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The build-a-boyfriend project : a novel
by Mason Deaver
Eli Francis is stuck—at a dead-end assistant job at Vent, fetching coffee while his ex thrives and his boss withholds promotion. When his roommates push him to date, they set him up with Peter Park: tall, handsome, and awkward. The date’s a disaster, but Eli’s boss seizes on it, suggesting Eli coach Peter through practice dates for an article. Eli secretly pivots, interviewing Peter about queer life in the South while pretending to play along. As lessons turn into something deeper, Eli must decide if he’s brave enough to claim both the career he wants and the love he deserves.
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Songs for other people's weddings : a novel
by David Levithan
J is a wedding singer, but it didn't start that way. He wrote a love song for one of his albums that accidentally became an international hit for to-be-wed couples. These days, J talks to couples about all the small, strange things that brought them together-and then he writes and performs an original song at their weddings. But whatever J tries, he can't find the perfect words for his own love with V. Now V is off to New York, helping launch a social media platform that has struck gold. While V's life grows bigger and busier without J in it, he seeks refuge and wisdom in the happy couples he writes for, who all look so unshakably connected. And so, whether through fate or sheer determination, J sets his sights on New York, to see if he can't get V and himself singing in harmony once again. But could it be that the tune of their song changed for good?
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The sun and the moon
by Rebekah Faubion
Like the sun and the moon, opposites Cadence Connolly and Sydney Sinclair can’t escape each other’s pull in this enchanting romance. Cadence grew up in the shadow of her mother, the famous psychic Madame Moira, but built her own quiet life as a park ranger in Maine—until Moira announces her sudden engagement. Summoned home, Cadence is wary of her mother’s mysterious change of heart. Sydney, a globe-trotting pilot, avoids long-term attachments and still grieves her mother’s death. It’s always been her and her father against the world, which makes Moira’s role as his fiancée hard to accept. When Cadence and Sydney meet, they bond over shared suspicions about their parents’ whirlwind romance. As they plot to break up the engagement, their irresistible chemistry grows undeniable. Despite her skepticism about destiny, Cadence begins to wonder if Sydney—bold, complicated, and disarmingly charming—might be the soulmate she never expected to find.
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A tale of mirth & magic
by Kristen Vale
Elikki has no family, but she has fierce independence, charm, and enough skill as a jewelry artisan to survive on the road—despite her volatile magic and temper. Barra, gentle and reserved, manages the books for his family’s business while trying to stay unnoticed, no easy feat as an eight-foot-tall purple half-giant. Their paths collide when Elikki, in trouble after lashing out at a rude customer, needs a quick escape. Barra helps her flee, and soon the unlikely pair are traveling together—Elikki with a bounty on her head, and Barra nursing a growing crush. Along the road, cozy inns, shared meals, and sizzling encounters kindle a powerful attraction. But danger lurks, and bounty hunters close in. As they face peril and possibility together, Elikki and Barra discover not only romance but also parts of themselves they had long denied—if they can survive long enough to claim it.
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Lucky day
by Chuck Tingle
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways---day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good. Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore. When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera's doorstep, she learns he's investigating a suspiciously-and statistically impossible-lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino's success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn't. Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.
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The faceless things we adore
by Hester Steel
Lemon, poppy seed, sun-warmed sand. These visions convince Aoifeto quit her job, leave her manipulative boyfriend, and escape to the isolated shores of the Farmstead commune. There, among its charismatic and hedonistic residents, Aoife finds everything she's been missing: a community that adores her, the freedom to indulge, and the promise to be a part of something miraculous. But darkness underpins her airy new way of life. A disappearing cave looms above an ocean no one dares step foot in, mysterious crying fills the night hours, and a rot is spreading across the island. But perhaps most concerningis the commune's reverence for their leader Jonah -- a love tinged with fear that Aoife knows all too well. When Aoife's boring old life comes crashing into her bold new one, loyalties are tested, unleashing a spiral of unspeakable violence that threatens to fracture reality itself.
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Simplicity. : a novel
by Mattie Lubchansky
In 1977, a group called The Spiritual Association of Peers retreats to the Catskills, founding a commune they name Simplicity. More than a century later, in 2081, Lucius Pasternak—a meticulous trans scholar living under the authoritarian New York City Administrative and Security Territory—accepts a commission from real estate tycoon Dennis Van Wervel to study Simplicity for a new history museum. Though wary, Lucius is captivated by the commune’s strange rituals and by Amity Crown-Shy, a confident acolyte raised within its woods. Their growing connection unsettles Lucius, especially as he begins to experience uncanny visions of terrifying, seductive beings. When residents start vanishing under brutal circumstances, the commune blames a mythical figure known as “The Lamentation.” Lucius and Amity venture into the perilous Exurb Zones—haunts of preppers and isolationists—to uncover the truth. What they find will force them to confront both the forces threatening Simplicity and the cost of protecting its fragile future.
