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1) Less is lost
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
For Arthur Less, life is surprisingly good: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a crisscrossing adventure across the US. Less roves across the Mild Mild West, across the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius--his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state,...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On paper, the chubby, poor, gay son of a lesbian who wrote pornographic letters to Jesus isn't the person that you think of when you hear the word success. Yet Patrick Hinds has somehow managed to bungle his way through to become the successful co-host of True Crime Obsessed--a podcast with more than 200 million downloads. Before that, though, he failed at many, many things. Patrick's life is a series of fiascos, missteps, and just plain bad ideas....
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Language
English
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A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir in essays about blackness, masculinity, and addiction--
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian’s recounting of his experiences—in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory—reveal a perpetual...
5) To paradise
Author
Language
English
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Description
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness.
In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a...
6) Peaces
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 7
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Verona, Italy, gay teens Romeo and Valentine discover first love amid a bloody, centuries-old feud, putting themselves in danger of losing each other forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. Now that he's signed up for Death-Cast to see if his serious heart condition will finally end him, he's ready to begin living. That's why he decides to attend a once-in-a-lifetime event: the Death Cast premiere in Times Square. Getting an End Day call is the last thing on Valentino Prince's mind-he didn't even register for the program. His modeling career is about to take...
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready...
11) Lot: stories
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Coming of age in his family's Houston restaurant, a mixed-heritage teen navigates bullying, his newly discovered sexual orientation, and the ripple effects of a disadvantaged community.
Author
Series
Material world (Alexis J. Hall) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't get...
13) The celebrants
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Series
Language
English
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It's been five years since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, no closer to having their lives figured out. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living funerals, celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living--and living well. But this reunion is different. They're not gathered as they...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides bothhis artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Told through a series of vignettes, Rodriguez recalls his family's migration from La Sierrita, Mexico to McAllen, Texas and his search for belonging, both as a resident alien and as a young man marked by childhood trauma and poverty struggling with the societal condemnation of his burgeoning homosexuality."--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Description
"A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move...
17) The long call
Author
Series
Two rivers volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots,...
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