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"[A novel] 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 had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier,...
Author
Publisher
Go, Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Collecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative outsiders to succeed in the worlds of business, tech, politics, Hollywood, sports and beyond, The Queer Advantage celebrates the unique, supercharged power of queerness"--
4) Sweethurt
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two interwoven stories of love and heartbreak play out in a small beachside town over the course of one weekend, bringing chaos and absurdity in this hilarious look at love as a young adult.
Author
Series
An Epitome Apartments mystery volume 2
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wise-cracking, grammar-obsessed, pansexual amateur sleuth is thrust into the world of the uber-rich when her enigmatic, now-famous childhood friend breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker Our nameless postmodern amateur sleuth is still recovering from her first dangerous foray into detective work when her old friend Priscilla Jane Gill breezes back into her life and begs for help. Pris, now a famous travel writer, fears...
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English
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn's debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Tordotcom Edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine,...
Author
Publisher
IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Some people are invisible to us: we overlook the poor and homeless. We hold misconceptions about who is deserving or not. Lester calls us to see the invisible people around us, to become more informed about poverty and homelessness, and to see the poor as Jesus does. When we see people through God's eyes, we restore their dignity and help them flourish. -- adapted from back cover
Publisher
Diamond Law
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, gender non-conforming, and transgender in the Pacific Northwest. Issues discussed include microaggressions, implicit bias, coming out, the gender binary, discrimination at the workplace, and family dynamics.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ace" delves into the lives of those who identify using the little-known sexual orientation of asexuality and shows what all of us can learn--about desire, identity, culture, and relationships--when we use an asexual lens to see the world"--
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed film follows 14-year-old Sami girl Elle Marja ("Powerful newcomer Lene Cecilia Sparrok." - New York Times), who, along with her sister, is torn from her indigenous reindeer-herding family and placed in a government-run boarding school in 1930s Sweden. There Elle dreams of education and a future, but these dreams are hindered when she is met with racial expectations that class her people as inferior. What follows is a girl's attempt...
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
We're here. We're queer. We're fat. This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging, and established queer and trans writers from around the world. In writing that is intimate, luminous, and emotionally raw, this anthology challenges negative and damaging representations and offers readers ways to reclaim their bodies, providing stories of support, inspiration,...
Publisher
First Run Features Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 54 min., 55 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Learn how to respectfully care for a diverse clientele by understanding their cultural differences. This program provides practical and effective methods of recognizing and dealing with the special needs of different cultures by adapting care techniques to the preferences of a diverse clientele including: ethical and religious beliefs, values and practices.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
ix, 388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a...
18) Race in America
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The LGBTQ+ community is so much more than rainbow flags and the month of June. In this beautifully designed dynamic book, young readers will learn about groundbreaking events, including historic pushes for equality and the legalization of same-sex marriages across the world. They will dive into the phenomenal history of queer icons from ancient times to the present and read about Harvey Milk, Marsha P. Johnson, Audre Lorde, and more. Including several...
Publisher
Walking Together, Finding the Way/SkyLight Paths Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxii, 212 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A multifaceted sourcebook telling the powerful story of reconciliation, celebration and struggle for LGBTQI inclusion across the American religious landscape,"--Amazon.com.
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