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  The Werewolf Before Christmas

  Charles Payseur

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  Ray seems like the perfect boyfriend -- he's gorgeous, incredibly romantic, and has a mechanical suit that he invented to become the dastardly MantaRay. For Alec, who also spends his nights making life difficult for do-gooders everywhere, it's a match made in supervillain heaven. Except that Ray is a bit too into the hit soap opera, All My Werewolves. When tempers flare during what's supposed to be a quiet night out, Alec nearly ruins everything over a stupid bet with an alien gorilla.
  Desperate to prove his feelings to Ray, and with Christmas fast approaching, Alec decides the fastest way to Ray's heart is by embracing the thing that threatens to divide them -- a certain werewolf show with a certain star actor who Ray admires. A simple case of kidnapping promises to do the trick, only fur (and fandom) fly when Alec's romantic gesture leads to a very hairy situation. 
  Can Alec prove to Ray how much their relationship means to him, or will his plans be ruined by the werewolf before Christmas?

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  The Letters

  M.D. Castillo

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  Tony’s quiet life with his partner in San Francisco is disrupted when an old medical folder is delivered from Argentina. Then, an email arrives. It’s Izzy, an estranged niece in Patagonia. She has news of her father’s death and questions Tony's absence. Tony is discovering that much of what he knows about his family is built on lies. Izzy's email demands a response, and the folder demands the truth. He spent years speaking for the dead as a journalist during Argentina's Dirty War, then traveling the world as a DNA specialist, but it was always someone else’s family. He sifts through his memories and begins typing the family saga to his niece. Tony taps a story about his immigrant family who settled in the bucolic Patagonian valley. A story that eventually moves to the war-time streets of Buenos Aires. 
  The Letters is a historical novel but it's more than a family saga. It’s a cautionary tale about populist politics that turn authoritarian. They preached God, family, and property while escalating struggles around race, class, and sexual identity. And, The Letters is about the secrets we keep.

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  The Curse

  Pelaam Pelaam

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  Marcus runs a modest bookshop and is delighted when his boyfriend Jonathon proposes. But then the nightmares begin -- the image of an angel in a vast, darkened cellar, or of him, unable to move, with Jonathon in danger. There also seems to be someone following him.
  
  
  When Jonathon has to return to his family home to take possession of his grandmother's inheritance, Marcus insists on going with him. While staying in the nearby inn, Marcus meets a woman who cautions him, offering him a medallion for protection.
  
  
  To Marcus's surprise, he receives a summons to his guardian's home on All Hallow's Eve for Lord Kyrin to discuss his own inheritance. But this is the start of the real nightmare for Marcus. He and Jonathon will need to fight for their lives and break a curse that's taken the lives of many before.

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  Body Language - Writers on...

  Nicole Chung, Matt Ortile

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  Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways. 
   
   
    
  Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class—a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others' expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave. 
   
   
    
  Covering a wide range of experiences—from art modeling as a Black woman to nostalgia for a brutalizing high school sport, from the frightening upheaval of cancer diagnoses to the small beauties of funeral sex—this collection is intelligent, sensitive, and unflinchingly candid. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by writers at all stages of their careers, Body Language reflects the many ways in which we understand and inhabit our bodies.

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  Ghost Town - A Novel

  Kevin Chen

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  A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2022  FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR & WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD  Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man.  The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family’s village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen’s boyfriend.  Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.  ? “Multidimensional characters, a beautifully realized setting, and an apposite surprise ending... This book is excellent.”—Booklist (Starred Review)

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  Stroke of Luck

  Alex Winters

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  Mason Jaspers is a virgin, but that's about to change. At least, he hopes so. Then again, it all depends on his longtime crush and current tutoring student Owen Fairchild.
   
  Owen is everything Mason is not: the confident jock to Mason's insecure nerd, taut and toned where Mason is long and gawky, tan and ruddy where Mason is pale and smooth, and far from a virgin. Owen is GSU's resident cock of the walk: openly gay and eagerly slutty, sleeping with any guy he can, as often as he can, before moving onto the next. And the next and the next ...
   
  Because this summer will be spent rehabbing an old farmhouse as part of their Residential Real Estate course, and the two opposites must share the same house, for better or worse. And when Mason walks in on Owen pleasuring himself, things escalate in a way neither can deny, let alone prevent ...

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