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LGBTQ+ Books February-March 2024
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Alice Sadie Celine
by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Agreeing to see her adult daughter's best friend in a community theatre production, a professor of women's and gender studies becomes entranced with her in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Red Riding Hood.
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Blackouts : a Novel
by Justin Torres
A young man tends to the dying soul of a person he knew only briefly and the pair trade stories as they wait for the end, in the new novel from the author of We the Animals.
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City of Laughter: a Novel
by Temim Fruchter
Recovering from the breakup of her first queer relationship and grieving the death of her father. Shiva Margolin, a student of Jewish folklore, decides to visit Poland to walk in the footsteps of the family members who went before her.
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Cleat Cute : a Novel
by Meryl Wilsner
Sidelined with an injury, 26-year-old Grace Henderson, a star of the US Women's National Team, falls for Phoebe Matthews, whom she considers her rival, and as the World Cup approaches and Grace gets back in the game, they must decide what's more important—being together or making the roster.
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Consort of Fire
by Kit Rocha
While fulfilling an ancient prophecy, Sachielle is sent to be the mortal consort of an ancient dragon god, but she and her handmaid, who is a trained assassin, plot to murder the dragon and break the curse.
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Day : a Novel
by Michael Cunningham
An already-troubled married couple, Isabel and Dan, both become obsessed within Isabel's younger brother and must deal with the challenges and changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, in a new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.
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Fly With Me
by Andie Burke
When an in-flight medical energy ends with her getting stuck in the airport hours away from the marathon she's running in honor of her brother, ER nurse Olive Murphy gets some help from copilot Stella Soriano who makes a surprising request: will Olive be her fake girlfriend?
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For Never & Always
by Helena Greer
Two bitter exes are thrown back together when they discover they are the surprise co-owners of an inherited destination inn and wonder if they have both grown enough to give it a second chance.
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The Happy Couple : a Novel
by Naoise Dolan
As Celine and Luke prepare to walk down the aisle, the best man tries to move on from his love for Luke; the bride's sister believes Luke is a serial cheater; and a wedding guest observes from a distance—each looking for a path to their own happily ever after.
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A Light Most Hateful
by Hailey Piper
A runaway working a dead-end job in Pennsylvania must fight to return home when an intense, otherworldly summer storm arrives bringing a mind-bending monster that enslaves the residents in the new novel by the author of Queen of Teeth.
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The Manor House Governess : a Novel
by C. A. Castle
Accepting a position as live-in tutor for the Edwards family, Brontë Ellis arrives at Greenwood Manor where he is welcomed into the household with warmth until a tragic fire reveals dark secrets smoldering under the surface of this once elegant estate.
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The Old Gays Guide To the Good Life
by Old Gays of TikTok
America's most beloved foursome—the TikTok sensation @theoldgays—share humorous, heartbreaking, shocking and profound tales from their generation, revealing who they are beyond TikTok and offering collective wisdom on a rainbow of topics as they prove age is just a number and getting older can be fabulously fun.
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People Collide : a Novel
by Isle McElroy
When he and his wife Elizabeth trade bodies, and then she, living as him, disappears without a trace, Eli searches for her across Europe to America, having a no-holds-barred exploration of gender and embodied experience while wondering if this transformation is the very thing they need for their marriage to thrive.
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Queer Chameleon and Friends
by Amee Wilson
A vibrant and uplifting collection of comic illustrations about LGBTQ+ life, for the community and beyond, from the creator of the online sensation @queeeerchameleon that's loved by millions.
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The Salvation Gambit : a Novel
by Emily Skrutskie
A hotheaded hacker must outwit the AI at the heart of a rogue warship-turned-penal colony if she and her crew of con women want to escape with their lives in this electrifying sci-fi thriller from the author of Bonds of Brass.
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Silver Under Nightfall
by Rin Chupeco
As the Rot plagues the kingdom, Remy Pendergast, the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne—and an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires—must decide where his loyalties lie when he joins two vampires in their quest to find the truth about this mutating virus—and develops complicated feelings for them.
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Something About Her : a Novel
by Clementine Taylor
When they meet at the Poetry Society, Aisling and Maya, two very different young women, find their connection unexpected as they embark on a surprising journey of self-discovery and modern love.
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Thin Skin : Essays
by Jenn Shapland
Weaving together historical research, interviews and her everyday life in New Mexico, a National Book Award finalist and powerful literary mind probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire as she examines capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies and our thinking.
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Underburn
by Bill Gaythwaite
Iris Flynn is an acerbic, self-sufficient seventy-three-year-old widow...Her composed and simplified existence is disrupted when her son Frank lands on her doorstep after his rental home is destroyed in a wildfire...Soon, news from her estranged family in Maine forces everyone out of their comfort zone. Iris convinces Frank...to travel with her to the potato farm from where she made a quick getaway fifty years earlier, unleashing a funny and poignant family saga about secrets, forgiveness, and the fluctuating map of the human heart.
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Warrior of the Wind
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
After escaping Bassa and crossing the Soke moats, Danso and Lilong must travel far north to return home the ibor sought after by newly crowned Bassai Emperor Eshemi. With the new empire's reach now extending over the continent, a bounty on their heads, and news of their cargo now widespread, the journey proves to be even more treacherous. But the promise of reward fuels them both: for Danso, the news of an island of Ajabo survivors in the Nameless archipelago; for Lilong, an opportunity to be the hero her daa dreamed of and help nullify the threats from the mainland once and for all. Together, they journey across the desert's dunes and mountains, forge new alliances and sacrifice everything to survive the new emperor's thirst for blood, power, and revenge.
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What Feasts at Night
by T. Kingfisher
When they arrive at the Easton family hunting lodge in Gallicia, Alex Easton, Angus and Miss Potter find the caretaker dead and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence, and feel something is not quite right in their home—or in their dreams.
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