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Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019Teeming with life and crackling with energy ? a love song to modern Britain and black womanhoodGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through t...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Fiction, Humor, 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.”

The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, ...

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the a...

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not...

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 creator of Elle 's "Eric Reads the News," a poignant and hilarious memoirinessays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding his joy, and every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way. R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went?whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburb...

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...

Don't miss this spectacular debut novel... Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity This road trip is truly out of this world! A beautiful and thrilling read for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth.Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading...

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through spaceand one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universein this lighthearted debut Space Opera, from a rising scifi star.Rosemary Harper doesn?t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patchedup ship has seen be...

Seventeenyearold Molly PeskinSuso knows all about unrequited love_x0097_she_x0092_s lived through it twentysix times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can_x0092_t stomach the idea of rejection. So she_x0092_s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.Then...

A landmark comingofage novel that launched the career of one of this country?s most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirtpoor Southern couple who boldly forges he...

Henry Rios meets Hugh Paris when Paris is arrested for drug possession and being high on PCP. A burntout public defender battling alcoholism, Rios has reached a crossroads in his life. While interviewing Paris in jail, Rios goes through the motions, but notices that Paris is far more polished and welloff than the usual drug suspects. Paris is mys...

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...

Where does friendship stop and love beginAt just 19, Kendall Bettencourt is Hollywood?s hottest young starlet with the world at her feet ? but behind the glamour and designer dresses is a girl who longs for normal. Payton Taylor is Kendall?s best friend since childhood, and the one person who reminds her of who she really is ? her refuge from the ...

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...

From the awardwinning author of Break and Teeth comes a raw and honest exploration of complicated identities in a novel about a girl living on the fringe of every fringe group in her small town.Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown. Everywhere she turns...

Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could wantexcept for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the everwatchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, s...

In 1955, eighteenyearold Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It?s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound...

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...

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 ...

The breakneck thriller that inspired TV sensation Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh.Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powe...

Plucked from her life on the streets of postapocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean ? and humanity ? from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was ? with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel ...

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...

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in postwar IrelandCyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is heBor...

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the wellbeing of children in governmentsanctioned orphanages.When Linus is unexpected...

Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!Sebastian_x0092_s ...

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an ace lens to see the worldWhat exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it What does asexuality reveal about consent, about comprom...

Just because you?re through with your past, doesn?t mean it?s through with you.Margaret Beringer didn?t have an easy adolescence. She hated her name, was less than popular in school, and was always cast aside as a ?farm kid.? However, with the arrival of Courtney Carrington, Margaret?s youth sparked into color. Courtney was smart, beautiful, and pu...

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever.If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the ...

Named one of the Top 11 Most Challenged Books of 2018 by American Library Association (joined by Two Boys Kissing by David Leviathan, The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian by Judy Sherman Alexie, Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner, This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Captain...

Three years ago, Tanner Scott_x0092_s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and outofstate college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.But when his best frien...

Covering American transgender history from the midtwentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism a...

The founders of Babeland, the nation's most popular sextoy boutique, offers a realworld guide to getting satisfied, with frank answers to frequently asked questionsand lots of sexy color photographs of attractive real people When Babeland opened its doors in 1993 in Seattle, it filled the need for a "toy store" that made customers feel comfortab...

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...

Welcome to The Club?leave your inhibitions and your everyday cares at the door and indulge yourself in an evening of anonymous, nostrings, womanonwoman action.For many of the women who visit The Club this is exactly what they are looking for and what they get. For others the emotions run high, and one night of sex can change their lives in ways ...

In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion.The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude wi...

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...

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...

When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her wellintentioned but hopelessly oldfashioned grandmother. She knows that fr...

“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.”

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...

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 ...

Nishat doesn_x0092_t want to lose her family, but she also doesn_x0092_t want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showc...

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...

This Is Not For You, perhaps Jane Rule's most selfconsciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s as she negotiates her lesbian sexuality. The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Jane Rule's second novel more than thirty years after its original appearance in 1970, and more than fi...