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Books to Buy Now
Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldnāt come at a worse timeāthreatening Emmaās promotion and Joās new movie.
As the gossip spreads, it starts to affect all areas of their lives. Paparazzi are following them outside the office, coworkers are treating them differently, and a āsourceā is feeding information to the media. But their only comment is āno commentā.
With the launch of Joās film project fast approaching, the two women begin to spend even more time together, getting along famously. Emma seems to have a sixth sense for knowing what Jo needs. And Jo, known for being aloof and outwardly cold, opens up to Emma in a way neither of them expects. They begin to realize the rumor might not be so off base after allā¦but is acting on the spark between them worth fanning the gossip flames?
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The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert
New Yearās Eve, 1929. Millie is the emcee of the Cloak & Dagger, an LGBTQ-friendly speakeasy deep in the heart of the French Quarter, full of bootleg booze, cabaret acts, and where the New Orleans elite comes out to play. Her best friend, Marion, is the star of the showāhis diehard fans wouldnāt miss a performance from the boy in the red dress. And together they rule the underground scene.
Then a young socialite draped in furs starts asking questions, wielding a photograph of a boy who looks a lot like Marion. When the socialiteās body is found slumped in the back alley, all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie is determined to prove her best friendās innocence, even if that means risking her own life. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millieās attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger whoās offered to help her find the murderer. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.
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Just Like That by Cole McCade
Summer Hemlock never meant to come back to Omen, Massachusetts.
But with his mother in need of help, Summer has no choice but to return to his hometown, take up a teaching residency at the Albin Academy boarding schoolāand work directly under the man who made his teenage years miserable.
Professor Fox Iseya.
Forbidding, aloof, commanding: psychology instructor Iseya is a cipher whoās always fascinated and intimidated shy, anxious Summer. But that fascination turns into something more when the older man challenges Summer to be brave. What starts as a daily game to reward Summer with a kiss for every obstacle overcome turns passionate, and a professional relationship turns quickly personal.
Yet Iseyaās walls of grief may be too high for someone like Summer to climbā¦until Summerās infectious warmth shows Fox everything heās been missing in life.
Now both men must be brave enough to trust each other, to take that leap.
To find the love theyāve always neededā¦
Just like that.
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Iāll Be the One by Lyla Lee
Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldnāt dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldnāt call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, sheās about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her.
Sheāll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and sheāll do it better than anyone else.
When Skye nails her audition, sheās immediately swept into a whirlwind of countless practices, shocking performances, and the drama that comes with reality TV. What she doesnāt count on are the highly fat-phobic beauty standards of the Korean pop entertainment industry, her sudden media fame and scrutiny, or the sparks that soon fly with her fellow competitor, Henry Cho.
But Skye has her sights on becoming the worldās first plus-sized K-pop star, and that means winning the competitionāwithout losing herself.
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Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine
Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and povertyāher family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now sheās been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesnāt return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented extreme winter.
With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous. After a harrowing encounter with a violent cult, Wylodine and her small group of exiles become a target for its volatile leader. Because she has the most valuable skill in the climate chaos: she can make things grow.
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Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall
There are two things that Corinne Parker knows to be true: that she is in love with Maggie Bailey, the captain of the rival high schoolās cross-country team and her secret girlfriend of a year, and that she isnāt ready for anyone to know sheās bisexual.
But then Maggie dies, and Corinne quickly learns that the only thing worse than losing Maggie is being left heartbroken over a relationship no one knows existed. And to make things even more complicated, the only person she can turn to is Elissa ā Maggieās ex and the single person who understands how Corinne is feeling.
As Corinne struggles to make sense of her grief and what she truly wants out of life, she begins to have feelings for the last person she should fall for. But to move forward after losing Maggie, Corinne will have to learn to be honest with the people in her lifeā¦starting with herself.
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We Go Together by Abigail de Niverville
The beaches of Grand-Barachois had been Katās summer home for years. There, she created her own world with her āsummerĀ friends,ā full of possibilities and free from expectation. But one summer, everything changed, and she ran from the life sheād created.
