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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
Author
Publisher
One Elm Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jeremiah arrives in Minneapolis to spend the summer with his Dad, everything feels odd. His dad's fianč, Michael, is deep into wedding plans. Jeremiah feels out of place. Never one to make new friends easily, he starts volunteering in an English class for refugees. Here, Jeremiah finds unexpected friendship. Everything Together is about exploring your place in the world and the tangled ways we connect"--
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twins Sabine and Blythe Braxton cope differently when their father dies unexpectedly, but unite to figure out mysterious Charlie and the crumbling mansion he moves into with them.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl splits her time between Mommy's house and Daddy's apartment, which he shares with his partner Harry, but when Mommy picks her up on Daddy's day the girl becomes sullen, not realizing Daddy has a wonderful surprise waiting for her at home.
46) Full disclosure
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Ember edition.
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time things got ugly. As Simone and Miles start going...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 158 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Richie Jackson's son born through surrogacy comes out to him at the age of 18, Richie--now in his 50s, a successful producer and happily married--feels compelled to write him a letter. Gay Like Me is both a celebration of gay identity and a sorrowful warning. Jackson talks of his own progress and growth as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural change. We've come a long way, he argues: discrimination is now outlawed...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
248 pages : charts ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "It" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. Stewart is trying to be 89.9 percent happy about it, but Ashley is 110 percent horrified. She already has to hide the real reason her dad moved out; "Spewart" could further threaten her position...
51) The family man
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress-hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed eccentric mother-Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning debut novel set in the late 1990s as an androgynous youth arrives in small-town Minnesota, searching for the mother who abandoned him as a child. On a clear morning in the summer of 1997, Shane Stephenson arrives in Holm, Minnesota, with only a few changes of clothes, an old Nintendo, and a few dollars to his name. Reeling from the death of his father, Shane wants to find the mother who abandoned him as an adolescent--hoping to reconnect,...
53) Our subway baby
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway." So begins the true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional text tells how his partner, Danny, found a baby tucked away in the corner of a subway station on his way home from work one day. Pete and Danny ended up adopting...
55) A stone for Amer
Author
Language
English
Description
Will Lidstrom was only sixteen when he and his father left the predictable routine of their family farm in southwestern Minnesota and were launched, via the Transcontinental Railway, into the wilds of eastern Montana to find Uncle Amer. The year was 1919. Decades later, after he and his daughter Callie arrive at the Scandinavian Cemetery in Rockford, Illinois, in search of Amer's tombstone, an elderley Will recounts that difficult journey west, pays...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On his deathbed, a dying black man writes a letter to his estranged, gay son and shares with him the truth that lives in his heart and tries to create a place where the pair can find peace.
As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery. Secrets from Jacob's...
57) Joe Bell
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Dan Cereill's life is turned upside-down when his father announces he is gay and leaves Dan and his mother with nothing, forcing them to move to an aunt's house, Dan to enroll in public school, and his mother to try to start a business, but the top thing on Dan's list is kissing Estelle, the girl next door.
59) Mislaid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start -- she's a lesbian, he's gay -- but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Colin's family is dissolving in the aftermath of his father's suicide. While his mother, Diane, retreats into therapy and cynicism, Colin clings to every shred of normal life. Shunned by his siblings and rejected by his homophobic best friend, Colin immerses himself in the notbooks his father left behind. Full of strange facts, lists, and historical anecdotes that neither Colin nor Dian can understand, the notebooks infect their worldview until they...