The Very Best Me by Marin Canaday A young girl faces day-to-day struggles with her OCD monster. Some days she is victorious, unbothered, and confident. Other days, it feels as if the monster is the one leading the way. It’s a one-on-one battle for control―or is it? With the support of those around her listening, encouraging, and reassuring, she gains the strength to continue facing her monster. The Very Best Me is a helpful tool for those with obsessive compulsive disorder. It sheds light on the type of support that would be helpful for those battling their own little―and sometimes ..read more

Happy International Asexuality Day (IAD!) Today is incredibly important to me as an asexual individual. While asexuality is gaining more awareness, it still tends to be extremely stigmatized. International Asexuality Day (IAD) is important, because it brings awareness to the global ACE community, and it highlights advocacy, celebration, education, and solidarity. What is asexuality? An asexual person does not experience sexual attraction – they are not drawn to people sexually and do not desire to act upon attraction to others in a sexual way. Unlike celibacy, which is a choice to abstain ..read more

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, a ..read more

Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June The next LGBTQ+ young adult rom-com from  New York Times  bestselling author Jason June (author of  Jay’s Gay Agenda  and  Out of the Blue )! Femme, gay teen podcaster Riley Weaver has made it to junior year, which means he can finally apply for membership into the Gaybutante Society, the LGBTQ+ organization that has launched dozens of queer teens’ careers in pop culture, arts, and activism. The process to get into the Society is a marathon of charity events, parties, and general gay chaos, culminating in ..read more

Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic, must survive his own failing mental health and a tenuous partnership with a dangerous ally in order to save the city of Astrum from a spreading curse. Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic and disgraced ex-physician, has discovered a conspiracy. Someone is inflicting magical comas on the inhabitants of the massive city of Astrum, and no one knows how or why. Caught between a faction of scheming magical academics and an explosive schism in the ranks of Astrum’s power-hungry military, Adrien is swallowed by the growing chaos. Alongside Gennady, an unr ..read more

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma. Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can ..read more

What happens when we imagine loving the people–and the parts of ourselves–that we do not believe are worthy of love? A transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. “Required reading.”–Glennon Doyle Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she’s always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that every human being, no matter how hateful or horrible, is intr ..read more

As a bibliotherapist, I have known that re-reading books is a true art form, but it is not something that everyone takes advantage of. I have to admit that I just started re-reading books myself, and it has been an unsuspectedly wonderful experience. Through my journey of re-reading, I have found it to be very cathartic in many ways. The following are three healing benefits that can be linked to re-reading books. I hope that they will convince you to try re-reading for yourself, or if you already re-read, to find comfort in the health benefits you may are already experiencing. It Increases Fee ..read more

I am excited to share with today the cover reveal for The Darkest Stars by Kristy Gardner! This queer, sci-fi novel is the sequel to The Stars in Their Eyes. If you love haunting sci-fi with queer themes, you can’t go wrong with either of these books! THE DARKEST STARS BY KRISTY GARDNER Coming 9/19/2023 Book 2 in the Broken Stars series The most terrifying monsters are the ones that lurk inside… After discovering everything she’s ever known has been a lie, Calay understands humanity’s brutality firsthand. Now, depleted rations, unexplained aberrations, and an ecosystem in collapse h ..read more

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I. So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as ..read more