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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Let Me Be Frank illuminates with a wry warmth the incredible stories of a diverse group of women from different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who have defied the patriarchy, refusing to allow men or the status quo to define their lives or break their spirit. An often sardonic and thoroughly impassioned homage to female ingenuity and tenacity, the women profiled in this inspiring anthology broke the rules to reach their goals and refused to...
Author
Language
English
Description
The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the first woman to ever serve in the US Army.
"Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it." Cathy Williams was born and lived a slave until the Union army came and destroyed the only world she had ever known. Separated from her family, she makes the impossible decision: to fight with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An advertising executive describes how he moonlighted as a drag queen performing in nightclubs, detailing a surreal odyssey into Manhattan's dark underbelly as it chronicles his relationship with his crack-addicted, male-escort boyfriend.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Out of the frozen depths of a forest in Omberg, Sweden, a woman stumbles onto the road. Her arms are covered with scratches, her feet are bare, and she has no memory of what has happened. Local police identify her as psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen who, together with her partner, had been helping them investigate a cold case of a young woman's murder. Hanne begins to recover, but cannot recall anything about where her partner is, or...
7) 50 drag queens who changed the world: a celebration of the most influential drag artists of all time
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World is a tribute to the hugely influential pioneers who have shaped the fantastic world of drag, as well as the queens of today that we all know and love. Learn about the wild and brilliant lives of Mama Ru and the best-loved Drag Race superstars, including Alaska, Bianca Del Rio and Courtney Act, as well as legends like Divine and Lady Bunny, and the new scene of radical contemporary drag artists, such as Amrou Al-Kadhi...
11) Earth as it is
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Break away book club edition.
Language
English
Description
"Charlene (aka Charlie) Bader is one of society's least understood people--a heterosexual cross-dressing man. It's the 1930s in Texas when Charlie comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her own sexy lingerie and leaves him in disgust, he tries to move on. His efforts lead him to Chicago, where he stumbles on a community of cross-dressers and begins to attend their...
12) Pretty in ink
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While at a show starring Sin City's newest drag queens, Brett Kavanaugh, the owner of The Painted Lady--one of Vegas's hottest tattoo shops--discovers that someone is targeting these brazen beauties when two drag queens are murdered.
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