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GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) Fiction
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted.
TIP: Look for more gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer fiction by searching the library catalog for the subjects Gay Men Fiction, Lesbians Fiction, Bisexuality Fiction, Transsexuals Fiction or Homosexuality Fiction.
Anthologies
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(2009)Short StoriesEverybody needs a little love in his or her life, so whether you're missing your special someone or just want a reminder of why you fell in love in the first place, Best Gay Love Stories 2010 is filled with stories that reflect the many faces of love, and what makes it worthwhile.
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(2009)Short StoriesThis collection brings together new and unpublished stories from eighteen of today's best gay writers.
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(2009)Short StoriesFrom threesomes to gender-bending to shedding one's wholesome image to indulge in more visceral pursuits, the women in these stories reveal all their pleasures in memorable tales that are both sexy and lyrical.
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(2007-2010)Short StoriesBest Lesbian Romance presents the juiciest, most seductive lesbian love stories. In Lynne Jamneck's "Shooting Snow," set in Greenland, a photographer and the scientist who has brought her north gradually melt the glacier between them. In Lisa Figueroa's "Under the Skin," a butch-femme couple on a tropical holiday discover the difference between new love and deep commitment.
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(2009)Short StoriesFifteen writers share their take on the phenomenon of Cowboys — a calling, a vocation, and a status that has nothing to do with gender. Whether in the old west or the Australian outback, New England or the Great Plains, these girls and their horses work hard, play hard, and love hard.
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(2009)810.803538 P852 2009At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of "Portland Queer" reveal the contradictions and commonalities of life on one of the world's great queer meccas. Lambda Literary Award winner!
Fiction
- Anable, Stephen
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(2008)MysteryAfter comedian Mark Winslow arrives with his troupe of improv actors ready to break into the Provincetown club circuit, a public fight makes him the prime suspect in the grisly butchering of a Boston blueblood. Mark believes his choice is simple: find the killer or be charged with the crime.
- Conaghan, Cowen
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(2005)ZineThis zine contains erotic stories featuring female-to-male (ftm) transsexual men and includes a glossary.
- Cooper, Dennis
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(2009)Acclaimed cult-writer Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored so honestly — pornography, violence, and mutilation — but with a satirical touch.
- Coyote, Ivan E.
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(2006)A breathtaking story of love and loneliness, Coyote's first novel is about an affable small-town mechanic who struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman, until a used cello and an acquaintance's suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his own life. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man's true rite of passage: trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that's as big as the endless prairie sky.
- D'Erasmo, Stacey
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(2009)At 37, Gabriel Collins works halfheartedly as an obituary writer at a fading newspaper in lower Manhattan, which, since 9/11, feels like a city of the dead. This once dreamy and appealing boy has turned from a rebellious adolescent to an adult who trades in petty crimes.
- Diaz, Johnny
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(2009)From the acclaimed author of Boston Boys Club, comes a witty, new, warmhearted novel of friendship, familia, and finding a place to call home — even in a city where it's almost impossible to get an authentic Cuban sandwich.
- Donoghue, Emma
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(2007)A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely 21st century twist, here is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships.
- Fielding, Joy
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(2010)Two brothers — Will and Jeff — and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences for all concerned.
- Fraser, Anne
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(2009)Following his father's murder, Gideon Redoak assumes his father's title and becomes the head of Redoak Manor. When he investigates a series of mysterious deaths in the countryside surrounding his estate, Gideon meets the charismatic Etienne Corbeau, who seduces and kills Gideon. Not only is Etienne a murderer, he's also a vampire.
- Gerrold, David
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(2002)When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he thought he had prepared himself for fatherhood. But 8-year-old Dennis turned out to be more than he expected — a lot more. The son of a substance abuser and alcoholic who abandoned him in a seedy motel, Dennis suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. Seized by the state and shuffled among eight different foster homes in less than eight years, he was prone to violent emotional outbursts. His case history identified him as "hard to place" — a euphemism for "unadoptable" — but for Gerrold it was love at first sight.
- Glass, Julia
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(2002)Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marriage.
- Harris, E Lynn
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(2009)Aldridge James Richardson is a kept man and Drayton Dexter Jones is the man who's footing the bills. The only problem is that Dray is a rich, handsome NBA star, just happens to be married. When someone tries to break up their happy home, the blackmailing begins and drama ensues.
- Hart, Ellen
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(2009)MysteryTaking a seemingly easy job in her first case as a fledgling private investigator, Jane Lawless attempts to track down the missing father of client Annie Andrews, a successful effort with unanticipated consequences.
