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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Naomi Grant has built her life around going against the grain. After the sex-positive start-up she cofounded becomes an international sensation, she wants to extend her educational platform to live lecturing. Unfortunately, despite her long list of qualifications, higher ed won't hire her. Ethan Cohen has recently received two honors: LA Mag nominated him as one of the city's hottest bachelors and he became rabbi of his own synagogue. Low on both...
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English
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Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
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English
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Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: she's allergic to human touch. Finding a safe haven working at her local library, she meets divorced father Eric Keegan. Jubilee is unlike anyone Eric has ever met, and he sets out to convince her to open herself and her heart to everything life can offer . . . setting into motion the most unlikely love story of the year.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Valentine Millimaki, a troubled young deputy, finds himself seeking counsel from John Gload, a killer awaiting trial, in this debut novel. The strange intimacy of their connection takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence, a manhunt, and a stunning revelation that leave Gload's past and Millimaki's future forever entwined"--
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"In the linked and tightly thematic stories of I Know You Know Who I Am, Kispert explores deception, performance, and the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, with characters who try to navigate that dissonance by acting like another person for someone else. Throughout the collection we meet gay characters who have created sometimes elaborate falsehoods and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the...
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Publisher
Ediciones Selectas Diamante
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
Español
Description
Presents a story of a marriage in trouble and the struggles of the young couple to salvage their relationship.
"Si alguna vez ha cruzado por su mente la idea de disolver su matrimonio, si siente que no vale la pena seguir luchando en ese lugar donde ha sido despreciado; haga un alto y dese la ultima oportunidad leyendo este libro. Usted tiene en sus manos una novela que debe ser leida antes de tomar una decision de divorcio, renunciar a sus mas altos...
9) Say say say
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story about love and compassion, the fluidity of desire, and the myriad ways of devotion. Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student in Minnesota have given way to an unintended career in caregiving. One spring, Bryn--a retired carpenter--hires...
10) Lost in Arcadia
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Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
The America of 2037 is a country distracted by, infatuated with, and addicted to Arcadia. The brainchild of reclusive genius Juan Diego Reyes, Arcadia is a wickedly immersive, all-encompassing social-media platform and virtual-reality interface. Although Arcadia has made the Reyes family fabulously wealthy, it's left them - and the rest of the country - impoverished of that rare currency : intimacy. When Juan Diego mysteriously vanishes, the consequences...
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Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Valerie lives on her own and has, shall we say, a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead and that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange, mummified state. Every day she brings them upstairs and speaks with them about what went wrong. What follows is a series of peculiar and funny, and sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers, weird obsessions,...
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