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141) Small joys
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chosen family, the winding road to happiness, and the grace of second chances. Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? It's 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater. Estranged from his father and finding every attempt at happiness...
142) The house of doors
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
143) The old place
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement--or, district mandated exile as she calls it--Mary...
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
In this collection of short stories, fantastic queer YA authors explore new and familiar worlds. Worlds in which two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station... In which only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future... In which...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of teen Rick, who after being wrongfully committed to Brookline at the height of warden Crawford's regime, must escape before becoming a subject in an evil experiment and losing his mind to the forces haunting the asylum.
Author
Publisher
[Shelby Elizabeth]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elliot is talented. He's the youngest player on his varsity soccer team. The best defender. When the infuriating sunshine child he played against in the summer tournament shows up at Fredricks High, he's mildly annoyed. When that sunshine child is given a spot on the varsity soccer team, he's sure it's a mistake. Jack is the new kid. He's ecstatic to finally be able to try out for a school soccer team. He's less enthused to find himself on the same...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th - the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their...
Author
Publisher
Duet of Interlude Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nicolas "Nico" Hall is sixteen when he escapes from Dr. H's religious gay reprogramming institute in California. On his own, he assumes one identity after another to avoid recapture as he flees south to Peru and then to Mexico. Seven days older than Nico, Samuel "Sam" Jonas Solomon is a privileged Upper West Side only child who idolizes James Bond. When his heart is broken, he vows that, like Bond, he's never going to trust in love again. Then he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the playhouse's future, but the more she learns about the building, the more fascinated she becomes by its past. Nicknamed "The Old Deep and Dark" because of the Prohibition-era double murder that occurred in the basement--then a speakeasy--there are a wealth...