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LGBTQ+ Books April-May 2022 |
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Afterwords
Monday, June 13, 7:00 pm
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Join us Monday nights at 7pm on Facebook to talk about books with fellow book lovers. There are no assigned books to read. Just get online and chat about what you've been reading! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wclibrary.info
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How To Find a Princess
by Alyssa Cole
When a threat to her grandmother’s livelihood pushes Princess Makeda to agree to return to Ibarania, she is taken on a transatlantic adventure complete with a beautiful investigator named Beznaria, a crew of lovable weirdos, a fake marriage, and one-bed hijinks on the high seas.
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Lone Stars
by Justin Deabler
Invited by his husband to share his ancestral history with their son, Julian reflects on generations of his Texas family and how it was shaped by immigration, the Vietnam War and other historical events.
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The Bright Lands : A Novel
by John Fram
Reluctantly returning to his small hometown when his star football player brother goes missing, a disgraced older sibling reconnects with the local sheriff, who begins to suspect former classmates in her search for her own missing brother.
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Spear
by Nicola Griffith
Forging her own bright path, a young woman, armed with a stolen hunting spear and mended armor, embarks on a journey of magic and mystery, love, lust and fights to the death on her way to the court of Artos, king of Caer Leon.
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The Devouring Gray
by Christine Lynn Herman
An unsuspecting founding family member in mourning for her sister, a boy determined to keep his birthright in spite of not inheriting family powers, a girl who would exact revenge and the youth responsible for her accident become rivals and then allies against a brutal interdimensional monster.
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The Extraordinaries
by TJ Klune
A successful fan-fiction writer has a chance encounter with a superhero crush who challenges him to remake himself in ways that compromise his bond with a best friend, who is becoming something more. A young-adult debut by the award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea.
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Summer Sons
by Lee Mandelo
When his best friend dies of an apparent suicide, Andrew uncovers lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death.
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The Psychology of Time Travel : A Novel
by Kate Mascarenhas
The granddaughter of a noted time-travel scientist is alarmed when she receives a mysterious newspaper clipping from the future reporting the murder of a woman who just may be her.
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Aurora
by Emma L Mcgeown
After a traumatic accident, Elena Ricci is stricken with amnesia leaving her with no recollection of the last eight years, including her wife and son.
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We Set the Dark On Fire
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival. A first novel.
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Like a Love Story
by Abdi Nazemian
An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, an openly gay photographer and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City.
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The Seep
by Porter, Chana
Living in a utopian world shaped by alien invaders who make any dream possible, a 50-year-old trans woman is devastated by the end of her marriage before an unexpected quest pits her against the aliens’ most avid supporters.
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Birthday
by Meredith Russo
Born in the same hospital on the same day, Morgan and Eric grow up to become best friends before they drift apart, reunite, fall in love and ultimately discover what fate has in store for them, in a romantic follow-up to If I Was Your Girl.
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Out of Salem
by Hal Schrieve
"Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with Mrs. Dunnigan, an elderly witch and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power."
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Headcase : LGBTQ Writers & Artists On Mental Health and Wellness
by Stephanie Schroeder
"A provocative collection of texts and artwork by mental health consumers and providers alike, Headcase... breaks new ground in documenting issues in LGBTQ mental health care with superbly written and powerfully rendered personal and political stories and images."
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
by Shapland, Jenn
A Pushcart Prize-winning writer draws on an intimate correspondence between McCullers and a woman named Annemarie to share previously unknown insights into the 20th-century novelist’s private life, her approaches to queer fiction and the influence of her time at Yaddo.
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Bonds of Brass
by Skrutskie, Emily
A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend—the man he trusts most and might even love—only to learn that he’s secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.
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Beneath the Citadel
by Destiny Soria
Growing up in a city ruled by ancient prophecies and a high council that has been in power for centuries, an orphaned daughter of rebels struggles to come to terms with her parents' legacy before uncovering a formidable final prophecy. By the author of Iron Cast.
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