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Cinema love : a novel
by Jiaming Tang
After emigrating to New York City's Chinatown Old Second and Bao Mei reminisce about their secret past in a rural Chinese cinema that taught them to navigate forbidden love, societal pressures and an uncertain future.
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Blessings : a novel
by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family-sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. But when an intimate connection blossoms between Obiefuna and a boy from a nearby village, happiness is fleeting once his father catches them together and banishes him to boarding school. Obiefuna finds and hides who he truly is as he navigates his new school's strict hierarchy and unpredictable violence. Back home, his mother Uzoamaka must contend with the absence of her beloved son, her husband's cryptic reasons for sending him away, and the hard truths that they've all been hiding from. As Nigeria teeters on the brink of criminalizing same-sex relationships, Obiefuna's life, or the life he wants to live, becomes even further out of a reach and more dangerous than ever before. Told from the alternating perspectives of Obiefuna and Uzoamaka, Blessings is an elegant and exquisitely moving story that asks how to live freely in a country that forbids one's truest self, and the love that can flourish in spite of it all"
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Coexistence - Stories
by Billy-ray Belcourt
A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from a Giller-longlisted author and one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reservations and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters in Coexistence are searching for connection. They're learning to live with and understand one another, to see beauty and terror side by side, and to accept that the past, present, and future can inhabit a single moment. An aging mother confides in her son about an intimate friendship from her distant girlhood. A middling poet is haunted by the cliché his life has become. A chorus of anonymous gay men dispense unvarnished truths about their sex lives. A man freshly released from prison finds that life on the outside has sinister strictures of its own. A PhD student dog-sits for his parents at what was once a lodging for nuns operating a residential school--a house where the spectre of Catholicism comes to feel eerily literal.
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You should be so lucky : a novel
by Cat Sebastian
Ordered by the team's owner to give a bunch of interviews to reporter Mark Bailey, baseball shortstop, Eddie O'Leary, during the 1960 season, slowly gives in to the attraction between them, and when it's just them against the world, they must decide if that's enough.
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The 7-10 Split
by Karmen Lee
Forced to coach Peach Blossom's new bowling team and lead them to victory in six months, teachers—and fierce rivals—Ava and Grace, with an undeniable attraction that pushes, pulls and crashes together, hope to roll a strike both in the game and in their relationship.
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The Z word
by Lindsay King-Miller
Trying to find her place in the queer community of San Lazara, Arizona, Wendy, when an infection turns people into violent, terrifying mindless husks, must team up with her friends and frenemies to stay alive, save Pride and track the zombie outbreak to its shocking source. Original.
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My darling dreadful thing : a novel
by Johanna van Veen
Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman haunts the halls, strange smells drift through the air at night, and mysterious stone statues reside in the family chapel. Something dreadful festers in the manor, but still, the attraction between Roos and Agnes is undeniable. Then, someone is murdered. Poor, alone, and with a history of 'hysterics', Roos is the obvious culprit. With her sanity and innocence in question, she'll have to prove who-or what-is at fault or lose everything she holds dear"
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Road to ruin
by Hana Lee
One of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles powered by magic, magebike courier Jin-Lu rescues princess Yi-Nereen from her abusive family and the two of them flee across the wastelands, pursued by Yi-Nereen's father, her scheming betrothed and a bounty hunter with mysterious powers. Original.
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Spitting gold : a novel
by Carmella Lowkis
In 1866 Paris, Baroness Sylvie Devereux and her estranged sister, fraudulent spirit mediums, target the de Jacquinots, who believe they are being haunted, hoping to scare them out of their gold, but the sisters are faced with inexplicable horrors, making them question whether they really are at the mercy of vengeful spirit.
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Hall of mirrors
by John Copenhaver
Suspicious after his lover and writing partner's death in house fire is ruled a suicide in 1954 Washington, DC, Lionel joins forces with two friends and amateur sleuths to investigate and stop a serial killer.
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A bluestocking's guide to decadence
by Jess Everlee
An underground lesbian couple in Victorian London find themselves tied up in the troubles of their male relatives in the third novel of the series following A Rulebook for Restless Rogues. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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Lady Eve's last con
by Rebecca Fraimow
Ruth Johnson and her sister Jules have been small-time hustlers on the interstellar cruise lines for years. But then Jules fell in love with one of their targets, Esteban Mendez-Yuki, sole heir to the family insurance fortune. Esteban seemed to love hertoo, until she told him who she really was, at which point he fled without a word. Now Ruth is set on revenge: disguised as provincial debutante Evelyn Ojukwu and set for the swanky satellite New Monte, she's going to make Esteban fall in love with her, then break his heart and take half his fortune. At least, that's the plan. But Ruth hadn't accounted for his older sister, Sol, a brilliant mind in a dashing suit... and much harder to fool. Sol is hot on Ruth's tail, and as the two women learn each other's tricks, Ruth must decide between going after the money and going after her heart.
