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Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Aspiring writer Maurice Swift, whose desire for fame exceeds his talent, uses a chance meeting with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann in a West Berlin hotel in 1988 to obtain secrets about Ackermann's wartime activities, which becomes material for his first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan...
42) Arden Grey
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An insightful, raw YA novel about a young photographer navigating toxic relationships and how they influence her identity
Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey is struggling. Her mother has left their family, her father and her younger brother won't talk about it, and a classmate, Tanner, keeps harassing her about her sexuality-which isn't even public. (She knows she likes girls romantically, but she thinks she might be asexual.) At least she's got her love...
Author
Series
Heartstopper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-graders Evelyn and Allie are in trouble. Evelyn's constant need for perfection has blown some fuses among her robotics teammates, and she's worried nobody's taking the upcoming competition seriously. Allie is new to school, and she's had a history of short-circuiting on teachers and other kids. So when Allie is assigned to the robotics team as a last resort, all Evelyn can see is just another wrench in the works! But as Allie confronts a past...
45) Small town pride
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school's first openly gay kid. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can't be said about everyone in their small town of Barton Springs, Ohio. When Jake's dad hangs a comically large pride flag in their front yard in an overblown show of love, the mayor begins to receive complaints. A few people are even concerned the flag will lead to something truly outlandish: a pride parade....
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vi, 167 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set on an Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps is the story of Marion Lafournier, a gay Ojibwe man, and his search for meaning in a town he cannot seem to leave. When he begins a romance with a closeted former high school classmate Shannon, Marion finds himself struggling to connect with the volcanic and unstable man. One night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life a dog from underneath...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A poignant account by a survivor of a church-supported sexual orientation conversion therapy facility that claimed to 'cure' homosexuality describes its intense Bible study program and the daily threats of his abandonment by family, friends and God, an experience that transformed the author's relationships and self-understandings"--NoveList.
"The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, Garrard Conley was...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Draws on dozens of insider interviews in a portrait of the iconic Oscar nominee that discusses his traumatic childhood, sexual orientation and awareness-raising battle with AIDS.
The icon worshiped by moviegoers and beloved by his colleagues appeared to have it all. Yet beneath the suave and commanding star persona, there was an insecure, deeply conflicted, and all too vulnerable human being. Growing up poor in Winnetka, Illinois, Hudson was abandoned...
50) The fixed stars
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Language
English
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Description
"At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but she felt that something insider her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we'd like to believe. Like many of us, Wizenberg...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange "rescue" mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and queerness as well as toxic diet culture and the power of sisterhood, love, and lifelong friendships.--Publisher's description.
Rose and Lily Winters are twins. They feel each other's emotions, taste what the other is feeling, but their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts consuming everything Rose won't...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 634 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Berenice Abbott is to American photography as Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. She was a photographer of astounding innovation and artistry, a pioneer in both her personal and professional life. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography, but also as a teacher, writer, archivist, and inventor. Famously reticent in public, Abbott's fascinating life has long remained a mystery--until...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After falling down a rabbit hole of sex, drinking, and Hollywood backstabbing, TV writer Eliot decides to limp his way towards redemption. But facing your demons is easier said than done.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are no cheat codes for showmance
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...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above"--
"From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put 'male' on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything went wrong. Alongside 'male' came many other, far less neutral words: words that carried expectations about who Jacob was and who Jacob should be, words...
60) On a sunbeam
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
533 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together; and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
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