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In this coming of age story, which is the first in a seven volume series, Maya recounts her early childhood through to when she became a mother at the age of 17. She recounts her rape at age 8, and explores how a love of literature and character…

A boy of about three years-old named Mickey, is awoken from his bed at night from a strange noise. Suddenly he begins to float, he loses his clothes, and he finds himself in a surreal world called the Night Kitchen. He falls into a giant mixing pot…

"Told with minimal text, the joyous illustrations do the bulk of the work as we meet beautiful Julian, a young boy who loves mermaids. He loves them so much he feels he is one. When he reveals his true self to his Nana there is a perfect…

Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she's not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before flying to Portland, Oregon, to intern with her favorite feminist…

This book is about Constance Chatterly, a young, married, upperclass woman, whose husband has become paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury. After becoming sexually frustrated, Constance starts an affair with their gamekeeper, Oliver…

This book is a collection of true and moving stories about terminally ill people who choose to die on their own terms. It contains information on the legal aspects, psychology, and actual methods for a terminally ill person to accelerate their…

This rhyming children's book is about a young girl, Lizzy, and the lion she keeps in her bedroom. When a robber sneaks in one night, the lion proceeds to eat him. Lizzy then wakes up to find bits of the robber strewn about her room. She and her lion…

The storyline follows George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the US. George is an intelligent but uneducated man, and Lennie…

This book follows Ida who plays her horn for baby sister every night to get her to sleep while her father is away at sea. One night while she is playing her horn and not paying attention to the baby, goblins sneak in and steal the baby. When Ida…

Reluctantly Alice is the third book in the Alice series. The series follows Alice McKinely as she grows up in Silver Spring, Maryland with her dad and brother (her mom passed away when she was five). The Reluctantly Alice book sees Alice through the…