LGBTQ+
The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali
Sabina Khan
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Khan Sabina
LGBTQ+, Young Adult
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
Tell me again how a crush should feel
Sara Farizan
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Farizan Sara
LGBTQ+, Young Adult
High school junior Leila's Persian heritage already makes her different from her classmates at Armstead Academy, and if word got out that she liked girls life would be twice as hard, but when a new girl, Saskia, shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would, especially when it looks as if the attraction between them is mutual, so she struggles to sort out her growing feelings by confiding in her old friends.
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Ramona Blue
Julie Murphy
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Murphy Julie
LGBTQ+, Young Adult
Struggling with family problems and still living in a FEMA trailer years after Hurricane Katrina, lesbian teenager Ramona welcomes the return of her childhood friend Freddie but her shifting feelings for him cause her to question her sexual identity.
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Queens of geek
Jen Wilde
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Wilde Jen
LGBTQ+, Young Adult
Australian friends Charlie, Taylor and Jamie are in San Diego for their first ever "SupaCon." Charlie likes to stand out. She's a vlogger/actress promoting her first movie, and this is her chance to show fans she's over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. When internet-famous cool-girl actress Alyssa Huntington arrives as a surprise guest, it seems Charlie's long-time crush on her isn't as one-sided as she thought. Taylor's brain is wired differently, making her fear change. And there's one thing in her life she knows will never change: her friendship with her best guy friend Jamie. When she hears about a fan contest for her favorite fandom, she starts to rethink her rules on playing it safe.
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Two boys kissing
David Levithan
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Levithan David
LGBTQ+, Young Adult
A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
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Little & Lion
Brandy Colbert
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Colbert Brandy
LGBTQ+, Young Adult
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
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Annie on my mind
Nancy Garden
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Garden, Nancy
LGBTQ+, Young Adult
Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
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Bloom
Kevin Panetta
GRAPHIC NOVEL Panetta
LGBTQ+, Graphic Novels, Young Adult
"Baked with love! Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band--if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. But while interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easygoing guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. As they become closer over batches of bread, love is ready to bloom...that is, if Ari doesn't ruin everything."--Page [2] of cover.
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The miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M Danforth
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Danforth Emily
Young Adult, LGBTQ+
In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.
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More happy than not
Adam Silvera
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Silvera Adam
Young Adult, LGBTQ+
After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
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