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Sugar Run
by Mesha Maren
Released after serving 18 years for manslaughter, Jodi McCarty finds her efforts to track down a friend and move on with the woman she loves challenged by the insular values of their rural West Virginia community.
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Leading Men
by Christopher Castellani
A life-changing encounter among Tennessee Williams, his lover Frank Merlo and a taciturn Swedish beauty at a 1953 Truman Capote party culminates in deathbed revelations about Williams's final play a decade later.
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The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
by Sabina Khan
Hoping to hide her authentic self from her conservative Muslim parents until she can depart for college, 17-year-old Rukhsana is caught kissing her girlfriend and whisked away to Bangladesh, where she fights an arranged marriage by consulting the wisdom she finds in her grandmother's diary.
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The Beauty That Remains
by Ashley Woodfolk
Bonding over a shared love a music, an artist, a twin and a writer of love songs suffer heartbreaking losses that compel them to seek solace in their musical activities and wonder how to pick up the pieces.
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Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel
by Rey Terciero
Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Alcott's classic, a graphic-novel rendering of Little Women re-imagines the four sisters as members of a blended multicultural family in modern-day New York City.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year and each girl is struggling in her own way. Only by coming together--and sharing lots of laughs and tears--will these four young women find the courage to discover who they truly are as individuals...and as a family.
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Julián is a Mermaid
by Jessica Love
Glimpsing a trio of women dressed up in fabulous mermaid costumes while riding the subway home with his abuela, little Julián resolves to make a fancy mermaid costume and headdress for himself and wonders what his abuela will think of the mess he makes, and more importantly, how his costume will reflect how he sees himself.
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