The Book Company: New Products - LGBT

The Unbalancing Act

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:13:00 +0000

In the vein of David Foster Wallace, praised by Vincenzo Latronico (think Perfection, but nonfiction), The Unbalancing Act is an incisive exploration of male identity, mental illness, queerness, and creativity.

Alcide is in his forties. He still sometimes sleeps in his ..

Price: $26.00

Cecil John Rhodes in Love and War (A Life)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:06:57 +0000

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biographer and pre-eminent scholar, a revelatory new portrait of Cecil Rhodes, the man who built South African apartheid and shaped 19th-century colonialism

Cecil Rhodes, the tycoon and imperialist who left a wake of tragedy and vio..

Price: $38.00

Inside the Riptide (A Memoir)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:54:12 +0000

Out of the closet and into the ocean, Joe Santini dives headfirst into the waves of first love and self-acceptance as he aims to find himself in Sri Lanka.

When twenty-two-year-old Joe flees landlocked Colorado for a gig at a remote Sri Lankan surf and yoga oasis, he’s newly out, hop..

Price: $26.99

Looking for Lorraine (The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:45:20 +0000

Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction

Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award
Price: $25.00

Believe (Boxing, Olympics and My Life Outside of the Ring)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:14:31 +0000

At London, 2012, Nicola Adams made history. The flyweight boxer—nicknamed the smiling assassin—became the first ever UK woman to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing. In Rio 2016, with the nation cheering her on, she did it again. Nicola stumbled into boxing in her local sports center in Leed..

Price: $18.99

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:59:35 +0000

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

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 thi..

Price: $34.99

James Merrill (Life and Art)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:33:07 +0000

Langdon Hammer has given us the first biography of the poet James Merrill (1926–95), whose life is surely one of the most fascinating in American literature. Merrill was born to high privilege and high expectations as the son of Charles Merrill, the charismatic cofounder of the brokerage firm Merr..

Price: $75.00

Rooting Out Injustice, First in Ourselves (The Faith and Practice of Bayard Rustin)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:10:47 +0000

Meet Bayard Rustin, the Quaker heart of the civil rights movement.

Chief tactician of the civil rights movement. Principal organizer of the March on Washington. Bayard Rustin was these things and more—a powerhouse in the struggle for racial equality in the United States a..

Price: $34.99

Heretic (A Memoir)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:27:41 +0000

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.

Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth th..

Price: $27.99

Becoming Ammi (A Queer, Desi Journey into Parenthood)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:28:01 +0000

From the award-winning author of Another Appalachia, an intimate portrait of queer motherhood and mother-loss—with meditations on grief, familial legacies, and selfhood

In Becoming Ammi, author and educator Neema Avashia reflects on a new stage of her life: becoming a parent.<..

Price: $28.00