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A literary meditation on sex. Sam Heaps is a millennial Anaïs Nin, exploring their most intimate power struggles with a raw and artful voice.Each partner is a new mask through which the narrator discovers themselves, creating a song through each personal essay of desire...

Enjoy your night in with these movies that tell queer stories. Have you noticed something about every "100 Greatest Movies Ever Made" list? The people in those movies . . . they're almost all straight, white men. With so much incredible cinema to choose...

Equal parts witty and steamy, this debut rom-com is "filled with fun" (People) and brings a healthy dose of queerness to a Pride and Prejudice-inspired enemies-to-lovers romance. "Brims with heart, spice, and humor."--Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care"The L Word, but...

A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials,...

A landmark comedic novel about a group of queer teens at their worst - and ultimately their best - from one of the UK's leading writers of LGBTQ+ teen fiction.Barney's a shoo-in for his school's LGBTQ+ Society President at the club's next election. But...

A lesbian mech rom-com graphic novel by Ignatz and Prism Award-winning cartoonist Emma Jayne!After many grueling years of defending against colossal, violent creatures, the machine that will turn the conflict in humanity's favor is nearing completion...until the war unexpectedly comes to a sudden, peaceful...

Finalist for the New England Book Award 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 margins Negative Money follows a speaker continually...

Molly wants to look her best for picture day at her school, and what looks better than a tux? Molly's school picture day is coming up, and she wants to have a perfect portrait taken to hang on their wall. Her mom has picked...

LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURETHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023A novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love and madness. When he tired of Toronto's insular scene, art critic...

In this honest look at sex addiction and grappling with identity, L Scully has laid bare their most intimate scars and dared the reader to trace the outlines. With personal essays, photographs, and journal entries, L Scully invites us to examine our own motives...

This heartfelt, poignant YA debut is a second-chance summer romance that will steal your heart--perfect for fans of Heartstopper, Some Girls Do, and It's Not Like it's a Secret.This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime--and long-distance--crush. Ada's fanfics...

In Amy Spalding's charming young adult novel No Boy Summer, Lydia and her younger sister, Penny, make a pact to avoid boy drama for the summer--but Lydia can't help looking for a loophole when she falls for a cute girl. Lydia Jones and her...

Celebrate what makes you Unique with this colorful and empowering ABC book that breaks gender stereotypes. Daryl is so affectionate. Alex is gentle with the family cat. Sage and Kaylin are super strong. And Ira yearns to do ballet like their older brother. Demystify...

"To be clear, Franny Choi's poetry has the extraordinary ability to solder with tender focus one moment, then rage like electrical fire in the next. In Death by Sex Machine, where fem-surrogate cyborgs of film and manga are impetus for understanding personal suppression of...

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen birder somehow finds themself investigating a murder with their neighbor/fellow anime lover, all while falling for a cute girl from their birding group...and trying not to get killed next....

A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women's grief--offering insight into the profound experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in an unruly world.Seamlessly shifting between the speculative and the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre...

Grandad and Milly are back for another adventure, this time honoring the past and celebrating the future with a pride parade. This heartwarming tale continues to wonderful journey that began with the Stonewall Honoree, British Book Award winner, and Waterstones Best Illustrated Book, Grandad's...

"Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece . . . Though millions of pages have been written about Dickinson . . . few have provided such a thrilling close-up portrait. Readers will be rapt from the first...

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between "seed" and "summit" of a life-the body, a people, their language. It is an intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and...

A TIME, NPR, VOGUE, OPRAH DAILY, AND VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 "Ho's debut work is the perfect modern example of great American fiction. . . . You will love it." --Jake Tapper...

Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family living in Hawai'i faces the fallout of their eldest son's attempt to run across the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea in this "fresh, inventive, and at times,...

A fierce, feminist, and fun middle grade fantasy graphic novel about a twelve-year-old Indian American girl named Shakti who must learn the power of her ancestral magic if she wants to save her family and town from a dangerous curse. Written by Stonewall Honor...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." --The New York...

Ian Marlow has everything it takes to be a great mortician - innate kindness, a strong sense of humor, and determined insomnia. Even so, managing a profitable funeral home in the heart of Colorado was never something that the twenty-three year old hoped to...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW WITH A NEW PREFACE A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America's future. Throughout the...

