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Call me by your name novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.
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A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen's coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father's suicide.
Colin's teenage sister teases him mercilessly, his autistic brother lashes out at him, and he has a crush on his best friend, Andy. When his father commits suicide Diane, his mother, seeks solace in therapy. Awash in guilt, Colin casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather, then a predatory science teacher. But...
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Blue Rider Press
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"A searing debut novel centering around a gay-to-straight conversion camp in Mississippi and a man's reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past -- and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding...
6) Young Mungo
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Knopf Canada
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English
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The brilliant novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. ... Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Five years in the writing, it is both a page-turner and literary tour de force, a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they...
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