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241) Paris-Austerlitz
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 555
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153 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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Rafael Chirbes wrote this novel over a span of 20 years and died shortly after completing it. The narrator is a young painter from Madrid who recalls, in an urgent confession, the steps that led to his relationship with Michel, his 50 year-old lover who is dying of a terminal illness.
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Material world volume 1
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391 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves -- or, okay, likes -- his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't...
243) The ruin of a rake
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English
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Cat Sebastian completes a hat-trick with her latest Regency romance, making a total of three winners in a row. Like her previous books, The Soldier's Scoundrel and The Lawrence Browne Affair, The Ruin of a Rake is hugely entertaining; witty, sexy and poignant, it's the story of a rake in the process of reforming and the starchy, acerbic man given the task of helping him. The trope - rogue-with-a-heart-of-gold meets the uber-proper gentleman - plays...
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"This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots,...
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304 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals. For decades,...
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287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets -- as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy. Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he's crushing on half of the Utah Jazz. Add to this home video footage a mom...
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352 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and...
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English
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"Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey ... meet your new friend Gary Janetti. Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. Gary spends his twenties in New York, dreaming of starring on soap...
253) Wuvable oaf
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English
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"Set against the background of San Francisco's diverse communities and music scene, a romantic comedy at its core, Wuvable oaf will charm even the most hardened cynic"--P. [4] of cover.
254) Bonds of brass
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Bloodright trilogy volume 1
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend -- the man he trusts most and might even love -- only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. Ettian's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. He's spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. Even better, he's met Gal -- his exasperating...
255) The fall of '55
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A critical analysis of a gay sex scandal that occurred in Boise, Idaho in 1955. Therein, a group of male prostitutes (some as young as 15) began informing to the police on their clients, most of whom were married family men.
256) Stranger by the lake
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1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Franck spends his summer vacation searching for companionship and sexual encounters at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a picturesque lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. When a death occurs, Franck and Michel become the primary suspects but they choose to ignore the dangers and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship.
Franck...
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282 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Like Wilde's Dorian Grey, Guy never seems to age; at thirty-five he is still modeling, still enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he's twenty-three---though their attentions always come at a price....
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x, 215 pages : illustration, portrait ; 19 cm
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English
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"A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punks weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems--from historic Black personalities, both familial and famous, to the...
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355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"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...
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"Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray's writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration...
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