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Another kind of cowboy
By Susan Juby. 2007
Sixteen-year-old Alex, a champion western rider, switches to riding dressage. At the stables he meets Cleo, a girl banished to…
boarding school by her Hollywood parents. Becoming friends, the teens search for identity - neglected Cleo by partying and closeted Alex by experimenting sexually. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. For senior high readers. 2007.Alternatives to sex
By Stephen McCauley. 2006
Gay Boston real estate agent William Collins finds his sales slipping due to his obsessive-compulsive daily cleaning binges and nightly…
online cruising for hookups. There are also his worries about his best friend, Edward, whom he's certainly not in love with. Then he meets clients Charlotte and Samuel, and decides he might learn something from a happy couple, but what he ultimately discovers challenges his assumptions about real estate, love, and desire. Some strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2006.Affinity
By Sarah Waters. 2008
Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870s. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior…
has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates - the imprisoned spiritualist Selina Dawes. 2008.After the fire
By Jane Rule. 1989
Four women sense that love has failed them. As they try to put their lives in order, they come to…
value their friendship with each other. Set in an island community off the British Columbia coast. Some strong language. Winner of the 1991 CNIB Torgi Award. 1989.A village affair
By Joanna Trollope. 1989
Alice moves with her family to a peaceful English village where she hopes to overcome her depression, but it is…
her lesbian relationship with vivacious Clodagh that changes Alice's life. 1989.A question of manhood
By Robin Reardon. 2010
November 1972. The Vietnam War is rumored to be drawing to a close, and for sixteen-year-old Paul Landon, the end…
can’t come soon enough. The end will mean his older brother Chris, the family’s golden child, returning home from the Army for good. But while home on leave, Chris entrusts Paul with a secret: He’s gay. And when Chris is killed in action, Paul is beset by grief and guilt, haunted by knowledge he can’t share. For senior high and older readers. 2010.A Parisian from Kansas
By Philippe Tapon. 1997
Tapon describes his meeting with Darren, an HIV-positive gay American living in Paris, and Darren's wish to have a book…
written about his life. The author then blends fiction with autobiography, keeping the reader informed of the novel's progress as Darren tells his story. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1997.A boy at the edge of the world (Essential prose series ; #146)
By David K Yeh. 2018
Meet the Garneau boys, triplets from small-town Ontario. Daniel the "eldest" is gay, and moves to Toronto with his best…
friend Karen to attend university. Eventually, he meets David, a bike mechanic whose Catholic Italian mother talks to her dead husbands. Their chemistry is immediate, but Daniel is still drawn to his ex-boyfriend Marcus, a performance artist whose grandfather was a book-burning Nazi. A a rollicking dramedy that explores the compulsive and (ultimately) universal human pursuit of intimacy, sex, and love. 2018.A country of old men: the last Dave Brandstetter mystery
By Joseph Hansen. 1991
Despite failing health and his lover's objections, gay, wealthy, ex-private investigator Dave Brandstetter comes out of retirement for one last…
case. A young bruised boy claims he was kidnapped after witnessing a shooting. The victim is an ex-con crack addict and rock guitarist, and the girl who kidnapped the child is a suspect. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 1991.The nesting dolls: a Joanne Kilbourn mystery (Joanne Kilbourn mystery)
By Gail Bowen. 2010
A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the…
same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson, but then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010. (A Joanne Kilbourn mystery)The time in between
By David Bergen. 2005
Ava Boatman and her brother, Jon, have come to Vietnam in search of their missing father, Charles. A Vietnam vet…
with a terrible secret that has turned him into an emotionally distant loner, Charles has made a pilgrimage to a small Vietnamese village. As Ada and Jon try to find Charles, they also deal with their own fears, in completely different ways. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize.Brokeback mountain: Story To Screenplay
By Annie Proulx. 2005
Two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge…
a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. 1997.The lantern bearers: a novel
By Ronald Frame. 1999
Wicked games (A jane Lawless Mystery Ser.)
By Ellen Hart. 1998
When Jane Lawless takes a new tenant into her house, she has no idea what lies ahead. Jane and Cordelia…
are drawn deeper into the Beauman's lives, and discover a fundamentally damaged and dysfunctional family with a trail of death in their wake.Totally Joe (The misfits Ser.)
By James Howe. 2005
As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of friendship, family, school,…
and the challenges of being a gay teenager. Grades 5-8. 2007, c2005.The farewell symphony: a novel
By Edmund White. 1997
Starting in the late 1960s and coming up to the present day, this novel is as much about the Jamesian…
dilemma of the American in Europe as it is about love and loss. At its heart is the tale of a writer and his struggle to survive as he and his friends hammer out a new gay aesthetic, support themselves through odd jobs and fight for recognition.Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth
By Edeet Ravel. 2008
When Maya and Rosie meet, their instant friendship quickly blossoms into an inseparable bond. Both are children of Holocaust survivors,…
but Maya refuses to become entangled in her mother's past, while Rosie is drawn into her parents' haunted world. A novel about the strength and nature of friendship, the weight of the secrets we keep, and whether or not we are ever able to truly live beyond the past. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2008.Out of the pocket
By Bill Konigsberg. 2014
As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start…
to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.The night listener: a novel
By Armistead Maupin. 2000
Gabriel Noone is a late-night radio story teller who receives endless manuscripts. When "The Blacking Factory", the story of a…
child abused and sold for sex by his parents, arrives, he is intrigued. Noone develops a close relationship with the boy, but begins to sense that the story is not true. 2000.Openly straight
By Bill Konigsberg. 2015
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east…
and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school, but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.