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• A Night at the Sweet Gum Head

  Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution

  Padgett, Marty, 1969-

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  Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom

• And There He Kept Her

  Moehling, Joshua,

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  They thought he was a helpless old man. They were wrong. When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved.

• Mother Island

  a Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

  Figueroa, Jamie,

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  A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself.

• Valley of the Dolls

  Susann, Jacqueline

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  At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City trying to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Third Gilmore Girl

  Bishop, Kelly,

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  A candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line , Dirty Dancing , Gilmore Girls , and much more.

• The Archive Undying

  Candon, Emma Mieko,

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  WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT. WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND. WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK.

• Desolation

  a Heavy Metal Memoir

  Morton, Mark, 1972-

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  A gritty, revealing heavy metal memoir by Lamb of God's guitarist and lyricist, Mark Morton, which explores both his life in music and his tumultuous path through addiction and into recovery

• Nicked

  Anderson, M. T.,

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  From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saint.

• Life Moves Pretty Fast

  the Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Anymore)

  Freeman, Hadley,

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  From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever--featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bruising of Qilwa

  Jamnia, Naseem,

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  In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of blood magic discovers a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland.

• Getting the Pretty Back

  Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick

  Ringwald, Molly

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  The movie star best known for her classic films of he 1980s weaves together intimate stories and candid advice in a girlfriend's guide to life, style, and relationships.

• Allegheny Front

  Stories

  Null, Matthew Neill, 1984-

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  Set in the author's homeland of West Virginia, this panoramic collection of stories traces the people and animals who live in precarious balance in the mountains of Appalachia over a span of two hundred years, in a disappearing rural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let Us Descend

  a Novel

  Ward, Jesmyn,

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  Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 2001, a Space Odyssey

  Clarke, Arthur Charles, 1917-

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  This allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe--and the universe's reaction to humanity--is a hallmark achievement in storytelling that follows the crew of the spacecraft Discovery as they embark on a mission to Saturn.

• John Dies at the End

  Wong, David, 1975-

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  STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna,

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  Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shards

  Ellis, Bret Easton,

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  A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Return

  Harrison, Rachel, 1989-

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  Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return--except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Funerals for Horses

  Hyde, Catherine Ryan

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  What if you were descend into madness again? In this gritty, compelling tale of a woman's search for her lost childhood, Ella Ginsberg slips into and out of insanity, and manages to cling by a slender thread to the flattened earth of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vaster Wilds

  Groff, Lauren,

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  A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits…Read moreRead more of this annotation