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"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."So begins the ...

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice. In the city of Houston a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older si...

From awardwinning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning comingofage memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power._x0093_People don_x0092_t just happen,_x0094_ writes Saeed Jones. _x0093_We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The _x0091_I_x0092_ it seems doesn_x0092_t exist until we are able to say, _x0091_I am...

From the highly acclaimed, awardwinning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.In 1977 Uruguay, a military government crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In this environment, wher...

The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a lifeordeath struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs th...

"We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears redred lipstick, cliffdives, and does all the t...

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born _x0097_ a histor...

When Patsy gets her longcoveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekind...

A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award "A blistering coming of age story" O: The Oprah MagazineNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post,...

Sixteenyearold and notsoopenly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn_x0092_t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone_x0092_s business. ...

When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for ...

Have fun with the kids, moms, dads and pets in this delightful book that celebrates LGBTQ families as it teaches young children the alphabet....

_x0093_[Rechy_x0092_s] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling and liberating achievement._x0094__x0097_James BaldwinWhen John Rechy_x0092_s explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gav...

A singular, beautifully written comingofage memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and genderFairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up...

Candlewick relaunches a modern classic for this generation with an allnew, beautifully illustrated edition.Heather_x0092_s favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets. And she also has two mommies. When Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks her about her daddy, but Heather doesn_x0092_t have a daddy. Then something inter...

Welcome to Andover_x0085_ where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beefup her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship_x0097_only it turns out to be for the town_x0092_...

Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek ...

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenthcentury London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a longlost manuscript_x0097_a genderdefying exposé of Jack and Bess_x0092_s adventures. Is Conf...

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...

Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child.Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and 12yearold Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She's hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands, a spirit only she can see won't stop following her, and worst of all Caroline's mother left home one day a...

Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spoton humor, this YA debut features a popculture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop allyoucaneat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest d...

In this young Adult, debut, a teen must try to uncover his missing girlfriend's secrets without revealing his own. Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynnas January's boyfriend, he must know something.But Flynn is harboring ...

A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteenyearold college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced...

Kate Davies's IN AT THE DEEP END, about a young woman in London who hasn't had sex in three years, and discovers that she may have simply been looking for love and just as importantly, satisfaction in all the wrong places (aka: from men), to Lauren Wein at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in a preempt, for publication in Spring 2019....

King Arthur as you've never imagined! This bold, sizzling YA retells the popular legend with the Once and Future King as a teenage girl and she has a universe to save.I've been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I've always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur. N...

A Stonewall Children's & Young Adult, Honor Book! In the wake of a destructive tornado, one girl develops feelings for another in this stunning, tender novel about emerging identity, perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish. When a tornado rips through town, twelveyearold Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of five is displaced. ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around LGBTQAdult, Fiction, LGBTQ, Adult lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran.Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his firstever trip to Iran, and it's pretty overwhelmingespecially when he's also dealing with clinical depression, a disapproving dad, and a chronicall...

Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together. But some of the other families don't accept them. They say they are different. How can a family have two moms and no dad But Marmee and Meema's house is full of love. And they t...

It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images o...

Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hideandseek to dressup, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together.Shares the loving bond between samesex parents and their children....

In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango's family is not like any of the others. This illustrated children's book fictionalizes the true story of two male penguins who became partners and raised a penguin chick in the Central Park Zoo....

Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat in this bighearted middle grade novel. Not to be missed by fans of Raina Telgemeier's Drama and Tim Federle's Better Nate Than Ever! Melly only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to her surprise, quiet Melly loves playing the drums. It_x0092_s the only time she does...

Twelveyearold Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys_x0092_ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to for...

Morris has a great imagination. He paints amazing pictures and he loves his classroom's dressup center, especially the tangerine dress. It reminds him of tigers, the sun and his mother's hair. The other children don't understanddresses, they say, are for girls. And Morris certainly isn't welcome in the spaceship his classmates are buildingastr...

A thoughtprovoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose talent is sniffing out monsters in a world that claims they don't exist anymore. Perfect for fans of Akata Witch and Shadowshaper . There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Red A th...

This firstever LGBTQ history book for young Adult,s will appeal to fans of fun, empowering popculture books like Rad American Women AZ and Notorious RBG.World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals_x0097_and you_x0092_ve never heard of many of them. Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into...

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America_x0092_s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other midcentury trans narratives_x0097_ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figu...

Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its daddies. From hideandseek to dressup, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together. Share the loving bond between samesex parents and their children....

"Tenderly and courageously told, Gracefully Grayson is a small miracle of a book. Its story is so compelling I found myself holding my breath as I read it and so intimate I felt as if what was happening to Grayson was happening to me. Thank you, Ami Polonsky, for creating this memorable character who will open hearts and minds and very possibly be ...

The story of a transgender child based on the reallife experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere.From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, ...

A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" (New York Times Book Review) narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suitandtiewearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a GLAAD Awardwinning journalist...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Teen, Young, Adult, LGBTQ lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdiscipli...

A whipsmart debut about three very different womentransgender and cisgenderwhose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex...

Donovan's two moms are getting married, and he can't wait for the celebration to begin. After all, as ringbearer, he has a very important job to do. Any boy or girl with samesex parents_x0097_or who knows a samesex couple_x0097_will appreciate this picture book about love, family, and marriage. The story captures the joy and excitement of a wedding day whil...

A new kind of bighearted novel about being seen for who you really are.Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can't help but start to let him into her...

Stella's class is having a Mother's Day celebration, but what's a girl with two daddies to do It's not that she doesn't have someone who helps her with her homework, or tucks her in at night. Stella has her Papa and Daddy who take care of her, and a whole gaggle of other loved ones who make her feel special and supported every day. She just doesn'...