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Show Up: A Motivational Message for Muslim Women

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By Na’ima B. Robert — 2025

A personal story of the author reflecting on her journey of life with references to quotes from the Qur’an, Hadith and contemporary thinkers. Robert skillfully interweaves her own journey with chapters on showing up for yourself, your relationship, your family, your children and your dreams.

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Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey

“Mom, I’m gay.” With three little words, gay children can change their parents’ lives forever. Yet at the same times it’s a chance for those parents to realize nothing, really, has changed at all; same kid, same life, same bond of enduring love.

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Betty Degeneres
2000
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Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child

The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she’s raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination.

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Michael LaSala
2025
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We Have Always Been Here

A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Canada as a refugee, before escaping an arranged marriage at sixteen.

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Samra Habib
2019
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Gender Queer: A Memoir

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here.

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Maia Kobabe
2019
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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

“Fiercely committed to bequeathing a map of his psychic terrain, to spare others the pain of his solitary journey, [Monette’s] fine memoir is affirmative and ultimately celebratory.

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Paul Monette
2004
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Please, Don’t Send Me Flowers: A Memoir

From divorce, to coming out, to cancer, Lianne Saffer tells an honest and hilarious account of her last 15 years. In it, she describes the often-painful discovery of her own resilience and the process of learning to trust herself along the way.

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Lianne Saffer
2021
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