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Author
Publisher
Roxanne Gay Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A searingly honest and resonant debut from a Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia. The inaugural title in the most buzzed-about new imprint of recent years, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a powerful, luminous debut that establishes its young author as a masterful talent. August is a God-fearing track star who leaves Enugu City to attend university and escape his overbearing...
2) Real life
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is...
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Language
English
Description
"Out in the desert a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
5) Sizzle reel
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for her-but she has no interest in coming out to her backwards parents, she wouldn't know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has neither a gaydar nor a sexual history to speak of. Not to mention she really needs to focus her energy on escaping her...
Author
Series
Bergman brothers volume 5
Language
English
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Description
"Oliver Bergman is a beloved rising soccer star, all sunshine smiles and the heart of his team's spirit. To make matters worse, he's obscenely attractive. In short: he's genetically designed to get under misanthropic, miserable Gavin's aggravated skin. Ten years older than Oliver and a legendary player at the end of his career, Gavin Hayes is the team's demanding captain. He's also a giant--albeit gorgeous--grump who lives to rain on Oliver's parade....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would end in an airport interrogation room. But when faced with a failed relationship, bullies, and blackmail, running away to Rome is his only option. Right? Soon, late nights with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel start to feel like second nature... until his old life comes knocking on his door. Now, Amir has to tell the whole...
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Language
English
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Description
"A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the City, Trey meets up with...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he's just put a target on his back. And what's worse,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since he was a kid, Dev Deshpande has believed in fairy tales, and he has spent his career crafting them for the reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise's history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns off-screen. That is, until the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince...
11) Wolfsong
Author
Series
Green Creek volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"The Bennett family has a secret: They're not just a family, they're a pack. Wolfsong is Oxnard "Ox" Matheson's story. Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that would change him forever. For the family are shapeshifters, who can transform into wolves at will. Drawn...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam to visit her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in, so if she's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound while bugs leave...
13) Summer sons
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Language
English
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"Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers,until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew...
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Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Alexei Lebedev finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That's how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the thousands of miles it'll take to walk the famed hike. He's prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he's not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho. Charismatic and outgoing, Ben's personality and infectious laughter...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Farzan Alavi may be looking for love, but after another disastrous break-up, he decides it's time to (temporarily) throw in the towel. He plans to drown his sorrows at Kansas City's newest winery. Only instead of spending a lonely night at the bar, he'sescorted to a table for one. There, the hot sommelier more than treats him like a VIP: the way he flirts with Farzan ignites a lust he didn't think was possible. Only David Curtis isn't flirting because...
Author
Series
Guild hunter volume 14
Language
English
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Description
As Illium and Aodhan serve side by side in China, things come to an explosive decision point. Illium and Aodhan must either walk away from the relationship that has defined them -- or step forward into a future that promises a bond infinitely precious in the life of an immortal.
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English
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The hospital's least eligible bachelor and its aloof administrator hate each other... so why are they pretending to date? Dr. Owen Gagnon and HR director Erin Andreas are infamous for their hospital hallway shouting matches. So imagine the town's surpise when Erin bids an obscene amount of money to win Owen in the hospital bachelor auction - and Owen ups the ante by insisting Erin move in with him. Copper Point may not know what's going on, but neither...
20) Perpetual west
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Language
English
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"As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juarez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"--