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"Gene Ionescu, a gay trans man in his third year in the minors with the Beaverton Beavers, is a solid shortstop, but he's no one's idea of a major league prospect. He's just happy to be here, though, getting underpaid six months of the year to play the sport he's loved since childhood -- a game that favors underdogs and optimists. He likes to keep his hopes in the day, inning by inning and game by game. But his plans go awry when Luis Estrada -- Gene's...
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Ordered by the team's owner to give a bunch of interviews to reporter Mark Bailey, baseball shortstop, Eddie O'Leary, during the 1960 season, slowly gives in to the attraction between them, and when it's just them against the world, they must decide if that's enough.
3) In tongues
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery"--
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants - lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition,...
5) Nearlywed
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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[2024]
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English
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"An engaged couple's compatibility is put to the test during their ill-fated early honeymoon in this smart, dazzling, and provocative summer comedy perfect for fans of People We Meet on Vacation. 5 Signs You and Your Fiancé Might Be Secretly Incompatible ... and #3 Will Shock You! Ray Bruno and Kip Hayes are horrible on paper. Ray is a chaotic millennial ex-clickbait-writer who's been oversharing his every thought online since he was a teenager,...
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Esplanade Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In his powerful debut novel, H. Nigel Thomas writes with compelling honesty about the confusing maze of societal pressures that paralyze Jerome Quashee while growing up in the Caribbean, and later on in his adult life. Jerome's intelligence at first promises him a gateway out of the poverty his parents have known, but he must compete with privileged White boys for scholarships in a racist, classist culture. He represses his emerging homosexuality,...
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VR Editoras
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Cuando Robin Blyth hereda un aburrido puesto en el Ministerio del Interior, cree que ahora su vida se reducirá a sellar papeles. No puedes estar más equivocado. El mismo día que el antipático Edwin Courcey le revela que la magia existe y aque ahora Robin, un baronet caído en desgracia, es el vínculo entre el mundo mágico y el no mágico, también conoc su perdición... Cuando magos oscuros lo maldicen para que les entregue el último juramento,...
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