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The Boy Is Back

Meg Cabot · 357 pages

"A scandal brings celebrity golfer Reed back home to the small town, the crazy family, and first love he once left behind."

Childhood SweetheartsEpistolary FormatSecond Chance RomanceFunny
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Love, Rosie

Cecelia Ahern · 475 pages

From the author of PS, I LOVE YOU, a simultaneously funny and tender novel about what happens when two people who are destined to be together can never seem to get it right.Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone but them seems to realize it. Rosie’s best friend since childhood, Alex never did live down the fact that he didn’t invite her to his all-boys 10th birthday party. But t

Epistolary FormatChildhood SweetheartsSecond Chance RomanceHeartwarming
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Becky Albertalli · 336 pages

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the bo

Epistolary FormatLGBTQ+ ProtagonistSexual OrientationHeartwarming
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Him

Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy · 356 pages

**They don't play for the same team. Or do they?** Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were eighteen? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died. Rya

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistSecond Chance RomanceHeartwarming
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Coming Home

M.J. O'Shea

Second Chance RomanceSexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistHeartwarming
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Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston · 443 pages

Epistolary FormatSexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFunny
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Role Model

Rachel Reid · 353 pages

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Tale of Two Summers

Brian Sloan · 248 pages

Even though Hal is gay and Chuck is straight, the two fifteen-year-olds are best friends and set up a blog where Hal records his budding romance with a young Frenchman and Hal enthuses about theater camp.

Epistolary FormatSexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFunny
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Lola and the Boy Next Door

Stephanie Perkins · 368 pages

Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.

Childhood SweetheartsSecond Chance RomanceHeartwarmingFunny
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Happy Ever After

Nora Roberts · 355 pages

Parker Brown turned the quartet's childhood game of Wedding Day into their dream jobs. And now she's the face of Vows -- the one who meets every bride's demands; keeps every event on schedule; and brings Emma's romantic flowers, Laurel's delicious treats, and Mac's stunning photography together in one glorious package. She knows how to make dreams come true... Mechanic Malcolm Kavanaugh loves

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Teacher of the Year

M.A. Wardell · 347 pages

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The Tin Box

Kim Fielding

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Becoming Ted

Matt Cain · 432 pages

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Reunion Pass

Emily March · 384 pages

Six years ago, Chase Timberlake bought an engagement ring for his high school sweetheart Lori Reese. Then ... life happened. Chase's adventure photography career took off, Lori's dream of getting into veterinary school came true, and their happily ever after never came to pass. When Chase's jet-setting life takes a tragic turn, he returns to Eternity Springs a damaged man ... Long summer days spen

Childhood SweetheartsSecond Chance RomanceHeartwarmingRomance
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Game Changer

Rachel Reid · 405 pages

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY • NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW Enter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. It all starts here with Scott and Kip’s steamy secret-relationship romance by New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid. New York Admirals captain Sco

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Openly, Honestly

Bill Konigsberg

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True Letters from a Fictional Life

Kenneth Logan · 323 pages

If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they d tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa is a happy, funny, carefree guy. But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world letters he never intends to send he spills the truth: he s t

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Something Like Summer

Jay Bell · 291 pages

A love story spanning a decade and beyond as two boys discover what it means to be friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies.

LGBTQ+ ProtagonistSecond Chance RomanceSexual OrientationRomance
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green, David Levithan · 331 pages

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and D

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How To Be A Normal Person

T.J. Klune · 284 pages

Gustavo Tiberius is not normal. He knows this. Everyone in his small town of Abby, Oregon, knows this. He reads encyclopedias every night before bed. He has a pet ferret called Harry S. Truman. He owns a video rental store that no one goes to. His closest friends are a lady named Lottie with drag queen hair and a trio of elderly Vespa riders known as the We Three Queens. Gus is not normal. And he'

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Tigers and Devils

Sean Kennedy · 376 pages

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Door County Book Club Kit

TJ Klune

In the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of a strange orphanage, and the other inhabitants of Marsyas Island must fight to save the dangerous and magical children of the orphanage or risk the entire island falling apart.

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistHeartwarmingFunny
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The Chance

Karen Kingsbury · 352 pages

Years ago, the day before Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan sat beneath an ancient oak tree where they wrote letters to each other, and sealed them in a rusty metal box. The plan was to return eleven years later and read them. But as that date arrives, much has changed. Ellie, bereft of the faith she grew up with, is a single mom trying to make ends meet. Someti

Childhood SweetheartsEpistolary FormatSecond Chance RomanceRomance
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The Summer I Fell in Love: A Friends to Lovers Lesbian Romance

Reba Bale · 115 pages

They’re finally getting a second chance with their first love! Phoebe The first summer I have my freedom from the religious cult I was raised in, my grandmother sends me to a summer camp for teens. There I learned to swim, how to dress like a ‘normal’ girl, how to wear lipstick, and most importantly, I fell in love. But like all summer romances, ours had to end. Until we find ourselves back at the

Second Chance RomanceSexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistRomance

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