Please note that this post only includes titles etc. not included in earlier Bi Visibility Day posts. (Exception made for books posted without a cover last year or whose pub dates significantly changed since last posting.) For even more bi goodness, make sure to check earlier Bi Visibility Day posts!Ā
Books to Buy Now
Middle Grade
The Trouble with Robots by Michelle Mohrweis
Eighth-graders Evelyn and Allie are in trouble. Evelynās constant need for perfection has blown some fuses among her robotics teammates, and sheās worried nobodyās taking the upcoming competition seriously. Allie is new to school, and sheās had a history of short-circuiting on teachers and other kids.
So when Allie is assigned to the robotics team as a last resort, all Evelyn can see is just another wrench in the works! But as Allie confronts a past stricken with grief and learns to open up, the gears click into place as she discovers that Evelynās teammates have a lot to offerāif only Evelyn allowed them to participate in a role that plays to their strengths.
Can Evelyn learn to let go and listen to what Allie has to say? Or will their spot in the competition go up in smoke along with their schoolās robotics program and Allieās only chance at redemption?
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No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado
Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and a glittering life filled with adventure. With tons of followers on Instagram, her picture-perfect existence seems eminently enviable.
Except itās all fake.
Max is actually 16-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic teenager living in drab Bakersfield, California. Nothing glamorous inĀ herĀ existenceājust sprawl, bad house parties, a crap school year, and the awkwardness of dealing with her best friend Hariās unrequited love. But while Katās life is far from perfect, she thrives as Max: doling out advice, sharing beautiful photos, networking with famous influencers, even making a real friend in a follower named Elena. The closer Elena and āMaxā getātexting, Snapping, and even callingāthe more Kat feels she has to keep up the faƧade.
But when one of Maxās posts goes ultra-viral and gets back to the very person sheās been stealing photos from, her entire world ā realĀ andĀ fake ā comes crashing down around her. She has to figure out a way to get herself out of the huge web of lies sheās created without hurting the people she loves.
But it might already be too late.
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Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen
When Harleen Quinzel scores an internship in a psych lab at Gotham University, sheās more than ecstatic; sheāsĀ desperateĀ to make a Big Scientific Discovery that will land her a full-ride college scholarship and get her away from her abusive father.Ā But when Harleen witnesses the way women are treated across STEM departmentsāand experiences harassment herselfāshe decides that revenge and justice are more important than her own dreams.
Harleen finds her place in an intoxicating vigilante girl gang called the Reckoning, who creates chaos to inspire change. And when Harleen falls for another girl in the gang, it finally seems like sheās found her true passions. But what starts off as pranks and mischief quickly turns deadly as one of the gang members is found murderedāand a terrifying conspiracy is uncovered that puts the life Harleen has worked so hard for at stake. Will she choose her futureāor will she choose revenge?
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This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves
Enrique āQuiqueā Luna has one goal this summerāget over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Never mind that heās only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Never mind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to meet a girl his parents are trying to set him up with.
Luckily, Quiqueās prospects are each intriguing in their own ways. Thereās stoner-jock Tyler Montana, who might be just as interested in Fabiola as he is in Quique; straitlaced senior class president, Ziggy Jackson; and Manny Zuniga, who keeps looking at Quique like heās carne asada fresh off the grill. With all these choices, Quique is sure to forget about Saleem in no time.
But as the summer heats up and his deep-seated fears and anxieties boil over, Quique soon realizes that getting over one guy by getting under a bunch of others may not have been the best laid plan and living his truth can come at a high cost.
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Melt With YouĀ by Jennifer Dugan
Fallon and Chloe used to be best friends. But last summer, the girls hooked up right before Chloe left for college, and after a series of misunderstandings, they arenāt even speaking to one another. Now, a year later, Chloeās back home from school, and Fallon is doing everything in her power to avoid her. Which is especially difficult because their moms own a business togetherāa gourmet ice cream truck where both girls work.
But when their moms have the opportunity to make a presentation to some venture capitalists in Texasāsomething that could seriously expand their business and solve all their money problems to bootāitās up to Fallon to work a series of food truck festivals across the country. But she canāt do it alone, and Chloe is the only one available to help. As tensions heat up again between the two girls, will Fallon be able to keep her cool?
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Just Your Local Bisexual DisasterĀ by Andrea Mosqueda
Growing up in Texasās Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but sheās okay with that. After all, she has a great family, a goofy group of friends, a rocky romantic history, and dreams of being a music photographer. Tasked with picking an escort for her little sisterās quinceaƱera, Maggie has to face the truth: that her feelings about her friendsāand her futureāarenāt as simple as sheād once believed.
As Maggieās search for the perfect escort continues, sheās forced to confront new (and old) feelings for three of her friends: Amanda, her best friend and first-ever crush; Matthew, her ex-boyfriend twice-over who refuses to stop flirting with her, and Dani, the new girl who has romantic baggage of her own. On top of this romantic disaster, she canāt stop thinking about the uncertainty of her own plans for the future and what that means for the people she loves.
As the weeks wind down and the boundaries between friendship and love become hazy, Maggie finds herself more and more confused with each photo. When her tried-and-true medium causes more chaos than calm, Maggie needs to figure out how to avoid certain disasterāor be brave enough to dive right into it.
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Flip the ScriptĀ by Lyla Lee
As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid when she finally lands a starring role in a buzzy new drama. And she can totally handle her fake co-star boyfriend who might be falling in love with her. After all, she promised the producers a contract romance, and thatāsĀ allĀ theyāre going to get from her.
But when showrunners bring on a new girl to challenge Hanaās roleĀ as main love interestāand worse, itās someone Hana knows all too wellācan Ā Hana fight for her position on the show while falling for her on-screenĀ rival in real life?
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Summerās EdgeĀ by Dana Mele
I Know What You Did Last SummerāÆmeetsāÆThe Haunting of Hill HouseāÆin this atmospheric, eerie teen thriller following an estranged group of friends being haunted by their friend who died last summer.Ā
Emily Joiner was once part of an inseparable groupāshe was a sister, a best friend, a lover, and a rival. Summers without Emily were unthinkable.āÆUntil the fire burned the lake house to ashes with her inside.
A year later, itās in Emilyās honor that Chelsea and her four friends decide to return. The house awaits them, meticulously rebuilt. Only, Chelsea is haunted by ghostly visions. Loner Ryan stirs up old hurts and forces golden boy Chase to play peacemaker. Which has perfect hostess Kennedy on edge as eerie events culminate in a stunning accusation: Emilyās death wasnāt an accident. And all the clues needed to find the person responsible are right here.
As old betrayals rise to the surface, Chelsea and her friends have one night to unravel a mystery spanning three summers before a killer among them exacts their revenge.Ā
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The Gravity of Missing Things by Marisa Urgo
Flight 133 disappeared over the ocean. No wreckage. No distress signal. Just gone.
Suddenly, everyone on the news and social media is talking about whether the pilot intentionally crashed itāeveryone but me. Because I know her. The pilot was my mom, and thereās no way she would hurt anyone. No one else knows that before she left, she wrote me a note. Trust me, it said.
Now it feels like someone split my worldāand meāin two, and the only person who believes me is Landon. I want to trust him, to let him see who I really am, but I canāt. I have my secrets, the same way Mom has hers. All I know is falling for him will only make things more complicated.
Just as I start to open up, the answer to what really happened to Flight 133 could rip my world apart all over againāfor good this time.
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TRAGIC by Dana Mele (Text) and Valentina Pinti (Illustrations)
In a contemporary re-telling of Shakespeareās Hamlet, TRAGIC follows the 17 year-old Harper Hayes as she unravels the mystery and grief surrounding her fatherās death.
