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Erasure by Percival Everett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploitative debut novel of a young, middle-class black woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days... -
![Charm Artist by Creston Mapes]()
Charm Artist by Creston Mapes
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter the Portland terrorist attack, the kidnapping of his daughter, and the domestic violence case that almost killed him, Portland Police Investigator Wayne Deetz and his wife Joanie escape for a long overdue vacation in Sedona, Arizona, to make some monumental career decisions... -
![Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz]()
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsZach is eighteen. He is bright and articulate. He's also an alcoholic and in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn't remember how he got there. He's not sure he wants to remember. Something bad must have happened. Something really, really bad. Remembering sucks and being alive - well, what's up with that? I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts... -
![Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi]()
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction... -
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![Locked Promises: Society of the Locked Souls Book Two by Amber Nicole, Jenn Bullard]()
Locked Promises: Society of the Locked Souls Book Two by Amber Nicole, Jenn Bullard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is book two following Locked HeartsHearts unlocked…Promises broken...They expect us to just move on...But what happens when secrets are revealed?Some more deadly than expected?Societies rise...Nuns fall to their knees...Forgive me, baby, for I have sinned... -
![Don't You Forget About Me by Naima Simone]()
Don't You Forget About Me by Naima Simone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhoever said be careful what you wish for had a serious gift for understatement.As one of the world's hugest musicians I'd seen and had it all. Sold out tours. Awards. Fame. Money. Women... And I'd almost lost it all. Epically.Now I'm back home. A broken, burned out, desperate rock star...and a single father. I returned to give my son a family, stability. To figure out my life... -
![The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsA groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization... -
![Under a Sky of Ash by Brandon Witt]()
Under a Sky of Ash by Brandon Witt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMore than a decade after leaving Colorado to escape his past, Isaiah Greene returns and builds a life in Denver as a special education teacher. But coming home revives memories of the racist, homophobic violence that destroyed his youthful first love. When Isaiah meets Ben Woods, the mentor of one of his students, the lightning-quick attraction grows into something deeper... -
![Shy Girl by Katie Cross]()
Shy Girl by Katie Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDagny:Once upon a time, I thought my stutter was the worst thing that ever happened to me. But now I know better.Being held at gunpoint outranks a speech impediment any day.Thankfully, my longtime crush Jayson Hernandez tackled that problem to the ground with those broad shoulders—the ones that make my stutter oh-so-much-worse... -
![Multiple Me's by Sasha Wright]()
Multiple Me's by Sasha Wright
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMoneca Robinson had to grow up fast when, at a young age, she was forced to care for her mother after a nervous breakdown. Living the fast life way before her adult years, she finally met her match when she fell in love with Rex. Although she thought he was everything she’d been missing, she soon learned Rex was not the man she thought... -
![Mourning Heaven by Amy Lane]()
Mourning Heaven by Amy Lane
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeroes fall. Peter first came to the tiny backwater of Daisy, California, as a child, and he was sure of one thing: his cousin Michael would take care of him. When Michael started a friendship with the fragile, haunted Bodi Kovacs, Peter's consolation in losing any claim to Bodi was that Michael would care for him too... -
![The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen, Marita Golden]()
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen, Marita Golden
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy tests her loyalty to her race... -
![On the Inside by Kim Cano]()
On the Inside by Kim Cano
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe didn't know what she stood to lose - until hope was all she had left.Kristen was living the dream - a loving husband, adorable children, a successful career. Why hadn't it been enough? She's had a lot of time to ponder the answer - behind bars.It was a little fudging of the numbers, just once to cover some unpaid bills... -
![Invisible Love by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt]()
Invisible Love by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEric-Emmanuel Schmitt is the author of three luminous collections of short stories published by Europa Editions, including the bestselling Most Beautiful Book in the World, and one novel, Three Women in a Mirror... -
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![Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris]()
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. It's an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master's House... -
![Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi]()
Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice... -
![The Nanny by Vera Roberts]()
The Nanny by Vera Roberts
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTiana Morris is the queen of the financial world with her investment firm, monthly articles, and television appearances. When she comes home to find her husband in bed with a woman half his age, the events turn her world upside down and she swears off men and dating forever... -
![Words Unspoken by Elizabeth Musser]()
Words Unspoken by Elizabeth Musser
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLissa Randall's future was bright with academic promise until the tragic accident that took her mother's life--and brought her own plans to a screeching halt. Eighteen months later Lissa is still unable to get back behind the wheel.Ev McAllistair's driving school looks like Lissa's best hope for getting her life back on the road again...Categorized as:
