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Honey Girl by Morgan RogersAfter completing her Ph.D. in astronomy, a young, straightlaced, Type A personality black woman goes on a girls’ weekend to Vegas to celebrate and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t even know.
Staggering under the feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she's able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she's been running from all along--the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection.
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Every Body: An Honest and Open Look at Sex from Every Angle
by Julia Rothman
"Every Body" is the first radically inclusive compendium of stories, essays, interviews, and art about sex.
The result is a deeply informative and inclusive user's guide to your body, no matter its shape, size, or preferences. With an exuberant, diverse group of voices and gorgeous illustrations that bring each story to life, "Every Body" is destined to be a treasured resource and trusted companion for generations to come.
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Lone Stars
by Justin Deabler
"Lone Stars" follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone?
Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term. And in these answers lies a hope: that by uncloseting ourselves--as immigrants, smart women, gay people--we find power in empathy.
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The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne De Bourgh
by Molly Greeley
This gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on "Pride and Prejudice", combines the knowing eye of Jane Austen with the eroticism and Gothic intrigue of Sarah Waters to reimagine the life of the mysterious Anne de Bourgh.
An extraordinary tale of one woman’s liberation, "The Heiress" reveals both the darkness and light in Austen’s world, with wit, sensuality, and a deeply compassionate understanding of the human heart.
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Miss Iceland
by Auður A. Ólafsdóttir
Moving to 1960s Reykjavik to pursue her literary ambitions, an aspiring novelist moves in with her gay childhood friend only to be confronted by a small male-dominated community that does not believe women belong in the art world.
"Miss Iceland" is a novel of extraordinary poise and masterful acuity from one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.
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The Extraordinaries
by TJ Klune
Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. "The Extraordinaries", is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves.
Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right?
After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City's mightiest hero (and Nick's biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And he'll do it with or without the reluctant help of Seth Gray, Nick's best friend (and maybe the love of his life).
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Late to the Party
by Kelly Quindlen
Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined. She's never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She's never even been kissed. And it's not just because she's gay. It's because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world. So when Maritza and JaKory suggest crashing a party, Codi is highly skeptical.
But then Codi stumbles upon one of those cool kids, Ricky, kissing another boy in the dark, and an unexpected friendship is formed. In return for never talking about that kiss, Ricky takes Codi under his wing and draws her into a wild summer filled with new experiences. The only problem? Codi never tells Maritza or JaKory about any of it.
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Camp
by Lev AC Rosen
A screwball comedy that critiques the culture of toxic masculinity as it is experienced by a 16-year-old youth at an LGBTQ+ summer camp where he reinvents himself to attract a crush’s attention.
Randy has reinvented himself as 'Del'--buff, masculine, and he's determined to get Hudson to fall for him.
But as he and Hudson grow closer, Randy has to ask himself: How much is he willing to change for love? And is it really love anyway, if Hudson doesn't know who he truly is?
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We Are Totally Normal
by Rahul Kanakia
Nandan's perfect plan for junior year goes awry after he hooks up with a guy for the first time. Nandan's got a plan to make his junior year perfect, but hooking up with his friend Dave isn't part of it--especially because Nandan has never been into guys. Still, Nandan's willing to give a relationship with him a shot.
But the more his anxiety grows about what his sexuality means for himself, his friends, and his social life, the more he wonders whether he can just take it all back. Is breaking up with Dave--the only person who's ever really gotten him--worth feeling "normal" again?
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Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala
Project Runway goes to Comic Con in an epic queer love story about creativity, passion, and finding the courage to be your most authentic self. |
Seventeen-year-old Raffy is determined to win a cosplay competition that could lead to art school admission and respect for his talent, but being paired with his main competitor, ex-boyfriend Luca, complicates things. Raffy will have to juggle unresolved feelings for the boy who broke his heart, and his own intense self-doubt, to get everything he's ever wanted: choosing his art, his way.
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After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same. The first and most important: Mom and Dad will always love Bea, and each other.
When Dad tells Bea that he and his boyfriend, Jesse, are getting married, Bea is thrilled. Bea loves Jesse, and when he and Dad get married, she'll finally (finally!) have what she's always wanted--a sister.
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The Name I Call Myself
by Hasan Namir
Meet Ari, a young person who doesn’t like to be called by their birth name Edward: “When I think of the name Edward, I imagine old kings who snore a lot.”
Moving from age six to adolescence, "The Name I Call Myself" touchingly depicts Edward’s tender, solitary gender journey to Ari: a new life distinguished and made meaningful by self-acceptance and unconditional love. |
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Genius Jolene by Sara Cassidy
On her annual trip in her father's 18-wheeler, eight-year-old Jolene is headed to Los Angeles on a six-day road trip. Just like last year, they tell each other stories and listen to music. They also keep up their favorite tradition: critiquing one type of food at every stop. This time it's onion rings. But this year is also different. Unlike last year, Jolene's parents are no longer together. They split up when her father came out as gay. These are big changes for Jolene, but she is spunky and smart and has a good heart. She's ready for new adventures and to stand up for what's right -- both on and off the road. |
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My Maddy
by Gayle E Pitman
A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature.
Most mommies are girls. Most daddies are boys. But lots of parents are like my Maddy.
My Maddy has hazel eyes which are not brown or green. And my Maddy likes sporks because they are not quite a spoon or a fork.
The best things in the world are not one thing or the other. They are something in between and entirely their own.
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Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of)
by Kathleen Gros
A graphic-novel adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic follows the story of Jo, a modern eighth grader who writes a blog and worries about her sister’s leukemia while their father is deployed overseas, before a neighbour’s declaration challenges her to evaluate her growing feelings for a girl on the school paper.
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