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How It Works Out by Myriam LacroixMeeting at a punk rock show, Myriam and Allison's love blossoms into a relationship that twists through fantastical scenarios, explores power dynamics, dark desires and shifts between the promise of love and the brutalness of reality.
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Stars In Your Eyes by Kacen CallenderTo create positive buzz about their new romantic comedy, Hollywood bad boy Logan Gray, a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate, and Mattie Cole, an up-and-coming golden boy, are persuaded into a fake-dating scheme that soon becomes all too real, opening up old wounds and insecurities.
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Swordcrossed by Freya MarskeMattinesh 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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A Shore Thing by Joanna LowellA former painter and unreformed rake working in bicycle sales in Victorian Cornwall accepts an illustration commission from a feisty botanist who enlists his help in convincing an all-male cycling club to allow women to join.
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Spinning by Tillie WaldenUnable to conceive of a life beyond her competitive training regimen, a teen figure skater begins to question her unrelenting lifestyle in the wake of a growing passion for art and a first love with a new girlfriend. By the award-winning creator of "One a Sunbeam".
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Not So Shoujo Love Story. Volume 1 by CurryukuSchool delinquent and manga super-fan Rei has a crush on Hansum, the most popular boy in school, but her plans are derailed when her main rival for his affections, star classmate Hanna, suddenly confesses her feelings for Rei
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This Day Changes Everything: A Novel by Edward UnderhillWhen fate throws queer teens Abby and Leo together during their high school marching band's trip to NYC, they become lost in the middle of Manhattan and embark on an epic adventure that turns into a day that changes everything, for both of them.
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It's A Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. CorsonWhen a hockey player who is suspended from her school teams up with a figure skater needing a partner, initially they can't stand one another, but the frostiness thaws in an enemies-to-lovers queer romance.
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Children's Fiction and Picture Books
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The Real Riley Mayes by Rachel Elliott"Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking Joy Powers! Things start to look up when a classmate, Cate, offers to help Riley with the letter, and a new kid,Aaron, actually seems to get her weird sense of humor. But when mean girl Whitney spreads a rumor about her, things begin to click into place for Riley. Her curiosity about Aaron's two dads and her celebrity crush on Joy Powers suddenly make more sense"--Amazon.com
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The Insiders by Mark OshiroTwelve-year-old Hâector Muänoz, fleeing from bullies, discovers a magical closet that not only provides him sanctuary, but also unites him with two other kids facing similar problems at their own schools, helping them find friendship and strength in each other.
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A Costume for Charly by CK MaloneCharly thinks outside the box to find a Halloween costume that represents their feminine and masculine identities equally
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Raven's ribbons by Tasha SpillettA New York Times best-selling author presents a joyous intergenerational celebration of gender self-expression and acceptance through an Indigenous lens as young boy Raven's grandmother experiences something she's never seen before: a boy (Raven) celebrating the traditional Round Dance with a ribbon skirt of his own.
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