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Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
André Aciman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during... |
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This Is How It Always Is: A Novel
Laurie Frankel - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them.
This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated.
This is how children change ... and then change the world.
This... |
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Ask the Passengers
A.S. King - Little
Format: Book
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Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers... |
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The Girls Club
Sally Bellerose - Bywater Books
Format: Paperback
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The Girls Club is the coming-of-age story of a young, white, working-class woman. Set in the 1970s, the story revolves around Cora Rose as she copes with her emerging sexuality, an illness her sisters refer to as "the dreaded bowel disease," and the conflicts created by the growing... |
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Holding Still for as Long as Possible
Zoe Whittall - House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
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In this robust, scruffy, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, rising star Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of a generation we've rarely seen in literature - the 25-year-olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions,... |
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These Things Happen
Richard Kramer - Unbridled Books
Format: Book
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A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. The story opens with Wesley, a tenth grader, and involves his two sets of parents (the mom and her second husband, a very thoughtful doctor; and the father who has become a major gay lawyer/activist and his fabulous "significant... |
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Guapa
Saleem Haddad - Other Press
Format: Print book
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A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval.... |
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The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
Anna North - Blue Rider Press
Format: Book
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Gripping and provocative, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is a haunting story of fame, love, and legacy told through the propulsive rise of an iconoclastic artist. Sophie Stark begins her filmmaking career by creating a documentary about her obsession, Daniel, a college basketball star.... |
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The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel
David Leavitt - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe-a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the SS Manhattan,... |
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Still life Las Vegas
James Sie - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Book
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Recent high school graduate and aspiring artist Walter Stahl lives with his ailing father in the dregs of Las Vegas, their lives overshadowed by the disappearance of Walter's mother, who drove off when he was five and never returned. Although Walter has never so much as seen a photograph... |
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Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir
Nicole J. Georges - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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When Nicole Georgeswas two years old, herfamily told her that her father wasdead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive.Her sister, saddled with guilt, admitsthat the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret.Sent into a tailspin... |
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Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague
Joyce Brabner - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Graphic NovelA Village Voice Best Graphic Novel of 2014The renowned graphic-book author Joyce Brabners Second Avenue Caper is the true story of a tight-knit group of artists and activists living in New York City in the early 1980s who found... |
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even this page is white
Vivek Shraya - Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Print book
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Vivek Shraya's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin - its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints... |
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When We Rise: Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement
Cleve Jones - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie Preston, and Rachel Griffiths. From longtime activist Cleve Jones, here is a sweeping,... |
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The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir
Ariel Levy - Random House
Format: Book
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When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true.
Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story... |
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