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Publication Date:  March 30, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Legal Thriller  Narrators:  Marguerite Gavin Publisher:  Recorded Books  Length:   10 hours 11 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case of her career. Four months ago, William E. Townsend, Jr., son of a New Jersey State Senator, was found fatally stabbed in a rundown motel near Atlantic City. Sharise Barnes, a nineteen-year-old transgender prostitute, is in custody, and given the evidence, there seems little doubt of a guilty verdict.   As a trans woman herself, Erin knows that defending Sharise will blow her own private life wide open, and doubtless deepen her estrangement from her family. Yet she f...

Publication Date:  September 17, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   LGBTQ Fiction Publisher:  Sourcebooks publishing Length:  393 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis A group of coastal Californians battle wildfires, racism, and their own demons in five distinct narratives set in late 2019 and 2020. First Born Sons  is populated by a cast of LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies who struggle to find love, comfort, and fulfillment. As the novel progresses, characters interact across the separate narratives and are brought together for a birthday and a disastrous Black Lives Matter demonstration. A man returning to the horrors that made him leave Mississippi, a blind gay man flirting with love, an FTM transgender starting h...

Publication Date:  October 9, 2018 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Non-fiction, death, dying Publisher:  WW Norton & Co      Length:  288 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transi...

  Publication Date:  October 26, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Memoir/ LGBTQ/Transgender  Publisher:  The Experiment       Length:  272 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When Marlo Mack’s three-year-old utters these words, her world splits wide open. Friends and family, experts, and Marlo herself had long downplayed her “son’s” requests for pretty dresses and long hair as experimentation—as a phase—but that time is over. When little “M” begs, weeping, to be reborn, Marlo knows she has to start listening to her kid. Review:  I got this book free from The Experiment through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. Marlo Mack wrote a no holds barred honest book about raising her transgender daughter.  Not understanding what was happening she found support groups, she grieved the child she though...