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Publisher
Alluvial Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
19-year old Jared Price leaves his home to start a new live in Southern California. He gains employment as a caretaker for a wealthy blind woman, and begins a relaionship with her son. When the relationship becomes personally destructive, Jared is faced with the difficult decision of whether to abandon his stability and risk his heart.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Nicholas Brink leaves New York City to join Clay Guillory in Italy, he thinks he knows what he's getting into. His more experienced boyfriend has come into a small inheritance from an eccentric bohemian artist: the windfall consists of counterfeit heirlooms as well as a share in a decrepit Venetian palazzo. Clay hopes to use Nick's connection to an antiques dealer to unload the fake silver on a brash, unsuspecting American. Clay's smarts and...
5) Afterglow
Author
Series
Golden boys duology volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a summer of life changing, Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are finally ready for senior year, but as graduation nears and the boys prepare to enter the real world, it is clear their friendship will never be the same.
Author
Language
English
Description
"There's one thing Jay Collier knows for sure--he's a statistical anomaly as the only out gay kid in his small rural Washington town. While all his friends can't stop talking about their heterosexual hookups and relationships, Jay can only dream of his own firsts, compiling a romance to-do list of all the things he hopes to one day experience--his Gay Agenda. Then, against all odds, Jay's family moves to Seattle and he starts his senior year at a...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing buttons, Chester hits Lewis with the big ask. Lewis can't...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there....
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Franky Winter and Ballas Kohl have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life, until the night of Franky's epic seventeenth birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. It is a heartfelt and intimate coming -of -age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of...
10) Esteros
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
Matias and Jeronimo, childhood friends, before starting high school they both experience their sexual awakening and their friendship takes a new turn. Matias's father breaks their relationship up by accepting a job far away. Ten years later, Matias returns to his old town for carnival with his girlfriend and unexpectedly runs in Jeronimo. Feelings slowly start to reappear and reach a climax, but at what price?
12) Lot: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
13) Golden boys
Author
Series
Golden boys duology volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. They are about to embark on the summer before senior year of high school, where each is going on a new, big adventure, from attending a design school in Paris to interning on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Senator. What will this summer of new experiences and world-expanding travel mean for each of them--and for...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Daniel Webster is an unconventional Episcopalian priest who is challenged on many levels as he struggles to be a good husband, father, and minister, while navigating an often rocky relationship with the church hierarchy.
15) Anti-romance: 1
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Between friends and lovers. Suou and Ryou have been friends since childhood. The hairstylist and writer have lived together for six years now and, though they definitely aren't dating, their close relationship is hard to define. Will they ever move beyond the nebulous territory of "more than friends" or will they keep living in a stalemate forever?
16) Barbarities
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"When Lord Montague's life is threatened, Viscount Adam Canning is assigned to be his bodyguard. Adam is a blond, dashing nobleman who is able to woo anyone who catches his eye. When he sees Lord Montague's nephew Joel, Adam is immediately smitten. But Joel is too busy rooting out crime and corruption to fall for Adam's charms. Of course, that just makes Adam want him even more! Can Joel stay focused, or will be fall for the devilishly handsome viscount?"--Page...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse. Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesus Leon's childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Leon with a deadly secret....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1593. Sixteen-year-old Will Hughes is busy working on Shakespeare's stage, stuffing his corsets with straw and pretending to be someone else. Offstage, he's playing a part, too. The son of traitors, Will is desperate to keep his identity secret--or risk being killed in the bloody queen's imperial schemes. All he wants is to lay low until he earns enough coin to return to his family. But when his mentor, the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe,...