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2023.
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"A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking...
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2023.
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When Anne learns that her 19-year-old is a transgender man, she struggles to understand her son's new identity. A new landmark in nonfiction comics, Transitions is a sympathetic, informative, and moving story of a family's journey to acceptance. "I thought I was open-minded. The news of my child's transition hit me like a tidal wave, sweeping away all my preconceived notions. Sweeping away the comfort of my tidy little life." When university biologist...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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From debut author Elle Gonzalez Rose comes a fresh, fun contemporary rom-com about an aspiring artist who agrees to fake date one of his family's longtime enemies in the hopes of gathering intel strong enough to take down their rivals and keep the family cabin they gambled in a risky bet. Devin Bez is prepared for a relaxing winter break after his rough, first semester of art school. Sure, his family's old Florida lake cabin is falling apart, and...
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2023.
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"Just a few years ago, Schuyler Bailar rose to national and international prominence when he became the first openly transgender athlete to compete on an NCAA Division 1 team in any sport. A top high school prospect, Schuyler had been recruited by Harvard for the women's team, but after taking a gap year to address mental health and ultimately to transition, Schuyler swam instead for Harvard's men's team. Since then, Schuyler has become a go to expert...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand continues Flocks, L. Nichols's graphic memoir of growing up trans in the rural South. These comics document L.'s further transition, from living as a man to walking the middle path, facing depression, disease, divorce and death. Healing leaves scars, things fall apart, and pronouns change until there is no I, there is only us. --from Amazon.
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In a near future world of superheroes, clubs like Dirty Little Secret make use of the latest technology to offer a unique sort of escort service: men transformed by advanced collars into beautiful women. Great for men still nervous around women. Excellent for a man like Ethan, who has a genuine phobia driven by a horrible mother. Yet, as he falls for one of the collar girls, he starts to suspect 'she' is really one of the city's top superheroes.What...
7) Secret Santa
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Sage and Dove decide to celebrate Christmas by dusting off their rusty threesome skills again. But when the event doesn't quite go as planned, they instead find an old friend, and the chance to reconnect across all that can separate us. This book includes an all enby trans cast, a high heat holiday sexual encounter, and the threesome-to-polyamorous-relationship pipeline.
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A Cozy Christmas in Garnet Run River Mills loves working at the Dirt Road Cat Shelter in the cozy town of Garnet Run. They finally have a safe place to live and wonderful friends (feline and human), for the first time. But love? They've never had much luck … until gorgeous, confident Cassidy Darling bursts through the shelter door one night with an injured cat in his arms.Cassidy loves all animals and when their lives are cut short, he loves honoring...
9) That Girl
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I don't believe in love at first sight, not with my track record.
But the night I met Yvette has come close to changing my mind - I couldn't have kept away from her even if I tried, she was all I had eyes and ears for, and since that day, this hasn't changed. I want to be around her all the time, spend time getting to know her, take her out on endless dates.
Problem is, Yvette is unlike any of the women I tend to date - and I tend to date a lot, to...
10) To Own the Libs
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How far would you go?
Seven months ago, Lily started transitioning.
It had been a quick, unexpected decision: meeting her classmate Anna and Anna's theyfriend Elanor at a party awoke something in her, and she came out the very next day.
There were some hiccups along the way, to be sure. Getting from there to here has been neither simple nor easy, but with the help of her friends and her girlfriend, Lily managed to overcome all obstacles in her way:...
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When a new patron at the library catches Tyler's sights, she doesn't expect the encounter to turn into much. But when she realizes that Clinton Dubsky, a PhD student at the local university, is translating a poem from a prior civilization, she's even more intrigued.
As Tyler works with Clint to translate the poem and find references for a lost world, she also excavates her own history through her grandmother's stories about society, painting with...
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The world is a dark and terrifying place, even when it is filled with beauty and wonder.At least it seems that way to Alex. Life was simple once, where you could just glide along on its currents, make do and have a sliver of contentment. But now he's being plagued by a recurring dream, and forced to confront things he's been avoiding. And that's ignoring all of the changes.And Esper, well Esper really has no clue at all about what is going on around...
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[2024]
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"It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel's dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia's presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back...
14) Open Wound
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Continued from Everything Is Wonderful Now... After the angel that threatened his life, Sean faced his frightening alter, Vexis, who haunted his dreams. With the help of Byleth, Zagan, and Darokin, he thinks his troubles are finally behind him. Little does he know that PTSD is a beast lying dormant in waiting to emerge. It ends up influencing everything, including the way he perceives reality. Vexis was the reason Sean remained in a trauma loop for...
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Se llama Alegría. Tiene diecinueve años y toda la vida por delante. Esta noche ha quedado para salir con sus compañeras de academia. Se viste frente al espejo con la camiseta extragrande que deja al descubierto su hombro, mostrando el tatuaje de su mariposa favorita. En la cocina, se despide de su madre. Viven solas en un apartamento de la periferia, el primer hogar que han logrado construir tras un pasado marcado por la violencia. Ahora, después...
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Starting over is never easy, but for Devon Markson, taking the barn manager job at Second Joy Farms in northern Arkansas made perfect sense. The owner, Joy, didn't just work with rescued horses, she also seemed to rescue people, too, and Devon knew he needed a soft landing after what he'd experienced at his previous barn. He knew he could do the work, and Joy didn't care that he was transgender. And although he quickly begins to shine, Devon comes...
17) Chimera
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A complex love story between three people. Two of whom share the same body.KM is a chimera, an intersex, having both male and female DNA. They were brutally conditioned growing up to present as one gender. They can physically alter themselves to be Kai, male, or Mera, female. While in each aspect, the other resides mentally.When Mera accidentally locks herself out of their apartment, she meets their awkward next-door neighbor, Emma, who is also hiding...
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A few months have passed since Countess Taryn Moxley's life was turned upside-down. Sent to an etiquette school to learn something about being a noblewoman, she swiftly found herself swept by found family, eager to have her acclimate! Though she was slipping into the role easily enough, this gives her time for introspection, something she'd been avoiding for nearly a decade. An uncomfortable truth looms beneath the surface, one Taryn can't possibly...
19) Star of Wonder
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A trans/bi holiday romance novelette. After forty years of living in the wrong body, Patrice Diaz was finally reborn. She had two weeks in Las Vegas to try new ways of enjoying her new life. The nice-looking guy at the bar seemed like a good place to start, but she had to tell him the truth. Noel Arkady was at the point of 'if you want something to change, you have to do something different.' The pretty woman at the bar might have been only a pleasant...
20) Agency Returned
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Fenugreek works without blinking. Love lost, sweet Skailore gone. The seasons turn over as before. Time and life marches on. Only, Fenugreek remains the same. Then, one stormy night, a knock sounds against Fenugreek's door. Opening it demands risk. Fenugreek turns the knob, but keeps the safety chain securely in place. Through the thin crack, a dark voice speaks. Is it Skailore come again? Or has it the world come banging, demanding Fenugreek accept...
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