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101) The kingdom of sand
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents--during the height of the AIDS epidemic--and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. With gallows humor, he chronicles the indignities of growing old in a small town. At the heart of the novel is the story of his friendship with Earl, whom he met cruising at the local boat ramp. Earl is the only person in town with whom he can truly be himself. Now...
102) Here's to us
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English
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"Ben survived freshman year of college, but he's feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan's been acting weird for weeks. Ben's only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who's been giving him a lot of Spanish lessons and even more kisses. Mario's big Hollywood dreams make Ben start to dream bigger--and the choices he makes now could be the key...
103) Infinity son
Author
Series
Infinity cycle volume 1
Language
English
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In a world where some people are born with powers and some people take them, brothers Emil and Brighton Rey get swept up in a supernatural turf war generations in the making.
104) Genius Jolene
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In this illustrated early chapter book, Jolene travels with her long-haul trucker father to Los Angeles."--
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Language
English
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Clem Snide, a private detective, has to solve a case of ritual murder. In the Gobi Desert 100,000 years ago, a red virus has erupted. And in the 18th century, gay pirates have set up their own republics in South America and are at war with the conquistadors. All three stories are merged at the end in a giant trans-time, trans-space battle.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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The lives of three teens, Claire, Jasper, and Peter, are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents' frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he's okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire's, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him. Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as good as his older brother Radha. But there are many other things about himself and the world that he doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. And when Manju meets Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, he is forced...
109) She is a haunting
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with 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...
110) Private Eyes
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Series
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after her actress mother, Gina, was irreparably scarred by a vengeful assailant, Melissa Dickinson fears for her own and her mother's lives when the assailant is releasd from prison and asks psychologist Alex Delaware for help.
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English
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Just before her sixteenth birthday, Brie Eagan literally dies of a broken heart when her boyfriend tells her he does not love her, and she then must go through the five stages of grief, while watching her friends and family try to cope with her death, before her faith in love is restored and she can move on to the afterlife.
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Publisher
Roxane Gay Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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August is a God-fearing track star who leaves Enugu City to attend university and escape his overbearing sisters. He carries the weight of their lofty expectations, the shame of facing himself, and the haunting memory of a mother he never knew. It's his first semester and pressures aside, August is making friends and doing well in his classes. He even almost has a girlfriend. There's only one problem: he can't stop thinking about Segun, an openly...
113) Love is love
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Language
English
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"A boy becomes upset when he is teased for having two dads, but viewing his friend's family (with a mom and a dad) as not all that different from his own, he realizes the best way to counter the ridicule is to be proud of who his fathers are and know that it is love that makes a family." --
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
115) Sodom and Gomorrah
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sodom and Gomorrah, Book 4 of In Search of Lost Time, now takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris, and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles in earlier volumes now reappear in a different light and...
116) Daddy and Dada
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A little girl explains how families, including hers, come in many shapes and sizes--some with a mom and a dad, some with two dads, some with two moms, and more"--
Author
Publisher
Riptide Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Reardon, former SAS soldier and current Australian Meta-State asset, has seen some messy battles. But "messy" takes on a whole new meaning when he finds himself tied to a chair in a torture shack, his cover blown wide open, all thanks to notorious killer-for-hire Ethan Blade. Blade is everything Jack doesn't believe in: remorseless, detached, lawless. Yet, Jack's only chance to survive is to strike a bargain with the devil and join forces with...
118) The married man
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged American works out in a Paris Gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger. Wary and on the rebound from a bruising affair, he thinks nothing will come of this. Yet slowly, life takes on the colour of romance.
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English
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Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida--war photographer, gambler, and closet queen--has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife,...
120) Renovated to death
Author
Series
Domestic partners in crime mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Real-life domestic partners and stars and producers of the new hit reality home renovation show Domestic Partners, bestselling mystery author Peter "PJ" Penwell and actor JP Broadway are enjoying work and life in their sleepy Detroit suburb of Pleasant Woods--until a suspicious death makes an unscripted appearance. After a successful first season of Domestic Partners chronicling the renovation of their historic Craftsman Colonial, Peter and JP are...
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