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The ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye : a novel
by Briony Cameron
An indentured servant to the infamous Blackhand, a ruthless pirate captain, Jacquotte, as she struggles to survive his brutality, must rely on her wits, resourcefulness and friends when she discovers treachery at play, forcing her to decide what price she's willing to pay to secure a better future for them all.
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The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports
by Michael Waters
Uncovering, for the first time, the gripping true stories of early pioneering trans and intersex athletes, while tracking how international Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany's atrocities to pull off the Berlin Games, this inspiring call for equality is an essential contribution toward understanding the contemporary culture wars over gender in sports.
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Linus and Etta could use a win
by Caroline Huntoon
Challenged by her ex-best friend to get Linus, a shy trans boy, elected as student body president, hotheaded cynic Etta wonders if she should come clean about the real origins of their connection when a true friendship develops between them.
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Camp prodigy
by Caroline Palmer
A heartwarming middle grade graphic novel following two nonbinary kids who navigate anxiety and identity all while having fun and forming friendships at their summer orchestra camp.
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Puzzleheart
by Jenn Reese
Visiting the infamous puzzle house their grandfather built in hopes of reuniting her father with his estranged mother, 12-year-old Perigee, who loves logic and science, but struggles with emotions, finds the house has a mind of its own but no one will let her solve the puzzles.
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Thirsty : a novel
by Jas Hammonds
Having one goal: to join a sorority that promises lifelong connections to a network of powerful women of color, 18-year-old Blake finds courage in alcohol and as pledging intensifies, so does her drinking, and she must decide how far she's willing to go to achieve her dream.
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The Lilies
by Quinn Diacon-Furtado
Trapped in a mysterious time loop on the day after a member of the Lilies Society disappears, four Archwell Academy students discover they each hold a clue that will unlock the truth about the Lilies, but they're each harboring a secret they would do anything to hide.
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Don't Be a Drag
by Skye Quinlan
When eighteen-year-old Briar Vincent’s mental health takes a turn for the worst, her parents send her to spend the summer in New York City with her older brother, Beau, also known as the drag queen Bow Regard. Backstage at the gay bar where Beau performs, Briar just wants to be a fly on the wall, but she can’t stand by when the cute but conceited drag king Spencer Read tries to put down another up-and-coming performer. To prove to him that even a brand-new performer could knock him off his pedestal, Briar signs up for the annual drag king competition.
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Wish you weren't here
by Erin Baldwin
Juliette and her school rival Priya Pendley, navigate a truce to peacefully coexist, but when Priya unexpectedly becomes Juliette's cabinmate at Fogridge Sleepaway Camp, their uneasy peace turns into something more.
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Lockjaw
by Matteo L. Cerilli
Determined to kill the monster under their town before anyone else gets hurt, Paz, along with inseparable friends bound by a childhood pact, discovers death is neither the beginning nor the end as she faces a greater force of evil than she ever could've imagined.
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London on my mind
by Clara Alves
When her mother passes away, 16-year-old Dayana is forced to live with her estranged father and his new family in London where she is utterly miserable until she runs into the girl of her dreams outside Buckingham Palace who draws her into a real-life royal scandal.
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One killer problem
by Justine Pucella Winans
When she finds her favorite teacher lying in a pool of blood, Gigi calls on her high school's “mystery club” to help her solve the murder, resulting in a cat-and-mouse game with the killer, continual flare-ups of her IBS and her arch-nemesis turning flirtatious.
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The deep dark
by Molly Knox Ostertag
When her childhood friend comes back to town, high school senior Mags, who has a secret that drains her energy and leaves her bleeding, refuses to get attached until the darkness threatens to engulf them, forcing her to risk everything and drag her secret into the light. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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Tristan and Lancelot : A Tale of Two Knights; An Arthurian Love Story
by James Persichetti
When Merlin goes missing and Camelot falls under attack, King Arthur sends his estranged half-sister, Morgan le Fay, and esteemed Knights of the Round Table, Tristan and Lancelot, to find him. As the reluctant trio travels through Albion saving towns from treacherous foes and battling fae, their bonds deepen, and sparks fly between the two knights. Before they can sort through their complicated feelings, an unexpected dark force appears, bringing what just might be the end of Camelot.
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