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Brookline - Adult
FIC Lund, Emme
1 available
FIC Lund, Emme
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Lund, Emme
1 available
FIC Lund, Emme
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Lund, Emme
1 available
FIC Lund, Emme
1 available
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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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Brookline - Adult
FIC Emezi, Akwaeke
2 available
FIC Emezi, Akwaeke
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Emezi, Akwaeke
1 available
FIC Emezi, Akwaeke
1 available
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Emezi, Akwaeke
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Emezi, Akwaeke
1 available
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One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son's body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family's struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings....
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Peters, Torrey
2 available
FIC Peters, Torrey
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
"[A novel] about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex..."--
Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier,...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR TALUSAN Meredith 2020
1 available
MEMOIR TALUSAN Meredith 2020
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR TALUSAN Meredith 2020
1 available
MEMOIR TALUSAN Meredith 2020
1 available
Description
Memoir about a precocious boy with albinism from a rural Philippine village who grew up to become a woman in America, describing her navigation through the complex spheres of race, class, sexuality, and her place within the gay/LGBTQ community.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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"A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek exhibited "feminine" qualities. The men in her life immediately...
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eAudiobook
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
8) Nevada
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eAudiobook
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A beloved and blistering cult classic finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip"--
Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she'd carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets...
10) On a sunbeam
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51 copies available. 5 copies on order.
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC On a Sunbeam
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC On a Sunbeam
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC On a Sunbeam
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC On a Sunbeam
1 available
Description
In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together; and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
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It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women's Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown...
12) Peter Darling
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eBook
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A queer, transgender retelling of Peter Pan in which Pan returns to Neverland after a decade in the real world.
The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just an old life he left behind. Neverland is his real home. So when Peter returns to it after ten years in the real world, he's surprised to find a Neverland that no longer seems to need him.
The only person
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"A mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm finds his consciousness uploaded into the company's internal Slack channel"--
Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm, has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels. At least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it is just an elaborate ploy to exploit their lax work-from-home policy. Disembodied and alarmed by the looming abyss of...
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Series
Radiant emperor volume 1
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On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
SFF Parker-Chan, Shelley
3 available
SFF Parker-Chan, Shelley
3 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
SFF Parker-Chan, Shelley
1 available
SFF Parker-Chan, Shelley
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
SFF Parker-Chan, Shelley
1 available
SFF Parker-Chan, Shelley
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
6 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything. "I refuse to be nothing ..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness...
15) Sorrowland
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Solomon, Rivers
1 available
FIC Solomon, Rivers
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Solomon, Rivers
1 available
FIC Solomon, Rivers
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Solomon, Rivers
1 available
FIC Solomon, Rivers
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
Vern escapes the religious compound where she was raised and gives birth to twins in the forest, raising them away from the influence of the outside world. Her community won't let her go that easily, however, and as they pursue, she breaks the boundaries of humanity, changing her body in uncanny ways in order to protect her family.
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"Internet creator and activist Jackson Bird demystifies the transgender experience by sharing his own story, while debunking trans history milestones and educating readers with Transgender 101 facts"--
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Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist 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 evening. As his grandmother's sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush)....
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12 copies available. 2 copies on order.
Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth 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...
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eAudiobook
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...