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1) The meadows
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Eleanor believed acceptance to the Meadows would better her life, but the seemingly perfect institution hides a dark agenda, and after her graduation, Eleanor grapples with her experience as she uncovers the fate of her lost love, Rose.
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"A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to bring laughter to the...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Ringmaster--Rin, to those who know her best--can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. And the circus they lead is a rare home and safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts, known as Sparks. With the world still reeling from World War I, Rin and her troupe--the Circus of the Fantasticals--travel the Midwest, offering a single night of enchantment and respite to all who step into their...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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As a kid, Charlotte Illes' uncanny sleuthing abilities made her a minor celebrity. But in high school, she hung up her detective's hat and stashed away the signature blue landline in her "office"--aka garage--convinced that finding her adult purpose would be as easy as tracking down missing pudding cups or locating stolen diamonds. Now twenty-five, Charlotte has a nagging fear that she hit her peak in middle school. She's living with her mom, scrolling...
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn's debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and...
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Alcove Press
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English
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In this swoon-filled lesbian romcom, two dating show contestants vying for the affection of the leading man fall head over heels-for each other. Fans of Ashley Herring Blake and Alexandria Bellefleur, and readers who love “The Bachelor”, will adore this steamy, laugh-out-loud debut romance. Krystin knows exactly what she wants: a husband, a horse, and a place to hang all her competitive rodeo blue ribbons. But when none of the eligible bachelors...
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Seven Stories Press, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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James, a senior in high school, channels his energy into aiding a struggling LGBTQ+ youth support group and going to punk shows with his friends, until he falls for Orsino, a telepathic trans boy whose visions of impending doom challenge James's limited perception of what is possible.
10) Mortal follies
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814"--
It is the year 1814 and life for a young lady of good breeding has many difficulties. There are balls to attend, fashions to follow, marriages to consider and, of course, the tiny complication of existing in a world swarming with fairy spirits, interfering deities, and actual straight-up sorcerers. Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry...
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Anansi
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Back in the Land of the Living brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John's. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic but controlling woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies...
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The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Award-winning author Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife is an accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World. When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but...
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Soho
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award-winning author of Blue-Skinned Gods. In "Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc," a millennial English professor facing mounting personal crises puts her energies into TikTok, but her newfound viral fame could wreck her already unstable life. In "Patriots' Day," a man trying to leave his marriage for the woman...
15) Board to death
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Back in his hometown of Sugar House running his family's board game shop and café, Ben Rosencrantz just can't seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now he's a divorced caregiver, looking after his ill father and a Chihuahua named Beans while still figuring out the rules of retail management. At least the town has become more LGBTQ+ friendly than when Ben was a teenager--and...
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Ayin Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales invites you into a hidden world of faith, desire, transgression, and revelation. The inhabitants of its interlocking stories are pious and rebellious, mystical and queer, from a Hasidic woman tormented by her husband's long beard to a closeted gay man repenting of his sins in the mikva. The first book of fiction by Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, The Secret That...
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HarperVia
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Composed of the title novella and three short stories, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice sensitively explores gender, friendship, romance, love, human interaction and its absence, and how a misogynistic society limits women and men. In the title story, Nanamori and Mugito, two university students appalled by society's gendered roles, rebel. Refusing to interact with other people they use stuffed toys for emotional support. In "Realizing...
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Publisher
Blackie Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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"Gilda teme a la muerte, lo normal. Solo que quizá la teme demasiado. Tanto que provoca accidentes, colapsa las urgencias hospitalarias, preocupa a sus seres queridos con presuntos infartos, tumores, enfermedades irreversibles. Sin embargo, tras perder su enésimo trabajo, lo más factible es que acabe muriendo de hambre. Cuando entra a trabajar de ayudante del párroco en la iglesia St. Rigobert tiene que esconder que es hipocondríaca, atea y lesbiana....
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Cantina Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"There are many ways to be a heroine. Princess and swordswoman, lawyer and motorcyclist, scholar and barbarian: there are many ways to be a heroine. In this anthology, seventeen authors find new ways to pair one weapon-wielding woman and one whose strengths lie in softer skills. 'Which is more powerful, the warrior or the gentlewoman?' these stories ask. And the answer is inevitably, 'Both, working together!' Herein, you'll find duels and smugglers,...
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