Readers should be aware that "Lost in the Beehive" may be triggering. Young-Stone employs tactics such as emotional and physical abuse, gas-lighting and gender expectations to tell Gloria's story.

"Resilient" reminds us that not only does a state of calm not have to be a dream for a far-off future, but it is available to us here and now and it is the best practice for whatever we may encounter in times to come.

Within the underground drag scene of 1980s New York, a young trans woman and her lover create a home for outcasts in Joseph Cassara's compelling debut novel.

Menno Schilthuizen's "Darwin Comes to Town" is a delightfully engaging look at nature's diplomatic dealings with the otherwise inhospitable spaces we've become so accustomed to.

In "The Misfit's Manifesto," Lidia Yuknavitch enlarges upon her own life story and her hard-won conviction that misfits exist on "the edges of culture... where new and beautiful meanings are generated."

A young orphan boy in a small town questions authority and his faith in this gripping novel from Robin Reardon.

While chasing a story, a disgraced reporter discovers a bastion of criminal dishonesty at his father's condominium complex, in Paul Goldberg's chaotic albeit clever novel.

Born Jason Sellards and given to showmanship and radical self-expression through fashion from an early age, Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears is nothing if not the prototypical rock star. With wit and flair, he reveals plenty in his new memoir.

Speaking of senses of deja-vu, is there really an Etruscan word for it? (Or are you joking about how English speakers need to resort to French to have a word for the sensation?)

David Hallberg's candid account about his life in ballet,hi s physical breakdown and his hard fought return to the international dance stage.