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  Rooms - Women Writing Woolf

  Sina Queyras

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  From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind
  		 
  Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.
  		 
  Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virignia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one’s own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.
  		 
  How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media.

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  A Rare Recording of Isaac Asimov

  Isaac Asimov

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  Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction.

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  D L Moody - God's Bold Messenger

  Faith Coxe Bailey

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  In an exciting novel form, D. L. Moody: God’s Bold Messenger tells the incredible story of one of the greatest evangelists of the nineteenth century. Deeply committed to the gospel and devoted to bringing the love of God to bear on the lives of young and old, Moody preached across America and throughout Europe. Faith Coxe Bailey brings alive the story of the bigger-than-life man who was a servant to poor communities and whose preaching and vision have an ongoing influence in the lives of many. Though his formal education ended after fifth grade, Moody became a champion of education, starting three schools, including Moody Bible Institute. From reaching out to lost children, to training women, to bridging the gap between denominations, Moody is a hero of the faith with whom all should be well acquainted. You will be encouraged by the faithful and adventurous life of Dwight Lyman Moody.  D. L. Moody dared to take up a challenge and see what God could do with a life totally committed to Him. Bailey brings to color the story of God’s Bold Messenger.

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  Escape from Kabul - A True Story...

  Enakshi Sengupta

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  Five Women. A Crumbling City. A Daring Flight to Freedom. 
   
  August 2021. The fall of Kabul.  
  Twenty years after they were defeated, the Taliban storms Afghanistan's capital, claiming every piece of land they pass and plunging the city into chaos. 
  For Anjali and four other women, who were all from different parts of the world and worked together at the Anglo-American University of Kabul, this moment marks the beginning of a harrowing journey. Forced into hiding, hunted for their work at the University, and unsure of whom to trust, knowing betrayal is just a whisper away, they are bound by one urgent impetus: to get out alive. 
  What unfolds is an inspiring story of resistance and survival, furtive phone calls, forged documents and midnight dashes through enemy territory-and the relentless courage of women who refuse to be silenced. 
  Searing and utterly gripping, Escape from Kabul is at once an extraordinary first-person account of sisterhood in crisis as well as a meditation on the meaning of freedom, and what it takes to reclaim agency when the world closes in.

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  Nonbinary - Memoirs of Gender...

  Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane

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  What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. 
   
   
   
  The powerful first-person narratives of this collection show us a world where gender exists along a spectrum, a web, a multidimensional space. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships. From Suzi, who wonders whether she'll ever "feel" like a woman after living fifty years as a man, to Aubri, who grew up in a cash-strapped fundamentalist household, to Sand, who must reconcile the dual roles of trans advocate and therapist, the writers' conceptions of gender are inextricably intertwined with broader systemic issues. Labeled gender outlaws, gender rebels, genderqueer, or simply human, the voices in Nonbinary illustrate what life could be if we allowed the rigid categories of "man" and "woman" to loosen and bend. They speak to everyone who has questioned gender or has paused to wonder, What does it mean to be a man or a woman—and why do we care so much?

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  Sex Drugs & Jesus - A Memoir of...

  De'Vannon Hubert

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  ***INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** 
  First Place - LGBTQ+ Nonfiction 
  True Crime - Finalist 
  ***FIREBIRD BOOK AWARD WINNER*** 
  First Place - LGBTQ+ Nonfiction 
  First Place - True Crime 
  Third Place - Memoir 
  "A bleak but often engrossing real-life story of an eventful and sometimes-dangerous life." - Kirkus Reviews 
  “Sex, Drugs & Jesus is a riveting memoir that will capture your heart and take you inside the trials and tribulations of Mr. Hubert’s life. I was hooked from the first page.” - USA Today Bestselling Author, Theresa Hissong 
  My memoir delves into raw detail about my war with my myself. I open up about my crystal meth addiction and being a drug dealer in Houston, Tx. The pain of growing up in poverty under the hand of an abusive dad is also put on display. The time I spent serving in the Air Force during Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the promiscuity that went along with it, is divulged as well. I talk about how I received my HIV + diagnosis on a voicemail and my Hep B + diagnosis in the postal mail. My story gets more intense as I share about how I got 3 felonies, the time I spent in jail, and how I ended up homeless after S.W.A.T. kicked my door in. I talk about the biggest heartbreak in my life which happened when I was kicked out of a megachurch, that I had served with my whole soul for years, just because I am a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and refused to accept the conversion therapy package they offered. 
  So often people judge those who have been in similar situations. My hope is that my honesty can offer a glimpse into these issues from the inside, rather than from the outside looking in. 
   

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