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Who's Your Daddy (Dad, Father, Pops, Papa, Avo, Guncle, Mentor, Role Model...)?

Men + Fur Babies, fiction   The Great Gatz by Lauren Baratz-Logsted & Jackie Logsted  Ruff and Tumble* by Lucy Gilmore  * Please, please, please tell me this is the start of a Seattle Lumberjacks sports romance series!  Hard Knocks and Victories in the Game of Life, non-fiction     Pass interference: The History of the Black Quarterback in the NFL by Wisdom Martin Act Like You Got Some Sense, And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me by Jamie Foxx, Corinne Foxx, et al.  Game, An Autobiography by Grant Hill  My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole by Will Jawando  A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story by Rev. Sen. Raphael G. Warnock  Kid Lit   I'm Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown  Documentaries   After Jackie   The Story of Trailblazing Black Baseball Players Who Fought for a More Inclusive America  history.com  A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson  anc

In the Mood for Mysteries

  Historical fiction   Assembly of the Dead by Saeida Rouass  The Business of Blood (Fiona Mahoney #1) by Kerrigan Byrne  A Treacherous Trade (Fiona Mahoney #2)  A Vocation of Violence (Fiona Mahoney #3 - October 11, 2022)  A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong  The Lady Sherlock Series (currently 6 titles) by Sherry Thomas  The Lady Violet Mysteries (currently 6 with #7 this August) by Grace Burrowes  20th-century fiction    Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance #1) by Nekesa Afia  Harlem Sunset (Harlem Renaissance #2 - June 28, 2022)  The Blanche White Series (4 titles) by Barbara Neely Hither Page (Page & Sommers #1) by Cat Sebastian  The Missing Page (Page & Sommers #2)  Contemporary      The Lizzie Stuart Mysteries (5 titles) by Frankie Y. Bailey  The Odelia Grey Mysteries (12 titles) by Sue Ann Jaffarian  The Sharon McCone Series (30+ titles) by Marcia Muller 

Some Publishers & Authors Who Celebrate Pride All Year

  Black Rose Writing  Bold Strokes Books  https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/   Carina Press  https://www.carinapress.com/shop/index.html   OR Books  https://www.orbooks.com/   PM Press  https://pmpress.org/   Riverdale Avenue Books  https://riverdaleavebooks.com/    Three Fortnights Press  https://www.shaiaugust.com/three-fortnights-press Tuxbury Publishing LLC   LGBTQ+ comics superheroes  https://www.cbc.ca/kids/articles/10-rad-lgbtq-superheroes   Prince George's County Memorial Library System search results for "LGBTQ"  https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&type=Default&term=LGBTQ&by=KW&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=bks&query=&page=0&searchid=1 Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, A Resource By and For Transgender Communities  Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, with Foreword by Kai Cheng Thom  Unprotected: A Memoir by Billy Porter  TJ Alexander  Shai August  Alexandria Bellefleur  Sarina Bowen  Alyssa Cole  Jayce