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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
2) Less is lost
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
In the follow-up to the “bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful” (New York Times) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.
“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady...
“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady...
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Language
English
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2021 Booker Prize Longlist & Shortlist
2021 National Book Award Longlists, Finalists, & WINNERS
2022 Audie Awards
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2021 National Book Award Longlists, Finalists, & WINNERS
2022 Audie Awards
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"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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...
5) Sketchtasy
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Language
English
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Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart-it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas...
Author
Series
Last binding volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Secrets! Magic! Enemies to. . .something more? Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he's drawn reluctantly back into that world. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the...
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New member Emily helps the Magic Misfits when a ventriloquist with a dastardly plan comes to town.
8) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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Language
English
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As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. This revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was never published...
10) Gayby
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jenn and Mat have been friends since college, and decide that they are going to have a baby the old-fashioned way. The only problem? One is gay and the other isn't.
11) Benjamin
Publisher
Artsploitation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charmingly offbeat gay romantic comedy about a mess-of-a-filmmaker juggling the anxieties and excitement of his upcoming film premiere with the fear and awkwardness of a burgeoning romance. Written and directed by British comedian Simon Amstell who peppers this charming, laugh-out-loud funny tale with hilariously deadpan one-liners and a scene-stealing cast of supporting characters.
12) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"An absorbing Cold War thriller" (Christian Science Monitor) with a slow burn romance at its heart, set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia.
In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won't...
In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won't...
14) Summer of 85
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
When Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, David comes to the rescue and soon opens the younger boy's eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art, and sexual bliss. David's worldly demeanor and Jewish heritage deliver an ardent jolt to Alexis's traditional, working-class upbringing. After Alexis begins working at the seaside shop owned by David's mother, the two lovers steal every possible moment for a fugitive kiss, a motorcycle ride, or a trip...
15) Queer as a five-dollar bill: what if you knew a secret from history that could change the world?
Author
Publisher
I'm Here. I'm Queer. What The Hell Do I Read?
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wyatt, a bullied and closeted teen, triggers a backlash when he reveals evidence Abraham Lincoln was gay.
16) Marilyn
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
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Description
Marcos, a seventeen-year-old farm worker, discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment. Nicknamed Marilyn by other teenagers in town, he becomes the target both of human desire and discrimination. Marcos feels himself pushed into a corner more and more.
18) Queer heroes
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: This beautiful, bold book celebrates the achievements of LGBT people through history and from around the world. It features dynamic full-color portraits of a diverse selection of 52 inspirational role models accompanied by short biographies that focus on their incredible successes, from Freddie Mercury's contribution to music to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising,...
19) Moonlight
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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