Resultados para "Childhood" en LGBTQ+

Carl Young’s biggest secret: he’s always felt like Cara Young. Through the years, he acknowledged his authentic female self in ways he kept hidden in the shadows. The makeup, the dresses, the shoes -- all of them represented his most longed-for desires and his deepest shame.

A raw and emotional slow-burn MM romance about a self-destructive man haunted by addiction and the childhood love who returns determined to prove that even the most broken hearts may still be worth saving. He was everything I never wanted. Impulsive. Careless. Self-Destructive. I'm the cliché...

The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy...

The heart-stopping new love story from Emma Denny, following beloved characters from One Night in Hartswood and All the Painted Stars. 🏹🏹🏹 'Achingly thoughtful, wonderfully romantic, complex, and tender, Denny’s world and characters leap off the page and tug at your heart' EMMA R...

The USA Today bestselling, Lambda Award–winning author of Dirt Creek is back with a woman’s story of the aftermath of the climbing incident that killed her girlfriend—and getting to the truth. This program features a bonus conversation between the author and Irish novelist Dervla McTiernan...

Growing up with Autism is hard enough. Growing up with Autism when you're a little gay weirdo is almost impossible. Greatest Hits of my Childhood Trauma is the story of a boy fighting to exist in a world that would rather throw him away. From overly religious mothers to prison sentences, drug overdoses, psychiatric facilities, bizarre sexual encounters, and queer high school romance, this tale of 90s middle America is heartbreaking, hilarious, and hard to put down. Alex Dark takes us through the darkest parts of his life with a charm that will keep you coming back for more.

Magisch ist zurück im Haus hinter dem Knallerbsenwall mit einem Job, der nicht ganz legal ist. Mehr als fünfzehn Jahre sind vergangen, und Marie und Magisch sitzen unten am Feldweg bei der Pferdekoppel im Schatten der Büsche und trinken Fanta-Korn als wären sie nie weg gewesen. Doch Andi, Maries Bruder, ist auch noch da, war tatsächlich nie weg, ist mittlerweile in der Partei, und noch immer gefährlich. Als Magisch bedroht wird, ist für Marie der Zeitpunkt gekommen, die Frage nach der Brandmauer in der eigenen Familie neu zu stellen.

'Rooms in Bombay are not big in size, but huge in heart. Manil Suri's memoir will make you want to hug your mother. Written in clean, direct prose and without sentimentality, it explores all the dimensions of the complicated bond between parent and child -- while also being laugh-out-loud funny...

"FANS OF THE MAGICIANS AND NINTH HOUSE HAVE FOUND THEIR NEW OBSESSION." -LAURA STEVEN "I DIDN'T WANT MY TIME WITH BRIAR AND SEB TO END." –V. E. SCHWAB Dark academia meets contemporary fantasy in this timely page-turner about a student who fails to gain admission to the UK's only school of...

Recently hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in The New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this staggeringly candid and hilarious novella-length memoir. With a recent diagnosis of attention deficit disorder, and news that V's first lover from childhood has been imprisoned for impersonating an undercover police officer, Bond recalls in vivid detail coming of age as a trans kid. Always haunted by the knowledge of being "different," Bond was further confused when the bully next door wanted to meet secretly. Their trysts went on for years, and made Bond acutely aware of sexual power and vulnerability. With inimitable style, Bond raises issues about LGBTQ adolescence, homophobia, parenting, and sexuality, while being utterly entertaining.

'Compelling, heartfelt and inspiring. I found this book so real. so honest. It has taught me about drive, ambition, persistence and love. And what it means to be really Irish! A triumphant story of achievement in a world made for men!' - Katriona O'Sullivan, author of Poor Jackie McCarthy...

From the author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, two best bros fake an engagement–but will their friendship survive? It’s about time roommates Alejandro and Kenny get married. Or at least, that’s what all their close friends and family think when they announce their engagement...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2022 (BEST FICTION) '[A] miraculous sort of novel' Hernan Diaz 'I wish I could write like this' Fredrik Backman 'So good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later' Mark...

How far would you travel for love? Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands...

“Exquisite and gripping. . . . The Gulf is a page turner to be savored; Cochran is a master of both prose and plot.”—Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers In this electrifying debut literary thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women’s...

"Putsata Reang's quiet narration of her beautiful, poignant memoir holds both deep compassion and raw pain. Reang's ability to capture both her own and her mother's histories, desires, and dreams--in her voice and her prose--is remarkable." -AudioFile on Ma and Me This program is read by the...

What’s it like to parent a child in transition? Inspired by the acclaimed podcast How to Be a Girl, this is a highly personal and beautifully narrated memoir by Marlo Mack recounting the journey she’s been on since her three-year-old declared he should have been born a girl. And Mack agrees to the child’s request to be a girl.

Forgiven High school sweethearts Mia and Luke get a second chance at love in this brand-new contemporary romance from award-winning author Garrett Leigh. When Mia Amour returns to England to open a florist shop, all she wants to do is put her lousy ex behind her and never look back. But getting...

A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are. All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . . Twenty-four-year-old...

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris! In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A...