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By: Kevin Lane Dearinger (Author), Erin Chandler (Editor), Brooke Lee (Contributor), 2019, Paperback

What can a child make of a small-town culture in which love is a given, but intimacy is deemed sinful? What does a shy adult do when he finds out his great-grandmother ran a bordello? How does a stubborn individual resist labels and remain the “gentleman” he was raised to be? Growing up gay and Catholic in the state of Kentucky in the mid-twentieth century, author and Broadway performer Kevin Lane Dearinger was puzzled by what he heard about sex: the sneers, lies, misrepresentations, distortions, guilt, and secrecy. Some of his experiences were traumatic, but most just contributed to a life-saving sense of the absurd. The natural was made unnatural by gossip and judgment, fear and cruelty, and sex was “bad” in Kentucky, but language, humor, and time have provided protection and perspective. Bad Sex in Kentucky is about seeking grace under pressure, even at the risk of a pratfall. It is about place, family, and heritage. It is about survival at a price and a kind of ferocious forgiveness. It is about the search for identity within the tangled intersection of sex and love.

Ban bigotry, not books! Fight back against book banning.

By: Vic Liu (Editor), Adrienne Maree Brown (Foreword), 2023, Paperback

Every basic deserves to have the career of her dreams, but sometimes the 9 to 5 is just unbearable, even when you’re trying your hardest to break glass ceilings. Dive into this fresh pack of cards full of career-ruining ideas and find out which one of your friends is a horrible employee.

From employee romances gone wrong to stolen lunches from the break room, this pack of cards will keep you way more entertained than any water cooler gossip.

Let the basics rejoice in their guilty pleasure of celebrity obsession. Enjoy this set of 40 question and answer cards full of fun twists on celebrity hookups, scandals, surgeries, and much more.

From hoarding celebrity gossip mags to stalking reality TV stars on social media, these cards will finally put your studies in lifestyles of the rich and famous to good use!

By: Dorothy Allison (Author), 2012, Paperback

A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and “an essential novel” (The New Yorker)
 
“As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbirdand The Catcher in the Rye.” —The New York Times Book Review

The publication of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to Harper Lee, naming her the first writer of her generation to dramatize the lives and language of poor whites in the South. Since its appearance, the novel has inspired an award-winning film and has been banned from libraries and classrooms, championed by fans, and defended by critics.
 
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, “cold as death, mean as a snake,” becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney—and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.