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LGBTQIA+ Book Club at Home
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The empress of salt and fortune
by Nghi Vo
A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
Also available through Hoopla (eaudiobook) and Overdrive (ebook and eaudiobook).
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Honey girl
by Morgan Rogers
After completing her Ph.D. in astronomy, a young, straightlaced, Type A personality black woman goes on a girls’ weekend to Vegas to celebrate and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t even know.
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It's been a pleasure, Noni Black
by Claire Christian
After her 10-year relationship ends, Noni Blake sets off for Europe on a quest aimed at prioritizing her own wants and desires in this new novel by the author of Beautiful Mess.
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Let's get back to the party
by Zak Salih
Reconnecting with a childhood friend in the weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, an art history teacher observes the contrast between his own closeted youth and the open relationships of a younger generation.
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Sarahland : stories
by Sam Cohen
A debut story collection spans the biblical era through a fantastical, concluding future, imagining the remarkable lives of women, nearly all named Sarah, who are forged, defined or liberated by their search for self.
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The thirty names of night : a novel
by Zeyn Joukhadar
Follows three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. By the author of The Map of Salt and Stars.
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Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought
by Briona Simone Jones
This companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s classic Words of Fire traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, from the 19th century through the 21st century.
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Three Dads and a Baby : Adventures in Modern Parenting
by M.d Jenkins, Ian
Families come in all forms, but parental love is universal . . .
As a closeted teen, Ian wondered if he would ever be able to live openly with a male partner. Years later, he had not one but two partners in a polyamorous Throuple—what more could he ask for? But something was still missing . . .
Join Ian and his partners, Alan and Jeremy, as they embark on a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tearful quest to become parents. They run the gauntlet: IVF failures, the threat of Zika virus, the urgent hunt for a new doctor, pregnancy-threatening bleeds, costly legal battles and a reluctant superior court judge.
Ultimately the grace of women—embryo donors, their egg donor, their surrogate, even a surprise milk donor—allow them to complete their family with one perfect girl, and become the first polyamorous family ever named as the legal parents of a child.
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A history of scars : a memoir
by Laura Lee
This series of essays explores themes such as intimacy, sexuality, trauma, and mental illness, including the author’s grief about being separated from her mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s in a Korean nursing home.
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Black girl, call home
by Jasmine Mans
From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.
With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America--and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman.
Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
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I think I love you
by Auriane Desombre
Competing for a first-prize trip to a Los Angeles film festival, die-hard romantic Emma and her archnemesis, the practical-minded Sophia, find their frequent clashes turning into something more. A first novel.
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Perfect on paper
by S. Gonzales
Seventeen-year-old Darcy Phillips, a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates, is hired by the "hot" guy at school to help him get his ex back.
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Boy meets ghoul
by Birdie Milano
Halloween hijinks, hauntings and hamsters in Boy Meets Ghoul by Birdie Milano, the hilarious sequel to Boy Meets Hamster.
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Fragile remedy
by Maria Ingrande Mora
The only way sixteen-year-old Nate, a Genetically Engineered Metatissue, can get life-saving medication is to work for a shadowy terrorist organization, which would mean leaving the boy he loves.
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Can't take that away
by Steven Salvatore
When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration
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Follow your arrow
by Jessica Verdi
For the last several years teenager CeCe Ross has been in a serious relationship with her girlfriend Silvie, enjoying their career as social media influencers with thousands of fans, posting about fashion and relationship goals, and totally abandoning the liberal politics that were the subjects of her original social media profile; than suddenly in their senior year Silvie breaks up with her, and CeCe meets Josh, a new boy who is not interested in online profiles but is interested in her--and while CeCe has always known she is bisexual, she is not prepared to find herself in the middle of an online storm where her public and private lives collide
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Singled out : the true story of Glenn Burke
by Andrew Maraniss
A photograph-complemented early biography documents the remarkable life of the lesser-known Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder, sharing insight into how Glenn Burke navigated painful obstacles to break barriers for LGBTQ+ athletes, inventing the “high five” along the way.
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The deepest breath
by Meg Grehan
A middle grade novel-in-verse depicts a young girl whose visits to the library help her manage her anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand, including her complicated feelings about her friend, Chloe.
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