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![Black Pearl the Prequel by Tiffany Patterson]()
Black Pearl the Prequel by Tiffany Patterson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat will it take to rebuild my self-esteem?When I walked in on my boyfriend in bed with another woman, I couldn't believe my eyes. To make matters worse, his lack of remorse was like another slap to the face. Years of his verbal put-downs and hurtful comments about my weight all but thoroughly destroyed my self-confidence.But finally, I was done... -
![Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba by Reinaldo Arenas]()
Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba by Reinaldo Arenas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them... -
![The Anatomy of Perception by A.J. Rose]()
The Anatomy of Perception by A.J. Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the beginning, there was wreckage. Dane Perry’s mother was dead, and the father who always said he’d amount to nothing blamed him. Dane swore he’d become something. He would be someone. In the middle, there was escape... -
![War Against the Animals by Paul Russell]()
War Against the Animals by Paul Russell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCameron Barnes, formerly of New York City, lives in a small town in upstate New York. After having nearly succumbed to AIDS, he's recently regained a measure of his health but his long-term lover has moved away, and Cameron faces the daunting prospect of learning how to live with the idea of a future in mind again... -
![One Last Lie by Rob Kaufman]()
One Last Lie by Rob Kaufman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s demonic and evil, a wicked she-devil you’ll love to hate in this riveting psychological thriller that reviewers say is “gripping”, “heart wrenching” and “holding my breath suspenseful”.Angela is beautiful and charismatic on the outside. But on the inside, a demon rages, determined to get anyone and anything she wants... -
![Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong]()
Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKatrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed... -
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![Domestic Service by Ella Fenn]()
Domestic Service by Ella Fenn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsColin Caldwell clawed his way out of a rough childhood to put himself through college, and now grad school. Broke, stressed-out, and struggling to stay afloat after he loses his regular ridesharing gig, he’s willing to do anything that pays the bills.Simon Vessey, on the other hand, is a handsome, wealthy, and successful executive... -
![A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale]()
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest... -
![Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso]()
Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNatalia Borges Polesso apresenta, em Controle, uma narrativa impactante sobre relações homoafetivas entre mulheres, o poder do desafio e, acima de tudo, as escolhas que precisam ser feitas para que as pessoas se tornem quem elas querem ser.A protagonista, Nanda, é epilética. Cercada de cuidado pelos pais, ela evita ao máximo o contato humano — exceto pela amiga, Joana... -
![A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch, Peter Reed]()
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch, Peter Reed
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties... -
![The Strategist by Nadia Han]()
The Strategist by Nadia Han
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"She is the most beautiful target to land at the center of my heart."Calculated and sinfully attractive, Arrow Holt is a former Navy SEAL full of strategies that make him a successful wine entrepreneur. But the wounds he carries still haunt him. When he sees scars worse than his own on a stunning woman, his closed heart breaks open... -
![Angry Management by Chris Crutcher]()
Angry Management by Chris Crutcher
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to Angry ManagementIt's a place for misfits. For stories that will rip out your heart and give you back one better than what you started with. Stories about prejudice, rage, and hope. About surviving it all and showing the world that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... -
![Laws of Depravity by Eriq La Salle]()
Laws of Depravity by Eriq La Salle
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings30 years. 36 priests butchered. His bloodiest masterpiece is yet to come. Every ten years, for the past 30 years, a dozen clergymen are killed, brutally murdered in twisted scenes emulating the deaths of Jesus and his disciples. Now, "The Martyr Maker" has set his mark on New York City... -
![The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine]()
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFollowing the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval... -
![Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch, Jonathan Cowley]()
Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch, Jonathan Cowley
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen old friends Henry and Cato reunite after years apart, they quickly become embroiled in the drama of each other’s lives. Henry, who has just returned to England as the sole heir to his recently deceased brother’s estate, quickly begins to uncover secrets buried long ago... -
![Hush Little Baby by R.H. Herron]()
Hush Little Baby by R.H. Herron
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of Stolen Things comes a twisty thriller that asks how tightly we are bound to our pasts, how much we can trust those around us, and how far a mother will go to protect her child.Jillian Marsh is a survivor... -
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![Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard]()
Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs an unexpected guest at his recently deceased lover's funeral, Tom is blindsided by the man's legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a chain-smoking girlfriend, and the older brother hell-bent on preserving a facade of normalcy, Tom is coerced into participating in the dishonesty until, at last, he confronts the torment that drove his lover to live in the shadows of deceit... -
