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The magician / by Tóibín, Colm,1955-author.;
"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin sister. He longs for a boy he sees on a beach in Venice and writes a novel about him. He has six children. He is the most successful novelist of his time. He wins the Nobel Prize and is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler. His oldest daughter and son share lovers. They are leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement. This stunning combination of German propriety and Bohemian revolution goes hand in hand for decades. We see the rise of Hitler, the forced exile of a swath of German writers and artists, Mann's narrow escape to America, his sojourn at Princeton, along with fellow exile Einstein, and his final move to LA in the late 40s where he presided over an astonishing community of writers, artists and musicians, including Brecht and Shoenberg, even as his children court tragedy. To call this a portrait of an artist is both reductive and true-it is a novel about a character and a family, fiercely engaged by the world, profoundly flawed, and as flamboyant as it's possible to be"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Bohemianism; Gay men; Novelists, German;
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How to Sleep at Night : A Novel. by Harris, Elizabeth.;
Gabe's husband Ethan wants to run for Congress - as a Republican - which throws liberal Gabe for a loop. Ethan's sister Kate is a political reporter who has lost the thrill of the scoop. When her ex DMs her just as her brother enters the political race, she ends up in a tailspin that might derail her career. 'How to Sleep at Night' is novel about straight marriage, gay marriage, and family ties stretched thin by politics. A RADD Pick.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / City Life; FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; FICTION / Family Life / Siblings; FICTION / Friendship; FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Bisexual; FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay; FICTION / Political;
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Drag teen : a tale of angst and wigs / by Self, Jeffery.;
JT is a gay high school senior determined to get out of Clearwater, Florida, and be the first person in his family to go to college, even though he can not figure out how to pay for it--until his friends convince him to compete in a drag teen competition where the first prize is a college scholarship.LSC
Subjects: Gay teenagers; Drag shows; Contests; Self-actualization (Psychology); Families; Friendship;
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All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South / by Burks, Ruth Coker,author.; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.;
"In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling to help. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only person willing to help these young men afflicted by AIDS, and is called upon to nurse them. Shuttling from patient to patient, Ruth forges deep friendships with the men she helps: Paul and Billy, Angel, Chip, Todd and Douglas, working tirelessly to find them housing and jobs, and burying their ashes in her own family's cemetery. She teaches sex-ed to drag queens after hours at secret bars and defies local pastors and nurses to help the men she cares for, ultimately advising then-Governor Bill Clinton on the national HIV-AIDS crisis and becoming a beacon of hope to an otherwise spurned group of ailing gay men on the fringes of an intensely conservative state. This moving and elegiac memoir honors the extraordinary life of Ruth Coker Burks and the beloved men with AIDS who fought valiantly for their lives during a most hostile and misinformed time in America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Burks, Ruth Coker; AIDS (Disease); Caregivers; Gay men; AIDS (Disease);
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The second story / by Harris, Neil Patrick,1973-; Azam, Alec.; Marlin, Lissy.; Hinton, Kyle.;
Leila and the other Magic Misfits have the opportunity to perform with a famous stage psychic known as Madame Esmeralda, who may hold secrets to Leila's past.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Gay fathers; Orphans; Escape artists; Magicians; Psychics; Identity (Psychology); Magic tricks; Friendship;
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Confounding oaths / by Hall, Alexis J.,author.;
"A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry in this swoon-worthy romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material"--
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Romance fiction.; Novels.; Fairies; Fairy godmothers; Gay men; Magic; Nobility; Regency; Siblings; Soldiers; Wishes;
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Mystic River [videorecording]. by Penn, Sean; Linney, Laura; Robbins, Tim; Bacon, Kevin; Fishburne, Laurence; Harden, Marcia Gay;
Sean Penn, Laura Linney, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden.Director, Clint Eastwood.DVD.CHVRS rating: 14A.Jimmy. Dave. Sean. Friends who grew up together in working-class Boston, they drifted apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them.
Subjects: Drama.; Academy Award Winners.; Drama.; Award Winners.; Suspense / Thriller.;
© 2009., Warner Bros.,
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Mismatched [graphic novel] : a modern graphic retelling of Emma / by Camlin, Anne,author.; Zeferino, Isadora,illustrator.; Lome, Jess,colourist.; adaptation of (work):Austen, Jane,1775-1817.Emma.;
"Seventeen-year-old Evan Horowitz learns the dangers of playing matchmaker in this modern graphic retelling of Jane Austen's Emma"--014+.
Subjects: Gay comics.; Queer comics.; Romance comics.; Graphic novel adaptations.; Graphic novels.; School comics.; Gay high school students; LGBTQ+ people; Transfer students; Dating (Social customs); High schools;
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Missing person / by Lotz, Sarah,author.;
Reclusive bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed that his uncle Teddy died in a car accident twenty years ago. Then he learns the truth: Teddy fled his home in Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow, Ireland, for New York and hasn't been heard from since. None of Shaun's relatives will reveal why they lied about his uncle's death or why they want Shaun to leave the whole affair alone. But Shaun has a burning need to find out the truth. His search is unsuccessful until he's contacted by Chris Guzman, a woman who runs a website dedicated to matching missing-persons cases with unidentified bodies. Chris and her team of cold-case obsessives suspect that Shaun is looking for the "Boy in the Dress," one victim in a series of gay men murdered by the same killer. But who are these internet fanatics really, and how do they know so much about a case that has stumped police for decades? Soon armchair sleuths and professional investigators are on a collision course with a sadistic serial killer who's gotten away with his crimes for far too long-- and now they're in his sights.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Missing persons; Murder; Serial murderers; Family secrets; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Gay men;
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I felt the end before it came : memoirs of a queer ex-Jehovah's Witness / by Cox, Daniel Allen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.""I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah's Witness--it's one or the other." Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him. But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation's presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between "in" and "out" isn't always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group's cultish tactics--from gaslighting to shunning--and their resulting harms--from simmering anger to substance abuse--all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a room full of books? With great candour and disarming self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New York City, where he's swept up in a scene of photographers and hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a complicated past, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany of Armageddons."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Creative nonfiction.; Cox, Daniel Allen; Cox, Daniel Allen.; Ex-church members; Ex-church members; Gay men; Authors, Canadian (English);
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