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Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With the premature birth of her son -- when HIV-related mortality rates were at their highest -- Moraga, a new mother at forty years old, was forced to confront the fragile volatility of life and death; in these recorded dreams and reflections, her terror and resilience are made palpable. The particular challenges of queer parenting prove transformative as Moraga navigates her intersecting roles as mother, child, lover, friend, artist, activist, and...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another...
3) Butterfly
Author
Series
Butterfly novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Run away from the boy that give you butterflies, he's going to break your heart." Morgan Atkins had been told that phrase ever since she was a little girl and still she allowed herself to fall for the boy that made her heart flutter. After losing her first love, Morgan is terrified to love again. She's settled for a comfortable life with a respectable man. She has everything. She's living in the lap of luxury and although she's comfortable, she's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide. That's how this extraordinary novel opens - and by the time it ends, you'll have pieced together a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters...
Author
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El Diamante: La muerte camina a mi lado, pero el segador no es rival para mí. Estoy atrapado en un mundo lleno de monstruos vestidos de hombres y otros que no son lo que parecen. No me retendrán para siempre. Ya no reconozco la persona en la que me he convertido y estoy luchando para encontrar el camino de regreso a la bestia que me caza en la noche. Me llaman diamante, pero sólo han creado un ángel de la muerte. El Cazador: Nací depredador,...
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