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What happens when two women commit to serving the Catholic Church as nuns-Brides of Christ, taking vows of chastity-but fall passionately in love?They must defy the Church's rules against same-sex relationships and blaze a bold trail for a joyous, adventurous life together-at a time when LGBTQ people could be killed for being gay and same-sex marriage was decades in the future.Now Joanie Lindenmeyer and Carol Tierheimer are sharing their courageous...
15902) The Songbird Thief
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When Lee finds out she's half fey, can she stay in Sonja's life, despite pressures building from the Faerie Realm?
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In this Buffy the Vampire Slayer prequel, fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment . . . whether she wants it or not. Tara Maclay isn't thrilled to be starting her senior year of high school in a new town. She misses her mom, her garden, her magic-and the way her dad treated her before her mom passed. But if Tara can just keep her head down, then maybe she can make it through this year in Hellborne, Vermont without...
15904) Little Girl
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Hired to protect the golden girl of the swimming world, we weren't supposed to fall for her. Sol Titan is everything perfect in this world.She's sunlight and happiness.Innocence and freedom. Everything we are not.Everything we shouldn't take. But we do.We bask in her light.We claim her innocence. The world doesn't deserve her.Hell, neither do we.But at least we'll spend our lives proving our love and taking care of her. Our Little Girl isn't ready...
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Central Canada is composed of the most beautiful provinces in the entire country. Both Quebec and Ontario have notable French influences. They also have picturesque scenery and a vibrant Native American culture. This book provides key information that you can use when planning a trip to Central Canada. Grab a copy today.
15906) Hold of the Bone
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Things are great for LAPD Lieutenant Franco; she's sober, loved, eligible for retirement-and bored absolutely out of her mind. When her squad is called out to investigate a decades-old homicide, Frank happily volunteers to "get out of Dodge" and follow the clues north to a small town in the Salinas Valley. There, the evidence unexpectedly leads Frank into the untamed wilderness of the Santa Lucia Mountains where she confronts the victim's daughter,...
15907) Noa, intersexe
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Quand je suis né, tout le monde était perdu. On m'a regardé et on a demandé : « Qu'est-ce que c'est? » La réponse : je suis intersexe.
Les médecins souhaitaient m'opérer, mais ma mère s'est battue pour qu'on attende. Maintenant que j'ai seize ans, ils reviennent à la charge. Comme mon père, ils veulent corriger ce qui est différent, enlever ce qui est de trop. Ils aiment les choses qui sont roses ou bleues. Et moi, je suis vraiment très...
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A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s
Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, in the wake of lockdown and in recovery from anorexia. In the tradition of Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar and Françoise Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse, Bellows writes with deceptively straightforward urgency, pushing through society's constraints on the bodies and minds of girls and...
15909) Phototaxis
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Translated from the French, Phototaxis is a fragmentary, darkly-humorous, and apocalyptic novel from a leading young voice from Montreal from Montreal centered around questions of friendship, the commodification of globalized tragedy, ecological crisis, the griefs of migration, and the possibility of political coherence in today's world.
In a city mysteriously overflowing with meat, a museum is bombed, a classical piano player hooked on snuff films...
15910) Dark Tide
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They say it never rains but it pours. Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Inspector Danny Quirke would have to agree.
First, someone murders a vulnerable Kildevil Cove man and dumps him in an abandoned well. Then the body of a sex-trafficking victim washes up on a nearby beach. Danny has to get to the bottom of both deaths, but with few leads and little support from his superiors, he's spinning his wheels in a mud pit of a case. Vital resources go missing,...
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DISASTERAMA: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997, is the true story of Alvin Orloff who, as a shy kid from the suburbs of San Francisco, stumbled into the wild, eclectic crowd of Crazy Club Kids, Punk Rock Nutters, Goofy Goofballs, Fashion Victims, Disco Dollies, Happy Hustlers, and Dizzy Twinks of post-Stonewall American queer culture of the late 1970s, only to see the "subterranean lavender twilit shadow world of the gay ghetto" ravished...
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Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.
Taking up the perceived tensions between the LGBTQ community and religious African Americans, Marlon Rachquel Moore examines how strategies of antihomophobic resistance dovetail into broader literary and cultural concerns. In the Life and in the Spirit shows how creative writers integrate expressions of faith or the supernatural with...
15913) Malicia Misteriosa
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Meeting a mysterious woman in a bar, Deirdre's life is about to change. Her husband's abuse suddenly stops when this woman enters their lives. What does this woman want in return for her help? Upon discovering the abuse Deirdre has been suffering at the hands of her handsome and powerful husband, what can a petite woman like Alice do to help her out of a bad situation? What will she want in exchange for that help?
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Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to "America the Beautiful" after a stirring visit to Pikes Peak in 1893. But, the story behind the song begins with Katharine herself, who pushed beyond conventional expectations of women to become an acclaimed writer, scholar, suffragist, and reformer. Katharine believed in the power of words to make a difference, and in "America the Beautiful," her vision of the nation as a great family, united from sea...
15916) Run for It All
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When both his moms take an offer for a year of employment in Europe, fifteen-year-old David Martin has no choice but to head to Connecticut to stay with his dad and his dad's partner. Not only is he leaving behind the life he loves in New York City, he's unsure how he feels about staying with a father he barely knows, one who has been far from supportive during David's life.
If he doesn't have enough on his plate, David is also confused and wrestling...
15917) Not for Publication
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With Thailand preparing for the ASEAN Summit of 2015, the welfare of visitors to the so-called Land of Smiles has become a major issue. Every day tourists are bashed, robbed, drugged and murdered; many of these incidents going unreported in the press. European, Australian, American and Chinese governments have all warned Thailand that the welfare of their citizens while on Thai soil has become an issue of major concern. Not For Publication is the...
15918) Trauma Magic
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Trauma Magic is a love letter to our bodies and minds. It is a hero's journey disguised as a collection of essays. It begins with the enchanted landscape of Southern Ontario, the wild dancing of fairies teaching us boundaries and ecological ethics. It traces the call of magic through the queer desires of the Holy Virgin Mary, the movements of animals in the forest at night, and the practice of witchcraft in everyday life. Trauma Magic carries the...
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It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the, dictatorship of the proletariat.
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A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change-the '70s-as told through the life of ultra-fabulous superstar Sylvester
Imagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And everyone, finally, was welcome-to come as themselves. This is not a fairy...