19-year-old Maia works a kiosk at Philadelphia International Airport, waiting to be discovered and watching people's lives take off while hers stays stagnant. When a handsome commuter charms her with stories of the perfect life in the snow-capped mountains of Colorado, she rashly follows him into a future she was not expecting. Desperate to regain control of her life and sentenced to bedrest in her second pregnancy, Carolyn makes the dangerous decision to hire the young woman she suspects is sleeping with her husband to be their nanny. Friends close; beautiful enemies closer, she reasons. Carolyn and Maia harbor secret pasts. What unfolds in Boulder over the summer exposes the gritty underbelly of their dreams and forces both women to question the bounds of loyalty, the complicated nature of female friendship, and the privilege and peril of physical beauty.

Logan Osborne knows he likes boys, but has not come out to his family or at school, and no one knows that he likes to sometimes wear girls' clothes and makeup. When he starts at a school for the arts he finds a wider range of gender and orientation being accepted. Logan is attracted to Kyle, who has gay dads. But Kyle is straight. Logan finds he doesn't like the way gay boys treat him, and a disturbing hookup with a boy who is fetishistic about Logan's half-Asian background makes Logan even more confused about what he wants and who he is. Encouraged and supported by his friends at school, Logan experiments with nail polish and more feminine clothes in public. Logan begins questioning his gender and decides to use they pronouns while trying to figure things out. Logan meets a classmate's chosen mother, who is a transgender Chinese woman, and begins to come to terms with their gender identity. Realizing they are not a gay boy, but a transgender girl, Logan asks for people to call them Veronica. As a girl, does Veronica stand a chance with Kyle?

Winner, Trillium Book Award In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides on shaving her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator’s experience as an involuntary one. Tinged with pathos and humor, they interrogate the moments in which femininity, womanness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed. Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first book to be published under VS. Books, a series of books curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya featuring work by new and emerging Indigenous or Black writers, or writers of color. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

A Beautiful girl is a lovely book that celebrates the diversity in every girl. With beautiful illustrations accompanied by poetry, little girls and big girls will love this book that inspires them to shine the beauty within. "A beautiful girl is any girl at all. It's not only external it's every girl's call. If you are a girl you are beautiful too. Bring beauty to the world by just being you."

Body image insecurity is something a lot of us face. Overwhelming evidence suggests that constantly worrying about your appearance can stunt your ambition, cause you to feel inadequate, and make it impossible for you to enjoy your life to the fullest. Sounds familiar? There is a solution! This compact book tackles the underlying causes of body image anxiety and breaks them down so you can start to change how you view yourself and your perceived flaws. You will learn to nip destructive behaviors in the bud, stop self-criticism, and manage emotional eating habits. Dr Jessamy Hibberd and Jo Usmar employ the latest techniques in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to create practical exercises that can help you to take the first steps towards feeling more confident, poised, and, yes, beautiful.

A third-generation Hollywood resident becomes a reluctant personal assistant and chef to a famous recluse before catching the attentions of a rising star, with unexpected consequences.--

You're not a little girl anymore, and you'd love to start wearing makeup and pretty clothes, getting guys to notice you... But hang on a sec, girl! Before you get all made up, you need to make sure you know what it really means to be pretty. Pretty is... the light you shine through your service the way you show gentleness, humility, and respect how you act when no one is watching Jennifer Strickland used to be a model, and she knows that real prettiness comes from the heart. Join her on a journey of discovering true beauty—the beauty of a beloved daughter of God!