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• The Gentleman From Peru

  Aciman, André, 1951-

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  A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest, a mysterious, white-bearded…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Icarus

  Ancrum, K. (Kayla), 1991-

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  Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man--the wealthy Mr. Black has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus's mother

• Earth

  Boyne, John, 1971-

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  It's the tabloid sensation of the year- two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt

• Another First Chance

  Couch, Robbie

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  It's been a year since eighteen-year-old River Lang's best friend died in a car accident. And every day since, he's had to pass by the depressing billboard that appeared as a result: a texting and driving PSA that reduces Dylan to a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clear

  Davies, Carys

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  1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs

• The Broken Wave

  Davies, Matthew Ryan

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  In the small seaside town of Queenscliff, two boys from opposite sides of the world forge a friendship over a summer of sun, adventure and brotherhood. Until a catastrophic event shatters their idyllic childhoods. Two lives are lost. A lie…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Max

  Duckor-Jones, Avi

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  Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions about his birth parents and his sexuality, he feels that there is a seed of badness deep within him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diva

  Goodwin, Daisy, 1961-

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  A story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world

• In Tongues

  Grattan, Thomas, 1974-

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  It's 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon, handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction, takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it's the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city's punishing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Napalm in the Heart

  Guasch, Pol, 1997-

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  In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. Society has been militarised, the dead lie unburied and thugs patrol the land

• Gus and the Missing Boy

  Hunter, Troy

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  Gus's life is flipped on its head one day when he finds a missing persons website with a digitally aged picture of a missing boy who looks eerily like him. Could he be a kidnapping victim?

• Blessings

  Ibeh, Chukwuebuka

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  When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school

• Wide Awake Now

  Levithan, David, 1972-

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  When David Levithan published Wide Awake in 2004, he set it in an imagined 2024, where a gay Jewish man had just been elected president of the United States, until a governor decides that some election results in his state are invalid,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prophet Song

  Lynch, Paul, 1977-

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  On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep and finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society assailed by unpredictable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Only Call When You're in Trouble

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  McCauley, Stephen, 1955-

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  After a lifetime of taking care of his impossible but irresistible sister and his cherished niece, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Glasgow Boys

  McDonald, Margaret

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  Against all odds, 18-year-old Finlay has begun his nursing degree at Glasgow University. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Banjo is trying to settle into his new foster family and finish high school, desperate to hold down his job and the people it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pity

  McMillan, Andrew, 1988-

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  Set across three generations of South Yorkshire mining family, Andrew McMillan's debut novel is a lament for a lost way of a life as well as a celebration of resilience and the possibility for change

• God Forgets About the Poor

  Polites, Peter

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  I will tell you why you should draft my story. Because migrant stories are broken. Some parts in a village where we washed our clothing with soot. Some parts in big cities working in factories. How we starved for food in Greece and starved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Late Americans

  Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.)

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  In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery

• Only Ours

  Tomalin, Lynda

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  When Dan and Luke meet through their best friends, sparks fly immediately. With four hours distance between them, neither of them thinks anything will happen anyway. Until they spend a weekend together that could change everything