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  Punks - New & Selected Poems

  John Keene

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  A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punks  
  weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems—from historic Black personalities, both familial and famous, to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms—form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire, oppression,  
  AIDS, and grief through sorrowful songs that "we sing as hard as we live." At home in countless poetic forms, Punks reconfirms John Keene as one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry.

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  Plain - A Memoir of Mennonite...

  Mary Alice Hostetter

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  Plain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter's journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Although endowed with a personality "prone toward questioning and challenging," the young Mary Alice at first wants nothing more than to be a good girl, to do her share, and—alongside her eleven siblings—to work her family's Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm. She feels fortunate to have been born into a religion where, as the familiar hymn states, she is "safe in the arms of Jesus." As an adolescent, that keen desire for belonging becomes focused on her worldly peers, even though she knows that Mennonites consider themselves a people apart. Eventually she leaves behind the fields and fences of her youth, thinking she will finally be able to grow beyond the prohibitions of her church. Discovering and accepting her sexuality, she once again finds herself apart, on the outside of family, community, and societal norms. 
   
   
   
  This quietly powerful memoir of longing and acceptance casts a humanizing eye on a little-understood American religious tradition and a woman's striving to grow within and beyond it.

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  Quarterback Sneak

  Pepper Espinoza

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  Can an athlete overcome his greatest challenge yet for the only man he's ever loved?
  
  
  The headline Quarterbacks Garnett, Patton, Rumored to be Gay greets Cache Garnett the morning after he wins the football championship and defeats his biggest rival, Eric Patton. Facing a potentially career-ending knee injury, the last thing Cache wants to deal with is speculation about his personal life. If the injury doesn't end his career, the swirling rumors could.
  
  
  Especially since all the speculation and rumors are true ...

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  Reaction Time

  Emily O’Beirne

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  A contemporary coming-of-age lesbian novel about discovering who you want to be and finding how to live with your past—without repeating it. 
   
   
   
  City girl Luce May's first year out of high school has been the worst. When she escapes her turbulent life in Sydney to start over at a university in the middle of nowhere, the last thing she wants is anyone in her new life to know of her past. Especially that to escape her chaotic, alcoholic mother, Luce also had to abandon her teenage sister. 
   
   
   
  As Luce slowly starts to find another version of herself in this place, she also finds a new family in her eclectic group of friends. She even begins to find solace and possibility in her budding relationship with Eva, the girl who loves trees so much she traveled across the world to live among them. 
   
   
   
  But when Luce's sister back home starts to follow Luce's own wild footsteps, and Luce's guilt starts to grow, she finds it harder to keep her old and new worlds apart. Can Luce find a way to embrace this new life and take care of her family without returning to her old destructive ways? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Lassos and Lace

  L Eveland

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  Save a dragon, ride a cowboy is about to become my new motto. 
   
   
   
  After hearing about a dragon ranch and monster haven out in Wyoming, I set off on a road trip with my roommates and two goals: pet a dragon and live out my cowboy riding fantasy. 
   
   
   
  There's just one problem: Hopper Meadows, the monstrous owner of the Jackalope Ranch. He's got a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas and seems to have it out for me in particular. Sparks fly the moment we meet, and not the good kind. 
   
   
   
  Even though he hates me, I can't get him out of my head. Fantasizing about Hopper is the only thing keeping me sane after being cut off by my rich parents, and abandoned by my roommates. If I've got to be stuck in the middle of nowhere for a week, might as well enjoy the view, right? 
   
   
   
  But there's trouble brewing on the ranch. When I find myself pulled into a vendetta thirty years in the making, and the mastermind behind it might just be the only thing Hopper and I have in common . . .  
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Leather and Tea

  K.L. Noone

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  Some nights, American secret agent Ben Smith just wants to come home to his husband. He misses that English accent and smile and, of course, Simon on his knees. He wants his perfect submissive at his feet, so the world and his mission can fall away.
  Some nights, romance writer Simon Ashley misses his dashing American other half. Tea is nice, but it can't pin him down in bed and make him beg, reminding him he's loved and belongs to someone. He wants to forget everything and everyone he's left behind, and just belong to Ben. 
  Tonight they both get what they want when Ben comes home early. tea is very nice ... but so is leather.

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