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1) Jerkbait
Author
Publisher
North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Even though they're identical, Tristan isn't close to his twin Robbie at all—until Robbie tries to kill himself. Forced to share a room to prevent Robbie from hurting himself, the brothers begin to feel the weight of each other's lives on the ice, and off. Tristan starts seeing his twin not as a hockey star whose shadow Tristan can't escape, but a struggling gay teen terrified about coming out in the professional sports world. Robbie's future in...
Author
Publisher
Cedar Street Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Join translator-sleuth Cassandra Reilly as she solves a new puzzle in the comic mystery, Not the Real Jupiter. Older, but only slightly wiser, Cassandra is translating a collection of speculative fiction by her old friend, the Uruguayan writer Luisa Montiflores, to be published by a small press in Portland. When editorial complications threaten, Cassandra travels from Luisa’s apartment in Montevideo to the coast of Oregon to sort things out. Only...
Author
Publisher
Ravensword Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Can you change destiny?
Laurence Riley has seen the future, and all his visions are coming true. Just as he can't control the addiction that dominates his life, or the mindgames of his stalker ex-boyfriend, he also struggles with his untamed supernatural gifts.
Jack can help. His price is that Laurence keeps him fed with regular offerings of sex, but Laurence has fallen for someone way out of his league whose wild telekinesis keeps them even further...
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Watermarsh Tales: Book One Is it possible to have it all—even for a boy from a dying town of old cranberry bogs? Even for the son of religious zealots who will never accept his being gay? Even if his closeted boyfriend will never acknowledge their relationship and dates girls to distract people?Sixteen-year-old cross-country runner Zeph hopes so, because he isn’t giving up on his happily ever after. He has big plans for life after high school...
Publisher
BLF Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A necessary and relevant addition to the Black LGBTQ literary canon, which oftentimes overlooks Black lesbian writing, Lez Talk is a collection of short stories that embraces the fullness of Black lesbian experiences. The contributors operate under the assumption that “lesbian” is not a dirty word, and have written stories that amplify the diversity of Black lesbian lives. At once provocative, emotional, adventurous, and celebratory, Lez Talk...
Author
Publisher
Patchwork Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
As her fingers move across the strings of her family’s heirloom harp, sixteen-year-old Clarion can forget. She doesn’t dwell on the recent passing of her beloved father or the fact that her mother has just sold everything they owned, including that very same instrument that gives Clarion life. She doesn’t think about how her friends treat her like a feeble, brittle thing to be protected. She doesn’t worry about how to tell the elegant Elena,...
7) Pride Colors
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Through gentle rhymes and colorful photographs of adorable children, Pride Colors is a celebration of the deep unconditional love of a parent or caregiver for a young child. The profound message of this delightful board book is that love is love. Be yourself, and be with whomever you choose; you'll always be loved.
Celebrated author Robin Stevenson ends her purposeful prose by explaining the meaning behind each color in the Pride flag: red = life,...
8) Identify
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Ethan is an anxiety-ridden loner who relies on medication to get through his day. During one of his fairly frequent panic attacks, a girl from school named Gabriella comes to his rescue. Gabe, as she prefers to be known, is facing her own inner turmoil. She has always been a tomboy, but the more pressure she faces to act and dress "like a girl," the more she wonders just who she really is.
When he learns that Gabe is being constantly harassed at...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Beverly Hills hedge fund manager Logan Aronheart, his family, and business associates are caught in the middle of a deadly battle for the possession of secret assets of the Chinese Communist Party hidden in America. Logan disappears in a tragic yacht explosion, and his wife, Maxine, undertakes a desperate struggle to find him and elude her potential captors. When the "Red Secret" is ultimately revealed, their quest turns to survival, revenge, and...
10) Behind the Seams
Author
Publisher
Write-hearted Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
** 2021 BookLife Prize Fiction Contest Semifinalist! ** Praise for Behind the Seams: "Sumptuous detailed descriptions of clothing and the art of sewing and fashion design are what make this story a cut above other gay romances. Wakefield develops the relationship between Kit and Barker in tandem with the filming of the episodes of a reality TV show and that device adds interest and tension to the story." — The 2021 BookLife Prize Fiction Contest...
