and inclusive perspective.The more we work with Tarot, the more we realize that binaries don’t exist and everything is fluid-gender, meaning, even time. We come to realize that we’re all creatures made of earth and air, fire and water, all four elements bound together by the fifth element: spirit. Fifth Spirit Tarot goes beyond the gender binary, queering the archetypes with 78 beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered cards by quee... + Read More
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Series: Finding Self-Compassion A Mindfulness Workbook for Getting to Know and Love Yourself Diary Sydney Spears PhD LSCSW 9781632174178 $16.95 SELF-HELP Dec 06, 2022

“This book is beautiful and fun to read, but most important, if you do the practices and exercises within it, you’ll learn skills that will transform your life.”—Kristin Neff, PhD, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin and author of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook Treat yourself with kindness! Use this guided journal to develop the skills of self-compassion: embrace your identity, overcome self-criticism, practice mindfulness, cope with self-doubt, and deal with difficult emotions.Self-compassion is an ... + Read More
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Series: Cook As You Are Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook Hardcover Ruby Tandoh 9780593321546 $47.00 COOKING Nov 08, 2022

A BON APPETIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A cookbook for the real world: a beautifully illustrated, inclusive, and inspiring collection of delectable and doable recipes for home cooks of all kinds that shows you don’t have to be an aspiring chef to make great food—or for cooking to be a delight. Just cook as you are."Not simply a recipe book, but a warm invitation to relax into and enjoy the experience of cooking and eating. Ruby Tandoh offers understanding, encouragement and completely glorious food.” —NIGELLA LAWSON, author of Cook, Eat, RepeatFr... + Read More
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Series: Rethinking Gender An Illustrated Exploration Paperback Louie Läuger 9780262047234 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2022

A lively, informative, and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to “What even is gender?”Queer, cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, androgynous, maverique, intergender, genderfluid. Louie and their cat (a.k.a. “Cat”) take you on a journey through the world of gender—without claiming to have it all figured out or knowing the perfect definition for this widely complex subject. Gender is tricky to understand because it’s a social construct intersecting with many other parts of ou... + Read More
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Series: Toil and Trouble A Women's History of the Occult Hardcover Lisa Kröger 9781683692911 $25.99 HISTORY Oct 25, 2022

A celebration of magical women and nonbinary people in American history, from Salem to WitchTok.Meet the mystical women and nonbinary people from US history who found strength through the supernatural—and those who are still forging the way today. From the celebrity spirit mediums of the nineteenth century to contemporary activist witches hexing the patriarchy, these icons have long used magic and mysticism to seize the power they’re so often denied.Organized around different approaches women in particular have taken to the occult over the de... + Read More
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Series: Working Girls Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood Hardcover Trixie Mattel 9780593186114 $37.99 HUMOR Oct 25, 2022

From the immensely popular drag queens and New York Times bestselling authors of Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood, a full-color designed, satirical guide to professional womanhood.After resounding success teaching readers the joys of beauty and homemaking in their Guide to Modern Womanhood, Trixie Mattel and Katya are back with advice for women in the workplace. Riffing on aesthetic and cultural tropes from the ‘80s and ‘90s (think Working Girl, Ally McBeal, and 9 to 5) the drag queens will dole out hilarious and probably very misgu... + Read More
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Series: README.txt A Memoir Hardcover Chelsea Manning 9780771048913 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 18, 2022

An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time.In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the United States Army in Iraq, disclosed classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. The army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in military prison, charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military documents. The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity ... + Read More
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Series: Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things Bold, vegetable-forward recipes plus homemade sauces, condiments, and more to build a flavor-packed pantry: A Cookbook Paperback Noor Murad 9780525611622 $37.50 COOKING Oct 18, 2022

The Globe and Mail bestselling author Yotam Ottolenghi and his superteam of chefs bring you the second installment in the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen series, delivering maximum-flavor recipes with cook-it-forward elements that can turn any dish into an Ottolenghi favorite.Just like Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love, Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things is all about bringing big flavor and flexibility to every meal, with pantry staples and freezer-friendly ingredients. This time, Yotam, Noor, and the rest of the test kitchen team bring you d... + Read More
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Series: Savor A Chef's Hunger for More Hardcover Fatima Ali 9780593355190 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 11, 2022

A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in this stunning, lyrical memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyondFatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the season fifteen “Fan Favorite” of Bravo’s Top Chef. At twenty-nine years old, she was a dynamic, boundary-breaking chef and a bright new voice for change in the food world. After the taping wrapped and before the show aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. Not... + Read More
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Series: Keith Haring The Story of His Life Hardcover Paolo Parisi 9783791388434 $33.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 11, 2022

Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases.From his boyhood days spent drawing compulsively through his tragic death, the trajectory of Keith Haring’s life is a story of incredible achievement, luck, opportunity, and extraordinary commitment. This graphic novel looks at every stage of that life, exploring his early influences, the roots of his activism, an... + Read More
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Series: Bingay! Celebrate Our LGBTQ+ Icons! Novelty book Phil Constantinesco 9781922417961 $40.00 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 04, 2022

This bingo game celebrates our brightest LGBTQ+ icons. Bingay! celebrates the icons who have made our world a better place, with the greatest game known to humanity: Bingo!Trailblazers of the LGBTQ+ world, from Marsha P. Johnson to Margaret Cho, Oscar Wilde to Billy Porter, and Laverne Cox to Boy George have gathered together – in a handy game box! Collectively, they’ve expanded horizons, shaped art, politics, and pop culture, and now they’re here to transform your game nights!With 8 doubled-sided randomized bingo cards, and 48 tokens that fea... + Read More
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Series: A Drag Queen's Guide to Life Paperback Bimini Bon Boulash 9780241543580 $21.99 SELF-HELP Sep 27, 2022

THE BIMINI BON BESTSELLER (Sunday Times official!)A hilarious and inspiring guide to transforming your life through lessons from drag, by the UK’s favourite drag queen and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Bimini Bon Boulash.’MAGIC! A fun, fierce, honest origin story of how to drag yourself up out of trouble and become an icon’ Katherine Ryan ’A triumph for UK queer culture’ Travis Alabanza’Eye-opening, intelligent, thoughtful as well as sassy and surprising - a must read’ Lorraine Kelly_______________________________________Bimini Bon Boulash is ... + Read More
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Series: Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle Hardcover Elissa Auther 9780847869671 $67.50 DESIGN Sep 27, 2022

Machine Dazzle, to my mind, [is] a true theatrical genius who has created some of the most inventive costumes and sets I have ever seen. —Hilton Als, The New YorkerMachine Dazzle is the much-in-demand designer and artist behind popular cabaret, drag, and performance stars such as Taylor Mac and transgender icon Mx. Justin Vivian Bond. For the first time, his over-the-top stage creations, made for himself and others, are collected here alongside stage environments, ephemera, and photos from his career. In Machine Dazzle’s world, costumes are tra... + Read More