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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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Open, Heaven

Seán Hewitt

A stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, reminiscent of Garth Greenwell and Douglas Stuart in the intensity of its evocation of sexual awakening.Set in a remote village in the North of England, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year in which two sixteen year old boys meet and transform each other’s lives.James—a sheltered, shy sixteen-year-old—is alone in his newly discovered sexuality, full of an unruly desire but entirely inexperienced. As he is beginning to understand himself and his longings, he also realizes how his feelings threaten to separate him from his family and the rural community he has grown up in. He dreams of another life, fantasizing about what lies beyond the village’s leaf-ribboned boundaries, beyond his autonomy, tenderness, sex. Then, in the autumn of 2002, he meets Luke, a slightly older boy, handsome, unkempt, who comes with a reputation for danger. Abandoned by his parents—his father imprisoned, and his mother having moved to France for another man—Luke has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle at their farm just outside the village. James is immediately drawn to him, like the pull a fire makes on the air, dragging things into it and blazing them into its hot, white centre, drawn to this boy who is beautiful and impulsive, charismatic, troubled. But underneath Luke’s bravado is a deep wound—a longing for the love of his father and for the stability of family life.Open, Heaven is a novel about desire, yearning, and the terror of first love. With the striking economy and lyricism that animate his work as a poet, Hewitt has written a mesmerizing hymn to boyhood, sensuality, and love in all its forms. A truly exceptional debut.

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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects

Amy Stewart

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Every Step She Takes

Alison Cochrun

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 2

Sumiko Arai

Aya’s found out that the guy she was interested in isn’t a guy at all—and she’s also realized that she just can’t keep her cool around Mitsuki! The two haven’t quite put a name on their complex, earnest feelings, but they only grow as the pair continues to bond over the music they love. With their senior year at hand, future plans are coming into question…and Aya’s thrown for a loop when a mysterious woman shows up and wants Mitsuki to go overseas!

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 2

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Yoink Seekers: The ISO Post

I don’t know about y’all, but I am always on the hunt for new friends to steal books from—yes, even from those who are pro-tomato even if they’re WRONG. /t

I wanted to make a post so we can all share our ISOs for niches of books we like and find folks we want to follow so we can hop on board their TBR Trains 🚂

The idea in general is for each of us to make a comment with what we’re looking for, and for those who read something on our list and want to be followed to reply so we can find them! Not sure what that looks like? You can find my own post in the comments. 🫶

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I’m considering DNFing this one :’) I’ve enjoyed Alison’s other books, but this one is just not hitting the spot for me. I’m finding it’s doing a lot of telling and not showing (especially re: Mal and her grief), which is admittedly a personal pet peeve of mine. I’m curious if others who have read this one think I should keep pushing; maybe it’s just a rocky start?

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Every Step She Takes

Alison Cochrun

A swoon-worthy sapphic romance following two women who are thrown together on a European adventure, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me.Thirty-five-year-old Seattleite Sadie Wells needs an escape. She’s desperate to escape her monotonous routines, the family business that has consumed her entire life, and the unexpected gay panic that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. So when her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all. After three glasses of wine on the plane and some turbulence convince Sadie she won’t even survive the flight, she confesses all her secrets to her seatmate, Mal. The the plane doesn’t crash, and it turns out Mal is on her Camino tour. Worst of all, Sadie learns that she is on a tour specifically for queer women, and that her two-hundred-mile trek will be a journey of self-discovery, whether she wants it to be or not. Fascinated by the woman who drunkenly came out to her on the plane, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed out on as they walk the Camino. As Sadie develops her newfound confidence, Mal grapples with a complicated loss and unexpected inheritance. But as their relationship blurs the lines between reality and practice, they both must decide if they will forever part at the end of the tour or chart a new course together. With “funny, poignant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose, Alison Cochrun explores the power of letting go of your past and realizing that it’s never too late to live as your authentic self.

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Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya's girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky's long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. Finalist for the T. S. Eliot PrizeFinalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

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The Undressing: Poems

Li-Young Lee

Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love. The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources, including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.

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what are some books that changed how you think about reading?

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday or Friday, depending on your time zone 😎

I wanted to ask what books have changed how you think about reading/have changed what you look for in books. It could be anything—maybe a book that introduced you to a new writing style, a book that changed how you think about certain genre conventions, a book that changed your expectations for what gets published... Mostly, I just want to hear about which books changed things for you!

For me, Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb series (but especially the second installment, Harrow the Ninth, because wow) changed how I think about modern lit entirely. The series gave me such a renewed love for reading, as well as a love for sci-fi, which is a genre I'm not typically partial to. Muir's writing is so evocative and strange and intentional; I found that her books made me want to improve my own creative writing abilities. I appreciate books with clever, well-polished prose ten times as much now, and I find that my standards are higher in general for novels I choose to read.

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what are some books that changed how you think about reading?

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday or Friday, depending on your time zone 😎

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Support your library!!!

Y'all I just want to make a post celebrating my library. Not only because 1- right now the world is scary and its still a safe place. And also because my library gives me the opportunity to hang out more by volunteering. But also!!! I just bought a book from my library book store. Its a brand new book that just came out like two months ago. I got the book for 50 cents.

Anyway, libraries are super cool and badass and we should all appreciate them more.

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