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200 Words to Help You Talk about Sexuality & Gender, Kate Sloan
$12.99A concise, approachable reference guide that explains 200 essential terms related to sexuality and gender, helping readers confidently navigate modern conversations with clarity, respect, and understanding.
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A Treatise on the Crime of Onan (eBook), M. Tissot
A controversial eighteenth-century medical treatise by physician Samuel-Auguste Tissot examining the supposed health effects of masturbation and sexual excess. Once highly influential, the book now stands as a revealing historical document about medicine, morality, and sexuality in the Enlightenment era.
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Blueprints by Crystal Jeans
$19.99A fierce and deeply honest essay collection exploring addiction, mental health, sexuality, feminism, motherhood, and identity. Crystal Jeans’ Blueprints combines raw personal reflection with sharp cultural insight in a powerful examination of survival and selfhood.
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BROKEN: The Long Shadow of Bullying by Demian Krauss
$9.99BROKEN: The Long Shadow of Bullying explores how bullying shapes identity, relationships, and emotional survival long into adulthood. Through vulnerability and social critique, Demian Krauss examines trauma, masculinity, shame, and healing in this powerful and compassionate nonfiction work.
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Burn the Place: A Memoir, Iliana Regan
Original price was: $17.00.$8.50Current price is: $8.50.A National Book Award–nominated memoir of food, addiction, queerness, and self-discovery, Burn the Place traces Iliana Regan’s journey from foraging on a Midwestern farm to Michelin-starred success.
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F R A G M E N T S by Jim Petosa
$18.00Presented as a series of vivid memory fragments, Jim Petosa’s moving memoir recounts a couple’s journey through the AIDS crisis between 1985 and 1990. Blending love, grief, humor, and survival, F R A G M E N T S is both a deeply personal story and an important act of remembrance for a generation shaped by the AIDS pandemic.
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Fighting For Their Lives: One Mother’s Battle for Her Child’s Mind, Body, and Right To Be Seen by Jenn Garofolo
$24.99A powerful memoir about parenting through mental health crises and a child’s transgender journey, Fighting For Their Lives explores resilience, identity, and one mother’s fight against the systems failing the people she loves most.
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Forgotten: A Beautiful Darkness, Adrianna Wilson
$13.99A powerful memoir of trauma, love, and healing—Forgotten: A Beautiful Darkness explores the tender, transformative bond between two women, one living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, the other learning to hold both darkness and light within love’s fragile embrace.
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From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess, Alisa Kriegel PhD
$17.99A witty, revealing memoir of midlife sexual awakening, From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess follows psychologist Alisa Kriegel as she rediscovers passion, pleasure, and self-worth after divorce—proving that desire doesn’t have an expiration date.
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Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds, Gina Rippon
Original price was: $30.00.$14.99Current price is: $14.99.A revelatory neuroscience study that dismantles myths about “male” and “female” brains, showing how gendered expectations—not biology—shape our behavior and identity. Hardcover remainder copy at half the cover price; may contain a remainder mark.
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Good Damage: Tragedy. Lightly Polished, with a Side of Optimism by Trey Toler
$19.00In this darkly funny and emotionally raw debut memoir, Trey Toler explores grief, queer identity, Southern religious culture, burnout, survival, and the complicated aftermath of loss. Good Damage is an honest, deeply human story about learning to live with the things that shaped us instead of pretending they never happened.
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Hear’s The Thing: Lessons on Listening, Life & Love – Cody Alan
Original price was: $27.99.$12.99Current price is: $12.99.A reflective memoir about listening, coming out, and personal growth, Hear’s the Thing follows Cody Alan’s journey toward authenticity, empathy, and deeper connection.
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Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives – Tina Alexis Allen
Original price was: $16.99.$8.50Current price is: $8.50.A fearless queer memoir about family, secrecy, faith, and double lives. Hiding Out by Tina Alexis Allen is a gripping story of self-discovery and the power of truth to set us free.
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How To Be Human, Shelby Stisser
$15.99How To Be Human — Shelby Stisser (Paperback)
A gentle, affirming guide for anyone who grew up feeling different or “wrong.” How To Be Human explores the journey toward authenticity, healing, and self-acceptance with warmth and clarity—reminding readers that there was never anything to fix in the first place.Perfect for fans of introspective, emotional, identity-centered nonfiction.
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I, Rob Graves: My Struggle with Childhood Trauma, Homosexuality, and Bipolar Disorder – Robert P. Graves
$18.99A candid and moving memoir of one man’s journey through trauma, addiction, and bipolar disorder toward forgiveness, healing, and self-acceptance as a gay man during the AIDS era. Paperback
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It’s Totally Normal!: An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty, Sex, and Gender – Monica Gupta Mehta & Asha Lily Mehta
$20.95An inclusive, award-winning LGBTQIA+ guide to puberty, sex, and gender—honest, affirming, and written for teens.
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Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA, Charles Wininger
$18.99A personal memoir and harm-reduction guide exploring MDMA as a tool for connection, healing, and emotional renewal in adult life.
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Little Ruins: Rebuilding a Life by Manni Coe
$28.00A heartfelt and beautifully written memoir about rebuilding life, love, and family in rural Spain. In Little Ruins, Manni Coe chronicles the challenges and joys of restoring a crumbling farmstead while confronting old wounds and creating an unconventional home filled with compassion and resilience.
