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• Atmosphere

  a Love Story

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  In the early 1980s, Joan becomes one of NASA’s first women scientists to join the space shuttle program. Navigating the ambition of all the other brilliant women who want to go to space, Joan discovers her new passion, new love, and new place in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emperor of Gladness

  a Novel

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  Hai is a nineteen year-old man who is ready to end it all when elderly Grazina calls out across the river and convinces him not to jump. With no options left, Hai becomes Grazina’s caretaker and together they move toward a second chance.

• The In-between Bookstore

  a Novel

  Underhill, Edward,

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  A trans man in New York who-almost 30, laid off, broke-moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school. . . and slips through time to come face-to-face with his pre-transition, teenage self.

• Isaac's Song

  Black, Daniel,

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  Isaac has grown up unable to express his artistic talents and physical desires due to his severe father’s view of traditional masculinity. Now that he has moved to Chicago and made a life for himself, his tenuous world is threatened by his father’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Manor of Dreams

  a Novel

  Li, Christina,

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  After the death of a Hollywood starlet turned recluse, two families vie for the inheritance of her crumbling mansion. This gothic thriller spans three generations and turns forbidden romance, betrayal, ambition, and sacrifice into a haunted house…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mothers and Sons

  a Novel

  Haslett, Adam,

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  Peter is an asylum lawyer in New York, struggling with long days immersed in the complicated lives of immigrants, leaving nothing left for his own; while Ann, peter’s mother loves her life running a writer’s retreat and has long since moved on from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Palaver

  a Novel

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  After a ten year estrangement and a move away from Houston, a young man’s mother suddenly shows up on his doorstep in Tokyo, leading to the crossing of a bridge of memories from Jamaica to Texas to Japan.

• The South

  a Novel

  Aw, Tash,

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  After the death of his grandfather, Jay and his family move south to the parched, diseased farm they have inherited. Hai finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm manager and as both boys find themselves on the farm, the family inside the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stag Dance

  a Novel & Stories

  Peters, Torrey,

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  Lumberjacks dress as women to attend a dance, a gender apocalypse is started by an ex-girlfriend, a secret romance blossoms between Quaker boarding school roommates, and a young crossdresser must choose between the mystery man who objectifies her or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Weren't Meant to Be Human

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  A festering hive-mind has taken over Appalachia. For Crane, this becomes a chance to transition and never speak again, but when Crane becomes pregnant, the hive demands the birth take place.