Kobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 741.5 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBSpooner, James
Summary: "Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The few Black kids here seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microaggressors to future neo-Nazis. Mixed-race and acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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Summary: "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PARMyer, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BELDorrance
Summary: "For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation that detail their experiences with gender and identity. Originally published as a successful kickstarter campaign, this expanded edition includes comics by Dana Simpson (bestselling author of Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Aidyn Huynh (Snailords), Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, Coco Ouwerkerk, and many others....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 306.76 OUTPage, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler's brain is different. Unlike his friends, he has a hard time paying attention in class. He acts out in goofy, over-the-top ways. Sometimes, he even does dangerous things--like cut up a bus seat with a pocketknife or hang out of an attic window. To the adults in his life, Tyler seems like a troublemaker. But he knows that he's not. Tyler is curious and creative. He's the best artist in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAGGharib, Malaka
Summary: "An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GHARIB, MALAKA GHAVellekoop, Maurice
Summary: "Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 VELLEKOOP, MAURICE VELNichols, L.
Summary: I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand continues Flocks, L. Nichols's graphic memoir of growing up trans in the rural South. These comics document L.'s further transition, from living as a man to walking the middle path, facing depression, disease, divorce and death. Healing leaves scars, things fall apart, and pronouns change until there is no I, there is only us. --from Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Secret Acres 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLS, L. NICWoods, Stuart
Summary: "Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist. What many readers don't know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODS, STUART WOOKrouse, Erika
Summary: "Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.25 KROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KROOgle, Rex
Summary: "This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle's memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and living on the streets after his father discovered he was gay. When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay--and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 OGLBarnes, Cinelle
Summary: "From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn't get a driver's license or file taxes, Cinelle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BARHeaney, Katie
Summary: "When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays, chronicling her singledom up to age twenty-five, she was still waiting to meet the right guy. Three years later, a lot changed. For one thing, she met the right girl. Here, for the first time, Katie opens up about realizing at the age of twenty-eight that she is gay. In these poignant, funny essays, she wrestles with her shifting sexuality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEANEY, KATIE HEAKetcham, Christopher
Summary: "The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.73 KETNichols, Maggie
Summary: "Maggie Nichols' official memoir is an inspirational tell-all about the abuse she suffered under the USA national gymnastic team and how she managed to redefine herself in the face of adversity. In 2015, Maggie risked everything when she revealed to her coach how USAG doctor Larry Nassar had been sexually abusing the athletes under his care. What ensued was an investigation that would capture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 NICRoden Winter, Molly
Summary: "A magnetic, intensely personal debut memoir of a happily married mother's exploration of sex and relationships--outside of her marriage. Molly Roden Winter was a mom of two young children in Park Slope, Brooklyn with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids' bedtime, again, she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At impromptu drinks with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODEN WINTER, MOLLY RODKander, Jason
Summary: From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about politics, PTSD, impossible choices--and how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the greatest decision of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANDER, JASON KANTotenberg, Nina
Summary: Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TOTMurphy, Kimberly Shannon
Summary: A memoir from one of the most successful stuntwomen in Hollywood chronicles her path to recovery from a childhood of sexual abuse and offers hope for others who have suffered through the same ordeal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, KIMBERLY SHANNON MURLeon, Jesse
Summary: "In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse. Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesus Leon's childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEON LEOKander, Jason
Summary: "Barack Obama has called Jason Kander the future of the Democratic Party. A former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan, Kander was the first millennial ever elected to statewide office. Today, he is the founder and president of Let America Vote, and a bold new voice in American politics. In OUTSIDE THE WIRE, Jason Kander writes candidly about his life, from joining the military following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hatchette Book Group 2018