Shaw, Tucker
Summary: New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHANewson, Rasheed
Summary: "A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWBrunt, Carol Rifka
Summary: Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRUMurphy, Tim
Summary: In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURKittle, Katrina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITBrunt, Carol Rifka.
Summary: "1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BruntSycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
Summary: "Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart-it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018