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Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she'd carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly cha...

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, Fantasy, and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bend...

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For fans of Bloom and Spinning, criticallyacclaimed writer Gabby Rivera (Marvel's America) adapts her bestselling novel alongside artist Celia Moscote in an unforgettable queer comingofage story exploring race, identity and what it means to be true to your amazing self. Even when the rest of the world doesn't understand. Juliet Milagros Palante ...

Every sorority has its secrets...And college freshman Ginger Carmichael couldn't care less. She has more important things on her mind, like maintaining her perfect GPA. No matter how much she can't stand the idea of the cliques and the matching colors, there's something about the girls of Alpha Beta Omega?their beauty, confidence, and unapologetic ...

Nick has a threelegged dog named Lucky, some pet fish, and two moms who think he's the greatest kid ever. And he happens to think he has the greatest Moms ever, but everything changes when his birth mom and her wife, Jo, start to have marital problems. Suddenly, Nick is in the middle, and instead of having two Moms to turn to for advice, he has no...

Razia Mirza is a Pakistani woman from Corona, Queens, who grew up in a tight Muslim community surrounding the first Sunni masjid built in New York City. When a rebellious streak leads to her excommunication, she decides to hit the road. Corona moves between Razia?s childhood and the comedic misadventures she encounters on her journey, from a Purit...

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel.Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and put an end to her disastrous 16year marriage. While staying at a boarding house to establish her sixweek residency req...

A love letter to the craft and romance of film and fate in front of?and behind?the camera from the awardwinning author of Hold Still. A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world. Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her reallife relationships are a mess. She has despe...

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliancessometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth...

What's worse than falling in love with a straight girl Falling in love with a straight girl who drinks blood. And not even in a goth way. High school senior Mindy Murphy, has been questioning her small town life forever and, more recently, her sexuality. Maybe it has something to do with her new friend, Lucia West. When they were kids they used to...

In this richly developed Fantasy,, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decadeold trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after...

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole DennisBenn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthles...

Nature is out of balance in the human world. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The people's survival hangs in the balance.To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeenyearold girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard...

When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support.But as she settles into her old life, Suzette fin...

What do you do when the source of all your problems is the one thing you don?t know how to fix With Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell nothing more than an unpleasant memory, US Army surgeon Sabine Fleischer is ready to move on with her life?if she can just figure out how to move past her PTSD. Fresh from her first deployment since surviving a vehicle attack i...

"Luke" Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new,...

Half a million dollars will be Celeste Thorne?s reward for spending four years of her life in total isolation. No faces. No voices. No way to leave. Since Celeste has never really worried about being alone, the generous paycheck she?ll receive for her participation in the solitary psychological experiment seems like easy money. When she finds an in...

From Stonewall and Lambda Awardwinning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and selfdiscovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love?and, yes, he?s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it?s like and why it seems so easy fo...

Six months after Hurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans, Detective Sept Savoie is battling the nightmare of everything the storm has taken from her when a brutalised body turns up behind one of the restaurants, run by Keegan Blanchard. Soon the clues are pointing to Keegan, making the relationship growing between them very awkward....

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a nowclassic novel about two women: Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age, and grayheaded Mrs. Threadgoode, who is telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women, the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth who back in...

Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties with her tightknit group of friends. The last thing she wants is to fall in love with a girlespecially when that girl is her best friend, Baker. Hannah knows she should like Wally, the kind, earnest boy who asks her to prom. She should cheer on he...

Ivan E. Coyote is a master storyteller and performer; their beautiful, funny stories about growing up a lesbian butch in the Canadian north have attracted big audiences whether gay, straight, or otherwise. Missed Her is Ivan's fifth story collection, following 2008's Lambdanominated The Slow Fix and Bow Grip, their novel that was named a Stonewall...

Actress Caidence Harris is living her dreams after landing a leading role among the starstudded, veteran cast of 9th Precinct, a hot new police drama shot on location in glitzy LA. Her sometimescostar Robyn Ward is magnetic, glamorous, and devastatingly beautiful, the quintessential AList celebrity on the fasttrack to superstardom. When the tw...

Impossible love between two girls ?one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution.After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, Designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will.Now, Ayla, a human servant rising the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, ...

In her debut story collection, Kristen Arnett, with dark humor, explores the lives of queer women and their families in the light of the bleak Florida sun. A young dancer suddenly loses language while her family struggles to understand their new roles. A mother endures a horrifying spider bite while camping with her daughters in the backyard. A fam...

Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. Moving between Middle Eastern high society and London?s West End, this story explores the clashes between East and West, love and marriage, and convention and individuality creating a humorous an...

Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined.She?s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She?s never even been kissed. And it?s not just because she?s gay. It?s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time in her basement watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world.So when Maritza and JaKory sugg...

The heartrending autobiographical manga that?s taken the internet by storm!My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman?s exploration of her sexuality, mental wellbeing, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertain...

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic."Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an ex...

Life is going damned well for Blair Spencer. She's a very successful real estate agent, happily married to a man who encourages her to live the independent life she loves; and they're actively working to have a baby.The wrench in the works is that Blair favors adoption, while her husband David desperately wants to have a biological child. The fates...

Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young Adult,s, and each honestly portrays its subject and themegrowing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends. Includes:"Michael's Little Sister" / C. S. Adler"Dancing Backwards" / Marion Dane Bauer"Winnie and Tommy" / Francesca Lia Block"Am I Blue" / Bruce Covi...

"If you don't put that ring on this minute, I'm going to take it back," Annie whispered in my ear. She leaned back, looking at me, her hands still on my shoulders, her eyes shining softly at me and snow falling, melting, on her nose. "Buon Natale," she whispered, "amore mio.""Merry Christmas, my love," I answered.From the moment Liza Winthrop meets...

No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer." Mrs. Sucksby?s household also hosts a transient family of petty thieves?fingersmiths?for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.One day, the most beloved t...

Unknown to regular citizens, nightmarish creatures lurk in the dark underbelly of human civilization. The presence of these supranormals ("supras")?werewolves, vampires, demons?is a closely guarded government secret, as is the existence of a cadre of specially engineered Hunters charged with exterminating them. Codenamed Malice, Hunter Mary Alice ...

Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from crossdressing knights to contemporary murder stories. She looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the "unspeakable subject," examining whether samesex desire is freakish or omnipresent, holy ...

With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Holland Jaeger.At least, it seems to be. But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have undeniable feelings for each other, but how will others react to their developing...

When it was first published in 1988, Patrick Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of womantowoman sex (and nobody h...

A princess isn?t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of ?Sleeping Beauty,? true love is more than a simple fairy tale. Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love?s kiss. You?ve heard this before, h...

Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society?s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to samesex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his car...

Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young Adult, authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in warto...