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Growing up in rural Washington as the only out gay kid means Jay is constantly bombarded with reminders that everyone around him can hook up and have relationships, but his list of love-related to-do's -- his own gay agenda -- is indefinitely, frustratingly, on hold. His parents suddenly move the family to Seattle right before his senior year, however, and the thriving LGBTQ+ community means he can finally begin checking things off his list! Will...
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University Press of Kansas
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Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red states. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically na�ive Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack, rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up making friends in one...
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A gripping story of mathematics, science, computing, war history, cryptography, and homosexual persecution and liberation. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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A 16-year old boy named Seth drowns, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely...
5) Private eyes
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Alex Delaware novels volume 6
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It's been eleven years since Melissa Dickenson dialed a hospital help line and spoke to psychologist Alex Delaware. Now a beautiful young heiress whose future should be filled with hope, but instead her worst childhood fear has returned--with a vengeance.
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Swoon Reads
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2018.
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Drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King lands in the hospital after a night of partying. The paparazzi have branded her the latest tabloid train wreck. Her friends and bandmates help her pick up the pieces of her life. She knows hooking up with a band member like Alfie is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Keep. Kissing. Will Emmy be able to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the...