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by
Lori Ostlund
(1,799)
Summary: After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth.
BOOK
Call #: F OSTLUND
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Casey McQuiston
(718,122)
Summary: First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz, with his sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, are the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. Then...
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BOOK
Call #: F MCQUISTON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Andrew Sean Greer (read by Andrew Sean Greer)
(182,569)
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F GREER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Andrew Sean Greer
(183,096)
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his...
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BOOK
Call #: F GREER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Andrew Sean Greer
(184,952)
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F GREER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 5 of 17
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by
Andrew Sean Greer
(184,952)
Summary: 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...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GREER LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Dean Atta
(28,230)
Summary: Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican -- but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older,...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F ATTA
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Yuki Fumino , illustrator
(1,800)
Summary: Stunningly handsome Kohei Sugihara was outgoing and popular with the girls at school. But when a sudden illness left him with partial hearing loss, he grew quiet and reluctant to engage with others....
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL FUM
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Yuki Fumino , artist
(3,038)
Summary: Because of a hearing disability, university student Kohei had made a habit of distancing himself from those around him. But after meeting the exceedingly cheerful Taichi, he gradually begins to...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL FUM
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Yuki Fumino , artist
(2,308)
Summary: Kohei is a college student who, because of his hearing loss, tends to distance himself from others. His attitude starts to change after he crosses paths with an ever-optimistic classmate named...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL FUM
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alan Hollinghurst
(26,963)
Summary: It is the summer of 1983, and 20-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their...
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BOOK
Call #: F HOLLINGHURST
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Zak Salih
(1,279)
Summary: It's just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher, newly single and desperately lonely, he...
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BOOK
Call #: F SALIH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mark Oshiro
(275)
Summary: It's been one year since Manny was cast out of his family and driven into the wilderness of the American Southwest. Since then, Manny lives by self-taught rules that keep him moving -- and keep him...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F OSHIRO
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Andrew Sean Greer
Series:
Arthur Less Novels - #2
(11,170)
Summary: For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a...
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BOOK
Call #: F GREER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Zain Khalid
(299)
Summary: In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten...
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BOOK
Call #: F KHALID
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Eliot Schrefer
(13,790)
Summary: Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler. Neither country can afford...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F SCHREFER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ben Alderson
(2,110)
Summary: Zacriah Trovirn is concerned with two things in life: hunting and dodging Petrer, the boy who broke his heart. Heartbreak becomes a distant concern when Zacriah is taken to the Elven capital of...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F ALDERSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
TJ Klune
(15,755)
Summary: All Robbie Fontaine ever wanted was a place to belong. After the death of his mother, he bounces around from pack to pack, forming temporary bonds to keep from turning feral. It's enough -- until he...
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BOOK
Call #: F KLUNE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
TJ Klune
(22,063)
Summary: Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again...
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BOOK
Call #: F KLUNE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Helen Oyeyemi
(3,660)
Summary: When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment -- and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto...
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BOOK
Call #: F OYEYEMI
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sam Lansky
(2,456)
Summary: This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform "open-soul surgery" on emotionally damaged...
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BOOK
Call #: F LANSKY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Emily Skrutskie
Series:
Bloodright Trilogy - #1
(4,146)
Summary: A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend -- the man he trusts most and might even love -- only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. Ettian's life...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F SKRUTSKIE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robbie Couch
Summary: Clark is stuck in a time loop: he has woken up and relived the same monotonous Monday 309 times. Day 310 turns out to be different: his usual torturous math class is interrupted by a boy he has never...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F COUCH
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Becca Freeman
Summary: Hannah and Finn have spent every Christmas together since college. Neither has anywhere else to go -- Hannah's parents died, and Finn's disowned him when he came out. Their tradition of offbeat...
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BOOK
Call #: F FREEMAN
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Tomasz Jedrowski
(26,715)
Summary: When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense,...
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BOOK
Call #: F JEDROWSKI
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Adriana Herrera
(853)
Summary: No one should have to choose between love and justice. Haitian-born professor and activist Patrice Denis is not here for anything that will veer him off the path he's worked so hard for. One...
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BOOK
Call #: PB HER
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Adriana Herrera
(1,013)
Summary: New York City social worker Camilo Santiago Briggs grew up surrounded by survivors who taught him to never rely on anything you didn't earn yourself. He|s always dreamt of his own happily ever after,...
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BOOK
Call #: PB HER
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
TJ Klune
(11,925)
Summary: In the ruins of Caswell, Maine, Carter Bennett learned the truth of what had been right in front of him the entire time. And then it -- he -- was gone. Desperate for answers, Carter takes to the...
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BOOK
Call #: F KLUNE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Adriana Herrera
(1,782)
Summary: No one ever said big dreams come easy. For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works, he'll be a big fish...
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BOOK
Call #: PB HER
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
TJ Klune
(48,586)
Summary: Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the...
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BOOK
Call #: F KLUNE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert Jones Jr
(18,820)
Summary: Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and...
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BOOK
Call #: F JONES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
TJ Klune
(148,371)
Summary: When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace...
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BOOK
Call #: F KLUNE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Arinze Ifeakandu
(269)
Summary: A story collection, set in Nigeria, united by the theme of queer male intimacy. The stakes of loving within a society in flux are explored through the eyes of lovers and their families; from...
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BOOK
Call #: F IFEAKANDU
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Andre Aciman
Series:
Call Me By Your Name Novels - #2
(63,535)
Summary: Elio has become a gifted classical pianist in Rome. His father, Samuel, is on a trip from Florence to visit Elio when a chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends changes his...
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BOOK
Call #: F ACIMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anita Kelly
Summary: When Alexei Lebedev finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That's how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the...
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BOOK
Call #: F KELLY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Adrian McKinty
Series:
Detective Sean Duffy Series - #1
(12,246)
Summary: In a 1981 Northern Ireland rife with sectarian violence, Catholic detective Sean Duffy investigates a serial killer who is targeting gay men--a series of murders that may have political implications as well.
BOOK
Call #: F MCKINTY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Christopher Castellani
(1,736)
Summary: "An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy. In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman...
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BOOK
Call #: F CASTELLANI
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rihito Takarai , artist
Series:
Only The Flower Knows
Summary: Why can't I stop thinking about him? Misaki and Arikawa are two men, who are undeniably attracted to each other. And, when Misaki finds himself unable to control his pent-up feelings any longer, he...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 TAK
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rihito Takarai , artist
Series:
Only The Flower Knows
Summary: Misaki and Arikawa's feelings have finally made it through to one another. However, as Misaki has never had a boyfriend before, the whole situation has left him a bit perplexed. Regardless, the love...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 TAK
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rihito Takarai , illustrator
Series:
Only The Flower Knows
Summary: One sunny afternoon, on the campus of their university and again on a rainy evening, at the train station, Arikawa and Misaki's paths crossed. Neither knowing anything about the other person, not...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 TAK
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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