After her father Hamilton Hayes dies a mysterious and tragic death, Harper Hayes is convinced that he was murdered and her first suspect is her uncle Clayton, who has been sleeping with her mother, Greta. With the help of her ex-girlfriend Talia and her best friend (sometimes with benefits) Holden, Harper is determined to find her fatherās killer. But when Caius, Taliaās father and Hamiltonās business partner, is found dead, Harper realizes the answer to Hamiltonās murder is more complicated than she had initially realized. And when Harper starts seeing his ghost in the form of a teenage Hamlet everywhere and slipping into hallucinations of his murder that end with blood on her hands, one thing becomes clearāin order to uncover the truth about what happened to her father, Harper has to confront her own demons and ones that haunt the Hayes family.
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The Lost GirlsĀ by Sonia Hartl
Holly Liddell has been stuck with crimped hair since 1987 when she agreed to let her boyfriend, Elton, turn her into a vampire. But when he ditches her at a gas station a few decades into their eternity together, she realizes that being young forever actually means working graveyard shifts at Taco Bell, sleeping in seedy motels, and being supernaturally compelled to follow your ex from town to townāat least until Holly meets Eltonās other exes.
It seems that Holly isnāt the only girl Elton seduced into this wretched existence. He turned Ida in 1921, then Rose in 1954, and he abandoned them both before Holly was even born. Now Rose and Ida want to kill him before he can trick another girl into eternal adolescence, and theyāll need Hollyās help to do it. And once Holly starts falling for Eltonās vulnerable new conquest, Parker, sheāll do anything to save her.
To kill Elton for good, Holly and her friends will have to dig up their pasts, rob a bank, and reconcile with the people theyāve hurt in their search for eternal love. And to win the girl, Holly will have to convince Parker that sheās more than just Eltonās crazy exāeven though she is trying to kill him.
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Death by Society by Sierra Elmore
Seventeen-year-old Carter Harper may have created an award-winning iPhone app and have a 3.93 GPA, but her successes are overshadowed by brutal bullying, debilitating depression, and biting loneliness. Tired of being treated as the popular girlsā plaything, Carter hatches a plan to gain their respect, and maybe even gain a bit of popularity of her own. When that doesnāt work, she thinks her only choice is to die by suicide.
Abby Wallace is a member of āthe POPSā (the Petty, Oppressive, and Popular Shitbags, according to Carter)āsubordinate only to Kelsey, her best friend with benefits. The ambitious poet destroys reputations without careāespecially Carterāsāto prove how cool, cruel, and strong she is, all while pushing down her past trauma and secret guilt. But she faces an unexpected adversary when Kelsey tries to make Carter her new pet project. Angry and betrayed, Abby pushes Carter to the edgeāfacing consequences she never could have imagined.
Carter and Abbyās tumultuous relationship comes to a boiling point when Abby stops Carter from attempting suicide. But what happens when their shared enemy tries to come for them both again, and they end up in the unfortunate position of trying to protect one another? If Carter and Abby can stand each other for more than three minutes, they can stop Kelseyās court of misrule from harming more girls.
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If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So
(This is the UK edition. It will be published in the US on May 23, 2023 and can be preordered via Bookshop.)
Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, theyāve never met in real life and Ada lives an ocean away. But Elsie has decided itās now or never to tell Ada how she feels. That is, until her long-lost best friend Joan walks back into her life.
In a summer of repairing broken connections and building surprising new ones, Elsie realises that she isnāt nearly as alone as she thought. But now she has a choice to makeā¦
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A Dark and Starless ForestĀ by Sarah Hollowell
When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest ā and the growing darkness in herself ā in this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls.
Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. Frank, the man who raised them after their families abandoned them, says itās for their own good. After all, the world isnāt safe for people with magic. And Derry feels safe ā most of the time.
Until the night her eldest sister disappears. Jane and Derry swore to each other that theyād never go into the forest, not after their last trip ended in blood, but Derry is sure she saw Jane walk into the trees. When another sibling goes missing and Frankās true colors start to show, feeling safe is no longer an option. Derry will risk anything to protect the family she has left. Even if that means returning to the forest that has started calling to Derry in her missing siblingsā voices.
As Derry spends more time amidst the trees, her magic grows more powerfulā¦and so does the darkness inside her, the viciousness she wants to pretend doesnāt exist. But saving her siblings from the forest and from Frank might mean embracing the darkness. And that just might be the most dangerous thing of all.
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Adult Fiction
Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress
Itās 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarified bubble. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old when she transfers to Wrynn as a scholarship student, but she soon finds herself adrift in an environment that prizes novelty over beauty. Complicating matters is Louisaās unexpected attraction to her charismatic roommate, Karina Piontek, the preternaturally gifted but mercurial daughter of wealthy art collectors. Gradually, Louisa and Karina are drawn into an intense sensual and artistic relationship, one that forces them to confront their deepest desires and fears. But Karina also canāt shake her fascination with Preston Utley, a senior and anti-capitalist Internet provocateur, who is publicly feuding with visiting professor and political painter Robert Bergerāa once-controversial figurehead seeking to regain relevance.
When Preston concocts an explosive hoax, the fates of all four artists are upended as each is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat New York art world. Now, all must struggle to find new identities in art, in society, and amongst each other. In the process, they must either find their most authentic terms of lifeāof success, failure, and joyāor risk losing themselves altogether.
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In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae
With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isnāt headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown of Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another . . .
Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh as new-fallen snow. Way fresher than the freezing mud Morgan ends up sprawled in on her very first day back, only to be hauled out via Rachelās sexy new lumberjane muscles acquired from running her family tree farm.
When Morgan discovers that the Reedsā struggling tree farm is the only thing standing between Fern Falls and corporate greed destroying the whole townās livelihood, she decides she can put heartbreak aside to save the farm by planning her best fundraiser yet. She has all the inspiration for a spectacular event: delicious vanilla lattes, acoustic guitars under majestic pines, a cozy barn surrounded by brilliant stars. But she and Rachel will ABSOLUTELY NOT have a heartwarming holiday happy ending. That would be as unprofessional as it is unlikely. Right?
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Winning Move by Skye Kilaen
No dating. Thatās longtime divorcĆ©e Gina Kerseyās rule, and sheās sticking to it. Comfortably settled in her hometown of Clover Hill, sheād rather play board games than risk getting played herself. For company, she has her beloved if slightly meddlesome Great Auntā¦ whoās somehow made Gina promise to break her rule. She has to ask someone out. On a date. Maybe she could skip town instead?
Outgoing video game translator Marek Haas flew across the country to pick up the sports car of his teenage dreamsāto celebrate getting over a breakup from the absolute worst boyfriend, not because heās having a midlife crisis at thirty-five. In his automotive fantasies, though, the car didnāt break down in the middle of small-town nowhere.
Marekās not a damsel in distress, but when Gina comes to his rescue on the side of the road, she canāt believe her luck. Heās handsome, charming, and most importantly, just passing through. Promise, meet loophole! When he turns out to be adorably nerdy as well, they skip drinks at the pub for a fun-filled night in Ginaās bed.
The problem? Marekās vintage car needs parts the garage doesnāt have, so heās stuck until theyāre found. Meaning every time Gina turns around, her hot one night stand is still in her town, being all cute and friendly and sometimes taking his shirt off. Even worse, he seems to be falling for Clover Hillā¦ and Gina might be falling for him.
Can Gina overcome her fears and take a chance on a geeky sweetheart who makes her weak at the knees, or will their unforgettable one night stand end up as nothing more than a memory?
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your BeautyĀ by Akwaeke Emezi
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
Itās been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and sheās almost a new person nowāan artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists itās time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isnāt ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.
Sheās even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, thereās the biggest question of allāhow far is she willing to go for a second chance at love? ā
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We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as āa fierce new voiceā and āqueer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.ā But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape ā and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her house. They are the subjects of Carolineās next semi-documentary movie, which follows the girlsā violent fight club, a real-life feminist re-purposing of the classic.
As Cass is drawn into the filmās orbit, she is awed by Carolineās ambition and confidence. But over time, she becomes increasingly troubled by how deeply Caroline is manipulating the teens in the name of art. When a girl goes missing, Cass must reckon with her own ambitions and ask herself: in the pursuit of fame, how do you know when youāve gone too far?
