Besson, Philippe
Summary: "The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson--"the French Brokeback Mountain" (Elle)--about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESMartínez, Ernesto Javier
Summary: A reclamation of the Mexican serenata tradition, follow the story of a young boy who asks his father if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reflection Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARShusterman, Neal
Summary: After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUMosse, Kate
Summary: In 1891, young Leonie Vernier arrive at the home of a young, willowy, and beautiful aunt in southwest France. Villagers claim that Leonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds. More than a century later an American graduate student, arrives to the same town while researching the life of Claude Debussy. There, a pack of Tarot cards and a piece...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Punto De Lectura 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION MOSSummary: Regarde la mer: "During a summer escape to the beautiful island of Yeu, Sasha's beginning to grow bored. She's been spending her days tending to her new baby daughter while awaiting the arrival of her husband from his office on the mainland. Her charming seaside cottage rests in perfect isolation for Tatiana, a brooding teen-aged backpacker in desperate need of a place to pitch her tent....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEEHayes, Sean
Summary: In his small Georgia town, Barclay Elliot is basically a legend. Here basketball is all that matters, and no one has a bigger spotlight than Barclay. Until he decides to use the biggest pep rally in the town's history to come out to his school. And things change. Quickly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2023
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Summary: Tristan and Max are a pair of Asian-American high school students who find themselves unexpectedly in love in post-Columbine America. Tristan works to balance what it means to be an excellent son, with its prescribed expectations and attendant demands, with his growing desire for independence and his deepening feelings for Max. While Max, after years of hopelessness, feels himself come alive at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaten Track Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENHarwood-Jones, Markus
Summary: "On the surface, Romeo has it all: success on the basketball court, a group of good friends, the companionship of the beautiful Rosie. Deep down, he knows something is wrong: All he feels for Rosie is friendship, and all he feels for his friends' intolerance is guilt. Everything changes when he meets the openly gay Julian at a party and finds himself sharing a kiss with him. In spite of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HARJason June
Summary: Riley Weaver has made it to junior year, which means he can finally apply for membership into the Gaybutante Society, the LGBTQ+ organization that has launched dozens of queer teens' careers in pop culture, arts and activism. When Riley overhears a superstar athlete, Skylar, say that gay guys just are interested in femme guys or else they wouldn't be gay, Riley confronts Skylar and makes a bet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JASAtta, Dean
Summary: "Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATTEllzey, Lauren Melissa
Summary: "It all began with trying to fly. After jumping off the roof of his house in the middle of the night, Daniel Kim wakes up far from Neverland, his reprieve from the real world. Thrust into a mental health hospital and then into a brand-new high school, he stuggles to hold on to reality while haunted by both his very-present past and his never-present parents. But when he joins Cranbrook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Strokes Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLLucas, Chad
Summary: Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again ... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LUCKamatani, Yuhki
Summary: "Tasuku is starting to feel at home at the drop-in center--just in time for him to help a younger student who also hangs out there. Misora Shuji likes to wear girls' clothing but is unsure about their gender identity. Will Tasuku's guidance offer Shuji some clarity or just make things harder?"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2019
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Summary: "Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAZSutter, James L.
Summary: When David quit his band, he missed his shot at fame. For the past two years he has been trapped in an ordinary Seattle high school life, working summers for his dad's construction business while his former best friends Chance and Eli became the hottest teen pop act in America. Eli's death throws David and Chance back into contact. They rediscover all the little things that once made the two of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUTMadden, Tobias
Summary: Luca's entire identity and future are entwined around dance until he loses his performing arts scholarship after a debilitating injury. Gutted and demoted to public school attendee, the only bright spots in his new future are two friends he quickly makes, but knowing that one is gorgeous, popular, and avowed heterosexual, Luca can't help feeling he is setting himself up for another heartbreak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MADStamper, Phil
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: When Ryan and Avery met at a queer prom, they felt an instant connection. This is the of their first 10 dates: the tender hopes, the skittish fears, the difficulty of introducing someone into your pre-existing life. There is always the possibility of heartbreak-- and the chance that maybe, just maybe, you've found the right person to love. -- adapted from slipcover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEVAncrum, K. (Kayla)
Summary: "Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man--the wealthy Mr. Black--has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus's mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don't let anyone close. Don't let anyone touch you. And, above...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAZTaylor, Jordyn
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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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 SHAWilde, Rhiannon
Summary: Despite their differences, soon to be eighteen-year-olds Henry Hamlet and Lennon Crane have been best friends for most of their lives, but in their senior year at Northolm Grammar School for Boys in Brisbane, Australia, Henry realizes he is in love with Len.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILKamatani, Yuhki
Summary: "Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he is also terrified that he had been outed as gay. Just as he's contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2019