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The Lovers
by Rebekah Faubion
A second chance at love is in the cards for two women working a stylish California wedding. A first novel.
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A Language of Limbs
by Dylin Hardcastle
Traces two versions of a life, one in which a teenage girl is kicked out for kissing her neighbor and finds a queer communal home, and the other, in which a teenage girl suppresses lustful dreams of her best friend—the two lives shadow each other until they collide.
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How To Have a Killer Time In D.C.
by Sam Lumley
For twenty-four-year-old Oliver Popp, autism is just another fact of life. As long as Oliver sticks to a comfortable itinerary planned well in advance, he gets by just fine as a staff writer for Offbeat Traveler magazine. But a curveball drops into Oliver's budding career when his first feature assignment takes him to Washington, DC, to chronicle the latest tourism trends. His freelance project photographer is Ricky Warner, a gregarious and impulsively adorable shot of adrenaline. Oliver and Ricky are game for something much more interesting: solving a mystery and a murder. With their focus shifted and a deadline coming, they only have a few days to solve the crime. For Oliver, it's a weeks of firsts: first crush, first time without a schedule, first time playing amateur sleuth, and first time getting wrestled out of his comfort zone. But with a loosey-goosey new partner like Ricky, that might not be such a bad thing at all.
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Swordcrossed
by Freya Marske
Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage.
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The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
by Jo Nichols
Mrs. B, the landlady of The Marigold Cottages is a stubborn idealist who only rents to people she cares about: Sophie, an anxious young playwright with a dark past; Hamilton, an agoraphobe who likes to overshare; Ocean, a queer sculptor raising two kids alone; the perfectionist Lily-Ann; and Nicholas, a finance bro who's hiding secrets. The tenants live contentedly in their doll-house bungalows in Santa Barbara, just minutes from the beach, until their peace is shattered when Anthony, a quiet, hulking, but potentially violent ex-con moves in. Three weeks later, a dead body is discovered on the streets of the peaceful neighborhood. Anthony is arrested, and the tenants heave sighs of relief. Until Mrs. B, convinced that he's innocent, marches down to the police station and confesses to the crime herself. The tenants band together and form "The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective" to save their beloved landlady. As clues are unearthed and secrets are revealed, the community of misfits only grows more tight-knit...until a second body is found. Full of eccentricity, humor, and community.
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When the Harvest Comes : a Novel
by Denne Michele Norris
On the eve of his wedding, Davis Freeman's joy is shattered by news of his estranged father's death, forcing him to confront buried trauma and the fragile balance of love and inheritance in his new life with Everett.
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The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
by Malka Older
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who's up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been accused of plagiarism on the eve of her defense—Pleiti agrees to investigate the matter.
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A/S/L
by Jeanne Thornton
A transformational, transformative story about video games, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive, from the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction.
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Girls Girls Girls : a Novel
by Shoshana von Blanckensee
In the summer of 1996, best friends and secret girlfriends Hannah and Sam escape to San Francisco seeking queer freedom, but financial strain and shifting desires threaten their bond, forcing Hannah to question her identity and where she truly belongs.
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The Sunflower Boys : a Novel
by Sam Wachman
A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine.
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Murder by Memory
by Olivia Waite
On the luxurious HMS Fairweather—where new bodies are provided upon request, and minds can be temporarily preserved in the Library—detective Dorothy Gentleman is in a body that isn't hers when someone is killed—and must discover the murderer who is purposefully deleting minds.
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Everybody Wants To Rule the World Except Me
by Django Wexler
Davi has left the horde behind her, hoping to find a peaceful solution to keep the Kingdom from being destroyed this time. But her plan to guide the Kingdom is thwarted when her usual love interest, Prince Johann, is already married and the bloodthirsty Duke Aster is running the government. Johann's new husband is everything Davi is not, but he holds a key to the one mystery she can't solve - the origins of the time loop that has entrapped her. She must gain his trust, and swiftly. With restless armies at her doorstep, Duke Aster reaching for power, and an ancient magician hounding her every turn, Davi must scheme her way to peace and uncover the truth behind her curse if she is to break the spell that binds her once and for all.
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These Letters End In Tears : a Novel
by Musih Tedji Xaviere
In Cameroon, where same-sex relationships are punishable by law, Bessem and Fatima, when Fatima's older brother, a staunch Muslim, finds out about their affair, physically assaults them and reports them to the authorities, and 13 years later, Bessem, unable to forget Fatima, embarks on a winding search for her lost love.
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