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The night watch
By Sarah Waters. 2006
Former ambulance driver Kay lives life fast, wandering the war-torn streets and hunting for other women. Kind and clever Helen…
guards her secrets - and her lover - closely. Glamorous Viv remains utterly devoted, for better or worse, to the soldier she adores. And Duncan fights to make a new life for himself after spending time in prison. As these four people survive the devastation of war and the experience life's dizzying highs, their paths cross in ways none of them can forsee. 2006.Bottle rocket hearts
By Zoe Whittall. 2007
Eighteen-year-old Eve is in search of love and perfection, on the hunt for another heart like her own. Desperate to…
escape her parents' narrow suburban world, Eve falls in love with an older woman, Della, who is both seductive and steadfastly unfaithful. Against a backdrop of biker bombs and the Quebec referendum of 1995, Eve tries to figure out who she is and what she wants. For senior high and older readers. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2007.Crocodile soup
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.Tipping the velvet (A virago V Ser.)
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.Odd girl out (Gold medal books ; #s653)
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.When everything feels like the movies
By Raziel Reid. 2014
School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty…
desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in; he's not part of any of those. As the director calls action, Jude is the flamer that lights the set on fire. Before everything turns to ashes from the resulting inferno, Jude drags his best friend Angela off the casting couch and into enough melodrama to incite the paparazzi, all while trying to fend off the haters and win the heart of his favourite co-star Luke Morris. It's a total train wreck! But train wrecks always make the front page. For junior and senior high readers. 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature. Canada Reads 2015. 2014.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.If I was your girl
By Meredith Russo. 2016
My name is Amanda. I'm 18. When you look at me, you might see that I'm pretty and popular, you…
might think my life is easy. But being me has never been easy, because I haven't always been Amanda. When I was born, I was named Andrew. Now, at my new school, I finally feel like myself. But do I owe my new friends the truth about my past? For Senior high readers. 2016.Girl mans up
By M-E Girard. 2016
All Pen Oliveira wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a…
problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she's trying to be a boy--that she should quit trying to be something she's not. If she dresses like a girl and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty. But respect and loyalty, Pen discovers, are empty words. Old-world parents, disintegrating friendships, and strong feelings for other girls drive Pen to see the truth--that in order to be who she truly wants to be, she'll have to man up. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Lambda LGBT Children’s/Young Adult Award. 2016.Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
By Benjamin Alire Sâenz. 2014
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of…
looking at the world. When they meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the two loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special kind of friendship, the kind of friendship that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through their friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and about the kind of people they want to be. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.Two boys kissing
By David Levithan. 2014
The two boys kissing are Craig and Harry. They're hoping to set the world record for the longest kiss. They're…
not a couple, but they used to be. Peter and Neil are a couple. Their kisses are different. Avery and Ryan have only just met and are trying to figure out what happens next. Cooper is alone. He's not sure how he feels. As the marathon progresses, these boys, their friends and families evaluate the changing nature of feelings, behaviour and this crazy thing called love. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.The moor is dark beneath the moon
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.The mysteries
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. 2004.10 things I can see from here
By Carrie Mac. 2017
Maeve, a sufferer of severe anxiety, moves in with her recovering alcoholic father and her very pregnant stepmother and falls…
for a girl who is not afraid of anything. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Dare truth or promise
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.Enduring love: a novel
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.Boy meets boy
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.Shameless: A Novel
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.While England sleeps
By David Leavitt. 1998
As fascism surges in 1930s Europe, Brian, an upper-class writer, and Edward, an idealistic member of the Communist Party begin…
an affair, despite Brian's conviction that his homosexuality is something he will outgrow. As events push Edward to the point of crisis he is drawn into the chaos of war.The line of beauty
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.