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• Butter Honey Pig Bread

  a Novel

  Ekwuyasi, Francesca, 1990-

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  Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House in the Cerulean Sea

  Klune, T. J.

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  A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moonlight

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  "A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami."

• One Last Stop

  McQuiston, Casey,

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  Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Should See Me in a Crown

  Johnson, Leah (Young adult author)

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  "Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pride

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  "U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984."

• Fun Home

  a Family Tragicomic

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  "Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father."

• An Unkindness of Ghosts

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Booksmart

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  "Told from a wildly original, fresh, and modern perspective, this is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds they create that last a lifetime. Capturing the spirit of the times, it is a coming-of-age story for a new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Dream House

  a Memoir

  Machado, Carmen Maria,

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  "In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Honey Girl

  Rogers, Morgan,

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  With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, 28-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know, until she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bound

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  "A mobster, his mistress, and her lover--a tough female ex-con--are caught in a dangerous plot with over $2 million of the mob's money at stake."

• Real Queer America

  LGBT Stories From Red States

  Allen, Samantha,

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  Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn't changed is her deep love of Red State America,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  a Novel

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disobedience

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  "A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality."

• If We Were Villains

  Rio, M. L.

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  As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

  Aciman, André

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  "Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carol

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  "Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Place Like Home

  Lessons in Activism From LGBT Kansas

  Janovy, C. J.

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  Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red states. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book tells…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seep

  Porter, Chana, 1984-

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  Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle-but nonetheless world-changing-invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls,…Read moreRead more of this annotation