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America is not the heart
by Elaine Castillo
Hero arrives in the United States from the Philippines to stay with her uncle Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a promise not to ask about her past during the violent political history of their home country.
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Freshwater
by Akwaeke Emezi
Traces the experiences of a deeply troubled young woman who alarms her devout Nigerian family as she succumbs to multiple personality disorder and begins to display increasingly dark and dangerous traits in accordance with her fractured personalities. A first novel.
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Alice isn't dead : a novel
by Joseph Fink
Spotting her late wife in news-report backgrounds, truck driver Keisha Taylor stumbles into an otherworldly conflict on the nation's highway systems. By the New York Times best-selling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale. 100,000 first printing
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Bingo Love
by Tee Franklin
Divided by time and society, two women who fell in love at a 1963 bingo hall are reunited by chance decades later and are given the chance to start again
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Less : a novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past
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No one can pronounce my name : a novel
by Rakesh Satyal
Struggling with cultural divisions in a Cleveland suburb mostly populated by Indian Americans, lonely 40-something Harit dresses up in a sari to comfort his grief-stricken mother before befriending a woman who writes paranormal romances to manage her fears about her husband's affair. By the author of Blue Boy.
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A little life : a novel
by Hanya Yanagihara
Moving to New York to pursue creative ambitions, four former classmates share decades marked by love, loss, addiction and haunting elements from a brutal childhood..
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Queer, there, and everywhere : 23 people who changed the world
by Sarah Prager
A LGBTQ chronicle for teens shares hip, engaging facts about 23 influential gender-ambiguous notables from the era of the Roman Empire to the present, exploring how they defied convention to promote civil rights, pursue relationships on their own terms and shape culture.
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Modern HERstory : stories of women and nonbinary people rewriting history
by Blair Imani
From the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond, this inspiring and radical celebration profiles 70 women who, coming from backgrounds and communities that are traditionally overlooked and under-celebrated, have changed—and are still changing—the world.
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Gay marriage, real life : ten stories of love and family
by Michelle Bates Deakin
An intimate portrayal of ten same-sex couples, their decision to marry, and how that decision has affected their families. This thought-provoking work features the personal accounts of gays and lesbians, their parents, siblings, children, and friends. The stories present a wide range of experiences and are drawn from couples around the country, old and young, accepted and alienated
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Has the gay movement failed?
by Martin B Duberman
A founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at City University of New York discusses the successes of the acceptance of LGBTQ people in the past 50 years but also highlights the failures.
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Is my husband gay, straight, or bi? : a guide for women concerned about their men
by Joe Kort
Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bi? is intended to help couples understand how male sexuality can express itself in ways that may be difficult to understand. Many marriages have been hurriedly terminated when couples (and their therapists) have lacked the information they needed to understand their current situations. This book provides the clarity, describes the choices, and (in many cases) offers hope for relationships and marriages that have been brushed off as doomed
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Stonewall : breaking out in the fight for gay rights
by Ann Bausum
The award-winning author of Marching to the Mountaintop presents a history of gay tolerance that traces the progression of civil rights for gay citizens and identifies the prejudices and misconceptions that have criminalized homosexual relationships.
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I'm just a person
by Tig Notaro
The popular comedian and cast member on "Transparent" traces a wrenching year in her life marked by a debilitating rare illness, her mother's sudden death, a romantic breakup, and her diagnosis with breast cancer
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Mean
by Myriam Gurba
This debut is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy.
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Buffering : unshared tales of a life fully loaded
by Hannah Hart
The star of the award-winning YouTube series My Drunk Kitchen and New York Times best-selling author, stirring up stories from her past, presents a collection of essays about family, faith, love, sexuality, self-worth, friendship and fame.
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What if it's us
by Becky Albertalli
The award-winning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and the best-selling author of They Both Die in the End present the story of two very different boys who cannot decide if the universe is pushing them together or pulling them apart.
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Georgia peaches and other forbidden fruit
by Jaye Robin Brown
Moved by her radio evangelist father to a conservative community in Georgia, gay teen Jo is asked to hide her sexual orientation until she becomes an adult and is surprised by her instant popularity, a situation that is threatened when she falls in love with the girl of her dreams.
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Little & Lion
by Brandy Colbert
Returning home to Los Angeles from her New England boarding school, Suzette considers staying home for good so that she can be near her friends, her crush, and her recently diagnosed bipolar brother, a situation that is complicated by her growing feelings for the girl her brother loves.
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We are okay
by Nina LaCour
After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit
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More than this
by Patrick Ness
Awakening inexplicably in the suburban English town of his early childhood after drowning, Seth is baffled by changes in the community and suffers from agonizing memories that reveal sinister qualities about the world around him..
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History is all you left me
by Adam Silvera
Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident
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Dress codes for small towns
by Courtney C Stevens
The tomboy daughter of a preacher rebels against conventional beliefs about the proper role she should conform to and ends up getting into trouble with her posse of friends before a love triangle complicates her relationships and makes her aware of her gender identity.
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The prince and the dressmaker
by Jen Wang
The best-selling cartoonist of In Real Life presents a graphically illustrated fairy tale set in Paris at the dawn of the modern age, where a cross-dressing prince hides his identity as a popular fashion icon and falls for a brilliant dressmaker who knows his secret at the same time his royal parents begin searching for a traditional bride for him to marry.
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