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  take a stroll with me

  Mallory Shoemaker

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  "take a stroll with me" is a collection of 58 poems by Mallory Shoemaker that celebrates the act of choosing joy. These poems are rooted in fairytale whimsy and like the truest stories, there is a little bit of darkness around the edges. At the core, this collection shows my joy in the face of many hardships– the spark I hold inside that I want to share with you. 
  written, read, published, and distributed by Mallory Shoemaker 
  produced by Daniel McConville (@seaandskyofficial) 
  mixed and mastered by Nico Grossfeld 
  cover art by Morgan Elliott (@thewildpeachstudio)

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  Persephone's Pancreas - A Myth &...

  Imé Corkery

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  Experience the raw and unfiltered journey of Imé Corkery as she fearlessly confronts the harsh realities of a rare and agonizing chronic illness in her breathtaking debut collection, Persephone's Pancreas. In this remarkable memoir of creative nonfiction, Imé takes you on an unforgettable odyssey that traverses the chasm between illness and earthly delights. From Netflix binges to the warmth of oxytocin, and from the intimacy of hospital date nights to the touch of the divine, this is a story that will capture your heart and soul. Imé Corkery's brave narrative not only explores the trials and tribulations of living with Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD), a rare and excruciating chronic illness, but also delves deep into the essence of love, both human and mythological. As you embark on this medical journey alongside our resilient heroine, you'll witness the escalating trials, the strengthening of drugs, and the profound descent into a world of myth. Persephone's Pancreas is a profound exploration of love, pain, and the intricate dance between the two. If you've ever experienced the rawness of human emotions, this poetic masterpiece is a must-read, offering solace and inspiration to all who seek the light in the darkest of times. 
  Harrowing, sharp-witted, tender, raw and necessary, this is an indelible account from a poet with the sheer nerve to keep testifying, even when ‘pain is at its zenith.’ Persephone’s Pancreas is a collection from a writer who deserves the title heroine. - Tracey Slaughter  
  Persephone's Pancreas draws us skin to skin with chronic pain...sensory detail, myth and the everyday, to find the things needed to survive the liminal and lost zones of a long ‘sick girl summer.’- Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor

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  Extra Credit

  Hayden Hall

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  When star quarterback Jason needs academic help, he never expected to fall for his tutor. Bennet from the rival fraternity is brilliant, adorable, and completely off-limits. After acing his exam, Jason faces a dilemma: confess his success and lose his excuse to see Bennet, or keep pretending he's failing just to steal more moments with the guy who's captured his heart. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Not Every River

  Robbi McCoy

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  It's the hottest city in the U.S., and it's not just the weather that's heating up. 
   
   
   
  Kim Gatlin, ambitious archaeologist and college professor, is taking the spring semester off to do a survey of a remarkable rock art site in Yuma, Arizona. The wild remote desert also holds gun-toting locals and desperate refugees, but the biggest hazard proves to be Bureau of Land Management geologist Claudine "Randi" Randall. Their mutual appreciation of the petroglyphs ought to bring them together, but Kim's academic goals and Randi's sense of ownership have them clashing from the word go. 
   
   
   
  Randi, a tough girl whose fears about her past haunt her every move, is reluctant to acknowledge the other type of sparks that fly whenever she and Kim are forced into each other's company. Professional resentment seems only to fan the heat threatens to burn them both. 
   
   
   
  The beauty and mystery of the Sonoran Desert provide the vibrant backdrop for Robbi McCoy's passionate story of two women forced to question everything they thought they knew about themselves before they can risk their fiery hearts on the biggest gamble of all.

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  Women - A Novella

  Chloé Caldwell

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  NATIONAL BESTSELLER 
  A Most Anticipated Pride Read by Autostraddle, Electric Literature, and GO Magazine • One of Cosmopolitan UK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time  
  ""Brief, sharp, and utterly consuming. . . Like your first love, it lingers long after the final chapter."" – Tegan Quin 
  A ""delightfully frenetic cult classic"" (The Atlantic) that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time. 
  Sometimes I wonder what it is I could tell you about her for my job here to be done. I am looking for a short­cut. . . .But that would be asking too much from you. It wasn’t you who loved her. 
  A young writer moves from the country to the city and falls in love with another woman for the very first time. From the start, the relationship is doomed; Finn is nineteen years older, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile . . . and a long-term girlfriend. 
  With startling clarity and breathtaking tenderness, Chloé Caldwell writes the story of a love in reverse: of nights spent drunkenly hurling a phone against a brick wall; of early mornings hungover in bed, curled up together; of emails and poems exchanged at breakneck speed. In Women, Caldwell lays bare the fierce obsession of addictive love, and asks the question: what, if anything, can who we love teach us about who we are? 
  In this beautiful, transcendent, bracingly sexy novella, Caldwell tells a lust-love story that will bring you to your knees. Capturing the feverish heartbreak of Sapphic romance, painting a stark picture of an identity in crisis, and illuminating the exploratory possibilities of queer life, Women brands the heart and sears the soul.

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  Heroine

  Gail Scott

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  In a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980, a woman tries to imagine a new life for herself: a life after a passionate affair with a man while falling for a woman, a life that makes sense after her deep involvement in far left politics during the turbulent seventies of Quebec, a life whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it. A new, revised edition of a seminal work of edgy, experimental feminism. With a foreword by Eileen Myles.

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