Alysia Constantine
1) Luckmonkey
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By day, Luckmonkey is a struggling punk band playing in record stores and taco joints; by night, its members are anti-capitalist agitators, breaking into homes and businesses, each time stealing one possession and leaving something different in its place. Squatting in an abandoned building without electricity or heat, they scrounge a patched-together life as a raucous, mismatched family of queer, trans and first-gen social activists. But when one...
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"Born into a family of flying trapeze artists, Olympia Knife has one small problem: When her emotions rise, she becomes invisible. Everyone in the traveling circus has learned to live with this quirk; they banded together to raise Olympia in a loving environment when her parents vanished midair during their act, never to return. But the same fate befalls Arnold, the world's shortest man, followed by one act after another, until the show is a crumbling...
3) Sweet
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Jules Burns is a lonely baker mourning the loss of his husband, Andy. Teddy Flores is a numbed-to-the-world accountant who accidentally stumbles into his bakery and, with the help of a mouthy bakers assistant, some good pastry and Jules himself, rediscovers his deep connections to pleasure, to the world and to his own heart.
Sweet is also the story of how we tell stories--of what we expect and need from a love story. The narrator is on to you, Reader,...