Lala's Words
Lala's Words

Author: Gracey Zhang

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1338783548

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Winner of the 2022 Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award! From debut author-illustrator Gracey Zhang comes a timeless and timely picture book that celebrates the unassuming power of kind words. Oh, there goes Lala! She carries a pot of water around the corner, down the block, and over the fence, to a patch of dirt and concrete where tiny weeds sprout. "Hello, hello, friends!" she whispers. Lala waters the plants every day, but it is her kind words that make them sway and nod. Lala's wild nature and quiet compassion enchant in this evergreen story about the power of kind words and the magic of being loved for who you are.

Shanghai Lalas
Shanghai Lalas

Author: Lucetta Yip Lo Kam

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9888139452

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This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas' everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and legitimate sexual agency. Lucetta Yip Lo Kam reads discourses on homophobia in China, including the rhetoric of "Chinese tolerance" and considers the heteronormative demands imposed on tongzhi subjects. She treats "the politics of public correctness" as a newly emerging tongzhi practice developed from the culturally specific, Chinese forms of regulation that inform tongzhi survival strategies and self-identification. Alternating between Kam's own queer biography and her extensive ethnographic findings, this text offers a contemporary portrait of female tongzhi communities and politics in urban China, making an invaluable contribution to global discussions and international debates on same-sex intimacies, homophobia, coming-out politics, and sexual governance.

Give Them Lala
Give Them Lala

Author: Lala Kent

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1982153857

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"The Vanderpump Rules provocateur opens up about her rocky road to fame and sobriety in this collection of humorous and brutally honest essays"--

Lala's Story
Lala's Story

Author: Lala Fishman

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 081011500X

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Lala, a blonde, "Aryan-looking" Polish Jew, details her struggles to survive the Nazi occupation by passing as a Christian Gentile. The author now lives in Skokie, Il.

The Ballad of Never After
The Ballad of Never After

Author: Stephanie Garber

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2022-09-13

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1250268419

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Stephanie Garber’s THE BALLAD OF NEVER AFTER is the jaw-dropping sequel to the ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART, starring Evangeline Fox and the Prince of Hearts on a new journey of magic, mystery, and heartbreak Not every love is meant to be. After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that she’s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away. But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of. In fact, he might be the only one she can trust, despite her desire to despise him. Instead of a love spell wreaking havoc on Evangeline’s life, a murderous spell has been cast. To break it, Evangeline and Jacks will have to do battle with old friends, new foes, and a magic that plays with heads and hearts. Evangeline has always trusted her heart, but this time she’s not sure she can. . . . Also by Stephanie Garber: The Caraval Series - Caraval - Legendary - Finale

Next Level Basic
Next Level Basic

Author: Stassi Schroeder

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1982112476

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Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this instant New York Times bestselling, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and “refreshing to read” (The Cut) guidebook from the breakout star of Bravo’s hit reality show Vanderpump Rules. Millions of Vanderpump Rules viewers and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder as a major defender of Basic Bitch rights. There’s nothing more boring than people who take themselves too seriously. Stassi champions the things that many of us are afraid to love publicly for fear of being labeled basic: lattes, pugs, bubbly cocktails, millennial pink, #OOTD (outfit of the day, obvs), astrology, hot dogs, the perfect pair of Louboutins, romantic comedies...the list goes on and on. “There’s something for everyone under Schroeder’s big basic umbrella” (Elle) and in Next Level Basic, the reality star, podcast queen, and ranch dressing expert gives you hilarious and pointed lessons on how to have fun and celebrate yourself, with exclusive stories from her own life and on the set of Vanderpump Rules. From her very public breakups to her most intimate details about her plastic surgery, Stassi shares her own personal experiences with her trademark honesty—all with the hope you can learn something from them.

Queer Singapore
Queer Singapore

Author: Audrey Yue

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9888139339

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Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore's current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of sexual repression and cultural liberalisation. Using the innovative framework of illiberal pragmatism, established and emergent local scholars and activists provide expansive coverage of the impact of homosexuality on Singapore's media cultures and political economy, including law, religion, the military, literature, theatre, photography, cinema, social media and queer commerce. It shows how new LGBT subjectivities have been fashioned through the governance of illiberal pragmatism, how pragmatism is appropriated as a form of social and critical democratic action, and how cultural citizenship is forged through a logic of queer complicity that complicates the flows of oppositional resistance and grassroots appropriation.

Lala's Married Life
Lala's Married Life

Author:

Publisher: Animate International Co., Ltd.

Published:

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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This is the regular edition of Lala's Married Life Volume 2. A special edition with a 12-page bonus manga is also available!

With Ramdane still adjusting to living as his twin sister, Lala, Wolsey's older brother, Badma, makes an unexpected visit to the Brooktine manor. Badma boldly claims that he's going to take Ramdane as his wife, and he challenges his brother to a duel! How will the duel play out, and what other events will unfold in Volume 2?!

Meet the Lalaloopsy Girls
Meet the Lalaloopsy Girls

Author: Samantha Brooke

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 0545379970

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Meet the lalaloopsy girls who were once rag dolls who magically came to life when their very last stitch was sewn.

Sex with Strangers
Sex with Strangers

Author: Laura Eason

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0822232545

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How far will you go to get what you want? Will you be the same person if you do? When twenty-something star sex blogger and memoirist Ethan tracks down his idol, the gifted but obscure forty-ish novelist Olivia, he finds they each crave what the other possesses. As attraction turns to sex, and they inch closer to getting what they want, both must confront the dark side of ambition and the trouble of reinventing oneself when the past is only a click away.