Tall and short. Straight and queer. Sports has got a new frontier. A rhyming romp through professional and amateur sports, Play Proud highlights sixty historic and modern queer athletes, from Billie Jean King to Megan Rapinoe, Johnny Weir to Carl Nassib. Readers will be on a first-name basis with each of them as they race through the wide world of sports, discovering role models who play hard, play fair, and play proud. The triumphs of these athletes--both on and off the field, court, rink, ring, and pitch--serve as powerful inspiration for everyone who seeks to live their life authentically. Back matter provides key stats on the athlete lineup, as well as a glossary and author's note about how sports can become accepting of everyone.

A vibrant ode to the culture and achievements of the LGBTQ+ community, The Meaning of Pride, written by Rosiee Thor and illustrated by Sam Kirk, celebrates the beauty, significance, and many dimensions of the concept of Pride as celebrated by millions of people around the world! Every year in June, we celebrate Pride! But what does Pride mean? And how do you celebrate it? This inspiring celebration of the LGBTQ+ community throughout history and today shows young readers that there are many ways to show your pride and make a difference. Whether you want to be an activist or an athlete, a poet or a politician, a designer or a drag queen, you can show your pride just by being you!

Jazz always knew she was different from other kids. She had a girl's brain and a boy's body. This is her story. The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere. From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers. Jazz Jennings was thirteen years old when this book was first published, and loves pink and soccer, and is an honorary cofounder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation. She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Network, 20/20 specials with Barbara Walters, and The Rosie Show to tell her story, and she speaks at schools and conferences across the country to show other transgender kids that they are not alone. Age Rating: Preschool - 3+ / 5-11+ Edition MSRP: US $17⁹⁹ / $19⁹⁹ CAN (ISBN 978-0-8037-4107-2) Manufactured in China on acid-free paper

A filthy, funny, feel-good monster romance with too many tentacles. Dr. Poppy Flynn, twenty-seven, is a sex psychologist with a humiliating secret: she's studied eight years of human orgasms and experienced approximately none worth remembering. She's done blaming herself. Maybe it's the species. So she signs up for a year in Hearthpetal, a dimension where pleasure is literally holy. Celibate tentacle priests dedicate their lives to studying, controlling, and transcending it. Poppy is here to collect data, not throw herself at the first set of suction cups that look like they could slurp her soul out through her lady portal. Father Calder ruins that plan immediately. He's the temple's golden heir, bound by vows of detachment and biology that's even crueler. Octopi get just one mating cycle. Full completion triggers semelparity and a death cascade. Which is unfortunate, because Poppy is very much in the room. Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Tropes: Academic heroine. Forbidden love. Forced proximity. Grumpy/sunshine. Touch-starved MMC. Caretaking. Worship kink. Fated-but-doomed mates. HEA guaranteed. Octopus survival rates may vary. CW: Plentiful explicit scenes with tentacles and other creative monster anatomy.

Nagare loves boobs. And he gets his wish to be reincarnated in a world of boobs...except these are man boobs. A zany BL isekai comedy full of titillation and satirical jabs at manga cliches of all kinds! Omnibus edition includes Vol. 1 and 2 of the original, Japanese release! "I just...wanted to...touch boobies..." Nagare Otokawa was an otaku loser obsessed with breasts. He tragically died never knowing the feel of the sweet, sweet bosoms he'd craved all his life. Little does he know, his wish is about to be granted in a way he never would have expected. Nagare gets reincarnated as a handsome guy and quickly realizes that he’s living in a (BL) world full of sexy (male) beauties. Even so, he sets out to find and squeeze the bust of his dreams. He does, in fact, end up with his face planted deeply in some luscious cleavage, but to his dismay, it's the magnificent pecs of the super-muscular class delinquent, Ryuji Onizuka! Now Nagare must try to dodge his way past the barrage of BL scenarios that hurtle into his path. Will he persevere and get the busty girlfriend of his dreams, or will he end up falling for the all-man--yet temptingly bodacious--Ryuji?

Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell. What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it. Some of this information is easily understood, some holds its secrets tight and needs scientific cajoling to be released. But by carefully piecing together the evidence, the facts of a life can be rebuilt. Limb by limb, case by case – some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre – Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the hidden stories in what we leave behind.

A collection of 16 unique, spicy stories by and for women who love—and lust after—women. YARN & YEARNING: Two short, neurodivergent girls in a craft store vs. one crucial ball of lesbian-colored yarn in a very high basket. One car running on empty in a snowstorm vs. one distracting audiobook sex scene, and an even more distracting girl in the passenger seat. What could possibly go wrong? FOX SPIRIT: What if a multi-tailed fox spirit—the East Asian equivalent of a succubus—was sapphic? What if the pleasure shared between women could be a source of magical strength? In this gentle mythological reimagining, a princess runs away with her faithful (and secretly supernatural) bodyguard . . . MOTHER SUPERIOR: There’s a rebellious new nun at the abbey, and she is just begging for punishment. Against all her better judgment, Mother Veronica might have to give it to her . . . ...And 13 more! Written for those readers who want more of the spicy scenes in their LGBTQIA+ Romance, this collection of erotic shorts portrays a variety of Queer expressions—femme, butch, lesbian, bisexual, demisexual, polyamorous, neurodivergent—from earlier adulthood to maturity. It also encompasses a range of tropes and from meet-cutes to yearning friends-to-lovers to established relationships; from realism to fantasy, mythology to historical to sci fi. The common denominator, besides the promise of spice, is a sense of readers can trust that these characters' hearts and bodies will be treated with respect and deep admiration.

The fiercest battles over gender today aren’t just about identity or womanhood―but about punishment, fear, and control. The twenty-first century “gender wars” have been driven by a powerful and seductive narrative: that safety can be secured through exclusion, surveillance, and the policing of difference. These punitive logics have gained momentum across the political spectrum, fueling an anti-trans backlash and distorting the meaning of safety itself. *Unsafe* is a clear-eyed and decisive challenge to the toxic ideas at the heart of this backlash. With patient rigour, Lamble exposes how carceral approaches to safety fail to address root causes of harm, ultimately deepening social divisions and legitimising new forms of violence and control. Drawing on feminist and queer traditions as well as their experience organizing against prisons and policing, Lamble makes a principled case for a different vision: one where safety is not built on punishment but on collective care, radical solidarity, and transformative justice.

Vada never planned to orbit a popstar, but one impulsive ticket to planet Vela throws her out of her dead-end office life and straight into Zhari’s glitter-soaked, Y2K-coded world. Now, between neon concerts, scandal-level fangirl moments, and a very real Velan soulmate bond, she has to navigate her feelings for the alien woman she’s worshipped from afar—and figure out who she wants to be if the universe is actually on her side.Tropes •Popstar Romance•Alien x Human•Forced Proximity•LOW Angst•Touch Starved FMCs•Y2K Coded•Found Family•Fish Out of Water•Cultural Differences•Fated Mates

BEING A BABY IS HARD WORK! Join these cute baby cells as they work hard within their tiny body! A mini-Red Blood Cell picks up oxygen from the helpful ladies at the Placenta, and meets a White Blood Cell for the first time, in this adorable spinoff of Cells at Work! But when tremors begin to shake their world, they’ll need to consult the Gene Library to find out what’s going on! Could this be…a contraction? And might their body soon have to…fend for itself?!

From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning debut book of poetry and a world-building companion to her sophomore album My Soft Machine. “Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I’m not sure what gave me the courage to open up that space to you but here I am, doing it. I am proud to show you this personal lens that life shimmers through. This book is no longer mine. It is yours.”—Arlo Parks The Magic Border is the debut book from the Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize winning musician and poet Arlo Parks. This remarkable collection features Arlo’s handpicked original poems alongside exclusive photographs by friend and collaborator Daniyel Lowden in addition to the complete lyrics to her critically lauded sophomore album My Soft Machine. A deeply personal literary tapestry, The Magic Border beautifully showcases the full breadth of Arlo’s singular artistry.