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  Manboobs - A Memoir of Musicals...

  Komail Aijazuddin

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  A blazing new talent’s hilarious memoir about coming of age and coming out in Pakistan, moving to America, looking for love, and falling in love with himself along the way 
   
  What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find happiness despite years of humiliation, physical danger, and a legion of Brooklyn hipsters who know you only as a queer from Whereveristan? How do you summon the courage to be yourself no matter where you are? 
   
  Even as a young child in Lahore, Komail Aijazuddin knew he was different—no one else at his all-boys prep school was pirouetting off their desks, or being bullied for their “manboobs,” or spontaneously bursting into songs from The Little Mermaid. Aijazuddin began to believe his only chance at a happy, meaningful life would be found elsewhere: America, the land of the free, the home of the gays. But the hostility of a post–9/11 world and society’s rejection of his art, his desires, and his body would soon teach him that finding happiness takes a lot more than a plane ticket. Searching for his place between two worlds while navigating a minefield of expectations, prejudice, and self-doubt, Aijazuddin discovered—sometimes painfully, sometimes hilariously—that there are people and places he’d need to let go of to move forward. 
   
  Manboobs is a riotously funny memoir of searching for love, seamlessly blending humor, politics, pop culture, and the bravery required to be yourself. Aijazuddin confidently announces himself as an exciting new voice in humor with his moving and charming reexamination of the American dream and our search for home. 
   
  “Manboobs is an important story, told with a sharp wit and disarming humor. Aijazuddin has the ability to address difficult subjects with thoughtfulness and honesty, while also making you laugh out loud.”—Moshin Zaidi, author of A Dutiful Boy

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  Out of Sync - A Bound Book

  Bronwyn Green

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  Everything has been out of sync since he walked away from James. Does he dare to make it right? Ten years ago, Morgan Weaver walked away from everything he loved—his burgeoning career as a composer, his cello, and his best friend, James. Family obligations and guilt keep him tied to a job he hates, and his dreams have collected even more dust than his instrument. James Shepherd was left reeling when Morgan abandoned not only their dreams of writing and performing together, but their friendship. James forged on to become an internationally known musician, but he’s always felt Morgan’s loss and has never been able to shake the feeling that he’s responsible for the other man’s choice to leave everything behind. A simple request from Morgan’s sister brings the men together in a way neither of them expected, and long-denied desire bubbles to the surface overwhelming them both. Knowing it’s only temporary, Morgan finds himself lost in a haze of submission, finally able to experience being at James’ mercy and determined to enjoy it while it lasts. James, however, has other plans and is equally determined to show Morgan he can have all he’s ever wanted—including what they have together.

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  Rooms - Women Writing Woolf

  Sina Queyras

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  From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind
  		 
  Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.
  		 
  Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virignia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one’s own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.
  		 
  How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media.

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  Draft Bust

  Hannah Henry

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  One injured hockey player. One laid-off beat reporter. One giant mansion. Twenty-Eight days alone together.Oliver Swan's career is over. Everyone can see that. He's been too injured to play for an entire season. But what legacy does a second overall player have to leave when he hasn't actually achieved anything in his career?He can already see the headlines: Draft Bust Retires After Underwhelming Career. Fuck that. He's going to be remembered the way he wants to be. He's going to write a memoir.Well, he's going to hire someone to ghostwrite his memoir. Enter Jordan Walsh, recently laid-off NHL beat reporter, and the only person who ever had anything nice to say about Oliver's career.When Oliver came up with the idea for them to spend all of February together in his house in Colorado, he hadn't considered the fact that Jordan was beautiful. He hadn't known how sweet he'd be. This is a disaster. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Touchwood

  Karin Kallmaker

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  Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets book store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work . . . and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life. 
   
   
   
  But Rayann encounters challenges to this new love—from friends who question its wisdom, from her mother who disapproves of this liaison with a woman her own contemporary, from Louisa's son who learns for the first time his mother's true sexuality. 
   
   
   
  And there are profound differences between Rayann and Louisa themselves, two women who come from dramatically different places in the spectrum of age and life experience. Their only common ground seems to be the searing attraction that they both try to deny . . .

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  When Darcy Met Lizzy - A Queer...

  Sammie Downing

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  As one of the first women gentlemen in England, Darcy has always played by the rules. If anyone examined her life, they would find no fault. She attended the best schools, assumed responsibility for her late father’s estate, Pemberley, and tried her best to care for her younger sister Georgiana. Darcy has spent twenty-five years conducting herself with honor, doing her duty to her family, and never letting her passions run away with her.  
  Miss Elizabeth Bennet has always been a wild creature. The second of five daughters, with a poor father and a hysterical mother, she has made her way in the world by bending every rule and laughing in the face of anyone brave enough to challenge her. Lizzy’s father is indifferent about her future and spends his time reading books and wasting away in his library. Her mother wants her to marry rich. But Lizzy? She just wants to be free.  
  Seeking refuge from the weight of responsibility at Pemberley, Darcy decides to visit her friend Charles Bingley in the country. Darcy finds herself unexpectedly captivated by the witty and unconventional Elizabeth Bennet. Their connection defies every expectation, threatening to shatter the fragile peace Darcy has so carefully cultivated. Darcy has always been so certain about what she wanted: to uphold her father’s legacy and build a better future for her sister. But Darcy’s perfectly constructed life begins to crumble when the spirited Lizzy starts to challenge her, defying every convention and igniting a forbidden desire. Can Darcy risk everything for a love that could ruin all that she and her father worked so hard to build?

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