Now seventeen and on the brink of attending college, Kat is full of regret. Sheās broken a friendship beyond repair, and sheās datedĀ possibly the worst person in the world. Six months after their break-up, he still haunts her nightmares. Confused and scared, sheĀ returns to Grand-Barachois to sort out her feelings.
When she arrives, everything is different yet familiar. Some of her friends are right where she left them, while some are nowhere to beĀ found. There are so many things they never got to do, so many words left unsaid.
And then thereās Tristan.
He wasnāt supposed to be there. He was just a guy from Katās youth orchestra days. When the two meet again, they become fastĀ friends. Tristan has a few ideas to make this summer the best one yet. Together, they build a master list of all the things Kat and herĀ friends wanted to do but never could. Itās finally time to live their wildest childhood dreams.
But the past wonāt let Kat go. And while this may be a summer to remember, thereās so much she wants to forget.
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The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell
Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed it was an assassination by a neighboring king, but everyone knew it was a lie. He had Disappeared her himself.
But after finding the missing queenās diary, Anzaāimpassioned by her fatherās unjust execution and inspired by Miranthaās wordsājoins the resistance group to overthrow the king. When an encounter with Prince Esvar thrusts her into a dangerous game of court politics, one misstep could lead to a fate worse than death.
Esvar is the second son to an evil king. Trapped under his thumb and desperate for a way out, a chance meeting with Anza gives him the opportunity to join the resistance. Together, they might have the leverage to move against the kingābut if they fail, their deaths could mean a total loss of freedom for generations to follow.
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The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

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Youāre Next by Kylie Schachte
Flora Calhoun has a reputation for sticking her nose where it doesnāt belong. After stumbling upon a classmateās body years ago, the trauma of that discovery and the policeās failure to find the killer has haunted her ever since. One night, she gets a midnight text from Ava McQueen, the beautiful girl who had ignited Floraās heart last summer, then never spoke to her again.
Just in time to witness Avaās death from a gunshot wound, Flora is set on a path of rage and vengeance for all the dead girls whose killer is never found. Her tunnel-visioned sleuthing leads to valuable clues about a shocking conspiracy involving her school and beyond, but also earns her sinister threats from the murderer. She has a choiceāto give up the hunt for answers, or keep digging and risk her loved onesā lives. Either way, Flora will regret the consequences. Whoās next on the killerās list?
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False Notes and Broken Frets by Elle Bennett
Joan Washington just got the gig of a lifetime ā lead guitarist for Jordan King. She packed her bags, moved to the big city, and has decided to be single for the first time in a long time. No romantic distractions ā just the music.
Jordan King was once known as boy band royalty. Now heās moving on, releasing a solo album. His new band is nothing like his old one, and he definitely wonāt be making the same mistake this time around by dating someone in it.
Of course, his label has different plans.
After a single picture shows up in the tabloids of Jordan and his ex-boyfriend, his manager throws Joan and Jordan into a PR relationship.
Itās fake, though. Totally fake.
They definitely wonāt fall in love with each other.
Of course not.
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Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in her gardens, itās not just a story.
As the day of her twin brotherās wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if sheās willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom. And above is a young man who isnāt afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison.
Soraya thought she knew her place in the world, but when her choices lead to consequences she never imagined, she begins to question who she is and who she is becomingā¦human or demon. Princess or monster.
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Faith by Julie Murphy
Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When sheās not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, sheās volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, sheās spent her senior year trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to her Grandma Lou after graduation. Of course, thereās also that small matter of recently discovering she can flyā¦.
When the fictional world of The Grove crashes into Faithās reality as the show relocates to her town, she canāt believe it when TV heroine Dakota Ash takes a romantic interest in her. But her fandom-fueled daydreams arenāt enough to distract Faith from the fact that first animals, then people, have begun to vanish from the town. Only Faith seems able to connect the dots to a new designer drug infiltrating her high school. But when her investigation puts the people she loves in danger, she will have to confront her hidden past and use her newfound giftsārisking everything to save her friends and beloved town.
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Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
When her daddy died in a car crash, sixteen-year-old Shady Grove Crawford thought he took his ghostraising fiddle with him. Now, with the pine woods outside her trailer filling with eerie bluegrass music and restless spirits, Shady is certain Daddyās fiddle is calling to her from beyond the grave.
