Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit
By: Jen Campbell
4.34
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologisin…
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1. Humanimal: A Project for Future Children
By: Bhanu Kapil
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
- nonfiction
2. The Young Visiters
By: Daisy Ashford
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A short "society novel" written by Miss Daisy Ashford at the age of nine. The notebook containing t… read more
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3. Garlic and the Vampire
By: Bree Paulsen
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more
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4. Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.11
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends. Every night, a young man hea… read more
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5. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
6. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
7. Lights (Sheets, #3)
By: Brenna Thummler
4.27
Format: 366 pages, None
Marjorie, Eliza, and Wendell the ghost are back to uncover the secrets of Wendell’s human life in t… read more
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8. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
9. The Gloaming
By: Kirsty Logan
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Mara’s island is one of stories and magic. She knows she’ll eventually end her days atop the cliff,… read more
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- lgbt
"We can't carry our whole lives with us everywhere we go. Memories have weight, and no one can lift them all at once. We have to leave some of them behind."-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"Why would you think that I would only like you when you’re nice? I like you like this,’ she said, ‘and I like you not like this, and I like you every way you can possibly be."-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"When I was a child, sadness was the islands- rocky, yes, but small and containable, easy to leave. Now sadness was the sea. So I went in... I knew the water was cold, but to me it felt warm. No-that'…"-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"What bothered her most was how mundane it all was. This terrible thing had happened - this huge, life-changing thing that meant the world would never be the same. But outside their house, whose life …"-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
10. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
11. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
12. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
13. When I Arrived at the Castle
By: Emily Carroll
3.69
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more
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- lgbt
14. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
15. In Defence of the Act
By: Effie Black
4.12
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more
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- lgbt
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
16. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
17. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)
By: Rio Cortez
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
18. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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- poetry
19. Garlic and the Witch
By: Bree Paulsen
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Bree Paulsen's brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone … read more
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20. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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21. Bright Fear
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
22. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
23. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
24. A Trace of Sun
By: Pam Williams
3.73
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more
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25. Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit
By: Jen Campbell
4.34
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologisin… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- disability
- lgbt
26. The Republic of Motherhood
By: Liz Berry
4.45
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*‘I crossed the borde… read more
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- poetry
27. Gay Girl Prayers
By: Emily R. Austin
4.10
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
28. The Ferguson Report: An Erasure
By: Nicole Sealey
4.54
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation… read more
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- poetry
29. Not Here
By: Hieu Minh Nguyen
4.33
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American bod… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
30. All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths
By: Jean Menzies
3.94
Format: 88 pages, None
For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancien… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lgbt
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
