Recent Books with LGBTQ+ Representation

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Afterparties : stories

Afterparties : stories

So, Anthony, author
2021

"A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life-immersive and comic, yet unsparing-that marks the arrival of an indisputable new talent in American fiction."-- Provided by publisher.

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A dark and starless forest

A dark and starless forest

Hollowell, Sarah, author
2021

"Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. They know it's for their own good. After all, the world isn't safe for people with magic. And Derry feels safe--most of the time. Until the night her eldest sister disappears. When a second sibling goes missing, feeling safe is no longer an option. Derry will risk anything to protect the family she has left. Even if that means returning to the forest that has started calling to Derry in her missing siblings' voices. As Derry spends more time amidst the trees, her magic grows more powerful . . . and so does the darkness inside her, the viciousness she wants to pretend doesn't exist. But saving her siblings from the forest might mean embracing the darkness. And that just might be the most dangerous thing of all."--Dust jacket flap.

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Dreaming of you : a novel in verse

Dreaming of you : a novel in verse

Lozada-Oliva, Melissa, author.
2021

"A young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The séance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek chorus of gossiping spirits as she journeys through a dead celebrity prom, encounters her shadow self, and performs karaoke in hell. In visceral poems embodying millennial angst, paragraph-long conversations overheard at her local coffeeshop, and unhinged Twitter rants, Lozada-Oliva reveals an eerie, sometimes gruesome, yet moving love story."--Provided by publisher.

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The king of infinite space

The king of infinite space

Faye, Lyndsay, author
2021

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on "Hamlet" in modern-day New York City, we meet Ben Dane. Unable to face alone his mother's ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Patel. Loyal to a fault, Horatio is on the first flight to NYC. Meanwhile, Ben's ex-fiancé Lia has been drawn into the fold of three florists who teach her the language of flowers, and whose magical bouquets hold both curses and cures. On one explosive night, these kinetic forces will collide, and the only possible outcome is death.

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The nobleman's guide to scandal and shipwrecks

The nobleman's guide to scandal and shipwrecks

Lee, Mackenzi, author.
2021

Desperate to escape his father's high expectations and his own grief in the aftermath of his mother's passing, sole heir Adrian Montague embarks on a search for his disowned siblings after discovering that he is not an only child.

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The sentence : a novel

The sentence : a novel

Erdrich, Louise, author
2021

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

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A snake falls to Earth

A snake falls to Earth

Little Badger, Darcie, 1987- author.
2021

"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart"--Provided by publisher.

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Squad

Squad

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie, author
2021

Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique-and even more surprised when she learns their secrets.

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Trashlands

Trashlands

Stine, Alison, 1978- author
2021

"A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides...In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a plucker, pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge...When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. But is it possible to choose a future for herself?"--Provided by publisher.

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We are not broken : a memoir

We are not broken : a memoir

Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-
2021

"This is a memoir of George's boyhood in New Jersey, growing up with their brother and two cousins, all under the supervision of their larger-than-life grandmother"-- Provided by publisher.

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The wrong end of the telescope

The wrong end of the telescope

Alameddine, Rabih, author.
2021

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, she refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Author of "The Angel of History."

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