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The LGBTQ+ history book / : Big Ideas Simply Explained
The unbecoming of Margaret Wolf : a novel
When I was red clay : a journey of identity, healing, and wonder
Isaac's song : a novel
Dirtbag queen : a memoor of my mother
Queer as folklore : the hidden queer history of myths and monsters
Take my name but say it slow : essays
Transformer : a story of glitter, glam rock, & loving Lou Reed
Long live queer nightlife : how the closing of gay bars sparked a revolution
Alligator tears : a memoir in essays
The pride atlas : 500 iconic destinations for queer travelers
Loca : a novel
Black. Fat. Femme : Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself
The fantasies of future things
When the Band Played On : The Life of Randy Shilts, America's Trailblazing Gay Journalist
Pure innocent fun : essays
When the harvest comes : a novel
The Old Gays guide to the good life : lessons learned about love and death, sex and sin, and saving the best for last
How do I un-remember this? : unfortunately true stories
The shots you take
Drop in : the gender rebels who changed the face of skateboarding
Separate Rooms
A wild and precious life : a memoir
I think they love you
Somewhere we are human : authentic voices on migration, survival, and new beginnings
Indian Genius : The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America
My (underground) American dream : my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a Wall Street executive
Out of many, one : portraits of America's immigrants
Ghosts of Gold Mountain : the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad
A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
Infinite country : a novel
Children of the land
The truth about immigration : why successful societies welcome newcomers
Strangers in the land : exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America
Mercury Pictures presents : a novel
Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home
This land is our land : an immigrant's manifesto
Between everything and nothing : the journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the quest for asylum
Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
Rivermouth : a chronicle of language, faith, and migration
The Book of Wounded Sparrows : Poems
The affairs of the Falcóns : a novel
Ellis Island : a people's history
The first Kennedys : the humble roots of an American dynasty
America, Let Me In : A Choose Your Immigration Story
The refugee ocean : a novel
The next ship home : a novel of Ellis Island
One mighty and irresistible tide : the epic struggle over American immigration, 1924-1965
Stonewall Book Awards
The black flamingo
Hurricane Child
Little & Lion
Cross my heart and never lie
Cantoras
Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
Canto contigo : a novel
Hijab butch blues : a memoir
Some strange music draws me in : a novel
The other mother : a novel
How we fight for our lives : a memoir
The thirty names of night : a novel
Freedom house : poems
When the angels left the old country
Last night at the Telegraph Club
Juliâan is a mermaid
When Aidan became a brother
Too bright to see
The great believers
The 57 bus
Sorrowland
Lunar boy
Love, Violet
1. The Knight and the Moth
2. Nightshade
3. Great Big Beautiful Life
4. The Emperor of Gladness
5. Shield of Sparrows
6. My Friends
7. The Love Haters
8. Onyx Storm
9. A Curse Carved in Bone
10. James
11. The Perfect Divorce
12. Strangers in Time
13. Broken Country
14. Silver Elite
15. 25 Alive
1. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
2. Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three
3. Mark Twain
4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
5. Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
6. Who Knew
7. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
8. Abundance
9. Is a River Alive?
10. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
11. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
12. My Next Breath
13. Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
14. Matriarch
15. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
 
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