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"When her teacher assigns a family tree project for parents' day, Lizzie knows it won't be long until Scotch Gully's gossips start up again. Most folks in her conservative town are used to the fact that she's the only kid with an unmarried mom, but when Lizzie's family tree research uncovers a shocking secret about her grandmother, Lizzie knows that certain townsfolk will start their back-fence talk about her family once more. She turns to Harry --...
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The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly | A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 | A New York Times Notable Book | An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the Year | NPR, 12 Books NPR Staffers Loved | Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's...
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's...
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Epitome Apartments volume 1
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A social worker investigates the murder of a friend's granddaughter in a Canadian city.
64) Going bicoastal
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Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
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"After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. Tom does what he always does--answers the call. And therein lies either the beauty or dysfunction, (or perhaps both) of the sometimes too tight ties that bind families together"--
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"For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling theater troupe. Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn't find true belonging until he encounters a...
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A vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they...
69) In one person
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Tells the story of Billy Abbott, a bisexual man who struggles with his identity and attraction to men, women and transgendered individuals, as the world changes around him.
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Heartstopper volume 5
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"Nick and Charlie are in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house. He wants to take their relationship to the next level... but can he find the confidence he needs? And with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?"--
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We set the dark on fire volume 1
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Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government.
72) Cemetery boys
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Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
74) On the line
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In this novel for middle readers, 13-year-old basketball star Jordan Ryker learns that his father is gay.
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A mere five years into the future, the brutal government-sanctioned regime, The Boots, executes a carefully orchestrated genocidal campaign called The Renovation. Their target? The Others: racialized communities, the disabled, the elderly and LGBTQ folks, all of whom are labelled, dehumanized, refused access to basic needs, put into labour camps or killed. Escaping persecution is Kay, a gay man of Jamaican/Filipino descent. After his livelihood as...
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From the renowned president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hidden sexuality at a New England boys' boarding school. Sam has spent more than half his life at the prestigious Leverett high school, which lies at the heart of an affluent Connecticut town of the same name. First as a student in the late 1960s, before coeducation, then as an English teacher after Harvard and Oxford, he developed a keen sense of loyalty...
80) The walking boy
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Chuanqi trilogy volume 2nd novel
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Baoshi is sent by his master Harelip, an ailing hermit monk, to locate Harelip's missing former lover in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China.
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