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To Preorder
Season of LoveĀ by Helena Greer (October 11, 2022)
Thanks to her thriving art career, Miriam Blum finally has her decoupaged glitter ducks in a rowāuntil devastating news forces her to a very unwanted family reunion. Her beloved great-aunt Cass has passed and left Miriam part-owner of Carriganās, her (ironically) Jewish-run Christmas tree farm.
But Miriamās plans to sit shiva, avoid her parents, then put Carriganās in her rearview mirror are spoiled when she learns the business is at risk of going under. To have any chance at turning things around, sheāll need to work with the farmās grumpy managerāas long as the attraction sparking between them doesnāt set all their trees on fire first.
Noelle Northwood wants Miriam BlumĀ goneāeven if her ingenious ideas and sensitive soul keep showing Noelle thereās more to Cassās niece than meets the eye. But saving Carriganās requires trust, love, and risking it allāfor the chance to make their wildest dreams come true.
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Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner (October 11, 2022)
When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her schoolās Family Weekend, she isnāt looking for a hookupāit just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her momāthe hot, older woman Cassie slept with.
Erin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. In her defense, she hadnāt known Cassie was a student when theyād met. To make things worse, Erinās daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. And despite Erinās better judgementāhow could sleeping with your daughterās friend be anything but bad?āshe and Cassie get along in the day just as well as they did last night.
What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, and soon Cassie and Erin are sneaking around. Worst of all, they start to realize they have something real. But is being honest about the love between them worth the cost?
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Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake (November 22, 2022)
For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancĆ© a year ago, sheās been focused on her careerāher friends might say sheās obsessed, but sheās just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Innās renovation that will be broadcasted on a popular home improvement show, Innside America, Astrid knows this is the answer to everything that is wrong with her life. Itāll be the perfect distraction from her failed love life, and her perpetually displeased mother might finally give her nod of approval.
However, Astrid never planned on Jordan Everwood, Pruās granddaughter and lead carpenter for the innās renovation, who despises every modern design decision Astrid makes. Jordan is determined to preserve the history of her familyās inn, particularly as the rest of her life is in shambles. When that determination turns into a little light sabotage, ruffling Astridās perfect little feathers, the showrunners ask them to play up the tension. But somewhere along the way, their dislike for each other turns into something quite different, and Astrid must decide what success truly means. Is she going to pursue the life that sheās expected to lead, or the one she wants?
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We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (November 29, 2022)
Whatās more important? Knowing the truth or keeping the peace?
The summer of her senior year, seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson finds herself uprooted from her life in DC and moved into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between her mom and Mama Letty makes for an unwelcoming arrival and unearths some family drama they refuse to talk about. Everytime Avery tries to look deeper, they turn her away, leaving her desperate to learn the secrets that split her family in two.
Where Mama Letty is cantankerous and closed off, Avery finds friendship in some unexpected places: in Simone, her captivating next-door neighbor, and Jade Oliver, daughter of the townās most prominent familyā whose motherās murder remains unsolved.
But as the three girls grow closerāAvery and Simoneās friendship blossoming into something moreāthe sharp-edged opinions of their small southern town start to hint at something more insidious underneath. Turning to Mama Letty for answers only result in more questions, uncovering decades-old secrets that have been brewing for generations, exposing the towns racist history and threatening to topple the new life Averyās built in Bardell County, Georgia.
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Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales (November 29, 2022)
Itās been two years since Maya dumped her cheating ex-boyfriend Jordy, and she still canāt escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country, and in the lead up to the wedding he captured hearts globally as the eligible younger brother. So, when Maya receives an invitation to be a contestant on Second Chance Romance, a new reality show in which the now-famous Jordy will re-date his ex-girlfriends in an effort to find āthe one that got away,ā she isnāt interestedā¦that is, until she realizes she can use this opportunity to exact her revenge. If she can make it to the finale, she can reject Jordy and publicly break his heart. As far as Mayaās concerned, itās payback with interest: just what a guy like Jordy deserves.
But when she gets to the set, sheās confronted with the one person she hasnāt accounted for: Skye, the beautiful, charismatic girl Jordy cheated on Maya with. How is she supposed to live with this girl for six weeks? Sharing bunkbeds, for crying out loud?
Except, of course, thereās more to Skye than she lets most people see. Skye has her own reasons for being careful with her heart, and might be more willing to take Mayaās side than it initially seems. If they can sustain their reluctant allianceāand keep their unexpected chemistry from interferingāthey might just have a chance to take Jordy down.
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A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson (December 6, 2022)
Xavier Reynolds is doing less than stellar. He just got dumped, was passed over for a prestigious fellowship, and to top it all off he’s right back home in Harper’s Cove, Maine (population: 9,000). The last thing he wants to do is to work as a prep chef in the kitchen of the hip new restaurant in town, The Wharf. Especially since the hot, single-father chef who owns it canāt delegate to save his life.
Logan OāHare doesnāt understand Xavier or why every word out of his mouth is dipped in sarcasm. Unfortunately, he has no choice but to hire himāhe needs more help in the kitchen and his tween daughter, Anne, can only mince so many onions. It might be a recipe for disaster, but Logan doesnāt have many options besides Xavier.
Stuck between a stove and a hot place, Logan and Xavier discover an unexpected connection. But when the heat between them threatens to top the Scoville scale, theyāll have to decide if they can make their relationship work or if life has seasoned them too differently.
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Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni (January 31, 2023)
When Nareh Bedrossianās non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes itās time to find someone who shares her idea of romance.
Enter her mother: armed with plenty of mom-guilt and a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked Armenian men, she convinces Nar to attend Explore Armenia, a month-long series of events in the city. But itās not the mom-approved playboy doctor or the wealthy engineer who catch Narās eyeāitās Erebuni, a woman as immersed in the witchy arts as she is in preserving Armenian identity. Suddenly, with Erebuni as her wingwoman, the events feel like far less of a chore, and much more of an adventure. Who knew cooking up kuftes together could be so . . . sexy?
Erebuni helps Nar see the beauty of their shared culture and makes her feel understood in a way she never has before. But thereās one teeny problem: Narās not exactly out as bisexual. The clock is ticking on her double lifeāthe Explore Armenia closing banquet is coming up, and her entire extended family will be there, along with Erebuni. Her worlds will inevitably collide, but Nar is determined to be brave and to claim her happiness: proudly Armenian, proudly bisexual, and proudly herself for the first time in her life.
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A Good Day to Pie by Misha Popp (February 7, 2023)
This is the second book in the Pies Before Guys mystery series.
Daisy bakes a little murder into every pie she creates, and she and her dog, Zoe, deliver them to the townās worst cads. Now, Daisyās entered a televised, elimination-style competition and has a shot at $100k in prize moneyābut she still has a murder pie to deliver between filming.
In a completely unexpected turn of events, she discovers that her intended victim is one of the competition judges, and he turns up dead before the pie even arrives. Now, Daisy has to solve the murderāeven if it means working a bit of magicābefore someone calls foul play and exposes her murderous secret.
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The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora (March 7, 2023)
How do you face your fears when everything is terrifying?
Fifteen-year-old Brynn canāt stop thinking about death. Her intrusive thoughts and severe anxiety leave her feeling helplessāand hopeless. So after her mom interprets one of Brynnās blog posts as a suicide note, she takes extreme measures, confiscating Brynnās phone, blocking her Internet access, and banishing her to stay with her father, who lives āoff the gridā on a houseboat in the Florida mangroves. Isolated from her online friendsāher only friendsāBrynn resigns herself to a summer of mind-numbing boredom and loneliness . . . until Skylar appears.
Skylar is everything Brynn isnātāsultry, athletic, and confident. Yet Brynn feels at home around this fearless girl who pushes her to try new things and makes her belly flutter with nerves that have nothing to do with anxiety. When Brynn discovers that Skylar is trapped in the bayou and canāt tell her why, she resolves to free her new crush from the dark waters, even if it means confronting all of her worst fears.
