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"Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot?"--Back cover.
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"From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians--"a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation" (Mat Johnson)--a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership"--
"When Eli leaves the cramped Bulgarian apartment he shares with Elizabeth, his more organized and successful wife, he discovers that he now inhabits her body. Not only have he and his wife...
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Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
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Elit Lgtbi 20
«Aún recuerdo aquella vez que una compañera de clase llegó anunciando que su abuela había muerto. Todos acudieron a consolarla y hasta se libró de tener que hacer un examen. Y recuerdo que yo deseé que mi abuela muriera también para poder tener todo lo que ella tenía. Porque quería un poco de compasión, en lugar de lo que sea que sintieran por mí, que no tengo muy claro qué era».
Noel siempre ha creído que su cabeza no...
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Chance There are certain rules of friendship that are pretty much written in stone:Don't hit on your buddy's girlBack your buddy up when he gets into a bar fightBail your buddy out when he gets hauled in by the sheriff for 'requisitioning' a pair of goats Helping your buddy's kid brother lose his virginity? …yeah, that's not on the list. It starts as a simple favor. Now that he's home from college, my best friend's brother Tucker needs a place to...
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Jacob Carlyle has been living his best life as a highly successful political pundit. His comfortable existence goes into meltdown, however, when right-wing activists go public with a hidden-camera video of Jacob in a hotel room with the married son of an ultra-conservative politician. Suddenly Jacob is the target of attacks from both ends of the political spectrum. He retreats to his late grandfather's remote farmhouse to try to sort out the mess...
9) Press
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Henley is off-limits for Levar. So why can't he stay away? Five years ago, Levar survived a terrorist attack. The bombing left its scars, but he's picked up his life. He loves working for the vice president-who is openly bisexual-as his press secretary. Levar can't afford a pesky attraction that proves to be frustratingly stubborn. Worse, those highly combustible sparks are with the very last person he should be falling for: Henley Platt, a well-known...
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From road trips to isolated cabins, business partners to longtime besties, longstanding crushes to new revelations, former bosses to dad's best friend-delve into nine contemporary romances where friendship changes course. SOMETHING SOFTER: Hal Preston isn't normally one to run from his problems, but a solitary mountain retreat might be just what he needs to stop obsessing over his dad's best friend. There's no chance Wayne Merrick shares his fascination,...
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A bear, an air horn, and a night in a very small tent change everything.AidenI'm so not into Jay. He's afraid of nature, he's a failure as a camp counselor and, well, he's a guy. And I'm straight. So why can't I stop fixating on his stunning face and delectable lips? Lips that make me think about things I shouldn't be thinking about my co-counselor. But when a bear shows up, it's Jay's anxiety that saves us, and I can't fight the urge to thank him...
12) Doll Face
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Barbara Ann (Barbie) as her friends know her, is the CEO of her parents toy company Up, Up, Away toys. All Barbie wants to do is pop a bottle of champagne, create and sell the best toys in the world and maybe forget about the girl who broke her heart.Kenzie might be one of the world's top models right now but under the lipstick and dresses, all she can think about is her first love. She left Barbie years ago to pursue her career in modeling and has...
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Since the day dad started working for the team, he had one family rule:DON'T DATE THE PLAYERS.Maggie's followed that rule throughout her life with no problem, until Rosie Robbins. The first female in the NFL to make the big leagues. She was going to bring the team to new heights, but Maggie had fallen hard. Not that Rosie noticed, the only thing on her mind was that MVP trophy, definitely not how beautiful the coach's daughter was.Until one night...
15) Truth & Betrayal
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Jake Greenwood thought losing his older brother Caleb in a traffic accident was enough to change him forever. But when the driver turns up at the funeral, Jake now has a target for all the rage inside him. Because the man responsible for stealing Caleb's light from the world has no right to intrude on their grief.Jake's right about one thing-Caleb's death changes everything, but not in a way he expects. When he goes to Atlanta to collect Caleb's things,...
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From the acclaimed author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL comes a deeply moving romance about losing the life you always thought would be yours...and finding something beautiful in the wreckage of the past.
Quietly heartbroken, Edwin Tully lives alone in the house he used to share with the man he once loved. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns, and the river spills into...
17) Pride
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Grace needed an out. The Canadian big cat sanctuary offered it. She didn't quite get to the sanctuary, but she would soon find her hands overflowing with big cats. Now, she just had to find her footing around a whole new world she never knew existed, a war she never realized she had entered, and the one thing that stands between her and death? The Alpha who lights her blood on fire.Pogue liked control. He liked things in boxes and neatly separated....
18) Le marais
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Des adolescent·es essaient, tant bien que mal, de quitter leur petite ville oppressive, Le Marais, en Ontario, sans y laisser leur peau. Dans cette ville glauque, des castors carnivores pourchassent les habitant·es, l'eau est toxique, un mystérieux mal ronge la peau des enfants et la violence abonde.
19) No One Dies Yet
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A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice
It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to explore Ghana's colonial past, and to experience the country's underground queer scene. Their visit and activities are narrated by two very different Ghanians: the exuberant and rebellious Kobby, who is their guide...
20) Killer Rack
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In their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in motion. These are poems for the sad bitches, the silly billys, the divine transsexuals, the girls who were first to get piercings not in their ears, the ones who dream of dissolving into a river, the Cocteau Twins obsessives, the average bros, the immaculate twinks, the retired popstars turned chicken farmers, and fans of 2001 masterpiece Charlie's Angels....
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