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New Releases: October 22, 2024

Today’s post is sponsored by B.E. Bang and Furever Enchanted, out on the 24th!

How to get rich quick: Adopt a dog that literally poops gold.

Following a series of burglaries in her peaceful Tempe, Arizona community, an anxious, socially isolated introvert decides to adopt a dog from a nearby shelter. Zuri always wanted a dog and now seems as good of time as any to make that dream a reality.

Things don’t go according to plan. Not long after adopting her new dog, Zuri discovers the dog magically poops gold coins. In theory, that sounds great. In reality, her dog is wasting away and days away from death.

With the help of a hot veterinarian and an opinionated shelter employee, it’s up to Zuri to figure out how to disenchant her chow chow Gigi before it’s too late.

Dive into a charming and cozy debut novel filled with magic, a hint of romance, and found family.

Buy it!

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai, trans. by Ajani Oloye

Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels for an employee at a local CD shop. He’s got an air of mystery about him, always dressed well, and has impeccable taste in music. Little does she know—this supposedly male employee is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! Mitsuki generally keeps to herself, but since her seat is right next to Aya’s, she can’t help but be extremely aware of the other’s crush. Revealing the truth is out of the question—but perhaps getting closer to Aya wouldn’t be so bad…

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Day 2024!

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day 2024! We’re celebrating with these lesbian protagonists, and you can too! For more recs, check out past years’ posts! 

Young Adult

We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller

Jordan Elliott is a fat, nerdy lesbian, and the first junior to be named editor in chief of the school newspaper. Okay, that last part hasn’t happened yet, but it will. It’s positive thinking that has gotten Jordan this far. Ever since Mackenzie West, her friend-turned-enemy, humiliated her at the start of freshman year, Jordan has thrown herself into journalism and kept her eyes trained on the future.

So it’s a total blow when Jordan discovers that she not only didn’t get the editor in chief spot, but she’s been assigned the volleyball beat instead. And who is the star and newly crowned captain of the volleyball team? Mackenzie West. But words are Jordan’s weapon, and she has some ideas about how to exact a long-awaited revenge on her nemesis. Then things get murky when forced time together has Mack and Jordan falling back into their friendship, and into something more. And when Mack confesses the real reason she turned on Jordan freshman year, it has Jordan questioning everything—past, present, and future.

If Jordan lets her guard down and Mack in, will she get everything she wants, or will she be humiliated all over again?

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August 2023 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction

Translator and winner of Columbia’s Henfield Prize Mariam Rahmani‘s LIQUID, pitched as a subversion of the marriage plot novel for fans of Paul Beatty, set in Los Angeles and Tehran, in which an early 30s queer Muslim adjunct professor sets out to marry rich, resolving to suffer through 100 dates in a single summer, to Evan Hansen-Bundy at Algonquin, in a pre-empt, by Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic (world).

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