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"Morgan Flowers has spent their adolescence following all the rules. Raised by their neuro-divergent father Julian and recently deceased grandmother, nonbinary Morgan grew up painfully aware of all they needed to do to stay out of trouble and maintain their scholarship, and of their mother Zoe's absence. Dazzling, dangerous, and increasingly alcoholic Zoe, who fled to Europe on a trust fund, believed that Julian and his mother would raise Morgan better...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Bollen, Christopher
1 available
FIC Bollen, Christopher
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Bollen, Christopher
1 available
FIC Bollen, Christopher
1 available
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When Nicholas Brink leaves New York City to join Clay Guillory in Italy, he thinks he knows what he's getting into. His more experienced boyfriend has come into a small inheritance from an eccentric bohemian artist: the windfall consists of counterfeit heirlooms as well as a share in a decrepit Venetian palazzo. Clay hopes to use Nick's connection to an antiques dealer to unload the fake silver on a brash, unsuspecting American. Clay's smarts and...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 1
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Brookline - Adult
FIC James, Marlon
3 available
FIC James, Marlon
3 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC James, Marlon
1 available
FIC James, Marlon
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC James, Marlon
2 available
FIC James, Marlon
2 available
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2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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"Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows...
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Call me by your name novels volume 1
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5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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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 attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may...
5) Cantoras
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"From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find each other as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet,...
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"Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of clues points her to Carmilla's, a mysterious nightclub in the heart of her neighborhood, Chinatown. There she falls for the next likely target, landing her at the...
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Chef's kiss volume 2
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Brookline - Paperback
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Paperback
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
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When Luna O'Shea is unceremoniously fired from her frustrating office job, she tries to count her blessings: she's a proud trans woman who has plenty of friends, a wonderful roommate, and a good life in New York City. But blessings don't pay the bills. Enter Jean-Pierre, a laissez-faire trans man and the heir to a huge culinary empire--which he'll only inherit if he can jump through all the hoops his celebrity chef grandfather has placed in his path....
8) Chef's kiss
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Chef's kiss volume 1
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Brookline - Paperback
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Paperback
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Paperback
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
PBK ROM ALE
1 available
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"A high-strung pastry chef's professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager in this deliciously fresh and witty queer rom-com. Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning Chef, a venerable cookbook publisher in New York City. All she wants to do is create the perfect loaf of sourdough and develop recipes, but when...
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"Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep,...
10) Cleanness
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What belongs to you volume 2
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he's come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Frumkin, Rafael
1 available
FIC Frumkin, Rafael
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Frumkin, Rafael
1 available
FIC Frumkin, Rafael
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He's also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie. But Ezra's summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and Adonis-like with a mind for hustling. Together, the two embark upon what promises to be a fruitful career of scam artistry. But when...
12) Dead collections
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When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and...
13) The deep
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40 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
SFF Solomon, Rivers
1 available
SFF Solomon, Rivers
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
SFF Solomon, Rivers
1 available
SFF Solomon, Rivers
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one -- the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Peters, Torrey
2 available
FIC Peters, Torrey
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
FIC Peters, Torrey
1 available
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"[A novel] about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex..."--
Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier,...
15) Dykette: a novel
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples. Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians--prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda--invites Sasha and Jesse to their...
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
SFF Polk, C. L.
1 available
SFF Polk, C. L.
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
SFF Polk, C. L.
1 available
SFF Polk, C. L.
1 available
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"C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End. "Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it."-Laini Taylor A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. An exiled augur who sold her...
17) Find me
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Call me by your name novels volume 2
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Aciman, Andre
1 available
FIC Aciman, Andre
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Aciman, Andre
1 available
FIC Aciman, Andre
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Aciman, Andre
1 available
FIC Aciman, Andre
1 available
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman's haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as "a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award-winning film starring Timothée...
18) Gideon the ninth
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Ninth House volume 1
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58 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline Putterham - Adult
SFF Muir, Tamsyn
1 available
SFF Muir, Tamsyn
1 available
eAudiobook
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9 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
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22 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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22 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis...
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32 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
FIC Denton-Hurst, Tembe
1 available
FIC Denton-Hurst, Tembe
1 available
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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"A young Black woman contends with New York media culture."--Kirkusreviews.com.
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Brookline - Adult
SFF Klune, TJ
2 available
SFF Klune, TJ
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
SFF Klune, T. J.
1 available
SFF Klune, T. J.
1 available
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20 copies, 225 people are on the wait list.
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20 copies, 225 people are on the wait list.
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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 days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...