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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 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 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.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.By Ronald Frame. 1999
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.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.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.By Julia Darling. 1998
Narrated by the central heroine, Gert, a curator in a northern museum, this story is interwoven with flashbacks to her…
eccentric and often surreal childhood. She had a hopelessly vain mother, a father constantly away at his African crocodile farm and a twin brother who becomes a Buddhist monk. 1998.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 Ann Bannon. 2001
Designated the 'Queen of Lesbian Pulp' for her landmark novels of the 1950s and 1960s, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian…
fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Bannon's stories broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead characters who embraced their sexuality. In 'Odd Girl Out', Bannon introduces Laura Landon, whose love affair with her college room-mate Beth launched the lesbian pulp fiction genre. 2001, c1957.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 Robert McGill. 2004
Sunshine, Ontario. Alice Pederson has been missing for almost two years when her remains are found along a nearby shoreline.…
While other strange events unfold, a number of suspects are investigated: Alice's stay-at-home husband Mike; Daniel, her young lover who went to school in England; Stoddart Fremlin, an older dentist; several gay and lesbian couples; and the local mayor and his crazy brother. Some strong language. 2004.By Paula Boock. 1997
Louie, self-confessed blabbermouth and stand-up comic, is in her final year at Woodhaugh High. Hardworking and popular, she intends to…
be a lawyer. Then she meets Willa who just wants to get through her final exams and become a chef. Inevitably, it seems, they fall in love. But then Louie's mother finds out. Met with hostility and incomprehension, their love is put to a severe test. Senior High. 1997.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 David Levithan. 2003
High school sophomore Paul lives in a present-day gaytopia, where boys come out of the closet to become class president,…
and the Gay-Straight Alliance has more members than the football team. When Paul meets artistic Noah in the bookstore, they pass notes rife with meaningful detail; paint in Noah's psychedelic, art-covered room; and fall in sweet, realistic teenage love, unencumbered by gay bashing, sexual-identity crises, and parental rejection. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.By Paul Burston. 2001
Martin is not a happy bunny. His boyfriend has left him for a male prostitute, his best friend is too…
busy looking for sex on the internet to offer much in the way of support and his gal pal is convinced that her own boyfriend is a closet case. How's a boy to find Mr Right rather than Mr Right Now? 2001.