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Pray The Gay Away

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Shaking the Sugar Tree

Nick Wilgus · 304 pages

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Something Like Summer

Jay Bell · 291 pages

A love story spanning a decade and beyond as two boys discover what it means to be friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies.

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Honesty

Seth King · 301 pages

As a closeted teenager in the Deep South with a holy-roller father and the scars to prove it, bookworm Cole Furman has resigned himself to experiencing life and love only within the pages of his favorite novels. But after Nick Flores seems to walk off a page and starts to rewrite his story, Cole finds his dreams spinning into a dazzling - and complicated - reality.

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Her Name in the Sky

Kelly Quindlen

Hannah has big plans for senior year: football games, Mardi Gras parties, and spring break on the beach with her tight-knit group of friends. No drama, no detours. Just a year to remember. Falling for another girl—her best friend, Baker—was not part of the plan. Hannah knows she should date Wally, the earnest, dependable boy her sister is always teasing her about. She should be happy when Cl

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The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri · 533 pages

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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

Jaye Robin Brown · 448 pages

Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees.

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Being Sawyer Knight

Nicola Haken · 276 pages

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South of Sunshine

Dana Elmendorf · 254 pages

Kaycee Jean McCoy hides the fact that she's gay from her small southern town of Sunshine, Tennessee. But when Bren Dawson moves to town, she's forced to decide between love or giving in to the social prejudice of her town.

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A Forbidden Rumspringa

Keira Andrews · 224 pages

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Awakenings

Susan X. Meagher · 464 pages

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Safe Harbor

Radclyffe · 262 pages

*First of the Provincetown Tales* - A mysterious newcomer, a reclusive doctor, and a troubled gay teenager learn about love, friendship, and trust during one tumultuous summer in Provincetown. Reese Conlon, LtCol USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions. Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and ref

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Cronin's Key

N.R. Walker · 328 pages

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Dark Horse

Kate Sherwood · 488 pages

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Private Eye

S.E. Culpepper · 288 pages

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A Visitation of Spirits

Randall Kenan · 257 pages

From Publishers Weekly As its title suggests, a powerful strain of mysticism runs through this story of personal awakening in a black North Carolina family, but first-time novelist Kenan has a rare gift for naturalism as well, capturing the texture of farm life with vivid detail. The novel follows Horace Cross, a brilliant, tormented teenager who is his family's greatest hope, through a night whe

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Comfort and Joy

Jim Grimsley · 291 pages

Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding, and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Ford's own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are conf

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A Kind of Truth

Lane Hayes · 306 pages

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Back Piece

L.A. Witt · 304 pages

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L.A. Metro

R.J. Nolan · 332 pages

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Dangerous Ground

Josh Lanyon

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Strong Side

Alison Hendricks · 262 pages

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My Summer of Wes

Missy Welsh · 258 pages

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Chameleon Wolf

Stormy Glenn, Joyee Flynn · 128 pages

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The Magpie Lord

K.J. Charles · 202 pages

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