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• The Emperor and the Endless Palace

  Huang, Justinian,

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  A queer, Asian reimagining of an epic love story blending historical figures with Chinese folklore.-provided by NoveList

• Big Swiss

  a Novel

  Beagin, Jen,

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  A woman in upstate New York who works transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach becomes infatuated with one of his clients, a repressed married woman from Switzerland who has a refreshing attitude towards trauma. -provided by NoveList

• Loveless

  Oseman, Alice,

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  A British teen works on accepting her aro-ace identity. Eighteen-year-old White British Georgia is tired of feeling different. She loves the theoretical idea of romance and isn’t opposed to reading a steamy fanfic now and then, but real-life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How You Lose the Time War

  El-Mohtar, Amal,

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  Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and soon fall in love. -provided by NoveList

• Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

  Rehman, Bushra,

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  Rehman beautifully conjures in her stellar debut a Queens, N.Y., Pakistani American community and a girl’s coming to terms with her identity. -Publishers Weekly

• Our Lady of the Flowers

  Genet, Jean, 1910-1986

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  Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld.

• Nimona

  Stevenson, ND,

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  Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tipping the Velvet

  Waters, Sarah, 1966-

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  With a title that's a euphemism for cunnilingus and a plot awash with graphic lesbian sex, this lush tale fearlessly and feverishly exposes the  political, social and sexual subversions of Victorian-era gender-benders: sapphists, libertines and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love & Other Disasters

  Kelly, Anita (Romance author),

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  While competing on a popular cooking show, Dahlia Woodson stirs up trouble when she gets involved with a nonbinary contestant, and as their relationship heats up both in and out of the kitchen, she wonders if they have the right ingredients for a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Manhunt

  Felker-Martin, Gretchen,

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  Felker-Martin’s daring debut imagines a world in which a plague turns men into violent cannibals and those left alive must do whatever they can do survive, including—in the case of trans women like Beth and Fran—harvesting men’s genitals to keep the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Major Speaks

  Conversations With a Black Trans Revolutionary

  Meronek, Toshio,

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  The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who survived…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Came From the Closet

  Queer Reflections on Horror

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  Twenty-five narrative essays by contemporary LGBTQ writers reflecting on queerness in horror film, from Hitchcock to Halloween.