Spydus Search Results - Pride Month

Rainbow Revolutionaries [electronic resource] / Sarah Prager.

Author: Prager, Sarah
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins, 2022.
1 online resource

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Between Perfect and Real [electronic resource] / Ray Stoeve.

Author: Stoeve, Ray
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : ABRAMS, 2022.
1 online resource

eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - Electronically available (Set: 16 Feb 2022) - Access resource

Black Girl, Call Home [electronic resource] / Jasmine Mans.

Author: Mans, Jasmine
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2021.
1 online resource (audio files (1 hr., 53 min., 3 sec.)) : digital, stereo

eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eAudiobook - Electronically available (Set: 03 Jun 2021) - Access resource

Fragile Remedy [electronic resource] / Maria Ingrande Mora.

Author: Mora, Maria Ingrande
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2021.
1 online resource (audio files (11 hr., 3 min., 50 sec.)) : digital, stereo

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The Summer of Everything [electronic resource] / Julian Winters.

Author: Winters, Julian
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Interlude Press, 2021.
1 online resource

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Be Dazzled [electronic resource] / Ryan La Sala.

Author: Sala, Ryan La
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Sourcebooks, 2021.
1 online resource

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Yesterday Is History [electronic resource] / Kosoko Jackson.

Author: Jackson, Kosoko
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Sourcebooks, 2021.
1 online resource

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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When they meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the two loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special kind of friendship - the kind of friendship that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through their friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves - and about the kind of people they want to be.
Author: Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
358 pages ; 20 cm

Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326298
Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 95100000326476

Tell me my name / Amy Reed.

On wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting - for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen. When they're together, Fern has purpose. She glimpses the secrets Ivy hides behind her fame, her fortune, the lavish parties she throws at her great glass house, and understands that Ivy hurts in ways Fern can't fathom. And soon, it's clear Ivy wants someone Fern can help her get. But as the two pull closer, Fern's cozy life on Commodore begins to unravel.
Author: Reed, Amy Lynn
Published: New York : The Dial Press, 2021.
336 pages ; 22 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 95100000326474
Wendover Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326296

Black girl, call home / Jasmine Mans.

As a competitive spoken-word poet who draws large crowds of people, Jasmine Mans's collection is divided into six sections, each with a corresponding active telephone number where she has recorded excerpts of her poems. You can listen now, just dial! Using poetry to bring change to the world with positive agitation and hoping to prompt dialogue where there is normally fear, poet Jasmine Mans explores the intersection of race, feminism, and queer identity in her latest collection.
Author: Mans, Jasmine
Published: New York : Berkley, 2021.
245 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Farnham Common Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 811.6 MAN - Available - 95100000326408

Running with Lions [electronic resource] / Julian Winters.

How to Be Remy Cameron [electronic resource] / Julian Winters.

I Think I Love You [electronic resource] / Auriane Desombre.

Author: Desombre, Auriane
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Random House Children's Books, 2021.
1 online resource

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My life in transition : a Super late bloomer collection / Julia Kaye.

The follow-up to the acclaimed autobiographical comic collection 'Super Late Bloomer', documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition.
Author: Kaye, Julia, 1988-
Published: Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2021]
Published: ©2021
vi, 167 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 306.768092 KAY - Available - 95100000326406

A dutiful boy : a memoir of secrets, lies and family love / Mohsin Zaidi.

Mohsin grew up in a deprived pocket of east London; his family was close-knit but very religiously conservative. From a young age Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where gang violence was a fact of life. As he grew up life didn't seem to offer teenage Mohsin any choices: he was disenfranchised as a poor, brown boy, and he was isolated from his family as a closet gay Muslim. However Mohsin had incredible drive and he used education as a way out of his home life and to throw himself into a new kind of life. He became the first person from his school to go to Oxford University and there he found the freedom to come out to his friends. But Oxford was a whole different world with its own huge challenges and Mohsin found himself increasingly conflicted.
Author: Zaidi, Mohsin
Published: [London] : Vintage, 2021.
280 pages ; 20 cm
2 reserves

Farnham Common Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B ZAI ZAI - Reservation allocation expired (Set: 01 May 2024) - In-transit from Farnham Common Community Library to Princes Risborough Library (Set: 20 Apr 2024) - 95100000328322
Haddenham Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B ZAI ZAI - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 95100000328255

A complicated love story set in space / Shaun David Hutchinson.

