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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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  Ever Dark: The Vampire King...

  X. Aratare

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  Vampires are real.  
  At least that’s what Julian Harrow and Christian Thorne are trying to prove with their YouTube show. But as they uncover the truth, the beautiful, seductive monsters they seek, are also seeking them. 
  Lord Balthazar Ravenscroft, the roguish Vampire with the ability to read minds, finds himself drawn to Christian, determined to protect the boy, even as his quest to uncover the truth puts all of Vampire kind in danger. But worse, as Christian and Julian have discovered the Ever Dark, the Vampire’s secret world, where they risk waking the most powerful, deadly Vampire of all: Daemon the Vampire King. 
  A Vampire of infinite dark power, Daemon hasn’t woken for millennia, but now something–orrather someone–has dragged him back to the world of mortals: Julian Harrow. 
  Because Vampires are real, and if Julian and Christian aren’t careful they soon may find themselves joining them, bound as their eternal mates. 
  This is a FULL CAST audio drama with 12 actors, and all 9 books are complete.

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  Up All Night

  Annabeth Albert

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  What happened to my predictable life? 
  I had a stable life as a fire captain in Seattle, married to one of my best friends and raising two awesome kids. Now, my kids are grown, and my marriage is toast. I'm solidly past forty and back in my tiny hometown of Mount Hope, Oregon, filling in as a firefighter. My future is one big question mark keeping me up at night. 
  Also keeping me up? The short-order cook at Honey's Hotcake Hut. 
  Denver might be close to my age, but we're total opposites. The former rock roadie runs from stability, never puts down roots, and lives for the moment. Point in case, we barely speak before he invites me into his shower. 
  I've never been with a man, but my fresh start has me trying all sorts of new things—including Denver’s shower. 
  Our future? Hopeless. 
  Denver doesn't do repeats, but I convince him to have a fling since we're both in Mount Hope short-term. The more time we spend together, the deeper our friendship and bond grows. Our time together outside of the bedroom, reveals a caring side to the grumpy cook. Even better, my sunshine-y optimism softens him like butter. 
  Should a fling give me these deep feelings? Nope. 
  Worse, the feelings are mutual. Big decisions loom for both our futures, and our time together grows short. I might have Denver's heart, but his trust is far harder to win. He's the answer to all my question marks, and I need him to believe in us. Can I convince him to give our love a chance? 
  UP ALL NIGHT features a grumpy/sunshine pairing for a forty-something firefighter on a path of self-discovery with an UP ALL NIGHT short-order cook. It contains loads of first-time feels with sexual awakening and exploration with a heaping helping of personal growth and deep connection for this opposites-attract couple.

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  Jean - A Novel

  Madeleine Dunnigan

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  Set over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole. 
  Seventeen–year–old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with “problems.” Dyslexic, antisocial, and prone to violent outbursts, Jean has never made friends easily and school has never been a place of safety or enjoyment. 
  Compton Manor is his last chance, but even here, despite the unconventional teaching methods, Jean is marked by difference. The other boys are fee–paying, while Jean is on a grant; they have good, English families, while Jean’s mother, Rosa, is a German–Jewish refugee and his father is an absent memory. Having broken the rules several times, Jean is on thin ice. But there is only one summer to get through and then Jean will pass his exams and get out. 
  All of a sudden, he is befriended by Tom—confident, charming, buoyed by years of good breeding and privilege—and it seems as if Jean’s world might change. When things turn romantic, Jean is tipped into a heady, overwhelming infatuation. Now Jean skips class to venture into the woods, or sneaks across moonlit fields to see Tom, wondering whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogether. 
  Spellbinding and evocative, Jean is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.

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  Criminal Intentions: Season Two...

  Cole McCade

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  ABOUT THIS EPISODE 
   
   
   
  Rising tensions between Malcolm, Seong-Jae, and Aanga Joshi reach a tipping point—and send our devilish duo on a rogue mission. Mal and Seong-Jae are off the radar, off the rails, and determined to track down the connection between Sila and the Golden Ratio Killer, no matter who stands in their way. 
   
   
   
  One way or another, they'll put a name and a face to the nightmare. 
   
   
   
  One way or another . . . they'll bring this to an end. 
   
   
   
  But to unravel a decades-old case, they must walk the path of others' bitter memories. Unearth what's been buried. Rip the scars off old wounds. Yet amidst the pain, the loss . . . there is hope. Courage. Truth. And what they uncover will bring them face to face with the true nature of their suspect. A glimpse inside the white rabbit's mind. His past . . . 
   
   
   
  And the clues that just might let Malcolm and Seong-Jae stay one step ahead, as they close the trap around their prey. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Grave Dissonance

  Mila Crawford

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  I have two things going for me in life; music and my best friend.My world is black and white because it has to be. I need control to keep myself from spinning. Order helps me stay calm.The only turbulence in my life is my bandmate and best friend. He is madness and chaos, but somehow he’s also my refuge.I never expected to crave him with such intensity, and now I fear my desires will shatter the only stability I’ve ever known.

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