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Alondra by Gina Femia (April 18, 2023)
A contemporary YA debut from award-winning playwright Gina Femia,Ā AlondraĀ is a coming-of-age story of friendship and romance, about a bisexual teen girl and her friends wrestling their way through the summer–sometimes on the playgrounds of Coney Island, sometimes with their feelings and at home.
Sixteen-year-old AlondaĀ lovesĀ professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island neighborhood, she couldnāt be happier. So as the ragtag team works to put on a show to remember, Alonda sheds her old self behind and becomesĀ Alondraāthe Fearless One. But with her conflicting feelings for King, the handsome leader of their group, and Lexi, the girl with the beautiful smile, Alonda has to ask herself: can she be as fearless outside of the ring as she is inside it?
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Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald (April 18, 2023)
For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for herābut she has no interest in coming out to her backwards parents, she wouldn’t know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has no sexual history to build off. Not to mention she really needs to focus her energy on escaping her emotionally-abusive-but-thatās-Hollywood talent manager boss and actually get working under a real director of photography anyway.
When she meets twenty-eight-year-old A-list actress Valeria Sullivan around the office, Luna thinks sheās found her solution. She’ll use Valeria’s interest in her cinematography to get a PA job on the set of Valeria’s directorial debutāand if Valeria is as gay as Luna suspects, and she happens to be Luna’s route to losing her virginity, too . . . well, that’s just an added bonus. Enlisting Romyās help, Luna starts the juggling act of her lifeāimpress Valeriaās DP to get another job after this one, get as close to Valeria as possible, and help Romy with her own career moves.
But when Valeria begins to reciprocate romantic interest in Luna, the act begins to crumbleāstraining her relationship with Romy and leaving her job prospects precarious. Now Luna has to figure out if she can she fulfill her dreams as a filmmaker, keep her best friend, and get the girl. . . or if sheās destined to end up on the cutting room floor.
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No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding (April 25, 2023)
Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydiaās standing with her schoolās theater tech club and Pennyās perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys.
Lydia and Penny decide to stay with their Aunt Grace and her boyfriend Oscar in Los Angeles while their parents are off on a European cruise. Penny follows her future-business-school dreams with an internship at Oscarās office, and Lydia gets a part-time job at Graceās neighborhood coffeeshop, Grounds Control.
Even when they spent hours, days, weeks dissecting their various boy drama, Lydiaās never felt this connected to her sister before, and it makes her wonder what else in her life could be different. She finds herself drawn to a group of friends she meets through her Grounds Control coworker, Margaret, as well as an intriguing customer, Fran, an aspiring filmmaker andāwhile not the first girl Lydia finds herself attracted toāthe first girl who has mutual feelings for her. But sheās not breaking her pledge to Penny, right? That was just about boys. Even though in her heart Lydia knows sheās bending the rules, she hasnāt had a connection with anyone as strong as her connection with Fran, so she thinks it canāt be wrong. And Penny wonāt mind as long as sheās happy . . . Right?
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(Title TBA) by Becky Albertalli (May 2, 2023)
All I know about this book comes from Becky’s graphic here, but it is definitely bi!
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Forever is Now by Mariama J. Lockington (May 23, 2023)
I’m safe here.
That’s how Sadie feels, on a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend’s arms. School is out, and even though sheās been struggling to manage her chronic anxiety, Sadie is hopeful better times are ahead. Or at least, she thought she was safe. When her girlfriend reveals some unexpected news and the two witness a violent incident of police brutality unfold before them, Sadieās whole world is upended in an instant.
I’m not safe anywhere.
That’s how Sadie feels every day afterāvulnerable, uprooted. She retreats inside as the weeks slip by and relies on her phone to stay connected to the outside world. When Sadieās therapist gives her a diagnosis for her debilitating panicāagoraphobiaāshe starts on a path of acceptance and healing. Meanwhile, Sadie’s best friend, Evan, updates her on the protests taking place in their city. Sadie wants to be a part of it, to use her voice and affect change. But how do you show up for your community when you canāt even leave your house?
I can build a safe place inside myself.
Thatās what Sadie learns over the course of one life-changing summer, with some help from her family, her best friend, an online platform for activists, and a magnetic crush she develops for the new boy next door.
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Something Like Possible by Miel Moreland (May 23, 2023)
On the worst day of her life, Madison is dumped by her girlfriend, then fired as said (ex)girlfriendās campaign manager… plus she accidentally rear-ends the student government advisorāthe one person whose good word might help her win a spot at a prestigious youth politics summer camp.
But Madison is nothing if not a girl with a plan, and she isnāt going to let a little thing like heartbreak (or a slightly dented bumper) get in her way. Soon, she has a new junior class president candidate to backāalthough the two of them might be getting a little too close on the campaign trail. Between navigating her growing crush and corralling a less than enthusiastic election team, Madison has had it with unexpected changes to her carefully laid plans. But when she and a group of queer classmates discover a pattern of harassment within the student government, Madison’s forced to shift gears once again.
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Monstersona by Chloe Spencer (May 30, 2023)
Thereās a little monster in all of us.
After her parentsā divorce, 16 year old Riley Grishin is forced to move from Portland, Oregon all the way to Little Brook, Maine, a small town that serves as the headquarters for Titan Technologies, an international tech laboratory. Having left her friends and father behind, Riley spends most of her days running through the woods with her dog Tigger, and eavesdropping on her classmatesāin particular, the gorgeous, but very strange, Aspen Montehugh.
On the night of the homecoming game, Riley wakes up to find her town on fire, terrorized by an unseen monster. With flames spreading rapidly, Riley and Tigger have no choice but to pile into her beat-up pickup truck and flee. Speeding out of town, they come across the only other survivor: Aspen.
When Riley and Aspen finally reach safety, they realize something far more sinister is afoot. According to the news, all other Titan Tech laboratories on the East Coast have been attacked. And even worse, theyāre being followed by an SUV with blacked out windows. With all air travel grounded, Riley has no way to fly back to her dad, so she and Aspen embark on a cross country road trip, all the while pursued by men with guns, mad scientists, and the monstrous truth. Slowly, Riley realizes somethingās not quite right with Aspen, which puts her feelings for herāand her own humanityāto the ultimate test.
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The Girl Next DoorĀ by Cecilia Vinesse (May 30, 2023)
(No official copy yet, but per the deal announcement, it’s a YA fake-dating rom-com; you can read said announcement on the author’s website here.)
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Things I’ll Never SayĀ by Cassandra Newbould (June 6, 2023)
Ten years ago, the Scar Squad promised each other nothing would tear them apart. They stuck together through thick and thin, late-night surf sessions and after school spodies. Even when Casey Jones Caruso lost her twin brother Sammy to an overdose, and their foursome became a threesome, the squad picked each other up. But when Caseyās feeling for the remaining membersāFrancesca and Benjaminādevelop into romantic attraction, she worries the truth will dissolve them and vows to ignore her heart.
Then Ben kisses Casey at a summer party, and Frankie kisses another girl. Now Casey must confront all the complicated feelings sheās buriedāfor her friends and for her brother who sheās totally pissed at for dying. Since Sammyās death, Casey has spilled all the things she can no longer say to him in journals, and now more than ever, she wishes he were here to help her decide whether she should guard her heart or bet it on love, before someone else makes the decision for her.
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Old Enough by Haley Jakobson (June 6, 2023)
Savannah “Sav” Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she’s getting closer. Itās the second semester of her sophomore year. Sheās finally come out as bisexual, is making friends with the other queers in her dorm, and has just about recovered from her disastrous first queer āsituationship.ā She is cautiously optimistic that her life is about to begin.
But when she learns that Izzie, her best friend from childhood, has gotten engaged, Sav faces a crisis of confidence. Things with Izzie havenāt been the same since what happened between Sav and Izzieās older brother when they were sixteen. Now, with the wedding around the corner, Sav is forced to reckon with trauma she thought she could put behind her.
