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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Shane Woods is just a regular boy. He loves pitching for his baseball team, working on his graphic novel, and hanging out with his best friend, Josh. But Shane is keeping something private, something that might make a difference to his friends and teammates, even Josh. And when a classmate threatens to reveal his secret, Shane's whole world comes crashing down. It will take a lot of courage for Shane to ignore the hate and show the...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Annabelle Blake fully expects this school year to be the same as every other: same teachers, same classmates, same, same, same. So she's elated to discover there's a new kid in town. To Annabelle, Bailey is a breath of fresh air. She loves hearing about their life in Seattle, meeting their loquacious (and kinda corny) parents, and hanging out at their massive house. And it doesn't hurt that Bailey has a cute smile, nice hands (how can someone even...
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English
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"Georgia Brown's profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked people, but her romantic prospects have fizzled. The single most important person in her life is her friend, Jonah Tsukada, a funny, empathetic family medicine doctor who works at the same hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, and who has become as close as family to her. Just after Georgia leaves the country for a medical conference, she hears startling news...
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English
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Joy, a twelve-year-old trans girl, just moved to Texas with her mother and older brother. Her family has accepted Joy as the girl she is early in her transition, with little fuss, leaving Joy to explore her love of sports, competition, teamwork, school spirit, and worship. But when she is told she's off the cheerleading team, Joy wants to fight for her right to cheer. As her battle with the school board picks up momentum, Joy attracts support from...
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Language
English
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Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese, and losing her meant losing his only family. Then Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she is pregnant with his baby-- and is...
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Language
English
Description
"Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem; all the stories are fake ... When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah's world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn't have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah's life, and the pieces fall into place"--
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 229 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A personal, culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today from a leading activist, musician, and academic. In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent-yet-approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really are in terms of progress. From the impact of the media's...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
We have a lot of expectations about people based on their gender, and when someone doesn't fit into those expectations it can become difficult to handle, and perhaps even lead to hostility. But chances are you've met one (or more) transgender person, and not even been aware of it. Erickson-Schroth and Jacobs debunk the most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues, bringing together medical, social, psychological and political aspects...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"SELF-ish is a narrative drawn from an international life, beginning with some early glimpses out at the world by a girl in a boy's body. Chloe Schwenke was raised as Stephen in a Marine Corps family, and was sent off at age fourteen to "man-up" at a military academy. Later--still embodied as a man--she ventured abroad to work in some of the roughest regions of Africa, the Gaza Strip, Turkey, and many other locales. Her far-flung global journey was...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 89 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won't Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its parts. Written during the body's healing from a double...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading--and destroying the entire universe in the process--the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor...
17) Just gender
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Told through personal stories, professional insight and historical perspective, this film explores the depths of transgender experience in day-to-day living- the confusion, the isolation, the discrimination felt by many transgender people- and the blossoming joy in growing awareness and personal acceptance.
18) His right hand
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Series
Language
English
Description
The tight-knit Mormon community in Draper, Utah is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor-- one of the bishop's right-hand men-- is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's bishop, is worried about Carl's grieving family. When the autopsy report reveals Carl Ashby was a biological female, Church officials and more concerned with hushing up the story than solving the crime....
19) Cemetery boys
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
20) Venus
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Sid transitions from male to female, a fourteen-year old boy named Ralph shows up at her door announcing that Sid is his dad. Ralph is surprised to discover that his father is now a woman, but thinks having a transgender dad is pretty cool. But Ralph hasn't told his mother and stepfather that he's tracked down his biological father. And then there's Sid's boyfriend Daniel who has yet to tell his family of his relationship with Sid.
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