The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (HBI Series on Jewish Women)
By: Joy Ladin
4.28
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin …
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1. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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- religion
3. The Hellbound Heart
By: Clive Barker
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more
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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
4. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
By: Susannah Heschel , Abraham Joshua Heschel , Ilya Schor
4.16
Format: 354 pages,
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabba… read more
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- jewish
- theology
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
5. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
8. Everyday Holiness: the Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
By: Alan Morinis
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Here is an accessible and inspiring introduction to the Jewish spiritual tradition known as Mussar.… read more
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9. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity
By: None
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? "The… read more
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10. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)
By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Iron Season
By: Helene Wecker
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
The novel is set during the World War I era and continues the story of Chava (the golem) and Ahmad … read more
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12. When the Angels Left the Old Country
By: Sacha Lamb
4.27
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more
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- queer
- judaism
- jewish
- lgbt
13. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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- nonfiction
"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
14. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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- nonfiction
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
15. Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
By: Sarah Hurwitz
4.44
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A renowned political speechwriter rediscovers Judaism, finding timeless wisdom and spiritual connec… read more
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- jewish
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- judaica
16. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- nonfiction
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
17. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
18. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
19. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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- nonfiction
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
20. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
21. A Lady for a Duke
By: Alexis Hall
4.07
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
A lush, sweeping queer historical romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material—perfect… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"I will never forget him. But"-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke
"Don’t try to tell me that time is a healer because time also kills people."-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke
22. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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- nonfiction
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
24. X
By: Davey Davis
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
25. The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance
By: Shaul Magid
4.21
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is … read more
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- judaism
- nonfiction
- religion
- jewish
26. God Is Here: Reimagining the Divine
By: Toba Spitzer
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Toba Spitzer's God Is Here is a transformative exploration of the idea of God, offering new paths t… read more
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- jewish
- theology
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- judaica
27. Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation
By: Marc H. Ellis
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and chal… read more
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- judaism
- religion
- theology
28. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
By: Judith Plaskow
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A feminist critique of Judaism as a patriarchal tradition and an exploration of the increasing invo… read more
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"If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply."-Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
"When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than…"-Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
29. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
By: Sa'ed Atshan
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
30. There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists
By: Cindy Barukh Milstein
4.41
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a p… read more
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- judaism
- nonfiction
- religion
- jewish
31. The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (HBI Series on Jewish Women)
By: Joy Ladin
4.28
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin … read more
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- theology
- jewish
- lgbt
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