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How this new book reminds us that pop culture often leads the way in LGBTQ+ progress
The Secret Public” covers a 24-year period, from 1955 to 1979, crucial years in LGBTQ+ history...
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‘The Word of Dog: What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us About Living a Good Life’
“The Word of Dog” is the kind of book that may make your brain hurt, but in a good way.
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‘Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us’
By Terri Schlichenmeyer You had plenty of both and then, well, life and politics wedged an ocean-sized chasm between you and it makes you sad. And yet – are you
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Cher: The Memoir Part One
By Terri Schlichenmeyer Mother knows best. At least that’s what she’d like you to think because she said it a hundred times while you were growing up, until you actually
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Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death By Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes
By Terri Schlichenmeyer Here’s what’ll happen: you’ll take a breath. Take another breath. And then you won’t. And that’ll be just the beginning of your end, a tsunami of shut-downs