"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home, or in class, or on the basketball court...but after he and his brother are placed in foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks...Ezra wants to help, but he worries if he's too nice to Brian, his friends will realize that he has a crush on him...But when Brian and his brother run away, Ezra has no choice but to take the leap and reach out. Both boys have to decide if they're willing to risk sharing...

"New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful...

This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance.
When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1

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Nico, the son of Hades, and his boyfriend Will, the son of Apollo, travel to Tartarus, the deepest, darkest part of the Underworld, as they attempt to rescue an old friend.

Offers a look at the history of LGBT rights through personal stories and firsthand accounts, and chronicles the events, organizations, and influential leaders of the movement.

"Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted...

"Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed"--

A young woman serves as a surrogate mother for a gay couple in hopes of changing her own life for the better--only to discover ten years later that she accidentally gave away her own biological child.

Questioning if their love is strong enough to survive being apart as Nick prepares to leave for university, Nick and Charlie find things spiraling out of control as they try to make sense of where things stand between them.

"Young gay heroin addicts in Urbino, Italy have enough problems but when one of their group connects with a golden stranger who shares a mysterious affliction, a tale about everyday lives riddled with addiction turns into a brutally destrctive narrative about sex as a compulsion, coupled with sociopathological transformations."--cover.