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Author
Publisher
Metonymy Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A NATURAL HISTORY OF TRANSITION is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror,...
Author
Publisher
Currency, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Achor explains that, before we can be happy or successful, we need to develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. He reveals five actionable, proven strategies for changing your lens to positive, in order to achieve your personal and professional goals.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"LGBTQ Stats chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. Deschamps and Singer - whose previous books and films on LGBTQ topics have won numerous awards and found audiences around the globe - provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal justice, and immigration, as well as evolving policies and laws affecting LGBTQ communities....
Author
Publisher
Monacelli Studio, a Phaidon Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence. There are many modalities...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
Author
Publisher
Metonymy Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire, grief, and delight, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island. The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Simon Pulse paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After the suicide of his boyfriend, Henry deals with depression and family issues, all while wondering if he was really abducted and told he has 144 days to decide whether or not the world is worth saving.
Author
Publisher
A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
275, 14 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay. They present their conservative Sri Lankan-American families...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau where only his talent...
11) Space story
Author
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
159 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two people fall in love on earth and have a child together. But as the planet becomes uninhabitable and everyone starts evacuating to the space station orbiting above, the family gets separated. Told in three interwoven stories, this graphic novel follows the journey of Hannah, Leah, and Bird as they experience love and loss, joy, loneliness, desperation, and hope for a new future"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Naira de Gracia's The Last Cold Place offers a dramatic, captivating window into a once-in-a-lifetime experience: a season living and working in a remote outpost in Antarctica alongside seals, penguins, and a small crew of fellow field workers. In one of the most inhospitable environments in the world (for humans, anyway), Naira follows a generation of chinstrap penguins from their parents' return to shore to build nests from pebbles until the chicks...
Author
Series
Critical studies in native history volume 18
Publisher
UMP, University of Manitoba Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 240 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival...
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