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JUNE Book Releases
Modern Lovers

The Geek Feminist Revolution

Emma Straub

Kameron Hurley

Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and
Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start
businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities
of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass
the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy
of cool) to their own offspring.

A powerful collection of essays on feminism, geek culture, and
a writer’s journey, from one of the most important new voices
in genre.
The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double
Hugo Award-winning essayist and science fiction and fantasy
novelist Kameron Hurley.

Paper: Paging Through History

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

Mark Kurlansky

Lindy West

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human
technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it
in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of
literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art. It has
created civilizations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and
the stabilizing of regimes.

Hailed by Lena Dunham as an "essential (and hilarious) voice for
women," Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling
topics as varied as pop culture, social justice and body image.
Her empowering work has garnered a coast-to-coast audience
that eagerly awaits SHRILL, her highly-anticipated literary debut.

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

Diane Guerrero

Left in the Wind:

A Novel of the Lost Colony: The
Roanoke Journal of Emme Merrimoth

Ed Gray

Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange
is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old
on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported
while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to
remain in the country and continue her education, depending
on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her
build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the
support system of her family.

The After Party

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In this fictional journal, Emme Merrimoth one of the actual
colonists of Roanoke recounts the harrowing journey that
brought the colonists to the New World. During the voyage,
Emme becomes involved with Governor John White, who
reassigns her to his household and then asks her to marry him.
With no better prospects and happy to be free of her bland
former employers, Emme agrees

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

Anton DiSclafani

John Guy

Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center
of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and
strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every
man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants
to be her. But this is a highly ordered world of garden clubs and
debutante balls. The money may flow as freely as the oil, but the
freedom and power all belong to the men. What happens when
a woman of indecorous appetites and desires like Joan wants
more? What does it do to her best friend?

Elizabeth was crowned at twenty-five after a tempestuous
childhood as a bastard and an outcast, but it was only when she
reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were dashed that
she began to wield real power in her own right. For twentyfive years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers
who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she
was determined not only to reign but also to rule.