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Graphic Novels
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Fun Home by Call Number: 741.597 B391f 2007 - Location: Graphic NovelsPublication Date: 2007-06-05A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive. -
Blue Is the Warmest Color by Call Number: 741.594 M354b 2013 - Location: Graphic NovelsPublication Date: 2013Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair. Their attraction is instant and electric, and Clementine find herself in a relationship that will test her friends, parents, and her own ideas about herself and her identity. Vividly illustrated and beautifully told, Blue Is the Warmest Color is a brilliant, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel about the elusive, reckless magic of love. It is a lesbian love story that crackles with the energy of youth, rebellion, and desire. First published in French by Glenat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, Europe's largest. -
Virgil by Call Number: 741.597 O714v 2015 - Location: Graphic NovelsPublication Date: 2015Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his wayacross Jamaica to save his man and get revenge! Virgil thought he was safe onthe police force, but his gun and his attitude can't protect him from his ownsecret - he's gay. For thirty years he's had two lives. In the uniform he's thetoughest on the street. Out of uniform he's a loving boyfriend. But when his ownprecinct turns on him, his worlds explodes. They put his name in the paper,raided his house, and took his lover. They left him bleeding in the ocean. Theyshouldn't have left him alive. Virgil is the next era of exploitation, following in the steps ofShaft and Django Unchained. Hard hitting crime noir given a freshface but the same busted knuckles.
Children's and Young Adults Books
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Call Number: S1275ar 2012 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire S#65533;enz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship--the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be. -
Daddy's Roommate by Call Number: W714d Copy 2 - Children's Picture Books (1st Floor)This picture book is an auspicious beginning to the Alyson Wonderland imprint, 'which focuses on books for and about the children of lesbian and gay parents.' - Publishers Weekly -
Finding H. F. by Call Number: 306.766 S267b 2016 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)Sixteen-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms is slowly suffocating in the small town in which she grew up. Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, HF has never felt like she belonged anywhere so when she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she is determined to start a new life in Florida with the mother she has never known. She and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road and head south and both awake to the realisation that there is a life awaiting them that is very different to what they have known. -
Heather Has Two Mommies by Call Number: N553h 1989 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)A child who has 2 lesbians as mothers realizes that her family does not include a daddy. -
Honor Girl by Call Number: 741.597 T529h 2015 - Graphic NovelsPublication Date: 2015All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort. Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl, and Maggie's savant-like proficiency at the camp's rifle range is the only thing keeping her heart from exploding. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle, let alone to understand.
Adult Fiction
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Black Like Us by Call Number: 823.91 B6265 - Circulating (3rd Floor)The definitive and most comprehensive book of 20th century black lesbian and gay writing ever published, this epic anthology features the work of such acclaimed authors as James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, E. Lynn Harris, Audre Lorde and April Sinclair. Divided into three chronological sections, this book includes author profiles and bibliographies, plus a secondary bibliography of works by poets, playwrights, performers and activists, as well as scholarly essays that set the political/cultural/historical context for black gay literature in the US. -
Full Circle by Call Number: 306.766 S267b 2016 - Circulating (3rd Floor)History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of 12 years in small-town Maine when he receives a phone call from his estranged friend Jack, telling him that another friend - Andy - is very ill and possibly near death. The news shatters his peaceful world and sends him on a 'plane to Chicago to be at Jack's side. As he boards the 'plane he sets out on another journey - a concurrent trip into memory, examining the major events and small moments that have shaped his world and his relationships with two very different, very important men. -
Giovanni's Room by Call Number: B181gi - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. -
Gut Symmetries by Call Number: W7876g - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)Hailed in the Washington Post as one of our most important writers in English, Jeanette Winterson has firmly established her reputation as an extraordinarily daring and original novelist. In Gut Symmetries, lives and universes run parallel in a complex contemporary love story set in New York and Liverpool, and aboard the QE2. -
The Line of Beauty by Call Number: H7405L 2004 - - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)Publication Date: 2004In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers. -
Rubyfruit Jungle by Call Number: B8797ru 1988 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes--and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after.
