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By Alana Wilcox, Beth Follett. 2001
"Tell It Slant" channels the lesbian couple of Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood", resetting their charged romance from 1920's Paris to contemporary…
Montreal's Plateau district. Nora Flood, indigent in body and soul, searches for love through a confused adolescence in Vancouver and a lonely stint in Toronto, before settling in Montreal. There, she meets Robin, a lover whose passionate nature teaches Nora that she must make a life for herself in the midst of uncertainty. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 2001.By Shyam Selvadurai. 2005
Sri Lanka, 1980. There is mystery surrounding the death of Amrith's beloved mother and alcoholic father, and because of the…
circumstances of his parents' marriage, his extended family shuns him. So when his Canadian cousin Niresh turns up with his father, Amrith is anxious to make a connection. Eventually, he realizes his feelings for Niresh go beyond friendship. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2005.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.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.By Debbie Macomber. 2016
Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, is a dying town. Lindsay Snyder used to visit her grandmother there, and now she has…
become the town's only schoolteacher. As Lindsay comes to know the town and its people, she learns she has a serious disadvantage--she's not a native. Followed by "Dakota home". 2016.By Debbie Macomber. 2016
People have started moving to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota--people like Lindsay Snyder, who came as a teacher and stayed, marrying…
local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's best friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of satisfaction. And the same kind of love. Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a solitary man who's learned to endure. Maddy--unafraid and openhearted--is drawn to Jeb, but he rejects her overtures. Until one of North Dakota's deadly storms throws them together. Sequel to "Dakota born"; followed by "Always Dakota". 2016.By Debbie Macomber. 2016
A few years ago, Buffalo Valley in North Dakota was a dying town. Now it's come back to life! People…
are feeling good about living here again--the way they used to. They're feeling confident about the future. Stalled lives are moving forward. People like Margaret Clemens are taking risks on new ventures and on lifelong dreams and happiness. Margaret is a local rancher who's finally getting what she wants most: marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don't think Matt's such a bargain; neither did her father. But Margaret is aware of Matt's reputation and his flaws--she wants him anyway. And she wants his baby. Sequel to "Dakota home". 2016.By Ellen Wittlinger. 2004
A combination of e-mails, instant messages, postcards, and 'old-fashioned' pen-and-paper letters tell the story of Chloe, of Massachusetts, and Julian,…
from Florida, who meet during a visit to the college each plans to attend. Back home, they cope with how to treat current or potential love interests, best friends, parents, and sisters who have their own baggage. For senior high readers. 2004.By Andrew O'Hagan. 2006
When an English priest, David Anderton, takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He…
does make friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, but the town seems to grow darker each night as he clashes with a world and a language that he barely understands. Fate comes calling, and before the summer is out David's quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006.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.By Karen Templeton. 2008
Winnie Porter couldn't forget the child she'd given up for adoption all those years ago, or the wonderful family that…
had taken him in. Now it was finally time to see her son one last time. Still reeling from his wife's untimely death, the last thing Aidan Black needed to deal with was the unwed mother who brought his beloved Robbie into the world. Especially when she was all grown up into a beautiful, vivacious young woman who'd immediately drawn his boy into her spell - not to mention Aidan himself. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2008. (Wed in the west)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)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.By Sarah Waters. 1999
In the bawdy music halls of the late-19th century, Nan is captivated by Kitty Butler, a male impersonator. She manages…
to meet her heroine and soon after becomes her dresser. Heading for the bright lights of London they form a double act while privately, a love affair begins. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 1999.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.By David Watmough. 2002
After decades in Canada, Davey Bryant returns to his native Cornwall for the funeral of a mysterious relative, and lands…
in the middle of a property-inheritance fight that threatens to escalate into something worse. Distraught by this and all the changes around him, Davey begins wandering the nearby moors. He soon gets embroiled in a mystery concerning two midgets in a minivan, which leads him back into the time of King Arthur, all the while pondering his gay family tree. 2002.By Jodi Thomas. 2014
Dusti Delaney enlists Kieran O'Toole to teach her poker so she can win enough to pay for her sister Abby…
to finish school, and widow Ronny Logan tries to resist her attraction to her new neighbor, Austin Hawke. Bestseller. 2014.By Ian McEwan. 1997
On a windy spring day in the Chilterns the calm organised life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning…
accident. It could all have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them, resulting in a powerful obsession. Rose's scientific rationalism, threatens the love of his wife Clarissa and drives him to take desperate measures to stay alive.By Alan Hollinghurst. 2004
"The line of beauty" traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. A time when drugs, gay…
sex and AIDS are rife. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens as the Thatcher boom-years unfold. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004 Man Booker Prize. 2004.By Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall. 1890
"If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old...I would give…
my soul for that!" The wish uttered by Dorian Gray as he gazes on his portrait forms the basis of this story, of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty. 1890.