https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d check for possible trigger warnings before reading en-us 2021-06-09 13:57:35 UTC 2023-02-09 05:07:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3f3-1f308.png clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595822533 _{Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.}]]> 2021-06-09 13:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595822533 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595825621 _{When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595825621 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595827877 _{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 the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595827877 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595829728 _{When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.} ]]> 2021-06-09 14:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595829728 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595844745 _{Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small prom-obsessed town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell forever: attend Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor. When the financial aid falls through, Liz's plans come fall apart... until she's reminded of her school's scholarship for prom queen.} ]]> 2021-06-09 14:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595844745 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595846791 _{Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not—strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess—and by all rights their paths should never cross. Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something far deeper.} ]]> 2021-06-09 14:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595846791 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595850125 _{Arch-nemeses Emma, a die-hard romantic, and more-practical minded Sophia find themselves competing against one another for a coveted first-prize trip to a film festival in Los Angeles... what happens if their rivalry turns into a romance?}]]> 2021-06-09 14:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595850125 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595851909 _{A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595851909 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595855353 _{Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan—she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate—Ishita "Ishu" Dey. Ishu is the complete opposite of Hani. She’s an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. But Ishita agrees to help Hani, if Hani will help her become more popular so that she stands a chance of being elected head girl.} ]]> 2021-06-09 14:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595855353 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595859577 _{The Gravity of Us follows young Calvin, a promising journalist who is just about to finish high school when his father, a pilot, gets picked to fill the remaining spot for an upcoming NASA mission to Mars that takes Cal's plans for the future and turns them upside down.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595859577 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595863499 _{Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595863499 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595867026 _{Melody McIntyre, stage manager extraordinaire, has a plan for everything. Of course, Mel didn’t count on Odile Rose, rising star in the acting world, auditioning for the spring performance. And she definitely didn’t expect Odile to be sweet and funny, and care as much about the play’s success as Mel.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595867026 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595870836 _{It's 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sixteen-year-old Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella's mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all--and in the process, they learn that there's more to Cinderella's story than they ever knew.} ]]> 2021-06-09 14:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595870836 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595873621 _{As the day of her twin brother’s wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she’s willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom. And above is a young man who isn’t afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison. Soraya thought she knew her place in the world, but when her choices lead to consequences she never imagined, she begins to question who she is and who she is becoming... human or demon. Princess or monster.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595873621 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595877390 _{Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after -- the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king's interest.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595877390 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595881050 _{Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595881050 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595888742 _{Caleb is an Atypical, an individual with enhanced abilities. Which sounds pretty cool except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy―he feels the emotions of everyone around him. Being an empath in high school would be hard enough, but Caleb's life becomes even more complicated when he keeps getting pulled into the emotional orbit of one of his classmates, Adam. Adam's feelings are big and all-consuming, but they fit together with Caleb's feelings in a way that he can't quite understand.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595888742 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595893182 _{When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days. But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595893182 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595899113 _{Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school’s annual beach party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom—and he has thirty days to do it.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595899113 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595911456 _{Based on true events, Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teens dealing with universal questions of love, identity, and belonging.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595911456 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595918498 _{Two girls embark on a summer of montage-worthy dates (with a few strings attached) in this hilarious and heartfelt lesbian rom-com.} ]]> 2021-06-09 14:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595918498 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595924624 _{Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace, Millie decides to apply for scholarships to boarding schools — the farther from Houston the better. Soon, Millie is accepted into one of the world’s most exclusive schools, located in the rolling highlands of Scotland. Here, the country is dreamy and green; the school is covered in ivy, and the students think her American-ness is adorable. The only problem: Mille’s roommate Flora is a total princess. She’s also an actual princess. Of Scotland.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595924624 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595932570 _{Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican—but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael’s coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs—and the Black Flamingo is born.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595932570 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595951442 _{Nishat doesn’t want to lose her family, but she also doesn’t want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as henna artists. In a fight to prove who is the best, their lives become more tangled―but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush, especially since Flávia seems to like her back.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595951442 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595957977 _{After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595957977 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595960885 _{Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her homeland, protecting her people from other hostile kingdoms. But Denna has a secret. She possesses an Affinity for fire—a dangerous gift for the future queen of a land where magic is forbidden.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595960885 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595971061 _{Prince Tal has long awaited his coming-of-age tour. After spending most of his life cloistered behind palace walls as he learns to keep his forbidden magic secret, he can finally see his family’s kingdom for the first time. His first taste of adventure comes just two days into the journey, when their crew discovers a mysterious prisoner on a burning derelict vessel.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595971061 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595977590 _{Two women with opposing life goals and very different personalities pretend to be dating to keep their respective family members from interfering endlessly with their lives.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595977590 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595983789 _{A sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement from the creators and curators of the Instagram account @lgbt_history.} ]]> 2021-06-09 14:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595983789 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595993363 _{A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it’s like to grow up not sure if you’re (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.}]]> 2021-06-09 14:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1595993363 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605334488 _{Morgan, an elite track athlete, is forced to transfer high schools late in her senior year after it turns out being queer is against her private Catholic school's code of conduct. There, she meets Ruby, who has two hobbies: tinkering with her baby blue 1970 Ford Torino and competing in local beauty pageants, the latter to live out the dreams of her overbearing mother.} ]]> 2021-06-14 15:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605334488 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605343014 _{This book captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen.} ]]> 2021-06-14 15:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605343014 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605348881 _{Featuring real-life situations and scenarios, a glossary, and further resources, this book enables professionals in a variety of school roles to integrate foundational concepts into their everyday interactions with students, families, and staff to create an overall school culture that nurtures a welcoming, inclusive, and affirming environment for all. This book can be utilized by independent readers, department teams, and entire school district reading experiences.}]]> 2021-06-14 15:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605348881 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605595150 _{When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into place. She’s a champion hurdler with a full scholarship to college and she’s madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact, she’s decided that she’s ready to take things to the next level with him. But Kristin’s first time isn’t the perfect moment she’s planned—something is very wrong. A visit to the doctor reveals the truth: Kristin is intersex, which means that though she outwardly looks like a girl, she has male chromosomes, not to mention boy “parts.”}]]> 2021-06-14 16:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605595150 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605629588 _{Will Tavares is the dream summer fling―he’s fun, affectionate, kind―but just when Ollie thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairytale ending, and to complicate the fairytale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it’s the same school Will goes to…except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High. This Will is a class clown, closeted―and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk.}]]> 2021-06-14 17:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605629588 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605640359 _{For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born. Under the old woman’s watchful eye, Emmett learns to hand-craft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Within each one they will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. Just as Emmett begins to settle into his new circumstances, he makes an astonishing discovery: one of the books has his name on it. Soon, everything he thought he understood about his life will be dramatically rewritten.}]]> 2021-06-14 17:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605640359 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605646244 _{In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.}]]> 2021-06-14 17:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605646244 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605656173 _{When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.}]]> 2021-06-14 17:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605656173 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605961154 _{Luc O'Donnell is tangentially—and reluctantly—famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He's a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he's never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened}.]]> 2021-06-14 20:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605961154 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605965230 _{Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown.}]]> 2021-06-14 20:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605965230 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605968386 _{Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves.}]]> 2021-06-14 20:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605968386 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605982359 _{A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience.} ]]> 2021-06-14 20:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1605982359 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614435209 _{A chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the trans community in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990-the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s.}]]> 2021-06-18 14:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614435209 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614443071 _{In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.}]]> 2021-06-18 14:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614443071 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614445972 _{Jubilee and Ridley meet one fateful night at a comic convention prom, and the two can't help falling for each other. Too bad their parents are at each other's throats every chance they get, making a relationship between them nearly impossible... unless they manage to keep it a secret.}]]> 2021-06-18 14:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614445972 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614464127 _{A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s dvelopment, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full-color illustrations.}]]> 2021-06-18 14:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/1614464127 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244865046 _{A sudden romance blossoms between a boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime.} ]]> 2022-07-17 20:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244865046 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244866121 _{Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916—Ireland’s brave but fractured revolt against British rule—At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O’Neill.}]]> 2022-07-17 20:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244866121 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244875516 _{First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about gay love to become popular with mainstream.
In 1975, coach Harlan Brown is hiding from his past at an obscure New York college, after he was fired from Penn State University on suspicion of being gay. A tough, lonely ex-Marine of 39, Harlan has never allowed himself to love another man.}]]> 2022-07-17 21:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244875516 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244875939 _{Classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.}]]> 2022-07-17 21:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244875939 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244876288 _{Henry “Monty” Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and the constant disapproval of his father haven’t been able to curb any of his roguish passions—not for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men.
But as Monty embarks on his Grand Tour of Europe, his quest for a life filled with pleasure and vice is in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his father expect him to take over the family’s estate upon his return, but Monty is also nursing an impossible crush on his best friend and traveling companion, Percy.}

]]> 2022-07-17 21:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244876288 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244876888 _{A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Tom Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.}]]> 2022-07-17 21:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2244876888 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245012753 _{At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways...}]]> 2022-07-18 02:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245012753 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245018499 _{Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day. Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?}]]> 2022-07-18 02:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245018499 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245020331 _{Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right? After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245020331 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245021785 _{What would you do if you had to spend the next 15 days with your lifelong crush?} ]]> 2022-07-18 02:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245021785 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245023384 _{Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim - who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists. This year, though, it's going to be different. Randy has reinvented himself as 'Del' - buff, masculine, and on the market. Even if it means giving up show tunes, nail polish, and his unicorn bedsheets, he's determined to get Hudson to fall for him.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245023384 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245024381 _{Real life isn't a fairytale, but Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?}]]> 2022-07-18 02:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245024381 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245026223 _{New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245026223 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245027877 _{Spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245027877 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245030625 _{Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245030625 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245034629 _{When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245034629 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245038859 _{A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984. If you care about feminism, social justice, or making the world a better place in any way at all, this is the book for you.} ]]> 2022-07-18 02:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245038859 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245044208 _{My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman’s exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist’s burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects of her life that will resonate with readers.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245044208 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245045076 _{Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!}]]> 2022-07-18 02:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245045076 clapera5025 https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245046864 _{Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.}]]> 2022-07-18 02:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/clapera5025/yk47kr5hx9gxuz3d/wish/2245046864