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The charm offensive: A novel
By Alison Cochrun. 2021
A MOST ANTICIPATED ROM-COM SELECTED BY * BUZZFEED * LGBTQ READS * BUSTLE * THE NERD DAILY * ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT…
* FROLIC MEDIA * AND MORE! " The Charm Offensive will sweep you off your feet." —PopSugar In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch —an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer. Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it's no wonder then that he's spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After . As the most successful producer in the franchise's history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn't believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he's a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he's cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off. As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they'll have to reconsider whose love story gets toldAfterworlds
By Scott Westerfeld. 2014
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel,…
slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide. Both face challenges and fall in love. Strong language and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2014Beautiful music for ugly children
By Kirstin Cronn-Mills. 2012
Gabe is a boy born with a girl's body. With his new public-access radio show gaining in popularity, Gabe struggles…
with romance, friendships, and parents--all while trying to come out as a boy. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. Stonewall Book Award. For senior high and older readers. 2014Troublemaker (A Dave Brandstetter Mystery #3)
By Joseph Hansen. 2022
Love and money are the easy motives in the death of a California beachfront nightclub owner, but death claims investigator…
Dave Brandstetter is certain of one thing: the case is going to be far from easy and the police have it all wrong. Rick Wendell wouldn&’t hurt a flea. The big, jovial owner of the Hang Ten, a surfing-themed gay bay on the boardwalk, was loved by regulars and new arrivals alike. But Rick was found naked and dead, with a local hustler named Larry Johns standing over him, smoking gun in hand. Wendell&’s death is ruled as a homicide and Johns is arrested. Everyone thinks it&’s a simple open-and-shut case. Everyone except the death claims investigator, Dave Brandstetter. Brandstetter, a homosexual himself, doesn&’t make the same assumptions about the crime scene and easy story it tells. Larry Johns had enough time to escape had he wanted to. Not to mention Johns lacked any discernable motive, especially since the $200 in Wendell&’s wallet was left untouched. In an investigation that takes him from sun-scorched hillside ranches to seedy boardwalk bars, Brandstetter gets to the bottom of a twisty mystery in this hardboiled and entertaining portrait of the &’70s gay culture by groundbreaking poet and award-winning crime writer Joseph Hansen.Death Claims
By Joseph Hansen. 2022
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTERDeath claims investigator Dave Brandstetter enters a world thespians and booksellers as he uncovers the…
true story behind the death of a rare book dealer in this noir-spun masterpiece of California crime fiction. Since a burning accident that left him painfully disfigured, John Oats, a well-liked collectible book dealer, has been self-isolating at his beach house in Arena Blanca, California. An avid swimmer, John Oats had taken to night swimming to hide his injuries from daytime beachgoers. When his body is found one morning smashed against the rocks at the treacherous point near the house, the authorities rule it &“Death by Misadventure.&” Insurance companies don&’t much care for verdicts like that and therefore Medallion Insurance, the policy holder for Oats&’s substantial life insurance policy, sends out its best investigator, Dave Brandstetter, to poke holes in the story. The night Oats died there was a dangerous storm along the coast, and Brandstetter finds it hard to believe that the bookseller, a lifelong swimmer, would have gone out. As his investigation reveals more of John Oats&’s sad story Brandstetter learns that the motives for murder are many. But Brandstetter has his own problems to deal with. Still mourning the death of his partner, Rod, Dave is navigating his own twilight world of grief. His new lover, Doug, is also grieving, and the two men must come to a reckoning of whether their love is an ersatz stand-in for their lost partners or something more.Fadeout: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery (A Dave Brandstetter Mystery #1)
By Joseph Hansen. 2022
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTERWith a new Introduction by Michael Nava. Published fifty years ago, a time when being gay…
was illegal in 49 out of 50 states, Joseph Hansen&’s first Dave Brandstetter novel shattered stereotypes and redefined the Private Eye novel as we know it.Five decades after its original landmark publication, Joseph Hansen&’s Fadeout is as fresh and important as ever. Preceded only by a handful of gay protagonists in crime fiction, Hansen&’s Dave Brandstetter, a ruggedly handsome World War II vet with a quick wit, faultless moral compass, and endless confidence, shattered stereotypes and won over a large reading audience, a feat previously considered impossible for queer fiction.Set in the mid-1960s, Fadeout centers on the disappearance of a southern California radio personalitynamed Fox Olson. A failed writer, Olson finally found success as a beloved folksinger and wholesome country raconteur with a growing national audience. The community is therefore shocked when Olson&’s car is found wrecked, having been driven off a bridge and swept away in a fast-moving arroyo on a rainy night. A life insurance claim is filed by Olson&’s widow and the company holding the policy sends their best man to investigate. The problem is that Olson&’s body was never found. Not in the car. Not further down the river. As Dave Brandstetter begins his investigation he quickly finds that none of it adds up.Ruinsong
By Julia Ember. 2020
In Julia Ember's dark and lush LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy Ruinsong, two young women from rival factions must work together to…