Then her brother is arrested for murder, and Shady knows she must find the fiddle to prove his innocence and discover the real killer. With the help of her bandmate and secret crush Sarah, as well as a rodeo boy whoās trying to swagger his way into her heart, Shady sets out to raise the dead.
But instead of finding the truth, she conjures up the shadow man, the vengeful spirit that destroyed Daddyās life and has now laid claim to hers.
To free herself from its deadly grip, Shady must unearth the fiddleās dark origins and uproot the shameful past Daddy tried so hard to hide. If she doesnāt, her brother will go to prison and Shady will follow her daddy to an early grave.
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Hairpin CurvesĀ by Elia Winters
Megan Harris had hopes of seeing the world, but at twenty-five sheās never even left Florida. Now a wedding invitation lures her to Quebecā¦in February. When her ex-friend Scarlett offers to be her plus-one (yeah, thatās a whole story) and suggests they turn the journey into an epic road trip, Megan reluctantly agrees to the biggest adventure of her life.
A week together in a car is a surefire way to kill a crush, and Scarlett Andrews has had a big one on Megan for years. The important thing is fixing their friendship.
As the miles roll away, what starts as harmless road-trip games and rest-stop dares escalates into something like intimacy. And when a surprise snowstorm forces Megan and Scarlett to hunker down without the open road as distraction, theyāve got a bigger challenge than making it to the church on time: facing the true nature of their feelings for each other.
Books to Preorder
When Tara Met Farah by Tara Pammi (January 26, 2021)
Nineteen-year-old Tara Muvvala didnāt mean to lead a double life. But her bone-deep aversion to math + a soul-deep desire to please her mother = her failing math grade + exploding food vlog āthis masala lifeā.
Enter her motherās research intern and resident math genius Farah Ahmed. Tara makes a deal with Farah – help her pass the math course and sheāll welcome Farah into the local Bollywood Drama & Dance Society.
Grumpy girl gets life lessonsā¦
After losing her mom to a heart attack, dumping her small-minded boyfriend (sheās bisexual, not confused) and reluctantly moving to the US to be near her dad – all in the span of eighteen months, twenty-three-year-old Farah has hit the full quota on LIFE. Two things keep her going – her internship with a brilliant statistics professor and the possibility of meeting her dancing idol through the Bollywood Drama & Dance Society. That is, if her new hot-mess housemate will let her.
Soon Tara and Farah are bonding over chicken biryani, dancing to Bollywood Beats at midnight and kissing… against all the odds. And maybe beginning to realize that while lifeās even more complicated than math, love is the one variable that changes everything!
A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth February 23, 2021)
Choose your player.
The āironbornā half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.
A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.
A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.
The princeās brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.
For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courtsāuntil a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.
Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If thatās not bad enough, thereās a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way?
Wish them luck. Theyāre going to need it.
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Down Comes the Night by Alison Saft (March 2, 2021)
Honor your oath, destroy your country.
Wren Southerland is the most talented healer in the Queenās Guard, but her reckless actions have repeatedly put her on thin ice with her superiors. So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord, asking Wren to come to his estate to cure his servant from a mysterious disease, she seizes the chance to prove herself.
When she arrives at Colwick Hall, Wren realizes that nothing is what it seems. Particularly when she discovers her patient is actually Hal Cavendish, the sworn enemy of her kingdom.
As the snowy mountains make it impossible to leave the estate, Wren and Hal grow closer as they uncover a sinister plot that could destroy everything they hold dear. But choosing love could doom both their kingdoms.
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Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi (March 2, 2021)
CeCe Ross is kind of a big deal. She and her girlfriend, Silvie, are social media influencers with zillions of fans and followers, known for their cute outfits and being #relationshipgoals.
So when Silvie breaks up with her, CeCe is devastated. Sheās lost her first love, and now she canāt help but wonder if sheāll lose her followers as well.
Things get even messier when CeCe meets Josh, a new boy in town who is very much Not Online. CeCe isnāt surprised to be falling for a guy; sheās always known sheās bi. And Josh is sweet and smart and has excellent taste in donuts⦠but he has no idea that CeCe is internet-famous. And CeCe sort of wants to keep it that way.