A captivating memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her. "[An] achingly beautiful memoir." --Manuel Betancourt, The New York Times Book Review "A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity." --Jennifer Finney Boylan, author...

A 6-Week Artist's Way Program Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since her seminal book, The Artist's Way, first broke open the conversation around art. Now, in Write for Life, she turns to one of the subjects closest to her heart:...

Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment....

The famous bi-sexual libertine who would be more at home on Tinder than at a Roman Cathedral, gallivants through the streets like brush strokes to become a Baroque 16th century icon.The year is 1604 and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is a superstar, his blockbuster...

A young Dumplin' meets Melissa in this joyful and energetic middle grade novel about a twelve-year-old girl living her life to the fullest, celebrating her love for sports and fighting for her right to cheer.Joy, a twelve-year-old trans girl, just moved to Texas with...

Does Love Always Win is a sapphic coming of age young adult novel that explores coming out and understanding one's sexual orientation. Sam "Shorty" Daniels has a plan for her senior year, but her romantic life being a hot mess was not part of...

A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this irresistible sapphic romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material. "Fresh and delightful . . . All the interpersonal drama of Jane Austen meets all the complex...

Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. His 'mighty line' of iambic pentameter transformed the miracle plays of the Middle Ages into modern drama and he paved the way for Shakespeare and a dozen other greats who stole his metre and his...

A full-length play. What do we really know about Christopher Marlowe? We openly discuss Shakespeare, his celebrated contemporary, but what about the dark playwright who fell victim to one of the most murderous controversies of the English Renaissance? It Was Kit is a farce...

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy literature for trans and gender nonconforming stories. Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you'll embark on fourteen different adventures...

A 2024 re-release with a new afterword! Quinn, a ghost of a woman who wanders the unending desert landscape, searches for a way to save herself from the truck driving highway woman tasked with ferrying her to the land of the dead. She is...

2023 Bookstagram Winner for LGBTQ+ Novel of the YearAn abandoned motel.A woman flees an unknown danger, taking refuge in a motel. She is never seen again.A mad scientist.A geneticist stretches the boundaries of nature. His experiments, once human, are now something else. Something new....

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking...

Full of humor and heartbreak, this story about a nonbinary character navigating a binary world is perfect for fans of Alex Gino and Kyle Lukoff.It's exhausting trying to be the perfect daughter. Still, getting good grades without making any waves may be the only...

Friends to lovers? There's a lot to consider, a lot to hope for, and a lot at risk in a steamy and emotional romance by the bestselling author of Can't Resist Her.Peaches Monroe and Jamie Hunt are core members of their Texas friend squad...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAROprah Daily・Electric Literature・Gay Times・NBC OutA JULY 2023 INDIE NEXT PICKA sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transformative power of desire, and the dissonance between self and place, by White Review Fiction...

"The Lathe of Heaven" is George Orr's story - a man who dreams things into being, for better or for worse. It is a dark vision and a warning - a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable - a truly prescient and startling view...

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid. Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick - Apple Books' Best Books of the Month - Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor's Pick, Romance - An NPR "Books We Love" - Library...

WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEWINNER OF THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZEWINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE SPOTLIGHT AWARDWINNER OF THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTIONKIRKUS PRIZE FINALISTLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST CLMP FIRECRACKER AWARD FINALSTIn nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary...

Named an ALA 2024 Feminist Rise Book Project Winner * Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science Friday Best Science Book of Summer 2023 An eye-opening, transformative, and actionable journey through radical and compassionate community...

A 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalist One of the 50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now by Time "Urgent and intimate." --The New York Times Book Review A fake dating arrangement turns to real love in this deliciously delightful queer rom-com from the...

"Dazzling." --Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." --Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her From the author of the award-winning The Black Cathedral, a darkly magical...

"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut ... Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. ... [It]reminds us that small things have great depths."-New York Times Book Review "Dazzling...exquisitely written and daring ." -O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon...

A Stonewall Honor Book - A New York Times and Indie bestseller!"A big-hearted, deeply vulnerable, love-bubbly tumble through self-discovery." -- Casey McQuiston, author of #1 New York Times bestselling I Kissed Shara WheelerWith humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores...