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81) Giovanni's room
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"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair...
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"This intimate record lays bare one person's experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Weaving together prose, poetry, and stories scrawled on the margins of high school notebooks, Jonathan T. Bailey encounters truth-seeing owls, anachronistic gourds, and the hard-edged realities of family and church. In When I Was Red Clay, he navigates desert...
83) Sovereign
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Nemesis (April Daniels) volume 2
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Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and she's doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it's only going to get worse. When she crosses a newly discovered billionaire supervillain, Dreadnought comes under attack from all quarters. From her troubled family...
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Crushes and First Love for 4th-8th Grade (SCPL-YS)
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"Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, the betrayal of a former best friend, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl"--
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Part Augusten Burroughs, part Robert Leleux, Conversations and Cosmopolitans is a hilarious and touching memoir written by a mother, Jane, and her son, Robert, as they navigate their new relationship together after Robert announces in a hand-written letter that he is gay.
After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing them that he was gay. Once...
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The rules (F.T. Lukens) volume 1
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"Desperate to pay for college, Bridger Whitt is willing to overlook the peculiarities of his new job--entering via the roof, the weird stacks of old books and even older scrolls, the seemingly incorporeal voices he hears from time to time--but it's pretty hard to ignore being pulled under Lake Michigan by... mermaids? Worse yet, this happens in front of his new crush, Leo, the dreamy football star who just moved to town. Fantastic. When he discovers...
90) A daring ride
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Bullriders volume 2
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Simon "Frizz" Frizzell sneaks away to the rodeo on weekends, and it's not until after he wins a buckle that he tells his parents about his bull-riding. He knows they won't approve of his choice of sport, but his parents own a Christian bookstore, and he couldn't possibly tell them the whole truth: he's gay.
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Dr. Drew has spent decades talking to teens and young adults about sex and relationships, so he and his daughter take on a new generation of knowledge that incorporates current concerns with TCB: trust, compassion, and boundaries. Quizzes, real questions from patients, and life-experience from Paulina help the team tackle some of the toughest stuff to talk about.
92) Rainbow High
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Rainbow trilogy volume 2
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Follows three gay high school seniors as they struggle with issues of coming out, safe sex, homophobia, being in love, and college choices.
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Balloonmakers volume 2
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Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a spy using dark magic to thwart them.
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Hopuonk, Massachusetts, 1999. People think Taylor Garland is living the dream: homecoming queen, life of every party, and on every boy's most-wanted list. But Taylor is actually desperate to leave home. And she's completely in love with her best friend, Susan. Senior year is almost over, and Taylor needs to figure out how to throw the perfect life away....
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"When Jenn Berney and her wife decided they wanted to have children, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. Intrauterine insemination is a simple medical procedure that has been available since the 1950s, but doctors were baffled by Jenn's situation. With no man factoring into her relationship, she was disparaged by doctors, given an inaccurate diagnosis, and her medical needs were overlooked. Berney decided to step outside...
96) The lost Arabs
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Visceral and energetic, Sakr's poetry confronts the complicated notion of "belonging" when one's family, culture, and country are at odds with one's personal identity. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a fierce, urgent collection from a distinct new voice.
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"The Heartstopper Yearbook is packed full of exclusive content from the Heartstopper universe: never-before-seen illustrations, an exclusive minicomic, character profiles, trivia, and insight into Alice Oseman's creative process, narrated by a cartoon version of Alice herself. In full-color for the first time, this companion book is perfect for fans of Heartstopper!"--Amazon.com.
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Explains how the world's major religious traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism view homosexuality and how LGBT people of faith navigate within those traditions, and examines why some religious groups still condemn homosexuality and reject LGBT people.
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Back to School - Teens
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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Julián Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life. Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key nine months are thrown-literally-out the closet. The downside: the whole world knows, and Jules has to prepare for rejection. The upside: Jules now has the...
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