On top of it all, Sav canāt stop thinking about Wes from her Gender Studies classāsweet, funny Wes, with their long eyelashes and green backpack. Thereās something different hereāwith Wes and with her new friends (who delight in teasing her about this face-burning crush); it feels, terrifyingly, like they might truly see her in a way no one has before.
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Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (June 13, 2023)
Natalya Fox has twenty-hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she’s been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?)
How’s a girl supposed to choose?
She can’t, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines – one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she’s always wanted. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the guy she never saw coming.
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Ode to My First Car by Robin Gow (June 20, 2022)
Itās a few months before senior year and Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally starting to admit she might be falling in love with her best friend, Sophia, who sheās known since they were four.
Trying to pay off the fine from the crash that totals Lars, her beloved car, Claire takes a job at the local nursing home up the street from her house. There she meets Lena, an eighty-eight-year-old lesbian woman who tells her stories about what it was like growing up gay in the 1950s and ā60s.
As Claire spends more time with Lena and grows more confident of her identity, another girl, Pen, comes into the picture, and Claire is caught between two lovesāone familiar and well-worn, the other new and untested.
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To Add to Your TBR
- Last Hellos and First GoodbyesĀ by Elba Luz (YA)
- RedsightĀ by Meredith Mooring (SFF)
- Lulu Sinagtala and the Tagalog GodsĀ by Gail D. Villanueva (MG)
Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. Theyāre nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Samās family is very cool with itā¦ as long as Sam remembers that nonbinary kids are also required to clean their rooms, do their homework, and try not to antagonize their teachers too much.
Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. Heās been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if thereās something missing from history: someone like the two of them.
Amber McCloudās dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but itās an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose.
Emmett Maguire has big dreams. He wants to be country musicās biggest gay superstarāa far reach when youāre 17 and living in suburban Illinois. Thankfully, his parents are letting him do the next best thing for the summer: stay with his aunt in Jackson Hollow, Tennessee, and perform at Wanda Worldāthe amusement park owned by his idol, country music legend Wanda Jean Stubbs.
To conclude the trio of anthologies that started with critically acclaimed All Out and Out Now, Out There features seventeen original short stories set in the future from fantastic queer YA authors.
In River City, where magic used to thrive and is now fading, the witches who once ruled the city along with their powerful King have become all but obsolete. The city’s crumbling government is now controlled primarily by the new university and teaching hospital, which has grown to take over half of the city.
Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she’s confused about who to snog. He knows she’s really a he and will ultimately realize this… but she’s going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this… but she’s refusing to listen.
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised himāthe fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the worldās population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult canāt get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.
Sav Bergman has a lot on her plate. She’s just getting her life together after having a baby, falling into a postpartum depression after having that baby, and then getting dramatically dumped by her girlfriend, while in the psych ward, following that postpartum depression. Now that she’s back at school, it’s time to dive back into Speech and Debate, a kind of competitive acting Sav takes more seriously than just about anything besides her daughter. And let’s not forget Malcolm: best friend, bandmate, and father of her baby, who she has…very complicated feelings for.
Right before Jade is about to leave for a summer art intensive, her best friend, Phoebe, attempts suicide. How is Jade supposed to focus on herself right now?
Welcome to Happily Ever Island, the most pixie-dusted vacation a Disney fan could ever imagine.
Discover what it means to be a young transgender or non-binary person in the twenty-first century in this frank and funny guide for 14+ teens, from the author of This Book Is Gay. What’s the T?, Stonewall ambassador, bestselling trans author and former PSHE teacher Juno Dawson defines a myriad of labels and identities and offers uncensored advice on coming out, sex and relationships with her trademark humour and lightness of touch. Juno has also invited her trans and non-binary friends to make contributions, ensuring this inclusive book reflects as many experiences as possible, and features the likes of Travis Alabanza and Jay Hulme.
Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over.
The gods wanted blood. She fought for love. 
The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. In prose thatās in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the reader from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC, filled with handsome young men, to the lonely facades of rural Florida.
Robin and Ellie have been best friends since childhood. When Robin came out, Ellie was there for her. When Ellie’s father died, Robin had her back. But when Ellie asks Robin to be her maid of honor, she is reluctant. A queer academic, Robin is dubious of the elaborate wedding rituals now sweeping the nation, which go far beyond champagne toasts and a bouquet toss. But loyalty wins out, and Robin accepts.
In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammedās story.
New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly’s days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day.
First published after the authorās death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired army officer who embarks on a dangerous affair with a male servant.
Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across HawaiŹ»i seems within reach after a visit from Guy Fieri boosts the profile of Choās Delicatessen. Their daughter, Grace, is busy finishing her senior year of college and working for her parents, while her older brother, Jacob, just moved to Seoul to teach English. But when a viral video shows Jacob tryingāand failingāto cross the Korean demilitarized zone, nothing can protect the family from suspicion and the restaurant from waning sales.
Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the countryside. Unfortunately, the only person she can ask for help is the charismatic criminal who is blackmailing herāand who she may have left tied up a few hours beforeā¦
In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows charactersāmostly queer, mostly womenāon the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis.![God's Children Are Little Broken Things by [Arinze Ifeakandu]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OXyMxaxlL.jpg)
In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria,Ā 
Gina is about to marry her boyfriend. George is about to join a lesbian pop band. Gina and George are the same person. No wonder Georgina is DOUBLE BOOKED.
Rubem of No-Manās Land was content keeping to his wine, his pets, and his extensive collection of fishnets.
Lethal Lit follows Tig Torres, a Cuban American teen detective, in her hometown of Hollow Falls. In season one of the hit podcast, Tig used her smarts and fearlessness to track down the infamous āLit Killer,ā a serial killer who staged his murders after death scenes from famous books. But thereās no rest for courageous, mystery-solving teens in a place like Hollow Falls, and though the Lit Killer is now behind bars, his protĆ©gĆ©, Tigās classmate and crush Oly, has disappeared!
All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his āprogressiveā school still doesnāt allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luisās parents were in high school; it would never happen today, right? Heās determined to find a way to give his LGBTQ friends the respect they deserve (while also not risking his chance to be prom king, just sayingā¦).
To saveĀ a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poorā¦
Sam Dickson is a charismatic actress, ambitious and popular with big plans for her future. Ros Shew is one of the smartest people in schoolābut sheās a loner, and prefers to keep it that way. Then thereās Christian Powell, the darling of the high school soccer team. Heās not the best with communication, which is why he and Sam broke up after dating for six months; but he makes up for it by being genuine, effusive, and kind, which is why theyāre still best friends.
Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and All the Stars and Teeth. 
Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down in NHL history, Mickey is almost guaranteed the leagueās top draft spot.
Preet is magic.
The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist.
Emanuela has finally gotten what she’s always wanted. Since escaping her catacomb prison, she’s become the supreme ruler of everything under the veils. Finally, she has the power to throw aside senseless, old traditions and run things exactly the way they should be.
Sixteen-year-old Dylan Highmark thought his winter was going to be full of boring shifts at the Dairy Queen, until he finds himself in love with a boy who’s literally too hot to handle.
Seventeen-year-old Brynn Riley is perfect. Sheās on a hundred committees, has earned teacherās pet in practically every class sheās ever taken, and is on track to make valedictorianāsalutatorian if she REALLY slacks off, which,Ā please.
Flare is power.
Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and a glittering life filled with adventure. With tons of followers on Instagram, her picture-perfect existence seems eminently enviable.
This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesnāt understand why she canāt crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. Sheās surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. Itās not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum ā coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that sheās been told since birth isnāt easy ā there are many mistakes along the way to inviting people into a newly found articulation of an always-known part of your identity. But Georgiaās determined to get her life right, with the help of (and despite the major drama of) her friends.
