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Sex & violence

a novel
"Sex has always come without consequences for Evan. Until the night when all the consequences land at once, leaving him scarred inside and out"--Provided by publisher.

Youth and sexuality in the twentieth-century United States

Examines the "sexual revolution" in America, looking at major changes in the sex lives of American youth.

Beautiful

Haunted by serious problems in her recent past, thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a fresh start at a Seattle school but is drawn by dangerous new friends into a world of sex, drugs, and violence, while her parents remain oblivious.
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The lighter side of life and death

After the last, triumphant night of the school play, sixteen-year-old Mason loses his virginity to his good friend and secret crush, Kat Medina, which leads to enormous complications at school just as his home life is thrown into turmoil by his father's marriage to a woman with two children.
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Flapper

a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern
Examines the flapper age and its most influential figures, including author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda; designer Coco Chanel; "New Yorker" writer Lois Long; actresses Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Louise Brooks; fashion artist Gordon Conway; cartoonist John Held; and advertising and public relations pioneers Bruce Barton and Edward Bernays.
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LGBTQ

the survival guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens
2018
"Includes current information on LGBTQ terminology, evolving understandings of gender identity and sexual identity, LGBTQ rights, and more. Other advice covers topics such as coming out, confronting prejudice, getting support, making healthy choices, and thriving in school and beyond"--Amazon.

Seeing gender

an illustrated guide to identity and expression
2019
". . . an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal--yet universal--facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience [of] the sometimes confusing process of navigating ones' identity . . . gender and sexuality in the 21st century"--Provided by publisher.
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Gender queer

2019
An autobiographical comic in which the author discusses their path to identifying as nonbinary and asexual, and coming out to family and society.
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Jailbait

In 1971, unpopular and lonely tenth-grader Andi--teased at her Long Island high school for her large breasts and ignored at home by her distant parents--builds a fantasy romantic life around her clandestine, sexual relationship with a man in his thirties.
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Una de esas chicas

During the summer after her sophomore year, Deanna Lambert tries to come to terms with the reputation with which she was slapped in the eighth grade when she was caught by her father in the backseat of a car with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best friend, Jason.
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