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American Prince

Sierra Simone · 320 pages

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The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach · 512 pages

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry’s fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love

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Her Name in the Sky

Kelly Quindlen

Hannah has big plans for senior year: football games, Mardi Gras parties, and spring break on the beach with her tight-knit group of friends. No drama, no detours. Just a year to remember. Falling for another girl—her best friend, Baker—was not part of the plan. Hannah knows she should date Wally, the earnest, dependable boy her sister is always teasing her about. She should be happy when Cl

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Every Day

David Levithan · 330 pages

Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

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Written on the Body

Jeanette Winterson · 190 pages

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

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Keeping You a Secret

Julie Anne Peters · 250 pages

A fantastically written book that follows the life of student Holland Jaegar in her last year of high school. Holland begins her last semester of school by meeting CeCe Goddard, a transfer student from Washington Central. As the days progress Holland learn about CeCe and the fact that she is a lesbian. Holland is drawn to the charisma and strength of Cece and a friendship forms. When Holland suspe

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Atmosphere: A Love Story

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 352 pages

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the f

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When the Tides Held the Moon

Venessa Vida Kelley · 466 pages

The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this beautifully illustrated queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the 20th century New York. “Venessa gives life to the most unexpected things. I have a strong, strong feeling that this is the start of som

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The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd · 335 pages

It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother. Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls for him although she is already married.....

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The Summer I Wasn't Me

Jessica Verdi · 342 pages

"Ever since her mom found out she was in love with a girl, seventeen-year-old Lexi's afraid that what's left of her family is going to fall apart for good. New Horizons summer camp promises a new life for Lexi--she swears she can change. She can learn to like boys. But denying her feelings is harder than she thinks"--

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Into Deep Waters

Kaje Harper · 176 pages

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Heated Rivalry: Now Streaming on Crave and HBO Max (First Time Trade)

Rachel Reid · 373 pages

Pro hockey star Shane Hollander isn’t just crazy talented, he’s got a spotless reputation. Hockey is his life. Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that, especially the sexy Russian whose hard body keeps him awake at night. Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talente

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Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 322 pages

Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé. Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to di

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel · 236 pages

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's

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The Lotus Empire

Tasha Suri · 494 pages

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Brothers of the Wild North Sea

Harper Fox · 396 pages

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My Education

Susan Choi · 352 pages

Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of the women's restroom, and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one warned Regina about his exceptional physical b

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The Fall

Tal Bauer · 810 pages

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The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak, lyf shfq · 354 pages

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Thy Neighbor's Wife

Georgia Beers · 190 pages

Alex Foster's life is exactly as she wants it. She's quit her job as an English teacher and has decided to hole up in her newly acquired lake house for the summer to try her hand at writing a novel. She has close friends; she has her dog; she plays volleyball. She is content. Jennifer Wainwright is a wealthy young suburbanite whose life is exactly as she expected it would be. She's married to

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The Last Promise

Richard Paul Evans · 320 pages

NAL welcomes the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Christmas Box and is proud to publish this special novel.From the New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's most beloved storytellers comes a rich and all-too-human novel about the tragedy and triumph of love...Years ago, a sweet girl from Utah was swept off her feet by a handsome Italian. Today, the sweet girl from Utah i

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And This Too Shall Pass

E. Lynn Harris · 347 pages

A stellar quarterback, an ambitious sportscaster. What happens when rising stars collide?In And This Too Shall Pass, Harris takes us into the locker rooms and newsrooms of Chicago, where four lives are about to intersect in romance and scandal. At the heart of the novel is the celibate Zurich, a rookie quarterback for the Chicago Cougars whose trajectory for superstardom is interrupted by a sexual

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