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Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1959
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"--
"Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain...
2) Playboy
Author
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Published in France in 2018, Playboy is the first volume of Constance Debré’s renowned debut trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer. The novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator’s descriptions of her first female lovers — a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior...
Author
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
All In is a queer feminist memoir of cancer and what it means to survive. After years of experiencing painful periods that she was led to believe were normal, Caitlin Breedlove was diagnosed with ovarian cancer -- the deadliest of all gynecological cancers, which disproportionately impacts queer women, trans men, Jewish women of Eastern European descent, and older women. As she writes, "It feeds on those who can't go to a doctor and those who convince...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With the premature birth of her son -- when HIV-related mortality rates were at their highest -- Moraga, a new mother at forty years old, was forced to confront the fragile volatility of life and death; in these recorded dreams and reflections, her terror and resilience are made palpable. The particular challenges of queer parenting prove transformative as Moraga navigates her intersecting roles as mother, child, lover, friend, artist, activist, and...
Author
Publisher
Dark Matter Ink
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THE ONES YOU LOVE? A remote cabin in a snowy forest could be the perfect place for Claire and Emma to work on their marriage and bond with their two children, if only it didn't come with so many memories of Claire's inhumane treatment at the hands of her abusive mother, and if only the strange abandoned schoolhouse nearby didn't have a dark history of its own. When their children go missing in a snowstorm, the two mothers...
Series
Whisper me a love song volume 8
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The school festival is finally here! Himari is selling cookies and Yori is... well, she doesn't seem to want anyone to know, but Himari is desperate to find out! She and Yori are becoming more and more secure in their relationship, but that doesn't mean there isn't still room to grow. But while Himari's feelings are blossoming like beautiful flowers, Shiho is trying to uproot her own forlorn love like a bed of weeds. Aki is completely oblivious to...
Series
Whisper me a love song volume 4
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Yori and Himari are finally official, but it turns our getting together was just the start of their journey as a couple ...! Now that Yori has won Himari's heart and they're officially going out, it seems like everything should be easier. Being girlfriends brings its own questions, though--including what to do on their dates now that they're actually dating! Yori wonders if it's enough to do "normal" things, and Himari wonders if Yori still feels...
Series
Whisper me a love song volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After Aki confesses that she is in love with Yori, Himari suddenly has a deadline to figure out how she feels about her senpai. Maybe her new friend Momoka can help? The more time Himari spends with Momoka at the cooking club, though, the more nervous Yori seems to get. Yori has new obligations of her own, too, now that she has to practice with the band. But when Yori's feelings for Himari inspire her to do something she never thought she could,...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As she examines her life experience and traumas with great care, Delporte faces the questions about gender and sexuality that both haunt and entice her. Deeply informed by her personal relationships as much as queer art and theory, Portrait of a Body is both a joyous and at times hard meditation on embodiment -- a journey to be reunited with the self in an attempt to heal pain and live more authentically. Delporte's idyllic colored pencil drawings...
Series
Whisper me a love song volume 7
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Newly confident in their feelings for each other, Himari and Yori are able to tackle their roles in their respective bands with fresh enthusiasm. Himari even convinces Yori to write a new song for SSGIRLS' school culture festival performance, and this time, it's going to be a group effort. This song will belong to the whole band, and they eagerly discover the ideas each of them has to contribute to its creation. Meanwhile, the members of Laureley...
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
No matter who travels off into the sunset (or ties the knot ) this fierce group of friends and lovers are keeping it all in the family. Maybe this is their time to find 'the one' or just the one for right now. Either way, they're living their best life the only way they know how honestly and confidently proving time and time again queer life is real life.
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Melissa Hart is a shy, mousy introvert, afraid to step out of her comfort zone until she dons a mask and leather as the dominatrix persona Mistress Heart. Living a double life, she develops an intimate relationship with a mysterious client who chips away the wall separating Ms. Hart from Mistress Heart to show Melissa the woman she really is.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize -- distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant -- Helen finally meets her match with Catherine and Katrina, a married couple who startle and intrigue her with their ever-increasing...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
College freshman Grace Tang never meant to rewrite the rules of love. She came to college to move on from a grief-stricken senior year and to start anew. So she follows a predictable routine: Attend class, study, go home and visit her dad every weekend. She doesn't leave any room in her life for outliers or anomalies. Then, Grace comes up with an algorithm for her statistics class to pair students with their perfect romantic partners. Though some...
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