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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 FRANCE 2019
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791.4502 FRANCE 2019
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 FRANCE 2019
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791.4502 FRANCE 2019
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In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflixs smash-hit QUEER EYE tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional Muslim family, as one of the few people of color in Doncaster, England. He illuminates his winding journey of coming of age, finding his voice (and style!), and how he finally came out to his family at...
2) High school
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
781.6609 QUIN 2019
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781.6609 QUIN 2019
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From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their humble beginnings. High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today....
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JARRAR 2021
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BIO JARRAR 2021
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A gay, Muslim, overweight, Arab-American woman describes her road trip from California to Connecticut to reclaim her autonomy and explore everything she has survived in life, schooling a rest-stop racist and destroying Confederate flags in the desert along the way.
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
796.912 RIPPON 2019
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796.912 RIPPON 2019
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Former Olympic figure skater Rippon showcases his funny and inspiring personality in this entertaining memoir. From traveling to practices on the Greyhound bus next to ex convicts to being so poor he could only afford to eat the free apples at his gym, Rippon got through the toughest times with a smile on his face, a glint in his eye, and quip ready for anyone listening.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 JONES 2019
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811.6 JONES 2019
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"Written from the crossroads of sex, race, and power in America, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir and a haunting reflection of the nation as a whole"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO KORESKY 2021
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BIO KORESKY 2021
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A successful film critic reflects on his dynamic mother and the '80s movies they shared together, in a meditation on loss and resilience and a celebration of the special bond between mothers and their sons.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO EMEZI 2021
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BIO EMEZI 2021
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"A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, "a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self" (Esquire). "I want to write as if I am free," Akwaeke Emezi declares in the opening of this utterly original spiritual and creative memoir. In the novels Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji, Emezi introduced the landscape of Nigerian childhood through...
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Krys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity.
Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson,...
Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson,...
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Tomboyland navigates midwestern traditions, mythologies, landscapes, and lives to explore the intersections of identity and place. From F5 tornadoes and fast-pitch softball to gun culture, strange glacial terrains, kink party potlucks, and the question of motherhood, Faliveno asks curious, honest, and often darkly funny questions about belonging and the body, isolation and community, and what we mean when we use words like woman, family, and home....
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LOBRANO 2021
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BIO LOBRANO 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LOBRANO 2021
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BIO LOBRANO 2021
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"In a touching and funny memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's tells how he became one of Paris's most influential restaurant critics"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 VANNES 2019
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791.4502 VANNES 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 VANNES 2019
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791.4502 VANNES 2019
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A laugh-and-cry-out-loud memoir from the beloved star of Netflixs Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness. Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasnt always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflixs hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a small Midwestern town that didnt understand why he was soover...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 CLEMMO 2020
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791.4502 CLEMMO 2020
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n intimate debut memoir by the Grammy Award-winning artist who famously played “Officer Clemmons” on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood traces his Oberlin College music studies, his embrace of his sexual orientation and his life-changing chance encounter with Fred Rogers.
13) Me
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
781.6609 JOHN 2019
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781.6609 JOHN 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
781.6609 JOHN 2019
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781.6609 JOHN 2019
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
781.6609 JOHN 2019
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781.6609 JOHN 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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CD 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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CD 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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LP 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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LP 781.6609 JOHN 2019
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In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished...
14) Lust & wonder
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 BURROU 2016
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813.6 BURROU 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 BURROU 2016
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813.6 BURROU 2016
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 BURROU 2016
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813.6 BURROU 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 813.6 BURROU 2016
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CD 813.6 BURROU 2016
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"In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Lust and Wonder is an intimate and honest memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BROOME 2021
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BIO BROOME 2021
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"Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian’s recounting of his experiences—in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory—reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JOHNSON 2020
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BIO JOHNSON 2020
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A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.7662 LIN 2021
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306.7662 LIN 2021
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From the warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s to today’s fluid queer spaces, the author takes readers on a time-traveling, transatlantic journey through generations of gay men in the places they created and claimed.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HAMILL 2020
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BIO HAMILL 2020
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Following a rancorous split from New York’s upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy’s middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to her native Bermuda, leaving the three young boys to fend for themselves as she chases after the highs of her old life: alcohol, a wealthy new suitor, and other indulgences. A fascinating window into the life of extreme privilege and...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.54 MAUPIN 2017
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813.54 MAUPIN 2017
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Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family," the people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving relationship with his palm-reading Grannie who insisted Maupin...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BRAMMER 2021
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BIO BRAMMER 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BRAMMER 2021
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BIO BRAMMER 2021
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The popular LGBTQ columnist and writer presents a memoir though a series of essays that chronicle his life growing up as queer, mixed race kid and offers advice for young people facing the same journey.