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LGBTQ+ Books June-July 2024
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Don't Want You Like a Best Friend : a Novel
by Emma R. Alban
A...queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other.
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The Friendship Study
by Ruby Barrett
Jesse Logan doesn't want a fresh start. He wants his old life back-before an injury made his career as a firefighter impossible, before his grandfather's Alzheimer's got so bad he doesn't recognize Jesse anymore. When a friend tells him about a paid psychological study, Jesse sees it as a chance to get back to the man he was while making a little extra cash. All Lulu Banks is asking for is a fresh start. Back home after a devastating breakup, she's struggling to find her place. She's always been a lot-too loud, too eager, too obvious about her feelings. The friendship study seems like a great idea...until she's paired with Jesse Logan, who recently ghosted her after a blind date that led to a steamy make-out session. Now that old familiar tension is back. Despite the program's strict "no romance" rule, Jesse and Lulu are quick to find a work-around that allows them to explore their tenuous connection. And soon they're on their way to total self-improvement... As long as they don't get caught.
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Broughtupsy : a Novel
by Christina Cooke
After the death of her brother, Akúa returns to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her sister Tamika and the pair visit significant places from their childhood with their brother's ashes as the siblings grow closer and reestablish their relationship.
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Carson McCullers : a Life
by Mary V. Dearborn
This new biography of the brilliant Southern author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is based on newly available letters and journals and traces how she captured the heart and longing of the outcast.
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Bugsy & Other Stories
by Rafael Frumkin
A new collection of short stories by the author of The Comedown includes the story of bipolar person who finds community, love and freedom with a group of sex workers and an e-girl being stalked by a delusional fan.
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Green Dot : a Novel
by Madeleine Gray
Despite preferring women to men, Hera, adrift in millennial malaise, meets and falls for a married, middle aged journalist, Arthur, while working at a new outlet moderating their online comments section.
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Love and Hot Chicken : a Delicious Southern Novel
by Mary Liza Hartong
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
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The (Fake) Dating Game
by Timothy Janovsky
Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a moment of triumph...instead he's destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room...recently dumped, partnerless and sliding into misery...All Holden knows about Leo Min is that he's beautiful and unexpectedly sympathetic, and the chemistry between them is beyond. Maybe it's even enough to convince everyone, including the show's casting directors, that they're a real couple. All they'd have to do is crush the competition, win the huge cash prize and all of Holden's problems...will be fixed.
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Exhibit
by R. O. Kwon
Jin Han breaks a lifelong promise to keep the details of an old familial curse a complete secret when she meets and connects with a stranger at a party and must deal with the repercussions of their new relationship.
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Ways and Means : a Novel
by Daniel Lefferts
Working for an enigmatic billionaire whose ambitions are far darker than he could've ever imagined, Alistair McCabe, forced to go on the run, bands together with his paramours, an older couple named Mark and Elijah, who are facing their own moral and financial dilemmas, to save each other and themselves.
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Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
by Ryan Love
When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is prepared for the bombshell he drops: he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out. Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has a secret of his own: he's also gay, and developing serious feelings for his colleague Ben. But Teddy doesn't feel ready to come out yet - especially when Arthur's announcement causes shockwaves in the family. Arthur and Teddy have always been close, and now they must navigate first loves, heartbreak, and finding their place in their community. But can they - and their family - learn to accept who they truly are?
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Mona of the Manor : a Novel
by Armistead Maupin
In the early 1990s, Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in Britain's golden Cotswolds, and her fabulous adopted son Wilfred come to the aid of an American visitor with a troubling secret.
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You Only Call When You're In Trouble
by Stephen McCauley
An architect ready to put himself first, Tom, trying to keep his needy family at bay, finds himself answering their demands when his sister and niece need his help, setting him on a journey that changes everyone's life and demonstrates the beauty or dysfunction of the ties that bind families together.
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Objects
by Malka Older
When 17 students and staff members disappear from Valdegeld University, Investigator Mossa once again needs Pleiti's insight, but Pleiti finds this new case threatening to further destabilize her dreams for humanity's future as well as her own.
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How We Named the Stars : a Novel
by Andres N. Ordorica
Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica's debut novel is a tender and lyrical exploration of belonging, grief and first love—a love story for those so often written off the page.
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Cirque Du Slay : a Hayden & Friends Mystery
by Rob Osler
Junior High teacher and gay dating Blogger Hayden McCall and his best friend Hollister investigate after the star of an upcoming fundraiser is discovered dead in her hotel suite with their frenemy Sarah, who is charged with the crime.
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The American Daughters : a Novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Ady, when she's separated from her mother, meets Lenore, a free black woman who invites her to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters, setting her on a journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.
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Eli Harpo's Adventure To the Afterlife
by Eric Schlich
When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn't so sure. His rounds with his father to evangelize at hospices and sell his father's self-published book, Heaven or Bust!, feel inauthentic and strange, especially now that he's started having sex dreams about Jesus. Between that and his mother's terminal breast cancer diagnosis, Eli feels further from heaven than ever. But when the famous televangelist Charlie Gideon shows up at the Harpos' doorstep with a proposal to create a new attraction based on Eli's trip to the afterlife at his Bible-themed park, Eli isn't able to say no. As the Harpos head off on a rollicking road trip from Kentucky to Bible World in Orlando, Eli is left to grapple with not just his faith and his sexuality, but also his own parents' messy humanity and what happens when a family held together by mythmaking starts coming apart at the seams.
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I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
by Maurice Vellekoop
Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because his family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a strict Calvinist sect, which is not accepting of homosexuality to say the least. We see him participating in weekly church services, catechism classes, going to Christian schools, his stint as a member of the Calvinist Cadet Corps. Vellekoop struggles through all of this, until he finally graduates high school and gets accepted into the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1982. It is there that his life truly changes, thanks in no small part to his taking a class called "Plays In Performance" taught by the wildly flamboyant and brilliant Paul Baker. Baker is the first "out" gay man Maurice has ever met, and the two soon become close friends. It is through witnessing Baker's functional relationship with his long-time partner Martin that Maurice finally starts to reconcile with himself and begin to accept who he actually is. But it's going to be a long, messy, difficult, and occasionally hilarious process.
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Corey Fah Does Social Mobility : a Novel
by Isabel Waidner
This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers just out of reach. Neon-beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with their partner Drew and eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok, on a spectacular quest through their childhood in the Forest and an unlikely stint on reality TV. Navigating those twin horrors, along with wormholes and time loops, Corey learns-the hard way-the difference between a prize and a gift.
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Centerville, OH 45459 (937) 610-4425
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