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Rose of no man's land
By Michelle Tea. 2005
With a hypochondriac mother, an older sister who dreams of being on reality TV, and Mom's live-in, unemployed slacker boyfriend…
passing for a family, it's no wonder Trisha is a loner. Tiring of never leaving her bedroom, the 14-year-old makes a plan for the summer: meet someone and make a friend. That friend turns out to be chain-smoking Rose, the classic dangerous friend, who introduces Trisha to life on the edge. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and explicit strong language. 2005.Fé aime Fé ((Titan +).)
By Amélie Dumoulin. 2015
C'est un peu le chaos autour de Fé présentement : dans sa famille, dans sa tête, dans son coeur surtout.…
En fait, si elle cherche ce qui la définit, tout ce qui lui vient en tête, c'est une équation simple mais non résolue : Fé M Fé . Une fille qui se demande qui elle est et qui elle aime. Une fille qui aime une fille. C'est simple... ou c'est compliqué? Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2015.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)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.The waiting tree
By Lindsay Moynihan. 2013
Eighteen-year-old Simon Peters wants to stand up for the truth about who he is. His love for Stephen is unwavering,…
but does he have the courage to defend it when his entire church community, including his eldest brother Paul, have ostracized him? And will Stephen’s feelings change now that he’s been banished to the Waverly Christian Center to learn how to be normal again? For junior high and older readers. 2013.We are water: a novel
By Wally Lamb. 2013
Successful artist Annie Oh is marrying gallery owner Viveca. As Annie’s ex-husband, children, and many other people gather for the…
wedding, Annie reexamines her life. Ugly truths and long-held secrets are festering just below the surface. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. Bestseller. 2013.All I Ask
By Eva Crocker. 2020
Like Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls, All I Ask by the award-winning and highly acclaimed…
author Eva Crocker is a defining novel of a generation.A little before seven in the morning, Stacey wakes to the police pounding on her door. They search her home and seize her computer and her phone, telling her they’re looking for “illegal digital material.” Left to unravel what’s happened, Stacey must find a way to take back the privacy and freedom she feels she has lost.Luckily, she has her friends. Smart and tough and almost terrifyingly open, Stacey and her circle are uncommonly free of biases and boundaries, but this incident reveals how they are still susceptible to society’s traps. Navigating her way through friendship, love, and sex, Stacey strives to restore her self-confidence and to actualize the most authentic way to live her life — one that acknowledges both her power and her vulnerability, her joy and her fear.All I Ask is a bold and bracing exploration of what it’s like to be young in a time when everything and nothing seems possible. With a playwright’s ear for dialogue and a wry, delicate confidence, Eva Crocker writes with a compassionate but unsentimental eye on human nature that perfectly captures the pitfalls of relying on the people you love.My Volcano
By John Elizabeth Stintzi. 2022
The brilliant new novel from the fiercely talented author of Vanishing Monuments, shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.…
On the morning of June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park notices a mass of stone in the centre of the reservoir, a mass that - three weeks later - will have grown into an active stratovolcano nearly two and a half miles tall. This inexplicable event seems to coincide with an escalation of strange phenomena happening around the world. For readers of Karen Tei Yamashita and Haruki Murakami and fans of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, My Volcano sets the mythic and absurd against the starkly realistic, attempting to portray what it feels like to live in a burning world stricken numb. My Volcano is a pre-apocalyptic vision following a global and diverse cast of characters, each experiencing private and collective eruptions: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City finds himself 500 years in the past, where he lives through the fall of the Aztec Empire; a folktale scholar in Tokyo studies a story with indeterminate origins about a woman coming down a mountain to destroy villages and towns; a white trans writer living in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilization on an impossible planet; a nurse with Doctors without Borders works with Syrian refugees in Greece as she tries to grapple with the trauma of surviving an American bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan; a nomadic herder in Mongolia is stung by a bee and finds himself transformed into a green, thorned, flowering creature that aims to cleanse the worldâ s most polluted places on its path toward assimilating every living thing on Earth into its consciousness. With audacious structure and poetic prose, My Volcano is an electrifying tapestry on fire.The Music Game (Biblioasis International Translation Series #34)
