Author: Leslie Feinberg Title: Stone Butch Blues Call no: FEI This novel tells the story of Jess Goldberg, a transgendered “butch” growing up in Buffalo, New York. Jess first learns to admit and negotiate her attraction to women and her butch identity. Immediately, she is faced with violence. The police raid the lesbian bars, arrest […]
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Book Review: The Funny Thing is…
Author: Ellen DeGeneres Title: The Funny Thing is… Call no: DEG Genre: Humor The funny thing is… whatever Ellen mentioned in this book about all the small and not so small things in life are definitely something you would have thought about at one point or another. Her second comedy book offers more insight on […]
Book Review: Fully Involved
Author: Erin Dutton Title: Fully Involved Call no: DUT Genre: Fiction When firefighter Jimmy Grant dies in a hotel fire, his partner Reid Webb feels guilty for his death and wishes to care for his young son Chase whom he left behind. But Reid is forced to face her past when Jimmy’s younger sister Isabel […]
Book Review: Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information and Personal Accounts
Author: Israel, Gianna and Tarver II, Donald Title: Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information and Personal Accounts Call No: 362.108 ISR Transgender Care is a rather different kind of book–not just among books by, for, or about the transgendered, but among nonfiction books generally. It is both a personal statement and a collection of diverse […]
Book Review: And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
Author: Shilts, Randy Title: And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic Call No: 362.196 SHI This book is a masterpiece of investigative reporting. Proceeding chronologically, Randy Shilts lays out the course of the AIDS epidemic from 1976, when the virus seems to have leaped from central Africa to Europe and then […]