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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION WINTERSO
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FICTION WINTERSO
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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
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Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.) volume 372
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"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A memoir in essays about so many things—growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it’s like to grow into the person you are meant to be. Hough’s writing will break your heart." —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
Searing and extremely personal...
Searing and extremely personal...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B MCBRIDE
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B MCBRIDE
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"A captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country. Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out--not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She'd known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B GADSBY
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B GADSBY
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"Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success--and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But like everything else about Gadsby, there's more to her success than meets the eye. In her first book, the queer Australian comedian, writer, and actress takes us through the key moments in her life that ultimately led to the creation of Nanette and her startling declaration that she was quitting comedy....
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION FRY
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FICTION FRY
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRY
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FICTION FRY
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"An unflinchingly honest, wickedly funny, and heartfelt debut about a down-on-his-luck gay man working out how he fits into the world, making up for lost time, and opening himself up to life's possibilities. Danny Scudd is absolutely fine. He always dreamed of escaping the small-town life of his parents' fish and chip shop, moving to London, and becoming a journalist. And, after five years in the city, his career isn't exactly awful, and his relationship...
7) Untamed
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Memoir and Biography
B DOYLE
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B DOYLE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B DOYLE
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B DOYLE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Memoir and Biography
B DOYLE
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B DOYLE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD B DOYLE
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CD B DOYLE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD B DOYLE
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CD B DOYLE
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MENDEZ
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FICTION MENDEZ
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"An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her incisive essays and passionate poetry-alive with sensuality, vulnerability, and rage-remain indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical...
10) Filthy animals
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAYLOR
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FICTION TAYLOR
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"In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group...
11) Body grammar
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION OHMAN
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FICTION OHMAN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION OHMAN
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FICTION OHMAN
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"To her own dismay, Lou is a natural model: tall, thin, captivatingly androgynous, and with a striking look. Out of nowhere, every agent in the Portland area wants to represent her. But Lou doesn't care for fashion, nor does she wish to be seen. Fresh out of high school, Lou's plan is to spend the summer taking photographs and hoping to catch the attention of Ivy, her close friend and secret crush. But when an afternoon hiking trip ends in a tragic...
12) Our colors
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Adult Graphic Novels
GN TAGAME
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GN TAGAME
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"Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda: a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synaesthetic hues of blues and reds, and is governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society. His best friend and childhood confidante Nao, a young woman whom everyone thinks is (or should...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Romance
FICTION HALL
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FICTION HALL
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HALL
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FICTION HALL
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"When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Memoir and Biography
B PAGE
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B PAGE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B PAGE
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B PAGE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Memoir and Biography
B PAGE
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B PAGE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD B PAGE
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CD B PAGE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD B PAGE
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CD B PAGE
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"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
305.42 BRO
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305.42 BRO
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"How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Memoir and Biography
B COOPER
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B COOPER
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B COOPER
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B COOPER
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Memoir and Biography
B COOPER
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B COOPER
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"Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog-walker...
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAYLOR
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FICTION TAYLOR
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"In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who 'didn’t seek sex out so much as it came...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
791.4502 VAN
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791.4502 VAN
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NPR'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
INDIE BESTSELLER
GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD
WINNER: BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A laugh-and-cry-out-loud memoir from the beloved star of Netflix's Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B WINSTON
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B WINSTON
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"Jen's provocative, laugh-out-loud debut takes us inside her journey of self-discovery, leading us through stories of a childhood "girl crush," an onerous quest to have a threesome, and an enduring fear of being bad at sex. Greedy follows Jen's attempts to make sense of herself as she explores the role of the male gaze, what it means to be "queer enough," and how to overcome bi stereotypes when you're the posterchild for all of them: greedy, slutty,...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION OSEMAN
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TEEN FICTION OSEMAN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION OSEMAN
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TEEN FICTION OSEMAN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION OSEMAN
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TEEN FICTION OSEMAN
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For Angel Ahmadi, life is only about one thing: The Ark -- a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are currently taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything -- her friendships, her dreams, her place in the world. Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark too. He's their frontman -- and playing in a band is all he's ever dreamed of doing. It's just a shame that recently everything in his life seems to have turned...
