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Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek ...
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From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war IrelandCyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?Bor...
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Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the...
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A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, th...
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"We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the t...
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DeRay MckessonThe most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times "Modern Love" column--including stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John SlatteryA young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man's promis...
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The Motion Of Light In Water
Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village
Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political...
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Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called "an acute observer of the unmapped region surrounding his heart and one of the best writers of his generation." In journal entries from age seventeen until his AIDS-related death at thirty-seve...
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Title: In Youth Is Pleasure( & I Left My Grandfather's House by Denton Welch) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: DentonWelch <>Publisher: ExactChange...
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The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Full Circle by Michael Palin
Maurice by E. M. Forster
In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer
Bite Hard by Justin Chin
Lord Dismiss Us by Michael Campbell
The Price of Salt, or Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Desert Of The Heart by Jane Rule
Don’t Tell Anyone by Ian Rosales Casocot
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Dive by Stacey Donovan
Mrs. Stevens Hears The Mermaids Singing by Sarton May
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
The Men from the Boys by William J. Mann
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
Love Story by Erich Segal
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Find Me by André Aciman