You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Patricia Elsie Tuttle, and I've been thinking about

525,600 e-books, 525,000 library loans, 525,000 recommendations, I should be reading the books that I own.

This is episode number 249 and a half, and today I'm going to talk about a couple backlist titles that are by Trans

Non Binary Authors featuring Trans-non binary characters. Before I get to my

backlist book picks let's hear from today's sponsor.

Today's episode is brought to you by Dunder and Press.

So let me tell y'all about a historic gymnast.

So in Nine lives by 35 Olympic gymnast Mary Sanders

shares her journey of grief, financial struggles, battles with coaches, rivalries

and injuries, but also her reinventions as as a certic to slay acrobat, as an entertainment, executive,

and as a mother. And through it all, no matter what obstacles are thrown in her path,

Mary pushes forward leaning on her faith, her family, and her enduring optimism to support her in each of her nine lives so far.

So Mary Sanders is a gold medal Olympian who competed in rhythmic gymnastics for Teen USA in the 2004 Olympics Games and earned five medals.

She is a USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame inductee

and earned the title as the most successful rhythmic gymnast in all the Western Hemisphere. My goodness. Mary's memoir shows

young athletes how a courage to change and grow can lead to new and unexpected paths in life following

their athletic careers.

So make sure to pick up nine lives by 35, an Olympic gymnast inspiring story of

reinvention by Mary Sanders and thanks again to Dunder and Press for sponsoring this episode.

Today's episode is brought to you by Gallery Books.

I'm super excited to talk about this next one. It is by an author who has been doing the darn thing for Black American fiction, horror fiction for a while, Miss Tamanarieve do. So it's titled the Reformatory and it follows 12-year-old

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