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21) The Royal Road
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Pub. Date
2013
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By day, Weston Davies designs mascots for Sanderson Designs and avoids the new productivity consultant, Sidney Romero, who has been hired to ensure maximum efficiency. In the evenings, Weston writes. Fantasy, detective stories, science fiction-he's tried it all, and he isn't very good. All his attempts are riddled with cliches, and his characters become mouthpieces for scathing commentary on overused literary stereotypes. Though fantastical dreams...
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The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
23) The rainbow
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D. H. Lawrence's 1915 novel "The Rainbow" is the story of three generations of the Brangwens family. While tame by today's standards, "The Rainbow", for its frank treatment of human sexuality, caused Lawence to be prosecuted on an obscenity charge in England when it was first published. Through richly personal characterizations, "The Rainbow" deals profoundly with the very nature of human relations as it explores the sexuality of Ursula Brangwen and...
25) Shaken Up
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Pub. Date
2015
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Tim Myers is wary of exposing his body or his heart, but he might have found a match made for collaring in Dom Jae Seong.
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Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were...
27) Born Magic
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Pub. Date
2019
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Querteshan guardsman Jamal Fayed is on a routine patrol through the desert area known as the Burning when they discover an injured and unconscious man who looks to be from a nearby country, Perathea. Their two countries have a long history of animosity.
When Nev ran from his master, he was fleeing for his life and any outcome seemed better than the death he was promised. But Nev has secrets, complicated secrets that involve both magic and his physical...
When Nev ran from his master, he was fleeing for his life and any outcome seemed better than the death he was promised. But Nev has secrets, complicated secrets that involve both magic and his physical...
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Pub. Date
2019
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A Winter Ball Novel.
As far as Clay Carpenter is concerned, his abusive relationship with food is the best thing he's got going. When a good friend starts kicking his ass into gear, Clay is forced to reexamine everything he learned about food and love-and that's right when he meets troubled graduate student, Dane Hayes.
Dane Hayes doesn't do the whole monogamy thing, but the minute he meets Clay Carpenter, he's doing the friend thing in spades. The...
29) Project Amber
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Pub. Date
2019
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She's gutsy, clever, and she has a special gift that sets her apart.
What will she do when she discovers her life was planned from the beginning? How will she handle being recruited into the Intelligence Community? Will she do more harm than good? Or will she manage to stop the unimaginable?
The Reloaded version of Project Amber contains the same gripping story and now adds previously unreleased chapters and bonus content.
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Pub. Date
2019
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When Alex Toomey's partner of eight years breaks up with him in the airport boarding area just before his flight, Alex is devastated. Barely able to function, he boards his plane, where the man he's seated beside, Tom Genser, comes to his rescue, first with a drink, then later with some solace, both emotional and physical.
But Alex is walking wounded and, though the two men realize something wonderful is coming alive between them, Tom insists they...
But Alex is walking wounded and, though the two men realize something wonderful is coming alive between them, Tom insists they...
31) Two boys kissing
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS— Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing...
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Pub. Date
2022
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A provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologist
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. For psychologist and bestselling author Julia Shaw, this is both professional and personal-Shaw...
33) The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Story of Love and Second Chances
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Pub. Date
2022
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"This rollicking romance entrapped me! True in its detail and its scope, it is amusing yet heart-breaking." —Ian McKellen
Perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and TJ Klune, this humorous, life-affirming, and charmingly wise novel tells the story of how the forced retirement of a shy, closeted postman in northern England creates a second chance with his lost love, as he learns to embrace his true self, connect with his community,...
Perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and TJ Klune, this humorous, life-affirming, and charmingly wise novel tells the story of how the forced retirement of a shy, closeted postman in northern England creates a second chance with his lost love, as he learns to embrace his true self, connect with his community,...
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Fractured fables volume 1
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2021.
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"USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden. It's Zinnia Gray's...
35) What If It's Us
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What if it's us volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.
37) Music Box
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Pub. Date
2014
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Davoud's music store is Jonah's sanctuary. But if Davoud and Paul can't save the store from bankruptcy, everyone will feel the loss.
38) Unnatural
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Archangel Academy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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In the town of Eden in northwestern England stands the exclusive boarding school known as Archangel Academy. Ancient and imposing, it's a place filled with secrets. Just like its students. . .
For Michael Howard, being plucked from his Nebraska hometown and sent thousands of miles away is as close as he's ever come to a miracle. In Weeping Water, he felt trapped, alone. At Archangel Academy, Michael belongs. And in Ciaran, Penry, and especially...
For Michael Howard, being plucked from his Nebraska hometown and sent thousands of miles away is as close as he's ever come to a miracle. In Weeping Water, he felt trapped, alone. At Archangel Academy, Michael belongs. And in Ciaran, Penry, and especially...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. But at least here no one knows she's gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way.
After being outed by her crush and ex-best friend before transferring to Slayton Catholic, Yami has new priorities: keep her brother out of trouble, make her mom proud, and, most importantly, don't...
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Pub. Date
2013
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When small-time thief Timmy Harwell recklessly "borrows" a Cadillac for a joyride, he doesn't expect to find a cool $100,000 in the trunk. His elation turns to terror when he realizes the SUV and the dough belong to Miguel Garcia, aka El Poco, a Tijuana drug dealer with a nasty reputation. Timmy sees only one way out: leave the stolen car behind and run as fast as he can. His getaway is cut short when a storm strands him outside Jasper Stone's secluded...