Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
9 best books like Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation (Karla Jay): Brokeback Mountain, Birthday, How It Feels to Float, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, Lucky, Women, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, The Slow Fix
| Author | Annie Proulx |
| ISBN | 0743271327 |
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender...
| Author | Meredith Russo |
| ISBN | 1250129834 |
Boyhood meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this unconventional love story by award-winning author Meredith Russo!
Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as Eric figures...
| Author | Helena Fox |
| ISBN | 0525554297 |
Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, who loves her so hard, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace...
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0064407721 |
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with...
In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles...
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0061177598 |
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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic...
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
| Author | Soraya Chemaly |
| ISBN | 1501189557 |
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...
| Author | Archie Bongiovanni |
| ISBN | 1620104997 |
Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide...
| Author | Ivan E. Coyote |
| ISBN | 1551522470 |
”Coyote is an important literary voice, blending a keen sense of gay identity and community with a refreshing appreciation for the goodness at the heart of some straight people.”—Out
The first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about...