![Pakket i plast by Kjetil Johnsen]()
Pakket i plast by Kjetil Johnsen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings- en serie om kjærlighet, vennskap, ensomhet og mord.Vilde og Nick deler en forferdelig hemmelighet. De føler at de begynner å miste kontrollen over livene sine. Det finnes så mange intriger og skjulte motiver!Og så, plutselig, er dagen der - dagen da en av de fire venninnene blir drept.Kjetil Johnsen har tidligere skrevet 18 bøker i seriesuksessen Tusen biter... -
![Zu Erde sollst du werden by Kjetil Johnsen]()
Zu Erde sollst du werden by Kjetil Johnsen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEin packendes Finale steht bevor: "Zu Erde sollst du werden" ist der 5. und auch letzte Band der erfolgreichen Thriller-Soap "Dark Village" rund um die Mädchenclique aus Dypdal.In dem nun letzten Band fügt sich das Puzzle zusammen, natürlich unter nervenaufreibender Spannung und mit detailreich inszenierten Charakteren... -
![Language by Xiaolu Guo]()
Language by Xiaolu Guo
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHave you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first comes to London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of dominant personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living... -
![The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom]()
The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘SEE ALL FORMATS FOR NEW PAPERBACK (MARCH 23)’When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home...Categorized as:
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![The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight]()
The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLibrarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 13: 9781593762292 with Black CoverA Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by burqa-wearing "riot grrrls," mohawked Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shi'a skinheads, Indonesian skaters, Sudanese rude boys, gay Muslims, drunk Muslims, and feminists... -
![This Is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller]()
This Is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA gripping, emotional, and darkly funny queer horror novel about family trauma and possession, for fans of Rachel Harrison and Catriona Ward.Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself... -
![Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S.J. Sindu]()
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S.J. Sindu
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel Marriage of a Thousand Lies offers a moving and sharply rendered exploration of friendship, family, love, and loss. Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side... -
![Det farlige kysset by Kjetil Johnsen]()
Det farlige kysset by Kjetil Johnsen
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings- en serie om kjærlighet, vennskap, ensomhet og mord.<>At noe så lite og naturlig kunne forandre alt! Vilde og Trine kysset hverandre, og fra det øyeblikket ble verden helt annerledes. Den ble ny og spennende - og farlig! For hva om noen oppdaget dem?Nå var det bare to uker til en av de fire venninnene skulle dø...Kjetil Johnsen har tidligere skrevet 18 bøer i seriesuksessen Tusen biter... -
![The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani]()
The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels Praised as “singular” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), GraceLand stunned critics and instantly established Chris Abani as an exciting new voice in fiction. In his second novel, set against the uncompromising landscape of East L.A... -
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![The Body Myth by Rheea Mukherjee]()
The Body Myth by Rheea Mukherjee
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMira is a teacher living in the heart of Suryam, a modern bustling in city India, and the only place in the world the fickle Rasagura fruit grows. Mira lives alone, and with only the French existentialists as companions, until the day she witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in the park... -
![Niemand ist ohne Schuld by Kjetil Johnsen]()
Niemand ist ohne Schuld by Kjetil Johnsen
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEin Ort, in dem das Böse lauert.Vier Freundinnen, so verschieden und doch unzertrennlich.Bis eine von ihnen tot aufgefunden wird.Nackt im See treibend.In Plastikfolie eingewickelt.Ermordet von jemandem, den sie kannte... -
![Lead Us Not by Abbey Lay]()
Lead Us Not by Abbey Lay
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings‘When we spoke, I never knew what Olive would reveal to me. There were nights where she would lie next to me and pour herself out into the darkness, and others where it seemed she was hardly there at all.’Millie is in her final year at a Catholic girls’ school, subdued by the conformity of her life and her parents’ quiet pain... -
![Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín]()
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEach of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, Tóibín writes of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions, by the stronghold of the past...Categorized as:
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![Straying by Molly McCloskey]()
Straying by Molly McCloskey
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlice, a young American, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments—except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. Alice falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in a place whose customs she struggles to understand. In the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course... -
![Bait by Amelita Rae]()
Bait by Amelita Rae
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow included in the Yaoi Classics Bundle! Jinsei is a beautiful young man who uses his looks as ‘bait’ to take advantage of wealthy older men and steal their cars. Each theft puts him one step closer to being out from under mob boss Shibata’s thumb and closer to the freedom he craves. One night, the mobster orders Jinsei to steal billionaire Ishida Daijiro’s brand new Lamborghini...
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