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The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere...
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Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school in Lambertville, Tennessee. Like any other girl, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret. There's a reason why she transferred schools for her senior year, and why she's determined not to get too close to anyone. And then she meets Grant Everett. Grant is unlike anyone she's ever met -- open, honest, kind -- and Amanda can't help but start to let him into her life. As they...
4) Slingshot
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Fifteen-year-old Grace Welles is barely surviving life at a third-tier boarding school in the Florida swamps when she accidentally saves new student Wade Scholfield and everything changes.
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"Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and...
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For Cal Hewitt, the expectations of his family and religion are paramount. For Eric Hamilton, life is an adventure to be experienced. These opposing worldviews lead Cal and Eric in opposite directions from the leafy residential neighborhood in Reno, Nevada, where both men grew up, through mind-numbing jobs, dead-end relationships, addictions, second chances, and blown opportunities. Beginning with an almost-kiss as college-aged men, a tenuous connection...
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Susan Sterling wanted nothing more than to escape her life . . . and her marriage. The family's secluded cabin in Kings Canyon National Park seemed the only place for her to find peace. But it took Shawn Weber coming into her life for her to find the courage to make changes. The budding friendship between the two women strengthens into an intense emotional bond, a bond that soon eclipses friendship.
Despite pressure from her family to reconcile...
11) Cold hands
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A relationship challenging the understanding of love and friendship between two male cousins. Set in and around Sag Harbor.
16) Summer share
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"Love, lesbian-style. Who could possibly write about it with more heart and wit than Leslea Newman, one of America's funniest and most well-respected lesbian writers? In voices that range from silly to clever to somber, Ms. Newman dissects lesbian romance with a surgeon's precision: A college student gets extra credit in the arms of her English professor. A '70s bra burner and an Gen-X waitress learn they have more in common than they ever imagined...
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Set in the late fifties in Reno, Nevada, this classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel. Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. Evelyn Hall has gone there to get a divorce from her husband; Ann Childs works there as a change girl in a gambling casino. The movie Desert Hearts is based on this novel by Jane Rule.
19) Dare to hope
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Chris has paid a high price for being the perfect son to his homophobic father. When he turns to a dangerous coping mechanism, he might be too broken for Samuel to save him.
20) None so blind
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College roommates--one a novelist, the other a famous artist--who never had the courage to speak about their passion for each other meet again after fifteen years.