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  • Fire Island

    A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

    by Jack Parlett ...
    *A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022**A USA Today "Book to Celebrate Pride Month"**A New York Times "Editor's Pick"**A Kirkus Reviews Hottest Book of Summer*A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island,... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Flamboyance

    The Power of Living Boldly

    by Jack Parlett ...
    *A Next Big Ideas Club Must Read Book for May**A Notable Book in BookRiot, LGBTQReads, The Daily Kos*For fans of Susan Cain and Jenny Odell, an indispensable, paradigm-shifting exploration of flamboyance—tracing its history and social significance through the lives of those who embody it and offering a roadmap for anyone looking to harness the power of their own inner flameFlamboyance ignites ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Poetics of Cruising

    Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr

    by Jack Parlett ...
    A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poetsThe Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century to Eileen Myles in the twenty-first. What is it that happens, asks Jack Parlett, and what is it that is sought, in this often transient moment of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Fire Island

    A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

    by Jack Parlett ...
    Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past centuryFire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Flamboyance

    The Power of Living Boldly

    by Jack Parlett ...
    Narrated by Jack Parlett, Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    *A Next Big Ideas Club Must Read Book for May**A Notable Book in BookRiot, LGBTQReads, The Daily Kos*For fans of Susan Cain and Jenny Odell, an indispensable, paradigm-shifting exploration of flamboyance—tracing its history and social significance through the lives of those who embody it and offering a roadmap for anyone looking to harness the power of their own inner flameFlamboyance ignites ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

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    In Cold War America, Senator Joseph McCarthy enjoyed tremendous support in the fight against what he called atheistic communism. But that support stemmed less from his wild charges about communists than his more substantiated charges that "sex perverts" had infiltrated government agencies. Although now remembered as an attack on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism introduced "moral values" into the ... Read more

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    The Best American Short Stories 2025

    by Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy ...
    Narrated by Almarie Guerra, Jensen Olaya, Eric Yang, Avi Roque, Soneela Nankani, James Fouhey, Lynnette R. Freeman, Lee Osorio ...

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    “Short stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values,” writes guest editor Celeste Ng. “In a time when our values are being tested daily, it’s hard to think of anything more important.” The Best American Short Stories 2025 resonates precisely at this pitch: twenty pieces that upend expectations and test the foundation of our beliefs. From a bereaved medical actress ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    The Evangelicals

    The Struggle to Shape America

    by Frances FitzGerald ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

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    * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* National Book Award Finalist* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year* New York Times Notable Book“We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it” (The New York Times Book Review).Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Frances FitzGeral... ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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    Walking on Broken Paths

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    Narrated by Aaron Hokanson ...

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    Secret Historian

    The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

    by Justin Spring ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

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    Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on ... Read more

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    Radiant

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    by Brad Gooch ...
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    SOON TO BE A TV SERIES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ANDREW HAIGHNew York Times Book Critics Favorite Book of the Year · Washington Post Notable Book of the Year“It’s all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a ... Read more

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    The Law Book

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    Narrated by Jasper Britton ...
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    Discover the big ideas behind more than 90 of history's most important legal rulings and milestone laws - from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century.From the philosophical, religious, and moral codes of the world's earliest societies, such as the Law Code of Hammurabi and the Ten Commandments, through groundbreaking legislation such as The Book of Punishments, Magna Carta and the Slavery ... Read more

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