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LGBTQIA+ Rainbow Reads May 2023
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The extraordinaries
by TJ Klune
A successful fan-fiction writer has a chance encounter with a superhero crush who challenges him to remake himself in ways that compromise his bond with a best friend, who is becoming something more. A young-adult debut by the award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea. Simultaneous eBook.
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The buried and the bound
by Rochelle Hassan
Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown
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Afterglow
by Phil Stamper
"After a life-changing summer, four friends are ready for their senior year, each with their own hopes for the future, but as they prepare to enter the real world, it soon becomes apparent that their friendship will never be the same. 75,000 first printing. "
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Fence : striking distance
by Sarah Rees Brennan
Inspired by the award-winning Fence comic series, an original novel by the best-selling author of In Other Lands finds the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion earning a place on an elite team that pursues state championships shaped by rivalry, a shoplifting scandal and several hilariously bad dates. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Summer bird blue
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately
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Destination unknown
by Bill Konigsberg
In 1987 NYC, when Micah and C.J. start dating after meeting at a club, their relationship is tested, strained, pushed and pulled as their lives become more and more entangled in the AIDS epidemic laying waste to their community. Simultaneous eBook.
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The summer of bitter and sweet
by Jenny Ferguson
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father...Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him...While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer...when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't ignore her father forever"
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Take a bow, Noah Mitchell
by Tobias Madden
"Seventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell only has one friend left: the wonderful, funny, strictly online-only MagePants69. After years playing RPGs together, they know everything about each other, except anything that would give away their real life identities. And Noah is certain that if they could just meet in person, they would be soulmates. Noah would do anything to make this happen--including finally leaving his gaming chair to join a community theater show that he's only mostly sure MagePants69 is performing in. Noah has never done anything like theater--he can't sing, he can't dance, and he's never willingly watched a musical--but he'll have to go all in to have a chance at love"
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Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me
by Mariko Tamaki
Upset about her on-again, off-again relationship with her girlfriend Laura Dean, Freddy Riley depends on her friends, a local mystic, and a relationship columnist for help in dealing with her situation
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Magical Boy : a graphic novel. Volume 1
by The Kao
Descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil, Max, an average high school trans boy, wonders if he can take on his destiny, save the world and become the new Magical Boy. Simultaneous. Illustrations.
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Forest Hills Bootleg Society
by Dave Baker
When they sell bootleg copies of a risqué anime movie to local boys, four best friends shake up their conservative small town and their friendship as they try to find a way to replicate their first success. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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Blackwater
by Jeannette Arroyo
"Set in the haunted town of Blackwater, Maine, two boys fall for each other as they dig for clues to a paranormal mystery"
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