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LGBTQ+ Books April-May 2024
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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
by Sara Ahmed
Drawing on her own experiences as a queer feminist scholar-activist of color, the author reveals the invaluable lessons of the feminist killjoy, in this essential intellectual guide to the transformative power of getting in the way.
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Out At the Plate : The Dot Wilkinson Story
by Lynn Ames
It's not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women's softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933-1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth-over a century-although any of these things by itself would be impressive. The magic of Dot's story is in the details. It's the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it. Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Out at the Plate, told through the lens of Dot and Lynn's friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women's history and sports, and one extraordinary woman's place at the center of it all.
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Disorderly Men
by Edward Cahill
Roger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face, the life he's carefully curated over the years is about to come crashing down around him. Columbia literature professor Julian Prince lives a comparatively uncloseted life when he finds his first committed relationship tested to its limits. How could he explain to Gus, a fearless young artist, that he couldn't stay with him that weekend because the woman who was still technically Julian's fiancee would be visiting? But when Gus is struck unconscious by a police baton, Julian comes out of hiding to protect him, even if exposure means losing everything. For Danny Duffy, an Irish kid from the Bronx with a sassy mouth and a diverse group of friends, the raid is a galvanizing, Spartacus moment. Danny doesn't have too much left to lose; his family has just disowned him. But once his name appears in the newspaper, he'll be fired from his job at Sloan's Supermarket, where he's risen to assistant manager of produce, and begin a journey that veers between political enlightenment and violent revenge. The three men find themselves in a police wagon together, their hidden lives threatened to be revealed to the world. The stakes for each are different, but all of them confront a fundamental question: How much happiness is he allowed to have . . . and what share of it will he lay claim to?"
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It's a Fabulous Life : a Novel
by Kelly Farmer
Stuck in Landford Falls running a disaster-plagued Winter Wonderfest, Bailey George runs into a drag queen on the town's old wooden bridge who shows her how important her life is, in this gay retelling of It's a Wonderful Life.
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The Jolliest Bunch : Unhinged Holiday Stories
by Danny Pellegrino
The popular podcast host of Everything Iconic and best-selling author offers this festive and funny collection of inappropriately improvised holiday monologues, taking readers on a nostalgic trip to the 90s and 2000s where they can reminisce about their own memories—the good, the bad and the cringeworthy.
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The Beasts of Paris : a Novel
by Stef Penney
In 1870 Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War, a group of unforgettable characters, including a half-Haitian woman with incredible gifts and an American army surgeon, as they live through, and are buffeted by, momentous historical events that will change them forever.
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The Christmas Swap : a Novel
by Talia Samuels
Posing as Ben Gibson's girlfriend over the holidays, Margot Murray, newly single after a breakup with her long-term girlfriend, finds herself drawn to Ben's sister Ellie, who believes their relationship is a sham, and must decide whether to keep the charade up or risk the chance at something real.
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Women of the Post
by Joshunda Sanders
In 1944, four friends, part of the only unit of Black women to serve overseas in World War II, work tirelessly to reunite soldiers to their loved ones through the letters they write and find things taking a personal turn when a backlogged letter upends their lives.
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The Goth House Experiment : and Other Stories
by SJ Sindu
This collection of startling and strange, yet hilarious, stories features an array of loners and artists all struggling for connection and fulfillment in a world battered by the pandemic and reactionary politics.
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The House of Doors : a Novel
by Twan Eng Tan
In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary—a confession that has devastating consequences.
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A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten : a Memoir
by Tristan Taormino
a memoir from writer, speaker, sex educator, feminist pornographer, and activist Tristan Taormino, is a meditation on family, coming of age, identity, and activism. Brutally honest and sexually charged, the book explores themes of LGBTQ identity, gender, family, grief and loss, AIDS, depression, and queer subcultures of the 1990s.
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Washington's Gay General
by Josh Trujillo
Tells the true story of one of the most important--but largely forgotten--military leaders of the American Revolution, Baron von Steuben, who brought much-needed knowledge to the inexperienced and ill-prepared Continental Army. As its first Inspector General, von Steuben created an organizational framework for the US military, which included writing the Blue Book guide that became the standard for training American soldiers for more than a century.
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Lovesick Blossoms : a Novel
by Julia Watts
In a small Kentucky college town in 1953, two married women desperately fall in love with each other, until a moment of indiscretion threatens to destroy both their lives.
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