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Lust, Men and Meth: A Study Guide – David M. Fawcett PhD & Dallas Bragg
$19.95A compassionate paperback companion to Lust, Men and Meth, this study guide offers practical exercises, discussion prompts, and recovery tools for understanding and healing from chemsex and methamphetamine use.
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Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Man’s Guide to Sex and Recovery – David Michael Fawcett
$19.95A foundational guide to understanding and recovering from methamphetamine use among gay men, blending addiction science, sex therapy, and practical tools for healing and healthy intimacy.
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My Name Was Baby: An Intersex Memoir by Chris M. Arnone
$29.99A candid and deeply personal memoir about growing up intersex in the American Midwest, navigating identity, masculinity, and self-acceptance. Chris M. Arnone shares an inspiring journey that sheds light on an often-overlooked part of the LGBTQIA+ experience.
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Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence, K. J. Cerankowski
$21.95A groundbreaking exploration of asexuality as creative possibility, Nothing Wanting examines silence, absence, and refusal as radical forms of meaning-making—advancing queer and asexual theory in bold new ways.
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Only Joy Bites, Shelley Hill
$24.99A gritty queer memoir about a fallen police officer, addiction, reinvention, and the raw pursuit of healing after everything comes undone.
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Queer Joy: A Mosaic of Self-Love, Community, and Resistance by Bethany Meier-Evans
$19.99An interactive guide to self-love, community, and liberation, Queer Joy helps readers move beyond survival and embrace joy as healing and resistance. Paperback, April 14, 2026. ISBN: 196665572X.
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Right My Dudes… Now What?: Being a Man in the 21st Century Without Being a Dick by Bill McCamley
$21.95A candid, thought-provoking guide that explores modern masculinity, loneliness, and identity while offering practical ways for men to build healthier, more meaningful lives.
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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir by Alyson Stoner
$19.00An unflinching and deeply personal memoir from actor, dancer, and advocate Alyson Stoner, exploring child stardom, identity, trauma, mental health, and the long journey toward healing and self-acceptance.
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Sex Diaries: Real-Life Stories of Non-Monogamy and Polyamory by Alyssa Shelasky
$29.00An eye-opening collection of anonymous real-life stories exploring polyamory, open relationships, and modern love, offering an honest, compassionate look at the many ways people build intimacy and connection.
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Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives by Angela Jones
$30.00Award-winning sociologist Angela Jones explores how sexuality shapes our identities, relationships, and communities, arguing that erotic life is not merely private but a powerful social force capable of fostering freedom, justice, and personal empowerment.
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SHIBARI GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS: Essential Rope Art Lessons for Building Confidence, Exploring Sensual Techniques, and Creating Beautiful Ties – Meng Zongrui
$18.99A beautifully illustrated beginner’s guide to the art of Shibari. Learn the history, philosophy, and safety fundamentals of Japanese rope tying, along with 21 step-by-step knots and ties designed to build confidence, connection, and sensual expression. Perfect for newcomers exploring Shibari as meditation, intimacy, or creative discipline.
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SHIBARI: Learn Rope Artistry with Simple Methods, Protective Guidelines, and Inspiring Tie Styles for First-Time Learners, Cheng Yunhao
$15.99A clear, beginner-friendly introduction to the Japanese art of Shibari. Includes step-by-step instructions, helpful visuals, rope fundamentals, knot techniques, and vital safety guidance. Ideal for new learners interested in Shibari as an artistic, intentional, and trust-based practice.
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Stillness and Survival: A Life Between Trauma, Glitter, and the Echo of My Own Voice, Jacob Anthony Rose
$15.99A deeply personal queer memoir about trauma, performance, and reclaiming one’s voice, moving from silence and survival to expression, glitter, and hard-won healing.
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Taillights on the Road to Healing by Kenneth Allen Burr
$20.95Blending memoir, faith, family, and a lifelong love of classic cars, Kenneth Allen Burr recounts his journey from trauma and self-doubt toward healing, acceptance, and hope.
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The Cost of Survival: Queer and Unhoused in Small City America by Jai Montag
$25.00Jai Montag’s The Cost of Survival combines memoir, poetry, and social commentary to examine the realities of queer homelessness in small city America with honesty, compassion, and urgency.
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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
$18.99After a devastating breakup, Melissa Febos commits to a year without sex, dating, or romantic relationships and discovers unexpected freedom, pleasure, and self-understanding. Blending memoir, feminism, cultural criticism, and literary reflection, The Dry Season is a bold exploration of solitude, desire, and learning to live at the center of your own life.
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The Luck We Carry by Ron Stempkowski
$16.99A tender collection of essays on love, loss, and living after grief. A quiet, powerful reflection on carrying memory forward.
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The Miseducation of Thomas Lee Crockett: A Mental Health Love Letter to the Black Community by Thomas Lee
$17.95Part memoir and part practical guide, this compassionate exploration of Black mental health examines trauma, healing, identity, and resilience while offering readers tools for building healthier relationships with themselves and others.
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The Only Way Out Is Through: Essays, Katie Jean Shinkle
$14.00A lyrical, deeply personal essay on queer heartbreak, memory, and survival—exploring how we carry love even after it’s gone.
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Youth And Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys by Mary Scharlieb
$13.99A historical examination of adolescence, morality, gender, and social development by pioneering physician Mary Scharlieb. Youth And Sex offers insight into early twentieth-century attitudes toward sexuality, education, and the shaping of young lives.