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The Memory Project – Sci-Fi mystery that challenges gender stereotypes, champions LGBTQ+ rights

posted Wednesday, March 31, 2021

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Andrew C. Youngson’s ‘The Memory Project: A Sci-Fi Mystery Novel´ embroils readers deep in the world of Weavers – rare telepathic humans who can experience the memories of others through touch. It’s a compelling story that challenges gender stereotypes, champions LGBTQ+ rights and explores how the past and present can so easily fold in on […]

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Our Story: Coming out in the time of HIV and AIDS

posted Sunday, March 28, 2021

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Our Story: Coming out in the time of HIV and AIDS is the story of friendship, love, loss, and drag told with humour and compassion. In 1977, the author, then a naïve young man, escapes his pulp and paper mill town in northern New Brunswick and goes in search of his gay self. After two […]

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Gay Bar – a historical romp through the history of queer havens

posted Saturday, March 27, 2021

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Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? […]

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“The Recent East” – mother and two teens navigate a new life in East Germany

posted Thursday, March 25, 2021

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Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents’ abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in upstate New York, where she moved as an adult, she arrives with her two […]

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New fiction reads for fans of music – The Final Revival of Opal Nev, Bootleg Stardust

posted Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is a kaleidoscopic fictional oral history of the beloved rock ’n’ roll duo who shot to fame in 1970s New York, and the dark, fraught secret that lies at the peak of their stardom. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and […]

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The Tender Grave – two sisters reunite under strained circumstances

posted Monday, March 22, 2021

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From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller and the Oprah Book Club selection, The Rapture of Canaan, and steeped in the rich tradition of Southern writers like Carson McCullers and Sue Monk Kidd, The Tender Grave is the gripping story of two estranged sisters who find their unlikely way toward forgiveness—and each other—after a gruesome and disturbing […]

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Front Matter Press – new Canadian female-focused book publisher

posted Sunday, March 7, 2021

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On March 8, 2021, people across the globe will come together to mark International Women’s Day. One of IWD’s main objectives is to lift women up by identifying and increasing the visibility of their achievements. This International Women’s Day, welcome a new Canadian book publisher that wants to contribute to that objective, Front Matter Press. Based in […]

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Fake It So Real – mother and two daughters navigate through life’s hardships

posted Friday, March 5, 2021

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Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle—the future of “no future”—and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. Seven years and two unplanned pregnancies later, Damian abandons Gwen, leaving her […]

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Dolly Parton’s “Storyteller: My Life in Lyrics” – shares her personal memories and mementos

posted Thursday, March 4, 2021

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Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey. Illustrated throughout with previously unpublished images from Dolly Parton’s personal and business […]

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“How to Fail as a Popstar” – Vivek Shraya’s tale about fame and personal transformation

posted Monday, March 1, 2021

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Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children’s books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek’s debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to “not quite” pop music superstardom […]

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