Hannahās whole life has been spent in motion. Her mother has kept her and her brother, Gabe, on the road for as long as she can remember, leaving a trail of rental homes and faded relationships behind them. No roots, no family but one another, and no explanations.
Itās the summer before senior year. Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small, rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. But they have plans for the summer, each about to embark on a new adventure.
When they were kids, Fassenās fighter spaceship crash-landed on a planet that Luās survey force was exploring. It was a forbidden meeting between a kid from a war-focused resistance movement and a kid whose community and planet are dedicated to peace and secrecy.
Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys ā way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless stream of crushes, but Ophelia is a romantic at heart. She couldnāt change, even if she wanted to.
A boy, a murder, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki comes Cold, a haunting YA novel about a shocking crime in a quiet town and four students who knew too much and said too little.
Beth Kramer is a ātownieā who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of judgment from her roommate, Sarah.
Her name is unimportant.
One small fandom convention. One teen beauty pageant.
After Philly teenager Alexis Duncan is injured in a gang shooting, her dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish in an instant. To avoid becoming another Black teen trapped in her poverty-stricken neighborhood, she shifts her focus to the school’s STEM team, a group of nerds seeking their own college scholarships. Academics have never been her thing, but Alexis is freshly motivated by Aamani Chakrabarti, the new Indian student who becomes her mentor (and crush?). Alexis begins to see herself as so much more than an athlete. But just as her future starts to reform, Alexisās own doubts and old loyalties pull her back into harmās way.
A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys — one who doesnāt want to accept heās gay, and the boy who comes to live in his house who makes him realize who he is.
In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake – but can they keep their worlds above water intact?
When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie’s house, he’s injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. A deadly pathogen has killed off most of the world’s population, including everyone both boys have ever loved. And if this new world has taught them anything, it’s to be scared of what other desperate people will do . . . so why does it seem so easy for them to trust each other?
A reimagining of Little Women set in the spring of 1942, when the United States is suddenly embroiled in the second World War, this story, told from each March sister’s point of view, is one of grief, love, and self-discovery.
Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he’s plagued with the belief that he’s not enough for anyone: he’s recovering from an eating disorder and suffers from body dysmorphia fueled by his father, and can’t quite figure out his gender identity. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away from home and missing his sister, finding his squad, and contending with his ex-best friend Leila who is gunning for the same exclusive mentorship. If only he can pull together a short for the freshman animation showcase at the end of the semester.
All Harper McKinley wants is for her dadās presidential campaign to not interfere with her senior marching band season.
Schoolās out, senior year is over, and Isaac Martin is ready to kick off summer. His last before heading off to college in the fall where he won’t have his best friend, Diego. Whereādespite his social anxietyāheāll be left to make friends on his own. Knowing his time with Diego is limited, Isaac enacts a foolproof plan: snatch up a pair of badges for the epic comic convention, Legends Con, and attend his first ever Teen Pride. Just him and Diego. The way it should be. But when an unexpected run-in with DaviāIsaacās old crushādistracts him the day tickets go on sale, suddenly heās two badges short of a perfect summer. Even worse, now heās left making it up to Diego by hanging with him and his gamer buddies. Decidedly NOT part of the original plan. Itās not all bad, though. Some of Diegoās friends turn out to be pretty cool, and when things with Davi start heating up, Isaac is almost able to forget about his Legends Con blunder. Almost. Because then Diego finds out what really happened that day with Davi, and their friendship lands on thin ice. Isaac assumes heās upset about missing the convention, but could Diego have other reasons for avoiding Isaac?
In this queer YA retelling of Shakespeareās Julius Caesar, stakes at Augustus Magnet School are cutthroat, scheming is creative, and loyalty is ever-changing.
After a decade of dedicated ballet practice, one missed step on a flight of stairs lands Luca in the hospital with a titanium plate screwed into his foot. Without ballet, he loses his friends, his school, and his perfect future.
For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town with few queer teenagers, let alone young trans men, theyāve shared milestones like coming out as trans, buying the right bindersāand falling for each other.
Hunter never expected to be a boy band star, but, well, here he is. He and his band Kiss & Tell are on their first major tour of North America, playing arenas all over the United States and Canada (and getting covered by the gossipy press all over North America as well). Hunter is the only gay member of the band, and he just had a very painful breakup with his first boyfriend–leaked sexts, public heartbreak, and all–and now everyone expects him to play the perfect queer role model for teens.
After her eighteenth birthday, Hilde, an orphan in 1930s Berlin, goes out into the world hoping to find her place. She comes up short, at least until she stumbles into CafĆ© Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of love and music, and meets Rosa, the clubās waitress and performer, whom she canāt take her eyes off of. There, Hilde starts to find her voice and embrace her blossoming feelings for Rosa.
Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs up his camera and heads to Baltimore to document a rally protesting police brutality after another Black man is murdered.
rek hadnāt thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler. So now that heās finally managed to (somewhat clumsily) behead the evil king (turns out magical swords yanked from bogs donāt come pre-sharpened), he and his rag-tag group of quest companions are at a bit of a loss for what to do next.
I did my part, BFF. Now itās your turn.
The Fountains of Silence meets Spinning Silver in this rollicking tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke.
Finch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academyā¦ but sheās also not what she seems. Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of a river. But something monstrous, and ancient, and terrifying, wouldnāt let her drown. Finch doesnāt know why she woke up after her heart stopped, but since dying sheās felt a constant pull from the school and the surrounding town of Rainwater, like something on the island is calling to her.
Two girls.
Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana Ellers is spending the summer with her stodgy aunt and uncle at their home in the English countryside. At a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy member of the in-crowd who delights Georgiana with her disregard for so-called āpolite society.ā
Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other handā¦not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mom. She knows sheās in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myers. She justā¦hasnāt actually talked to her yet.
Sequel to Victories Greater Than Death, this is the second book in the Unstoppable series
High school junior Blaine Bowers has it allāthe perfect boyfriend, a pretty sweet gig as a muralist for local Windy City businesses, a loving family, and awesome, talented friends. And he is absolutely, 100% positive that aforementioned perfect boyfriendāāsenior student council president and Mr. Popular of Wicker West High School, Joeyāis going to invite Blaine to spend spring break with his family in beautiful, sunny Cabo San Lucas.
Music runs in Sofiās blood.
Pie is the ghost in your house.
Six years ago, three Long Island teenagers were murderedātheir drowned bodies discovered with sand dollars placed over their eyes. The mystery of the drowning summer was never solved, but as far as the townās concerned, Evelyn Mackenzieās father did it. His charges were dropped only because Evelyn summoned a ghost to clear his name. She swore never to call a spirit again. She lied.
Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey is struggling. Her mother has left their family, her father and her younger brother wonāt talk about it, and a classmate, Tanner, keeps harassing her about her sexualityāwhich isnāt even public. (She knows she likes girls romantically, but she thinks she might be asexual.) At least sheās got her love of film photography and her best and only friend, Jamie, to help her cope. Then Jamie, who is trans, starts dating Caroline, and suddenly he isnāt so reliable. Ardenās insecurity about their friendship grows. She starts to wonder if sheās jealous or if Jamieās relationship with Caroline is somehow unhealthyāand it makes her reconsider how much of her relationship with her absent mom wasnāt okay, too.
Skylar Gray is adopted, nonverbal, and he feels most comfortable wearing skirts. Life has never been easy, but with a fresh start at a brand-new school, with new parents and in a new state, he just might finally make some friends. Maybe. Honestly itā²s hard to focus on anything when gorgeous rocker boy Jacob is around. But itā²s hard for Skylar to trust anyone when people have always been quick to ditch him at the first inconvenience; they always seem more than ready to judge him as defective. And the bullies love to confirm it. Skylar has only ever had himself, so why would anything be different this time? Especially for an anxious boy with literally no voice.
When Harleen Quinzel scores an internship in a psych lab at Gotham University, she’s more than ecstatic; she’s desperate to make a Big Scientific Discovery that will land her a full-ride college scholarship and get her away from her abusive father.Ā But when Harleen witnesses the way women are treated across STEM departments–and experiences harassment herself–she decides that revenge and justice are more important than her own dreams.
Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, sheās spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing thatās kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principalās perfect progeny.
For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. Sixteen-year-old Raquel does her best to ignore it. After all, the police only look for the white kids. But when her crush Charlize’s cousin goes missing, Raquel starts to pay attentionāespecially when her own mom comes down with a mysterious illness that seems linked to the disappearances.
Harry wants nothing more than to write Hollywood screenplays. He knows the first step toward achieving that goal is winning a screenwriting competition that will seal his admission into the college of his dreams, so heās determined to spend his summer free of distractionsāalso known as boysāand finish his script. After last year, Harry is certain love only exists in the movies anyway.
Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the least likely person in Salem to believe in witchcraftāor think that her life could be transformed by mysterious forces. Ostracized by her classmates after losing her best friend and first love, Chloe, Eleanor has spent the past year in a haze, vowing to stay away from anything resembling romance.
For as long as Sigrid could remember, sheās wanted to become a mighty, fearless valkyrie. But without a winged mare, sheās a mere stable hand, left wondering who her parents were and why sheās so different. So when the Eye shows her a vision where she’s leading a valkyrie charge on the legendary eight-legged horse Sleipnir, she grabs the possibility of this greater destiny with both hands, refusing to let go.
Still reeling from a recent trauma, sixteen-year-old Dell is relieved when her mom suggests a stay at the family cabin. But the much-needed escape quickly turns into a disaster. The lake and woods are awash in trash left by a previous tenant. And worse, Dellās mom has invited her boyfriendās daughter to stay with them. Confident, irreverent Ivy presses all of Dellās buttonsāsomehow making Dellās shame and self-consciousness feel even more acute. Yet Dell is drawn to Ivy in a way she doesnāt fully understand. As Dell uncovers secrets in the wreckage of her familyās pastāsecrets hinted at through troubling dreams and strange apparitionsāIvy leads her toward thrilling, if confusing, revelations about her sexuality and identity.
Salemās Lot meets The Darkest Part of the Forest in this horror-fantasy retelling of Christina Rossettiās āGoblin Market.ā
In this queer contemporary YA mystery, a nonbinary teen with autism realizes they must not only solve a 30-year-old mystery but also face the demons lurking in their past in order to live a satisfying life. 
Sometimes bitter rivalries can brew something sweet
In one week, Maude will be dead. At least, thatās what she wants everyone to think. After years of research, Maude has decided to fake her own death. Sheās figured out the how, the when, the where, and who will help her unsuspectingly. The why is complex: revenge, partly. Her terrible parents deserve this. But thereās also lāappel du vide, the call of the void, that beckons her toward a new life where she will be tied to no one, free and adrift. Then Frankie, a step-cousin she barely knows, figures out what sheās plotting, and the plan seems like itās ruined. Except Frankie doesnāt want to rat her out. Frankie wants in.
Two boys. Two bands. Two worlds colliding.
Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. Sheāll be working in her familyās ice cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriendāwhose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfortāand her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word.
Seventeen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers drawing attention for her killer eyeliner, not for being the new kid at a mostly white, very rich, Catholic school. But at least here no one knows sheās gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way. After being outed by her crush and ex-best friend, she could use the fresh start.
Taylor Barzelay has the perfect life. Good looks, good grades, a starting position on the basketball team, a loving family, even an adorable corgi. Every day in Taylorās life is perfect. And every day is torture.
Growing up in Texasās Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but sheās okay with that. After all, she has a great family, a goofy group of friends, a rocky romantic history, and dreams of being a music photographer. Tasked with picking an escort for her little sisterās quinceaƱera, Maggie has to face the truth: that her feelings about her friendsāand her futureāarenāt as simple as sheād once believed.
Arlee Gold is anxious about spending the summer at the college prep Camp Rockawayāthe same camp her mother attended years ago, which her mother insists will help give Arlee a āfresh startā and will āchange her life.ā Little does Arlee know that, once she steps foot on the manicured grounds, this will prove to be true in horrifying ways.
Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic ā he blames the films heās grown up watching. He has liked Karim for as long as he can remember, and is ecstatic when Karim becomes his boyfriend ā it feels like love.
Gaigeās curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers a bookstore on an abandoned street where no bookstore should be. He steps inside and is immediately enthralled by its antiquarian sights and smells. But one book in particular calls to him. It isnāt long before he gets a bad feeling about it, but itās already too late. The storeās aged bookseller gives him no alternative: once he touches the book, itās hisāwhether he wants it or not.
Milo Connolly has managed to survive the first three years of high school without any major disasters, so by his calculations, heās well past due for some sort of Epic Teenage Catastrophe. Even so, all he wants his senior year is to keep his head down and fly under the radar like the quiet, well-behaved, churchgoing boy that everyone thinks he is.
After thwarting the man behind the gruesome ironborn murdersāand breaking several fae laws to do soāall Arlo wants is a quiet summer. As the deity of luckās Hollow Star, capable of bringing about endless possibilities, this shouldnāt be too much to ask, right?
With junior year starting in the fall, Harrison feels like heās on the precipice of, well, everything. Standardized testing, college, and the terrifying unknowns and looming pressures of adulthood after thatāitās like the future wants to eat him alive. Which is why Harrison is grateful that he and his best friend, Linus, will face these things together. But at the end of a shift at their summer job, Linus invites Harrison to their special spot overlooking the city to deliver devastating news: Heās moving out of state at the end of the week.
The jellyfish commonly known as a Portuguese man oā war is neither Portuguese, nor a jellyfish, nor a man, nor even a singular organism. If you can cope with those facts, you can begin to understand River McIntyre, an elite high school swimmer whoās bad at counting laps.
Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must undergo. The rules are simple: Help a human within one moon cycle and return to Pacifica to become an Elderāor fail and remain stuck on land forever. Crest is eager to get their Journey over and done with: after all, humans are disgusting. Theyāve pollluted the planet so much that thereās a floating island of trash thatās literally the size of a country.
Two weeks after the door to Faery closed once more, Asalin is still in turmoil.Ā Emyr and Wyatt are hunting Derek and Clarke themselves after having abolished the corrupt Guard, and are trying to convince the other kingdoms to follow their lead. But when they uncover the hidden truth about the witchesā real place in fae society, it becomes clear the problems run much deeper than anyone knew. And this may be more than the two of them can fix.
A literal star-studded anthology that delivers a love story for every star sign straight from the hearts of thirteen multicultural YA authors.
Syyed is pining for his ex, who left home toāsave the world? He doesnāt know much more, except to wish heād gone along when Farouk asked. But Sy is shy and timid, from a controlling Indian Muslim family, and wants most to make a life and home with people he loves. Then he meets Reggie, an heiressāis she magical or just rich?āwho, in exchange for his kindness, offers to grant Sy three wishes, the first of which is a million dollars, naturally!
In River City, where magic used to thrive and is now fading, the witches who once ruled the city along with their powerful King have become all but obsolete. The cityās crumbling government is now controlled primarily by the new university and teaching hospital, which has grown to take over half of the city.
Fans of the twists and turns of Karen McManus and the emotional coming-of-age of Kathleen Glasgow will love this thriller set around a mysterious plane crash.
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised himāthe fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the worldās population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult canāt get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.
Right before Jade is about to leave for a summer art intensive, her best friend, Phoebe, attempts suicide. How is Jade supposed to focus on herself right now?
Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in Valiant Ladies, Melissa Greyās YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth century Latinx teenagers known as the Valiant Ladies of PotosĆ.
Taylor Parker isn’t out yet, but she’s keeping an even bigger secret: she entered a sketch contest where the grand prize is an internship at SNL.
