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21) To paradise
Author
Language
English
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS
To Paradise is a fin de...
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS
To Paradise is a fin de...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since university. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apart, and none of them ever found the lives they wanted - the lives they dreamed of when they were young and everything seemed possible. Evvie starved herself to become a supermodel but derailed her career by sleeping with a married man. Maggie married Ben, the boy she fell...
24) Into the light
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
25) Maurice: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love...
Author
Series
Eidolonia volume 1
Publisher
Central Avenue Publishing
Language
English
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Description
After finding an old box of charms and cryptic notes, a modern-day witch accidentally awakens both a human prince and a murderous fairy from magically-induced slumbers as part of a truce from 1799, instantly escalating hostilities on Eidolonia.
28) Razorblade tears
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
29) Wolfsong
Author
Series
Green Creek volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ox Matheson's father repeatedly told him he was nothing growing up, and Ox believed it. Then, at 16, Ox meets the Bennett family, and immediately 10-year-old Joe Bennett latches onto Ox. The Bennetts quickly welcome Ox into their family, only for Ox to discover they are a pack of shapeshifting wolves. Years later, the Bennett pack is broken by a violent wolf who had previously kidnapped and tortured Joe. Joe and some of the Bennett pack leave to hunt...
30) Up with the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The longtime acquaintance of a handsome could-have-been star in the 50s and 60s who faded from the spotlight until his sensational murder in 1980, pores over his life, in this part crime story, part showbiz history, part love story about personal demons and dangerously suppressed passions that span 30 years of gay life.
Author
Series
Tithenai chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With the plot against them foiled and the city of Qi-Katai in safe hands, newlywed and tentative lovers Velasin and Caethari have just begun to test the waters of their relationship. But the wider political ramifications of their marriage are still playing out across two nations, and all too soon, they're summoned north to Tithena's capital city, Qi-Xihan, to present themselves to its monarch. Pursued by unknown assailants and with Qi-Xihan's court...
35) Someone like you
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lila Bruce Breedlove, the eldest of the three Bruce children, has long been avoiding her hometown of Wesleyan, Ga., since moving to Rhode Island for college, marrying a former professor, and settling down in Maine. She's the only one of her siblings old enough to remember life before her father was killed in Vietnam, a tragedy that brought a veil of silence and distance over their family. But after her mother dies of a heart attack, Lila returns home....
Author
Series
Boy meets boy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Wren Roland has never been kissed, let alone been in love, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. He didn't expect a response from Derick Haverford, Wren's #1 pre-coming-out-crush...but now that they're working together at their hometown's vintage drive-in theater, maybe that perfect-kiss-before-the-credits...
Author
Series
Boy meets boy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled, Matthew has no intention of being shipped off to some small town in New England to stay with his grandmother for Christmas...or to play nice with the attractive young man he meets there. Find a little "Joy to the World"? Not today, Santa. But when the two are forced to work together to make a charity gala go off without a hitch, Matthew may find the home he's been missing all along"--
39) Man's world
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
B format edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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