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A young teenager without parents or siblings, Lily Upshire takes the world on her own terms. When she finds something wrong with her favorite drink, she just wants the big company that made it to say sorry to her. But the adults in her life have other ideas, seeing everything in terms of money. As the company makes ever more extravagant overtures to avoid apologizing to her, she remains unmoved. She’s more concerned with what makes her life miserable: the school bullies, most of her teachers, and the scammers and catfish online. To gain self-confidence, she begins boxing lessons.

With sensitivity and a teenager’s ability to find humor even in disaster, Jan Blixen tells of his life growing up gay in the Midwest. An escaped mental patient living in a refrigerator box gives Jan a priceless gift. A university professor accused of a terrible crime is Jan’s best friend. Jan’s father, a drunk and a brawler, loathes his gay son as God’s practical joke. Jan’s stories are a concentration of emotional power, often heartwarming and heartbreaking in the span of a few minutes.

In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block—until she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author...

Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions. But when their friend dies by suicide in the abandoned city lot where they once gathered, they must carry on in the world that left him behind—one they once dreamed they would change for the better. From the grind of Montreal service jobs, to isolated French Ontario countryside childhoods, to the tenuous cooperation of Bay Area punk squats, the three young women navigate everyday losses and fears in a tumultuous century.

“A gorgeously written meditation on being a gay man in America now . . . A raw and captivating debut.” —BookPage Recommended by: O, the Oprah Magazine * BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Electric Literature * Literary Hub * Harper's Bazaar * Lambda Literary * LGBTQ Reads * Passport...

A punto de cumplir 30 años, Simón se traslada a vivir a Nueva York con muchas ilusiones, algunos remilgos y poco dinero. Con su labor de periodista como arma para codearse con las altas esferas y su perfil en Grindr como llave para divertirse con las bajas, Simón conocerá también a sus amigos Carlos y Tomás, cómplices en las mieles del hedonismo y los sinsabores de la emigración. Un camino luminoso de placer y sensibilidad en una ciudad donde el costumbrismo es sinónimo de frenesí y la infinidad de estímulos se parece quizá demasiado a la soledad.

Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if his parents barely remember he exists and the press is totally obsessed with him? He's on top of the world. But one major PR misstep later, he's cut off and shipped away to spend the holidays in his grandparents' charming small-town hellscape. Population: who cares? It's bad enough that he's stuck in some festive winter wonderland—it's even worse that he has to share space with Hector Martinez, an obnoxiously attractive local who's unimpressed with anything and everything Matthew does. 

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and share a bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island’s most diverse and underserved neighborhoods. The three boys are an inseparable trio but conspicuous: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. Youssef shares everything with his brothers except for one secret: He sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend who seems absolutely real, a shape-shifting familiar he calls Brother.

Una volante pattuglia le strade di Genova. Mentre un fiume di vestiti colorati, bandiere arcobaleno e cartelli sui diritti dell'amore scorre nel centro della città, Paolo Pastorino - quarantasei anni e la divisa da sempre - cerca con gli occhi sua figlia. Se lei lo vedesse lì, dall'altra parte della barricata, andrebbe su tutte le furie. Giada ha sedici anni e ha appena trovato il coraggio di dirgli che le piacciono le ragazze.

Vasco Brondi dà voce all'opera prima di Pier Vittorio Tondelli, una raccolta di racconti, pubblicata nel 1980 che l'autore definiva come "romanzo a episodi". L'iniziazione alla vita, al sesso, ai sentimenti, alla droga e al viaggio di quella generazione che è stata la protagonista del movimento del Settantasette.

I corpi minori sono corpi celesti di dimensioni ridotte: asteroidi, meteore, comete, ma in questo romanzo "minori" sono tutti i corpi osservati sotto la lente del desiderio. Desiderio che fa gravitare i personaggi attorno ai sogni e alle ambizioni di una vita, o solo di una stagione. Come accade al protagonista, che all'inizio della storia ha vent'anni, più di un talento ma poca perseveranza. Di una cosa però è sicuro, vuole andarsene da Rozzano, percorrere in senso inverso i tre chilometri e mezzo di via dei Missaglia, lasciarsi alle spalle l'insignificanza e la marginalità.

The elder gods demand an end to the 500-year reign of the God of Chaos. To counter their plans, the champion of Chaos calls for the Cleansing—the sacrifice of all children under two. Ellis escapes the Cleansing with the help of Dirge, a swordsman who thinks Ellis was born to end the reign of Chaos, and Daylin, a young woman who talks with wolves. Visions drag Ellis north toward an ethereal tower, deep in The Lands of the Dead, staying steps ahead of the fire-wielding priest who killed Ellis’ parents.

A deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel about discovering love where it has always been. Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman living in South London. But, at just 28, she is also tired. Though she spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal, her nights are...

Miriam knew life was tough for her daughter Piper. And she supported her daughter in every way she could. But coming home to find your only child barely conscious? No, Miriam will make sure to get Piper the help she needs, even if it means sending her away. Was it all her fault?

Ein virtuoser Roman über einen Jungen, der in Russland bei einem homosexuellen Paar aufwächst. Mikita wird nach dem Tod seiner Mutter von ihrem Bruder adoptiert, er ist fünf Jahre alt. Mit Slawa und dessen Partner Lew genießt er eine fröhliche Kindheit. Aber mit der Einschulung beginnt das Versteckspiel, das Lügen. Wenn Besuch kommt, müssen Fotos weggeräumt, in Aufsätzen müssen Dinge verschwiegen oder erfunden werden, und Mikita schlagen Vorurteile entgegen. Er verliert seinen Frohsinn, wird wütend, aggressiv, depressiv.

Una novela más relevante que nunca, que acompaña el tránsito de una persona transexual hacia su identidad verdadera. En su viaje descubrimos un amor tan grande que es capaz de desafiar cualquier convención social, una personalidad tan pura que ningún cuerpo puede contenerla, y una novela que no deja indiferente a quien la lee.

Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near the edge of a cliff. She is left injured and comatose, and soon dies.

All This Could be Different introduces us to Sneha. A recent college graduate freshly arrived in Milwaukee, she occupies her days with rote, stressful work as a young consultant for a battery production corporation. She is, as her boss reminds her, a 'contractor, no benefits'. Her nights are spent ordering furniture off the internet, trying out the newfangled invention of dating apps and avoiding confrontation with the terrifying property manager who lives below her. But the rewards are bountiful.

Brought to you by Penguin. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family?to make him a man. He...

Growing up on a homophobic council estate in South Wales with an abusive veteran father made Jamie Taylor’s life intolerable. Her only release was feeding her obsession for rich kid Heather Gardner.