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Young Adult LGBTQ+ June 2022
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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.
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Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Ari and Dante are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn't understand them.
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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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Love, Creekwood
by Becky Albertalli
It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began--on email.
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Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
by Adiba Jaigirdar
Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan—she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate—Ishita "Ishu" Dey. Ishu is the complete opposite of Hani. She’s an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. But Ishita agrees to help Hani, if Hani will help her become more popular so that she stands a chance of being elected head girl.
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Belly up
by Eva Darrows
A summertime of dreams and firsts culminates in a high school senior's unexpected pregnancy that resulted from a one-night stand with a stranger at a party and a move to a new school, challenges that complicate her Ivy League ambitions and new relationship with a boy who doesn't seem to care that she's pregnant.
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Autoboyography
by Christina Lauren
High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take.
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Radio Silence
by Alice Oseman
A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them to confront issues in the form of backlash and censorship.
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You Don't Live Here
by Robyn Schneider
Moving into her mothers childhood bedroom in her estranged grandparents home in the aftermath of devastating losses, a bisexual girl in mourning struggles with her grandparents expectations about her future, her weight and a socially advantageous match.
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Our Own Private Universe
by Robin Talley
When Aki and her best friend Lori set off on a youth-group trip to a small Mexican town for the summer, Aki meets Christa, who helps awaken her sexual and emotional feelings towards other women.
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Things We Couldn't Say
by Jay Coles
Just as Gio is getting his life together, he must deal with the return of his mother, who abandoned the family years ago, while dealing with his crush on a basketball player who is giving him mixed signals.
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The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky
by Mackenzi Lee
A follow-up to The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue finds Monty’s first intimate steps with Percy complicated by self-doubt, high anticipation and the romantic allure of Santorini.
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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.
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The Grimrose Girls
by Laura Pohl
When their best friends death is ruled a suicide, Grimrose Academy students Yuki and Rory retrace her last steps, discovering they are cursed to repeat the brutal and gruesome ending to their stories until they can break the cycle.
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Song of the Dead
by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Odessa and Meredy journey beyond Karthia to a land where the Dead rule the night and dragons roam the streets, but just as they are beginning to explore the new world a terrifying development in Karthia summons them home at once.
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Reign of the Fallen
by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Odessa, a master necromancer in Karthia, where nothing has changed in 200 years, uncovers a disturbing conspiracy and must fight alongside her fellow mages against terrifying, bloodthirsty Shades and their creator.
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Ghost Wood Song
by Erica Waters
Inheriting her fathers ability to summon ghosts from the grave through fiddle music, a gay teen reluctantly enlists the help of otherworldly witnesses to prove her brothers innocence in the wake of a murder charge.
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As the Crow Flies
by Melanie Gillman
When thirteen year-old lesbian African American Charlie questions her belief in God, she spends a week at an all-white Christian youth camp for some soul searching
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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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Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America
by Ann Bausum
A narrative account chronicling the history of the AIDS crisis in America is presented through the stories of victims and activists who transformed how AIDS is understood and treated throughout the world.
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Harford County Public Library
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