reunite their country, as they wrestle with their feelings for each other.Her voice was her prison…Now it’s her weapon. In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding. But when she is reunited with her childhood friend, a noblewoman with ties to the underground rebellion, she must finally make a choice: Take a stand to free their country from oppression, or follow in the queen’s footsteps and become a monster herself.The two Hotel Francforts: a novel
By David Leavitt. 2013
1940. Refugees from Paris, Pete and Julia Winters arrive in Lisbon to take the SS Manhattan home to America. While…
waiting for the ship to arrive, they explore the town and meet Edward and Iris Freleng. Pete and Edward begin an affair. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2013Local souls: novellas
By Allan Gurganus. 2013
Three novellas set in fictional Falls, North Carolina, from the author's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (DB 30984). The…
friendship between two married men shifts toward desire; a good-hearted girl disappears on a trip to Africa; and a woman seeks the child she gave up for adoption. Some strong language. 2013The steel remains: The cold commands (A Land Fit for Heroes #2)
By Richard K. Morgan. 2012
In The Steel Remains, three war veterans are having a hard time adjusting to peacetime, when they discover evidence that…
a race of demons thought long gone has returned. In The Cold Commands, the three seek a man who will rally the demons to his side. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011History Is All You Left Me
By Adam Silvera. 2017
"This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more." —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author…
of Everything, Everything From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past. When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course.To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral continues. He’s losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he’s been keeping are tearing him apart.If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.Alex as well
By Alyssa Brugman. 2015
Raised as a boy, fourteen-year-old Alex experiences conflicted male and female gender identity. Ready for a change, Alex rejects the…
hormonal medications prescribed by his mother and decides to live as a girl. For senior high and older readers. 2013The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother)
By David Levithan. 2021
New York Times bestselling author David Levithan takes young readers on twisting journey through truth, reality, and fantasy and belief.…
Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply. . . impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to.His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that Aidan is making it all up to disguise the fact that he ran away.When the kids in school hear Aidan's story, they taunt him. But still Aidan clings to his story. And as he becomes more of an outcast, Lucas becomes more and more concerned. Being on Aidan's side would mean believing in the impossible. But how can you believe in the impossible when everything and everybody is telling you not to?Far From You
By Tess Sharpe. 2014
The truth won't let her go.Sophie Winters nearly died. Twice. The first time, she's fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car…
accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that'll take years to kick. The second time, she's seventeen, and it's no accident. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. When the cops deem Mina's murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery. After a forced stint in rehab, Sophie returns home to a chilly new reality. Mina's brother won't speak to her, her parents fear she'll relapse, old friends have become enemies, and Sophie has to learn how to live without her other half. To make matters worse, no one is looking in the right places and Sophie must search for Mina's murderer on her own. But with every step, Sophie comes closer to revealing all: about herself, about Mina---and about the secret they shared.More happy than not
By Adam Silvera. 2015
After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron considers the…
Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure. But then a new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love. Strong language and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2015The American people: a novel / Volume 1, Search for my heart (American People #1)
By Larry Kramer. 2015
A satirical, fictional version of America's history and its residents, beginning with monkeys in Florida. Meandering from prehistory to the…
1950s, sexuality, historical figures, and religious identity are explored, dissected, and embellished. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2015The gods of tango: A novel
By Carolina De Robertis. 2015
Leda arrives in Buenos Aires expecting to meet her husband, but finds he has been killed. With only the violin…
from her grandfather, she makes her way as a player of tango. To do so, she disguises herself as a man. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015Cinco esquinas
By Mario Vargas Llosa. 2016
Lima, Peru. Rolando Garro, director de un periódico sensacionalista, intenta destruir la reputación de un prominente ingeniero de minas, poniendo…
en marcha una serie de acontecimientos que revelan la corrupción, la intriga, y la violencia en el Perú de Fujimori. Por el autor ganador del Premio Nobel. Violencia, lenguaje injurioso, y descripciones de índole sexualPrudence: A Novel
By David Treuer. 2015
1942. Frankie Washburn comes home to Minnesota after he finishes basic training. However, a German POW from a nearby camp…
has escaped, and Frankie and his friends are drawn into the search. Consequences of what happens reverberate through the years. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2015El niño terrible y la escritora maldita
By Jaime Bayly. 2016
En esta novela, el protagonista Jaime Baylys, periodista peruano y personalidad de televisión incomprendido, reflexiona sobre su tumultuosa relación con…
una amante, Lucía, en anécdotas y a través de su periodismo. Lenguaje injurioso y descripciones de índole sexual