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Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sparks fly when eighteen-year-old Nigel meets Ori during the Culling, a competition that determines whether a magician is stripped of their powers or joins the magical society known as the Guild, but they soon realize the connection growing between them threatens their future, the Guild, and all of humanity.
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Series
Appears on list
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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 life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country. At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a...
Author
Series
Cosecha roja volume 31
Publisher
Estuario Editora
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2021.
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"José Arenas une, quizá por primera vez en la literatura uruguaya, una novela de temática queer con un crudo hard boiled en el más puro estilo clásico." --
Još Arenas unites, perhaps for the first time in Uruguayan literature, a queer-themed novel with a raw hard boiled in the purest classical style.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 6
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger"--
10) Ernesto
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 130 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Ernesto, a 16-year-old boy living in Trieste in 1898, has an affair with a 28-year-old worker simply called "the man". Ernesto subsequently has sex with the man frequently, but after an enjoyable experience with a female prostitute, he stops seeing him.He concentrates on studying the violin, and during a concert, Ernesto (now seventeen) meets a beautiful 15-year-old boy, also a violin player. He is called Emilio, nicknamed "Ilio""--
11) Real life
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
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,...
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"Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing...
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
"Eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has ascended to godhood for the third time, angering most of the gods in the process. To repay his debts, he is sent to the Mortal Realm to hunt down violent ghosts and troublemaking spirits who prey onthe living. Along his travels, he meets the fascinating and brilliant San Lang, a young man with whom he feels an instant connection. Yet San Lang is clearly more than he appears... What mysteries...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy, and Arthur has gone...
Author
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Alex Claremont-Diaz, el hijo millennial de la presidenta de Estados Unidos, es un tesoro para el marketing de la Casa Blanca: atractivo, carismatico e inteligente. Lo que nadie sabe es que no soporta al principe Henry, el hijo de la reina de Inglaterra. Asi que, cuando la prensa sensacionalista se hace con una fotografia que refleja un altercado entre Alex y Henry, las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido se enfrian. Ambos paises trazan...
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 5
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
465 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
"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 Mount Tonglu before. As they struggle against...
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"In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his...
Author
Series
Material volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Wanted: One (fake) boyfriend Practically perfect in every way Luc O'Donnell is tangentially-and reluctantly-famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Nowthat his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship...and Oliver...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show, Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic...
20) In memoriam
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action. Their...
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