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-- CRAZY.[2007]., Adult, Genius Products Call No: DVD Fic CRAZY Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One of five brothers, Zachary begins life on a charmed note: born in Montreal on Christmas, he almost dies but miraculously pulls through. His hard-working father seems to favor him. That is until his dad detects there's something a little queer about the boy. Indeed, Zac shows even more queer signs come adolescence, aping David Bowie's glam looks and sexually experimenting with a boy from the neighborhood. Ultimately, dad's conservative, macho values force Zac to repress his sexuality, which develops into a destructive rage.
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2021., Adult, One More Chapter Call No: MYS Fic Wal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave. Matthew: the perfect husband. Titus: the perfect son. Charlie: the perfect illusion. Rachel: the perfect stranger. Charlie didn't want her at the book club. Matthew wouldn't listen. And that's how Charlie finds himself slumped beside his husband's body, their son sitting silently at the dinner table, while Rachel calls 999, the bloody knife still gripped in her hand.
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-- Do not cry for me2022., Adult, Hanover Square Press Call No: BLK Fic Bla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker. As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery. Secrets from Jacob's tumultuous relationship with Isaac's mother and the shame he carries from the dissolution of their family. Tragedies that informed Jacob's role as a father and his reaction to Isaac's being gay. But most of all, Jacob must share with Isaac the unspoken truths that reside in his heart. He must give voice to the trauma that Isaac has inherited. And he must create a space for the two to find peace. With piercing insight and profound empathy, acclaimed author Daniel Black illuminates the lived experiences of Black fathers and queer sons, offering an authentic and ultimately hopeful portrait of reckoning and reconciliation. Spare as it is sweeping, poetic as it is compulsively readable, Don't Cry for Me is a monumental novel about one family grappling with love's hard edges and the unexpected places where hope and healing take flight.
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2011., Adult, Headline Call No: SC MYS Fic Jar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Bob Skinner mystery.Summary Note: Edinburgh's toughest cop, Bob Skinner, looks into his past to assuage his demons in Quintin Jardine's thrilling new mystery. Skinner revisits his nightmares, old but not forgotten. Fifteen years in the past, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Bob Skinner is called to investigate a most brutal death. A man lies at the deep end of an empty swimming pool, his neck broken and almost every other bone in his body shattered. Soon, an organised crime connection looms, and bloody retribution spreads to a second city. Then violence erupts on a new front, as a vicious knifeman seems to be targeting Edinburgh's gay population. As if this double dose of homicide isn't enough for a single man with a teenage daughter to raise and protect, Skinner's personal life takes a similar, perilous twist. Can he stay on the side of the angels, or will he fall.
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c2012., Adult, Dundurn Call No: MYS Fic Rou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Dan Sharp, a gay missing persons investigator, accepts an invitation to a wedding on a yacht in Ontario's Prince Edward County. But the event doesn't go as planned. A member of the wedding party is swept overboard and Dan finds himself deep in troubled waters as he searches for possible killers not only in the present but also 20 years earlier.
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2015., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Fic Has Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Through a series of lists, a narrator reveals how fifteen-year old Darren's world was rocked by his parents' divorce just as his brother, Nate, was leaving for college, and a year later when his father comes out as gay, then how he begins to deal with it all after a stolen weekend with Nate and his crush, Zoey.
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2020., Riverhead Books Call No: BLK Fic Was Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and the limits of love. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted. Without Mike's immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it. Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end. Memorial is a funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.
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2020., Adult, 500, Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and the limits of love. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted. Without Mike's immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it. Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end. Memorial is a funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.
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By Zink, Nellc2015., Adult, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Zin Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingenue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start--she's a lesbian, he's gay--but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee's children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father's compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother's lies--she knows neither her real age, nor that she is "white," nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare."--Publisher.
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[2011]., Adult, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Modern 2 Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Modern family Volume: 2Summary Note: "A refreshingly hilarious look at what it means to be a family in today's hectic, unpredictable world. While fledgling fathers Cameron and Mitchell struggle with learning the ropes of parenthood, longtime parents Claire and Phil try to keep the spice in their marriage amid the chaos of raising three challenging children. Meanwhile, family patriarch Jay has more than his hands full with his sexy, spirited wife, Gloria, and her precocious son."--Container.
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2012., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Modern 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Modern family Volume: 3Summary Note: As the extended Pritchett/Dunphy clan faces an uproariously unpredictable array of family vacations, holiday hassles, troublesome in-laws, and surprising secrets, they still somehow manage to thrive together as one big, loving family even as they drive each other absolutely insane.
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-- Modern family.2014., 516, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Modern 5 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Modern family Volume: 5Summary Note: As Cam and Mitch bicker over plans for their big day, the rest of the family has its hands full adapting to new jobs, new schools, and a new male nanny. There are babysitting disasters, an anniversary to celebrate, misguided male bonding, and everything from high-stakes poker to high-maintenance in-laws. Join the Pritchett-Dunphy clan for the wedding of the year, and share the honesty, love and laughter with America₂s favorite family.
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2015., Adult, 556, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC Call No: DVD Fic Modern 6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Modern family Volume: 6Summary Note: The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in Season Six. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes in various members of the Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
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-- Modern family.2017., 474, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC Call No: DVD Fic Modern 8 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Modern family Volume: 8Summary Note: The household hilarity continues as the Dunphy clan is wrapping up a Big Apple adventure. Back at home, Claire struggles to keep order at Pritchett's Closets while Phil and Jay go into business together. Gloria's hot sauce business heats up, as Cam and Mitchell deal with their maturing tween, Lily. Meanwhile, Manny and Luke fumble through their senior year of high school.
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2018., General, 473, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Modern 9 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Modern family Volume: 9Summary Note: Three non-traditional families face everyday challenges.
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2021., Ontario Arts Council Call No: NEW QWF GN FR Fic Oll Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Caleb est un peintre raté quinquagénaire au passé trouble. C'est aussi le fils de l'un des plus célèbres bédéistes au monde, Jimmi Wyatt. Renommé partout sur la planète pour sa BD Sonny Side Up sur l'amour entre un père et son fils, Jimmi est devenu millionnaire en dessinant des histoires familiales sirupeuses tout en négligeant son propre enfant. Caleb, qui a cessé de boire, est hanté par son passé gâché et tente de se responsabiliser avant qu’il ne soit trop tard. James, son amoureux toujours patient, est au bout du rouleau. Lorsque Caleb a l’occasion de sortir de l’ombre de son père et de façonner à son tour le visage public de l’entreprise familiale, il enchaîne les mauvaises décisions et assiste, impuissant, à l’effondrement de sa vie. Est-il trop tard pour réparer les pots cassés ? Sommes-nous condamnés à reproduire sans cesse les erreurs de nos parents?
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2015., Adolescent, Ember Books Call No: Fic Nie Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "It" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. Stewart is trying to be 89.9 percent happy about it, but Ashley is 110 percent horrified. She already has to hide the real reason her dad moved out; "Spewart" could further threaten her position at the top of the social ladder. They are complete opposites. And yet, they have one thing in common: they-like everyone else-are made of molecules.