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GLBTQ Voices
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GLBTQ authors whose books address GLBTQ themes or feature GLBTQ characters.
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Black Like Us: a Century of Lesbian Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction *Black Like Us*, newly updated in 2011, is a comprehensive collection of 20th-century fiction by African-American lesbian, gay, and bisexual writers from Alice Dunbar Nelson to Marci Blackman. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Aciman, Andre Call Me By Your Name The sudden and complex attraction between 17-yr-old Elio and 24-yr-old Oliver--a summer scholar staying at Elio's parents' house on the Italian Riviera to finish work on a book--has a profound influence that will mark both men for a lifetime. Aciman writes beautifully of longing, self-discovery, desire, and the lush Italian summer in this fever-dream of a novel. 2007 Adult Fiction Book ACIMAN | |
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Avery, Ellis The Last Nude A stunning story of love, treachery, and tragedy, about Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Spellbinding and provocative, The Last Nude is about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and-- most of all--hope that can transcend time and circumstance. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Boyne, John The Absolutist Tristan Sadler, a gay soldier, recalls his time spent fighting in World War I and the intensity of his friendship with Will Bancroft, a soldier who became a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor. 2012 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Dean, Terrance Mogul: a Novel With the help of a network of secretly gay men in the hip hop world, 'Big A.T.' finds success and starts his own music label. He signs some of the biggest hip hop artists in the country, all of the radio stations play his music, he has money and fame--and Jasmine, a girlfriend who doesn't know about his secret love for men. Then, at the pinnacle of his career, compromising photos land on the desk of a national news programme. For the first time in his career, Big A.T. is confronted with a difficult choice... 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Donoghue, Emma Hood: a Novel Kate Wall is flying to Dublin for the funeral of her younger sister Cara. Staying with her sedentary father and sister's housemate Pen, Kate comes to realize several things: that Pen and Cara were lovers, that she herself is more Irish than she thought and that the past is ever present. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Fallenberg, Evan Light Fell Twenty years have passed since Israeli scholar Joseph Licht left behind his entire life--his wife Rebecca, his five young sons, his father, and the religious farming community where he grew up --when he fell in love with a man, the famous Rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Winner of the 2009 Publishing Triangle Award for Debut Fiction. 2008 Adult Fiction Book FALLENBERG | |
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Ford, Michael Thomas The Road Home When a car accident leaves forty-year-old Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the Vermont home where he grew up as be begins the long recuperation. A burgeoning relationship with the twenty-year-old son of Burke's high school best friend draws him out of himself and into the community he left behind. 2010 Adult Fiction Book FORD | |
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Grant, Stephanie Map of Ireland In 1974, the first year of busing in Boston, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Ann Ahern's lesbianism, which has isolated her from other white students, draws her to her African French teacher and leads her to insights into blacks' struggles in the post-Civil Rights era. 2008 Adult Fiction Book GRANT | |
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Hart, Ellen The Lost Women of Lost Lake In this, the most engrossing mystery yet from Lambda and Minnesota Book Award-winning author Ellen Hart, protagonist Jane Lawless's only hope of protecting her friends from the secrets that are surfacing all around them is to uncover the whole truth before anyone else can. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Hoffman, Wayne Sweet Like Sugar In Yiddish, there is a word for it: bashert--the person you are fated to meet. Twentysomething Benji Steiner views the concept with skepticism. But the elderly rabbi who stumbles into Benji's office one day has no such doubts. Their friendship baffles everyone, especially Benji's sharp-tongued, modestly observant mother. Yet the test of friendship, and of both men's faith, lies in the difficult truths they come to share. With each revelation, Benji learns what it means not just to be Jewish, but to be fully human--imperfect, striving, and searching for the pieces of ourselves that come only through another's acceptance. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Lemus, Felicia Luna Like Son Set in present-day New York City, 1990s Los Angeles, and 1940s Mexico City, *Like Son* is the story of Frank Cruz (born Francisca Cruz), a post-punk 30-year-old who has inherited his dead father's wanderlust, unrequited love, and hyperbolic tendencies. 2007 Adult Fiction Book LEMUS | |
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Magruder, James Sugarless Sugarless offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus. Tony Kushner blurbs, "Magruder is a writer of immense gifts, with a voice—smart, playful, lyrical, subtle, unsparing—utterly unlike anyone else’s." 2009 Adult Fiction Book MAGRUDER | |
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Mallon, Thomas Fellow Travelers In a powerful historical novel set in D.C. in the early '50s, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, arrives to join the crusade against Communism, only to find himself falling for Hawkins Fuller, a State Department official. 2007 Adult Fiction Book MALLON | |
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McCauley, Stephen Insignificant Others What do you do when you discover your spouse has an insignificant other? How about when you realize your own insignificant other is becoming more significant than your spouse? Richard Rossi works in HR at a touchy-feely software company and prides himself on his understanding of the foibles and fictions we all use to get through the day. Too bad he’s not as good at spotting such behavior in himself. 2010 Adult Fiction Book MCCAULEY | |
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Mehta, Rahul Quarantine: Stories The characters in Quarantine—openly gay Indian-American men—are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship and sex, while struggling to maintain relationships with their families and cultural traditions. Estranged from their cultural in-group and still set apart from larger society, the young men in these lyrical, provocative, emotionally wrenching, yet frequently funny stories find themselves quarantined. 2011 Adult Fiction Book MEHTA | |
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Olshan, Joseph The Conversion Translator Russell Todaro's life as an American expat in Paris is shaken by the sudden death of his much-older lover, Edward, a famous poet who has left behind a coveted unpublished memoir. 2008 Adult Fiction Book OLSHAN | |
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Pitts, J. A. Black Blade Blues Norse mythology, meet Sarah Beauhall. She's a blacksmith by day, a props manager for low-budget movies by night, and a hardcore medieval reenactor in whatever free time she's got left. When she lends her prized sword to a shoot, she learns that it's far more than a prop: it's the legendary blade Gram, the sword Sigurd used to slay Fafnir--and someone called Corpse Gnawer is coming to claim it back. To make matters worse, her girlfriend has started using words like "love." The first in a planned new urban fantasy series from Tor. 2010 Adult SciFi Fantasy Book PITTS | |
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Reardon, Robin The Evolution of Ethan Poe 16-yr-old Ethan Poe's life is conspiring to pull him different directions: his parents are divorcing; his older brother Kyle is exhibiting alarming behavior; his best friend is turning into a spiritual fanatic. He's just starting to see light in the form of Max Modine, a boy he wants to know much better than he does, when his rural Maine town begins to explode around him. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Reynald, Lance Pop Salvation Caleb simply does not belong. But on a field trip to the art museum, Caleb discovers his hero--his icon--when he is exposed to the art of Andy Warhol. In the beauty of the things that don't fit, in the art and philosophy of Pop plus the glorious camp of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' and its creatures of the night, Caleb will find sanctuary, transforming himself and the eccentric friends he meets along the way into his own little version of Warhol's Factory. 2009 Adult Fiction Book REYNALD | |
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