Item category 2: LGBT

Olivia Santos is determined to win the National Book Club Award. Luckily, she's the mastermind behind The Paper & Hearts Society, a book club that she runs for her friends. But when Olivia discovers the need for more LGBTQ+ titles in her school library, an idea forms which has the potential to in...

With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must leave the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot. Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismati...

Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures, while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning...

I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl! The girl in this book likes to win, she likes to be spontaneous, fast and strong, and because she also likes to dress in t-shirt and shorts, she i...

Stella's class is having a Mother's Day celebration, but what's a girl with two daddies to do? It's not that she doesn't have someone who helps her with her homework, or tucks her in at night. Stella has her Papa and Daddy who take care of her, and a whole gaggle of other loved ones who make her ...

Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his way across Jamaica to save his man and get revenge! Virgil thought he was safe on the police force, but his gun and his attitude can't protect him from his own secret - he's gay. For thirty years he's had two lives. In the uniform...

A funny and poignant graphic novel about a young woman discovering her sexual identity amidst both Islamic and Western cultures.

Everything that mattered to Frances Moriarty was left behind in famine-ravaged Ireland, including the love of her life. Beset with grief and guilt, she is scraping out a shadowy existence as a New York shoeshine boy when word spreads like wildfire - gold nuggets line the riverbeds of California. ...

It's the boldest conquest of our time - the colonization of Mars. Of the thousands who clamoured for a one-way ticket to the Red Planet, only a fraction remain in the running. Now they're converging on Hawaii's Big Island for a nail-biting competition to be the first to launch. Mila Todorov has p...

Clean-cut Thomas Lynch is police chief of Idyll, Connecticut, where serious crimes can be counted on one hand - until Cecilia North is found murdered on the town's golf course. By chance, Lynch met her mere hours before she was killed. The case should be a slam dunk. But there's a problem. If he ...