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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea's most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from...
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...
43) Less is lost
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: 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 zigzagging adventure across the US. Less roves across the "Mild Mild West," through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace,...
Author
Series
Last binding volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating...
45) Maurice
Language
English
Formats
Description
E.M. Forrester's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
46) Southernmost
Author
Language
English
Description
"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living."--
47) Big Eden
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Letterbox edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A successful but lonely New York artist returns to Montana after years away to care for his ailing grandfather and discovers new possibilities for friendship and romance.
48) Three Junes
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An astonishing novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises.
In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage....
Six...
In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage....
Six...
Author
Language
English
Description
The icon worshiped by moviegoers and beloved by his colleagues appeared to have it all. Yet beneath the suave and commanding star persona, there was an insecure, deeply conflicted, and all too vulnerable human being. Growing up poor in Winnetka, Illinois, Hudson was abandoned by his biological father, abused by an alcoholic stepfather, and controlled by his domineering mother. Despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Hudson was determined to become...
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....
52) Conversion
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A psychologist practicing conversion therapy has a chance encounter with a young gay activist, resulting in a change of heart.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he's here to tell us. He's bothered that he has to play football in high school gym when he'd rather be in the guidance counselor's office, faking sick and dishing about the latest dramas on his beloved soap operas. He's annoyed when, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, there's a serial killer loose in his neighborhood, but Carole Burnett is on tv and he really doesn't want to miss...
Series
Criterion collection volume 407
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A romantic deadbeat finds he has a crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Unfortunately, the man speaks no English and finds him to be undesirable.
55) The road home
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a car accident leaves forty-year-old Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the Vermont home where he grew up as be begins the long recuperation. A burgeoning relationship with the twenty-year-old son of Burke's high school best friend draws him out of himself and into the community he left behind. Exploring local history, he discovers an intriguing series of letters from a Civil War soldier to his fiance....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went--whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city--he found himself on the outside looking in. He explores the two worlds of his childhood: the barren urban landscape where his parents' house was an anomalous bright spot, and the verdant school they sent him to in white suburbia....
58) Hide: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a hidden life and the very recent history of gay love in America. Set in a declining textile town in North Carolina, Hide is the love story of Wendell Wilson, a taxidermist, and Frank Clifton, a veteran of World War II. They meet after the war, in a time when such love holds real danger. But, severing nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they carve out a home for themselves on the outskirts of town and for decades the routine of...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 352 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985 and the Reagans are in the White House. Death is swinging the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior tells Lou, his lover, he's ill and Lou decides to bolt. As disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Lou. Joe is an attorney, who is Mormon and Republican, is pushed by right-winger Roy toward a job at the Justice Dept. Both Joe and Roy are in the closet: Joe out of shame and religious turmoil; Roy to preserve...
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