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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A painfully insecure artist falls in love with a charming, intellectual fellow university student in 1970s Pittsburgh before their relationship spirals into an all-consuming obsession that culminates in a shattering truth.
2) Family meal
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
3) A single man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life. The course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian--both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence--spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Forced into retirement, former postman Albert Entwistle, with no friends, family or hobbies, forms a brave plan to start truly living, seek the happiness he’s always denied himself and find the courage to look for the man he loved and lost years ago but has never forgotten.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way, "stepping into the niche that England had prepared for him": except that his is homosexual. Written...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This piercing novel from "one of our most gifted writers" (The Boston Globe) is a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he struggles with race and class, art and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence. Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it,...
9) Real life
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...
Author
Series
What belongs to you volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting novel of erotic obsession by a major new talent On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a stairwell beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable...
11) Cleanness
Author
Series
What belongs to you volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A queer American teacher describes a series of intimate encounters with lovers, friends, and students in and around Sofia, Bulgaria"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family's strong women, he starts to do just that - until a patient's son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men's unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat...
Author
Publisher
Carina Adores
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the moment Jack Gardner first laid eyes on Theodore Beaumont, he hated everything about him. Emanating wealth and icy perfection, Theo was everything Jack was not. Their time together at the elite Gwynns Academy changed them both, but it wasn't until a chance encounter the summer after graduation that the tension between them became palpable...Seventeen years later, Jack's and Theo's worlds collide as they drop their sons off at Gwynns. Theo...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. Tom does what he always does--answers the call. And therein lies either the beauty or dysfunction, (or perhaps both) of the sometimes too tight ties that bind families together"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the City, Trey meets up with...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Chino Flores, a queer Latino in his late thirties, was a beloved middle school biology teacher with an adoring wife and a child on the way until a devastating loss dramatically changed his life and he relies on his coterie of new and old friends and lovers in this anthem to queer and platonic love"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 thousands of miles it'll take to walk the famed hike. He's prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he's not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho. Charismatic and outgoing, Ben's personality and infectious laughter...
20) No one dies yet
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
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.
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