Bow Grip by Ivan Coyote. A good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance's suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life.
Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty. When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family.
The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lermanby Leo Lerman and Stephen Pascal. Explores the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York's artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994.
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt. Based on the true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown—and unschooled—mathematical genius. Populated with luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums. Kevin Sessums brings the American South of the 1960s and the experiences of a strange little Mississippi boy to life.
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam. When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a school for transgender kids while she got settled. Instead she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she introduces four of them—Christina, Domineque, Foxxjazell, and Ariel
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. The books takes readers behind closed doors inside the relationship of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, an elderly Jewish lesbian couple. Their 40-year union withstood many tests, including surviving a Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.
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