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2023.
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"With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden costto maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them..."--
"Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary...
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"Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century rom-dram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul’s son. “A spectacularly talented writer!” —Julia Quinn “This historical romance is billed as being ‘for Newsies shippers,’ and it absolutely delivers.” —Dahlia Adler, Buzzfeed Books Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city’s biggest...
83) My ex-life
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"David Hedges is having an unusual midlife crisis. His boyfriend, Soren, has left him for an older man. His job is exasperating. As his life reaches new lows, his weight reaches new highs. Across the country, Julie Fiske isn't having a much better time herself. Carol, the woman (younger, of course) that Henry, her second husband, left her for, is downright likable--more likeable than Henry was. Her sullen teen daughter adamantly refuses to apply to...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Meet Brett Revere. A failed actor and recently fired temp, he's created a life centered on survival and hopefulness. Plucky doesn't pay the rent, but if you use your charm and good looks to convince other people that you're already wealthy--this of course connects you to other wealthy people who are happy to buy you things as long as you're one of them. When Brett meets Jamie Brock at a watering hole for rich, older gay men and the younger men who...
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Golgotha novels volume 1
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Tor
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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"Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker's wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone's business,...
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Heaven official's blessing novels volume 5
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"LAST GHOST STANDING, FIRST LOVE BLOSSOMS Ghosts are converging on the cursed Mount Tonglu for a massive battle royale, the sole survivor of which may become a Ghost King, a being of unimaginable power. Xie Lian is sent to secretly infiltrate and try to prevent this--by destroying any ghosts strong enough to stand a chance. His heavenly powers are weakened near the cursed mountain, but he has one trump card on his side--Hua Cheng, who has survived...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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English
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"Since their college days, Kip Woods has been infatuated with Thaddeus Kaufman, who, years later, is a married father of two children and desperately trying to revive a failing career. Kip's devotion to Thaddeus has been life-defining and destiny-altering, but it has been one that Thaddeus has either failed to notice or refused to acknowledge. But over the course of this heated and mesmerizing novel, set against a background of privilege and affluence...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2022.
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English
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"It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th – the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of...
89) Going public
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Jade Harbour Capital volume 2
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Carina Press
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[2022]
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English
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"As an operating partner at Jade Harbour, Raymond Chao prides himself in fixing even the most disastrous of portfolio companies--no matter the cost. Elvin Goh has been Raymond's assistant for years, and he's been in love with the charming, ruthless playboy for just as long. There's very little that Elvin won't do for Raymond. But this time, even Elvin can't see a way out. When long nights in the office lead to whispered confessions and a newfound...
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Counterpoint
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[2020]
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English
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"Set on an Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota ... the story of Marion Lafournier, a gay Ojibwe man, and his search for meaning in a town he cannot seem to leave. When he begins a romance with a closeted former high school classmate Shannon, Marion finds himself struggling to connect with the volcanic and unstable man. One night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life a dog from underneath the elementary school...
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"When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years—learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the journey she takes, from sunny Los Angeles to the bitter windswept plains of Nebraska, will work its own magic on her."--
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Heaven official's blessing novels volume 3
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Gods should never meddle in the affairs of mortals, but Xie Lian is not one to follow the rules when lives are at risk. He spits in the face of heaven and its laws and descends in a fury to save his country from drought and civil war. Yet this golden child gets a harsh dose of reality when he discovers just how little one individual--even a god--can do to save a crumbling nation. As the people reject and betray him, one young soldier stands by Xie...
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2023.
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"The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction. As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at...
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2019.
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English
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"A cross between Revolutionary Road and Battleborn (with a little bit of Brokeback Mountain). . . . A rich and rugged suburban western about dreams deferred and living defiantly." --O, the Oprah Magazine. "This book knocked me flat on my back." --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by Parade, O Magazine, Nylon, Bustle, BookRiot, and more. A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Early one morning, Congressman Alexander Paine Wilson is planning his reelection campaign when a mysterious delivery arrives at his townhouse. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. What does it mean? The story hurtles between present day Washington, DC, where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England, where readers meet the aardvark's taxidermist and the naturalist who hunted her, and...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant enlightenment in this thrilling caper about scams, schemes, and the absurdity of the American Dream. At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn’t have a lot going for him: he’s shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He’s also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final...
97) No one dies yet
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Arriving from America to explore Ghana's colonial past, Elton, Vincent and Scott, hoping to experience the country's underground queer scene, find themselves in the grip of two very different people-Kobby, their guide to Accra's privileged queer circles and Nana, the voice of tradition and religious principle.
''A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return...
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Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Some people search their whole lives to find love. He just wants to avoid it. Teddy Spenser spends his days selling design ideas to higher-ups, living or dying on each new pitch. Stodgy engineer types like Romeo Blue, his nemesis, if you can call someone who barely talks to you a nemesis, are a necessary evil. A cute necessary evil. Working together is bad enough, but when their boss puts them both on a new high-stakes project, 'working together'...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those difficult conditions is a lyrical portrait of the criminal underground of Paris and the thieves, murderers and pimps who occupied it. Genet approached...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Unlikely road trip companions form an unexpected bond in an uplifting novel about the past-lost and found-by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author. Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with...
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