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321) Ammonite
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Set in 1840s England, paleontologist Mary Anning sells fossils to make a meager living until a wealthy tourist pays her to help his wife, Charlotte, convalesce, beginning an intense relationship between the two women.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What do Frank Ocean, Sally Ride, George Takei, and Sharice Davids all have in common? They're all proud LGBTQ Americans! Featuring people from a variety of occupations and backgrounds, this collection of 25 short biographies demonstrates the diversity, accomplishments, and pride within the American LGBTQ community."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Elissa and Rita have forever struggled to find their place in each other's worlds. Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. Motherland is their universal story: a kaleidoscopic journey built...
324) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving, rebel with a cause, doesn't give a damn about them and she hasn't looked back since abandoning her faction three years ago. That is, until her former faction sends her a message:return what she stole from them, or they'll kill her twin sister. Rig embarks on a journey across the galaxy to save her sister - but for once she's not alone. She has help from her network of resistance...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Gabe Montesanti grew up queer in a working-class, conservative Catholic family in the Midwest, where she was taught to prioritize strength and impenetrability over vulnerability and honesty. In this emotionally, physically, and spiritually abusive environment, she developed a severe eating disorder, never learned to trust herself, and lived in constant fear. As she enters graduate school, she vows to put the trauma of her past behind her and to learn...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The actress reveals her struggle growing up as a gay woman in a strict Catholic family until the age of eighteen, when her father discovered the truth about her sexuality and revealed that he too was gay, leading them to live their double lives together without their family's knowledge.
328) Cinco esquinas
Author
Language
Español
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La más reciente novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa.«Él había pensado que, después de todo, un periodista puede ser a veces útil. "Y también peligroso", concluyó. Tuvo el presentimiento de que nada bueno saldría de esta visita.»«La idea de esta novela comenzó con una imagen de dos señoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situación erótica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en...
Author
Series
Juliet takes a breath volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--
330) Girl unwrapped
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Girl Unwrapped is a girl's coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal about the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with her Holocaust-scarred parents' expectations. Yearning to reinvent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her; only on her return, when she discovers kindred spirits in the underground...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse. Nothing about Kess Pedrock’s life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon’s head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets...
333) Una última parada
Author
Language
Español
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Description
"August, una joven de veintitrés años, no cree en casi nada. Ni en los videntes, ni en las amistades que se entablan con facilidad, ni en encontrar esa clase de amor que sale en las películas. Entonces llega Jane. La misteriosa e imposible Jane. Con mucho carácter, una sonrisa amable y el cabello alborotado, aparece para ayudar a August cuando ella más lo necesita. Jane es la persona que August sueña encontrarse en el vagón del metro día...
Author
Publisher
Ooligan Press, Portland State University
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
At high school beginning in 1989, shy, intelligent Triinu comes to realize that she is a lesbian--and in love--just as her home state of Oregon is debating Measure 9, which would allow discrimination against gay people.
335) Always
Author
Series
Aud Torvingen mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Martha Shelley didn't start out in life wanting to become a gay activist, or an activist of any kind. The daughter of Jewish refugees and undocumented immigrants in New York City, she grew up during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, was inspired by the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements that followed, and struggled with coming out as a lesbian at a time when being gay made her a criminal. Shelley rose to become a public speaker...
338) Tell the rest
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart. "Two conversion therapy survivors go back to the site of their trauma, hoping the truth will set them free . . . This satisfyingly nuanced story tackles sexuality and spiritual abuse, offering connection and redemption." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “In Berkeley author Lucy Jane Bledsoe's explosive...
339) Follow your arrow
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
For the last several years teenager CeCe Ross has been in a serious relationship with her girlfriend Silvie, enjoying their career as social media influencers with thousands of fans, posting about fashion and relationship goals, and totally abandoning the liberal politics that were the subjects of her original social media profile; than suddenly in their senior year Silvie breaks up with her, and CeCe meets Josh, a new boy who is not interested in...
340) Hurricane Child
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Black History Month for Kids
LGBTQIA+ for Middle Grade
SRC - Ages 9-12 Fiction
Stonewall Book Award - Children
LGBTQIA+ for Middle Grade
SRC - Ages 9-12 Fiction
Stonewall Book Award - Children
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Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child. Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and twelve-year-old Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She's hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands, a spirit only she can see won't stop following her, and -- worst of all -- Caroline's mother left home one day and never came back. But when a new student named Kalinda arrives, Caroline's luck begins to turn...
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