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Out on Good Behavior

Dahlia Adler · 290 pages

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Poster Boy

Anne Tenino · 310 pages

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Strong Side

Alison Hendricks · 262 pages

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Mark Cooper versus America

Lisa Henry, J.A. Rock · 326 pages

Mark Cooper is angry, homesick, and about to take his stepdad’s dubious advice and rush Prescott College’s biggest party fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi. Greek life is as foreign to Aussie transplant Mark as Pennsylvania’s snowstorms and bear sightings. So, when the fraternity extends Mark a bid, Mark vows to get himself kicked out by the end of pledge period. But then he’s drawn into Alpha Delt’s feu

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The Tyrant Falls in Love, Volume 7

Hinako Takanaga · 200 pages

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Winter Jacket

Eliza Lentzski · 249 pages

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Make It Right

Megan Erickson

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Ethan in Gold

Amy Lane

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Just a Bit Twisted

Alessandra Hazard · 161 pages

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Out in the Open

A.J. Truman · 280 pages

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My Roommate's a Jock? Well, Crap!

Wade Kelly · 262 pages

"Its easy to become cynical when life never goes your way. Cole Reid has been a social recluse since he was fifteen, when he was outed by his high school baseball team. Since then, his obsessive-compulsive behavior and sarcastic nature have driven away most of the population, and everyone else hates him because he's gay. As he sees it, he's bound to repulse any prospective friends, let alone boyfr

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Lessons in Love

Charlie Cochrane · 142 pages

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What We Left Behind

Robin Talley · 384 pages

Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. They're deeply, hopelessly in love. When they separate for their first year at college--Toni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYU--they're sure they'll be fine. The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected.

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Hooch & Cake

Heidi Cullinan · 180 pages

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The Front Runner

Patricia Nell Warren · 316 pages

The Front Runner is a 1974 novel by Patricia Nell Warren. A love story between a running coach and his star athlete, The Front Runner is noted for being the first contemporary gay novel to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success.

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Confusion

Stefan Zweig

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The Summer Palace

C.S. Pacat

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Keeping You a Secret

Julie Anne Peters · 250 pages

A fantastically written book that follows the life of student Holland Jaegar in her last year of high school. Holland begins her last semester of school by meeting CeCe Goddard, a transfer student from Washington Central. As the days progress Holland learn about CeCe and the fact that she is a lesbian. Holland is drawn to the charisma and strength of Cece and a friendship forms. When Holland suspe

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Simple Men

Eric Arvin

Chip Arnold is a well-liked football coach at a small liberal arts college, but his personal life is in a bit of a rut. He goes out drinking with his colleagues, gets along well with his players, and dates all the prettiest women in town—he has the life most straight men dream of. But lately none of the women he dates seem to be igniting any passion in him. Then he meets the new school chaplain, F

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Stir-Fry

Emma Donoghue · 240 pages

Een jonge studente in Dublin vindt een kamer bij twee vrouwen; hun vriendschap komt in een ander perspectief te staan als het meisje de ware relatie tussen haar twee huisgenoten ontdekt.

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Pages for You

Sylvia Brownrigg · 263 pages

Seventeen-year-old Flannery Jansen develops a lusty obsession for a female graduate student teacher and by chance ends up in one of her classes, but as the two become closer, Flannery learns more about Anne than she ever wanted to.

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Odd Girl Out

Ann Bannon · 192 pages

In the 1950s, Ann Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embraced their sexuality. With Odd Girl Out, Bannon introduces Laura Landon, whose love affair with her college roommate Beth launched the lesbian pulp fiction genre.

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What Chris Wants

Lori Foster · 96 pages

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But My Boyfriend Is

K.A. Mitchell · 268 pages

"Dylan Williams is not gay. Sometimes he gets off with other guys, but so what? He plans to get married someday--really married, like with a wife and kids. And he's determined that his future family's life will be the normal one he and his brothers never had. Mike Aurietta is gay, but his job keeps him in the closet. He doesn't usually risk frequenting infamous cruising places like Webber Park. Bu

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