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Fiction
Bone Weaver
Aden Poly­doros
Fiction
This Rebel Heart
Kather­ine Locke
Nonfiction
Lost & Found: A Memoir
Kathryn Schulz
Nonfiction
Kosher­soul: The Faith and Food Jour­ney of an African Amer­i­can Jew
Michael W. Twitty
Nonfiction
I Was Bet­ter Last Night: A Memoir
Har­vey Fierstein
Nonfiction
Trans Tal­mud: Androg­y­nes and Eunuchs in Rab­binic Literature
Max K. Strassfeld
Poetry
The Book of Anna
Joy Ladin
Fiction
The City Beautiful
Aden Poly­doros
Poetry
The Nao­mi Letters
Rachel Men­nies
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Oh, I Just Did­n’t Know: 11 Thought­ful Con­ver­sa­tions for Grand­par­ents and Grandchildren
Jeff Ben­der
Fiction
Acts of Atonement
S.W. Leich­er
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Spe­cial Top­ics In Being A Human: A Queer and Ten­der Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way about Car­ing For Peo­ple, Includ­ing Myself.
S. Bear Bergman | Saul Freedman-Lawson
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The First Bright Thing
J.R. Daw­son
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Camp Quilt­bag
A.J. Sass
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Half In: A Com­ing-of-Age Mem­oir of For­bid­den Love
Felice Cohen
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Appar­el Has No Gen­der: Thought­ful Com­men­tary From A Dad Rais­ing A Trans­gen­der Child
Jeff Ben­der
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The Dar­ing Life and Dan­ger­ous Times of Eve Adams
Jonathan Ned Katz
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The Rab­bi Who Prayed with Fire
Rachel Sharona Lewis
Fiction
Cool for the Summer
Dahlia Adler
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Sarahland
Sam Cohen
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