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Bittersweet
Par Nevada Barr. 2001
Cinnamon toast and the end of the world
Par Janet E Cameron. 2013
It's the spring of 1987 and 17-year-old Stephen Shulevitz has less than three months left of high school in the…
small town in rural Nova Scotia where he's spent most of his life. But as Stephen prepares to leave Riverside behind he falls in love with exactly the wrong person. And just like that, everything changes. What follows is emotionally devastating, but Stephen survives with his compassion and sense of humour intact and, at the end, he is ready to accept himself and take steps towards finding happiness on his own terms. Senior High. 2013.Charleyhorse
Par Cecil Dawkins. 1985
Charlene lives on a Kansas cattle ranch with her domineering mother, Belle. When Juna, a schoolteacher, comes to live with…
them, she and Charley forge a powerful lesbian alliance that threatens Belle's control. Some strong language. 1985.Burning ground
Par Pearl Luke. 2000
Percy Turner is isolated in a forest service station for the seventh summer in a row. Here she scans for…
smoke from potential forest fires and attempts to distract herself from family secrets, memories of her home town, and her love for her childhood friend Marlea. When Percy does sight smoke, she must confront both the fires that threaten the forest and her own emotional turmoil. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2000.Buenas noches, Buenos Aires
Par Gilbert Adair. 2004
A young British man comes to 1980's Paris to teach English and to taste the erotic life that has eluded…
him in Britain. He's gay - most of the teachers at the school are gay - and he suddenly finds himself in the midst of a sexual free-for-all beyond his wildest dreams. Descriptions of sex. 2004.Between Mom and Jo
Par Julie Anne Peters. 2006
Fourteen-year-old Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky 2, some pet fish, and two mothers, whose relationship complicates his entire…
life as they face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2006.Be near me
Par Andrew O'Hagan. 2006
When an English priest, David Anderton, takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He…
does make friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, but the town seems to grow darker each night as he clashes with a world and a language that he barely understands. Fate comes calling, and before the summer is out David's quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006.Bad boy
Par Diana J Wieler. 1989
When A.J. is accepted on the Triple A hockey team, he believes that his life is finally coming together. But…
everything falls apart when he discovers that his best friend, Tulsa, is gay. Winner of the 1989 Governor General's Award. For junior and senior high readers. 1989.At swim, two boys
Par Jamie O'Neill. 2001
Jim Mack is a naïve young scholar and the son of a foolish, aspiring shopkeeper. Doyler Doyle is the rough-diamond…
son of Mr. Mack's old army pal. Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the nude, the two boys make a pact: Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a year, on Easter of 1916, they will swim to the distant beacon of Muglins Rock and claim that island for themselves. All the while Mr. Mack, who has grand plans for a corner shop empire, remains unaware of the depth of the boys' burgeoning friendship and of the changing landscape of a nation. 2001.Another kind of cowboy
Par Susan Juby. 2007
Sixteen-year-old Alex, a champion western rider, switches to riding dressage. At the stables he meets Cleo, a girl banished to…
boarding school by her Hollywood parents. Becoming friends, the teens search for identity - neglected Cleo by partying and closeted Alex by experimenting sexually. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. For senior high readers. 2007.Alternatives to sex
Par Stephen McCauley. 2006
Gay Boston real estate agent William Collins finds his sales slipping due to his obsessive-compulsive daily cleaning binges and nightly…
online cruising for hookups. There are also his worries about his best friend, Edward, whom he's certainly not in love with. Then he meets clients Charlotte and Samuel, and decides he might learn something from a happy couple, but what he ultimately discovers challenges his assumptions about real estate, love, and desire. Some strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2006.Affinity
Par Sarah Waters. 2008
Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870s. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior…
has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates - the imprisoned spiritualist Selina Dawes. 2008.After the fire
Par Jane Rule. 1989
Four women sense that love has failed them. As they try to put their lives in order, they come to…
value their friendship with each other. Set in an island community off the British Columbia coast. Some strong language. Winner of the 1991 CNIB Torgi Award. 1989.A village affair
Par Joanna Trollope. 1989
Alice moves with her family to a peaceful English village where she hopes to overcome her depression, but it is…
her lesbian relationship with vivacious Clodagh that changes Alice's life. 1989.A question of manhood
Par Robin Reardon. 2010
November 1972. The Vietnam War is rumored to be drawing to a close, and for sixteen-year-old Paul Landon, the end…
can’t come soon enough. The end will mean his older brother Chris, the family’s golden child, returning home from the Army for good. But while home on leave, Chris entrusts Paul with a secret: He’s gay. And when Chris is killed in action, Paul is beset by grief and guilt, haunted by knowledge he can’t share. For senior high and older readers. 2010.A Parisian from Kansas
Par Philippe Tapon. 1997
Tapon describes his meeting with Darren, an HIV-positive gay American living in Paris, and Darren's wish to have a book…
written about his life. The author then blends fiction with autobiography, keeping the reader informed of the novel's progress as Darren tells his story. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1997.A boy at the edge of the world (Essential prose series ; #146)
Par David K Yeh. 2018
Meet the Garneau boys, triplets from small-town Ontario. Daniel the "eldest" is gay, and moves to Toronto with his best…
friend Karen to attend university. Eventually, he meets David, a bike mechanic whose Catholic Italian mother talks to her dead husbands. Their chemistry is immediate, but Daniel is still drawn to his ex-boyfriend Marcus, a performance artist whose grandfather was a book-burning Nazi. A a rollicking dramedy that explores the compulsive and (ultimately) universal human pursuit of intimacy, sex, and love. 2018.A country of old men: the last Dave Brandstetter mystery
Par Joseph Hansen. 1991
Despite failing health and his lover's objections, gay, wealthy, ex-private investigator Dave Brandstetter comes out of retirement for one last…
case. A young bruised boy claims he was kidnapped after witnessing a shooting. The victim is an ex-con crack addict and rock guitarist, and the girl who kidnapped the child is a suspect. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 1991.The nesting dolls: a Joanne Kilbourn mystery (Joanne Kilbourn mystery)
Par Gail Bowen. 2010
A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the…
same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson, but then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010. (A Joanne Kilbourn mystery)The time in between
Par David Bergen. 2005
Ava Boatman and her brother, Jon, have come to Vietnam in search of their missing father, Charles. A Vietnam vet…
with a terrible secret that has turned him into an emotionally distant loner, Charles has made a pilgrimage to a small Vietnamese village. As Ada and Jon try to find Charles, they also deal with their own fears, in completely different ways. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize.