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LGBTQIA+ Adult September / October 2020
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All my mother's lovers : a novel
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Ilana Masad
Shattered by revelations about the recently deceased mother who never entirely accepted her sexuality, a gay woman tracks down the men in her mother's hidden second life while coming to terms with new understandings about monogamy.
Available on Cloud Library
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Real life
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Brandon Taylor
Keeping his head down at a lakeside Midwestern university where the culture is in sharp contrast to his Alabama upbringing, an introverted African-American biochem student endures unexpected encounters that bring his orientation and defenses into question.
Available on Cloud Library
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Exciting times : a novel
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Naoise Dolan
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat, Ava, who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer.
Available on Cloud Library
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I know you know who I am : stories
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Peter Kispert
Kispert explores deception, performance, and the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, with characters who try to navigate that dissonance by acting like another person for someone else. Throughout the collection we meet gay characters who have created sometimes elaborate falsehoods and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the very fabric of their lives and relationships.
Available on Cloud Library.
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Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America : essays
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R. Eric Thomas
A humorist and playwright provides a heartfelt and humorous memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope and every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way.
Available on Cloud Library
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In the dream house : a memoir
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Carmen Maria Machado
The award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties shares the story of her relationship with an abusive partner and how it was shaped by her religious upbringing, her sexual orientation and inaccurate cultural beliefs about psychological trauma.
Available on hoopla, Overdrive, and Cloud Library
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