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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2020. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon and Schuster | 227 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 306.768 P |
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"A remarkable, deeply moving memoir of one man's gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America"--
Becoming a Man is the striking memoir of P. Carl's journey to become the man he always knew himself to be. For fifty years, he lived as a girl and a queer woman, building a career, a life, and a loving marriage, yet still waiting to realize himself in full. As Carl embarks on his gender transition, he takes us inside the complex shifts...
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2022. | First Atria Books hardcover edition. | Atria Boks | 308 pages : 24 cm. | English |
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""A modern coming-of-age full of love, desperation, heartache, and magic" (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) about "the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect" (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night"--
Though Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest, medical forums...
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[2022] | Viking | xxi, 296 pages ; 24 cm. | English |
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2022 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2022 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.
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2022 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2022 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel.
When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living...
When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living...
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2021. | Riverhead Books | 232 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Recently Returned 1 available B EMEZI A |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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"A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, "a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self" (Esquire). "I want to write as if I am free," Akwaeke Emezi declares in the opening of this utterly original spiritual and creative memoir. In the novels Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji, Emezi introduced the landscape of Nigerian childhood through...
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Central - Adult New Fiction 1 available
F PETER
Central - Recently Returned 1 available
F PETER
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | First edition. | One World | 340 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult New Fiction 1 available F PETER Central - Recently Returned 1 available F PETER |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with...
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B TALUSAN M
Shirlington - Adult Biography 1 available
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[2020] | Viking | 310 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available B TALUSAN M Shirlington - Adult Biography 1 available B TALUSAN M |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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"A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love."--
As a boy with albinism, coping with the strain of parental neglect in a rural Philippine village, Talusan found childhood comfort in America from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public...
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2020. | She Writes Press | 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 306.768 LORKA |
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"As a horny little kid, Holly Lorka had no idea why God had put her in the wrong body and made her want to kiss girls. She had questions: Was she a monster? Would she ever be able to grow sideburns? And most importantly, where was her penis? The problem was, it was the 1970s, so there were no answers yet. Here, Lorka tells the story--by turns hilarious and poignant--of her romp through the first fifty years of her life searching for sex, love, acceptance,...
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[2021] | The Experiment | 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult New Biography 1 available B REESE T |
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"An LGBTQ family's inspiring story of building a loving home, with lessons all families can use. Trystan and Biff had been dating for just a year when the couple learned that Biff's niece and nephew were about to be removed from their home by Child Protective Services. Immediately, Trystan and Biff took in one-year-old Hailey and three-year-old Lucas, becoming caregivers overnight to two tiny survivors of abuse and neglect. From this unexpected start,...
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[2021] | First edition. | Topple Books : | 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult New Biography 1 available B BRADYDA P |
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Trans woman Precious Brady-Davis recalls her childhood growing up in the Omaha foster care system and Pentecostal faith as a biracial, gender-nonconforming child.
Born into traumatic circumstances, Brady-Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the Pentecostal faith. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced, but has come to realize that she had a purpose all along. Here Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect,...
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[2021] | Andrews McMeel Publishing | vi, 167 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm | English | Available
Glencarlyn - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH 306.768 KAYE |
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2021 | OverDrive | Andrews McMeel Publishing | English | Checked Out
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"The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition."--Page 4 of cover.
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2022. | First edition. | Seal Press | ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 306.768 LAVER |
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"Lights up on little Grace Lavery: reformed druggie, unreformed pantie-dropper, and 100% all-natural, synthetically-cultivated female hormone monster. From the moment Grace solves what she affectionately calls her "penis problem" in the parking lot of an abandoned Japanese steakhouse (were the turkeys milling about the handicapped spaces following her?), she begins receiving accusatory letters from an anonymous jabroni, who seems to be a few spices...
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[2019] | G. P. Putnam's Sons | x, 319 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 2 available B TOBIA J |
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"A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above"--
"From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put 'male' on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything went wrong. Alongside 'male' came many other, far less neutral words: words that carried expectations about who Jacob was and who Jacob should be, words...
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[2021] | Arsenal Pulp Press | 271 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm | English | Available
Glencarlyn - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH 646.7 BERGM |
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OverDrive | Arsenal Pulp Press | English | Available Online
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"S. Bear Bergman's illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, among other things, a trans parent, with wit and aplomb. He also writes the advice column "Asking Bear," in which he answers crucial questions about how best to make our collective way through the world. Featuring disarming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson,...
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©2020. | First edition. | Street Noise Books | 151 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH 306.768 SOM |
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"The meticulous artwork of transgender artist Bishakh Som gives us the rare opportunity to see the world through another lens. The exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical narrative, this book gives us the opportunity to enter into the author's...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
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2020. | First Atria books hardcover edition. | Atria Books | 291 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F JOUKH Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available F JOUKH Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F JOUKH |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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"From the author of the acclaimed and award-winning debut The Map of Salt and Stars, a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed his mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's ghost has begun to visit him each...
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2021. | Jessica Kingsley Publishers | 188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 306.768 CELEN |
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A personal guide on transitioning later in life, helping individuals to address the physical and social challenges involved throughout the process. Exploring issues such as coming out, dealing with discrimination, body dysphoria and finding your own style, it provides support to people at any stage of their journey.
18) Transmutation
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[2021] | Seven Stories Press | 141 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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"Building on the success of All City, here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his...
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[2022] | Dutton | 354 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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"Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly simultaneously. So, when she is offered a position, against all odds, working for one of Boston's most elite families, the illustrious and secretive Verdeaus, she knows she must accept it-no matter how bizarre the interview or how vague the job description. By day, she is assistant to the family...
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©2021. | Copper Canyon Press | 96 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 CANDR |
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"Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won't Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its parts. Written during the body's healing from a double...