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"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
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Lt. David Archer, an officer in the Royal Navy, is hopelessly in love with his shipmate, Lt. William Marshall. When a pirate kidnaps the two men and forces them to survive in close quarters, William and David must admit their true feelings for each other. And as they attempt to escape, they face yet another challenge. Will their love be strong enough to hold them together in a society where love between men is punishable by death?
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In this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America, Aristotle and Dantetwo boys in a border town fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend time together, like a camping road trip they take in the desert. Ari is haunted...
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After years of severed communication, Justin appears on his sister's doorstep needing a place to stay. The home he's made for himself has collapsed, as has everything else in his life. When they were children, Willa played the role of her brother's protector, but now she's reluctant to let him in. Willa lives a carefully ordered life working as a nurse and making ornate dioramas in her spare time. As Justin tries to connect with the people she's closest...
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Femme, gay teen podcaster Riley Weaver has made it to junior year, which means he can finally apply for membership into the Gaybutante Society, the LGBTQ+ organization which has launched dozens of queer teens' careers in pop culture, arts, and activism. The process to get into the Society is a marathon of charity events, parties, and general gay chaos, culminating in the annual Gaybutante Ball. The one requirement for the Ball? A date. Then Riley...
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Charles Westover, a disbarred lawyer, alleges that his runaway teenage daughter has been murdered and he files an insurance claim. And then he disappears, leaving claims investigator Dave Brandstetter to sort through the pieces of the puzzle. Young women have been murdered by the crazed guru of a bizarre sex cult -- is this what happened to Serenity Westover?
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"Two boys are starting over at a new high school. Jules is still figuring out what it means to be gay and just how out he wants to be. Jack is reeling from a fall-out with his best friend and isn't ready to let anyone else in just yet. When Jules and Jack meet, the sparks are undeniable. But when a video linking Jack to a pair of popular trans vloggers is leaked to the school, the revelations thrust both boys into the spotlight they'd tried to avoid"--...
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Three novellas featuring homosexual relationships. In The Term Paper Artist, a poet at a California college acquires lovers among straight men by writing papers for them, in The Wooden Anniversary a woman in love with a gay man finds he prefers her male cook, while Saturn Street is on the lot of victims of aids in Los Angeles.
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Raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists, 20-something Clayton Summer, when the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away, bestowing her final puzzle on him, embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, which will change him, and the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, forever.
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.QUESTION How do you arrange to skip town?ANSWER You accept them all.What...
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""Do I have to end my life to end my childhood?" Joshua Royalton, the irresistibly eccentric 22-year-old narrator of The Big Book of Misunderstanding, asks himself this question with an open pill bottle in his trembling hand. To come up with his answer, Josh leads readers on a darkly funny jaunt through the collective adolescence of his whole family. The Royaltons are "like Norman Rockwell run amok, simultaneously wholesome and perverse."--BOOK JACKET....