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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Out of the pocket	Bill Konigsberg	Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he's different from his teammates. They're like brothers, but they don't know one essenti…	OL11867579W
The Art of Detection	Laurie R. King	In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Awards--winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco ho…	OL14860162W
What We Remember	Michael Thomas Ford	Every family has a hidden story, even the perfect ones. In this suspenseful and deeply moving novel, Michael Thomas Ford propels us beyond smiling holiday photographs and beloved anecdotes to explore…	OL14963402W
Genet	Edmund White	A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosex…	OL15073198W
The German	Lee Thomas	Set during the height of World War II, The German examines the effect a series of ritualistic murders has on a small, Texas community. A killer preys on the young men of Barnard, Texas, leaving crypt…	OL15444805W
PoMoSexuals	Lawrence Schimel,Carol Queen	PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view. PoMoSexual: th…	OL15741122W
February house	Sherill Tippins	February House is the irresistible story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a …	OL16025798W
Quarantine	Rahul Mehta	With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, Mehta sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in Quarantine are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship an…	OL16140178W
Transfeminist perspectives in and beyond gender studies	Anne Enke	If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transf…	OL16240014W
Telling tales out of school	Kevin Jennings	In more than 30 essays, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals look back at their school days to find that they are still trying to unlearn a basic lesson imparted by the educational system to homosexuals: "H…	OL16457817W
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that h…	OL16596099W
Two Boys Kissing	David Levithan	Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS—Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour…	OL16807251W
The Creamsickle	Rhiannon Argo	Meet The Crew. Georgie―a hopeless romantic with a weakness for punk-rock-girls even if they consistently trample her heart. Cruzer―a Mexican-American photographer, the tough kid, who chases love a…	OL17398247W
Normal Miguel	Erik Orrantia	Miguel Hernández is a teacher who has left Mexico City to complete a one year student internship in the rural hills of Puebla. He came to the school intending to focus on his teaching and his student…	OL17494629W
Fresh men	Edmund White,Donald Weise	Certain to become a new cornerstone of the gay literary tradition, Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction brings together twenty outstanding stories by new authors. From coming out to coming of age, …	OL17832222W
[insert] boy	Danez Smith	Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry 2015. Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books, 2014. 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. …	OL17933506W
My own country	Abraham Verghese	By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tenness…	OL1822507W
The indelible Alison Bechdel	Alison Bechdel	Go behind the pen and into the psyche of dyke to watch out for Alison Bechdel--cartoon chronicler extraordinaire--as the inner workings of lesbiania's most quick-witted, longest-running social commen…	OL1835950W
The fifth sacred thing	Starhawk	A world without poverty or hunger that honors the Four Sacred Things that sustain life--earth, air, fire, and water--is poised to clash with a nightmare society of authoritarian regimes and food and …	OL1852086W
The gender frontier	Mariette Pathy Allen,Grady T. Turner	Mariette Pathy Allen documents the lives of extraordinary individuals, their partners, families and friends. Through photographs and short texts, the reader is offered an intimate connection to the b…	OL18606402W