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LGBTQIA+ @ DML December 2025 |
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The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
by Bart Yates
At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life.
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The Devil She Knows
by Alexandria Bellefleur
Samantha Cooper is having a day from hell. In less than 24 hours, her life has unraveled, leaving her single and with nowhere to live. Adding insult to injury, she's trapped in an elevator with a gorgeous woman claiming to be a demon. Daphne is not at all what Samantha expected from someone claiming to be an evil supernatural entity. She's pretty, witty, dressed in pink, and smells nice. And she's here to offer Samantha a deal she can't refuse: six wishes in exchange for one tiny trade--Samantha's soul. There's a glaring loophole in their contract, one Samantha fully intends to exploit so she doesn't fork over her soul. After all, she only needs one wish to win her ex back. Hell-bent to gather the last of the one thousand souls she needs so that she can be free of her own devilish deal, Daphne grants each of Samantha's wishes--with a twist, so that Samantha is forced to make another.
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Lucky Seed
by Justinian Huang
Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan.The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties, emasculated uncles, scheming cousins, scandalous secrets and a fortune teller on retainer. But at the end of each combative day, the Suns are chained together with golden handcuffs, whether they like it or not.Yet strange storms are a-brewing. Their matriarch, Roses Sun, is grappling with an existential crisis: she must produce a male heir that bears the clan's surname. She fears that if her generation is the one in which their esteemed lineage ends, they will be punished as hungry ghosts in the afterlife--an ancient but very real Asian superstition.Faced with this terrifying fate, Roses summons her favorite nephew, Wayward. Believing him to possess the lucky seed, Roses presents Wayward with a mandatory suggestion: to father a baby boy who will inherit everything. When the other members of the Sun Clan catch wind of Roses's plot, all hells break loose. Wayward's family will now clash like never before in an epic war over the future of the Suns...if there is a future at all.Yet through the chaos, Wayward sees opportunity. What if he can leverage all the conflict into a solution for his problematic family? What if he can reunite the Sun Clan by healing them? And what if the tumultuous Suns can finally learn how to love each other for the first time?
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Palaver
by Bryan Washington
The story of a mother and a son, estranged for ten years, reconnecting in the son's chosen city of Tokyo in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
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No Tea, No Shade : Life As a Drag Queen
by Kennedy Ann Scott
This volume of 30 intimate, hilarious, and inspiring essays is a collective anthem written by six drag queens who believe in equality, peace and a world that loves and respects all people.
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The Dark Cove Theatre Society
by Sierra Marilyn Riley
Violet Costantino knows she is already on thin ice this school year: her scholarship has taken a significant hit due to her panic attack during her final performance in acting class last semester--which simultaneously shattered her dreams of becoming a leading lady. This year, she is determined to keep her head down and just get through unscathed. But the school seems to have other plans for Violet: to her extreme foreboding, she is cast as one of the leads in the annual Halloween play. What's worse, the beautiful, infuriatingly talented Frankie Lin and Violet's ex-crush, Hunter Kinsley, are both cast as her love interests. Despite her initial reluctance, Violet is drawn in by the glamor of the Dark Cove Theatre Society, and she cautiously starts believing that maybe she is cut out for this after all. But lurking in the shadows of Violet's fragile self-confidence is the rumor of the Society curse, which is said to cause one cast member to drop out before opening night every year, mysteriously and without reason.
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Hazelthorn
by Cg Drews
Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, when he was a child. When Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family's vast wealth. But Evander's sure his guardian was murdered, and Evander's grandson Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer before they come for Evander next. Perhaps even more concerning is how the overgrown garden is refusing to stay behind its walls, slipping its vines and spores deeper into the house with each passing day. As the family’s dark secrets unravel alongside the growing horror of their terribly alive, bloodthirsty garden, Evander needs to find out what he’s really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed once more
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Moth Dark
by Kika Hatzopoulou
A timeline-crossing romantic fantasy about a girl in love with a world of darkness--and with the mysterious heir to its throne--who must fight to prevent the destruction of all she loves-.
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Run Away with Me
by J. L. Simmonds
After Jessie discovers her abusive stepfather's murdered body, she and Brooke embark on an unexpected road trip where they encounter interesting characters and their friendship blossoms into something more.
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There's Always Next Year
by Leah Johnson
Told in two voices, Andy, a serious journalism student adamant about reinventing herself, and her influencer cousin, Dominique, who is on the verge of securing a major deal, navigate their own respective love stories over the New Year.
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You've Goth My Heart
by L. C. Rosen
When sixteen-year-old Gray starts receiving anonymous messages from what seems like the perfect goth, he dares to hope it could lead to something real, but between his closeted ex coming back into the picture, and a possible serial killer targeting local gay teens, falling in love might just get him killed.
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