Author
Publisher
Pictograph Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Harper arrives in Chicago with the Diggs Monroe Jazz Orchestra, seeking fame and fortune. Instead he descends into the jazz underworld where he becomes entangled in dark dealings with a sinister mob boss and in an erotic affair with a black drag performer. In this unfamiliar world, Jimmy begins to question whether he can trust anyone, even his old band members.
“Eric/Erica’s thoughtful and sensual guidance of Jimmy through the multi-colored...
12) Owl
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Gabriel made a decision to help a friend, and it cost him. He’s been exiled from his clan, trapped in his owl form, living in a swamp, and slowly losing his humanity. If not for Vincent, Gabriel would have no chance of regaining what he lost. Vincent is popular and successful, but no one knows the real him, who is gay and would rather become a musician than a lawyer… no one but the owl living in the hollow tree. As Vincent shares his secrets,...
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In a time when hardship and famine rule the country, one boy finds an oasis of magic and the strength to fight for it.
The Dust Bowl uprooted a lot of families and orphaned even more children. No one knows this better than Nat, a teenager who rides the rails from town to town looking for work. After helping a girl accused of witchcraft, Nat stumbles upon a home for wayward children run by a vibrant woman named Camille. She takes in children who...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Declan's life in small-town Quebec is defined by his parents' divorce, his older brother's delinquency and his own lackluster performance at school, which lands him with a tutor he calls Little Miss Perfect. He likes his job at the local ice rink, and he has a couple of good buddies, but his father's five-year absence is a constant source of pain and anger. When he finds out the truth about his parents' divorce, he is forced to reconsider everything...
15) My Whole Truth
Author
Publisher
North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Seelie Stanton never wanted to kill someone. She never wanted to be invisible in her own family, she never wanted to crush on her best friend Alyssa, and she definitely never wanted to know how effectively a mallet could destroy someone's head. But the universe doesn't care what she wants. Shane Mayfield doesn't care what Seelie wants either. When the former high school basketball star attacks her, she has no choice but to defend...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
New Hope Academy, or, as seventeen-year-old Jane Learning likes to call it, No Hope, is a Baptist reform school where Jane is currently being held captive.
Of course, smart, sarcastic Jane has no interest in reforming, failing to see any benefit to pretending to play well with others. But then Hannah shows up, a gorgeous bad girl with fiery hair and an even stormier disposition. She shows Jane how to live a full and fulfilling life even when the...
17) The Lost Souls
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Grim Life: Book Three Teenage grim reapers Max and Kody are already dealing with being dead… and now they’re expected to save the world.With the help of their guardian angel, Slade, and each other, Max and Kody have finally discovered the destiny God planned for them—help the lost souls languishing in purgatory back to heaven. But they’re still growing into their roles. Kody, the Healer, struggles to understand the power born of his...
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Grim Life: Book Two Dating is tough… especially when you’re dead. Max and Kody never really figured life out, and their afterlife isn’t proving any easier. They were supposed to live happily ever after, escorting souls to heaven for the Big Guy—as in God—but then their boss, the mysterious angel Slade, delivered some shocking news about the undead.Their afterlife just got a lot more complicated.The appearance of the undead shades can...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Jane Maxwell, the creator of a popular new comics franchise, gets swept into a parallel world where her comics are real, except that she is the leader of the band of superheroes. Now she is asked to step into the role left behind by her double; but can she grow her new powers, navigate her parallel life, and somehow NOT fall in love with the alternate version of her dead wife, all in time to defeat a deadly new supervillain?
20) The Guardian
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Sequel to The Touchstone Superpowered teen Sam, and his boyfriend, Harry, are already struggling to navigate being gifted in a normal world, and their problems are about to get deadlier.Their oldest enemy, Caleb Reed, will stop at nothing to capture Sam and force him to use his abilities for Reed’s benefit. Though their team of friends and allies steps up to watch their backs, Reed sneaks past their defenses time and time again, leading Sam to wonder...
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