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LGBTQIA+ Book Club in February
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The mermaid's daughter
by Ann Claycomb
An opera student in Boston who suffers from phantom pain and is obsessed with the sea, 25-year-old Kathleen, after suffering yet another dangerous breakdown, visits her hometown in Ireland with her girlfriend, Harry, to learn more about her family history, which is far older and stranger than they could have imagined.
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Fortitude Smashed
by Taylor Brooke
After scientists stumbled across an anomalous human hormone present during moments of emotional intimacy, further research created the ability to harness the direction of living energy and pinpoint when two lines will merge. Personalized chips are now implanted beneath the thumbnails of every infant, where glowing numbers count down to the moment they will meet their soul mate. Fate is now a calculation. But loving someone isn’t. When Shannon Wurther, the youngest detective in Southern California, finds himself face-to-face with Aiden Maar, the reckless art thief Shannon’s precinct has been chasing for months, they are both stunned. Their Camellia Clocks have timed out, and the men are left with a choice—love one another or defy fate.
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Creatures of will and temper
by Molly Tanzer
While in Victorian London chaperoning her younger sister, an aspiring art critic, Evadne Gray enrolls in a fencing school where she soon discovers that her instructor is also a demon hunter and that her sister may have been pulled into this hidden world by a diabolist obsessed with youth and beauty.
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If the Fates Allow : An Lgbtq Holiday Anthology
by Annie Harper
During the holidays, anything is possible—a second chance, a promised future, an unexpected romance, a rekindled love, or a healed heart. Authors Killian B. Brewer, Lynn Charles, Erin Finnegan, Pene Henson, and Lilah Suzanne share their stories about the magic of the season.
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David Bowie Made Me Gay : 100 Years of Lgbt Music
by Darryl W. Bullock
David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today.
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Being Fishkill
by Ruth Lehrer
Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill's fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck's mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill's unstable mother and by unfathomable tragedy.
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Far from the tree
by Robin Benway
Feeling incomplete as an adopted child after placing her own baby up for adoption, teen Grace tracks down her biological siblings and finds herself struggling with the dynamics of being a middle child between an embittered older brother and an outspoken younger sister.
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The Big Lie
by Julie Mayhew
A tale set in an alternate-world modern England under a Nazi regime finds the sheltered teen daughter of the Greater German Reich questioning what it means to be good and how far she is willing to go to break the rules.
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Runebinder
by Alex R. Kahler
Three years have passed since magic destroyed the world. Those who remain struggle to survive the humanoid monsters called Howls roaming the streets. The Hunters fight back with steel and magic, doing their best to protect what remains of humanity. They have used their elemental magic to keep the Howls at bay, but it's never been enough to truly win the war. Humans are losing.
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The Tea Dragon Society
by Katie O'neill
After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.
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Beach Rats
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
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