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It had to be him
by Adib Khorram
Ramin Yazdani's proposal has just gone bottom's up: his ex not only dumped him in public but also accused him of being boring. Bent on proving him wrong, Ramin books a spontaneous sabbatical to Italy, only to run into his high school crush. Noah Bartlett has been in a rut since his divorce, so when his ex-wife invites him to join her and their son on an Italian vacation, he reluctantly agrees. His reticence turns to excitement, however, when he runs into Ramin. The two tumble headfirst into a relationship, but with the end of the trip approaching, they'll have to decide if their love can last without the magic of Italy.
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Every step she takes
by Alison Cochrun
Sadie accepts her injured sister's place on a tour along Portugal's Camino de Santiago, which turns out to be a trip for queer women, and after coming out to seatmate Mal, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed.
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Love at First Fright
by Nadia El-fassi
Rosemary's ability to see the dead inspires her novels, but Ellis is wrong for the lead in her film adaptation; Ellis fights Rosemary's attempts to recast him; and as Rosemary handles a ghostly dog and pair of Regency-era women, she risks falling for Ellis.
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The most unusual haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
by Roan Parrish
In haunted-house-loving New Orleans, special effects artist Jamie Wendon-Dale (transmasc they/them) falls for Edgar Lovejoy (cis he/him), a man genuinely haunted by ghosts, and as their bond deepens, both must confront fear, vulnerability and the supernatural truths that could bring them together or drive them apart.
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A murderous business
by Cathy Pegau
Margot Baxter Harriman took the reins of B&H Foods after her father passed. It's not easy being a business woman in 1912, but she is determined to continue what her grandparents started decades ago. So when Margot finds her father's former assistant, dead in the office with a half-finished note confessing to misdeeds at B&H, she seeks help from a discreet, private investigator. Loretta "Rett" Mancini has run her father's investigation operation since he started becoming increasingly forgetful. When Margot offers her the chance to look into the potential scandal with B&H, she jumps at it. But the more the two dig in, the more it becomes clear that Margot's company may be too far lost...and someone is willing to kill them both to keep things quiet.
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Middle spoon
by Alejandro Varela
The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois life--and a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps him, he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships. Faced with the judgment of friends and the sting of rejection, he's left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible.
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The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)
by Rabih Alameddine
In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and "the neighborhood homosexual," Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, views her son's desire for privacy as a personal affront, boundaries be damned. When Raja receives an invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America, the timing couldn't be better. It arrives on the heels of a series of personal and national disasters that have left Raja itching for peace and quiet away from his mother and the heartache of Lebanon. But what at first seems a stroke of good fortune soon leads Raja to recount and relive the very disasters and past betrayals he wishes to forget.
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To the Moon and Back
by Eliana Ramage
Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive husband to Cherokee Nation. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing to let nothing stop her from pursuing the rigorous training she will need to be accepted by NASA. Spanning three decades and several continents, 'To the Moon and back' encompasses Steph's turbulent journey, along with the intertwined lives of the three women closest to her: her sister Kayla, an Indigenous artist and social media influencer; her girlfriend Della Owens, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her Cherokee family through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and Hannah, her mother, who has held up her family's tribal history as a beacon of inspiration to her children, all the while keeping her own past a secret.
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Cannon
by Lee Lai
Cannon was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape―not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. In high school, they were each other's lifeline―two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down. Yet, when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself―very uncharacteristically―surrounded by smashed plates, it is Trish who shows up to pull her the hell outta there.
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Moonflow
by Bitter Karella
They call it the King's Breakfast. One bite and you can understand the full scope of the universe; one bite and you can commune with forgotten gods beyond human comprehension. And it only grows deep in the Pamogo forest, where rumors of disappearing hikers and strange cults that worship the divine feminine abound. Sarah makes her living growing mushrooms. When a bad harvest leaves her in a desperate fix, the lure of the King's Breakfast has her journeying into those vast uncharted woods. Her only guide is the most annoying man in the world, and he's convinced there's no danger. But as they descend deeper, they realize they're not alone. Something is luring them into the heart of the forest, and they must answer its call.
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The maiden and her monster
by Maddie Martinez
As the healer's daughter, Malka has seen how the wood's curse has plagued her village, but the Ozmini Church only comes to collect its tithe, not to protect the people. So when a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka's mother is accused of her murder, Malka strikes an impossible bargain with a zealot Ozmini priest. If she brings the monster out, he will spare her mother from execution. But the monster Malka finds when she ventures into the woods is unexpected: a disgraced golem who agrees to implicate herself only if Malka helps her fulfill a promise. Meanwhile, a more sinister threat may force Malka to endanger the one person she left home to save--and face her growing feelings for the very creature she was taught to fear.
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You weren't meant to be human
by Andrew Joseph White
In a decaying Appalachian landscape where hives of parasites offer shelter in exchange for corpses, trans man Crane embraces the safety they offer—until an unexpected pregnancy with his volatile partner Levi sparks a horrifying descent that threatens to unravel his fragile existence in this brutal world.
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The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar
by Sonora Reyes
Seventeen-year-old Cesar Flores is finally ready to win back his ex-boyfriend. Since breaking up with Jamal in a last-ditch effort to stay in the closet, he's come out to Mami, his sister, and their friends; taken his meds faithfully; and gotten his therapist's blessing to reunite with Jamal. Everything would be perfect if it weren't for The Thoughts -- the ones that won't let all his Catholic guilt and internalizations stay buried where he wants them. The louder they become, the more Cesar is once again convinced that he doesn't deserve someone like Jamal -- or anyone really. Cesar can hide a fair amount of shame behind jokes and his "gifted" reputation, but when a manic episode makes his inner turmoil impossible to hide, he's faced with a stark choice: burn every bridge he has left or ask for help. But is the mortifying vulnerability of being loved by the people he's hurt the most a risk he's willing to take?
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You've goth my heart
by Lev AC Rosen
When 16-year-old Gray starts receiving anonymous messages from what seems like the perfect goth, he dares to hope it could lead to something real, but between his closeted ex coming back into the picture and a possible serial killer targeting local gay teens, falling in love might just get him killed.
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A spell to wake the dead
by Nicole Lesperance
Two teen girls must uncover the dark, occult secrets lurking in their Cape Cod town to solve a series of murders-and save themselves from the same fate
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Season of fear
by Emily Cooper
In a village where women feed their fear to a protective saint, eighteen-year-old Isle, a girl with no fear, braves a haunted forest to save her sister, only to discover a deeper darkness within herself
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The dead of summer
by Ryan La Sala
Seventeen-year-old Ollie fights to survive a deadly summer on an island off the coast of Maine after it is placed under quarantine due to a long-sunken horror rising from the sea
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The court of the dead
by Rick Riordan
Nico and Will travel to Camp Jupiter to assist Nico's half-sister Hazel with an influx of reformed monsters arriving at camp and find themselves facing a dark force imposing retribution of its own
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Roar of the lambs
by Jamison Shea
Psychic Winnie Bray has seen the apocalypse and seeks out rich kid Apollo Rathbun, whose spoiled cousin, Cyrus, was in the vision and killed them, and they must uncover secrets and avoid the violent future.
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