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The Midnight Shift : The Korean Bestselling Cult Novel
by Seon-ran Cheon
When a string of suspicious deaths at a hospital is dismissed as coincidence, determined officer Su-Yeon investigates alone, uncovering unsettling clues and joining forces with a vampire hunter who believes a supernatural predator is targeting the building's most vulnerable residents.
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The lighthouse at the edge of the world
by J. R. Dawson
In a Chicago way station for the dead, the ferryman's daughter faces a night of chaos as the lighthouse falters, restless spirits grow violent, and a living girl boards the boat, drawn by a song and desperate to find someone she lost.
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Extinction capital of the world : stories
by Mariah Rigg
Set across contemporary Hawai‘i, this powerful debut story collection explores love, grief and identity through characters navigating the lingering effects of colonization and environmental loss in a place both mythologized and endangered.
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Lonely crowds : a novel
by Stephanie Wambugu
Two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early '90s art world in New York City, where only one of them can make it.
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Marisol acts the part
by Elle Gonzalez Rose
After a humiliating public dumping, a teen actress lands a role on the same high-profile show as her ex-boyfriend, only for things to get messy when she falls for his co-star.
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Goat magic
by Kate Wheeler
Trill, a spirited goat herder with a unique ability to communicate with her flock, yearns for a life beyond mountain pastures. Her 'goat magic' feels common compared to the sorcery taught in the city's prestigious magic schools, which are off-limits to her. Meanwhile, Princess Alya, known as the 'Ordinary Princess'...doubts her own royal potential. Their worlds collide when an assassination attempt on the queen leaves Alya cursed to transform into a black goat each sunrise. Seeking refuge in Trill's goat herd, Alya discovers her new friend's hidden talent is her only hope to break the spell.
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Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
by Don Martin
Verity Vox is a witch-in-training who has never met a problem her spells can't solve. But when a cryptic plea for help sends her to the forgotten coal mining town of Foxfire, she soon learns even magic has its limits. Verity discovers a curse was laid years ago by a traveling magician who vanished into the ancient Appalachian hills to seek greater power. Crops won't grow. Bellies go hungry. Even treasured possessions fall apart. What's worse, people have gone missing amidst rumors that they've sought out the magician who is lying in wait for those foolish or desperate enough to strike a deal with him
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Leaving the station
by Jake Maia Arlow
.Zoe takes a cross-country train over the fall break to sort out their falling out with friends, come to terms with their gender identity, and more while making new friends and connections.
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A treachery of swans
by A. B. Poranek
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Aurâeal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a plan. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king's crown....But when the king is brutally murdered...her plans are thrown into chaos. Desperate to free her brother, Odile is forced to team up with none other than elegant, infuriating Marie, the girl she has cursed...and the girl she can't seem to stop thinking about...Torn between loyalty to her father and her growing feelings for Marie, Odile becomes tangled in a web of treachery and deceit.
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Arcana 1 : Arcana: the Lost Heirs
by Sam Prentice-jones
James, Daphne, Koko, and Sonny have all grown up surrounded by magic in the Arcana, an organization of witches that protects the magical world, run by the mysterious and secretive Majors. Eli Jones, however, hadn't even known other witches existed . . . until he stumbled into James. As James introduces him to the world of the Arcana, Eli finds the family he never had and a blossoming romance with James. The five new friends soon realize that sinister things are afoot, and everything may not be what it seems at the Arcana. When the group delves deeper into the mystery surrounding the deaths of their parents and the Majors' rise to power, they discover that they're at the center of a curse--one they've just unwittingly set into motion. As the friends search for answers, they'll have to confront the cursed legacy that links them in hopes of freeing their futures
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The tournament
by Rebecca Barrow
This year's Tournament, a series of grueling physical challenges, is more cutthroat than ever with seniors Max, the ruthless scholarship student, Nora, Max's ex-best friend who may be ready for center stage, and Teddy, the transfer student on her last chance.
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If we survive this
by Racquel Marie
After a global outbreak of a rabies mutation that creates zombie-like creatures, eighteen-year-old Flora Braddock Paz and her brother journey to a secluded cabin in Northern California in search of safety, only to confront familiar faces, hidden truths, painful memories, and the inescapable presence of death.
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