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Baker, Leo Brady-Davis, Precious Kobabe, Maia Richards, Lynette Soriano, Jen Tobia, JacobKobabe, 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 Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBBrady-Davis, Precious
Summary: "A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books, Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRADY-DAVIS, PRECIOUS BRARichards, Lynette
Summary: "It was April 1, 1873. In the middle of the night, Sarah Jane spotted flares off the coast of her island home. She woke her father, who quickly gathered their neighbours. Over the next several hours, rescuers pulled 429 traumatized survivors out of the wreckage of the SS Atlantic. But 535 people didn't survive, including Bill, a sailor. However, this story isn't about death--it's about living....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emanata 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 RICSoriano, Jen
Summary: The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SORIANO, JEN SORTobia, Jacob
Summary: "From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put 'male' on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything went wrong. Alongside 'male' came many other, far less neutral words: words that carried expectations about who Jacob was and who Jacob should be, words like 'masculine' and 'aggressive' and 'cargo shorts' and 'SPORTS!' Naturally sensitive, playful, creative, and glitter-obsessed, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOBIA, JACOB TOBBaker, Leo
Summary: "Your authenticity is your superpower." That's the motto that professional skateboarder Leo Baker lives by and champions. But like any hero's journey, learning about their power didn't come easy. In this installment of the Pocket Change Collective, Baker takes the reader on a complicated, powerful journey through the world of skate and competitive sport as a non-binary athlete... Pocket Change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021