Elle Nash

Various

James Cahill

Joelle Taylor

Joshua Jones

Carrie Marshall

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Chloe Michelle Howarth

Dylin Hardcastle

William Rayfet Hunter

Seth Insua

The inaugural collection in the new VERVE Voices series, Queerphoria is a joyful and defiant queer-authored anthology proudly supporting Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line. Four housemates welcome the reader into their home for a birthday party. An elderly widow visits her first queer bar, beneath the flat she shared with her husband. A couple invite a shipwrecked sailor into their isolated lighthouse on the stormy night of their thirtieth anniversary. A single woman embarks on a romantic relationship with a sex robot. A married couple secretly prepare for their baby's arrival in a world where procreation is controlled by the Establishment. Through prose, poetry, essays, illustrations and more, twenty-one writers bring their visions of euphoria to life. These pages celebrate, subvert, expand and reimagine what joy can look like, even in uncertain times. Switchboard will receive a £1 donation from every copy sold. Includes contributions from: Amil (translated by Joheun Lee) | Santanu Bhattacharya | Maame Blue | James Cahill | Jenny Chamarette | Gerardo Sámano Córdova | Soula Emmanuel | Selali Fiamanya | Eve Gleichman | Remi Graves | Dylin Hardcastle | Chloe Michelle Howarth | William Rayfet Hunter | Seth Insua | Joshua Jones | Laura Kay | Carrie Marshall | Peo Michie | Elle Nash | Peter Scalpello | Joelle Taylor About Switchboard: For over 50 years, Switchboard has supported the LGBTQIA+ community through challenges and triumphs, offering a listening ear in difficult times and moments of joy. Their support is completely free and available wherever you feel most comfortable, whether that's via phone (0800 0119 100), chat (switchboard.lgbt) or email (hello@switchboard.lgbt). Switchboard's services are open from 10 AM to 10 PM, every single day of the year. Their trained volunteers are available to discuss anything related to sexuality and gender identity; whether it's sexual health, relationships or just the way you're feeling. For anyone, anywhere in the country, at any point in their journey.

An Own Voices anthology celebrating queer joy

Queerphoria

Neha Vapiwala

Kavita Dharmarajan

Offering practical, comprehensive coverage of the many nuanced technical and clinical aspects of this growing field, Palliative Radiation Oncology provides up-to-date clinical guidance in a thorough yet concise manner. In an easy-access format, it integrates basic science, pathologies, and research with clinical applications, covering different ways to approach problems, tumor assessment, precise target definition, and dosing-specific guidelines to minimize side effects/toxicities while balancing with desired outcomes. Discusses optimal communication skills for pediatric, adult, and elderly patients. Contains decision-making algorithms to guide individualized palliative radiation oncology treatment plans. Reviews all the latest modalities with technical tips and pitfalls. Covers key procedures such as external beam radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery. Features step-by-step body site-specific guidelines with integrated symptom and toxicity management. Covers symptom and symptom-cluster management, including pain and psychosocial or spiritual distress. Ideal for radiation oncology residents, fellows, and practitioners, as well as medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, oncology nurses, and radiation technicians--all clinicians who work in this highly collaborative, team-based specialty. An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Palliative Radiation Oncology

The title of this book is I Didn’t Deserve This: The Shot That Brought Me Pain and Took Me to Purpose. It entails my life, leading up to the night of December 11, 2017, which is the night it happened. It deals with all the events that took place that night—my feelings, the people who were there with me at the hospital, and the experiences at the hospital. Also, it goes in-depth about my life after I got out of the hospital—me dealing with PTSD, unable to really talk and eat and all the follow-up doctor visits; me being scared to go out at night; and other things. I end the book with my life now, with my goals, and what I plan to achieve from writing this book. This book is to inspire people who may or may not have been through something dramatic as this but has had something to happen to them that may have made them lose hope. I want to show people that everyone has a purpose and a voice. I want to show people that no matter how difficult your life may seem to be now, God loves you, and as long as you are still breathing, you have a purpose.

The Shot That Brought Me Pain and Took Me to Purpose

I Didn’t Deserve This

Aaron is a very clumsy dinosaur. His friends gave him the nickname of Derpy because of his careless behavior. But today seems extra bad. How will Derpy make it up to his friends at school after all he has done today?

Derpy the Very Clumsy Dinosaur

In the Cookie Kingdom, Queen Madeline has decreed that cookies are money. Everyone in the valley makes their own cookies, and life is great. But the grumpy little man Glumkin doesn't like cookies! Glumkin would rather make mud-pies. This book is a modern fairy tale of rebelliousness and redemption. It’s a story about mud-pies and cookies, invention, sadness, and joy. It's a story that is engaging for kids and funny for adults. The turns and twists will surprise you! Ealain is the creative and inventive daughter of the Miller. She helps him grind grain into flour and solve problems. The Baker Queen Madeline and Baker King Pfeffernüsse make cookies all day, while wearing their baker's crowns and royal aprons. The Seashell People want to trade seashells for cookies, but Glumkin has other ideas.

The Cookie Kingdom and the Grumpy Little Man

A supernatural thriller revolving around a series of mysterious voices accidentally recorded on an old reel to reel tape recorder. Seemingly they are the voices of the dead, lost in limbo, reaching out through the darkness for someone to hear them, to help them find peace. The story follows two women's descend into the dark world of a reluctant serial killer as they endeavor to unlock the whereabouts of his victims through in-depth and potentially sanity shredding analysis of the tapes. And with that discovery they hope to finally lay the tormented dead and their own dwindling sanity to rest

Joshua Jones

Books

Your next favorite book is out there