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Flirting lessons
by Jasmine Guillory
When shy, newly single Avery enlists flirty heartbreaker Taylor for flirting lessons, their playful arrangement ignites undeniable chemistry, forcing both women to confront their feelings and risk everything for the chance at something real.
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Anywhere you go
by Bridget Morrissey
A small-town waitress and a big-city press agent swap homes to escape personal chaos—and unexpectedly find love. Tatum Ward lives quietly in her Midwestern hometown, secretly crushing on a diner regular named June. Eleanor Chapman thrives in New York’s high-pressure PR world, avoiding commitment. When both women need a break, they switch places. In New York, Tatum must confront her feelings for June. In Tatum’s hometown, Eleanor gets entangled in family drama—and charmed by Tatum’s brother, Carson. Through swapped lives, unexpected friendships, and emotional awakenings, both women discover the courage to pursue the love and futures they truly want.
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Francine's spectacular crash and burn : a novel
by Renâee Swindle
After rescuing a quirky boy from bullies, Francine forms a bond with him, only to discover his foster mother is her high school crush forcing her to confront past issues and redefine her priorities.
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A/S/L
by Jeanne Thornton
Teens Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are internet friends creating Saga of the Sorceress, a video game that will change everything for the three of them. But, eighteen years later, the game hasn't come to fruition. Lilith works as a loan underwriter at a Manhattan bank, a trans woman in a very cis world. Sash is a part-time webcam dominatrix in Brooklyn, and Abraxa is just across the Hudson River, sleeping on the floor of a friend's home after a disaster at sea. They have never met in person, and have been out of touch for years, but none have forgotten the sorceress, or her unfinished quest.
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Make sure you die screaming : a novel
by Zee Carlstrom
The newly nameless narrator of Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the gender binary, crashed out of their corporate job in flames, and may be brain damaged after a violent breakup. Mid-bender, a call from their mother reveals their MAGA-loving, conspiracy-driven father is missing. Stealing a car, they head from Chicago to Arkansas, joined by a “garbage goth” bestie with her own baggage. As they dodge danger, the pair confront the narrator’s chaotic childhood and a personal loss they’ve been desperately avoiding.
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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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Notes from a regicide
by Isaac R. Fellman
When your parents die, you find out who they really were. Griffon Keming’s second parents rescued him from an abusive home, taught him how to be trans, funded his transition, and tried to love him fiercely. But they carried their own pain—wounds from their pasts, the cost of becoming themselves, and the revolution that failed them. After their deaths, Griffon is left with a hole in his heart and one clue: his father’s journal, written in prison before execution. Through its pages, Griffon seeks to understand the truth of who they were—and who he is because of them.
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Open, heaven
by Seâan Hewitt
In a remote village in the north of England, shy 16-year-old James realizes how his desire could separate him from his family, as he is drawn to slightly older, handsome but wounded Luke, in a mesmerizing hymn to boyhood, sensuality and love in all its forms.
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Direct descendant
by Tanya Huff
This cozy stand-alone horror novel set in modern-day Toronto is the perfect balance of dark and delightful; a charming love story about a small-town baker, a quick-witted PI, and, yes, an ancient evil.
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The influencers : a novel
by Anna-Marie McLemore
When influencer matriarch May Iverson's husband is murdered and her mansion burned down, her five estranged daughters, each grappling with the fallout of their commodified childhoods, face mounting suspicions, public scrutiny and buried family secrets.
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The gentleman and his vowsmith
by Rebecca Ide
Lord Nicholas Monterris is heir to a declining dukedom and destined for a marriage of convenience to Lady Leaf Serral, daughter of his father's hated rival. It's bad enough that the families must be confined together while the marriage contract is crafted, but then Nic learns that Serrals' head negotiator is master vowsmith Dashiell sa Vare, an old flame Nic has neither forgiven nor forgotten. When a dead body turns up, Nic must work with his former lover and his future bride to uncover a devious mastermind before they claim another victim.
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Don't Sleep With the Dead
by Nghi Vo
Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922.
On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face at a club one night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him.
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When the Tides Held the Moon
by Venessa Vida Kelley
Benigno “Benny” Caldera, an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City, never dreamed of being called an artist. But his iron tank, built for Coney Island’s Luna Park, stuns its eccentric commissioner—who reveals its purpose: to hold a live merman, Río, stolen from the East River. As Benny bonds with Río, friendship becomes love, and captivity becomes unbearable. To free Río, Benny risks losing his new home, found family, and soulmate. Yet in choosing freedom over fear, he may discover a love powerful enough to liberate them both—and redefine who he truly is.
