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To paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human—fear, love, shame, need and loneliness.
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The women's house of detention : a queer history of a forgotten prison
by Hugh Ryan
In this singular history of a prison that once stood in NYCs Greenwich Village, a noted historian explores the roots of the queer and trans incarceration crisis, connecting misogyny, racism, state-sanctioned sexual violence, colonialism, sex work and the failures of prison reform. 25,000 first printing.
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Briefly, a delicious life : a novel
by Nell Stevens
"An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a dead teen girl who falls in love with a female writer who has no idea she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monasteryin Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidentaldeath, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing-the impossible love of a teenage ghost for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George's case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involves an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training). Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this is a surprisingly touching story about romantic fixation and a powerful meditation on creativity"
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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
by James Hannaham
After two decades in a mens prison, a free trans woman is surprised to see that New York City has changed as much as she has in the new novel by the award-winning author of Delicious Foods. 40,000 first printing.
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The kingdom of sand
by Andrew Holleran
Moving to Florida during the height of the AIDS epidemic, a gay man, when his close friends health starts to decline, distracts himself with sexual encounters at the video porn store and visits to Walgreens as he shares reflections on illness and death. 50,000 first printing.
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Secret city : the hidden history of gay Washington
by James Kirchick
Drawing on declassified documents, interviews and materials unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, this chronicle of American politics illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the 20th century. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Wrath goddess sing
by Maya Deane
"The gods wanted blood. She fought for love. Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the "prince" Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman's body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a vengeance. But the gods-a dysfunctional family of abusive immortals that have glutted on human sacrifices for centuries-have woven ancient schemes more blood-soaked and nightmarish than Achilles can imagine. At the center of it all is the cruel, immortal Helen, who sees Achilles as a worthy enemy after millennia of ennui and emptiness. In love with her newfound nemesis, Helen sets out to destroy everything and everyone Achilles cherishes, seeking a battle to the death. An innovative spin on a familiar tale, this is the Trojan War unlike anything ever told, and an Achilles whose vulnerability is revealed by the people she chooses to fight...and chooses to trust"
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Siren queen
by Nghi Vo
Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, Chinese American actress Luli Wei, desperate to become a star, bargains with blood and ancient magic to realize her dreams, but the steep price for success may turn her into something she despises. 150,000 first printing.
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A lady for a duke
by Alexis J. Hall
This compelling historical fiction novel features trans heroine Lady Viola Caroll who takes the opportunity to finally live as herself after being presumed dead at Waterloo, though it comes at the cost of her title, her wealth, and her dear friend, the Duke of Gracewood. Years later, Viola and the Duke reconnect and rekindle old feelings that may still prove dangerous in this rich romance read by the same author who wrote "Boyfriend Material."
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