But when CeCeās secrets catch up to her, she finds herself in the middle of an online storm, where sheāll have to confront the blurriness of public vs. private life, and figure out what it really means to speak her truth.
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Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (March 9, 2021)
Everyone in school knows about Locker 89. If you slip a letter in outlining your relationship woes, along with a fiver, an anonymous source will email you with the best advice youāve ever gotten.
Darcy Phillips, a quiet, sweet junior, is safe in the knowledge no one knows sheās the genius behind locker 89. Until Brougham, a senior, catches her.
The deal Brougham offers is tempting: in exchange for his silenceāand a generous coachās fee to sweeten the dealāDarcy can become Broughamās personal dating coach to help him get his ex-girlfriend back.
And as for Darcy, well, she has a fairly good reason to want to keep her anonymity. Because she has another secret. Not too long ago, she abused locker 89 to sabotage the budding romance of her best friend, Brooke. Brooke, who Darcyās been in love with for a year now.
Yeah. Brooke canāt find out about that. No matter what.
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Zara Hossain is Here by Sabina Khan (April 6, 2021)
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant Zara Hossain has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their familyās dependent visa status while they await their green card approval, which has been in process for almost nine years.
But one day her tormentor, star football player Tyler Benson, takes things too far, leaving a threatening note in her locker, and gets suspended. As an act of revenge against her for speaking out, Tyler and his friends vandalize Zaraās house with racist graffiti, leading to a violent crime that puts Zaraās entire future at risk. Now she must pay the ultimate price and choose between fighting to stay in the only place sheās ever called home or losing the life she loves and everyone in it.
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Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (May 11, 2021)
Lara’s had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He’s tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and he’s talking to her now. On purpose and everything. Maybe…flirting, even? No, wait, he’s definitely flirting, which is pretty much the sum of everything Lara’s wanted out of life.
Except sheās haunted by a memory. A memory of a confusing, romantic, strangely perfect summer spent with a girl named Jasmine. A memory that becomes a confusing, disorienting present when Jasmine herself walks through the front doors of the school to see Lara and Chase chatting it up in front of the lockers.
Lara has everything she ever wanted: a tight-knit group of friends, a job that borders on cool, and Chase, the boy of her literal dreams. But if she’s finally got the guy, why can’t she stop thinking about the girl?
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The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis (May 21, 2021)
In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters ā a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace in his moments spent in the company of his friend, the clever and beautiful Lady Ora Fischer ā a widow with secrets of her own.
When Domek finds himself stalked by the spirit of the White Lady ā a ghost who haunts the baroque halls of Prague castle ā he stumbles across the sentient essence of a will-oā-the-wisp, a mischievous spirit known to lead lost travellers to their death, but who, once captured, are bound to serve the desires of their owners.
After discovering a conspiracy amongst the pijavica that could see them unleash terror on the daylight world, Domek finds himself in a race against those who aim to twist alchemical science for their own dangerous gain.
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Hani and Ishuās Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (May 25, 2021)
Everyone likes Hani Kahnāsheās easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she canāt be bi if sheās only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that sheās in a relationshipā¦with a girl her friends absolutely hateāIshita Dey. Ishita is the complete opposite of Hani. Sheās an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. But Ishita agrees to help Hani, if Hani will help her become more popular so that she stands a chance of being elected head girl.
Despite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other. But relationships are complicated, and some people will do anything to stop two Bengali girls from achieving happily ever after.
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Fire With Fire by Destiny Soria (June 8, 2021)
Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldnāt be more different. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Yet they both agree on one thing: itās kill or be killed where dragons are concerned.
Until Dani comes face-to-face with one and forges a rare and magical bond with him. As she gets to know Nox, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong. With Dani lost to the dragons, Eden turns to the mysterious and alluring sorcerers to help save her sister. Now on opposite sides of the conflict, the sisters will do whatever it takes to save the other. But the two are playing with magic that is more dangerous than they know, and there is another, more powerful enemy waiting for them both in the shadows.
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Books to Add to Your TBR
- This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron Aceves (YA Contemporary)
- Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (F/F Romance)
- Forever is Now by Mariama J. Lockington (YA Contemporary)
- Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor (YA Fantasy)