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The red scrolls of magic
by Cassandra Clare
The best-selling author of Lady Midnight and the award-winning author of The Lives of Tao present the first book in a new series in which High Warlock Magnus Bane and his Shadowhunter boyfriend, Alec Lightwood, combat a Parisian cult that Magnus accidentally founded years earlier. 1,000,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook
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Birthday
by Meredith Russo
Born in the same hospital on the same day, Eric and Morgan grow up together as best friends, through six years of birthdays they discover who they are meant to be, and if they are meant to be together
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The love and lies of Rukhsana Ali
by Sabina Khan
Hoping to hide her authentic self from her conservative Muslim parents until she can depart for college, 17-year-old Rukhsana is caught kissing her girlfriend and whisked away to Bangladesh, where she fights an arranged marriage by consulting the wisdom she finds in her grandmother's diary.
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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before
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The music of what happens
by Bill Konigsberg
A cool and popular gay teen who harbors a secret, intense crush and a poetic youth who is looking for Mr. Right in spite of his troubled family weigh what they are willing to risk while working together at an organic food truck during a blistering Arizona summer.
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Girl mans up
by M-E Girard
In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy and she's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends
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The perks of being a wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
In a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel, Charlie struggles to cope with complex world of high school as he deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs, and the pain of losing a close friend and a favorite aunt. Original.
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Leah on the offbeat
by Becky Albertalli
With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting
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Like a love story
by Abdi Nazemian
An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, an openly gay photographer and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City. 35, first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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You know me well : a novel
by Nina LaCour
Mark and Kate sit next to each other in school but are barely acquainted until they meet at a San Francisco club during Pride Week and connect over each one's forbidden love
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both
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Every day
by David Levithan
Waking up in the body of a different person every day and struggling to pass through each experience without raising alarm, "A" endures a lonely existence before falling in love with a girl named Rhiannon, with whom he endeavors to reunite.
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Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
The award-winning author of The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don't Mind presents the story of teen DJ Gabe, a transgendered youth who knows himself to be a boy trapped in a girl's body and whose efforts to gain acceptance are threatened by a violent gang of bullies. Original.
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Lies we tell ourselves
by Robin Talley
The civil rights movement in 1959 Virginia irrevocably changes the lives of two girls: a persecuted black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school and a white integration opponent's daughter with whom she confronts harsh truths during a school project. Simultaneous eBook.
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
by Becky Albertalli
Closeted gay teen Simon Spier is challenged to come out on his own terms when he is threatened with exposure, a situation that is complicated by his friends' views and his crush on an adorable if confusing guy. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous.
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If I was your girl
by Meredith Russo
A newcomer to a Tennessee community hides the secret about her gender reassignment that forces her to keep potential new friends at arm's length before meeting easygoing Grant, who captures her heart and who she fears will not accept the complicated realities of her life.
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Ash
by Malinda Lo
Forced into becoming an indentured servant when her family dies, Ash lives a lonely and desperate life with no hopes for the future, until she meets Kaisa, the King's royal Huntress, who teaches her to love, live, and dream once again.
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The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue
by Mackenzi Lee
Two friends on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe stumble across a magical artifact that leads them from Paris to Venice in a dangerous manhunt shaped by pirates, highwaymen and their growing attraction to one another. Simultaneous eBook. 40,000 first printing.
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Hero
by Perry Moore
Thom Creed, son of a disowned superhero, finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to join the very League that rejected his father, and it is there that Thom finds other misfits whom he can finally trust.
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One man guy
by Michael Barakiva
Fearing that summer school will be an ultimate horror after a difficult first year of high school, Ethan befriends the confident and free-spirited Alek, with whom he develops an unexpected and mutual first love that challenges his beliefs about relationships and family values.
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Let's talk about love
by Claire Kann
A secretly asexual college student who desires a swoon-worthy romance without sex despairs of ever having a relationship when she is unable to convince any prospective partners that love and sex do not always go together, a resolve that is tested by her crush on a young man she is sure will not understand her. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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None of the above
by I. W. Gregorio
After being elected as homecoming queen and engaging in a first sexual encounter with her boyfriend, Kristen discovers that she is intersex and possesses male chromosomes, a diagnosis that is leaked to the whole school, throwing Kristin's entire identity into question.
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Geography Club
by Brent Hartinger
After realizing he isn¡t the only one at his school who is gay and hiding his identity from the rest of the population, Russel Middlebrook decides to create a boring club to be used as a cover for all the gay and bi kids to come and present their true selves without fear.
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Happy families
by Tanita S. Davis
In alternating chapters, 16-year-old twins Ysabel and Justin share their conflicted feelings as they struggle to come to terms with their father's decision to become a woman.
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Everything leads to you
by Nina LaCour
Feeling unfulfilled in her romantic life in spite of a promising career in the L.A. film scene, talented set designer Emi discovers a mysterious letter at an estate sale that prompts her investigation into a movie icon's hidden life. By the award-winning author of Hold Still.
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The Difference Between You and Me
by Madeleine George
Jesse cuts her own hair with a Swiss Army knife. She wears big green fisherman's boots. She's the founding (and only) member of NOLAW, the National Organization to Liberate All Weirdos. Emily wears sweaters with faux pearl buttons. She's vice president of the student council. She has a boyfriend.
These two girls have nothing in common, except the passionate "private time" they share every Tuesday afternoon. Jesse wishes their relationship could be out in the open, but Emily feels she has too much to lose. When they find themselves on opposite sides of a heated school conflict, they each have to decide what's more important: what you believe in, or the one you love?
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Symptoms of being human
by Jeff Garvin
Struggling with identity, Riley, a gender-fluid teenager, starts an anonymous blog after a therapist encourages it, but when the blog goes viral Riley must make a choice--to walk away or to risk everything and come out
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Crossing lines
by Paul Volponi
Enjoying his popularity and relationship with a pretty girlfriend, Adonis is a member of the football team that begins harassing Alan, a gay student; but when the team plots a dangerous prank to play on Alan, Adonis must decide whether to follow the herd or do what's right. By the award-winning author of Hurricane Song.
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Parrotfish
by Ellen Wittlinger
In making the decision to start her life anew as Grady, transgender Angela finds little support amongst her family, friends, and classmates, but unexpected friendships with a gorgeous senior and a smart science nerd help Grady regain the inner confidence he needs to remain true to the person he believes himself to be.
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All out : The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages
by Saundra Mitchell
An anthology of 17 historical and diverse short stories includes contributions by such leading LGBTQ authors as Alex Sanchez, Dahlia Adler and Kody Keplinger and includes such diverse tales as a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood" set in war-torn 1870s Mexico and a story of forbidden love in a 16th-century Spanish convent.
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