One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love
10 best books like One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love (Rebecca Walker): Dreadnought, The Pact, Gender Failure, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, If I Was Your Girl, Luna, You're Welcome, Universe, None of the Above, The Kid: (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant) an Adoption Story, Everything You Want Me to Be
| Author | April Daniels |
| ISBN | 1682300684 |
Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero.
Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she’s transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed...
| Author | Jodi Picoult |
| ISBN | 0061150142 |
For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty—they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise...
| Author | Ivan E. Coyote |
| ISBN | 1551525364 |
"Being a girl was something that never really happened for me."—Rae Spoon
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose...
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
| Author | Stephen Kinzer |
| ISBN | 0471678783 |
An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves...
| Author | Meredith Russo |
| ISBN | 1250078407 |
A new kind of big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are.
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone.
But when she meets sweet, easygoing...
| Author | Julie Anne Peters |
| ISBN | 0316011274 |
A groundbreaking novel about a transgender teen, selected as a National Book Award Finalist!
Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female name, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of his basement...
| Author | Whitney Gardner |
| ISBN | 0399551417 |
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural.
Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to...
| Author | I.W. Gregorio |
| ISBN | 0062335316 |
A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex... and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something...
The Kid: (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant) an Adoption Story
| Author | Dan Savage |
| ISBN | 0452281768 |
Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be...
Everything You Want Me to Be
| Author | Mindy Mejia |
| ISBN | 1501123424 |
No one knows who she really is…
Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more, something bigger, and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she’s found...
| Author | Halldór Laxness |
| ISBN | 1860469345 |
The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness’s most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend of light irony and dark humor.
The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric...
More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
| Author | Franklin Veaux |
| ISBN | 0991399706 |
Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? Absolutely! Polyamorous people have been paving the way, through trial and painful error. Now the new book More Than Two can help you find your own way. With completely new material and a fresh approach,...
Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love and Intimacy with Multiple Partners
| Author | Deborah Anapol |
| ISBN | 1442200219 |
Unlike other books on this topic, Polyamory in the 21st Century weaves together research and facts to provide an informed and impartial analysis of polyamory as a lifestyle and as a movement, and to place it in a psychosocial as well as an historical context. Anecdotes and personal experiences allow...
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
| Author | Jerome Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0809012235 |
"If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." So wrote the young Henry David Thoreau in 1849. Three years earlier, Thoreau had put his belief into action and refused to pay taxes because of the United States government's involvement...
With The Measure of Our Days, Dr. Jerome Groopman established himself as an eloquent new voice in the literature of medicine. In these eight moving portraits, he offers us a compelling look at what is to be learned when life itself can no longer be taken for granted.
These stories are diverse--from...
Whatever... Love is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves
| Author | Maria Bello |
| ISBN | 0062351834 |
Actress and activist Maria Bello made waves with her essay, “Coming Out as a Modern Family,” in the New York Times popular “Modern Love” column, in which she recalled telling her son that she had fallen in love with her best friend, a woman—and her relief at his easy and immediate acceptance...
Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last
"Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer world. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey."
--Edgar Dean Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
As medical director of the famed Preventive Medicine...
Through Women's Eyes: An American History With Documents
| Author | Ellen Carol DuBois |
| ISBN | 0312247311 |
The first textbook for the survey course in American women's history to combine a compelling narrative with a wide array of written and visual primary sources, Through Women's Eyes: An American History is also the first to integrate women's history into U.S. history while ensuring a balanced sense...
The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores
| Author | Danielle Vega |
| ISBN | 1595147268 |
Danielle Vega—YA’s answer to Stephen King—once again brings major scares in the spine-tingling sequel to horror hit The Merciless, which MTV calls “Mean Girls meets The Exorcist.”
Sofia is still processing the horrific truth of what happened when she and three friends performed...
The Merciless III: Origins of Evil
| Author | Danielle Vega |
| ISBN | 0448493527 |
Brooklyn knows that there's no good without evil, no right without wrong. And when a helpless girl calls her teen helpline, whispering that someone is hurting her, Brooklyn knows that she needs to save her anonymous caller, even if it means doing something bad.
Her parents and friends assure...
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, Second Edition
Wisdom and experience from lesbian, gay, and transgender foster and adoptive parents
Featuring a spectrum families from a diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting.
The authors outline how the experience of adopting...
Contronatura, Vol. 2: La caccia
| Author | Mirka Andolfo |
| ISBN | 8891227021 |
Leslie nasconde dentro di sé un potere che sono in molti a bramare. Dopo aver perso i suoi migliori amici per mano di un’organizzazione che la bracca, Leslie si ritrova in fuga sola e spaesata insieme a un gruppo di rivoltosi. Riuscirà a unirsi alla lotta contro un governo che bolla come contro natura...
Unnatural, Vol. 1: Awakening
| Author | Mirka Andolfo |
| ISBN | 1534309829 |
Leslie J. Blair is a normal pig girl, she loves sushi and she is trapped in a job that she hates. She lives with Trish, her best friend. In her world, which is full of anthropomorphic creatures, with a totalitarian government that interferes in the personal lives of its citizens, up to the point of allowing...
