Orem Library

In the spring of 1918. On the battlefields of France, a mammoth German offensive threatens the English army with defeat. In England itself, a beleaguered government and panic-stricken, vengeful public seek scapegoats. Two groups are targeted for persecution and prosecution: pacifists and homosexuals. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives; and "the eye in the door" becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric...

An alternative reading of twentieth-century evangelical history that recovers the stories of some of evangelicalism's least known groups, long neglected movements, and widely overlooked figures.

"When Alek's high-achieving, Armenian-American parents send him to summer school, he thinks his summer is ruined. But then he meets Ethan, who opens his world in a series of truly unexpected ways"--

Emanuela Ragno is about to marry Alessandro Morandi, her childhood best friend and the heir to the wealthiest house in Occhia. Emanuela doesn't care that she and her groom are both gay, because she doesn't want a love match: She wants power. In Occhia, the only source of water is the watercrea, a mysterious being who uses magic to make water from blood. When a bruise-like omen appears on their skin, all Occhians must surrender themselves to the watercrea...

Follows the Chenu family as they fight for justice on behalf of their son François, who was killed by skinheads for being gay.

After a liver transplant, Andre suddenly becomes a time traveler, but is his soulmate Michael, who lives in 1969, or Blake, his donor's brother, who is training him in 2021?

"A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--

Robert Ashcroft is a sixty-three year old retired car salesman who has just moved with his wife, Veronica, from Southern California to South Carolina. He learns just a week before Thanksgiving that his thirty year old son, Paul, is gay. Paul is coming to visit for the holiday, and he is bringing along his boyfriend with him. Robert has one week to come to terms with his son's sexuality and to prepare himself for the visit. Little Blue Whistle is an...

"Home yesterday tells Emily's coming-of-age story as she realizes her Mormon parents divorced in the 1980s because her dad is gay. In it, Emily moves from California to a small town in Utah, where she struggles to reconcile Mormon church teachings with the love she has for her dad. Not only that, she msut survive in the small town as a pariah from a step-family, in which her step-father is sexually inappropriate and abusive... All of this happens...

Discusses the impact of religious conversions on family relationships, looking at Jacob Rolandus, who converted from Dutch Reform to Catholicism in 1654, and Michael Sunbloom, who converted to Mormonism in 1973 and later left the church when he came out as gay.