- Herren, Greg
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(2007)MysteryIn the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chanse MacLeod returns to a different, shattered New Orleans in an attempt to rebuild his own life and face his own future. When he discovers that his last client before the storm was murdered the very night she hired him to find her long-missing father, he is drawn into a web of intrigue and evil that surrounds the Verlaine family.
- Kallmaker, Karin
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(2005)Syrah Ardani tried independence, but the call of the Napa Valley hills and rolling vineyards of her family's winery have brought her home again — only to learn that her father's feckless management has put Ardani Vineyards into receivership. Corporate turnaround specialist Toni Blanchard, infamous for her slash-and-burn techniques, is caught between loyalty to her father, and old friend of the Ardani family, and her duty to the court, which has appointed her to safeguard the interests of the vineyard's creditors. Toni has other reasons to retreat from her high-pressure Manhattan lifestyle, not the least of which is a bitter break up. Syrah wants Toni off her land and out of her life. Their clashes smolder with distrust and resentment, but also threaten to light a completely different kind of fire.
- Lynch, Lee
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(2009)Jefferson is the lover every woman wants to be — or to have. Magnetically attractive, athletic, alcoholic, Jefferson is an anchorless innocent wandering through a world of women who can resist her no more than she can resist them. Never lacking a lover, Jefferson knows little of love; brought up on the right side of the tracks, she's drawn to the wild side. Every lesbian has known Jefferson--or is Jefferson.
- Nolan, Monica
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(2010)From the author of Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary comes another hilarious, campy send-up packed with sex, mystery, and boarding school hijinx.
- Radclyffe
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(2010)In the dynamic double sequel to Shield of Justice and A Matter of Trust, Det. Sgt. Rebecca Frye struggles to return to duty after a near fatal shooting. Joining forces with enigmatic computer consultant J.T. Sloan, Rebecca accepts a temporary assignment with a Federal task force investigating an Internet child pornography ring. Rebecca's obsession with finding her partner's killer and her involvement in the multi-jurisdictional investigation threaten both her life and her new relationship with Doctor Catherine Rawlings. When Catherine becomes professionally involved and an attempt on the life of a task force member ensues, the pursuit of justice becomes a deadly race against time
- Reardon, Robin
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(2008)From the author of A Secret Edge comes a powerful second novel about the journey from boy to man, as a 16-year-old boy fights to remain true to himself when his parents ship him off to a religious camp.
- Van Arsdale, Sarah
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(2003)On a rainy night in Intervale, Maine, an unknown woman appears on a bridge. Blue, as she comes to be known, has complete retrograde amnesia. Trying to recover fragments of her memory, she becomes the focus of the obsessions of local resident Rita LaPlatte, who attempts to prove that Blue is her long-lost twin. The amnesiac comes under the care of Robert Reichman, a psychiatrist who is grappling with his own lost identity as a Jew. Also under the care of Dr. Reichman is Annie Blaise, a psychotic woman who holds the key to the question of both her own identity and Blue's — an answer not revealed until the book's last pages.
- White, Edmund
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(2003)In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet, the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Fanny had convinced Frances to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of the married woman's life.
- Zubro, Mark Richard
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(2007)MysterySince when are vacations ever relaxing? All police detective Paul Turner is hoping for on his annual retreat from the city and his job is a little peace and quiet. He's headed to the Great North Woods for a couple of weeks with family and friends, but hopes of tranquility are soon crushed when Turner intervenes in a scuffle between a group of First Nations teens and a local bully and his cohorts. In the days following the incident, Turner and company find themselves the object of a series of attacks, break-ins, and sabotage of their equipment. The local police offer little help, and events continue to escalate until the bully's corpse is found floating in the water near their houseboat — making this not only one of the least relaxing vacations ever, but one of the deadliest.
Web Resources
- Lambda Literary Foundation
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http://www.lambdaliterary.orgThe Lambda Literary Foundation in a non-profit organization supporting gay and lesbian literature. They publish the Lambda Book Report, a monthly book review journal, and The James White Review, a gay men's literary quarterly and sponsor the annual Lambda Literary Awards and Behind Our Masks, a regional writers conference. Selected articles from their publications can be found on their web site.
- Multnomah County Library GLBTQ Teen Booklist
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http://www.multcolib.org/teens/glbt.htmlA booklist of teen GLBTQ fiction and nonfiction at the Multnomah County Library
- GLBTQ.com
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http://www.glbtq.com/subject/literature_a-b.htmlAn online encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer culture, this section of site lists both authors and subjects related to literature from the GLBTQ communites.
