Queer Coffee House at the Library

Created on April 27, 2021, 8:49 am

Last Updated August 26, 2021, 3:48 pm

Thank you to everyone who joined the discussion this month! With the holidays behind us, we found ourselves talking about a larger list of books. Every time we share coffee and snacks, I find that the span of interests is vast! SciFi, politics, fantasy, pop music, children's literature... Read along with us! Come hang out! We talk about current events, what we're reading, and we finish up with an open round-table discussion. Ashland Library Gresham Room 1st Saturday of every month 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

1) The rules do not apply: a memoir

Author

Levy, Ariel

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"A ... memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on [the] ... writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"--

2) The wonky donkey

Author

Smith, Craig

Series

Wonky donkey books

Notes

Take a look on the web to see if you can find the grandmother laughing to the point of tears while reading The Wonky Donkey to her grandchild... :)

Formats:

Board Book, eBook

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This hysterical read-aloud and viral hit is now available as a board book! With over two million copies sold in the United States alone, readers are in love with this spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey! The international blockbuster by Craig Smith and Katz Cowley is now available as a board book, allowing the very youngest children to join in the fun.

3) On a sunbeam

Author

Walden, Tillie

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On a Sunbeam is an epic graphic novel about a girl who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long lost love, from acclaimed author Tillie Walden. Two timelines. Second chances. One love. A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love―only to learn the pain of loss. With interwoven timelines and stunning art,...

4) watchmaker of filigree street

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5) The Marvels

Author

Selznick, Brian

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In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900--and nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.

6) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Vol. 1,BFF

Author

Montclare, Brandon

Series

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 1

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LUNELLA LAFAYETTE is a preteen super genius who wants to change the world-but learned the hard way that it takes MORE than just big brains. Fearful of the monstrous INHUMAN genes inside her, life is turned upside down when a savage, red-scaled tyrant is teleported from prehistoric past to a far-flung future we call TODAY. The pair are many things, and together the most amazing Marvel Team-Up. COLLECTING: MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR 1-6.

7) Less: a novel

Author

Greer, Andrew Sean

Series

Arthur Less novels volume 1

Notes

We loved talking about how amazing it would be to just decide to go off to all parts of the globe on a whim. If we had the money to not hang around after so many sad life events, most of us would be on the next plane.

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A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle...

8) The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali

Author

Khan, Sabina

Formats:

Book, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook

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Publisher Annotation: Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali has always been fascinated by the universe around her and the laws of physics that keep everything in order. Unable to come out to her conservative Muslim parents, she keeps that part of her identity hidden. And that means keeping her girlfriend, Ariana, a secret from them too. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life at home and a fresh start at Caltech in the...

9) The road to unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Author

Snyder, Timothy

10) Lucky Jim

Author

Hart, James

11) Becoming

Author

Obama, Michelle

Notes

Michelle Obama's autobiography gave us so much to talk about! The voice and tone of her narrative is so clearly developed through her lens as a law professional. So we talked about some of the most interesting points in her experiences and learned some deeper meaning from one another about what we had read.

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Hardback

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"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...

12) Frog music: a novel

Author

Donoghue, Emma

Formats:

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This novel is based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice, if he doesn't track her down first....

13) Drift: the unmooring of American military power

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Formats:

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Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.

14) Lover

Author

Taylor Swift

Notes

There was some interest in Taylor Swift's new documentary, "Miss Americana." Take a look through our music collection to catch up on the library's T.S. discography!

Formats:

eMusic, Music CD

15) Bingo love: Vol. 1,Jackpot edition

Author

Franklin, Tee

Series

Bingo Love

Formats:

eComic, Young Adult-Graphic Novel

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When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage. This Jackpot Edition contains over 50 pages of...

16) Blowout: corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth

Author

Maddow, Rachel

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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...

17) pearl
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18) The stone sky

Author

Jemisin, N. K

Series

Broken Earth novels volume 3

Formats:

Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted...

19) Lucky us

Author

Bloom, Amy

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Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune.

20) Starship troopers

Author

Heinlein, Robert A

Formats:

Book - Hardback, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook

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With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs", a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.