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Awakened : a novel
by A. E. Osworth
One ordinary morning, 30-something queer Brooklynite Wilder suddenly understands every language in the world. Staggered by this magical Awakening, they’re taken in by a coven of trans witches—each with their own powers. Quibble, a charming portal traveler; Artemis, a nurturing seer; and Mary Margaret, a snarky teen with telekinesis, help Wilder adjust to their new reality. But as Wilder finds belonging, a malicious AI emerges, threatening magic and humanity alike. As danger mounts, the coven must stay united and ask a terrifying question: is any form of consciousness—magical, human, or artificial—too dangerous to exist in the world?
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Unboxing Libby
by Steph Cherrywell
A preteen android based on a popular TV character grapples with new friendships, insecurities, and learning how to embrace her individuality.
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Carousel summer
by Kathleen Gros
With her best friend away at camp, tons of chores to do, and her dad always on her case for being such a tomboy, Lucy is dreading summer. That is, until Milforth's plan to revive an old carousel for the town's 150th anniversary brings artist Ray and her daughter, Anaèis, to town.
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Family week
by Sarah Moon
Every summer, Mac, Lina, Milo, and Avery spend Family Week together in Provincetown, the “smallest, gayest town in the world.” But this year feels different. Avery’s dads are splitting up, Milo’s flunked seventh grade, and Mac is heading to a new school for trans kids—leaving his twin, Lina, behind. As change looms, Lina refuses to let go. She’s determined to make this their best summer yet, hoping it’ll keep their friendship—and Family Week—alive. Maybe the real world doesn’t promise happy endings, but in P-town, Lina believes good things can last… if they hold on tight enough.
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The Queen Bees of Tybee County
by Kyle Casey Chu
Chinese American Derrick explores his queer identity by competing in a small-town beauty pageant where he shares his new love of drag with his family and friends
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Ollie in between
by Jess Callans
A nonbinary middle-schooler must choose between pretending to be the girl everyone expects them to be and forging their own path forward.
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Tales from beyond the rainbow
by Pete Jordi Wood
A collection of ten forgotten fairy tales with LGBTQ+ themes, featuring fluid gender identities, happy endings, and diverse folklore from around the world
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Messy perfect
by Tanya Boteju
When a former friend reenrolls at their Catholic high school a few years after a homophobic bullying incident, Cassie decides to start an underground Gender and Sexuality Alliance, exploring her own sexuality in the process.
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Run away with me
by Brian Selznick
Daniel is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome and encounters a shadow, who becomes a voice who becomes a boy his age, Angelo, and soon they have an affection and a closeness and fear of what happens next
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Renegade Girls / : A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-rousing
by Nora Neus
Stunt Girl follows seventeen-year-old Nell Nelson, an undercover reporter, as she works to expose the plight of young factory workers in nineteenth-century New York City with the help of her love interest, early street-photographer Alice Austen.
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If we were a movie
by Zakiya N. Jamal
Rochelle 'the Shell' Coleman is laser focused on only three things: becoming valedictorian, getting into Wharton, and, of course, taking down her annoyingly charismatic nemesis and only academic competition, Amira Rodriguez. However, despite her stellar grades, Rochelle's college application is missing that extra-special something: a job. When Rochelle gets an opportunity to work at Horizon Cinemas, the beloved Black-owned movie theater, she begrudgingly jumps at the chance to boost her chances at getting into her dream school. There's only one problem: Amira works there...and is also her boss.
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The coven tendency
by Zoe Hana Mikuta
A coven of lovesick teen witches, whose magic causes mental erosion and apocalyptic destruction, searches for a cure to their violent and addictive tendencies.
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Somadina
by Akwaeke Emezi
Teenage Somadina searches for her missing twin brother, Jayaike, in the Sacred Forest, while learning to navigate her frightening new magical ability
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The corruption of Hollis Brown
by K. Ancrum
Hollis Brown feels trapped in his struggling small town but then meets Walt, a spirit adrift for generations, who takes over Hollis' body and mind, but Walt and Hollis start to work together and an unspeakable bond grows between them.
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