By Stéfanie Clermont, J. C. Sutcliffe. 2022
Not far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know…
where there’s a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. That’s what I will do today. I will go through the hole in the fence and I’ll dive into the icy water. And then I’ll go home. Friends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions. But when their friend dies by suicide in the abandoned city lot where they once gathered, they must carry on in the world that left him behind—one they once dreamed they would change for the better. From the grind of Montreal service jobs, to isolated French Ontario countryside childhoods, to the tenuous cooperation of Bay Area punk squats, the three young women navigate everyday losses and fears against the backdrop of a tumultuous twenty-first century. An ode to friendship and the ties that bind us together, Stéfanie Clermont’s award-winning The Music Game confronts the violence of the modern world and pays homage to those who work in the hope and faith that it can still be made a better place.Valerie, or, The faculty of dreams: amendment to the theory of sexuality
By Deborah Bragan-Turner, Sara Stridsberg. 2019
As Valerie Solanas dies in San Francisco's red-light district, an unnamed narrator imagines visiting her and interrogating her about her…
life. They try to understand how Valerie's early life led her to attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol. Translated from the original 2006 Swedish edition. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2019It's not like it's a secret
By Misa Sugiura. 2017
When sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara moves from Wisconsin to California for her father's job, she suspects her dad is cheating on…
her traditional Japanese mother. However, Sana is keeping her own secrets and falls for a beautiful and smart classmate. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2017The porcupine of truth
By Bill Konigsberg. 2015
Mopey about having to spend the summer with his estranged father in Billings, Montana, seventeen-year-old Carson's vacation prospects improve after…
he meets Aisha, a beautiful lesbian, and the two embark on an epic road trip that will transform them both. Strong language. Stonewall Book Award. For senior high and older readers. 2015Lily and the octopus
By Steven Rowley. 2016
Ted Flask is an aging writer whose best friend is a dachshund named Lily. They live a quiet, happy life…
together until Lily is stricken with a brain tumor that Ted thinks of as an octopus. Ted fights for Lily, confronting the monster trying to take his companion. Some strong language. 2016Carol (Movie Tie-In Editions Ser. #0)
By Patricia Highsmith. 2015
Therese is working at a department store as she tries to become an apprentice stage designer. While at the store,…
she meets an older woman named Carol. They begin a romantic relationship, despite Carol's marriage and Therese's boyfriend. Basis for 2015 Oscar-nominated movie. (Previously titled The Price of Salt.)Some descriptions of sex. 1952Swordspoint: a melodrama of manners (Riverside #1)
By Ellen Kushner. 2003
Lord Horn hires master swordsman Richard St Vier to kill Lord Michael Godwin, who has resisted Horn's romantic advances. When…
the mission goes awry, Horn kidnaps St Vier's lover, Alec, forcing St Vier to take drastic action. Includes three bonus stories. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 1987I'll give you the sun
By Jandy Nelson. 2014
Once close, sixteen-year-old twins Jude and her brother Noah barely speak to each other following a tragedy. But time and…
new relationships begin to mend their lives. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 2014The cold cold ground: a Detective Sean Duffy novel : the Troubles trilogy / Adrian McKinty (Detective Sean Duffy #1)
By Adrian Mckinty, Adrian McKinty. 2012
Northern Ireland, 1981. Amid sectarian bombings, riots, and hunger strikes, Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy--the lone Catholic in his squad--gets a…
case involving two murdered gay men. While searching for the killer, Duffy learns that one victim was in the IRA. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2012Shine
By Lauren Myracle. 2011
When gay teen Patrick Truman is brutally attacked and left for dead, the residents of Black Creek believe he is…
the victim of a hate crime. His friend Cat searches for who is responsible--and why. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2011The end of Eddy: A Novel
By Michael Lucey, Édouard Louis. 2017
Eddy Bellegueule grows up in a small French town and family where any hint of homosexuality is looked down upon.…
As he struggles with his identity, he searches for a way out. Translated from the original 2014 French edition. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2017Everything begins & ends at the Kentucky Club
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz. 2012
Collection of seven short stories exploring the concept of boundaries. In "He Has Gone to Be with the Women" Javier…
and Juan Carlos meet and develop a relationship neither is sure they want. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. PEN/Faulkner. 2012