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In his third book of poetry, Fe¿lix Garmendi¿a celebrates the popular LGBTQ+ vacation destinations of Fire Island and commemorates Titania, a trans woman of Manhattan. In his first book, Flying On Invisible Wings, Fe¿lix lives parts of his lonely childhood, journeys to the USA, becomes triumphantly accepted. Contracts HIV, hangs on, HIV becomes undetectable. Finds everlasting love, gets married. Then, as if daring him to stay happy, Inclusi...

In ancient Ammon, a sheltered young woman fleeing her rich and powerful father's plans for her marriage is thrust into a violent world in which her only tools - or weapons - are her knowledge of plants and healing.

The Fat Poets' Society writes about their joys, sorrows, anger, sadness, and pleasure at living in a world that constantly tries to reject and inhibit fat people. Volume 3 of the Fat Poets Speak series comprises poems in which the poets alternately dance and fly, moving their feet and their bodies and then growing wings as they encompass the earth, above the earth, and finally, the sky, breaking the bodily barrier. To all who choose to read th...

Into the Heart of the Storm We meet Félix again after he has been settled in Washington Heights for years with his husband, Denis. He and the neighborhood and Fort Tryon Park are pleased with each other. With Denis, he and his wheelchair Purple Raven swing around the park, the streets, the building, and the apartment in all seasons. However, events foment and dispel ease and hope, and Félix bears witness to some of the most frightening occ...

Small town boy journeys from Ponce, Puerto Rico to Manhattan: a riff on many famous movies and books. Except in this case the boy is gay, confused, frightened, and trying to find where he will fit in and be happy.The story has a happy ending-of sorts. Boy from Ponce finds companionship, happiness, and his proud gay identity in the Big City. But it also has a sad ending-of sorts. Boy from Ponce finds out he has HIV, almost dies, gets almost wel...

Shy, fat Hannah Smith has a popular thin twin sister, a slender mother obsessed with cleaning, and a fat father in prison for violating federal laws against distributing junk food. The U.S. government controls access to chocolate and other foods considered fattening. Parents of fat youth must pay a special tax or their children have to go to a Laboratory School for the Weight Challenged -- a.k.a. "Fat School" -- where they are forced -- and sh...

Hello there. I'm Hedy, criminal psychologist and certified nasty woman -- forty-something, fat-assed, foul-mouthed, and still trying to figure out how to build a life for myself two years after the death of my beloved Christine.When I woke up this morning I was living on a beach in South Texas, working with the DEA as a consulting profiler. By lunch I was in protective custody, discovering that there's a black ops unit operating out of my fami...

Maria Fama's poetry takes us into the hearts and souls of animals -- domesticated, feral, captive, free.Her poems challenge the notion that animals are on this planet solely for humans to use and exploit. Instead, the poems recognize the individuality of each animal with the view that animals are, as the naturalist Henry Beston saw them, "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and tra...

Before Bonnie Shapbell's husband died, he made her promise she would be OK. She kept that promise, rebuilding a joyful life without him while cherishing her memories. Now she offers a helping hand to those on a similar journey. Hiking the Pack Line: Moving From Grief To A Joyful Life provides practical advice and a workbook section for those who want to create-or re-create-lives that nourish them after devastating loss. Foreword by clinical ps...

In February 2003 author Louise Mathewson emerged from a two-week coma following an auto accident in which she had suffered a traumatic brain injury. At first unable to walk or make herself understood, she resumed writing as soon as she could and found the process transformative. The poems in A Life Interrupted depict her healing journey and provide hope to patients and caregivers who have also been transformed by injury. The book includes a re...

A king-sized case for a queen-sized sleuth. In the third Josephine Fuller mystery, Jo is working undercover at a women's skills center when she spots an old acquaintance. Jo last saw Teddy in Kathmandu when her photographer husband ran off with Teddy's mountain-climbing wife, leaving the spouses to commiserate. Now Teddy has a new problem-his latest girlfriend is missing. Jo agrees to track her down, and the trail leads straight to his estrang...

Unconventional Means: The Dream Down Under is a combination of memoir and personal adventure in which the lives of an upper-middle-class artist from Nashville, TN and an Aboriginal Australian elder intersect. Contains traditional Aboriginal stories and artwork by the author. Sixteen-year-old Anne Williams, shattered by a family tragedy, tries to cope through art and reading. She eventually finds solace in Nevil Shute's novel A Town Like Ali...

Fat prejudice is exploding in American society, yet even social justice advocates tend to deny fat individuals protection because fat is seen as unhealthy and permanently changeable -- concepts supported by a great deal of societal belief and very little scientific evidence. Using bell hooks' ideology of domination, Lonie McMichael explores the phenomena of fat prejudice -- from inception to resistance -- through a rhetorical lens. Looking at ...

In the fourth book of the Josephine Fuller mystery series, Jo visits the California wine country after getting a note from filmmaker and winery owner Wolf Lambert. She discovers a dead body in one of Wolf's wine barrels, and her friend Thelma, a super-sized porn star, is the prime suspect. Caught in the midst of a feud between powerful wine families in the valley, Jo also finds herself under fire from a gun-toting would-be charity client and n...

Most of her life Jenny has felt she's not good enough, not attractive enough, because she's fat. Then one day she stumbles through a portal between a world that values thinness and one that values roundness. Sometimes falling can wake you up. Alternate history, self discovery and sweet romance converge in this tale of a young single woman with low self esteem who falls into another world where fat people lead happy, normal, guilt-free lives.

In the small Canadian town of Port Henry, romance between a BBW schoolteacher and a coach blooms during a community theater retelling of The Taming of the Shrew. But their happiness is threatened by past flames and present vandalism.

In this fresh revisioning of the vampire genre, Sir John Falstaff is undead and misbehaving in San Francisco. Middle-aged psychologist Kris Marlowe doesn't believe in vampires, but when she's attacked by a horde of murderous monsters, she must seek help from the most famous rogue in history, who once drank ale and now drinks only blood. "Alternatively funny and creepy, with a little sexy romance thrown in for good measure, " says John Miller, ...

Prince Siddhartha, raised behind palace walls and showered with every extravagance, abandoned his protected life to embark on a spiritual journey. He ultimately reached enlightenment and became known as the Buddha, which means "one who is awake." He then spent his life teaching that all have the potential to awaken...Meet Syd Arthur! Living in the cloistered world of suburbia, Syd is a middle-aged Jewish woman who is potentially awake, but lik...

Sassy, irreverent Aggie Stockdale should have gotten the lead in her high school's production of Hello Dolly! It's her dream role, she's had the part memorized since she was ten, and she and Roger Morton, who's playing the male lead, definitely had chemistry in the audition. But Aggie isn't just a talented actress, writer, and athlete. She's also the fattest girl in the senior class. What happens after she checks the cast list for the musical ...

In the second book in the award-winning Josephine Fuller mystery series, Josephine travels to San Diego to encounter a slain defense contractor, a kidnapped admiral, and a world-class dysfunctional family.