#QueerLiberationLibrary

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When the Stars Alight by Camilla Andrew: Princess Laila Rose is a fallen star in human form. A beloved guardian to humanity. Yet in spite of these fantastical origins, she has never much believed in prophecies. That’s why when a demon of apocalyptic legend is presented to her in a block of ice, she feels fascination rather than fright. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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when you get over 10k new members in less than 36 hours, you hold an emergency collection development meeting and slap some simultaneous use audiobook titles into your collection. in non-librarian speak: HEY! we have 50 (FIFTY!) audiobook titles available now with NO WAIT TIMES!

Available for EVERYONE, ALWAYS — no waiting for your hold to come through on these guys! 

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Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón: Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the Madjideye ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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To Be A Trans Man ed. by Ezra Woodger: "It's difficult to feel as if you fail at being a man when you know there isn't a singular 'right' way to be one." In this illuminating and radically honest book, Ezra Woodger interviews trans men and transmasculine people to interrogate what masculinity is and what it means to be a man. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.

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The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons: At Oakley, Spencer seems to have it all: more accepting classmates, a decent shot at a starting position on the boy's soccer team, great new friends, and maybe even something more than friendship with one of his teammates. The problem is, no one at Oakley knows Spencer is trans—he's passing. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful by Jack Lowery: In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Men With the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger In 1939, Heger, a Viennese university student, was arrested and sentenced to prison for being a "degenerate." Within weeks he was transported to Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp in East Germany, and forced to wear a pink triangle to show his crime was homosexuality. He remained there, under horrific conditions, until the war ended in 1945. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye: Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue' despite making up less than 1% of the country's population. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass.

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The old gods have fled, and the monsters they had kept at bay for centuries now threaten to drown the city of Valentine, hunting mankind as in ancient times. In the midst of the chaos, a serial killer has begun ritually sacrificing victims, their bodies strewn throughout the city.

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Board to Death by CJ Connor: Ben Rozencrantz is back to running his family's board game shop, now a divorced caregiver looking after his sick father. But when a local game collector offers to sell him a rare edition game of Monopoly for cheap, Ben turns down the suspicious deal. Then Clive turns up dead in the dumpster behind Ben's shop ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine: One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive. But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Riley’s overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Blackwater by Michael McDowell: Michael McDowell’s masterpiece returns to thrill and terrify a new generation of readers, with all six volumes combined in a single ebook. Blackwater traces more than fifty years in the lives of the powerful Caskey family of Perdido, Alabama, under the influence of the mysterious and beautiful—but not quite human—Elinor Dammert. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Clockwork Pirate by Lyn Gala: Alex hid his unnatural attraction to men for many years. That changes when the pirate Beche takes Alex after capturing his ship, and he realizes Beche hates the world because it is unfair in ways Alex never understood. As Alex begins to respect this strong, independent man, Alex’s dormant desires begin to reassert themselves. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Clap When You Land by ELizabeth Acevedo: Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In NYC, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother tells her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!