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LGBTQIA+ Adult June/July 2022 |
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The Paris bookseller
by Kerri Maher
Opening her Shakespeare and Company bookstore on a quiet street in 1919 Paris, American Sylvia Beach finds her business becoming a second home for some of the most important writers of the Lost Generation until the Depression causes her to question her promise to honor the life-changing impact of books.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library
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Real easy
by Marie Rutkoski
In 1999, Georgia, a dancer at the Lovely Lady strip club, is drawn into the investigation of two fellow dancers—one dead and one missing—as she tries to assist a Harvard-educated detective with a complicated story of her own.
Available on Cloud Library
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Perpetual West : a novel
by Mesha Maren
When her husband, who, unbeknownst to her, has fallen in love with a lucha libra fighter, goes missing, Elana can’t determine whether he left of his own accord or was kidnapped, forcing her to face who she really is.
Available on hoopla and Cloud Library
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The boy with a bird in his chest : a novel
by Emme Lund
Fleeing to Washington to hide in plain sight with his family, Owen Tanner, who has a bird in his chest, feels joy and acceptance, despite living in a constant state of fear, in a community that embraces him for who he is.
Available on Cloud Library
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Tripping Arcadia : a novel
by Kit Mayquist
Working for one of Boston’s most elite families, Lena, when she discovers they are responsible for the ruin of her own family, embarks on a poison-filled quest for revenge that leads her into a hedonistic world where she must decide how much she is willing to risk for payback.
Available on Cloud Library
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The man who ate too much : the life of James Beard
by John Birdsall
A full-length biography inspired by the viral essay, "America, Your Food Is So Gay," recasts the iconic food personality as a closeted gay man who found acceptance and passion through a culturally rich career spent informing America's increasingly sophisticated palate.
Available on hoopla and Cloud Library
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Good boy : my life in seven dogs
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been. In her New York Times opinion column, Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote about her relationship with her beloved dog Indigo, and her wise, funny, heartbreaking piece went viral. In Good Boy, Boylan explores what should be the simplest topic in the world, but never is: finding and giving love.
Available on hoopla
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Last call : a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York
by Elon Green
Documents the decades-long effort to capture the “Last Call Killer” of 1980s and 1990s New York City, discussing how he took advantage of period discrimination to prey upon gay victims against a backdrop of the AIDS epidemic.
Available on hoopla and Cloud Library
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Count your lucky stars : a novel
by Alexandria Bellefleur
Olivia must be hallucinating. In the decade since she last saw Margot, her life hasn't gone exactly as planned. At almost thirty, she's been married...and divorced. However, a wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start and a chance to follow her dreams. Never in a million years did she expect her important new client's Best Woman would be the one that got away.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library
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Survivor's guilt
by Robyn Gigl
When a trans woman pleads guilty to killing her millionaire businessman father, transgender attorney Erin McCabe, determined to clear her name when the facts don’t add up, becomes trapped in a web of human exploitation, unchecked greed and murder where her quest for justice turns into a struggle to survive.
Available on hoopla
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All of you every single one : a novel
by Beatrice Hitchman
After leaving her famous, Swedish playwright husband, Julia Lindqvist begins a passionate love affair with a female tailor in Vienna in the early 1900s until her yearning for a child throws their lives into chaos.
Available on hoopla and Cloud Library
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