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Blue Boy

Rakesh Satyal

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Meet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn't quite understand his lot-until he realizes he's a god...As an only son, Kiran has obligations-to excel in his studies, to honor the deities, to find a nice Indian girl, and, above all, to make his mother and fathe...more

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A Man Named Dave

Dave Pelzer

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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

Dave J. Pelzer

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Last Days of Summer Updated Ed: A Novel

Steve Kluger

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Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a pe...more

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Half-Life: A Novel

Aaron Krach

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"Funny, romantic, surprising, lusty and totally original." --EDMUND WHITE, author "A Boy's Own Story" and "My Lives" The last year of the 20th century, and 18-year-old Adam Westman finds himself "on the verge of manhood," as his best friend Dart likes to say. He lives in the exact center of center-less Los Angeles with his depressed father, G...more

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Brendan Wolf

Brian Malloy

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Who is Brendan Wolf? It all depends on who you ask. * To the staff of a Minneapolis nursing home, he's the devoted partner of a much older man who's recently suffered a debilitating stroke. * To the women of a conservative, Christian pro-life organization, he's the tireless volunteer grieving over the recent loss of his wife and their unbo...more

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Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel

Steve Kluger

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A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart. Flash forward twenty years. Travis and Craig both have great lives, careers, and loves. But something is missing .... Travis is the first to figure it ...more

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Thinking Straight

Reardon

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I know God doesn't make mistakes, and if I'm gay it's because that's what he wanted. What you wanted. And I think the challenge is to get everyone else to see that. This is their test, not mine. If only Taylor Adams had kept on lying to his parents, none of this would have happened. He wouldn't have been shipped off to Straight to God, an instit...more

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