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Avon Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.768 MCB
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306.768 MCB
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Naples Library - Adult Biographies
B MCBRIDE
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B MCBRIDE
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Biography
B MCBRIDE
1 available
B MCBRIDE
1 available
Description
"A captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country. Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out--not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She'd known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but...
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Geneva Public Library - Second Floor Nonfiction
306.76 DUN
1 available
306.76 DUN
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Nonfiction
306.76 DUN
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306.76 DUN
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For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations--lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman--until their profound sense of alienation became intolerable. Moving between Grace and Cyrus, Dunham brings us inside the chrysalis of gender transition, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about...
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Lima Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MAR
1 available
FIC MAR
1 available
Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult New Materials
FIC MAR
1 available
FIC MAR
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Newark Public Library - Adult Large Print
LP FIC MAR
1 available
LP FIC MAR
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Description
"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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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Biography
LP B TALUSAN
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LP B TALUSAN
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"A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love"--Provided by publisher.
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Geneva Public Library - First Floor Fiction
MAUPIN
1 available
MAUPIN
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Lyons Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Maupin, A. (Tales of the City # 9)
1 available
FICTION Maupin, A. (Tales of the City # 9)
1 available
Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Fiction
FIC MAU
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FIC MAU
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Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
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Bloomfield Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Peters
1 available
FIC Peters
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Geneva Public Library - First Floor Fiction
PETERS
1 available
PETERS
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Lima Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PET
1 available
FIC PET
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"[A novel] about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex..."-- Publisher's description.
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Macedon Public Library - Adult Biography
BIO JENNER
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BIO JENNER
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Marion Public Library - Biographies
BIO JENNER
1 available
BIO JENNER
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Palmyra Community Library - Adult Biography
92 JENNER
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92 JENNER
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Description
"Imagine denying your core and soul. Then add to it the most impossible expectations that people have for you because you are the personification of The American Male Athlete." Bruce Jenner, the celebrated Olympic icon and later the patriarch of one of the most famous families in the world, seemed to be living a dream life of success, fame, and prosperity. But the all-American image and million-dollar smile belied a lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria,...
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Livonia Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.76 NEA
1 available
306.76 NEA
1 available
Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Nonfiction
306.76 NEA
1 available
306.76 NEA
1 available
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A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional, and social issues of trans kids.
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Biography
B PATTERSON
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B PATTERSON
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"Jodie Patterson is the mother of five children, including her ten-year-old transgender son Penelope, the catalyst for the author's reexamination of identity within her own dynamic household--and the wider world. This inspiring and highly personal debut memoir goes on to examine Jodie's extended families' African American experiences with racism and civil rights, and her own coming of age in New York City in the 1970s and 80s, and later on as a wife,...
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Caledonia Library Association - Adult Fiction
FIC VUO
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FIC VUO
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Clifton Springs Library - Adult Fiction
Fic Vuo
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Fic Vuo
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Clyde-Savannah Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Vuong
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FIC Vuong
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Geneva Public Library - First Floor Fiction
ACIMAN
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ACIMAN
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Fiction
FIC ACI
1 available
FIC ACI
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Naples Library - Audiobooks
AUDIOBK CD FIC ACI
1 available
AUDIOBK CD FIC ACI
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Williamson Public Library - Adult Audiobooks
AUDBK FIC ACI 7 CDS
1 available
AUDBK FIC ACI 7 CDS
1 available
Description
"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com
*Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*
Celebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a dynamic audiobook, read by Armie Hammer
A New York Times Notable
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Clifton Springs Library - Adult Fiction
Fic Mar
1 available
Fic Mar
1 available
Lima Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MAR
1 available
FIC MAR
1 available
Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Fiction
FIC MAR
1 available
FIC MAR
1 available
Description
"Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her...
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Avon Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.768 MCB
1 available
306.768 MCB
1 available
Naples Library - Adult Biographies
B MCBRIDE
1 available
B MCBRIDE
1 available
Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Biography
B MCBRIDE
1 available
B MCBRIDE
1 available
Description
"A captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country. Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out--not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She'd known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but...
14) Milk fed
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Livonia Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BRO
1 available
FIC BRO
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Naples Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BRO
1 available
FIC BRO
1 available
Newark Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BRO
1 available
FIC BRO
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Description
"Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised...
15) Honey girl
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Geneva Public Library - First Floor Fiction
ROGERS
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ROGERS
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Lima Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC ROG
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FIC ROG
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Early Adult
EA FIC ROG
1 available
EA FIC ROG
1 available
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Honeoye Public Library - Large Print
LP FIC
1 available
LP FIC
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Macedon Public Library - Large Print
LP FIC ROG
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LP FIC ROG
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Description
A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know until she does exactly...
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Caledonia Library Association - Adult Fiction
FIC HAR
1 available
FIC HAR
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Geneva Public Library - First Floor Fiction
HARGRAVE
1 available
HARGRAVE
1 available
Livonia Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC HAR
1 available
FIC HAR
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Description
After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.
17) Untamed
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Allens Hill Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.893 DOY
1 available
306.893 DOY
1 available
Avon Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.893 DOY
1 available
306.893 DOY
1 available
Clifton Springs Library - Adult Biography
Bio Doyle
1 available
Bio Doyle
1 available
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Avon Free Library - Audiobooks
AUDIO 306.89 DOY
1 available
AUDIO 306.89 DOY
1 available
Walworth-Seely Public Library - Audiobooks
AUD CD BIO Doyle
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AUD CD BIO Doyle
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Adult Audiobooks
CD FIC DOY
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CD FIC DOY
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Description
"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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Allens Hill Free Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MAS
1 available
FIC MAS
1 available
Stevens Memorial Community Library - Attica - Adult Fiction
FIC MASA
1 available
FIC MASA
1 available
Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Early Adult
EA FIC MAS
1 available
EA FIC MAS
1 available
Description
"Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause--despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss--until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom Iris dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover...
19) The color purple
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Arcade Free Library - Adult Fiction
FIC WALKE
1 available
FIC WALKE
1 available
Arcade Free Library - Adult Fiction Paperbacks
PB WALKE
1 available
PB WALKE
1 available
Clyde-Savannah Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Walker
1 available
FIC Walker
1 available
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Naples Library - Audiobooks
AUDIOBK CD FIC WAL
1 available
AUDIOBK CD FIC WAL
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Description
Set in the deep American South between the wars, The color purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker, a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie...
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Geneva Public Library - Second Floor Nonfiction
BIO MACHADO
1 available
BIO MACHADO
1 available
Macedon Public Library - Adult Biography
BIO MACHADO
1 available
BIO MACHADO
1 available
Naples Library - Adult Biographies
B MACHADO
1 available
B MACHADO
1 available
Description
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.