Queer Coffee House at the Library

Created on April 27, 2021, 8:49 am

Last Updated August 26, 2021, 3:48 pm

Thank you to everyone who joined the discussion this month! With the holidays behind us, we found ourselves talking about a larger list of books. Every time we share coffee and snacks, I find that the span of interests is vast! SciFi, politics, fantasy, pop music, children's literature... Read along with us! Come hang out! We talk about current events, what we're reading, and we finish up with an open round-table discussion. Ashland Library Gresham Room 1st Saturday of every month 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

21) Let's Talk About Love

Author

Kann, Claire

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Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with listeners. Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting-working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her...

22) Stranger in a strange land

Author

Heinlein, Robert A

Series

Penguin galaxy

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own "psi" powers--including...

23) Kings, queens, and in-betweens

Author

Boteju, Tanya

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After a bewildering encounter at her small town's annual summer festival, seventeen-year-old biracial, queer Nima plunges into the world of drag, where she has the chance to explore questions of identity, acceptance, self-expression, and love.

24) Star trek, the next generation: Season 1

Notes

Star Trek: Picard was discussed with excitement! Take a look at the series beginning in the JCLS catalog.

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The debut season of a Star Trek television series that took place slightly farther on in the future than the iconic original Star Trek did (a future that, unsurprisingly, bore a greater resemblance to the 1980s than that 1960s-flavored future of Kirk and Spock did), the crew of its U.S.S. Enterprise--especially the intrepid, considerably less feckless and occasionally somewhat more pompous Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart--that came...

25) Julián is a mermaid

Author

Love, Jessica

Series

Julián

Formats:

Book, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for...

26) Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world

Author

Blake, Ashley Herring

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school"--

27) Hurricane child

Author

Callender, Kheryn

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Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.

28) Far from you

Author

Sharpe, Tess

Formats:

Book, eBook

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"After Sophie Winters survives a brutal attack in which her best friend, Mina, is murdered, she sets out to find the killer. At the same time she must prove she is free of her past Oxy addiction and in no way to blame for Mina's death"--

29) Drum roll, please

Author

Bigelow, Lisa Jenn

Formats:

Book, eBook

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Publisher Annotation: Melly only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to her surprise, quiet Melly loves playing the drums. It?s the only time she doesn?t feel like a mouse. Now she and Olivia are about to spend the next two weeks at Camp Rockaway, jamming under the stars in the Michigan woods. But this summer brings a lot of big changes for Melly: her parents split up, her best friend ditches her, and Melly finds...

30) Dear Rachel Maddow: a novel

Author

Kisner, Adrienne

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Publisher Anno: Brynn Haper's life has one steadying force--Rachel Maddow. She watches her daily, and after writing to Rachel for a school project--and actually getting a response--Brynn starts drafting e-mails to Rachel but never sending them. Brynn tells Rachel about breaking up with her first serious girlfriend, about her brother Nick's death, about her passive mother and even worse stepfather, about how she's stuck in remedial courses at school...

31) The brightsiders

Author

Wilde, Jen

Formats:

Book, eBook

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A teen rockstar has to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the spotlight after being labeled the latest celebrity trainwreck in Jen Wilde's quirky and utterly relatable novel. As a rock star drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King's life should be perfect. But there's nothing the paparazzi love more than watching a celebrity crash and burn. When a night of partying lands Emmy in hospital, she's branded the latest tabloid train...

32) Blind goddess: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel

Author

Holt, Anne

Series

Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 1

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. The young man is adamant: he will speak to Karen Borg, and to her

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