'Black Mirror' meets 'What If It's Us' in this gripping, romantic, and wildly surprising novel about two boys lost in space trying to find their way home - while falling in love.
Author: Hutchinson, Shaun David
First edition.
Published: ©2021
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2021]
452 pages ; 22 cm

Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326754
High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326125

L[symbol of a heart]ve is for losers / Wibke Brueggemann.

As far as Phoebe Davies is concerned, love is to be avoided at all costs. Why would you spend your life worrying about something that turns you into a complete moron? If her best friend Polly is anything to go by, the first sniff of a relationship makes you forget about your friends (like, hello?), get completely obsessed with sex (yawn) and bang on constantly about a person who definitely isn't as great as you think they are. So Phoebe isn't going to fall in love, ever. But then she meets Emma.
Author: Brueggemann, Wibke
Published: London : Macmillan, 2021.
373 pages ; 20 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000347938

Box hill / Adam Mars-Jones.

'Box Hill' is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of the 1980s.
Author: Mars-Jones, Adam, 1954-
Published: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020.
160 pages

Chalfont St Peter Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000304583

Real life / Brandon Taylor.

Wallace is a biochemistry grad student at a lakeside Midwestern university used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. His class is the first in more than three decades to include a black student, something Wallace has not been allowed to forget. But, over the course of one weekend at the end of summer, a series of confrontations with colleagues and an unexpected shift in his relationship with a friend, Miller, force him to grapple with intimacy, desire, the trauma of the past and the question of the future.
Author: Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.)
Published: London : DB Originals, 2020.
327 pages ; 20 cm

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 95100000298666
Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000298662
Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 23 May 2024 - 95100000298654
Flackwell Heath Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000392936
Hazlemere Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000295371
Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000298669
Wendover Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000298658
Wing Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000298540

The falling in love montage / Ciara Smyth.

17-year-old Saoirse has finished with exams and is facing a long hot summer before uni. She plans to party, get drunk, watch horror movies and forget all her troubles by kissing girls. Ever since the breakupocalypse with her ex Hannah, she's been alone and angry, dealing with the hole left in her family by her sick mother's absence. Worse, Dad drops a bombshell: he's remarrying at the end of the summer. Enter the scene: Ruby, who might just be the prettiest girl Saoirse's ever seen. A romcom fan and a believer in true love, Ruby challenges cynical Saoirse to try a summer romance with the serious parts left out, just like in the movies. But what happens when the falling in love montage ends?
Author: Smyth, Ciara
Published: London : Andersen Press, 2020.
382 pages ; 20 cm

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326016
Marlow Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000325559

Girl, woman, other / Bernardine Evaristo.

'Girl, Woman, Other' follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends, and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Author: Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
453 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

18 copies

Life as a unicorn : a journey from shame to pride and everything in between / Amrou Al-Kadhi.

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself.
Author: Al-Kadhi, Amrou
Published: London : 4th Estate, 2020.
295 pages ; 20 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 792.028092 ALK - Available - 95100000326389
High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 792.028092 ALK - Onloan - Due: 26 May 2024 - 95100000326215

A dutiful boy : a memoir of a gay Muslim's journey to acceptance / Mohsin Zaidi.

Mohsin grew up in a deprived pocket of east London; his family was close-knit but very religiously conservative. From a young age Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where gang violence was a fact of life. As he grew up life didn't seem to offer teenage Mohsin any choices: he was disenfranchised as a poor, brown boy, and he was isolated from his family as a closet gay Muslim. However Mohsin had incredible drive and he used education as a way out of his home life and to throw himself into a new kind of life. He became the first person from his school to go to Oxford University and there he found the freedom to come out to his friends. But Oxford was a whole different world with its own huge challenges and Mohsin found himself increasingly conflicted.
Author: Zaidi, Mohsin
Published: London : Square Peg, 2020.
280 pages ; 24 cm

Bourne End Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B ZAI ZAI - Reservation awaiting collection (Set: 17 Apr 2024) - Reservation allocation expired (Set: 03 May 2024) - 95100000309341

My rainbow / DeShanna and Trinity Neal ; illustrated by Art Twink.

