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RAINBOW LIT contemporary fiction with LGBTQ+ characters
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by Becky Albertalli
After a "goobery nerd" named Martin discovers Georgia teen Simon Spier's secret email relationship with a boy who calls himself "Blue," Martin blackmails Simon into helping him romance Abby, a new girl who has been welcomed into Simon's lunchroom clique.
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by Bernardine Evaristo
Barrington Walker, a 74-year-old Antiguan, is living in London with his wife of 50 years. Despite their long-standing union and their two daughters and grandson, Barrington is unhappy. He wants to leave his wife, who has long suspected his infidelity, for childhood friend Morris, with whom he has maintained an affair for nearly 60 years.
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by Leah Franqui
Pival Sengupta has a secret reason for booking a trip to America. The Indian widow has arranged for a tour starting in New York and seeing the country's sights while working her way to her ultimate destination, Los Angeles, where she intends to confront the man she believes stole her son from her.
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by Kim Fu
Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to first-generation Chinese Americans, is convinced he's a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his immigrant parents to forge his own path into adulthood.
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by Andrew Sean Greer
Facing his erstwhile boyfriend's wedding to another man, his 50th birthday, and his publisher's rejection of his latest manuscript, a miserable midlist novelist heads for the airport.
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by James Earl Hardy
It's been ten years since Mitchell and Raheim became lovers, and four since they broke up. Now, Mitchell is freelancing as a journalist while raising two kids in his Brooklyn brownstone.
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by Meg Howrey
Luke Prescott is a precocious soon-to-be high-school senior living in Delaware with his mother and grandmother. He knows about things like "neurotransmitter protein receptors" and cross-country running, but he doesn't know his father.
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by Rosalie Knecht
Navigating the underground gay scene of 1962 Greenwich Village, quick-witted Vera Kelly is recruited for the CIA and infiltrates a group of student activists in Buenos Aires before a coup leaves her stranded in hostile territory.
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by Nina LaCour
Mark and Kate meet at the start of San Francisco's Gay Pride Week and quickly become fast friends. And why not? They have several significant things in common: they go to the same school, they are both gay, and both seem to have an uncanny ability to make bad decisions.
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by Armistead Maupin
The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, These "Tales" are both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.
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by Stephen McCauley
A breezily funny, affecting tale about the entanglements of a gay Bostonian facing a midlife crisis.
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by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Do other people notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator? How long will it take Mary Rose to realize that the car alarm that has been going off all morning is hers, and how on earth did the sharpest pair of scissors in the house wind up in her toddler's hands?
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by Christian McLaughlin
Alex Young, the twentysomething heartthrob of the hottest Hollywood soap is still marveling at his good fortune for landing such a plum part when all hell breaks loose.
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by Casey McQuiston
As the First Son, Alex Claremont-Diaz cannot totally avoid his archnemesis, the uptight Prince Henry. When his (booze-fueled) anger nearly causes an international incident at the royal wedding, Alex and Henry are required to participate in a publicity tour to prove to the world that they are besties, which they definitely are not.
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by Mark Merlis
Joel has lived on autopilot for years, sleepwalking through a passionless relationship and working in a dull Capitol Hill job that would offend his political sensibilities if he took it more seriously. But when Sam, his live-in lover, walks out, Joel is jolted into consciousness.
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by Camille Perri
Follows lawyer Katie Daniels as she questions her sexuality and becomes smitten with fellow attorney Cassidy Price, a go-getter with a reputation as a player.
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by Adam Silvera
Mateo and Rufus are strangers until each is notified that he has one day to live. Thanks to the Last Friend app, the two young men spend their final hours getting to know each other. The affection -- and attraction -- between them develops quickly.
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by Bob Smith
“The prospect of meeting my younger self made me feel awkwardly shy and embarrassed. I tried to think of how I would introduce myself: ‘I’m you, only with sagging flesh and problems you can’t imagine!’
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by Karen X. Tulchinsky
Fleeing heartbreak in San Francisco, Nomi Rabinovitch arrives home only to land herself in a tempestuous minefield of CIA conspiracy, the Jewish Mafia, and a family wedding.
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by John Weir
Seated in a West Village coffee shop, Tom, a middle-aged gay man who teaches creative writing at Queens College, unexpectedly encounters Richie, the former high school jock who was his best friend as a teenager in New Jersey.
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