Jane Gradyās claim to fame is that she was one first viral internet sensations, dubbed #bagbabyādiscovered as a one-year-old in an oversized Gucci bag by her adopted father in a Poughkeepsie train station. Now in her senior year of high school, Jane is questioning whether she wants to look for her bio family due to a loving, but deeply misguided push from her best friend Algie, while also navigating an all-consuming crush on his cousin, the beautiful, way-out-of-her-league Gwen Fairfax.
Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but sheāll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. If she is to locate the missing piece, she must turn to the blood relatives sheās never known, learn about their secret powers, and take her place in their ancient lineage. Briseis is not the only one who wants the Heart, and her enemies will stop at nothing to fulfill their own ruthless plans. The fates tell of a truly dangerous journey, one that could end in more heartache, more death. Bolstered by the sisterhood of ancient magic, can Briseis harness her power to save the people she loves most?
Ever since she was a girl, Raliel Dark-Smileās best friend has been the great demon that lives in the palace. As the daughter of the Emperor, Raliel appears cold and distant to those around her, but what no one understands is that she and the great demon, Moon, have a close and unbreakable bond and are together at all times. Moon is bound to the Emperor and his two consorts, Ralielās parents, and when Raliel comes of age, she will be bound to Moon as well, constrained to live in the Palace for the rest of her days.
Luca Laine Thomas lives on a cursed island. To the outside world, Parris is an exclusive, idyllic escape accessible only to the one percent. Thereās nothing idyllic about its history, though, scattered with the unsolved deaths of young womenādeaths Parris society happily ignores to maintain its polished veneer. But Luca canāt ignore them. Not when the curse that took them killed her best friend, Polly, three years ago. Not when she feels the curse lingering nearby, ready to take her next.
The only way to kill a god is from the inside…
Laraās had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. Heās tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and heās talking to her now. On purpose and everything. Maybeā¦flirting, even? No, wait, heās definitely flirting, which is pretty much the sum of everything Laraās wanted out of life.
Eva, Celeste, Gina, and Steph used to think their friendship was unbreakable. After all, theyāve been though a lot together, including the astronomical rise of Moonlight Overthrow, the world-famous queer pop band they formed in middle school, never expecting to headline anything bigger than the county fair.
Ever since seventeen-year-old Josie Wright can remember, writing has been her identity, the thing that grounds her when everything else is a garbage fire. So when she wins a contest to write a celebrity profile for Deep Focus magazine, sheās equal parts excited and scared, but also ready. Sheās got this.
Morgan, an elite track athlete, is forced to transfer high schools late in her senior year after it turns out being queer is against her private Catholic schoolās code of conduct. There, she meets Ruby, who has two hobbies: tinkering with her baby blue 1970 Ford Torino and competing in local beauty pageants, the latter to live out the dreams of her overbearing mother. The two are drawn to each other and canāt deny their growing feelings. But while Morganāout and proud, and determined to have a fresh startādoesnāt want to have to keep their budding relationship a secret, Ruby isnāt ready to come out yet. With each girl on a different path toward living her truth, can they go the distance together?
Seventeen-year-old bisexual boy Asher remembers nothing from the night in 1968 that the police found him covered in his girlfriendās blood. He knows heād never hurt anyone, least of all her. But the only person who believes him is his twin sister. Heās sentenced to five years at the Dozier Reform School. And like Asherās memory, Dozier hides violent secrets of its own.
A hilarious and vulnerable coming-of-age story about the thrilling new experiencesāāand misstepsāāof a girlās freshman year of college
The winter of 1997 is a tragedy waiting to happen. Small-town life isnāt easy for seventeen-year-old, bisexual and closeted Paulina, especially when her best friend Mia becomes pregnant and doesnāt want to tell the babyās father, Paulinaās other best friend, Tesla. Meanwhile, Paulinaās secret relationship with volleyball star Ani is about to go public. One fateful night, everything changes forever.
Thereās always been a hole in Gioās life. Not because heās into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gioās life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her ā¦ and now, just as heās started to get his life together, sheās back.
For as long as she could remember, all Emry wanted was to be a great magician like her father, the magnificent Merlin. As a kid, she fought to be included in his magic lessons for her twin brother, Emmet, and easily outshone him with each spell she cast. But after her fatherās disappearance several years ago, Emry has been feeling a little lost. Fate soon appears in the form of a royal messenger, summoning Emmet to court to serve as Prince Arthurās right-hand wizard. With Emmett indisposed thanks to a bad spell, Emry has to disguise herself as a teen boy and pretend to be her brother at the castle until theyāre able to switch.
William Anson is done with relationships, thanks. Heās starting the second year of his medicine degree single, focused, and ready to mingle with purely platonic intentions.
Owen Turner is a boy of too many words. For years, they all stayed inside his head and he barely spokeāuntil he met Lily. Lily, the girl who gave him his voice, helped him come out as bi, and settle into his ASD diagnosis. But everything unravels when someone reports Owenās biggest secret to the school: that he was sexually assaulted at a class event.
Hi, my nameās Annie Clark, and Iāve managed to flip my quiet, nerdy, single life completely upside down.
As darkness closes in on the city of shattered light, an heiress and an outlaw must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other.
Eighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. Along with their bandmates, Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. But privately, cracks are starting to form: their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and Ruben confides in Zach that heās feeling smothered by managementās pressure to stay in the closet.
Sam Dickson is a charismatic actress, ambitious and popular with big plans for her future. Ros Shew is one of the smartest people in school–but she’s a loner, and prefers to keep it that way. Then there’s Christian Powell, the darling of the high school soccer team. He’s not the best with communication, which is why he and Sam broke up after dating for six months; but he makes up for it by being genuine, effusive, and kind, which is why they’re still best friends.
Naomi Grant has built her life around going against the grain. After the sex-positive start-up she cofounded becomes an international sensation, she wants to extend her educational platform to live lecturing. Unfortunately, despite her long list of qualifications, higher ed wonāt hire her.
Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesnāt believe in much. She doesnāt believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesnāt believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that.
Danica Waterhouse is a fully modern witchādaughter, granddaughter, cousin, and co-owner of the Fix-It Witches, a magical tech repair shop. After a messy breakup that included way too much family āfeedback,ā Danica made a pact with her cousin: theyāll keep their hearts protected and have fun, without involving any of the overly opinionated Waterhouse matriarchs. Danica is more than a little exhausted navigating a long-standing family feud where Gram thinks the only good mundane is a dead one and Danicaās mother weaves floral crowns for anyone who crosses her path.
Graphic designer Michelle Amato, after burning out in her corporate marketing career, has now built a thriving freelance business.Ā So what if her love life is nonexistent? Sheās perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago.![Count Your Lucky Stars: A Novel by [Alexandria Bellefleur]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41OgyrorVYL.jpg)
Margot Cooper doesnāt do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so sheāll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. But now her entire crew has foundĀ “the one” and sheās beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grantāher childhood friend, her first love, her firstā¦ well, everything. Itās been ten years, but the moment they lock eyes, Margotās cold, dead heart thumps in her chest.
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Fallsānothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, itās a different woman every night, but thatās just fine with her.
The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, itās her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men whoāve done dirty deeds to the townās women. But if she canāt solve the one crime thatās not of her own baking, sheāll be out of the pie pan and into the oven.
If Jen Winston knows one thing for sure, itās that sheās bisexual. Or waitāmaybe she isnāt? Actually, she definitely is. Unlessā¦sheās not?
Dark tourismāvisiting sites of war, violence, and other traumas experienced by othersātakes different forms in Hasanthika Sirisenaās stunning excavation of the unexpected places (and ways) in which personal identity and the riptides of history meet. The 1961 plane crash that left a nuclear warhead buried near her North Carolina hometown, juxtaposed with reflections on her fatherās stroke. A visit to Jaffna in Sri Lankaāthe country of her birth, yet where she is unmistakably a foreignerāto view sites from the recent civil war, already layered over with the narratives of the victors. A fraught memory of her time as a young art student in Chicago that is uneasily foundational to her bisexual, queer identity today. The ways that life-changing impairments following a severe eye injury have shaped her thinking about disability and self-worth.