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  Choosing Family - A Memoir of...

  Francesca T. Royster

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  A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides. 
   
  As a multiracial household in Chicago’s North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, this lyrical and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the author; her wife Annie, who's white; and Cecilia, the Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their forties and fifties. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist perspective. Royster also explores her memories of the matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women created in Chicago’s South Side—itself a dynamic character in the memoir—where “family” was fluid, inclusive, and not necessarily defined by marriage or other socially recognized contracts. 
      
  Calling upon the work of some of her favorite queer thinkers, including José Esteban Muñoz and Audre Lorde, Royster interweaves her experiences and memories with queer and gender theory to argue that many Black families, certainly her own, have historically had a “queer” attitude toward family: configurations that sit outside the white normative experience and are the richer for their flexibility and generosity of spirit. A powerful, genre-bending memoir of family, identity, and acceptance, Choosing Family, ultimately, is about joy—about claiming the joy that society did not intend to assign to you, or to those like you.

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  The Gallery of Memories -...

  Egale Canada

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  Older queer people have fought their entire lives for their identities. But who are we when we don't remember who we are? New data shows that queer people are at a higher risk of developing dementia and cognitive decline.  
  Join award-winning Canadian singer songwriter Jann Arden on a journey through The Gallery of Memories and hear the stories of ten amazing queer seniors whose actions have helped reshape the landscape we now live in. These are people living with dementia, caring for those with dementia, or in high risk categories, all sharing the one memory from their queer lives they want you to help remember for them.

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  You're Fired

  Shaya Crabtree

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  When poor college student Rose Walsh gives out an inappropriate gag gift at her office Christmas party, it backfires horribly. The gift's recipient is her boss, the esteemed president of Gio Corp., Vivian Tracey, and the only thing that can save Rose now is her smarts. 
   
   
   
  Instead of firing her, Vivian blackmails math major Rose into joining her on a business trip to New York to investigate an embezzlement. A week out of state with a woman she can barely stand seems like the last thing Rose wants to do with her winter vacation. Only, maybe Vivian is not as bad as she seems. Maybe they can even become friends . . . or more. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Wolf Bite

  TJ Nichols

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  After four years of living in Darwin, George Franklin is back in Melbourne, and everything has changed. There is now a pack of gay wolf shifters with their own territory, something that would have been unimaginable when he left. His own family pack is expecting him to move home and run with them…and he definitely doesn’t want to do that. The last thing he wants, though, is to fall for his best friend’s older brother—again. 
  Pack and family come first. Evan Steele knows that, and because of it, he lived a lie for years. He did things he regrets on the pack leader’s orders. Now, he’s put as much distance as he can between his past and his present. To humans, he is successful and confident.  
  But he hates shifting. He hates running on four feet.  
  When his past turns up at his door in the form of an anonymous hook-up, Evan’s lies come unstuck, and he’ll have to choose between putting himself first or obeying the pack who will hate him if they knew the truth.  
  This is the final book in the mm wolf shifter Outcast Pack series. 

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  Cat's Meow

  Cara Malone

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  A love triangle, a road trip and a rescue cat make for an unlikely adventure in Cat’s Meow, a heartwarming tribute to friends – and lovers – you can count on. 
  Entering her second year of vet tech school, Ling is caught between her best friend and her long-time crush. 
  Ling wants nothing more than to tell Dakota how she feels, but she can’t risk upsetting the delicate balance of their friendship – until she discovers her best friend, Amber, is the third point in their love triangle. 
  When Ling and Dakota take a road trip to catch Dakota’s runaway cat back home, Amber invites herself along for the ride and from car snacks to road music, it’s clear the battle for Dakota’s heart is on.

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  Eternally His

  Shawn Lane

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  In the Dark Ages, Morton was taken from his lover, the warrior Graham, and changed by the evil immortal Seymour. When Graham is gravely wounded in battle, Morton changes his lover and the two immortals flee. But Seymour isn't about to let the beautiful Morton go that easily.
  After centuries of playing a cat and mouse game, Morton and his protector Graham are finally free from Seymour at last. They build a life together, with Morton becoming a popular rock star called Xavier. 
  When rumors swirl that Seymour has been revived, Graham knows he must get his beloved away before Seymour appears seeking to keep Morton as his own once more.

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