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Embracing all, Excluding none PRIDE June 2024
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The late Americans
by Brandon Taylor
During a volatile year of self-discovery in the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, three friends, as each prepares for an uncertain future, head to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives—a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.
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Is it hot in here? (or am I suffering for all eternity for the sins I committed on earth?) / : (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?)
by Zach Zimmerman
To see the world through comedian and writer Zach Zimmerman's eyes is to be reminded of the many ways in which love, religion, family, sex, money-or often lack thereof-lay bare our most elemental and embarrassing humanness. From meditations on heartbreak to not-so-helpful how-tos, this laugh-and-cry-out-loud essay collection documents one man's navigation through queerness, climbing the corporate ladder, dating cryptocurrency-obsessed mansplainers, mourning the loss of religiosity, and all the minute, beautiful discoveries in between.
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Quietly hostile : essays
by Samantha Irby
In this much-anticipated new collection of hilarious essays, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes.
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Lesbian love story : a memoir in archives
by Amelia Possanza
Sharing her journey to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the 20th century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed and where their memories echo and live on, the author, along the way, discovers her own love and adds her record to the archive.
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Most ardently : a Pride & prejudice remix
by Gabe Cole Novoa
While exploring the city dressed as a young gentleman in 1812 London, trans boy Oliver meets and falls in love with Darcy, forcing him to choose between a life of pretending to be something he's not or risking everything for a life that is truly his own.
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Dykette : a novel
by Jenny Fran Davis
When a professionally creative, erotically adventurous and very dysfunctional 20-something lesbian couple is invited to the country home of older, richer and more prominent lesbians for the holidays, a complex web of infatuation and jealousy emerges.
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Homebodies : a novel
by Tembe Denton-Hurst
When she loses her coveted media job, Mickey Hayward writes an angry letter outlining the racism and sexism she has endured as a Black woman in media only to have it met with overwhelming silence, and retreats to her hometown to seek a break from her troubles, until a media scandal puts her forgotten letter in the spotlight.
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Boyslut : a memoir and manifesto
by Zachary Zane
From the sex and relationship columnist for Men's Health comes a series of essays that recount of his coming out as a bisexual man and the journey of celebrating sex unencumbered by shame.
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The celebrants : a novel
by Steven Rowley
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living—and living well— five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.
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Heavenly Tyrant
by Xiran Jay Zhao
With political unrest and perilous forces aiming to undermine Zetian at every turn, can she enact positive changes as a fair and just ruler? Or will she be forced to rely on fear and violence and succumb to her darker instincts in her quest for vengeance?
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Skater boy
by Anthony Nerada
Stonebridge High's resident bad boy, Wesley 'Big Mac' Mackenzie, is failing senior year. ...So when his mom drags him to a production of The Nutcracker, Wes isn't interested at all...until he sees Tristan Monroe. Wes knows he shouldn't like Tristan; after all, he's a ballet dancer. But when they start spending time together, Wes can't seem to get Tristan out of his head. Driven by a new sense of purpose, Wes begins to think that maybe he can change for the better. Wes realizes that being himself means taking a stand and blowing up the bad-boy reputation he never wanted in the first place.
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My fair Brady
by Brian D. Kennedy
Wade Westmore is used to being in the spotlight. So when he's passed over for the lead in the spring musical, it comes as a major blow, especially when the role goes to his ex-boyfriend, Reese. Shy sophomore Elijah Brady is used to being overlooked. When he joins the stage crew for the musical, he seems destined to blend into the scenery. When the two have a disastrous backstage run-in, Elijah proposes an arrangement that could solve both boys' problems: If Wade teaches Elijah how to be popular, Wade can prove that he cares about more than just himself.
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The curse of Eelgrass Bog
by Mary Averling
Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon's head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse and the only clue she has leads straight into the center of Eelgrass Bog. Everyone knows the bog is full of witches, demons, and possibly worse, but Kess and Lilou are determined not to let that stop them.
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