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• Big Swiss

  a Novel

  Beagin, Jen,

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  Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss.

• Organ Meats

  a Novel

  Chang, K-Ming,

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  Best friends Anita and Rainie learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed women and woman-headed dogs whose bloodlines bind them together. Anita convinces Rainie to become a dog with her, tying a collar of red string around each of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Endpapers

  a Novel

  Kelly, Jennifer Savran, 1974-

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  In 2003 New York, a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, ill-fitting relationship, and artistic block discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author.

• Our Hideous Progeny

  a Novel

  McGill, C. E.,

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  Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. When she discovers some old family papers that allude to the shocking truth behind her great-uncle's past, she thinks she may have found the key to securing her and her husband's professional and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pomegranate

  a Novel

  Lee, Helen Elaine,

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  Ranita Atwater is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Ranita is regaining her freedom, but she's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  a Novel

  Mirabella, Richard,

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  Willa grudgingly takes in her brother, Justin, who is spiraling out of control, unable to manage his sobriety and the ongoing effects of a brain injury suffered when he fled a terrifying act of violence committed by his first boyfriend.

• Bellies

  a Novel

  Dinan, Nicola,

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  It begins as your typical boy meets boy. But shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition. From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face tectonic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Thick and the Lean

  a Novel

  Porter, Chana, 1984-

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  An aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them in this dystopian, sci-fi fable.

• The Saint of Bright Doors

  Chandrasekera, Vajra,

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  Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escapes to Luriat, a city where divine destinies are common and everything is more than it seems, from group therapy recruiting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Family Meal

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Biography of X

  a Novel

  Lacey, Catherine, 1985-

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  When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified.

• I Will Greet the Sun Again

  a Novel

  Khabushani, Khashayar J.,

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  Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be “a boy from L.A.,” all American. But K—the youngest, named after a Persian king—knows there’s something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All-night Pharmacy

  a Novel

  Madievsky, Ruth,

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  An intoxicating portrait of a young woman consumed with unease over how a person should be. As she attempts sobriety and sexual embodiment, she must decide whether to search for her estranged sister or allow her to remain a relic of the past.

• Blackouts

  a Novel

  Torres, Justin, 1980-

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  In the desert at a place called the Palace, a young man tends to the dying Juan Gay, who haunts his past and has a project centered on a redacted book, "Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns," by forgotten researcher Jan Gay. As Juan waits…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen

  a Novel

  James, Sarah, 1990-

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  When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen kitchen, Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence realizes any one of the Canteen's luminous volunteers could be guilty of the crime. To catch the killer, Annie falls in with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Natural Beauty

  a Novel

  Huang, Ling Ling, 1989-

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  A virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Because beneath these fancy creams and tinctures lies a terrible truth that threatens…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Old Enough

  a Novel

  Jakobson, Haley,

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  In the second semester of her sophomore year, Savannah 'Sav' Henry finally came out as bisexual, is making friends with the other queers in her dorm, and has just about recovered from her disastrous first queer 'situationship.' But when she learns…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bang Bang Bodhisattva

  Wood, Aubrey,

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  When her landlord raises the requirements for "social scores" necessary for her and her polyamorous partners to stay in their property, a desperate Kiera takes a job with hangdog, technophobic private eye Angel Herrera tracking down and exposing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

  a Novel

  Crane, Marisa,

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  When the Department of Balance adopts a radical new form of law enforcement, Kris, a new mother raising a child alone after her wife dies, finds support in a community of fellow misfits who defy the Department to lift one another up in solidarity…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Archive Undying

  Candon, Emma Mieko,

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  When the robotic god of Khuon Mo goes mad, it destroys everything--except for it's favorite child, Sunai. For seventeen years, Sunai has wandered the land, unable to die or age, drowning himself in vices, until waking up in the bed of a forbidden…Read moreRead more of this annotation