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A soulful memoir of desire and a woman’s midlife quest to let go—in jazz and in life. Lisa—a classically trained pianist, wife, and mother—yearns for something she can’t define. After she begins a study of jazz improv with an outspoken, trailblazing musician from the ’70s girl band era, a woman who encourages Lisa to let go musically and emotionally, life takes an unexpected, irrevocable turn. When they become lovers, what began as a desire to learn jazz becomes a lesson in letting go: with music, with an old way of living, and finally with life itself.

Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez was an invisible architect behind evangelical Christianity's digital empire, crafting messages of belonging for some of the most influential megachurches, all while secretly questioning his own place within the faith. In a desperate attempt to "fix" himself, he turned to conversion therapy, spending eight years trying to pray the gay away. And he wasn't alone. Even though Exodus International, the largest ex-gay organization, closed in 2013, the practice still thrives in many conservative religious communities.

Have you ever struggled with self-doubt, low confidence, or felt like you had to hide parts of who you are? Certainly, I know that in the past, I did! Do you want to develop more self-love, confidence, and emotional strength as a gay man? Are you ready to replace negative self-talk with empowering words that support both your mental health and happiness? 1200+ Affirmations for Gay Men is a powerful and uplifting audiobook created to support you in cultivating self-acceptance, inner peace, and authentic self-expression.

In this unflinching response to JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, Georgiann Davis guides us through her extraordinary life, from weighing almost 300 pounds by fifth grade, to dropping out of school in the seventh and on to selling weed out of her “monkey shit green” Plymouth Neon. A tall, fat girl who only wore boy’s clothing, she grew up with a turbulent family outside of Chicago: the larger-than-life mother who looked like Farah Fawcett, the father who understood cars better than children, the brother whose drug use went unchecked, and the Greek grandparents who could only love her from afar.

From award-winning chef, author, television personality, and activist Melissa King comes an intimate, captivating memoir about family, food, and finding her voice as a queer Chinese American...

When indie musician Mike Maimone meets legendary publicist Howard Bragman, neither expects a once-in-a-lifetime love story to unfold. Despite their perceived differences, they quickly build a world together based on music, humor, hard-won wisdom, and the unexpected tenderness that comes from finding your forever person just when you'd given up looking. But when Howard is diagnosed with cancer on the eve of Mike's proposal, the life they had been envisioning together changes overnight.

A Life in Too Many Margins is a literary episodic tale featuring David, an autistic, chronically ill, and deeply exhausted queer individual. He's survived a few too many doctors with God complexes and an education system that couldn't accommodate a paper cut, let alone a brain like his. Now he's trying to keep it together long enough to get out and figure out what a life outside of survival mode even looks like.

Freddie Mercury was one of the greatest showmen of the twentieth century. With his unparalleled voice and searing on-stage energy, he was a great pretender, a killer queen and a champion of the world. But behind the glamour lived a musician and lyricist talented beyond measure, and the creative...

Wheels Within Wheels is the autobiography of Edward, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu—a life shaped by heritage, controversy, imagination, and a lifelong love of the motor car. Spanning much of the twentieth century, it is both an intimate personal memoir and a portrait of a Britain learning how to adapt its past to a changing world.

A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son’s love, a mother’s obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past. Indian-American author Manil Suri grew up in a large, crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai), which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three...

A soul-searching LGBTQ memoir about one woman’s attempt to plan her way to happily ever after—only to realize that healing, self-discovery, and love happen in their own time.

When Chris Arnone was born in Independence, Missouri, nobody could tell what sex he was. For the first few days of his life, until a chromosome test confirmed he was a boy, his parents called him Baby. From this first, literal “coming out,” it was clear he was different. His life was punctuated by a string of surgeries and trips to the ER, unrecognizable and confusing diagrams in sex ed class, and the need to preface every intimate encounter by explaining his medical history. But it wasn’t until he was 37 that he discovered he didn’t have “birth defects”—he was intersex.

When Katrina, a forty-six-year-old Midwestern mother of four, becomes consumed with feelings for her female Pilates instructor, she begins to understand that she is and always has been gay. Her husband suggests they open up their twenty+ year marriage, which appears to be a reasonable solution to their dilemma. But when Katrina and her husband have different ideas of what an open marriage should like, the cracks in their white-picket-fence life are hit with a hurricane-force fury.

This is 3rd Book series continuation of the first book Inner child of Lisa title changed from Living with Lisa. The story intertwined spiritual awakening going from Lisa to Lee gender identity crisis forty years in dark place family dysfunctional parents divorce as child growing up eldest 3 siblings born in London. Touched by angels series paranormal events going through transition gender reassignment surgery suffering with dysphoria not in alignment with my birth gender.

Forgive For You is a story about learning to live well with reality, even (and especially) when it doesn’t come with clarity, closure, or apology. Blending sharp insight and raw honesty, the author reflects on love, loss, kinship, trauma, marriage, divorce, and what it means to forgive it all–not for others, but for ourselves. This isn’t a tale of tidy resolution. It’s a winding, at times bewildering, emotional journey through secrets kept and truths uncovered. It’s the reckoning of a rage that could burn the world, and the forging of resilience from fury and surrender.

STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID • 19 is a raw and gripping diary account of the battle Jaeger’s dad endured with COVID • 19 in New York City. The narrative brings you into the heart of her family as they come to terms with his death and learn to cope with his absence. In flashbacks throughout the narrative, vignettes illustrate her dad in happier times–a doting father, an adoring grandfather, a man who always put family first.

I grew up with a dad who believed he was a woman and who wanted me to call him mom. We live in a time when the focus is on the person who is transitioning and to champion their cause, but what about the family members who are forced to go through the transition process with them? Stories like mine are discarded and labeled as collateral damage. We are asked to pretend like everything is okay, but the reality is, everything is not okay. Lives are altered forever. As a child my ability to choose was taken from me, and therefore, my freedom went with it.

Imagine holding a secret so big that sharing it could mean destroying the life you built and hurting those you love. Imagine sharing and embracing a secret so powerful that it could transform your life, your relationships, and how you see and lead in the world. As one of Canada’s most senior and recognized corporate executives, Katherine Dudtschak had a masculine name and appearance that did not reflect her truth. She had built a life of material success, yet something essential was missing.

We’re Thankful for the Moisture contains personal essays by award-winning humor columnist Eli McCann for The Salt Lake Tribune, along with corresponding cartoons by the Tribune’s Pat Bagley. McCann explores cultural Mormonism and his experiences growing up in Utah as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1990s, coming out as gay in adulthood, leaving his faith, and navigating life in Salt Lake City with his husband and their young child.

Body, Enough is a raw, fearless memoir of a woman who spent decades chasing thinness, fitness, and control—only to discover that real strength begins where self-punishment ends. From seventh-grade shame to postpartum desperation, from gym-floor spectacle to surgical surrender, this is the story of learning to live inside a body that never stopped trying to save her. Honest, gritty, and fiercely human, Body, Enough is for anyone who’s ever believed their worth was measured in pounds.