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Celebrate LGBTQ Pride with Hudson County and HPL!

17 Aug

Hoboken and the rest of Hudson County are celebrating LGBTQ Pride this month. In honor of Hudson County’s Pride Month, the award-winning poet Robert Anthony Gibbons will present a poetry reading from his chapbook Flight, dedicated to his former lover and the year they spent touring favorite U.S. sites. He will also present a staged reading from the Tony Award-winning play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” by Tony Kushner. The performance will be held on Sunday, August 28 at 1:00 pm in the Large Programming Room. Click here to RSVP.

Here is a list of great LGBTQ Fiction titles to check out from HPL and other BCCLS Libraries!

The Torqued Man
by Peter Mann
Two manuscripts emerge in Berlin in 1945 charting the relationship of an Irish spy and a German military intelligence officer and anti Nazi. An intriguing new thriller!

Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
In the waning days of the Civil War, a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers unfolds. When their secret is revealed, chaos erupts, including murder.

One Last Stop
by Casey McQuiston
A cynical 23-year old woman develops a subway crush on a beautiful young woman that she sees everyday. A romance where the impossible becomes possible.

Let’s Get Back to the Party
by Zak Salih
A high school art teacher wants to settle down with another man. He reconnects with a childhood friend and hopes this will be his second chance.

Broken People
by Sam Lansky
A neurotic, depressed gay man, new to L.A., meets a shaman who claims to perform “open soul surgery” on emotionally damaged people. What will the results be?

The Heron’s Cry
by Ann Cleeves
A gay detective investigates a murder at the home of a group of artists. He discovers that the murder victim’s male lover may be a suspect. The detective must wade through all the lies.

In a Midnight Wood
by Ellen Hart
A private investigator and her lover are planning a little getaway, but a cold murder case interferes when the remains of a body are discovered. Secrets and lies abound.

Willa & Hesper
by Amy Feltman
A whirlwind romance involving two women and their fractured family histories. This soul-piercing debut explores past & present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times.

Book Recommendations from:
Information and Digital Services Librarian
Ethan Galvin

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A Cozy Mystery Series Favorite: Donna Andrew’s Round Up the Usual Peacocks

3 Aug

Donna Andrew’s first book in her Meg Langslow series, Murder with Peacocks, was set during a series of weddings that the main character Meg, a blacksmith, was scheduled to participate in as maid of honor.  Quirky family shenanigans ensued and a romance that has grown throughout the series blossomed.  Murder with Peacocks received an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. This latest entry is a call back to the 1999 original, with the wedding of Meg’s brother and his charming fiancé Delaney. 

Rather than multiple weddings to contend with, an additional plot line is weaved throughout the latest novel of a possible threat to Meg’s nephew, Kevin, and his fellow podcaster who may have gotten too close to solving one of the cold case mysteries they broadcast about.  If you love Only Murders in the Building than this storyline will appeal.   

The main delight of the Meg Langslow series is always the crazy cast of relatives and friends that Meg is surrounded by.  If you ever longed for a loving extended family that go in for huge family gatherings than this will be a delight.  Also in each of the mysteries since the first, some sort of bird has been part of the mystery or at least been featured in a subplot, in this case again we have the peacocks who are as ornery as they are beautiful. 

With Round Up the Usual Peacocks, Donna Andrew’s again proves why she is my favorite cozy mystery author! You can read several of my past blogs about Andrew’s works including Murder Most Fowl and The Twelve Jays of Christmas. I’m looking forward to what comes next in her Christmas release Dashing Through the Snowbirds, which is scheduled to be available in October.

If you are a mystery fan, make sure to check out our library’s Mystery Book Club; you can email for more information: rosary.vaningen @ hoboken.bccls.org.

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Aimee Harris
Information and Digital Services Manager

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