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LGBTQIA+ Book Club at Home
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Box Hill : a story of low self-esteem
by Adam Mars-Jones
A young man experiences his first gay love when he meets a glamorous, older, handsome, leather-clad biker in the cruisy section of Box Hill in 1970s London in this book that won the 2019 Fitacarraldo Editions Novel Prize.
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Cowgirl 101
by Laina Villeneuve
What Jo Harding loves most about the summer is being able to retreat from annoying humans. Though her friends say she’d be happier with someone sleeping by her side, she insists that all she needs to be happy are her mules, her dog, and a trail into the backcountry. She has absolutely no time to teach the incompetent, if attractive, newcomer. Daisy Lucero is an eager student from the start. Hired for work in the café, her real dream is to explore the High Sierra wilderness on horseback. While she would love to earn the respect of the handsome woman who inspired her adventure, she may have to settle for pestering her with songs and questions. In the vast classroom of the California wilderness, each woman finds herself tested. Tests of perseverance for Daisy as she learns to ride, and tests of patience as Jo considers whether life is about more than riding alone. It doesn’t take either of them long, however, to realize that neither one of them needs a lesson in chemistry.
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The Love Study
by Kris Ripper
Declan has commitment issues. He’s been an office temp for literally years now, and his friends delight in telling people that he left his last boyfriend at the altar.
And that’s all true. But he’s starting to think it’s time to start working on his issues. Maybe.
When Declan meets Sidney—a popular nonbinary YouTuber with an advice show—an opportunity presents itself: as part of The Love Study, Declan will go on a series of dates arranged by Sidney and report back on how the date went in the next episode.
The dates are…sort of blah. It’s not Sidney’s fault; the folks participating are (mostly) great people, but there’s no chemistry there. Maybe Declan’s just broken.
Or maybe the problem is that the only person he’s feeling chemistry with is Sidney.
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Polar Vortex
by Shani Mootoo
Polar Vortex is a seductive and tension-filled novel about a lesbian couple who left the big city, where they had both lived for many years, to relocate to a bucolic countryside community where they knew no one and no one knew them. It seemed like a good idea to both Priya and Alex to cement their newish, later-in-life relationship by leaving the past behind to create a new life together. But there’s leaving the past behind—and then there’s running away from awkward histories.
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Summer of the cicadas : a novel
by Chelsea Catherine
Summer of the Cicadas is about a West Virginian town where a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the first time in seventeen years. The cicadas damage crops and trees, and swarm locals. Jessica, a former cop whose entire family was killed in a car crash two years earlier, is deputized during the crisis. Throughout the book, Jessica must deal with her feelings for her sister's best friend, Natasha, who is a town council member. After Fish and Wildlife removes the swarm, Jessica must also confront the two-year anniversary of her family's death, Natasha's budding romance with a local editor, as well as a sudden but devastating loss that changes everything.
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I Have Something to Tell You : A Memoir
by Chasten Buttigieg
A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America's future.
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The man who ate too much : the life of James Beard
by John Birdsall
A full-length biography inspired by the viral essay, "America, Your Food Is So Gay," recasts the iconic food personality as a closeted gay man who found acceptance and passion through a culturally rich career spent informing America's increasingly sophisticated palate.
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Cemetery boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death.
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Darius the Great deserves better
by Adib Khorram
A sequel to Darius the Great Is Not Okay finds Darius enjoying a comparatively peaceful return from his trip to Iran before a long visit from his grandmothers, a disappointing internship and conflicted feelings about a soccer teammate complicate his relationships.
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Each of us a desert
by Mark Oshiro
Destined to a solitary life in the desert, a storyteller longing for a kindred spirit encounters the cold and beautiful daughter of her village’s murderous conqueror before nightmarish threats challenge their unlikely relationship. By the award-winning author of Anger Is a Gift.
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Even if we break
by Marieke Nijkamp
A group of friends, bound together by years of history, embark on a visit to a cabin before dangerous secrets and unknown threats reveal a sinister plot that compromises their safety. By the best-selling author of This Is Where It Ends.
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How it all blew up
by Arvin Ahmadi
Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim family, a failed relationship and blackmail, 18-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel before an encounter with a U.S. Customs officer places his hard-won freedom at risk. By the author of Girl Gone Viral.
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Iron Heart
by Nina Varela
Escaping to her long-lost brother’s country home in Varn, Ayla is challenged to use the secrets she has gained to assassinate the scyre in hopes of halting the Anti-Reliance movement and destroying the Iron Heart source of Automae power.
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Miss Meteor
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
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The Scapegracers
by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Forging an unexpected coven with the three most popular girls in school, an outcast lesbian witch casts curses, searches for love and eludes fundamentalist witch hunters while privately struggling with the realities of human friendships and supernatural perils.
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Surrender your sons
by Adam Sass
Connor Major and other queer teens trapped at a conversion therapy camp work together to escape--and expose the camp's horrible truths.
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Who I was with her
by Nita Tyndall
Secretly dating a rival team captain, a cross-country runner who is not yet ready to come out hides her heartbreak when her girlfriend dies suddenly, a loss that leads to support from an unexpected source.
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The year Shakespeare ruined my life
by Dani Jansen
Alison, desperate to be high school valedictorian, agrees to produce her school play and must navigate the drama that ensues, including her crush on Charlotte, the star of the play.
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Flamer
by Mike Curato
In the summer between middle school and high school, Aiden Navarro navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and finds himself drawn to Elias, a boy he can't stop thinking about.
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Identity : A Story of Transitioning
by Corey Maison
What do you do when you are born as one gender, but feel yourself to be another? Gender dysphoria affects thousands of people worldwide, but has been ignored or ridiculed in our culture. With this graphic novel, Corey Maison boldly shares her story of transitioning, so that other kids with gender dysphoria and related conditions will no longer feel so isolated, hopeless, or lost.
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Pepper's rules for secret sleuthing
by Briana McDonald
Deciding to take a break from detective work when her latest case significantly compromises her romantic prospects, Pepper is unable to resist following her gut when the mysterious death of an elderly relative reveals an astonishing family secret and helps Pepper better understand her feelings for girls.
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