Warm morning sunlight and love fill the Neal home. And on one quiet day, playtime leads to an important realization: Trinity wants long hair like her dolls. She needs it to express who she truly is. So her family decides to take a trip to the beauty supply store, but none of the wigs is the perfect fit. Determined, Mom leaves with bundles of hair in hand, ready to craft a wig as colorful and vibrant as her daughter is. With powerful text by Trinity and DeShanna Neal and radiant art by Art Twink, 'My Rainbow' is a celebration of showing up as our full selves with the people who have seen us fully all along.
Author: Neal, DeShanna
Published: New York : Kokila, 2020.
32 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Junior picture book - Available - 95100000326464
High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Junior picture book - Available - 95100000326288

Real life : a novel [electronic resource] / Brandon Taylor ; read by Kevin R. Free.

A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community. Real Life is a gut punch of a novel, a story that asks if it's ever really possible to overcome our private wounds and buried histories--and at what cost.
Author: Taylor, Brandon
Unabridged ed.
Published: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2020.

eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eAudiobook - Electronically available (Set: 22 Jan 2021) - Access resource

The falling in love montage [electronic resource] / Ciara Smyth.

17-year-old Saoirse has finished with exams and is facing a long hot summer before uni. She plans to party, get drunk, watch horror movies and forget all her troubles by kissing girls. Ever since the breakupocalypse with her ex Hannah, she's been alone and angry, dealing with the hole left in her family by her sick mother's absence. Worse, Dad drops a bombshell: he's remarrying at the end of the summer. Enter the scene: Ruby, who might just be the prettiest girl Saoirse's ever seen. A romcom fan and a believer in true love, Ruby challenges cynical Saoirse to try a summer romance with the serious parts left out, just like in the movies. But what happens when the falling in love montage ends?
Author: Smyth, Ciara
Published: London : Andersen Digital, 2020.
1 online resource (384 pages)

eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - Electronically available (Set: 03 Jun 2021) - Access resource

Written in the stars : a novel [electronic resource] / Alexandria Bellefleur ; read by Lauren Sweet.

With nods to Bridget Jones and Pride & Prejudice, this debut is a delightful #ownvoices queer rom-com about a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an uptight actuary until New Year?s Eve-with results not even the stars could predict! After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love-and the inevitable heartbreak-is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn?t expect her lie to bite her in the ass. Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy... a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual, and skeptical for someone as free-spirited as Elle. When Darcy?s brother-and Elle's new business partner-expresses how happy he is that they hit it off, Elle is baffled. Was Darcy on the same date? Because... awkward. Darcy begs Elle to play along and she agrees to pretend they?re dating. But with a few conditions: Darcy must help Elle navigate her own overbearing family during the holidays and their arrangement expires on New Year?s Eve. The last thing they expect is to develop real feelings during a faux relationship. But maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars? "Everything I want from a rom-com: fun, whimsical, sexy." - Talia Hibbert, USA Today bestselling author of Get a Life, Chloe Brown.
Author: Bellefleur, Alexandria
Unabridged ed.
Published: [New York, NY] : HarperAudio, 2020.

eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eAudiobook - Electronically available (Set: 22 Jan 2021) - Access resource

You should see me in a crown / Leah Johnson.

Liz has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed town. She hopes to become a doctor and has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever. But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz's plans come crashing down.
Author: Johnson, Leah (Young adult author)
Published: London : Scholastic, 2020.
336 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Gerrards Cross Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326273
Lt. Chalfont Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Donation: children's fiction - Junior fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 05 Sep 2020) - 95100000264077
Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326448

Elixir [electronic resource] / Charles Atkins.

Paediatric oncologist Dr Frank Garfield has discovered a genetic cure for cancer that can save his young patients. However, his mentor believes it will only be exploited by pharmaceutical companies. When his mentor is murdered by the sociopathic son of a pharma company CEO and it made to look like a burglary gone wrong, Garfield is left with a choice: let his research die or join forces with the drug company?
Author: Atkins, Charles
Published: London : Severn House, 2020.
1 online resource

eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 813.6 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN, please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 06 Jul 2020) - EDZ0002273759BUCCS

The summer of everything / Julian Winters.

An avid comic book geek, Wes excels at two things: slacking off and pining after his best friend, Nico. Advice from his friends, '90s alt-rock songs, and online dating articles aren't helping much with his secret crush. And his dream job at Once Upon a Page, the local indie bookstore, is threatened when a coffeeshop franchise wants to buy the property. To top it off, his family won't stop pestering him about picking a college major. When all three problems converge, Wes must face with the one thing he's been avoiding - adulthood.
Author: Winters, Julian
Published: Nyack : Interlude Press, 2020.
312 pages ; 21 cm

High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Available - 95100000326311