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Light From Uncommon Stars
by Ryka Aoki
To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence.
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I Kissed a Girl
by Jennet Alexander
A warm, witty, and effortlessly charming LGBTQIA+ romcom with Young Adult crossover appeal. Lilah Silver is an up-and-coming actress who longs to break out from the B-rate horror flicks she's known for. When she gets the chance to star in her first lead role, she'll need some major help from makeup artist and special effects guru Noa Birnbaum to shine brighter than all the rest. But can the major chemistry brewing over long hours spent together ever hope to survive the bright shine of the spotlight?
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The Throwback List
by Lily Anderson
When best friends Jo, Autumn, and Bianca, who thought they left Sandy Point, Oregon behind for good, are thrown back together, Jo finds an old bucket list in her childhood bedroom that sets them on a path that leads them to a life none of them could have ever planned.
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You Exist Too Much
by Zaina Arafat
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: 'You exist too much, ' she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East–from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine–Zaina Arafat's debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.
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Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail
by Ashley Herring Blake
Tempers rise on a popular home improvement show when an interior designer, Astrid Parker, repeatedly bumps heads with a carpenter trying to preserve the history of her family's inn, until the tension flares into something more.
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
by Akwaeke Emezi
Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy, but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is off limits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love.
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This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
A family reshapes their ideas about family, love, and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent.
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Let's Not Do That Again
by Grant Ginder
When her daughter, Greta, makes headlines as an extremist protestor in Paris, Nancy Harrison, running for Senate, must find Greta to save her campaign before it's too late.
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Less is Lost
by Andrew Sean Greer
In this highly anticipated follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, Arthur Less, after the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis, sets out on a literary adventure across the U.S. during which he must finally face his personal demons.
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Something Fabulous
by Alexis J. Hall
The Duke of Malvern, after a disastrous marriage proposal to Miss Arabella Tarleton, sets out after his intended along with her twin brother, Bonny, and as he spends time with Bonny, he wonders about which Tarleton he should be pursuing.
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The World We Make
by N. K. Jemisin
In New York, six human avatars that embody their city's heart and wield its magic, must join together with the Great Cities to stop a mayoral candidate, backed by the Enemy, whose populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia and “law and order” could destroy the world.
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Perpetual West
by Mesha Maren
When her husband, who, unbeknownst to her, has fallen in love with a lucha libra fighter, goes missing, Elana can't determine whether he left of his own accord or was kidnapped, forcing her to face who she really is.
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Love in the Big City
by Sang Young Park
When his female best friend and roommate, Jaehee, leaves him to settle down, Young, a cynical gay man living in the lonely city of Seoul, tries to make sense of his life and his relationships as he finds himself torn between two very different men.
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My Policeman
by Bethan Roberts
It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier and Marion is smitten–determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later near the Brighton Museum, Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world of art, travel, and beauty. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion and meet Patrick in secret. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.
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Misrule
by Heather Walter
When the woman she loves falls under a curse that not even her vast power can break, Alyce, a dark sorceress, vows to do everything she can to save Princess Aurora, even if it means turning into the monster everyone in Briar believes her to be.
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All the White Spaces
by Ally Wilkes
An Antarctic expedition led by James “Australis” Randall must take to the land after disaster strikes and they find themselves fighting a supernatural force in addition to the isolation and freezing darkness of the Polar nights.
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